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31. The Walking Dead Compendium Two by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard - I joke about how I have N.K. Jemisin books at the ready in case I end up reading too many boring books in a row. I know that The Fifth Season is on my shelf just waiting to make my life less miserable. And considering the fact that I've gone through a bunch of dull mystery books where I read about 40 pages and just skip to the last 10 pages and even then I don't care about the answer to the mystery, I'm definitely edging closer to that book. Or Killing Moon since she wrote it first and I know it's going to be good. Regardless, I'm going to have to buy the sequels.
All three books on this entry are ones that I wanted to be better. Reading The Walking Dead from the beginning is a less odious task than watching it from the beginning. At least I'm still reading it. I don't think I'm going to keep watching season 2. Shane is boring and they are still on the fucking farm. As far as Compendium 2, it begins with everyone sad and messed up and ends on a hopeful note. A seriously ironic hopeful note when you know that issue 98 is the last issue in the book and that issue 100 is coming up. Basically, this is the first of the rebuilding series where Rick's group is invited to that suburban enclave (why don't I remember the name) and there are problems but they eventually win over everyone. And then the last page is Rick going "You know, we don't have to just survive. We can rebuild. This is going to be great."
I am now reading the third compendium which is from the introduction of Negan throughout the war with the saviors and ends with the mass decapitation scene that the show just did (so the show is only a couple years behind the comic? This is strange. Like the comic book and the show are just going to keep going until Kirkman gets bored?) and since it was the Negan story on the show that made me want to both read and watch all the comics again, the problem is that I'm waiting for Negan. The governor was fucked up but Negan is one of the best characters in the comics and the show. The show had to make up Dwight and a better Caroline to keep us interested at first and in the comic some of the characters are still ok, but Negan is really what we want to see. So this is a lot of moving of pieces before Negan comes along.
32. Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake Card Wars by Jen Wang - I was probably never going to like this one. I like the gender flipped Adventure Time especially as male version of Marcelline is played by Donald Glover but Card Wars is a one joke concept. The card wars are so convoluted that no one understands them. This is great for an episode but over the course of six issues it strains the audience patience.
33 Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe by Cullen Bunn and Dalibor Talajic - FUCK YOU MARVEL. FUCK DEADPOOL and fuck this stupid fucking story. I didn't love the other two comics on this entry but I would have come up with a different title if it hadn't been for this piece of shit. It's not an original concept (Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe came first) and it's not even a decent variation on the concept (Squirrel Girl Beats up the Marvel Universe shows that you can take this concept and make it original). Instead it's just Deadpool waking up to his subconscious and killing a bunch of people. In the middle he shoots Spiderman in the head and it's all like Haha, too bad your enemies never used guns. And then the killing just becomes rote. It's like characters snorting coke and talking about how they had sex in Brett Easton Ellis books. Who knew that these things would be boring.
And the cherry on top of this shit sundae (sorry I know that's a cliche but it's more original than anything in this) is Deadpool getting to Manthing and going through the multi-verse and ending up in the - GET THIS - writers room!!!! Yes, they are recycling this joke from the 80s or 70s. And in the writer's room the writers are all congratulating each other. They are also all white dudes. This shouldn't be important but one of the great things about Marvel in recent years is the way that they have diversified the characters and the writing staff. This comic shows why every comic book company should diversify.
And Deadpool is about to kill them with a big sword. Wah wah!
This thing took me maybe 20 minutes to read and I'm going to hate it for many many years.
All three books on this entry are ones that I wanted to be better. Reading The Walking Dead from the beginning is a less odious task than watching it from the beginning. At least I'm still reading it. I don't think I'm going to keep watching season 2. Shane is boring and they are still on the fucking farm. As far as Compendium 2, it begins with everyone sad and messed up and ends on a hopeful note. A seriously ironic hopeful note when you know that issue 98 is the last issue in the book and that issue 100 is coming up. Basically, this is the first of the rebuilding series where Rick's group is invited to that suburban enclave (why don't I remember the name) and there are problems but they eventually win over everyone. And then the last page is Rick going "You know, we don't have to just survive. We can rebuild. This is going to be great."
I am now reading the third compendium which is from the introduction of Negan throughout the war with the saviors and ends with the mass decapitation scene that the show just did (so the show is only a couple years behind the comic? This is strange. Like the comic book and the show are just going to keep going until Kirkman gets bored?) and since it was the Negan story on the show that made me want to both read and watch all the comics again, the problem is that I'm waiting for Negan. The governor was fucked up but Negan is one of the best characters in the comics and the show. The show had to make up Dwight and a better Caroline to keep us interested at first and in the comic some of the characters are still ok, but Negan is really what we want to see. So this is a lot of moving of pieces before Negan comes along.
32. Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake Card Wars by Jen Wang - I was probably never going to like this one. I like the gender flipped Adventure Time especially as male version of Marcelline is played by Donald Glover but Card Wars is a one joke concept. The card wars are so convoluted that no one understands them. This is great for an episode but over the course of six issues it strains the audience patience.
33 Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe by Cullen Bunn and Dalibor Talajic - FUCK YOU MARVEL. FUCK DEADPOOL and fuck this stupid fucking story. I didn't love the other two comics on this entry but I would have come up with a different title if it hadn't been for this piece of shit. It's not an original concept (Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe came first) and it's not even a decent variation on the concept (Squirrel Girl Beats up the Marvel Universe shows that you can take this concept and make it original). Instead it's just Deadpool waking up to his subconscious and killing a bunch of people. In the middle he shoots Spiderman in the head and it's all like Haha, too bad your enemies never used guns. And then the killing just becomes rote. It's like characters snorting coke and talking about how they had sex in Brett Easton Ellis books. Who knew that these things would be boring.
And the cherry on top of this shit sundae (sorry I know that's a cliche but it's more original than anything in this) is Deadpool getting to Manthing and going through the multi-verse and ending up in the - GET THIS - writers room!!!! Yes, they are recycling this joke from the 80s or 70s. And in the writer's room the writers are all congratulating each other. They are also all white dudes. This shouldn't be important but one of the great things about Marvel in recent years is the way that they have diversified the characters and the writing staff. This comic shows why every comic book company should diversify.
And Deadpool is about to kill them with a big sword. Wah wah!
This thing took me maybe 20 minutes to read and I'm going to hate it for many many years.
