Day 812

Aka Monday 22^nd April 2019

Bank Holiday Monday today and back in the garden with some cool music, cool drinks and cool comics:

‘Green Lantern’ #6 – a cracking cover showing a showdown between Adam Strange and Hal Jordan, who is no longer a Green Lantern, but a Blackstar. The story mostly plays out how you would expect, Hal hasn’t really turned evil and hasn’t killed Adam Strange, but we do end with the near total annihilation of the Universe and Hal missing somewhere odd. A nice modern story using Silver Age tropes, beautifully illustrated, which lets us get to know the protagonists/characters a bit better, while moving the story and Hal forward. 7/10. (Grant Morrison, writer, Liam Sharp, artist, Steve Oliff, colorist, Steve Wands, letterer, Jessica Chen, associate editor, and Brian Cunningham, editor).

‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ #4 is a calmer issue, with no fights, but lots of character moments and development (perfectly illustrated), very heavy on the emotions front, and a very shocking ending. And given that this is the reboot there’s no way of telling if it’s a misdirect or if they are really going three. If they did go there, it would certain mark a major divergence from the original story. 9/10. (Jordie Bellaire, writer, Dan Mora, illustrator, Raul Angulo, colourist, Ed Dukeshire, letterer).

In ‘Witchblade’ #13 we get to see more of the future and understand how it came to pass, all while our heroes try to survive it intact! A fun issue, that is exquisitely illustrated, although a couple of the panels are a little tricky to follow, with some one-liners/asides and some inventive escaping. 8/10. (Caitlin Kittredge, writer, Roberta Ingranata, artist, Bryan Valenza and Beyond Colorlab, colourists, Troy Peteri, letterer, and Eric Stephenson, editor). 

…and I picked up ‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-verse’, which I’ve heard nothing but good things about…

…and I did the G2 Crossword which got the week off to an iffy start, as I had to cheat on a fifth if the clues (five out of 24) and it was a real grind to cheat the other four-fifths, and I missed out on answers I should have gotten, like I went for ‘pro’ instead of ‘for’ and ‘arrest’ instead of ‘detain’, but I did learn that ‘Bunyan’ was ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress author, d. 1688).