Comic Review: Red Agent #2

• Story by Joe Brusha, Ralph Tedesco, and Lou Iovino
• Written by Lou Iovino
• Artwork by Diego Galindo
• Colors by Grostieta
• Letters by Fabio Amelia
• Cover A by Edgar Salazar and Erick Arciniega
• Cover B by Caio Cacau
• Cover C by Michael Dooney and Ivan Nunes
• Cover D by Diego Galindo and Grostieta

The first issue of Red Agent disappointed me. It's odd calling a futuristic spy story with crazy technology generic, but it was. Red Agent #2 puts that concern to rest. It's more potential than execution, but moving in the right direction. 

State of the site

It's the holidays, the first time after moving away from home, which means traveling. I'm in the adjustment period of starting a new job, which is taking up my entire day due to an overly long commute (90 minutes each way). I've had another writing project come along and mostly hijack my creative energy.

All of these mean that what I was afraid of is happening now: my output on the blog has fallen greatly, and it's hard to find something that I can do about that between now and the beginning of 2016, at the least.

So, I wouldn't quite call this a reset, but it feels like that. I don't like to have the blog sit dormant, but at this point, I think that's the best thing to do. With all of the other things going on in my life, I need to rethink the workflows and processes I use to get things written, and as they catch up to my new life, I am going to start posting more again. Until then, apologies to anyone who reads this, and I hope to be back to my previous level of output before too much time passes.

Comic Review: Wayward #11

• Story by Jim Zub
• Line Art by Steven Cummings
• Colors by Tamra Bonvillain
• Letters by Marshall Dillon
• Back Matter by Zack Davisson
• Cover A by Steven Cummings and Tamra Bonvillain
• Cover B by Nick Bradshaw and Tamra Bonvillain
• Cover C by Danica Brine and Tamra Bonvillain
• Published by Image Comics

The only thing I am more excited for than Wayward is the return of Saga, but that is another story for literally another day. I've been drawn to this from the beginning, loving the way that it legitimately does both manga and western comics without feeling pandering, and I missed it a lot over its hiatus. I can give it no higher compliment than this: I love it, even though it is full of spiders.

Comic Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 10 #21

• Script by Christos Gage
• Art by Rebekah Isaacs
• Colors by Dan Jackson
• Letters by Richard Starkings and Jimmy Betancourt
• Cover by Steve Morris
• Published by Dark Horse Comics

This issue keeps going back and forth between being something I read before, and something that I forgot happened. It's at a point in the series that it feels like they're waiting for Angel and Faith to wrap up so that this can pick up full force when that ends. Until then, this issue is mostly just here, moving the story only incrementally forward and repeating character beats we've seen before.

Why Jessica Jones and Daredevil feel barely real

This isn't review of anything, or a particularly deep moment of thought and retrospection on Jessica Jones , since I'm six episodes in at this point and haven't had the time to really digest it. Instead, this is about the general feeling I've been getting from this show, and that I got from Daredevil before it:

These shows should not exist.

An explanation and pre-emptive apology

I've only missed a couple of days of posts recently, but this is the kind of thing that's likely to start happening more often in the near future. Long story short, I just started working again this week after several months and no longer have this as the main focus of my attention. I will do everything I can to make sure that the number of posts doesn't go down tremendously. It likely will decline, but I will do everything I can to keep that decline from being too large, since I love doing this and I hope people like reading it.

So, apologies if content falls short in volume, but I will be doing everything I can to fit it in around this change.

Comic Review: Last Sons of America #1

• Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson
• Illustrated by Matthew Dow Smith
• Colors by Doug Garbark
• Letters by Jim Campbell
• Cover by Tonci Zonjic
• Variant covers by Felipe Smith and Michael Dow Smith
• Published by BOOM! Studios

Last Sons of America is a really strange comic. It feels a lot like BOOM! is trying to make an Image Comic, with a very different style than I expect from them. It's going after big ideas in a very grimy and bleak world, and I found myself fascinated and intrigued, even though I'm not entirely sure why I like it.