A Descent into Dullness

Two weeks of comics and three of them Conan comics.  Van Lente's Conan the Avenger where young-ish Conan continues to try and replace heart-ache and loss with blood-shed and cheap sex.  Then old man Conan finishes his tale of when middle-aged Conan retook his kingdom and married his second great love in King Conan.  And finally the match-up demanded by all begins with the first issue of Groo Vs. Conan.  With Aragones joined by Thomas Yeates, who I'm guessing does the non-cartoony Conan bits...

I like Fejzula's art on Veil.  The story doesn't really hold up as well sadly.  Especially when compared to Fatale, which has its big finale issue.  And traps are sprung and lives are ended and happy endings are in short supply...

Also up, more of Burbaker's burned spy Velvet where, among other moments, we see what moment led to her being moved to an administration position...

Prophet sort of finishes up with plenty of future weirdness and alien nightmare monsters.  And what looks to be the two "good" John Prophets joining forces for the upcoming Prophet Earth War mini-series...

Saga gives us a rampaging janitor, a drugged out actress, a pet walrus monster and Prince Robot learning of the murder of his wife and birth of his son...

Malcolm Dragon is held prisoner by the Freaks of the Danger Zone neighborhood in Savage Dragon.  While Dart II sends her Vicious Circle goons out hunting for him...

With Wonder Woman captured by the First Born, its all out war between his forces and the residents, old and new, divine and mortal, of Paradise Island...

Tom Taylor continues his quest for the Grail in the Unwritten: Apocalypse, gaining headway by playing with the story tropes for the setting.  While Pullman throws some obstacles in his way from differing story concepts...

Dead Boy Detectives has Crystal forcing Charles to meet with his living half-sister and learn more of his family...

Amidst all the fun of violent smugglers and pacifist Harkonen refugees, the Alien Legion's Force: Nomad see the return of Jugger Grimrod's ol' "pal" Pike.  Which is to say one of the many people with a grudge and a gun...

The dread Aku devises a new plan to put an end to Samurai Jack. Direct invasion of his brain in order to destroy his memories!

And finally more Turtles in Time: TMNT.  Currently, for given values of currently, the turtle brothers are in Feudal Japan.  Specifically at the moment of their (and their father's) previous incarnations.  Almost worth it alone for Mikey's joy at getting to hug his mom...

Lots and lots of comics for the last three weeks.  With almost half just from this week.  Starting with the latest Dark Horse Presents, with a brand new Hellboy short story set during his Mexican wrestler years.  And a related comic with the final issue of itty bitty Hellboy and a pool party for Abe's sister Eve...

The Massive finishes up its anti-whaling mission with a death and a compromise.  And with the end drawing ever closer to his run on Conan the Barbarian has a great many deaths...

Adventure Time: Candy Capers finishes up as Peppermint Butler and Cinnamon Bun make a few final tries at providing the Candy kingdom with replacement heroes.  All leading to the conclusion that Princess Bubblegum is a bit of a science experiment obsessed jerk.  Which matches well with regular Adventure Time where she explains the origin of the Giant Creeping Gum Ooze to Marceline.  Plus bonus  gender-swap universe story that features an evil boy band vs. Marshall Lee's emo song stylings...

Astro City begins an arc revealing the origins of Winged Victory with guest stars the Samaritan and the Confessor.  Or three of the more obvious homage characters for the book...

Hinterkind has one pack of violent jerks taken down by another pack of violent crazies and with a third pack of violent jerks on the way...

Then doubling down on Marvel, cause two issues a month for titles is a thing for them.  We've got Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe with issue three having a vampire Wolverine, a werewolf Captain America and a mopey Magneto.  And then in the finale Longshot..er..saves the Universe.  And Young Avengers' final battle with Mother is won with teen boy kissing.  And then an epilogue slash dance party...

Daredevil's solution for the Sons of the Serpent problem seems to involve pirate radio and evil cult bible ransoming...

Moving on to Image.  Invincible Universe invades a prison as the Guardians go proactive.  Invincible has Monster Girl work on her issues with being a dead beat dad.  Velvet goes for a glide in her journey to find out who is framing her.  Saga shows that a violent confrontation can only get worse when you mix in a third party.  Pretty Deadly almost has a plot I can follow.  Prophet sort of doesn't but it does have two bigger than kaiju monsters brawling.  And  G0dland presents its long delayed, post-humanist final issue.  Space babies, talking mice and Kirby krackle may all be involved...

Samurai Jack's quest for the time travel threads leads him to what seems to be an idyllc village with a powerful warrior guardian.  But seems to be is hardly ever accurate for Jack...

And finally the second volume of Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard draws to an end with new contributions from Bill Willingham and Brad Thomte, Jackson Sze and Justin Gerard and Cliff Monear...