January's over already??? Yeesh. Gotta say, I was hyped for this batch of comics but other than the stupendous debut of the three issue series 'A Vicious Circle', Love Everlasting and good ol' Groo never failing to entertain there was a lot of mnyeh and blecchh in my pull this month.
There were a chunk of books that I dipped into which didn’t really merit a full review. 'Once Upon a Time at the End of the World' #2 was okay, nothing special. It’s teetering on the edge of being a cheesy Adult Swim anime type series. I thought I was going to be getting something a little more substantive and instead I’m getting a goofy Saturday Morning cartoonish apocalypse page stopper. It gets one more issue to turn it around or get filed in the ‘Boom! You’ve been dropped again Boom!' comics’ file.
Speaking of droppable, Daredevil is officially doggie pee-pad material. After it’s SIXTH issue of set-up for the Fist in the Hand of the Dong War, I’m completely snoring. Murdock is a somber grump and I don’t know why Leonard Sampson the Sasquatch Grinch is getting panel time with his psychiatric evaluations of criminal degenerates I’ve never heard of. Elektra goes after a compromised/possessed husk of a US President only to see him jump backwards out of window and disintegrate into dust on the hood of a car. Maybe she could head to the White House Set in Hollywood and flick the nose of Sleepy Joe; that’d probably turn him into dust as well. Maybe Iron Man can fly to Geneva and pull the plug on all of Joe's CGI appearances. Maybe I’ll pull another Marvel series in 2026.
Can Elon Musk or some other Billionaire please do a hostile takeover of Marvel from Disney for goodness sake? We’ve reached that point where I’m pretty sure the Marvel Comics Editors are being hung upside in a basement in Disney Land and being forced to make God Awful creative decisions while being forced to watch Lilo and Stitch on a continuous loop. I bet Robert Downey Jr heads down there every other day dressed up as The Scarlet Witch to torture them with his interpretive dance of ‘Less than Zero’. What a shit show.
In other news ‘Love Everlasting' #5 completed its first arc and cemented itself as one of the best ongoing series alive. I can’t get enough of Elsa Charretier’s beautiful linework and I’m completely hooked by this timeline hopping love story with a mysterious cowboy who shoots our heroine in the head after every rejection of love. Maybe I need to dress up as a Cowboy, find all the chicks who ghosted me, and shoot them in the head with a water pistol. Who knows, maybe I'll jump into another timeline where women have never heard of a smartphone before and all dress like Prince fans.
White Knight #7 was a solid unspectacular set-up issue for
the Grand Finale of the White Knight Murphyverse that’s coming in the next
issue. Seeing that series come to an end is going to be a huge bummer. I really hope they deliver a Wham Bam Issue deserving of this majestic run. Here's the rest of what I got into...
What's the Furthest Place From Here #9-10
Coming up soon, 'Super Spy' by Kindt, the hot new 'Black Cloak' series and 'The Avengers War Across Time'; can Marvel actually publish something half decent?
Happy Reading!
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