A Descent into Dullness

The Flintstones #7: Writer Mark Russel, Penciller Rick Leonardi, Inker Scott Hanna, Colorist Chris Chuckry & Letterer Dave Sharpe.  More Gazoo.  The Church of Gerald briefly tries out Indulgences aka Pay 4 Forgiveness.

Jem & the Holograms #22:  Written by Kelly Thompson, Art by Meredith McClaren, Colors by M. Victoria Robado & Letters by Shawn Lee.  Boo!  Bad Fox!  Boo!

Giant Days #22:  Created & Written by John Allison, Pencils by Max Sarin, Inks by Liz Fleming, Colors by Whitney Cogar & Letters by Jim Campbell.  Aw, Daisy gets a girlfriend.  How sweet.

the Wicked & the Divine #25:  Writer Kieron Gillen, Artist Jamie McKelvie, Colourist Matthew Wilson, Letterer Clayton Cowles & Flatter Dee Cunniffe.  Persephone and Woden reach an..understanding.
the Autumnlands #14: Writer Kurt Busiek, Artist Benjamin Dewey, Color Art Jordie Bellaire & Lettering & Design John Roshell & Jimmy Betancourt of comicraft.  The Galateans reach a decision in regards to their own survival.

Pretty Deadly #10: Script Kelly Sue DeConnick, Art & cover Emma Rios, Collors Jordie Bellaire, Letters Clayton Cowles & Design Laurenn McCubbin.  More confrontation between the Reapers and War.  And family visitations.
Bitch Planet #8: Script Kelly Sue DeConnick, Art & cover Valentine De Landro, Colors Kelly Fitzpatrick, Letters Clayton Cowles & Design Rian Hughes & Lauren McCubbin.  A visit to the trans wing of the prison and a visit by the parent of a prisoner and finally a visit to a solitary confinement prisoner.
The Autumnlands #11: Writer Kurt Busiek, Artist Benjamin Dewey, Color art Jordie Bellaire & Lettering & design John Roshell & Jimmy Betancourt of Comicraft.  One body-horror mutation cleansed.  And one group of femme android statues accessed.

The cover to the latest Knights of the Dinner Table does look a bit like the rush job it was, but its very much an excellent tribute to the late Dave Trampier.  Trampier was one of the old school 1st Edition artists for the D&D rule books, as well as the creator of the D&D-ish comic strip Wormy...

Lobster Johnson faces both a cyborg mobster AND a cyborg gorilla in the latest part of the "Get the Lobster!" arc...

Bee & Puppycat take a job to fix a music box on the Snowglobe World.  While still in their pyjamas.  All very cute...

The Lumberjanes go on a dungeon crawl and face guardian beasts and puzzle traps and at one point make use of a Fastball Special.  The 'Janes kind of feel like the perfect compliment to Rat Queens in some ways...

And after much chaos and opposite hijinks and a giant everybody vs. zombies brawl, Finn & Jake finally, FINALLY manage to complete their quest and get Monkey Wizard to kidnap Art Princess in Adventure TIme: the Flip Side...

The burgeoning New Warriors team encounter a few surviving New Men (the High Evolutionary's human/animal hybrids), Caninus and Felinatus.  Who are urged by Scarlet Spider to pick new names.  They go with Jake Waffles and Mr. Whiskers, 'cause why not.  Also Hummingbird loves Speedball's secret dark emo-ness...

Astro City introduces the Dancing Master, ancient God of Love and contemporary of the Hanged Man.  And briefly the cheerful bank robber, Gundog.  And a drone exploring Jupiter's moon Io.  I like when comics show how much further science can go with access to weird super-science...

And finally we've got Shutter, where the assassination attempts keep coming at Kate, almost killing her friend Alain.  Plus an anthromorphic fox wielding a katana and riding a dinosaur...

Samurai Jack and the Scottsman go after a stone giant on behalf of some asshole leprechauns in order to get their magical transgender curse lifted...

Having just finished a session involving several level 10+ clerics I question the current campaign in Knights of the Dinner Table.  Sure the evil PCs and their intelligent sword boss have an army of undead.  But I'm pretty sure assaulting a major city means dealing with at least a couple temples that have clergy capable of dropping some Holy Word or heavier divine magic.  Also the Black Hands story where Newt's character gets molested by an owl bear because of reasons may be a step over a humor line...

Tomas, the lead of the Saviors seems to have survived the butchery of the alien resistance he had just joined thru sheer luck.  And the alien attacker's desire to toy with potential prey.  Also artist J. Bone draws a nice Day of the Dead celebration...

Not even a Savage Dragon cameo in his own book, just Malcolm flashing back to some childhood trauma, dealing with some wannabe hangers-on and a super-villain fight.  New baddie Tantrum does a pretty unique visual.  Larsen can often pull out some great character designs...

Invincible gets back to his home Earth only to get dumped by Atom Eve and then raped by one of the female Viltrumite who wants to conceive a child with him.  So yeah, that happens...

Grabbed the first issue of Kaboom!s new Lumberjanes book.  Action girl adventure at a kind of summer camp for adventurer/sort of girl scouts.  I could wish that co-writer Noelle Stevenson was also doing the interior art, by Brooke Allen is pretty talented...

The lastest Adventure Time has Finn & Jake trying to engage in ghostly activities, which they are not very good at.  But it also has BMO going on a pretend date with Ice King, which he is good at.  And in the back-up story Ice King manufactures a civil war in the Jelly Donut kingdom...

So I guess Dead Boy Detectives is an on-going?  I could have sworn it was just a limited.  Anyway Charles and Edwin move into Crystal's mansion after the whole burning down the school.  Or at least the tree house of the mansion.  Plus Edwin takes on a case of a cursed mirror and a pair of 19th century ghost girls...

Another one-shot story for Astro City with a day in the life of the equivilant to the Sorceror Supreme.  Or day in the life of her secretary anyway...

While the First Born consilidates his hold on Olympus Wonder Woman and her allies attempt to rally the restored Amazons to their cause.  Also a brief look at the ongoing torture of Olympian predecessor Cronus...

Conan the Avenger by Fred Van Lente picks up as the new Conan ongoing where the Wood series ended.  Artist Brian Ching is far from bad, though his Conan is kind of skinny.  Plus he gives really huge mouths.  One panel of Conan quaffing wine almost looks like the top of his head is unhinging.  Still, miles better than the guy Van Lente was working with on his Conan limited...

The latest Dark Horse Presents is a bit short on content that interests me much.  Still the first story in it is a start of a "Usagi Yojimbo" tale.  Also some more "Mr. Monster" and "Davey Jones"...

This issue of Knights of the Dinner Table has lots of Weird Pete. First he finishes up his gig as a temp player to run Dave's character as the UT+1 narrowly avoid total disaster while scouting the region where uber-sword Carvin' Marvin is at rest (though Brian still thinks he has a way to game things to his advantage). And then Pete is with his regular Black Hand group as they spend some time gaming at Newt's swanked out game room...

Astro City continues with the character assassination of Winged Victory, although she gets ongoing assistance from Samaratin and the Confessor (and the Confessor's army of Altar Boy agents)...

The 2nd issue of Dead Boy Detectives is actually from January, but I managed to miss it then. Child of celebrity Crystal struggles to fit in at her new boarding school. Or the place that the titular leads were murdered. Which is part of what she is there to investigate...

In order to force Monkey Wizard to kidnap Princess Painting, Finn and Jake team with expert Princess kidnapper the Ice King in Adventure Time: the Flip Side. Which then involves a jewel heist. For reasons...

And a new Lobster Johnson mini, Lobster Johson: Get the Lobster. With the first issue having some berserk pro-wrestlers...

Invincible Universe has the wedding of Kid Thor and Knockout. And like nearly all super-human weddings it goes...less..than perfectly...

And a new arc of Fatale with Jo taking a more aggresive role and seeming to have a long-term plan that involves former writer Nicolas...

Only three books for this week, not counting finding the issue I missed for itty bitty Hellboy.  And also from Dark Horse, the finale for the current Resident Alien mini.  And although the murder is solved, it looks like Doc might be having future problems thanks to his illusionary disguise not working on film...

Adventure Time: Candy Capers has the ever more frustrated Peppermint Butler continuing to search for the missing Finn & Jake.  Ian McGinty draws some crazy good Sad/Anger Face Peppermint Bulter.  Oh man, the in house ads have 2014 book being written by Paul Tobin & Collen Coover.  Though drawn by Wook Jin Clark rather than Ms. Coover...

And Astro City takes a look at the interaction of a crooked union boss and the cosmic ambassador from the first issue...

This most recent Prophet is less about any of the Prophet-brothers and more about the multi-millennial long life of one Diehard, WW2-era super soldier.  With lots of guest artists doing various snapshots of said life...

Savage Dragon has a jail break/riot to deal with, while Malcolm Dragon has past and current girlfriend problems.  And the new She-Dragon must face Virus Dragon in the depths of space...

I haven't paid a huge amount of attention to Daredevil until Waid took over.  So is the Jester actually an established Marvel bad guy?  'Cause they act like he is, but this is the first I can recall seeing of him...

I don't think Belit's plan of holding an artifact for ransom to the Black Stone Cult is a very good one.  I mean I'd think messing with a cult in the world of Conan the Barbarian is much more dangerous in a world where magic and the gods are actual real things and have no problems with throwing giant snakes and shit at people...

Adventure Time: Candy Capers has two team-ups this time around.  Peppermint Butler and Cinnamon Bun go to Hell to check with Death and see if Finn & Jake are dead.  And Lumpy Space Princess and Lemongrab go to "the Summit at Wolf Mountain".  Those poor, poor wolf monsters...

Regular Adventure Time is a 1st-person guest birthday Adventurer.  With Adventure Suits and rogue giants and book-reading...

Astro City does a one-shot looking at the super-powered types he aren't interested in joining in on either side of the capes & tights game.  Focusing mainly on Mattie the telekinetic f/x lady from that long past fake soap opera super-hero one-shot...

Knights of the Dinner Table returns the focus to the UT+1, with both their current campaign (which intersects in an unexpected way with one of their past ones) and the continuing retro strip with Dave running Hacknoia...

The second issue of the relaunched Astro City features the support crew for Honor Guard.  Essentially the 911 operators for the supers set...

Young Avengers picks up with the team a few months after the end of the first story arc.  With a recap of their crazy adventures we all missed.  And then Prodigy shows up to get their help in finding Speed...

Daredevil starts up a new storyline with Matt getting a visit from one of the people who bullied him as a kid.  Who is in need of some legal aid...

Invincible Universe spends an issue sort of focusing on Best Tiger.  Focusing mostly on how he'd go about killing everyone else on his team.  For reasons...

Savage Dragon is all about the Dragon.  Well original Dragon and Son of Dragon and Son of Dark Dragon.  Plus that loveable sociopath Dart II...

And then its ADVENTURE TIME!  Where just as Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake comes to a close, Adventure Time Candy Capers begins...