Wednesday Reading Meme
What I Just Finished Reading
I am a giant stressball and have been reading nothing.
What I'm Reading Now
Comics Wednesday!
2020 Iron Age #1: This seems to be an anthology series of stories about this dumbass robot revolution. And this one has stories about Machine Man, Alkhema, and Doctor Shapiro. It was all mostly punching but the last story -- Shapiro is the cat with the AI collar -- was fairly cute.
2020 Machine Man #2: Aaron punches a bunch of robots and then escapes with Jocasta's disembodied head. Uh. Okay, then.
Captain America #20: A new arc, in which we are all supposed to be concerned about some missing piece of Sharon's soul even though she seems fine. All the women are in Madripoor with Natasha and all the guys are undercover in a creepy town run by Selene that wants to bring back Manly American Values For Men and then possibly brainsuck them. Also apparently General Ross isn't dead after all. Surprise!
Captain Marvel #16: The end of the arc where Carol had to fake-murder all the other Avengers. The villain captured Carol but she's using help from the Avengers (a thingy Tony made, Steve's shield, etc) to get out, while meanwhile other superheroes find the Kree children who have been implanted with bombs and Tony dismantles them. This is a better Avengers book than the actual Avengers book.
Excalibur #9: Excalibur tries to get back to Otherworld, I guess. I'm not really sure what's going on here but it's entertaining, at least.
Guardians of the Galaxy #3: I have no idea what's going on anymore but there's a good Moondragon & Drax scene where Moondragon talks about the implications of the whole alternate-universe thing. (I guess this is original-flavor Moondragon and there are two of them and the other one is the one married to AU Phyla and this one is understandably lonely.) Anyway, this is very good and also a bucket of angst.
Marvels X #3: You know what's less fun now? Dystopias. Anyway, the random kid in the dystopia is still hanging out with Daredevil and Spidey. They can't get into the Baxter Building so they ask the astral projection of Strange, who says that Sue leaves every day for supplies and they have to find her. But then a lion takes down Spidey and brings the kid to a museum where he can see Captain America's head on a wall, Jesus Christ. The lion is a mutated Kraven who wants the kid because he's the last human on Earth. Well, that's dumb.
Spider-Woman #1: I'd be way more excited about a shiny new Jess book if the entire world weren't terrible right now. Anyway, it's a fun issue about Jess hired to protect a teenage girl even as something appears to be going terribly physically wrong with Jess, which is not exactly escapist fun today. I like the new costume though.
X-Force #9: I have no memory of the previous arc but X-Force is having a party. And then they have to go to "Terra Verde" which has been overrun with giant man-eating plants. Eh, whatever.
What I'm Reading Next
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I am a giant stressball and have been reading nothing.
What I'm Reading Now
Comics Wednesday!
2020 Iron Age #1: This seems to be an anthology series of stories about this dumbass robot revolution. And this one has stories about Machine Man, Alkhema, and Doctor Shapiro. It was all mostly punching but the last story -- Shapiro is the cat with the AI collar -- was fairly cute.
2020 Machine Man #2: Aaron punches a bunch of robots and then escapes with Jocasta's disembodied head. Uh. Okay, then.
Captain America #20: A new arc, in which we are all supposed to be concerned about some missing piece of Sharon's soul even though she seems fine. All the women are in Madripoor with Natasha and all the guys are undercover in a creepy town run by Selene that wants to bring back Manly American Values For Men and then possibly brainsuck them. Also apparently General Ross isn't dead after all. Surprise!
Captain Marvel #16: The end of the arc where Carol had to fake-murder all the other Avengers. The villain captured Carol but she's using help from the Avengers (a thingy Tony made, Steve's shield, etc) to get out, while meanwhile other superheroes find the Kree children who have been implanted with bombs and Tony dismantles them. This is a better Avengers book than the actual Avengers book.
Excalibur #9: Excalibur tries to get back to Otherworld, I guess. I'm not really sure what's going on here but it's entertaining, at least.
Guardians of the Galaxy #3: I have no idea what's going on anymore but there's a good Moondragon & Drax scene where Moondragon talks about the implications of the whole alternate-universe thing. (I guess this is original-flavor Moondragon and there are two of them and the other one is the one married to AU Phyla and this one is understandably lonely.) Anyway, this is very good and also a bucket of angst.
Marvels X #3: You know what's less fun now? Dystopias. Anyway, the random kid in the dystopia is still hanging out with Daredevil and Spidey. They can't get into the Baxter Building so they ask the astral projection of Strange, who says that Sue leaves every day for supplies and they have to find her. But then a lion takes down Spidey and brings the kid to a museum where he can see Captain America's head on a wall, Jesus Christ. The lion is a mutated Kraven who wants the kid because he's the last human on Earth. Well, that's dumb.
Spider-Woman #1: I'd be way more excited about a shiny new Jess book if the entire world weren't terrible right now. Anyway, it's a fun issue about Jess hired to protect a teenage girl even as something appears to be going terribly physically wrong with Jess, which is not exactly escapist fun today. I like the new costume though.
X-Force #9: I have no memory of the previous arc but X-Force is having a party. And then they have to go to "Terra Verde" which has been overrun with giant man-eating plants. Eh, whatever.
What I'm Reading Next
I have no idea. Read this entry on Dreamwidth ||
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