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77.The White Snake by Ben Nadler - I actually thought this was going to be the other White Snake legend, the Chinese one. Instead it's the Grimm Brothers. In this case the white snake is dead and eating the white snake helps the protagonist hear birds and fish and the like. It's a standard story of a peasant who becomes king because he has magic powers. The author purposefully made the princess into a smart character who can run things better. The illustrations are great but I don't recognize the style. Or I recognize that it is a particular style but I don't know which one.
78.Park Bench by Chaboute - This one starts slowly and I was not on board but when I finally got into it I had to go back and read it again. The characters keep coming back to the park bench and you see them unravel or move forward. THere's a business man who walks past it until one day he sits down and takes off his shoes. THere's a homeless man who keeps getting run off by police officers. There are lovers and skate punks and people just there to read. The ending where bench gets replaced by a bullshit hostile architecture bench is actually pretty heartbreaking.
79 & 80. Jupiter's Legacy vol 1 & 2 by Mark Millar & Wilfredo Torres - So the deconstruction of superheroes continues but with them back in the 50s dealing with government interference and the FBI is just not as much of a hook as the original series. It's great to see that one character is gay and the team backs him up to the point that Skyfox blackmails J. Edgar Hoover. And Skyfox doesn't so much turn villain as has a fight with Walter. Walter is the villain of the original series and he's the villain in this one as well but he's more manipulative than outright evil. Skyfox does not so much turn bad as gets driven out by Walter and then when they almost reconcile, Walter drives him out again. Also Skyfox cares more about racial tensions and the underdog so his heel turn is actually a reevaluation of the white supremacist time period. In other words, he's really not a villain.
ANyhow the hook of the children having to grow up is not here. So it feels more like a Watchmen clone.
78.Park Bench by Chaboute - This one starts slowly and I was not on board but when I finally got into it I had to go back and read it again. The characters keep coming back to the park bench and you see them unravel or move forward. THere's a business man who walks past it until one day he sits down and takes off his shoes. THere's a homeless man who keeps getting run off by police officers. There are lovers and skate punks and people just there to read. The ending where bench gets replaced by a bullshit hostile architecture bench is actually pretty heartbreaking.
79 & 80. Jupiter's Legacy vol 1 & 2 by Mark Millar & Wilfredo Torres - So the deconstruction of superheroes continues but with them back in the 50s dealing with government interference and the FBI is just not as much of a hook as the original series. It's great to see that one character is gay and the team backs him up to the point that Skyfox blackmails J. Edgar Hoover. And Skyfox doesn't so much turn villain as has a fight with Walter. Walter is the villain of the original series and he's the villain in this one as well but he's more manipulative than outright evil. Skyfox does not so much turn bad as gets driven out by Walter and then when they almost reconcile, Walter drives him out again. Also Skyfox cares more about racial tensions and the underdog so his heel turn is actually a reevaluation of the white supremacist time period. In other words, he's really not a villain.
ANyhow the hook of the children having to grow up is not here. So it feels more like a Watchmen clone.
