#black noir's cartoon pals

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Trick 'r Treat for Black Noir! If you please.

​Oh he loves the holiday. When he goes to the Vought functions, he keeps a bucket full of really good candy to hand out to the kids. When Vought does its "Trick-or-Treat at the Tower" event, he always sets up a little "lemonade stand" style booth on the ground floor (because visiting the Seven where they live is off-limits). He's got a sweet tooth, but is never really sure what candy is the best, so when he goes shopping, he always asks a kid at the store for advice. (He's a regular, and the clerks reassure the concerned parents that he's harmless.) After Ryan comes into his life, he no longer needs to do this.

His costumes as Black Noir are always a little silly, as he wears them over his armor. Some years though, when he feels brave enough, he skips out on the public appearances and his costumes look a lot less silly. (His cartoon pals also dress up, in case you were wondering.)

(Ask meme)

[blaacknoir]

#he didn't have to defeat him or anything but him getting some of his own back would have been so satisfying narratively#after all that Soldier Boy cost him#also if Soldier Boy realized that Noir had more of a hand raising his son than he ever would#flawless victory in spirit

You can’t hide from Soldier Boy. Time to finish what you started. 

[ebonyslasher]

This is a weird question but..

Considering he has a soft spot, specially for kids

Do you have any parental platonic hcs or stories with black noir ?

Liken a mentor who knew the reader since they were really young or a legal guardian/father to the reader

He’s in his 70s he saw could have seen the reader grow up or they could still be a child

This isn't a weird question, he definitely does have a soft spot for kids but...

I don't have a parental bone in my body. I also don't write about having kids or even really raising them but a mentor situation sounds like I can work with that tho.

🖤 Black Noir would be an awkward mentor starting out, he has a soft spot for kids but interacting with one...for a long period of time...well that's something different.

🖤Let's just say, he'll need a lot of advice from Beaver Buster and Pals during most of it

🖤He would take training seriously. Very strict in trying to teach about having discipline while fighting. And won't hold back either, you know how ruthless he is.

🖤Would try and mimic how his sensei taught him growing up. He doesn't remember some the little stuff so he fills in the gaps

🖤 As he gets closer to his mentee emotionally (and this would take a while), he would make sure to really hone in on mental health and good coping mechanisms. Cause they gone see some shit....and do some nasty, horrible stuff. So they need to be ready

🖤He gets less strict as he gets older and doesn't keep his mentee at arms length anymore.

🖤So proud of how his mentee grows and becomes a hero. Which was inevitable. Whether you end up at Vought or not, he's still proud. Although, if they went into Vought, he'd probably worry...A LOT.

🖤Wouldn't hold back and would try to explain what happened to him growing up and while on team Payback. Which started out as a nicely written explanation that turned into haphazard cartoon reenactment drawings and random words written every where.

🖤Sorry, he got really emotional and it didn't translate very well through.

🖤 Will most likely cry a tear or two of joy seeing you when he's older. Doesn't matter if it's on TV or in your awesome looking super suit in person. And he won't hide it either. Didn't you know? He's emotional...he loves hard.

This is as much as my mind can conjure up at 3 am....I woke up from a nightmare too....hope you like it

[aion-rsa]

Marvel’s Loki Episode 5: MCU Easter Eggs and References

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This article contains Loki episode 5 spoilers.

Marvel’s Loki episode 5 is a big one. Yes, we know…last week felt like that. And the one before it, too. But this one really IS, with the entire episode taking place (as DoG’s Kayti Burt put it) on top of a literal “trash pile of MCU and Marvel Comics Easter eggs.”

With that in mind, let’s have some fun with all the incredible Marvel references they managed to sneak into Loki episode 5.

Journey Into Mystery

You probably already know this, but Journey Into Mystery was the book that first introduced the Marvel Comics version of Thor, with Loki following shortly after. The title eventually was just renamed Thor since the Asgardians had become the primary focus of the book for years by that point. However, Journey Into Mystery was revived a few years back, with its primary focus being on the adventures of Kid Loki this time around.

Thanos Copter

The Lokis pass a helicopter with “THANOS” on the side. This is a reference to Spidey Super Stories #39 from 1979. The all-ages comic featured a story of Spider-Man and the Cat (Hellcat) taking on Thanos, who was on the hunt for the Cosmic Cube. He flew around New York City in his own helicopter with his name on the side. The reference comes up as a joke here and there, including an issue of Deadpool. Even Thanos’ giant two-sided blade weapon from Avengers: Endgame has been considered by many to be a sly reference to the Thanos Copter.

Ecto-Cooler

While the Lokis are all drinking wine, Kid Loki is shown drinking Hi-C Ecto Cooler. The Slimer-based citrus drink was a tie-in to The Real Ghostbusters cartoon of the 1980s and lasted into 2001 due to its popularity. Afterwards, it became a fondly-remembered relic to time. Ecto Cooler made a brief return in 2016 to coincide with the Ghostbusters reboot. Sadly, there’s no news of it coming back for the upcoming Ghostbusters: Afterlife movie.

Speaking of Kid Loki…

Kid Loki

Kid Loki seems to be wielding a flaming sword, which looks an awful lot like Laevateinn, the sword he wielded in the Loki: Agent of Asgard comics.

Polybius

In the background of the Lokis’ lair, we see a Polybius arcade machine. Polybius is a long-running urban legend. Supposedly, back in 1981, an arcade machine was set up in Portland, Oregon, watched over by various men in black. The game was so addicting that it caused fights to break out and horrible side-effects to its players. We wrote more about the decades-old mystery of Polybius right here.

Pretty sure there’s an old Williams Space Pinball machine in there, too but that’s not as wild as Polybius.

The Void

Fittingly, the realm where all the pruned victims end up is called the Void. In the comics, the Void is a dark, inexplicable, and possibly biblical entity that acts as the evil side to the Sentry. During the storyline Siege, the Void murdered Loki, which facilitated his rebirth as Kid Loki.

Alioth

Alioth first appeared in Avengers: The Terminatrix Objective #1, the same 1993 comic that also introduced Ravonna Renslayer to the world…and one that features Kang as its central villain. Hmmmm…

Oh, and Alioth was co-created by Mobius M. Mobius inspiration/model Mark Gruenwald, who gets another shout later in the episode.

Vote Loki

The “politician Loki” who we see leading (inasumuch as they can/want to be led) the loose coalition of Variant Lokis is modeled almost exactly on the version of Loki from Marvel’s Vote Loki story by Christopher Hastings, Langdon Foss, and Paul McCaffery. In it, Loki ends up running for President, with his ridiculous campaign built on the “honest” deception of openly lying to the American people inadvertently aided by a credulous news media. It’s a good read and you should check it out.

This episode also engages in the old MCU/Star Wars tradition of someone getting a hand cut off…in this case it’s our pal, “Vote Loki.”

Frog Thor

A frog resembling Thor is shown in a jar labeled “T365.” Wouldn’t you know it, Thor #365 is the issue where Loki transforms Thor into a frog. Yes, it was a whole thing. Walt Simonson’s run on the Thor comics is really spectacular.

“Frog Thor” also got a mention in Thor: Ragnarok, during the “play within the movie” seen as “Loki” apologized to “Thor” for turning him into a frog.

You know, there’s even an independent wrestler with a Thor Frog gimmick. Life is beautiful sometimes.

Classic Loki

So it appears that Classic Loki is basically what would have happened if “our” Loki survived the opening of Avengers: Infinity War, which he did by allowing Thanos to kill a duplicate while he disguised himself as some debris. Classic Loki went into hiding and developed a taste for brighter greens and yellows, and aged into Richard E. Grant, before he was pruned by the TVA and found himself here in the Void.

Classic Loki’s line about “the god of outcasts” comes from 2019’s Loki #5, by Daniel Kibblesmith and Andy McDonald:

“I am Loki. God of outcasts. They see themselves in me. And I in them. All of us, alone together. It’s why my stories always end with someone trying to put me in a box. And begin with my spectacular escape.”

Later in the episode, Classic Loki and Kid Loki literally “exit stage right,” in what feels like a very deliberately “stagey” moment that plays on the Shakespearean overtones of all of this.

The Living Tribunal

On the ground in the Void there’s a large severed head…and it’s that of The Living Tribunal, a cosmic entity created by Stan Lee and Marie Severin back in 1967. The presence of a Living Tribunal (even one who is dead at this present time), whose entire purpose for being is predicated on the existence of a multiverse, means that the TVA is trying very hard to cut all ties and any evidence of the fact that the multiverse is already out there.

U.S.S. Eldridge

The USS Eldridge was a real Cannon-class destroyer in the U.S. Navy in use from 1943 to 1992. It was supposedly sold for scrap after it was decommissioned but Loki posits that perhaps it was an unwanted Variant in the Sacred Timeline. Perhaps this is because the ship was rumored to be subjected to the “Philadelphia Experiment” that was supposed to render it invisible to the human eye. The story is sadly probably a hoax.

There’s a not exactly great 1984 movie called The Philadelphia Experiment which adds time travel to the equation, making this little callback even more Loki appropriate.

Is That Stan Lee?

At about 9:38 there’s a mural in the TVA headquarters. On the right there’s a guy in prescription shades, with a familiar moustache and salt-and-pepper hair. We’re not saying that’s Stan Lee, but…

The Castle

Yes, we know, that ominous castle sure looks like Doctor Doom’s  home of Doomstadt, but…it’s probably not (or is it?). More likely, this is Castle Limbo, home of Kang the Conqueror (or…is it?).

We unpacked these possibilities some more here.

The Music

The “heroic Loki” theme at the end sounds like it’s about to break into Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries.”

Speaking of, the regular Loki theme is very similar to the part of the Delfonics “Ready or Not Here I Come (Can’t Hide From Love)” that was sampled for Missy Elliott’s “Sock It To Me.” The original (also sampled for the Fugees’ “Ready or Not” and Dr. Dre’s “Still D.R.E.”) was about the inevitability of love, and Missy’s song was about sneaking into somebody’s house to get your back blown out, so basically the same thing. Could have some bearing on Loki and Sylvie’s story.

The music that plays during the “Loki brawl” is this show’s equivalent of Scooby-Doo chase music. That’s a good thing, by the way.

Pixar, is that you?

Was that the Pizza Planet truck? Mobius’s ride, a station wagon with a slice of pizza on top, immediately brought to mind the popular Pixar easter egg/elaborate timeline mcguffin that has appeared in every Pixar movie to date. Also, very nice touch having Lightning McQueen himself drive it.

An even nicer touch is the license plate on the car Mobius is driving: GRN W1D. As in “Gruenwald.” As in (say it with us, kids!) Mark Gruenwald, the Marvel writer and editor who Mobius is based on.

Ant-Man

At one point on the ground in the Void we can spot a gigantic Yellowjacket helmet. Yellowjacket is the codename for several size-shifting superheroes in the Marvel Comics, but is best known to MCU fans as Corey Stoll’s Darren Cross from the first Ant-Man flick. 

Guardians of the Galaxy

There’s lots of crashed spacecraft, one of which kind of looks like the Dark Aster (Ronan the Accuser’s ship in Guardians of the Galaxy), and there may be a Helicarrier hanging around. There’s also a flying saucer that vaguely resembles the ship from John Carpenter’s The Thing, and a pirate ship that if Doctor Doom were actually the villain of this show (he isn’t…or…is he?) would make us think of that character’s very first appearance in Fantastic Four comics, where he sent Ben Grimm back in time to become Blackbeard. No, really.

Miscellaneous Time Variants

The fate of the Lokis is reminiscent of What If? #12, otherwise known as What If the X-Men Had Stayed in Asgard? At the end of the story, after tasting defeat yet again, Loki begged Those Who Sit Above in Shadow to allow him to rule Asgard. They agreed by sending him far into the future at the end of time. As reality started to break down, Loki went out laughing in the face of oblivion.

The bus ad at the beginning is for Calum Ross, who is an editor on the show. 

The shot of all the Lokis walking as the camera swoops overhead is very much reminiscent of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies.

Loki and Sylvie are cold in The Void. But wait a minute, aren’t they both Frost Giants? Why then would Loki conjure a green blanket? Unless he wants a convenient excuse to cuddle up with his Variant…

Loki is drinking “RoxxiWine” pinot noir…out of a box…which is a nice touch.

Is that weird, very large plant in the bowling alley hideout supposed to be a Variant Yggdrasil? Or wait…what if that’s Plant Loki?!? He’s green, isn’t he?

Next to Alligator Loki’s kiddie pool there’s a copy of The Mystery and Lore of Monsters, a 1930 book by Charles J.S. Thompson.

The tower we all keep thinking is Avengers Tower is in fact Qeng Tower, the headquarters of Qeng Enterprises, the company that Tony Stark (mistakenly) sold the old Avengers tower to in the comics.

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Here's Matt Puppy dressed as a film noir detective, reminiscent of detectives from black and white live-action movies of the 1940s and 1950s. He plans to solve a case with his pal, Gary Gopher as his sidekick. Huck and his friends acknowledge that Matt is just playacting and knew the real world is not in black-and-white. Matt Puppy © grishamanimation1 Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear © Hanna-Barbera/Warner Bros./Cartoon Network

[blaacknoir]

a common theme in a lot of media is a character insisting "i'm not crazy" and eventually being proven right. but to be honest? i wish we had more characters who are canonically "crazy" without it being a bad thing or condemnation. characters who struggle with psychotic symptoms like delusions and hallucinations. characters who are unreliable narrators because they're not always sure what's real and what's in their head. characters who need help and support from their friends and loved ones to maintain their grip on reality and stay safe sometimes. psychotic characters who aren't just one-dimensional caricatures or harmful stereotypes but fully fleshed out, developed people with satisfying arcs and meaningful relationships. just more well written canon psychotic characters.

[zylphiacrowley]

Z's Free Range Grass Fed Spoiler Free Final Fantasy XV Headcanons

::EDIT:: These are now horrifically outdated ::EDIT::

I’ve only compiled a few of my headcanons for the Chocobros here. It was already getting too long without adding other characters… Under a cut for length.

Ignis -Ignis is a pretty light sleeper, but can fall back asleep pretty easily if he wants to. -If one of the other guys wakes up before him he’s usually up within the next minute. -He’s trained himself to be able to wake up like this so he’s ready to defend his friends at a moment’s notice. -Is gay. Gladio says the only woman in Ignis’ life is the Regalia. -He’s never pursued a long term relationship though because he’s dedicated his life to protecting and serving the royal family. -He is farsighted. -He secretly races chocobos in Insomnia’s underground Chocobo racing circuit. He wears a helmet with a one way mirrored visor to obscure his identity and goes by the name “Racer X”. He is sponsored by Ebony and rides a black chocobo named Noir. It’s a topic of hot debate among fans whether his chocobo is an actual rare black chocobo or if it’s simply dyed black. Only Ignis knows for sure. -He’s super competitive. -He has, on many occasions, made breakfast for everyone half asleep. They all joke that he could probably cook an entire meal with his eyes closed. -He loves cars. He has subscriptions to at least four different automotive magazines. -While he doesn’t do major repairs, he does know how to perform general upkeep and maintenance like oil changes and replacing brake pads and such. -Owns at least three moka pots. A black one with a brushed metal surface is his primary one, a standard silver one as a backup, and a third larger silver one that he got from Gladio for his 20th birthday. He packed all three of them on the road trip. -Is typically the last to go to bed, and first to wake up in the morning.

Prompto -Prompto has ADHD. His mind is always racing and he has trouble focusing on any one thing for too long. -That being said, photography is the first thing that really captured his attention and held it. -He has an insatiable apatite when it comes to learning new things, especially if it’s things he knows his friends are interested in. -Due to the aforementioned ADHD, he never attains any sort of mastery of anything aside from photography. He is very much the “Jack of all trades, master of none.” type. -He sings A LOT. He even likes to make up little songs about stuff they see along the way. -One time he wrote an entire jingle about Wiz’s Chocobo Post that Wiz now uses to advertise the place. -He has an entire photo album titled “Chocobo selfies” -He talks to his Chocobo as if carrying on a conversation with it. -He’s a huge fanboy of Chocobo racing. His favorite racer is the mysterious Racer X. -Out of the four, he is the best at King’s Knight. He has sunk so many hours into the game and unlocked all the characters and extra content. -He owns a bunch of King’s Knight merchandise but he left it all back in Insomnia, with the exception of his Toby pillowcase. -Has a genuine interest in learning how to cook, and has been known to hover around Ignis at camp while he’s cooking. He even gets to help sometimes. -He loves getting to hang out with his favorite pal, Talcott. They’ve gone on lots of walks around Cape Caem, when Prompto lets Talcott borrow his camera. -He and Talcott have a special photo album they decorated together to put all the photos of the Cape in that is covered in glitter stickers of cartoon cactuars and chocobos. -He also hangs out with Iris a lot as well whenever they’re at the Cape. She’s teaching him and Talcott how to garden. -He’s got really neat penmanship. -Is the last to actually fall asleep. -He’s really scared that one day the guys will decide that he’s just a hindrance and opt to leave him behind. -The optimist of the group, he always tries to find the silver lining in any situation, and if he can’t he tries his best to lighten the mood by any means necessary.

Gladio -Gladio loves opera. He has made his own exclusively opera playlist that he’ll put on and train to. -Once used the pickup line “You have nice lips, it’s a shame no one is kissing them.” on someone. It may or may not have worked. -Has an entire library full of classic and contemporary literature back home in Insomnia. -Likes to paint. -Is like the best gift giver of the four of them. He remembers little things that the other guys have mentioned in past conversations and stores that information away to get them exactly what they want for birthdays and holidays. -Is almost always the one designated to actually wake Noctis up in the morning. -He has been smacked many times on accident trying to do so. -Knows at least 30 different ways to prepare cup noodles. -Has a fondness for science fiction. -Tries to call Iris every night, but sometimes can’t due to it being impossible in some situations. If he goes more than 3 days without calling her however, he’ll have a very panicky voicemail from her. -Always cuts his hair himself. -As well as being proficient with a multiple bladed weapons, he’s also no slouch at hand-to-hand combat. -Jogs every morning. -Knows how to make plain black coffee, and has done so on multiple occasions for all the guys. Ignis is eternally grateful for his help. -Is definitely the kind of guy that will go out on midnight grocery/convenience store runs if they forgot something.

Noctis -Before the road trip he could sleep upwards of 18 hours a day. He didn’t always do it, but he could. -Has a ratty stuffed Carbuncle that his dad gave him when he was 3. It came along for the road trip. -Is exceptionally stubborn. If he complains about the heat and someone tells him to take off his jacket he will purposely leave it on and risk heat stroke before taking it off, even if he originally intended to take it off. -He used to be a volunteer dog walker at two different animal shelters in Insomnia while in middle and high school. -Proudly claims that he has only ever eaten one carrot in his entire life. Ignis knows this is not true, but refuses to tell him otherwise. -He has actually called Luna plenty of times over the phone. They can be on the line together for hours at a time. -He’s a hopeless romantic, he just doesn’t advertise it. He doesn’t have to, everyone already knows. -Is almost always the first to fall asleep, and the last to wake up. The guys usually have to get him conscious enough to roll over and make room in the tent when they eventually go to bed while camping. He never remembers being woken up the next day. -Has fallen asleep in his normal clothes many times. The guys have to at least take off his jacket and shoes. Again, he has no recollection of them doing so. -Used to sneak out of the Citadel in civilian clothes to go to the movies. His favorites are fantasy films. :B -Has a tendency to get lost in his own thoughts if left alone for extended periods of time. -It was during one of these deep thought sessions that he ended up thinking about his mother, and how he didn’t know anything about her, and he felt like a terrible person for not having any emotional connection to her. -He once asked Regis about his mom. Regis got very quiet for a moment too long. Noctis hugged his dad and apologized, vowing to himself that he would never bring it up again. -He once spent an entire day with Nyx when he was a kid. They went to go see an animated movie then went to a petting zoo. He decided that day that Nyx would be the coolest big brother. -He and Prompto have had danceoffs at the arcade dance machines many times. At the time of Insomnia’s fall, he held the title of Dance Master, though neither of them typically held the title for long before the other beat them again. -He always wanted to open a public fishing park in Insomnia. He’s sad that he won’t get to anymore.

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Doomsday Clock #3

The opening to this issue, which recreates some of the first pages of the original Watchmen comic perfectly illustrates the biggest problem I’ve had with this series’ art since issue one: the coloring. This isn’t to say that Anderson is doing bad work, just that the aesthetic he chooses for the Watchmen universe undercuts what Watchmen is, and makes its position relative to the DCU awkward.

What the “realistic” colors of the Watchmen universe in Doomsday Clock tells me is that the team behind the book forgot, or are ignoring that Watchmen is – first and foremost – a satire. It’s not parody, but it is heightened all the same, and Higgins’ oversaturated colors – like the red in the original Comedian murder sequence – help the reader understand that they are reading a heightened universe. And where the original Watchmen is a heightened version of the real world and the universes typically expected of comic books at the time, Doomsday Clock, in its coloring as well as its text, seems to position the Watchmen universe as a more realistic take on the superhero genre than the DCU, which, it’s not. While Watchmen ostensibly takes place in a universe that superficially more closely resembles the real world, it is and always has been exactly as fictional as the comics it deconstructs. Right now, the impression I’m getting from Doomsday Clock is that the DCU is some sort of cartoon world that the Watchmen characters are jumping into when that really shouldn’t be the case.

Doomsday Clock corrects this course with the characters of Marionette and Mime, whom represent probably the single best part of the story so far in terms of originality while also fitting perfectly into both universes; and whom have the best scene in this issue that also answers one of the most pressing questions the series has introduced.

Other than that delightful scene, this issue concerns the reunion between Comedian and Ozymandias in Lex Luthor’s office which favors mirroring their earlier fight for references’ sake rather than meaningfully add to the story this book attempts to tell. Rorschach gives Kovak’s journal to Batman to learn about, well, Watchmen; while we learn a bit more about the new Rorschach. And Johnny Thunder, still stuck in assisted living, waits for his children to rescue him while this book’s version of “Tales From the Black Freighter”, a noir movie, plays on a TV in the same room. There’s a lot going on this issue, seemingly lots of thematic set-up with the introduction of the noir movie parallel, but right now it’s mostly lots of scrambled pieces. Not necessarily a bad thing this early in what is ostensibly a mystery story; but a little frustrating that Doomsday Clock still doesn’t feel like it has a point to it beyond crossover appeal.

  Nightwing: The New Order #6

Well, it’s a happy ending, at least. Shades of Kingdom Come, for sure.

In exchange to make Jake no longer a target of the state, Dick leads the Crusaders to the Titan’s Metropolis hideout; but Jake refuses to just go home with his father. Managing to convince his father to switch sides – yet again – Jake and Dick return to try to turn the tides in the last stand between the resistance and the Crusaders by restoring the greatest hero of all to power.

I don’t know, there’s something about having Dick flip-flop one last time for the end of the story that feels unearned. And then the actual end of the conflict involves everyone suddenly dropping everything to fight a new third thing, and it feels like the book drops the ball on actually resolving it’s central conflict of fascism vs. antifa for something more easily digestible.

  Wild Storm #11

Skywatch and IO both continue gearing up for all out war, pushing the limits to get the other to cross the line first. Bendix tells Lauren of the last time the two fought head-on to prepare her for what might come this time. Spicia upgrades herself. Lucy warns Cole that things will get much worse than he expects.

The stand-out part of this issue is Bendix’s flashback, which presents itself as a black-and-white 50’s sci-fi B-movie, with fake looking flying saucers and cold-war panic included. Other than that though, the book continues it’s slow build up to…whatever it’s building up to.

  Amazing Spider-Man #794

It’s been exactly a year since Spider-Man threw Scorpio, the leader of the Zodiac syndicate, a year into the future to prevent him from using future knowledge to conquer the world; and he and Horizon are preparing for his return. Meanwhile, in a secret underwater vault, some Goblin agents retrieve a world-threatening object for their boss.

We’re three issues out from Slott’s last arc of Amazing Spider-Man, and judging from this issue, the next two are also going to be one-shot stories that also set up that last story. And, as long as they’re all as tight as this issue, that should be fine. This issue’s A-plot feels like a distraction in kind of the worst way, but it’s also fine; it’s a short, low-stakes Spidey story that Slott can probably write in his sleep by now. And Immonen, Grawbadger, and Gracia are still delivering some gorgeous art to go with it.

  Black Panther #169

I hope this issue’s cover didn’t get you too excited for a huge Black Panther, Avengers, X-Men team up because none of those characters are even in this one. As Klaw, Stane, Faustus, and Zenzi prepare to sacrifice Ayo to revive Klaw’s sister using a process that unleashes enough sonic energy to render everything else in the issue completely silent; Aneka frees herself from Klaw’s guards, breaks her chains, and goes to rescue her lover.

It’s fine. Basically an issue long action sequence with a sneaky conceit that makes Aneka’s ability to stealthily go through Klaw’s base more believable. That cover is bound to set people up for disappointment though. Heck of a final page tho.

  Marvel Two-in-One #2

Ben and Johnny return to the site of their first adventure, Monster Island, to look for the device Reed left them to explore other dimensions. But instead of the device, they find themselves in the middle of a political dispute between Mole Man and the monsters over who gets to rule the island. Instead of an election, they agree that whichever side kills the interlopers will rule. And, there’s one more visiter to the island who could prove friend or foe.

Zdarksy starts the issue off with Ben in an uncomfortable place, having just told a huge lie to one of his best friends, and having to keep it going to keep that friend in high spirits. Luckily, Ben hides it well, and is able to pal around with Johnny as the latter discusses how he hasn’t showered or brushed his teeth since getting his powers. By the end of the issue, though, while he’s kept up the lie to Johnny, he’s also found a piece of deeper truth to hold on to from his friendship with Reed, a poignant memory regarding one of their other early adventures.

As with Howard and Star-Lord, Zdarsky settles nicely into his protagonists’ melancholy while also digging up what keeps them going. While Johnny is in this to rescue his sister and Reed, Zdarsky makes it clear that Ben is doing this for Johnny. He hates that he has to lie to the kid, but the responsibility he feels to keep Johnny going is also what’s pulling him back into the Fantastic Four swing of adventure.

  Sex Criminals #21

Six months after the break-up Jon grew a beard! Also, he works at the now Apple-Store themed Cumworld sex-shop, full of Zdarsky’s trademark hilarious background jokes. It’s fine, he’s fine. Suzie started dating a museum director whose fine and moved back in with her mom. Again, fine. Not great, but fine. And then they see each-other at a party, and are wearing the exact same outfit. Also fine. It’s fine. He’s fine. She’s fine. Everything’s fine. It’s fine.

Gosh this is a rough issue. Because if you can’t tell, everything’s not fine. Both Jon and Suzie have settled, and neither is happy with it. Not completely. Things are fine, and that’s a problem, because they could be better. On the bright side, Dr. Glass and Dr. Kinkaid seem happy together.

Comic Reviews 1/24/18 Doomsday Clock #3 The opening to this issue, which recreates some of the first pages of the original Watchmen comic perfectly illustrates the biggest problem I’ve had with this series’ art since issue one: the coloring.