I generally find something to like about most events, but I suspect the worst of all may be Image United, the one nobody bothered to finish! Onslaught also has the fatal flaw that nobody bothered to explain the premise in-story…
The phrase "New York's Cutest" is 💯
Vocalist-wise: there's an ASTONISHING number of David Byrne guest appearances.
The "soy blood" bit always reduces me to hysterical giggles. ("I understand it's very good in vegan black puddings!")
Yes, a new story called "After They Were Famous"!
I think there have been 3 stories added to it, but not *new* stories. (Not sure which, but the new edition is 8 pages longer.)
totes
Newton inking someone else! Wonder how that happened?
Green Lantern! But the first one where I actively sought out back issues was… Cerebus. Bought #40 on a whim, was intrigued but baffled, kindly comics store clerk gave me a copy of Swords vol. 4, and I was hooked and had to find everything.
The Calvin's dad explaining records meme. He is explaining that the two kinds of meme are Calvin's dad and Loss. Despite being a meme about Calvin's dad, this one is Loss.
I sure do!
The thing that redeems this one a bit is that some of the tie-ins are really quite good, especially the comedies (Mockingbird! Rocket & Groot!)
Some amazing panels for Jamie Hernandez to just drop into a 9 panel grid. That’s right, my controversial opinion is that Love and Rockets is good.
Apropos of exactly nothing (I can make public): Irving Berlin was VERY good at rhyming. “Cactus”/“practice” where the scheme didn’t even call for an internal rhyme? That’s a flex.
“Are you sitting quietly? Then we’ll begin” is a reference utterly alien to Americans that I have seen turn up a hilarious number of times
YEP. Next up is apparently "Godzilla's The Odyssey."
And today's WEB OF VENOM one-shot is... very much in the spirit of Superior Foes of Spider-Man, I'll just say that.
ABSOLUTE GREEN LANTERN #13 has some spectacular character introductions/reintroductions, including one I should have guessed from that lovely Jahnoy Lindsay cover but did not. And an "I can name that Steve Englehart concept in three words!" moment.
ROMEO & JULIET & GODZILLA has the funniest premise I've seen in a while: "how little can we alter the text of Romeo & Juliet while incorporating Godzilla, Mothra and a giant Capulet mecha into its narrative?"
Really good new comics day. Some highlights so far:
Got to that page and thought wow, I don’t even remember her from All-Star Squadron, that has to be a SUPER deep cut… Nicely done!
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but Willow the thing is you are very very good at that
INXSTP have been replaced by INXSPK
Chris Knox’s “Not Given Lightly.” Called the DJ to demand to know what it was and where I could get a copy.
I saw the first full-band Neutral Milk Hotel show, at Brownies! And what I think was the third or fourth Pavement gig, at the Middle East in 1990.
Oh my goodness! That's so kind of you, and means so much coming from you!
The two-volume “Day of Chaos” is absolutely astonishing in terms of escalating stakes/Dredd behind the 8-ball. And if you haven’t read Block Mania > Apocalypse War, that one’s the banger to end all bangers.
I will have a very weird recurring feature in this.
Finally got around to reading Mimi Pond's Mitford-sisters meditation "Do Admit!" last night, and yeah, it really is absolutely fascinating and charming.
