This was an extremely interesting book. While it played with common tropes within the genre, it did so from the focus of social philosophy. In a worldThis was an extremely interesting book. While it played with common tropes within the genre, it did so from the focus of social philosophy. In a world full of zombies... what is right and what is wrong? Are they sentient, or are they driven solely by instinct? What if a cure would kill them?
It was a fascinating read, full of characters whose motivations I felt were logical and believable. I didn't know from start to finish just where the book was going. Plenty took me by surprise, and I loved how well Carey wrote Melanie in general. She was a believable little girl, if a genius little girl.
I'm really glad I finally got around to reading this book. And yes, it pairs well with The Fireman....more
This was a buy from the start. I mean, it's Gail Simone writing Jessica Jones, right? Not to mention Phil Noto's art...
This is a fun story from the sThis was a buy from the start. I mean, it's Gail Simone writing Jessica Jones, right? Not to mention Phil Noto's art...
This is a fun story from the start. Jessica Jones dealing with variants from the multiverse? Who wouldn't want to see what terrible choices she could make across the board, right? Added to my pull-list immediately....more
I picked this up at the library since I'm a sucker for almost everything werewolf and thought the art on the cover looked neat. It was a whim, reaHuh.
I picked this up at the library since I'm a sucker for almost everything werewolf and thought the art on the cover looked neat. It was a whim, really. I'd never heard of it before, but I liked the publisher. Image comes out with some interesting stuff and I've been trying to branch out a little. So I grabbed it, and ended up going from cover to cover in a bit under an hour since it's a slim read... Well.
I'm still not entirely certain what I read?
Looking at the synopsis on GoodReads and reading other reviews kind of helped me figure out the plot a bit better, but the actual comic script doesn't really do the stories any favors. The dialogue is confusing and rather disjointed. The art style, while interesting, also doesn't really help figure out what's going on. Limbs are lost in fights and then back in the next panel. Scenes may or may not happen and dialogue may or may not be said but then is referenced later. This isn't your Jeff Lemire style mental illness being portrayed either, nope. This is just... I don't even know what.
Is Gabby a werewolf? Is she just someone who did a magic spell to let herself transform into one? Does she come from a family of werewolves or was she infected by her boyfriend? How is her boyfriend's death her fault?
I'm still really not entirely sure and I don't have strong theories about it either.
Can someone please help me make sense of this?...more
This book is part memoir, part examination of Scandinavian parenting vs. American parenting, and part treatise on how to change American parenting tecThis book is part memoir, part examination of Scandinavian parenting vs. American parenting, and part treatise on how to change American parenting techniques for the better. Like Richard Louv's books, this one primarily explores the way that children benefit from being exposed to nature. There is a lot to take away from this book in terms to how school systems could benefit from more nature focused learning, and how parents could both get a break from intensely monitoring their children's play and also raise more confident kids by taking a step back and allowing them more responsibility.
While other reviewers have complained that his book failed to offer enough parenting tips, I think this book actually did a fairly good job of highlighting what different things could be done in day to day life to help benefit their children's growth. Tips such as buying more weather resistant clothing, building natural play areas, and becoming involved in the change to more forest schools, etc. are all bits of practical advice if a bit more future focused in some cases than cause for immediate action. There are plenty of opportunities for further reading as well, which is much appreciated.
All in all, this book is nice in how it gives the reader a lot more to think about and consider. What are screens doing for you? Have you gotten outside today? Are there better ways to use technology than the way we're using it now? I appreciated how this book focused upon better ways to learn and grow rather than just denouncing X as evil, as some are want to do....more
Carl Hiaasen is an author that I've been recommended to read for years. I tried picking him up when I was in hCan't we just have fun once in a while?
Carl Hiaasen is an author that I've been recommended to read for years. I tried picking him up when I was in high school, but didn't quite 'get' the book of his that I tried to read. Rather than push through, I just abandoned it and moved on, trusting I'd get back to reading him when the time was right. Well, I ended up marrying a man from Florida who's family absolutely adores his books. Even ended up meeting him at a book festival before reading any of his books. So, the time finally came when this book was shoved into my hands.
I loved it.
Squeeze Me is a hilarious romp through Palm Beach, Florida in the summer of 2020 (though perhaps it would've been better set during 2019, but we'll get to that later.) The book is rife with political satire, and with an environmentalist bend that I found positively irresistible. We follow a large cast of characters, the main one of which is Angie, a wildlife relocater, tasked in the first few chapters with removing a truly massive Burmese Python from the grounds of a rich country club where a woman has gone missing. Hmmmm.
The book is hilarious and timely. It's surprisingly smart. My only complaint with it would be that the COVID-19 references are a bit too shoehorned in, last minute additions that don't work with the characters meeting up in bars and going to galas. At least not most of the characters, anyway. A lunch meeting in Florida, 2020, might still work, but would Angie really do that?
Anyway, I look forward to reading more of Hiaasen's books. I can see now why people thought I'd love them from the start. They were right....more
Carl Hoffman is an author that I truly admire and respect. I devoured his previous book Savage Harvest and have been looking forward to reading Man.
Carl Hoffman is an author that I truly admire and respect. I devoured his previous book Savage Harvest and have been looking forward to reading more of his since then. His travels bring him into contact with the fringes of society. The Asmat of Papua New Guinea, former headhunters now searching for a new role in the world. The indigenous peoples of Borneo, adapting to a changing world themselves. Hoffman has traveled across the globe, always seeking out the stranger sides to push himself, and I'd say he's managed fairly well over the years. Only now, he's pushing himself to a fringe of American society that isn't really fringe. The people who attend Trump rallies in the period leading up to the stay at home orders being put into place due to COVID-19. It's a controversial topic, to put it mildly.
Carl Hoffman approached the topic of these divisive political times with the same amount of respect that he affords all the groups that he talks about. He delved into the history of the places each of the rallies were held, and the histories of the people that he met at the rallies. He traces the Republican Party itself to a certain degree, and how it turned into the radical form of Trumpism that it currently now just... is. He seeks to understand how people are drawn to Trump, how he attracts people to them and continues to retain the respect and admiration of different segments of the population.
This book, while not the easiest read, is an important one. Throughout it Hoffman decries the way that now it is difficult to have a conversation with anyone about something like policy without it dissolving into attacks and accusations. He calls for civility, for a celebration of different ideas and people rather than the barbs that are now so constantly thrown. He observes how the rise of Trump has coincided with the erosion of more traditional American masculinity, how Trump might be the last vestiges of that type of manhood and what has caused that erosion.
It's a fascinating read. It's an important read. It's a book that I'm glad I had in my hands. I wish more people were doing more to heal the divisions that exist, but I have no idea how we will come back from them. I can only hope someday that we will....more
It's a small collection of the lesser known creatures of folklore. Sure, there are some sea serp Monsters You Should Know is an utterly adorable book.
It's a small collection of the lesser known creatures of folklore. Sure, there are some sea serpents and unicorns - but likely not the variations upon the theme that you've heard of before. There are some refreshingly different little critters. The two most basic monsters contained between these coves was a a cockatrice, and even that one tends to be a little bit unusual among certain circles. The most delightful creature (apart from the hilarious Fearsome Critter the Squonk) was the Eloko if only because it was drawn to look like a hedgehog.
This was a really fun book to flip through, and one I would definitely consider getting one of my friend's kiddos at some point in the future. It isn't scary as much as it is fun and entertaining, something to ignite the imagination full of drawings that I would've pored over for days as a kid. I loved the folklore, loved the art, and loved the way there is a little bit of a narrative that connects the first and final entry. It's a delightful little book. I really need to check out this publisher more often....more
This volume of the Deluxe edition contains two miniseries in their proper places within the reading order. So, we Welcome back to my Preacher reread.
This volume of the Deluxe edition contains two miniseries in their proper places within the reading order. So, we get the Saint of Killer's backstory right where we need it. This backstory was actually adapted pretty well in the television show, but as tends to be the case, the comics still blow it all out of the water. The miniseries is told with the slow brutal beats of a Cormac McCarthy story as everything draws nearer and nearer to the inevitable conclusion. Oh, but it's good.
The second miniseries contained in here is the much lauded "Blood and Whiskey", the Cassidy meets Anne Rice style vampires that was wet your pants level funny back when it first came out. Does it hold up well nowadays? Well, to me it still does. While Lestat isn't everywhere you turn any longer, the shadow that Twilight cast still looms large and it hits the right notes for me. I still found it hilarious. I'm curious how newcomers might feel if they didn't grow up during that whole craze, though...
This volume focuses primarily upon Cassidy once you get out of the miniseries. Why did Cassidy join up with our dear Preacher and Tulip? What does he want with this? What does he get out of it? We meet an old friend with a hideous face. We peek in at Featherstone and Starr and see that they're continuing to plot and plan, even if Starr is looking rather worse for wear. We see our old friend begin his transformation into what he always wanted to be.
Things are looking... slightly up for everyone but Cassidy. Then again, Cassidy always does get himself into the worst messes, doesn't he? Then again... Cassidy deserves so much of what he gets even if we do love him....more
Natasha has finally woken up, and oh man, there is hell to pay.
Kelly Thompson's writing is as good as ever, and this issue gives me more of that ClinNatasha has finally woken up, and oh man, there is hell to pay.
Kelly Thompson's writing is as good as ever, and this issue gives me more of that Clint and Bucky friendship that I love. Even better, we finally get to see more of Kelly writing Natasha as herself rather than the civilian living her best life that previous issues have shown. Here we see her making the tough choices, and truly shining under pressure as only as Black Widow can.
The action sequences are things of true beauty, if not perhaps the glorious scenes that Warren Ellis and Declan Shalvey gave us in From the Dead. These are still superb splash pages, and my heart broke for Natasha as she did what had to be done time and time again.
The ending?
Don't even talk to me about the ending, man. Not yet.
Suffice to say, I am really relieved that this is an ongoing and I hope it may break the 20 issue curse that plagues Black Widow titles. Kelly Thompson is on a role....more
I read this book at the recommendation of my dear friend Clara.
I'd never picked up a Loki book before, although Norse mythology in general has been anI read this book at the recommendation of my dear friend Clara.
I'd never picked up a Loki book before, although Norse mythology in general has been an interest of mine for a number of years. Loki just never really spoke to me that much in the MCU adaptations of the Marvel comics that I read, so I never thought to read him. Thor, likewise, isn't a title that I've really spent reading. So, this was my first real deep dive into the Asgard portion of Marvel's universe (outside of the brief references made to it all in Marvel 1602, and man was it an interesting one. This book tapped into my love of storytelling and the power that it holds.
This book didn't strike me as being overly influenced by the MCU's take on things. For instance, Ragnarok remains the cyclical nature of creation and destruction within the Norse universe rather than the event/character it later became in Marvel titles. Also, the actual Norse stories rear their ugly heads here and there throughout the telling of the book. God of Lies? Yes. That also makes Loki the God of Stories and in this title we see the stories that he tells about himself, about others, and about what he may want to eventually become without the confines of all others make of him.
I'm not certain how this stacks up against traditional Loki comics, or if this is one of the better regarded titles or not. All I know is that it spoke to me, I enjoyed it, and it makes me curious to read more about the Mischievous Loki who can only ever turn into something that is also himself. He's a fascinating character, especially when one is digging into the questions of personal identity. Wish he'd gotten a better treatment on screen....more
Deep Breaths is a short story collection made up of the zine comics that Gooch had been creating for years prior to puMy second book by Chris Gooch.
Deep Breaths is a short story collection made up of the zine comics that Gooch had been creating for years prior to publication. The stories run the gamut from fantastical sci-fi to the darkest of horror. While the fantastical stories were interesting - the space princess fiasco in particular was an enjoyable, if bizarre read - Gooch truly shines when it comes to the mundane. The interpersonal relationships that ebb and flow and are pushed to their limits by the discovery of something so simple.
What I mean to say is - this entire book is worth reading for the story of the condom. The way the mother reacted to the find, the discussion with her therapist and trying to decide what to do. Did the condom belong to her husband? To her daughter? If her daughter - isn't she too young? What do you do? If it's the husband - who is he sleeping with? Why? How would already strained relationships be impacted by such a simple find?
The way that Gooch navigated that story was fascinating to me, and the ending so satisfactory while also being surprising. The art is all in Gooch's style, very much his own and something that you'll either love or hate.
So, all in all, a good read. I'd be happy to read more of him....more
I can still remember all of my lofty reading goals for 2020 and how quickly they all went up in flames when March rolled around. I could be finally fiI can still remember all of my lofty reading goals for 2020 and how quickly they all went up in flames when March rolled around. I could be finally finishing reading Fables, or Paper Girls. Hell, I could be finally getting into Hellblazer as I'd been intending to, or continuing my strange relationship with The Walking Dead by partaking in Negan Lives. There are a million things I could be doing, but here I am, rereading Preacher for the first time in over a decade and loving every second of it. We can't all be perfect, I guess.
The second volume isn't as riotous an romp as the first. This is the volume, after all, when we learn about just what the Grail is, what it's doing, and how Herr Starr plans on utilizing Jesse Custer in their name. This is the volume where we also get a fair bit of backstory - both of Jesse's father and Cassidy and how he turned. While not as disruptive to the story as Hughie's backstory in The Boys was, it still is a little bit of a momentum killer in the moment. Having already read the story, though, I enjoyed both the Vietnam and the Uprising bits a good deal more than I thought I would've. Then again, it isn't Blood and Whiskey, but I'm not sure how well that hilarious Cassidy one-shot is since it's no longer the early 2000s and Anne Rice isn't exactly the force she was back then these days. Ah well.
Preacher is still its hilarious self. I'm still loving every second of it. The bit that surprises me the most is how much I'm enjoying the artwork. I was worried that it might have aged poorly, considering how different comic book styles are now compared to what they were in the 90s/early 2000s. Instead, Dillon's work is still fantastic and doing its job. The Saint of Killers is still terrifying, the Allfather still disgusting. Herr Starr is still... well, you know.
One of the reasons I enjoyed the flashback issues as much as I did this time around is that I think they betray a central bit of Ennis's charm. Ennis, in spite of how crass, irreverent, and hilarious he tends to be still as at his very core a belief in the goodness of people. Cassidy and Jesse's friendship, for instance, is such a massive backbone of the series and an intense thing of beauty. The sort of loyalty the two share to one another, that partnership, the sort of love and respect that Jesse and Tulip (eventually, though certainly not in this volume) build and share - all of that is truly beautiful - even as the end of the world rages around them.
Ennis's morality is like catnip to me, and I'm not entirely certain what that says about me.
Reading Preacher at what feels like the end of the world really makes John Custer's words hit a bit different. You gotta be one of the good guys, kid, there's more than enough of the bad.
Damn right. Be excellent to one another, dudes. ...more
This mini-series was recommended to me by a consummate Bucky fan, so I was very curious to read it. The closest I've come to reading Winter Soldier.
This mini-series was recommended to me by a consummate Bucky fan, so I was very curious to read it. The closest I've come to reading an actual Bucky-centric comic was Matthew Rosenberg's Tales of Suspense: Hawkeye and the Winter Soldier which I positively adored. I find the character of Bucky incredibly interesting, but never really bothered to dig deeper. Here's a fellow who was trained as an assassin and spy, an extraordinarily young recruit to the Howling Commandos, a brainwashed Manchurian Candidate sort of monster for HYDRA during the Cold War, and a reformed double-agent eventually joining the Avengers ranks. It's an interesting character, and a difficult needle to thread well. Matthew Rosenberg, I felt, nailed it with a fun degree of levity. Ed Brubaker nailed it with a much more serious and somber tone in this mini-series. Man, it'll break your heart.
As is tradition with Bucky and Natasha centric stories something from the Red Room rears its ugly head to haunt them once more. In this case, it's people that Bucky himself trained way back in those days of old. These are people left in cryostasis, awaiting the chance to be woken up and given orders by their handlers to undermine the United States. Only this time? This time they've been auctioned off on the black market - which is bad enough. Worse, one of them had already been opened and that asset is now on the run.
This reads like a James Bond story, complete with an intense romance at the forefront of it all and tragedy waiting in the eaves for a chance to strike. It's a short series, but don't discount it for that reason. It'll hit you where it hurts and illuminate future interactions between the Winter Soldier and Black Widow for years and years to come. Brubaker is way too skilled a writer for his own good, and the art in this series only elevates the writing itself in its detail and dynamism.
Plus? Brubaker, as he always does, makes adequate use of the various character's histories that he writes about. This isn't a retcon, but rather a deeper building of lore. Gotta love when a writer manages that. ...more
This is a delightful beginner's book to mushrooming.
The book is very short, and very simple to use. It's small enough to fit in a pocket, but chock fuThis is a delightful beginner's book to mushrooming.
The book is very short, and very simple to use. It's small enough to fit in a pocket, but chock full of a ton of great information for anyone new to mushrooming. The book begins with an introduction to mushrooming that contains a list of everything you need to bring with you out into the field. After that, the book delves into seven very easy to identify and safe mushrooms to get to picking. Each mushroom has a couple of pages dedicated to describing its attributes, where to find it, how to positively ID it, and what seasons it grows in. After the in-depth overview, there is a page that has a quick checklist that can be gone over after picking the mushroom to ensure you got the right fruitbody before you set about cooking it - a pretty important thing. After that, the book has recipes for each and every mushroom it listed, as well as little reviews of the recipes themselves.
This isn't the best introductory book I've read on mushrooming, but it is definitely a rather good one. It should provide everything a beginner needs to get out into the field and begin collecting with confidence. Particularly useful were the indicators as to where/when one is likely to be able to find a particular mushroom. I've yet to see any other guide provide that information quite as obviously as this one did. However, I do think this book would have been well-served by a small bit of tree identification information as well - since trees are so vital a part to successful foraging. Perhaps in an updated edition?
One of my favorite bits of the book were the sentimental asides scattered throughout. The book began with some poetry about mushrooms and it all just continued on from there. Who doesn't feel intense emotion surrounding mushrooms after all, right?...more
Every now and then I think to myself Man, I should really reread Preacher. The problem with that impulse is that I have a million other things to readEvery now and then I think to myself Man, I should really reread Preacher. The problem with that impulse is that I have a million other things to read. Reading through the 66 some issues that make up the series is putting stuff like Y: The Last Man or American Vampire on hold. This year, though... this year is a year that I'm not going to beat myself up for a little bit of comfort reading. So, let's reread Preacher. Let's have some fun.
Jesse Custer is a preacher in the small no name town of Annville deep in the heart of Texas. Genesis is an entity whose power rivals that of God; its birth, in fact, causes God to vacate his throne. Genesis escapes its heavenly prison to inhabit the body of Jesse Custer. Jesse, upon learning all of this, decides to search for God to figure out exactly what happened - along with his bazooka toting ex-girlfriend and an alcoholic vampire.
Preacher is a violent romp through all of America. It's filled with gore, absurdity that will make you laugh out loud, and surprisingly inciteful moments of old Western morality sprinkled throughout. It's a comic that analyses the best and the worst of us and demands frontier justice at every turn. As ridiculous as the comic gets, as offensive and ridiculous as it is pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable at every turn, I can't help but love it. Reading it again was like coming home, confirming with each flip of the page its constant place upon the favorites list of my mind.
I love Preacher. I love how every piece of the puzzle of its short run is there from the beginning. I love how the story is told in such a fluid manner that the ending seems inevitable even from the first few issues. I love how well-developed the characters are, how even the minor characters in figures like Si and Detective Tool make sense in the end in the universe that Preacher created. I love how the art has stood the text of time, how the script is just so natural.
I love how the comic is so well-drawn reading it is like watching a movie in my own head.
Can't wait to get through the rest of the issues in this reread. This is just what the doctor ordered....more
While a multitude of books deal with the process of succumbing to a cult or the various manne Talking to Strangers is an interesting, if quick, read.
While a multitude of books deal with the process of succumbing to a cult or the various manners in which people are 'de-programmed' and exit such nefarious groups I have yet to see any do so in the form of a graphic novel. Let alone deal with it in such a blunt and easy to understand way as this book did. Marianne Boucher deals with the way that she was recruited to, and eventually left, the "Moonies" in the 1980s when she was a very young teen. Rather than focus solely upon her own experience, she also talks about what her family (in particular her mother) went through during her time in the cult.
The book is exceedingly honest, and the conflicting emotions that she still feels come through in the writing and art. The black and white drawings are incredibly expressive, and the simplicity of the text makes the story a bit more jarring considering what it is depicting. While not the sordid sexual tales of Manson and NXIVM this is the emotional manipulation of the very worthiness of self and breakdown of ego and how very easy it is for both to happen.
This was a fascinating quick read, and one that left with with more books on my to-read list when I finished it. I particularly enjoyed the focus on the de-programming and how that worked at the time, the after-effects of it and how they linger. I haven't read a great deal about what happens after exiting a cult in terms of how to regain your sense of self so I found that pretty riveting and leaving me wanting to learn more.
A good, honest read. I wonder if the Moonies still exist?...more
Hey, I finally finished reading Scott Pilgrim guys.
And only after finishing reading it did I learn that the whole thing has been released again in coHey, I finally finished reading Scott Pilgrim guys.
And only after finishing reading it did I learn that the whole thing has been released again in color, which would significantly help the problem I kept having at telling particular characters apart. Plus, the coloring job looks absolutely incredible in general. So I guess I'll be rereading all of this at some point in the future to get that experience once more. Not a bad thing.
If you've been following my reviews of this series, saw the movie, or read this far yourself than you know the gist of the story. Scott Pilgrim falls in love with Ramona Flowers. In order to truly date her/win her heart/whatever he needs to defeat the League of Evil Exes. Getting this far means he's gotten to the final boss, the Big Bad who Ramona never quite seemed to have fully gotten over: Gideon. Yep, this volume here is the final showdown.
Now, if you've seen the movie, as I had, you come in with a certain degree of expectations... well, the book is nothing like that. The final battle, the final volume, actually shows a significant amount of personal growth on Scott's part. He needs to learn how to be himself without Ramona, how to grow and make peace with his own past relationships - both romantic and platonic ones. He needs to accept his Shadow self, as does Ramona, before things can move forward. All of that having been said, yeah, there's a pretty great sword fight to see, too, and a host of little surprises.
This volume was a very strong one for the growth the characters experienced. It's a good ending, even if it left me curious about a whole host of questions that never got answered. Subspace? Ramona's Bag? The Glow? There are a million things I would've loved to have seen dug into, and maybe the author did get into some of them in interviews but, well, I haven't seen it. Not to mention why a Certain Someone didn't drop coins when they died. Hm.
I look forward to rereading this series in color at some point, but in the meantime... even in black and white this a good series and well worth a read. The movie was great, and the books hold up to the movie and vice versa, even while they are still two very different mediums....more
This volume was largely a build up to the final volume, but some things did cScott Pilgrim is not a good person.
Then again, neither is Ramona Flowers.
This volume was largely a build up to the final volume, but some things did come to a head. For instance, it was finally revealed to Ramona that Scott Pilgrim cheated both on her and on Knives during the time they were dating. How did everyone react? Well, this is Scott Pilgrim so you can largely imagine. Furthermore, the band really isn't doing so hot. Oh, and this time Scott is facing off against twins.
It was a fun read, and a quick one, but it didn't contain the same weight that I felt the previous volumes did. I just wanted to shake Scott throughout the bulk of it, although truthfully I've felt like that for some time. Kim, at least, got a little bit of a time to shine and to move on with her life to better things.
Oh, and we get Gideon next volume.
And as always, Wallace is the best character.
All in all, this is still a series well-worth reading and that lives up to the praise it has received over the years. On to the last volume!...more
Natasha, as she tends to, goes missing - only this time for a longer period than is typical. Clint was concerned from the getWell, uh, this got weird.
Natasha, as she tends to, goes missing - only this time for a longer period than is typical. Clint was concerned from the get go and his concern reaches a fever pitch when he spots her in the background of a newscast in San Francisco. Black Widow, if undercover on some secret mission, would never let herself be recorded. More disturbing than her being recorded is the fact that she looks... happy.
Hawkeye and the Winter Soldier are on the case. Their detective work, hilarious as always, reveals that she is indeed happy. She's married. She has a kid. She has a perfect house in the perfect city, and more intriguingly, the perfect motorcycle. So - what's the deal? Hawkeye and the Winter Soldier find that they've been beaten to the punch by the Widow less likely to show them mercy, Yelena, who has been following Natasha for a while and seems to have a good grip on things.
Natasha, meanwhile, is indeed happy. Happy, but she can't shake the feeling that something is missing from her life. Why does she feel uneasy? Why do her hands craft bombs when she's not thinking? What are these reflexes, this gift that allows her to triumph in the face of danger? Her villains have concocted what to them appears to be the perfect plan, but Black Widow was never one to go down easy.
Without giving away too much - I think next issue we're going to see her kicking some serious ass....more
The mystery deepens, and Jeff the Landshark makes an appearance.
Natasha has been missing for a while now.
Clint spots the missing Avenger in the back The mystery deepens, and Jeff the Landshark makes an appearance.
Natasha has been missing for a while now.
Clint spots the missing Avenger in the back of a newscast, and in short order he and Bucky are on the move to figure out just what's going on. When they arrive on the scene, however, there are more questions than answers. Natasha appears happy, living a picture perfect life of domestic bliss that raises no red flags apart from the fact that this... really isn't something anyone ever thought they'd see her doing.
Meanwhile, brief interludes point to a larger plan and more nefarious happenings brewing. Natasha, although happy, still retains some knowledge of her previous life. Why does her blood pump when danger is afoot? How does she know how to make bombs?
The mystery deepens, and the art remains dynamic, the coloring setting a delicious tone.
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