#grotesquerie mini meta

[gingergofastboatsmojito]

Grotesquerie is a great collage of great literature and existencial philosophy

The parallels between Grotesquerie and The metamorphosis are wild!

It’s soooo Kafkian at its very core, it fucking hurts.

But the greatest thing about its script is that it’s flexible enough to also accommodate multiple narrative styles such as a clearly Wellesian style, that’s also intervened by Lovecraft and of course, the Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde meta plot twist that makes it painfully predictable yet timeless #Classic

The soundtrack and cinematography were top tier too.

More please!

[davidmann95]

Thoughts on this week’s comics?

Doomsday Clock #12: I’m not going to comment on it much in depth here - I’ve already vented some on Twitter and I’m recording a podcast on it with a couple friends, a plan that has just taken some truly wild turns in terms of what my takes are going to be - but this last issue finally got as meta and buckwild as it should have been all along, and in the process it turned this series around at the last from a charming grotesquerie to a comic I sincerely believe to be worse than Identity Crisis.

Superman Smashes the Klan #2: Thank god we’ve got this in recompense, remaining a shining platonic ideal of Very Good Superman Comics.

Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #6: Rules now that it’s kinda stopped caring about whatever plot it’s building up to and is just back to having fun.

Shazam #9: In spite of myself I continue to dig it.

Wonder Woman: Dead Earth #1: Decent enough but I’m not going to be getting more of it.

Wonder Woman #83: Sucks that Orlando’s big debut on the book is getting art like this.

Batman/Superman #5: How is it I continue to like this? How, I ask you? Doesn’t matter, I do and Nick Derington’s drawing a couple issues soon.

Legion of Superheroes #2: A friend’s statement this very night has made me finally come to terms with the fact that I just don’t fundamentally care about the Legion of Superheroes, but in spite of that I think I liked this more than the first issue and I’m excited to see where it goes.

Suicide Squid #1: Rad, mean, exactly what I’d hoped for out of this relaunch.

Justice League #38: Still great, but kinda sucks that this was marketed as the big climactic issue.

Hell Arisen #1: A lot more fun and essential than I was expecting, but it’s unbelievably frustrating that it flat-out spoils big twists in next month’s comics.

Batman: Last Knight on Earth #3: Really good but that ending raised an eyebrow for me on more than one level. Good New Batman I suppose kills but it’s okay? And I just don’t know how to parse those last few pages other than Snyder moving on to write Superman, except that we’re all about 90% sure that his next project is Wonder Woman and/or JSA. Perhaps it’ll work better for me when rereading the book as a whole, but this fell a touch flat for me, even if thematically it really is a pretty much perfect final statement on Snyder and Capullo’s very specific take on Batman and his world.

Harleen #3: A phenomenal conclusion to what should absolutely be seen as the definitive post-Mad Love take on the character.

Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child: ...good? Holy shit, good? Without any qualifiers beyond a few bits of weird Miller-speak? I skipped this last week because obviously, but then a few friends I trusted suggested this one for real had something on the ball, and holy cow, it’s great? Not transcendent or even excellent, it’s messy and weird in the way Miller’s modern comics are as a given, but it kicks ass and it flows and out of NOWHERE Miller goes and decides on a whim to cement himself as one of the absolute definitive post-Kirby Darkseid writers. Never in a million years would I have thought it possible, but I’m grateful that it was brought to my attention enough that I was willing to ignore my better judgement.

Batman #85: If you hated this run this won’t save it, if you loved it it’ll leave you a happy camper.

Klaus and the Life and Times of Joe Christmas: Absolutely delightful, hopefully next year Morrison and Mora do the second proper mini they promised once upon a time now that they’ve done the 3 one-shots they initially discussed.

Once & Future #5: Giving it one more issue - I believe what was originally going to be the last one before it was reclassified as an ongoing - and if it doesn’t win me over I’m done.

Invaders #12: Not spectacular, but a satisfying conclusion all-in-all.

Daredevil #15: This continues to rule, and there’s no better way to end a Daredevil comic than with a sequence that makes you go “Oh Matt, Matt Matt (and/or Wilson)...whatEVER are we going to do with you?”, a truth Zdarsky understands like perhaps no writer before him.

New Mutants #4: Given this is the non-Hickman chunk of the book I don’t care about, I’m quite pleasantly surprised.

Avengers #28: God, I wish that first arc was any good so people knew what a wild fun comic this has turned into.

History of the Marvel Universe #6: It only grows a soul in its last couple pages, and a very simple one at that, but damn if it didn’t get my nerd ass and stick what landing there was for it to manage.

King Thor #4: Hey, I just realized Aaron’s big run is ending with a Thor number four, that rules! Anyway this nearly made me cry and of all the major releases today had to offer, this was unexpectedly far and away my favorite of the bunch.