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marlowe176.Lucifer: Faith & Lucifer by Holly Black and Lee Garbett - The television show turned Lucifer into Castle with the occasional angelic drop in (and a revolving cast of characters who eventually started getting on with each other) but the comic written by MIke Carey was a work of genius with several strange plots going throughout. Its ending was rather perfect for the story it was telling but it seemed like it had nowhere else to go. Unfortunately, even Holly Black couldn't change my mind about Lucifer not going anywhere. This reminds me a great deal of the original run. There is a political challenge in Heaven. Apparently Lucifer has a son these days. The only difference is that God comes back wrong and full of justice without mercy. And then it ends with Lucifer planning another rebellion. I wanted to like this one much better than I did.
77. Diary of a Tokyo Teen by Christine Mari Inzer - This is actually a sweet travelogue of a book with an entry point of a teenager who is half-Japanese/half-white visiting her grandparents in Japan and taking in the sights, including ugly buildings, Japanese dance crew and ramen places. There's not much more to this comic than "here look at all this cool stuff I saw in Japan" but sometimes that's enough. She's got an optimistic voice and a clear view of everything.
78. Judas by Jeff Loveness & Jakub Rebelka - This was not the comic to read on Shabbos since it's very Christian. It was actually rather affecting as the whole point of the comic is that Judas needs to forgive Jesus while they are both in Hell. The art is beautiful and Satan is depicted as a bit of a dick. But it's rather a sweet depiction of Christianity and the modus operandi behind the whole Jesus spending three days among the dead part. Redeeming Judas from a Christian perspective is a rather modern concept and it definitely helps in making the story a little less antisemitic.
79.Mockingbird: Feminist Agenda by Chelsea Cain & Kate Niemczyk - This one only lasted 8 issues and for the collection to even warrant a collection the company had to include a story from the New Avengers which has Mockingbird getting shot for a couple issues. I read that New Avengers story and it was better in context. Anyhow this is three issues where Mockingbird is on a cruise ship that is doubling as a science fiction convention complete with cosplay and a guy with a horse's head. The story keep referencing Hulk getting killed in Civil War 2. Anyhow, it was a fun low stakes comic book story about a heroine solving a murder mystery. I like those comic books, especially when I read too many comic books about the end of the world.
80. Saga volume 4 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples - so here's the dissolution of the love story at the center of the comic book with Alana in an interactive broadcast vid that gets her money and addicted to drugs. The main character in this volume is a terrorist from the television headed people who kills the princess, kidnaps the baby prince and ends up kidnapping Hazel. This is a short and brutal chapter where the peace that's been established in between chapters (Hazel grows into a toddler) is shattered and the interplanetary war is given more context as the peoples are not fighting directly but fight through other cultures who don't like them very much.
77. Diary of a Tokyo Teen by Christine Mari Inzer - This is actually a sweet travelogue of a book with an entry point of a teenager who is half-Japanese/half-white visiting her grandparents in Japan and taking in the sights, including ugly buildings, Japanese dance crew and ramen places. There's not much more to this comic than "here look at all this cool stuff I saw in Japan" but sometimes that's enough. She's got an optimistic voice and a clear view of everything.
78. Judas by Jeff Loveness & Jakub Rebelka - This was not the comic to read on Shabbos since it's very Christian. It was actually rather affecting as the whole point of the comic is that Judas needs to forgive Jesus while they are both in Hell. The art is beautiful and Satan is depicted as a bit of a dick. But it's rather a sweet depiction of Christianity and the modus operandi behind the whole Jesus spending three days among the dead part. Redeeming Judas from a Christian perspective is a rather modern concept and it definitely helps in making the story a little less antisemitic.
79.Mockingbird: Feminist Agenda by Chelsea Cain & Kate Niemczyk - This one only lasted 8 issues and for the collection to even warrant a collection the company had to include a story from the New Avengers which has Mockingbird getting shot for a couple issues. I read that New Avengers story and it was better in context. Anyhow this is three issues where Mockingbird is on a cruise ship that is doubling as a science fiction convention complete with cosplay and a guy with a horse's head. The story keep referencing Hulk getting killed in Civil War 2. Anyhow, it was a fun low stakes comic book story about a heroine solving a murder mystery. I like those comic books, especially when I read too many comic books about the end of the world.
80. Saga volume 4 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples - so here's the dissolution of the love story at the center of the comic book with Alana in an interactive broadcast vid that gets her money and addicted to drugs. The main character in this volume is a terrorist from the television headed people who kills the princess, kidnaps the baby prince and ends up kidnapping Hazel. This is a short and brutal chapter where the peace that's been established in between chapters (Hazel grows into a toddler) is shattered and the interplanetary war is given more context as the peoples are not fighting directly but fight through other cultures who don't like them very much.
