impressions on comics as a I read them

[salinea]

Annihilation: Conquest

Still pretty good epic stuff; though slightly less well plotted (a bit too many plot twists, it felt a bit random at times). I was especially glad to see Peter Quills (and his delicious ragtag team of misfit) and Phyla-Vell get into more prominent narrative position; they're both pretty cool characters. The Nova parts felt a little bit Farscape at its best Weird Space Shit of the Week (must be all the PTSD piling up) which isn't a bad thing (and all the questing storytelling allowed this to overall not feel too much like a retread of the previous storyline despite being also structured by a Big Threat of Doom that Kills/Overtakes Everything). While there was a distinct lack of Paibok to steal the show, they had the High Evolutionary turn up to compensate and provide our daily dose of smug, pragmatic & amoral hilarity. Wraith is a new character right? I'm kind of puzzled that when they decided to create a new character for this series, they did one that feels so... dated. Don't they have enough bad ass brooding anti-heroic types in this story already? The story had a marked improvement in female characters having agency in the story; sadly it also got worse at having them become "soon dead"; while I hope some of them will recover, I will really mourn Kor-el

Guardians of the Galaxy #1-6

Great team, good story, good pacing, great storytelling, great characterisation.


And it even passes the Bechdel Test

(also, flo_nelja you might be interested to know Warlock showed up in Annihilation: Conquest)