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terryclothEvery Saturday I drive down to Burien to visit Wonderworld where I get all my comics. Today they had quite a few of the ones I like most...
Hunter: Age of Magic is still pretty neat, despite going through many changes since it started ages ago with the Books of Magic. There was no actual conflict this episode... a couple issues ago he defeated his nemesis (by feeding him to the Serpent from the garden of Eden) and it makes sense that he wouldn't have to save the world again quite yet. Instead he's been going around talking to all his friends and writing love letters to his old girlfriend (while screwing his new one). Well, like letters.
Fable is about immortal refugees from all the various fairy tales living in exile in Manhattan. This issue was about Little Red Riding Hood's continued attempts to assassinate Snow White and Jack (the wolf from her story), who are basically the leaders of the fables. LRRH tried to pull an animal farm a few issues ago, and lost badly.
Tall Tales is a furry medieval fantasy type story. You could probably play along with the action in Ironclaw, or even D+D. But it's neat. Or at least, I like that sort of thing. And the drawing is good... having all the characters, good and evil, be INSUFFERABLY CUTE (and not in the overdone anime way) is amazingly effective. At least, againt me. That's one of the main reason I read comics, after all... and there're plenty of 'good' comics I just can't read because they're ugly.
Charm School was kind of lame this time... it's trying to be all 60s teen movie with vampires and witches, so this time we had a drag race through hell, with all the excitement of... well, of watching any other kind of drag race, where the cars explode halfway down the track, but the riders are miraculously thrown clear. Of hell.
Bunnytown was also lame. The first episode was super-creepy with an ultra-passive main character getting victimized (socially and physically) by a town full of predators. In issue 2 she decides to cope by being even more depraved, leading to a story about insane psychopaths killing each other. Yawn.
Katmandu was disappointing... the main story (about a tribe of primitive tribal cat-people) was sort of marking time and accomplishing nothing, and was really short. And the backups were all done by different people and sucked hard. It's Shanda fantasy arts, though, so you sort of have to expect it to suck.
Knights of the Dinner Table was... well... eh. Just eh. But it wasn't an actual issue, just a 'gencon special', so... eh. It retold several old chestnuts: The 'Wow, how did you get out alive?' 'I didn't. I was killed' (note that this doesn't work when told about a ROLE PLAYING GAME where getting killed is an actual possibility; the irony isn't there), the 'let's start charging each other for services rendered. 100gp for a Cure spell.' one, and the 'Let's PK the new froofy 'Real Role Player' before he finishes reading his 10-page character description'. So I don't think any real thought went into plotting this one out, although for what it was it was reasonably well written.
There are a bunch of others in this week's stack, but those are the ones I read so far and remember.
Then I hopped in the pool for a bit because I was hot and bored, although it turned out not to be particularly hot outside... just in my apartment. I'm not bored of swimming yet, though. A father and daughter came to maybe also use the pool, but after dipping a foot in she cried that it was 'too cold!' and he let it go at that and took her away. WTF? Water's always 'too cold' until you get in it and adjust; you'll never learn to swim that way.
Hunter: Age of Magic is still pretty neat, despite going through many changes since it started ages ago with the Books of Magic. There was no actual conflict this episode... a couple issues ago he defeated his nemesis (by feeding him to the Serpent from the garden of Eden) and it makes sense that he wouldn't have to save the world again quite yet. Instead he's been going around talking to all his friends and writing love letters to his old girlfriend (while screwing his new one). Well, like letters.
Fable is about immortal refugees from all the various fairy tales living in exile in Manhattan. This issue was about Little Red Riding Hood's continued attempts to assassinate Snow White and Jack (the wolf from her story), who are basically the leaders of the fables. LRRH tried to pull an animal farm a few issues ago, and lost badly.
Tall Tales is a furry medieval fantasy type story. You could probably play along with the action in Ironclaw, or even D+D. But it's neat. Or at least, I like that sort of thing. And the drawing is good... having all the characters, good and evil, be INSUFFERABLY CUTE (and not in the overdone anime way) is amazingly effective. At least, againt me. That's one of the main reason I read comics, after all... and there're plenty of 'good' comics I just can't read because they're ugly.
Charm School was kind of lame this time... it's trying to be all 60s teen movie with vampires and witches, so this time we had a drag race through hell, with all the excitement of... well, of watching any other kind of drag race, where the cars explode halfway down the track, but the riders are miraculously thrown clear. Of hell.
Bunnytown was also lame. The first episode was super-creepy with an ultra-passive main character getting victimized (socially and physically) by a town full of predators. In issue 2 she decides to cope by being even more depraved, leading to a story about insane psychopaths killing each other. Yawn.
Katmandu was disappointing... the main story (about a tribe of primitive tribal cat-people) was sort of marking time and accomplishing nothing, and was really short. And the backups were all done by different people and sucked hard. It's Shanda fantasy arts, though, so you sort of have to expect it to suck.
Knights of the Dinner Table was... well... eh. Just eh. But it wasn't an actual issue, just a 'gencon special', so... eh. It retold several old chestnuts: The 'Wow, how did you get out alive?' 'I didn't. I was killed' (note that this doesn't work when told about a ROLE PLAYING GAME where getting killed is an actual possibility; the irony isn't there), the 'let's start charging each other for services rendered. 100gp for a Cure spell.' one, and the 'Let's PK the new froofy 'Real Role Player' before he finishes reading his 10-page character description'. So I don't think any real thought went into plotting this one out, although for what it was it was reasonably well written.
There are a bunch of others in this week's stack, but those are the ones I read so far and remember.
Then I hopped in the pool for a bit because I was hot and bored, although it turned out not to be particularly hot outside... just in my apartment. I'm not bored of swimming yet, though. A father and daughter came to maybe also use the pool, but after dipping a foot in she cried that it was 'too cold!' and he let it go at that and took her away. WTF? Water's always 'too cold' until you get in it and adjust; you'll never learn to swim that way.
