#I could ask my dad but. ew. he's not a good storyteller anyways so I doubt I'd get what I want.

[kittlyns]

Big big big. Biggest of the decade. Absolutely big family blowout event today. And I was at fucking work.

[davidmann95]

Comics this week (8/4/2021)?

Anonymous asked: Comics this week?

The Nice House On The Lake #3: I'll have to go back soon and check all the symbols to retain who's who, but this just keeps...damn. We've talked about Tynion's unbelievable level-up, but we're not even getting the benefit of watching Martinez Bueno become a giant in real time, he went and did it nice and casual-like while all our backs were turned.

Stillwater #9: The bits and pieces of worldbuilding keep luring me in, but the actual events are lying flat on the page for me at this point and I think I should back out rather than continue committing to a title I enjoy so little month-to-month, or at least tradewait. Guess I'll go to #12 so that if I choose the later there'll be a nice clean line of division.

The Good Asian #4: I think I'd appreciate noir a lot more in general with recap pages that illustrated everybody's relationships with one another. Easily my favorite issue yet though. That opening! That raindrop page! That ending!

Commanders in Crisis #11: Oh hell yes, the most the book's lived up to its enduring promise and gosh is it sweet. Countdown's on to the big finale and then for good measure my very own comics debut with one of the backup features in the Vol. 2 trade.

The Wrong Earth: Night & Day #6: Dangit I guess I became emotionally invested beyond just the strength of the core concept without even having noticed, huh.

Batman #111: Yes, yes, this is Tynion doing standardey-standard superhero stuff to finance the real work going elsewhere but he's real good at that so I'm happy, who cares, is Ghostmaker getting an entire goddamn annual to himself please

The Joker Presents A Puzzlebox #1: My dad was interested in this one; I wasn't blown away, but it is nice that someone's finally putting in the effort to make Joker actually funny.

Justice League Infinity #2: A nice little Superman spotlight issue - it makes a predictable decision in one aspect that'll surely rankle some, and it's not what I would have picked myself, but it handles it as well as one could. In any case, this book's still going well above and beyond what I ever would have expected, expanding beyond what the show could have done instead of feeling like a watered-down reencapsulation ala the second season of Batman: The Adventures Continue.

Justice League #66: Better than the last few issues anyway, and a testament to Synmar being one of Bendis's few all-the-way-good ideas during his time at DC.

Avengers #47: Turned out dad dug the start of this arc so I decided to stick with it and I'm pretty happy I did, I can feel the gonzo creeping back in.

X-Men #2: Thus far this run feels as close to the platonic ideal not of X-Men but what I want from a Justice League comic as anything since at least Sixth Dimension - bunch of fun archetypal personalities dealing with big problems in weird cool ways with minimal fuss or muss. There is a certain kind of distinctly charming comic that makes you go "y'know, in a perfect world, this would be the absolute bare minimum for how good an ongoing needs to be. Rocks no boats but everything you asked for" - will this rewrite the playbook aesthetically, conceptually, thematically, or character or otherwise storytelling-wise for the X-Men? Basically not a chance in hell. Did Pepe Larraz draw them turning into a Voltron in the first issue and does this issue continue in that spirit with Duggan still turning in a surprisingly good Hickman impression? YOU BET.

Guardians of the Galaxy Annual #1: It was a perfect comic, up until the last couple pages where it became a perfecter comic, an expression of praise I feel is truly in line with the thought processes of this wonderful tales' focus. Backup was nice too even if I couldn't tell what was going on.

The Immortal Hulk #49: Oh hell and heck, Ewing doing prose again and baby you know I missed you. Wasn't sure how this could properly wrap things up with so little space left but even if the finale wasn't quadruple-sized there's no mistaking that this is go time.