A Descent into Dullness

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...

Astro City finishes up its Winged Victory arc with both a super-villain beat down and WV confronting her backers with their views on how to empower women.  I also like how she tells Karnazon he should stop trying to arch her, because he used to be a Big Thing kind of super-villain before he got obsessed with beating her...

Invincible has to team with Other Universe Robot and O.U. Mauler so that he can get back to his universe and stop Robot.  Their plan involves cloning, thus Mauler.  Invincible Universe continues with the upgraded threat of the Lizard League.  The former bottom tier group ends up requiring the entire Guardians of the Globe to be called in, which still might not be enough...

Thomas and Nate head into Mexico to hook-up with an anti-alien cell in the Saviors.  The motley group has plans for testing a new weapon on the aliens running the cops and the cartels in their area.  Though Thomas is still pretty shy of joining any kind of resistance group...

Velvet travels to a covertly legendary masquerade in order to find a off-the-grid Russian former agent.  Who will hopefully provide her with more information to help her find how to clear herself...

So of the eight new-ish New Warriors, we've got Sun Girl and unnamed horn guy in the sewers defending Morlocks; Robbie & Vance leaving New Salem to check the Avengers database on the new bad guys; Kaine, Hummingbird and the new Atlantean girl having their initial Meet Cute/Misunderstanding Fight; and the new Kid Nova still a prisoner of the High Evolutionary...

Lobster Johnson works to solve his latest mystery while dealing with a more hostile than usual NYPD.  And Cindy, Lady Reporter attempts to dig into the past of the Lobster.  Mostly finding awesome if kind of useless stories about pirates and mountain men and cougar shapeshifters...

Rucka's latest, Veil, is interesting.  Though I'm hoping it moves away from being just a creepier version of Fatale's deadly but irresistible lady concept...

Finn, Jake and Marceline go about tracking down Princess Skyblade Harbinger in Adventure Time: the Flip Side as part of a plan to try and get Monkey Wizard back into the Princess Kidnapping game...