WEDNESDAY COMICS X2

[resnullius_bells]

I was terribly sick today and decided to spend my time catching up with this and last week's comics.

-Action Comics #1019: is Luthor half Marian now or…? Did I miss that? Or forgot it? IDEK. Anyway, the League of Doom is conspiring to kill Superman. Meh.

-Detective Comics Annual #3: this one has flashbacks with Alfred as a spy. In the present, his old partner Marigold seeks Bruce’s help to capture and old MI-6 spy that betrayed them. Bruce also makes an effort to clean up the house in Alfred’s absence (something I’m still in denial over BTW). The Annual ends with another flashback from Bruce’s beginnings as Batman. I found the story touching and the art was incredibly gorgeous too.

-Justice League Dark #19: in flashbacks Circe is around wreaking havoc (from inside Diana’s body, which sounds very sensual). But Diana fights back against the possession and defeats her (with a little help from her magical friends), all while saving her and showing faith in her too, in a classic Diana move (is it such a wonder I keep shipping her with her villains, really?) that Zatanna admires. In the present she and the rest of the magic league are interviewed about it. I think I’m gonna go back and read this run, since it seems to center Diana a lot (and is likely to give me Diana/Circe and Diana/Zatanna moments).

 

-Captain America #18: I picked this up because a team-up between Sharon, Peggy, Jess Drew, Misty, Bobbi, Sue Storm AND Toni Ho (I haven’t read much about her but I like her in concept) sounded interesting. It was boring, mainly because I do NOT feel Cap’s Inspiring Speeches, ever (though I'm laughing at the fact that this one only worked for him because he got Jess to use mind control on the crowd SMH). The strongest feeling it inspired was slight judgement at Steve for spying on Sharon’s messages LOL.

-Hawkeye – Freefall #2: I wanted to bail at the terrible Tony characterization (I mean it when I say I wish I could make all Marvel writers read the second drinking arc before touching him LMAO) and I should’ve, because things weren’t too interested after that either.

-Jessica Jones – Blind Spot #2: Jessica mysteriously survived being shot in the head and wants to find out what happened. She bullies Carol and Stephen into helping her, in true Jessica fashion. Misty, now an FBI agent, appears here too (and actually has something to do!), and reveals other D-list superhero ladies were shot (and killed) with a similar M.O. Elsa Bloodstone, Kate Bishop, Karolina Dean, and Nico Minoru have brief cameos too.

-DC’s Crimes of Passion: my favorite story in the anthology, surprisingly, was Pied Piper’s; I don’t know much about the character, but I loved the concept of an old victim of his mind-control yearning for that lack of accountability. I should read more comics of his.

I liked Batwoman’s (she meets with Maggie again, and comes thisclose to killing Nocturna, her rapist, in a fit of rage and desperation), Bradley’s (old detective meeting his thieving old flame, who Batman has NO RIGHT TO JUDGE LOL), Plastic Man’s (he helps his ex to escape his mob boss boyfriend, along with a pretty lounge singer with terrible Spanish, who I’m gonna assume is her girlfriend), and Catwoman’s (she gets hired by a Russian mob marriage to steal a priceless necklace from each other. They’re assholes and she ends up keeping the loot while thinking about love).

Batman’s (Bruce breaks up with a girl that hates Batman, showing emotional intelligence), Wildcat’s (he helps out a boxing rival rescue his gf), and Green Arrow/Black Canary (they help a kid lashing out) were okay. I didn’t care for Nightwing & Batgirls, or The Question’s

-Justice League #40: I like that John Stewart is the Green Lantern in the League in this (and that he’s butting heads with Batman LOL. Typical Bruce). Madame Xanadu is here too, and she has a kinky bondage moment with Bruce. I just picked this at the start of a new arc, so I think I might keep it up. 

-Lois Lane #8: Lois and Renee are fighting some new villain (who has a skull head and some weird les-yay thing going on with Renee); Lois shoots her and she escapes. When the cops arrive later they’re all fanboying/girling about seeing Superman, since now his identity is public (I do appreciate the consistency there LOL). Lois reassures him she and Renee (I love this team-up BTW) can handle things, so he agrees to stay clear. I liked this one a lot so I’m definitely catching up with the rest.

-Daredevil #17: okay, apparently in previous issues there was some good ol’ Mattelektra content, so I’ll be going back to that. In this issue there are mob wars or whatever.

-Doctor Doom #5: Victor has visions of a supposed future where he’s happily married with a child, and he’s looking for her now. She’s a meteorologist from Latveria. He’s (temporarily) dethroned, too. Anyway, he finds her and tells her she’s his future wife, and she doesn’t seem impressed (apparently her father was imprisoned by Doom. Victor things he must’ve been feeling generous that day, not to kill him. I’m glad to see we’re keeping him IC LOL). After her rejection (and a fight involving some other supers and Kang) he’s determined to regain his throne. The premise wasn’t my thing, but I could be into this.

-Magnificent Ms. Marvel #12: I’m sorry, but I do not believe for a minute that Kamala wouldn’t have run straight to the hospital to give the transfusion for her father, whether or not she had pressing superhero duties. I just don’t. And yeah, it’s superhero media, blah blah, but even then… I can’t help but think there’s a pattern where white characters get to prioritize their families and loved ones (and then feel performatively guilty about whoever gets hurt), while characters of colors end up prioritizing random white people over their families, with terrible consequences for those.

-Miles Morales – Spider Man #15: the Green Goblin attacks the university looking for Miles, and he defeats him and his minions. And he apparently lost a journal detailing his superhero activities and a teacher found it. Luckily, he decided to look the other way, but you probably shouldn’t keep a journal like that, Miles.

-Strikeforce #6: I wanted to check this run out because the team (Bucky, Jess, Blade, Monica Rambeau, Aldrif, Wiccan and Daimon Hellstrop) looks really fun. It is. So are Moonstone and Ghost as antagonists. I’m definitely catching up with this one to understand everything that’s going on xD (some alien refugees thing? Ghosts stuff? IDK).

 

 

Finally, I started this Hill House comic, Daphne Byrne. It's only two issues long so far, and it seemed up my alley. It’s a gothic horror comic with plenty of the staples of the genre. Daphne is a teen girl who recently lost her father; she’s weird and morbid and moody. Her mother sees a fake medium, Daphne is starting to have mysterious visions and manifesting some magical abilities (right in time with her first menstruation, ofc), a dark spirit is following her around in dreams and nudging her towards the dark… The atmosphere is on point and I’m really enjoying it. If it sounds like your type of thing, I'd recommend it.

Comments

[used_songs]

I almost picked up the Hawkeye when I was at comic book store Saturday. I passed on it in favor of getting a We Are Robin trade instead. I know that writers probably can't go back and read every book that contains a character, especially a popular and long-running one, before writing for them but I agree with you that they should be familiar with major arcs.

I love Victor von Doom. He's so arrogant and weird.

[resnullius_bells]

I can take it if it's just "off" (I have read at least part of every Iron Man run in the last ten or so years LOL), but this one had the typical "Tony is a shallow misogynistic playboy that'll hit on anyone with legs and can't take a joke" I see again and again lately (in this case it was so Clint could look "manlier" with his date. Meh). It's like they never bothered to learn more than two superficial traits of the film's version, and then had him confused with Howard for good measure.

Doom is a delight. He's one of my favorite Marvel characters EVER.