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Books Read in 2023 # 18 & 19 - Meh Comics
Mar. 28th, 2023 11:32 pm18. Rick and Morty volume 1 by Zack Gorman & CJ Cannon - This is some first season bullshit. As much as everyone wants to claim that Rick & Morty lost its mojo and that it's just not as fun as it used to be, the fucking show didn't even get women writers until season 3 and that's when we got Pickle Rick. So this comic is pretty much what we got the first season without any of the despair from the second season. Both characters are basically Justin Roiland, Morty is Justin's mentality as the perpetually masturbating Morty and the fantasy of being a drunk loser asshole who gets declared a genius in Rick. The rest of it just feels like a series of bits with the loosest excuse to change the subject and segway into a new story. So what is going to happen with all the time cop stuff in the Morty makes billions off the time manipulated stock market including the whole maze designed by Rick? Who the fuck knows. We got clones. And then we get a rebellions. And then we get the Dreamverse because Scary Terry was fun. I remember the second volume having a better story but this one seems like outtakes from season 1.
19. Marvel Rising by various including Ryan NOrth and G. Willow Wilson - So this is basically the World's Finest of the 2010s. A comic book company takes its two most famous characters and smashed them together in one story. Instead of Batman & Superman, we get Squirrel Girl and Ms. Marvel. Only both those characters owe their popularity to their writers and well having North and Wilson write each other's characters seems like a good idea. This seems like a rushed story where a new super powered being shows up and she's bullied so she bullies back. And in the end Arcade shows up because we haven't seen that guy in awhile (and he's a bit of a nothing villain. I mean his whole thing is to put people in a series of games that is meant to kill them. But they always survive). So this is forgettable and rather a shame considering how much both these characters are great on their own. Still no one else not even each other can write them well which is why no one cares about either nowadays because their new writers just don't get the appeal.
19. Marvel Rising by various including Ryan NOrth and G. Willow Wilson - So this is basically the World's Finest of the 2010s. A comic book company takes its two most famous characters and smashed them together in one story. Instead of Batman & Superman, we get Squirrel Girl and Ms. Marvel. Only both those characters owe their popularity to their writers and well having North and Wilson write each other's characters seems like a good idea. This seems like a rushed story where a new super powered being shows up and she's bullied so she bullies back. And in the end Arcade shows up because we haven't seen that guy in awhile (and he's a bit of a nothing villain. I mean his whole thing is to put people in a series of games that is meant to kill them. But they always survive). So this is forgettable and rather a shame considering how much both these characters are great on their own. Still no one else not even each other can write them well which is why no one cares about either nowadays because their new writers just don't get the appeal.
