SHIELD #6—That was insane, totally batshit, and easily the greatest short run I’ve read from the House of Ideas in at least a few years, now. Dense, fine work. Triumph on every level. The best snapshot microcosm of how perfect this was for me, when Howard Stark is about to hit the switch and says the phrase, “TESLA WILL POWER NATHANIEL” and just that, I had to look away and be like, That right there is at least a contender for coolest string of four words ever, and then when I finally dialed back in, good old Tony’s dad finishes up with, “ENHANCING HIS ABILITY TO MOVE THROUGH TIME.” It really threw me when the dads didn't drop back in to the climax in '60. When did they go next?
And a crushing last page, both on the identity reveal and then just the simple stamp END OF VOLUME ONE. I just assumed this was it and was already bummed. The fact that we’re just opening the door with this, will surely eventually swing it into Hickman FF . . . I tell you, with Bendis, Fraction, and Brubaker up top, then Hickman, Aaron, Remender and Gillen as basically the new class, Marvel’s writing bench is pretty deep. Ha, not even counting crazy fucking Millar, Puck prancing around the edges and close to outselling all those other dudes combined, I bet. Maybe even the richest twat in Scotland by now. He seems to be enjoying himself, you’ve got to wish him well. This book, though, no problem taking BEST OF WEEK out of the gate.
THE BOYS #51—Pretty crushing dosage of Ennis. The art looked scraggly for a few pages and all of a sudden I was wondering if I’ve just shifted over to Braun’s aesthetic so smoothly without even realizing or if it wasn’t a shifted Robertson but a Braun under the deadline gun, I was just, yeah, playing Guess the Artist too much, maybe. But thunder at the end, of course, makes me want to go back and reread the whole arc.
Oh, I did jam through SHIELD #1-5 earlier, right before jumping in here, I maybe should have said.
FABLES #102—There will certainly be some who disagree, but I assert that injecting superhero DNA into this title is not some abomination violation of the sacrosanct but maybe the most effective hybrid yet, hi-toned sumbitch. I mean, really. I can’t believe how good this single issue was, satisfying in and of itself, setting up so much. It’s backlash backlash, everyone’s always falling all over themselves about this book, I mean just the one round I sat through at the ’07 Eisners was an embarrassment, but then you read this and want to scream louder than them, You’re right, you’re right . . !
BRIGHTEST DAY #20—Fucking great@! This was better than most issues of 52. And nobody enjoyed that ride more than me. What will happen to Reis after this? Will he dethrone Mahnke? Or just spell him? That one last panel on the page of Aquaman engaging the telepathy, I bet no one will ever do a better job of channeling latent Superfriends memories from me. But, who knows? Life is long.
GREEN LANTERN #62—I didn’t realize it was time to hit the gas. The Bruce/Hal exchange was pitch-perfect.
LEGION #10—One of my favorite Braniac pages ever, this run keeps increasing in density.
GENERATION HOPE #4—Weird Espin synchronicity today, read Parker’s EXILES #2 and 3 by him and then also a random issue of WOLVERINE: FIRST CLASS, which was top notch, and didn't realize on either one that this is the same dude I've been spending the last three months with over here. When it’s just Gillen writing this and UNCANNY here in a minute, that’s going to be a pretty fearsome thing.
ASTONISHING X-MEN: XENOGENESIS #5—Fucking brutal! I was already sad at the end of this, Ellis just does such a fine job capturing these characters, making them sing. I suspect he was glad to be shed of the commitment, but his contributions to the X-mythos have been solid corporate work these past three and a half, and I am sorry to see him go. Strong strong finish.
And now a new episode of SYM-BIONIC TITAN, life is so damn sweet, yes.
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