Brightest Day is done now and is the second worst thing I’ve had to read for this.

Brightest Day 22: how do we keep finding new ways for this comic to suck

Brightest Day is very pretty and the Hawkguy storyline remains bafflingly stupid. at least hawkguy is dead now

Brightest Day update: this sucks, Beavis

you ever think about the fact that shaggy rogers was vegetarian like past tense. because it was a demand of casey kasem and kasem actually quit being shaggy over a fast food ad and only came back when they promised shaggy would be vegetarian again. but i don't think lillard cares? so now he's not

I will give Brightest Day this: the plot about J'onn being gaslit telepathically is honestly pretty impressive

Good news: Brightest Day is now doing only two threads per issue. Bad news: the Firestorm retcons suck and Ronnie is being written awfully. Deathstorm is five but let Ronnie be clever please, he’s written as an illiterate moron here.

does Brightest Day ever stop being "here are three pages that inch one of seven storylines forward then cut away before anything major can happen" repeated for a full issue

Been a while, but Glorantha ttrpg work continues! Rejoice, for the Secret History of the Horse Sun brings Mee Vorala, the Sporebringer! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Okay seriously how has not one person brought up how fucking weird it is that Kendra Saunders died and then was reformatted as Shiera Hall? And no one is talking about Kendra at all? No one thinks it’s fucked up that she was eaten by her past self and predestined love like she was always afraid of?

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beginning Brightest Day and I already know I'm gonna hate large parts of this because I despise Hawkman

So, now 3/4 of the way through Blackest Night. First two issues definitely the worst of them so far, the rest manage to reach 'it's fine i guess' but Deadman still hasn't had to fight his own corpse, what the fuck

Blackest Night issue 2 trip report: this sucks, Beavis

Tried out the game Here Lies yesterday with some friends! We were playing it online so I had to do some work to set it up - I used a webcam pointed at a table to place the board and feelies on so I could properly write things and draw things and so on and we played via Discord. Very fun.

well that was a fun detour into countdown to final crisis to find out that darkseid kidnapping martin stein was completely meaningless and pointless and didn't go anywhere interesting also, this comic is fucking incoherent

oh cool now i have to read countdown to final crisis 25 and 24. this is gonna suck

Firestorm update: now into the last few issues of v3, written by Dwayne McDuffie. I like McDuffie generally but these feel a little weak. Also I don't think Parademons are supposed to just be shadows?

Jason Bro Bro I like you. But please stop kissing the six year old force aged clone girl It was weird BRFORE we knew she was a clone

Saw Wake Up Dead Man and had Japanese takeout with family last night, as is Jewish tradition Well, close enough, anyway Good movie. Solid character study, and I really liked Father Jud and the reflection on feelings about religion. Transplanting Evangelical vibes to Catholicism was neat.

remember to always live your life such that the muppets do not sing a song insulting your morals

always fun to have to gently explain to someone that they didn't pick up on Crest of the Stars lionizing fascism and the Abh being fascists

firestorm update: took a detour into Villains United, which was fun. back from that now. Firestorm has no idea what's going on (normal) and is helping scientists deal with an OMAC (also normal) and infinite crisis is happening (i am so tired)

Taking a brief detour in Firestorm read to read all of Villains United because I like Gail Simone's writing. It's generally good, the character writing is fun. Killer Frost has the standard crossover problem where people forgot she's empowered by heat, tho, and I am assuming the Hyena is a new Hyena

Firestorm update: Ronnie didn't go out quite the way I thought, but close enough. Solid ending to Jolley's tenure. I am still surprised it took over a year for Jason's 'with great power comes great responsibility' intro arc to end tho.

Firestorm Update: Ronnie's back! Ish. I am really enjoying Mentor Ronnie and his rapport with Jason, but I also know what happens to Uncle Ben and I'm pretty sure Ronnie is going to sacrifice himself to heal Jason against the Fuck Firestorm Squad, now that we know the merge partner dies to fuel that

so i am doing a longterm arrowverse watch with my girlfriend and a friend and like they are telegraphing Crisis on Infinite Earths so hard in Flash, have been telegraphing it since like season 2, referencing the Flash's death in Crisis, they cannot wait to do their take on it

HOLY SHID, IF YOU HAVE HANDS, APPLY

I am enjoying Firestorm v.3 but man, I'm almost ten issues in and Jason still hasn't actually done any superheroing.

i had to read three pages of Identity Crisis #5 and that was too much of Identity Crisis worst three pages of this entire thing INCLUDING EXTREME JUSTICE

this read has really taught me that there has never been a Justice League book that ever managed to be good for more than a few plot arcs at a time

Almost done with JLA - one issue left until I hit Firestorm v.3 This entire Fernus arc would be better if Fernus didn't fucking talk, every time he opens his mouth he's just A Shitty Guy and your ancient primeval death martian personality born from racial memory shouldn't be A Shitty Guy

Arrowverse Supergirl (2016-2021), colorized

This JLA run has gone downhill pretty fast after Obsidian Age ended.

Glorantha playtest game is going well. Questworlds TNs are kind of underdone but my solution to this has been to look at player rolls and consistently go "okay so I can give you a lesser success, or a greater success but you take an injury" and know that my players will always, always pick option 2

my peculiar method of reading comics by focusing on a single minor character and following their entire history has led me to develop very strong opinions about some comics characters fuck jimmy olsen (white). every white jimmy olsen sucks. all of them. the only good jimmys olsen are both black

Power Company is a weird book but I can follow it surprisingly well for having not read the first ten issues

Okay so we really didn't need 'half of the JLA decides to effectively conquer a planet after preventing its conquest by another guy' Like. I'd read the Authority if I wanted to read the Authority, this was a bad JLA two-parter.

Batman needs to stop being mean to Firestorm, Firestorm is doing his best

imagining the world where zoids became the core modern mecha referent instead of gundam god i love zoids they're so fucking stupid

Obsidian Age giving me some great Etrigan in the end as well as fun action. Very nice, even if I prefer a more character driven solo book.

why am i craving tallarin saltado i had it on wednesday why do i need it again now

JLA: Obsidian Age is pretty good, for all that Firestorm is basically not being used with any major characterization for it. I really am enjoying it. The time travel was confusing at first because I thought there was a Past and a Further Past due to poorly established stuff, however.

i occasionally need to remind myself that I am on Discords populated by The Youths who were not alive in the 90s and are not aware that Bill Clinton was infamous for sleeping around well before he became president

Firestorm update: Circle of Fire ended well. We are now into the JLA run where he's been tapped as part of the JLA's replacements while they're stuck 3000 years in the past. It appears to be picking up with him back at college, largely ignoring...uh, basically all of Extreme Justice's writing.

Firestorm update: his role in Day of Judgment was relatively minor but set up some fun stuff with him having to learn chemistry now that he doesn't have Stein in his head, and that's playing nicely in Circle of Fire. GL/Firestorm in particular is a really fun little issue for a wild goose chase.

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