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19.Adventure Time volume 11 by Christopher Hastings & Ian McGinty - I have a tone of Adventure Time books to read. I put them all on hold and it was the last episode. So this one. I honestly have to say that I don't remember what I read. I think I liked it. Finn gets old. Finn's past lives show up. The youth of everyone is stolen by ghosts. The art is all googly eyed.
20. Adventure Time vol 10 by Christopher Hastings and various - Ok, this one is more interesting because there'es a time bending maze story at the beginning and the rest is about a weird alternate sister that should have been raised with Jake and Finn but there was a demon involved. So she has to go back to a statue but there's all those alternate realities. So it's that sweet spot of wistful longing.
21. Ms. Marvel: Teenage Wasteland by G. Willow Wilson & Nico Leon - Naftali shows up with a sandwich! This became big news because now Kamala has an Orthodox Jewish friend, but he JUST SHOWED UP without an introduction or anything. And he doesn't even put that kosher sandwich in a bag or anything? Who drew this? Who walks around New Jersey with food out in the open and expect other people to want it? Also there's a lot of neat stuff about Kamala's friends and Wilson sidelines Kamala into a private school for a few issues. Also a return from the first two villains - the bird guy or the bird guy's controller and the sentient Troll AI - and I guess their point is made. This installment feels like this title is coasting, but you know what - I don't mind. I would rather Kamala Khan coasting on the goodwill of stories about friends who like each other than a dozen other comic stories.
22. Spiderman/Spider-Gwen Sitting in a Tree by Brian Michael Bendis and Jason Latour and others - So this was a multi-issue crossover where we know now that they can go between dimensions and Miles Morales really like Spider Gwen. The rest of the thing is having fun with alternate Spiderman titles, so Miles Morales has a father in the other dimension who is a king pin but in Spider Gwen most of the heroes are villains. Matt Murdock is particularly slimy. And there's a future dimension where Gwen and Miles are married and their kids just expect alternate universe versions of Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy to hop on by with questions. So that was fun.
23.Invader Zim vol 1 by Jhonen Vasquez and Eric Trueheart - It's really hard to read this without Zim's voice in my head. That's nice. Anyhow Dib and Zim are trying to get one over each other and the first few issues are Dib being obsessive and Zim laughing at him. But then in chapter 4, Zim just accidentally gets the earth blown up. But it's fine in the next one. Also the Tall Ones end up getting blown up because they were messing with Zim as they do.
24. Archer & Armstrong: American Wasteland by Fred Van Lente & Pere Perez - So this is why I put down the Illuminatus Trilogy and may never come back. All that Rock & Roll + Magic bullshit was so much cooler when I was in high school. At the time it was mind blowing, but now I don't want to deal with any Jim Morrison crap and the whole time travel to set up the big reveal that the heroes were planning it the whole time is just some serious Stephen Moffat bullshit. So we got a hotel where all the dead stars who are still worshiped wait for their fans to die so they can leave. And we got Jim Morrison as a lizard king and some Hollywood cult and it's very Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley and holy fuck this was way cooler in the 90s.
20. Adventure Time vol 10 by Christopher Hastings and various - Ok, this one is more interesting because there'es a time bending maze story at the beginning and the rest is about a weird alternate sister that should have been raised with Jake and Finn but there was a demon involved. So she has to go back to a statue but there's all those alternate realities. So it's that sweet spot of wistful longing.
21. Ms. Marvel: Teenage Wasteland by G. Willow Wilson & Nico Leon - Naftali shows up with a sandwich! This became big news because now Kamala has an Orthodox Jewish friend, but he JUST SHOWED UP without an introduction or anything. And he doesn't even put that kosher sandwich in a bag or anything? Who drew this? Who walks around New Jersey with food out in the open and expect other people to want it? Also there's a lot of neat stuff about Kamala's friends and Wilson sidelines Kamala into a private school for a few issues. Also a return from the first two villains - the bird guy or the bird guy's controller and the sentient Troll AI - and I guess their point is made. This installment feels like this title is coasting, but you know what - I don't mind. I would rather Kamala Khan coasting on the goodwill of stories about friends who like each other than a dozen other comic stories.
22. Spiderman/Spider-Gwen Sitting in a Tree by Brian Michael Bendis and Jason Latour and others - So this was a multi-issue crossover where we know now that they can go between dimensions and Miles Morales really like Spider Gwen. The rest of the thing is having fun with alternate Spiderman titles, so Miles Morales has a father in the other dimension who is a king pin but in Spider Gwen most of the heroes are villains. Matt Murdock is particularly slimy. And there's a future dimension where Gwen and Miles are married and their kids just expect alternate universe versions of Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy to hop on by with questions. So that was fun.
23.Invader Zim vol 1 by Jhonen Vasquez and Eric Trueheart - It's really hard to read this without Zim's voice in my head. That's nice. Anyhow Dib and Zim are trying to get one over each other and the first few issues are Dib being obsessive and Zim laughing at him. But then in chapter 4, Zim just accidentally gets the earth blown up. But it's fine in the next one. Also the Tall Ones end up getting blown up because they were messing with Zim as they do.
24. Archer & Armstrong: American Wasteland by Fred Van Lente & Pere Perez - So this is why I put down the Illuminatus Trilogy and may never come back. All that Rock & Roll + Magic bullshit was so much cooler when I was in high school. At the time it was mind blowing, but now I don't want to deal with any Jim Morrison crap and the whole time travel to set up the big reveal that the heroes were planning it the whole time is just some serious Stephen Moffat bullshit. So we got a hotel where all the dead stars who are still worshiped wait for their fans to die so they can leave. And we got Jim Morrison as a lizard king and some Hollywood cult and it's very Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley and holy fuck this was way cooler in the 90s.
