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I missed when the first issue of Ted Naifeh's new book, Princess Ugg, came out before.  Happily plenty of the first issue still on the racks when this weeks issue #2 reminded me.  Naifeh this time goes with a barbarian princess attending a more traditional princess finishing academy...

Knights of the Dinner Table has Bob and Dave scrambling to try and find some advice or secret knowledge from other local G.M.s to give them a shot against Brian and Sara and Carvin' Marvin.  But none of them are willing to break the G.M. code.  At least not until some bets start going down as to which team will come out on top...

I'm not sure I buy into Southern Bastards High School football coach crime boss.  Given how focused he is on coaching when would he find the time to run a crime empire?

When not looking into the family history of Shutter's lead, this issue teaches the reader to never trust a platypus fixer...

New Gods met in the second issue of the Wicked & the Divine; Baal, the Morrigan and Baphomet.  Mentioned but not seen Tara, Woden, Inanna and Minerva.  Adding in previously met Lucifer, Amaterasu and Sahkmet thats Ten out of Twelve...

Rat Queens gives us a look at Hannah's kinder, gentler side.  And bad-ass lady brawler Lola (who I can't recall meeting before).  Also a glimpse at Sawyer's wang...

The Lumberjanes fall into some poison ivy, meet some boy campers and some yetis and finally get a cool, probably magic, bow and arrows...

Two Adventure Time related books.  The first, regular ol' Adventure Time celebrates its 30th issue by making it a MarcelZine issue.  Where Marceline edits a 'zine made up of stories contributed by all her pals.  Adventure Time Banana Guard Academy has Princess Bubblegum opening up the Banana Guard to non-Bananas 'cause she's tired of their being no turnips in the castle fridge for snacking.  Potential recruits include Peppermint Butler, Mr. Cupcake and Treetrunks...

While I do love Skottie Young's drawing on Rocket Raccoon I'm not so sold on his writing.  His Rocket is just so generically aggressively obnoxiously outlaw-ey.  And the revenge obsessed ex-girlfriend antagonist is no great shakes either...

And lastly the new New Warriors get their second enemy group in a Inhuman Supremacist group looking to force recruit Haechi.  'Cause Inhumans are the latest mass-super-power outbreak origin...
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And the not-yet-a-team ragtag New Warriors manage to win against the High Evolutionary and Other Dude.  I'm mostly just glad to be able to see more of Manic Pixie Girl Hummingbird and her partner Ultra-Moody Scarlet Spider.  Even at Marvel's stupid $4 price point...

Old Man King Conan continues his flasback tale of middle-aged Deposed Conan.  This time he gets to stab a big-ass snake.  As Conan is wont to do...

Grabbed the 2nd and 3rd issues of Rucka's the Veil.  At the same time as the latest Fatale, which begins its final arc.  If their were more than two issues to go I'd probably be dropping the former.  'Cause it doesn't measure up well...

And look Rat Queens is back already.  I'm glad to see the hiatus between arcs of the best D&D comic was so short...

And a new crime/noir comic from Jason Aaron (and artist Jason Latour), Southern Bastards.  I liked Scalped and its between seasons for Justified so we'll see where they're going with this for a bit...

And a pair of Adventure Time related books.  Adventure Time 2014 Annual by Frank Gibson and Becky Dreistadt presents a birthday tale of Li'l Fiona.  And then more of Adventure Time: Flip Side.  With the Reverse Curse ravaging the Land of Oo, Monkey Wizard continues to refuse to kidnap Art Princess and runs off to be a cowboy...
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Samurai Jack finishes up its first arc and, given that its been renewed for at least another year's worth of issues, it does NOT end with Jack defeating Aku and traveling back to his home time...

So its some kind of Demon Possession racket going on in Dead Boy Detectives.  Plus two crap Headmasters for the price of one...

Oh hey look its that one dude who went into the Dreamtime back before the Unwritten got hijacked into helping Fables.  Bah!  Oh well at least I've got a mob of Libertine Rakes attempting to hang the main cast...

Ah family.  Meaning Wonder Woman, Hermes and Artemis vs. goons, Dionysious vs. Minotaur and explosively Firstborn vs. Apollo...

Adventure Time's 25th issue!  With dinosaurs!  Talking gemstones!  Marcy/Bubs bonding!  Robohouse!  Glimpses of Future Finn!

So I'm cautiously optimistic about the new volume of New Warriors.  Yes I was burned before following title over creators.  But Christopher Yost has been doing some good work on the recently ended Scarlet Spider.  And he's using parts of that to jump off for this.  Plus 1st Big Bad = The High Evolutionary.  Haven't seen him since "Annihilation: Conquest"...

Not too surprisingly Daredevil's outing himself on the stands leads to a disbarment.  Also a brawl.  And bonus disbarment for Foggy.  Luckily for the series relaunch a loophole means Matt could still practice law in California.  Thus explaining the move back to San Francisco...

Most everyone survives the giant orc/troll/goblin fight in Rat Queens.  Meaning time for celebratory drinking and debauchery.  Including dwarf/orc with beard full of birds make-outs.  I love you Rat Queens.  Love you like a confirmed critical hit during a boss fight...

Son of Savage Dragon Malcom Dragon transfers to a new high school and fights a dude named Tantrum.  Who has a conjoined baby in his chest.  Seriously, conjoined chest baby...

Two Conan comics!  First off, the actual final issue of Brian Wood's Conan the Barbarian and grieving Conan moving on from his loss.  And the return of the Timothy Truman King Conan.  With aged Conan continuing his flashback to the search for the Heart of Ahriman to regain the kingdom of Aquiliona...

And finally some Dark Horse Presents.  Some WW2 era space zombies.  And more Nexus.  And Mr. Monster.  And conclusions for St. George and City of Roses...
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A pair of heavy weeks, with fifteen titles between them.  Rat Queens is still a violent, drunken delight for my D&D playing heart.  With some more character backstory and heartache leading to the reveal of who hired the anti-adventurer assassins...

I'm liking the concept and set-up of Pretty Deadly and its Weird West setting.  But I'm having a hard time tracking all the varied characters and sub-plots.  Still its only issue two so hopefully things will get clearer...

Savage Dragon goes with a big ol' execution fake out.  Plus Dart II stabs a dude in his eyes.  With darts.  That explode.  Owey...

This time around Saga has romance and vomiting and journalism.  IN MAGIC SPAAAAAAACE...

The main focus for Knights of the Dinner Table seems to be setting up for another Crutch centric arc, though there is still more of the Knights ongoing (with Weird Pete sitting in for an absent Dave) as well as a Black Hands game...

If its not one crazy sibling (Strife or Hermes) Wonder Woman has to deal with, its another (Siracca, Milan or Cassandra)...

Samurai Jack fights some twins and gets another magic thread thingy.  I mean first he tries to be all reasonable but then its fight time.  Then rematch time after he loses the first fight...

Marceline and Princess Bubblegum race for a safe room as the pink goo continues to smother the Candy Kingdom.  Just as Finn & Jake arrive hoping to get help from the ladies in Adventure Time...

The Young Avengers basically call up their entire social network friends list of super humans to help them face Mother and her posse of exes plus all those screwed up alternate universe Thems she subverted.  And Leah lets Loki in on a secret...

Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe involves teaming up with magical themed heroes Scarlet Witch, Ghost Rider, Dr. Strange and Deadpool (look hes got a Fairy Wand ok) to assault the S.H.I.E.L.D. hellicarrier.  Now run by the Order half of the In-Betweener.  Also where his ex (not that he remembers) Dazzler works...

Daredevil gets healed by, fights and then teams up with the Legion of Monsters against a Son of the Serpent sort of wizard.  With Jason Copland filling in and trying to ape Chris Samnee's pencils...

itty bitty Hellboy and friends go to Heaven and meet aliens.  Or do they?

The Massive's post-apocalypse environmentalists get shown up by Norse whalers in long boats.  Though maybe the head whaler dude should have remembered that before becoming a peacenik enviro-activist, Callum Isreal was some kind of elite mercenary assassin thing...

Conan the Barbarian and Belit the Pirate Queen head into their final arc with "the Song of Belit".  I wish I knew how to do those accent things over her name...

Amidst the latest Dark Horse Presents is a Roman dragon fighter story by Fred Van Lente, a non-Usagi Stan Sakai anthromorphic animal tale and the last bit of the aging luchador vs. mutant vampires story...
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Even for two weeks, this is a pretty big stack of books. Starting with some Marvel from this week and Daredevil and a start of a guest spot with the Legion of Monsters. Also the Young Avengers prepare to face-off against Mother, Leah, the League of Bitter Exes and the Horde of Bad Ideas to save Teddy and the universe...

The Rat Queens survive both their assassin and their random troll encounter. And gather up the few other adventurer survivors. And then of course engage in an unhealthy amount of drinking. Pretty Deadly is latest from Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios and is an interesting supernatural Western. Also new, the espionage-themed Velvet from Brubaker and Steve Epting. And finally the latest Invincible and a father/son arm-wrestling match. Plus the return of Battle Beast...

In addition to the new Adventure Time with the threat of a wave of pink ooze, also got a mini-comic serving as a prequel to the comic series. One where BMO attempts to become a perfect fighter...

Wonder Woman is summoned to a family meeting (of the family she doesn't like) to discuss her new role as the God of War. Which goes about as well as could be expected...

Another new book in Hinterkind, a supernatural post-apocalyptic comic from Ian Edginton and Francesco Trifogli. And the Unwritten/Fables finally comes to a close. I'm so glad to have the finale for a book I gave up on sidelining the story of the book I actually want to buy...

Brian Wood finishes up the "Black Stones" story on Conan the Barbarian with artist Paul Azaceta and a and Dave Stewart. Wood's next arc will be the last, bringing a close to the story of Conan and Belit. Which is why we've also got Conan and the People of the Black Circle by Fred Van Lente and Ariel Olivetti. I can't say I care for Olivetti's Conan, as he looks more like a smug, douchey pro athlete than a barbarian hero...

Also from Wood and Dark Horse is a new arc of the Massive with "Longship". With the titular ship and its crew going up against subsistence-level Viking whalers. And a last bit of Dark Horse with Dark Horse Presents where I can't believe they gave a whopping 13 pages over to Neal Adams' terrible "Blood" story...

And to finish up we've got Samurai Jack from IDW by Jim Zub and Andy Suriano, promising to finish up the story from the cartoon's abbreviated run...

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