Day 608

Aka Sunday 30th September 

… still doing a touch of procrastinating and watched the rest of Season 10 of ‘The Big Bang Theory’, I had stopped watching the series because it had gotten a bit boring/obvious and a tad nasty towards ‘geek’ culture, but now I’m being sucked in (maybe it’s because the episodes are so short that you can watch half a season without realising it?)…

…then I started working on the first if the three job applications, reading through the job description, thinking about what examples I could use for each competency and job specification…

…then I read these comics:

'Stumptown' is a great detective/private eye series, but in ‘StumptownVol. 3: The Case Of The King Of Clubs’ Greg Ruka, Justin Greenwood and Ryan Hill take us in a slightly different direction. Instead of being hired for a case, Dex Parios finds a friend, Mercury, beaten and left for dead and she goes on the hunt for the person/persons responsible. And the story focuses much more on Dex her history and how it has shaped her, than on the criminal aspects. Maybe that’s because the crime is closer to home and therefore more emotional to Dex, so the “joining the dots” of most crime stories isn’t the focus here (although that’s not to say that there isn’t any investigating going). The crime is solved it turns out that the police had things pretty much in hand, although there is a coda which ties the reason for the beating into the earlier Stumptown stories. The team have done a great job with this story and although the new art style (Justin Greenwood replaces Matthew Southworth as the artist) is slightly more angular than before, you soon forget this as you’re galloping through the pages to find out who the baddie is and what Dex is going to do to them. 8/10.

‘Rick and Morty’ #42 –The Rick Revenge Squad (by Kyle Starks, Marc Ellerby, Sarah Stern and Crank!) get their comeuppance as the family, even Jerry, take them down and we get a visit from an old friend. While in the second story (by Tini Howard, Jarrett Williams, Sarah Stern and Crank!), Rick and Morty get deeper into the world of the Public Domain!!! Fun, fun, fun. Perfectly captures the feel of the TV show. 8/10.

In ‘Witchblade’ #8, Alex continues to investigate the reappearance of Johnny, who is meant to be dead, and we see a little further into the forces trying to take the Witchblade from Alex. We also get to see Alex being more confident in her new world and using the Witchblade. Caitlin Kitteredge, Roberta Ingranata, Bryan Valenza and Troy Peteri are doing a great job of updating ‘Witchblade’, grounding the fantasy elements, the Witchblade, demons, conspiracies, etc., in a real world of emotions, PTSD, etc. 7/10.

In ‘The Wicked and The Divine 1373A.D.’ Kieron Gillen, Ryan Kelly, Matthew Wilson and Clayton Cowles tell the story of Ananke confessing all to the Lucifer of 1373 A.D., who has lived past her two years as a god and has become a nun. Safe to say that things don’t end well. We learn a little more about what the Pantheon does and how the ‘ritual’ works. 7/10.