Light week.
Lumberjanes #41: Written by Shannon Watters & Kat Leyh, Illustrated by Ayme Sotuyo, Colors by Maarta Laiho & Letters by Aubrey Aiese.  Jo builds a device to try and track the way time seems to be wonky at camp and everyone builds paper airplanes for science.

Saucer State #3: Writer Paul Cornell, Artist Ryan Kelly, Colorist Adam Guzowski & ( Read more... )

Bitch Planet Triple Threat #2: Che Grayson & Sharon Lee De La Cruz; Danielle Henderson, Ro Stein & Ted Brandt; Jordan Clark & Naomi Franquiz.  More BP world-building shorts.
Invincible #138: Writer Robert Kirkman, Penciler Ryan Ottley, Inker Mark Morales, COlorist Nathan Fairbairn & Letterer Rus Wooton.  The Vitrumite Civil War continues with more ( Read more... )

Astro CIty #45: Writer Kurt Busiek, Artist Brent E. Anderson, Lettering & design John Roshell & Jimmy Betancourt of Comicraft & Color art Peter Pantazis.  The 70s iteriation of Mr.Cakewalk/Jazzbaby/the Bouncing Beatnik/the Hopping Hippy/etc Glamorax and the probably origin of the Broken Man.

Heroines #2: Creator/script/art Ted Naifeh & Letters ( Read more... )

Part way into this I started thinking about the Schlock Mercenary webcomic. In that I was thinking to myself "Army dude, you're trying to blow up aliens who can manipulate gravity with some cases of C4. Thats not going to work." But aside from the lack of psych evaluator as part of the U.S. translation/contact team, I quite enjoyed it. Clever ( Read more... )

Man that is a big stack of comics.  And thats even with missing like four of them.  Starting with the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time.  With the boys ending up joining a crew of conditional pirates to fight some bad pirates.  Bad pirates who have anarchronistic speed boats and laser pistols...

Samurai Jack pays a return visit to ( Read more... )

So lj-friend nihilistic_kid was the editor I guess on the translation of the original Japanese book/manga All You Need is Kill (much cooler title by the way) into English.  And was part of the pitch for the movie, describing it to one of the executives as Starship Troopers meets Groundhog Day.  Which at its most basic is fairly accurate.  Jerk-ass becomes better ( Read more... )

Astro City finishes up its Winged Victory arc with both a super-villain beat down and WV confronting her backers with their views on how to empower women.  I also like how she tells Karnazon he should stop trying to arch her, because he used to be a Big Thing kind of super-villain before he got obsessed with beating her...

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