Last week we missed the post due to the catalogs. I tried to make up some of the lost time, but life just gets in the way sometimes.
Spider-woman #7 was my favorite for the week. Not so much because of the actual story but more for the metaphor of the trials of friendship. King In Black hit the title and the group is faced with a symbiote to fight. Jessica is caught in a fight for life against a toxin, Carol Danvers involves her in the current conflict which triggers buried issues between the two characters. Reading the comic you get the feeling the conflict and rage is fear combined with rage, much like recovery from actual addiction. It was nice to see someone roll in the abuse issue, include the friendship, and leave the wound open as the issue ends. There was a lot going on in this comic but more metaphorically, than as actual plot. Very impressed.
- Tales of Mother F. Goose is a magazine sized issue containing three linked stories that mirror childhood fairy tales. The stories feature two questionable police officers dealing with suspects while relating the backstories of said suspects. It was an interesting exercise, but you do not want to be interrupted when reading it. The teaser mentions Quentin Tarantino as an influence which seems true to me at least. I think the man would read this.
- Daredevil Annual #1 is an issue I wanted to read again. The first time I read it I was a little angry about the plot device of Mike Murdock. I chose this for today because I wanted the discussion point of comic book trends as a whole. Lately it seems creators are “finding” family members we have never heard of before. This, combined with identity changes and relationship focus have tainted many titles for me. Thirty years of stories dealing with family issues, the pain of loss, love interests and all of a sudden there’s a sibling we never heard of? In Daredevil Annual #1 this is worse than usual. Not only do we get Matt’s brother Mike, but a flashback story to a time for which we have previously had flashbacks that never mention the character. “Fragments” are a new thing. Alter ego plot devices being turned into actual physical characters. In this case it’s a false sibling, to be able to have Matt be Mike in order to angle people’s belief in Daredevil. This issue is part of the story bringing that fragment to a new character. I get a writer wanting to add a character, but the lack of respect for previous writers’ work just bothers me. I think an apology is owed to Stan Lee for cementing a character into the past that was never there.
- Spider Woman #7
- Strange Academy #6
- Stillwater #6
- Tales of Mother F. Goose
- Aquamen #1
- Berserker Unbound #4
- Beta Ray Bill #2
- War of the Bounty Hunters Alpha
- Daredevil Annual #1
- Daredevil #24
- Mighty Valkyries #2
- Dead Body Road Bad Blood #2
- Conjuring The Lover #2
- Not All Robots #3