G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #2 (continued)
I was as shocked as many of you probably are to realize that GI Joe #2 was written by the same people as #1. I guess either "Lady Doomsday" was them having an unusually good day, or "Panic at the North Pole" was them having an unusually bad one. Probably both, honestly.
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #2
Dunno if Vulcan Raven actually was a rip-off of this exact character, but I wouldn't be surprised.
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #1 (continued)
It's well drawn, well written, and - aside from those last couple of pages - well plotted.
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #1
I don't want to overstate my case. This IS still an "America ra ra ra" story, and it's handling the military with an incredibly soft pair of kid gloves. If it came out today, I'd be much less charitable toward it. For a comic aimed at children in the eighties though, the creators were being pretty damned bold.
Kill Six Billion Demons IV: King of Swords (part fourteen)
The guest accommodations at Solomon's palace aren't what you might hope, but they are exactly what you'd expect given the circumstances.
Kill Six Billion Demons IV: King of Swords (part thirteen)
It stopped being an urgent mission that required immediate violent action and started being futile and not worth caring about as soon as someone saw her in girlmode. Of course.
Kill Six Billion Demons IV: King of Swords (part twelve)
she really, really needs someone other than White Chain to call her on her bullshit.
Kill Six Billion Demons IV: King of Swords (part eleven)
Even moreso than before, I feel like Killy just needs another person to call her on her bullshit. White Chain is almost uniquely unqualified to do this.
Brainworms (K6BD, CM, and Spectacle
The only one who can be said to be *in charge* is the symbolism itself. And it's not even real.
Kill Six Billion Demons IV: King of Swords (part ten)
"A rogue demiurge is going to try and rescue Zaid, so take him away from my presence and throw him in the drunk tank?"
Really? Really?
Kill Six Billion Demons IV: “King of Swords” (part nine)
One of them is outsmarting the other's outsmarting, I just don't know which.
Kill Six Billion Demons IV: King of Swords (part eight)
Between this and the backstory about Meti and her disciples, this book really is taking a critical look at teachers in general. Which I guess is fitting for the general ethos of K6BD but damn, it's just going really, really hard on this.
Kill Six Billion Demons IV: King of Swords (part seven)
If Solomon David is the least bad of the Black Seven to live under, I think we just found out who the worst is. In fact...there might not be anyone living under Gog-Agog's rule at all.
Kill Six Billion Demons IV: King of Swords (part six)
Very sombre, pessimistic, and misanthropic interlude.
Agents of Atlas #1: “The Golden History” (continued)
Overall? I had a little bit of fun reading it, and I learned some interesting comics esoterica while researching it, but I don't think I'd call it "good."
Agents of Atlas #1 “The Golden History”
"What if Captain America and Human Torch were left fallow, Spiderman and the Avengers never happened, and instead we had relaunched our cape comics using a superteam of good old Venus, Marvel Boy, Namora, Gorillaman, the Human Robot, and Jimmy Woo?"
Who the fuck even are any of the characters I just listed there? I have no idea. And, that's pretty much the entire point of Agents of Atlas.