Giant Days #28: Written by John Allison, Pencils by Max Sarin, Inks by Liz Fleming, Colours by Whitney Cogar & Letters by Jim Campbell.  The mystery of the locked garage.  OooooooOOOOoooo.

Zodiac Starforce #1: Written by Kevin Panetta, Art by Paulina Ganucheau, Colors by Sarah Stern & Lettering by Christy Sawyer.  Chapter 2, "Cries of the Fire Prince".  Even though I never got into Sailor Moon, I do like magical girl adventure comics.

Jem & the Holograms: Infinite: Writer Kelly Thompson, Artist Jenn St-Onge, Colors M. Victoria Robado & Letters Shawn Lee.  The Holograms and the Misfits travel to a parallel Earth ruled by a version of their A.I. Synergy.

The Wicked & the Divine #29: Writer Kieron Gillen, Artist Jamie McKelvie, Colourist Matthew Wilson, Letterer Clayton Cowles & Flatter Dee Cunniffe.  The remaining Pantheon team-up again to try and capture Sakhmet.  Who kind of killed and rage-ate some of her groupies.  Oh that wacky Sakhmet.
Rat Queens #4: Writer Kurtis J. Wiebe, Artist Owen Gieni & Letterer Ryan Ferrier.  Barrie's smugness finally draws down some SMIDGEN RAGE!  Also a gregarious mimic in a ruined temple crawl.

Astro CIty #45: Writer Kurt Busiek, Artist Brent E. Anderson, Lettering & design John Roshell & Jimmy Betancourt of Comicraft & Color art Peter Pantazis.  The 70s iteriation of Mr.Cakewalk/Jazzbaby/the Bouncing Beatnik/the Hopping Hippy/etc Glamorax and the probably origin of the Broken Man.

Heroines #2: Creator/script/art Ted Naifeh & Letters Taylor Esposito.  The female hero team goes on their first planned mission.  Which is basically a success despite killer robots, a villain in a patriotic banana hammock and someone getting shot.

Saga #44: Artist Fiona Staples, Writer Brian K. Vaughan & Lettering/design Fonografiks.  The freak-show result of human/centaur fucking.

Shutter #29: Writer Joe Keatinge, Artist Leila Del Duca, Colorist Owen Gieni & Letterer John Workman.  A montage of flash forwards showing glimpses of the next thirty years.

Lumberjanes #39: Written by Shannon Watters & Kat Leyh, Illustrated by Ayme Sotuyo, Colors by Maarta Laiho & Letters by Aubrey Aiese.  Trickster spirits can be such assholes.

Saucer State #2: Writer Paul Cornell, Artist Ryan Kelly, Colorist Adam Guzowski & Lettering Simon Bowland.  T-minus 1 year to "official" alien arrival.

Lumberjanes: Faire and Square #1: Written by Holly Black & Illustrated by Marina Julia.  'Janes go to a Nottingham themed medieval fair and have to help with a dragon.  Back-up short about telenovellas by Gabby Rivera, Gaby Epstein & Jim Campbell.

Invincible #137: Writer Robert Kirkman, Penciler & partial Inker Ryan Ottley, Inker Dexter Vines, Colorist Nathan Fairbairn & Letterer Rus Wooton.  Thragg's forces approach Earth and Nolan rallies the other Viltrumites.  Leading to Rex/Robot making some kind of supreme dick power-move.

Knights of the Dinner Table #244: E-i-C Jolly R. Blackburn with Development Team Steve Johansson, David S. Kenzer, Brian Jelke & Barbara Blackburn.  Gary finishes up running a game for the Muncie crew and things move on to the Warehouse Loot Crawl.

Giant Days #27: Writen by John Allison, Pencils by Max Sarin, Inks by Liz Fleming, Colors by Whitney Cogar & Letters by Jim Campbell.  Esther gets politically educated and protests a grocery chain.  A cute boy may be involved as well.

The Flintstones #12: Writer Mark Russell, Artist Steve Pugh, Colorist Chris Chuckry & Letterer Dave Sharpe.  Ah, last issue?  Going out with bowling and musing on the purpose of religion and the basis of scientific discovery.

Jem: the Misfits #5: Written by Kelly Thompson, Art by Jen St-Onge, Colrs by M. Victoria Robado & Letters by Shawn Lee.  Ending the mini-series with the secret origin for Jetta.

Paper Girls #15: Writer Brian K. Vaughan, Artist Cliff Chiang, Colors Matt Wilson, Letters + Design Jared K. Fletcher & Color flats Dee Cunniffe.  Pre-history and rescuing a baby and fighting jerk-ass cave men and then back to time jumping.  Next stop, 2000 AD?

Saucer State #1: Writer Paul Cornell, Artist Ryan Kelly, Colorist Adam Guzowski & Lettering Simon Bowland.  Cornell continues <i>Saucer Country</i> with a new publisher and altered title.  Starting right up after the election of President Arcadia Alvarado, whose investigation into who or what abducted her interrupted by an unexpected global event.

Lumberjanes #38: Written by Shannon Watters & Kat Leyh, Illustrated by Ayme Sotuyo, Colors by Maarta Laiho & Letters by Aubrey Aiese.  Parent's Day Scavenger hunt, Team Ripley vs. Team April.

Rat Queens #3: Writer Kurtis J. Wiebe, Artist Owen Gieni & Letterer Ryan Ferrier.  And introducing the golden members of military adventurers, The Chorus; Chloe, Burke Baron, Sage & Blue.

Empowered and the Soldier of Love #3: Story by Adam Warren & Art by Karla Diaz.  Diaz is a delight, she can draw both a magical girl familiar pangolian AND a magic girl weapon love/assualt rifle.  Also A++ for Emp's verbal (congruent with physical) smackdown of the Soldier of Love.

the Damned: Ill-Gotten #1: Written by Cullen Bunn, Illustrated by Brian Hurt, Colored by Bill Crabtree & Lettered by Crank!  I do appreciate that this new entry into the series spells out that the demons are magically disguised as humans in the sight of the non-damned mortals.

Giant Days #26: Written by John Allison, Pencils by Max Sarin, Inks by Liz Fleming, Colors by Whitney Cogar & Letters by Jim Campbell.  Poor Dean.  Poor love-sabotaged, heart-broken Dean.  No waits, we hates Dean.  His tears are like sweet wine for our soul.

Paper Girls #14: Writer Brian K. Vaughan, Artist Cliff Chiang, Colors Matt Wilson, Letters & Design Jared K. Fletcher & Color flats Dee Cunniffe.  Oooh.  A glyptodon.  Such a cute giant armadillo beast.

The Flintstones #11:  Writer Mark Russell, Artist Steve Pugh, Colorist Chris Chuckry & Letterer Dave Sharpe.  Not surprising given the Spring Breakers we met originally, but the Great Gazoo's people are a giant pack of assholes.  Still some quick thinking by Earth's resident park ranger means our species isn't doomed.

Jem: the Misfits #4: Written by Kelly Thompson, Art by Jenn St-Onge, Colors by M. Victoria Robado & Letters by Shawn Lee.  Y Kant ToriRoxie Read?

Lumberjanes #37: Written by Shannon Wtters & Kat Leyh, Illustrated by Ayme Sotuyo, Colors by Maarta Laiho & Letters by Aubrey Aiese  Parents' Day!

Lobster Johnson: the Pirate's Ghost #2: Story by Mike Mignola & John Arcudi, Art by Tonci Zonjic & Letters by Clem Robins.

Savage Dragon #223: Written/Artist Erik Larsen, Letters Chris Eliopoulos, Colors Nikos Kovtsis & Flats Mike Toris.  I'm kind of tired of the whole Maxine's hyper-sexuality bit at this point.
Bitch Planet #10: Script Kelly Sue DeConnick, Art/covers Valentine De Landro, Colors Kelly Fitzpatrick & Letters Clayton Cowles.  Non-compliance revolutions.

Doom Patrol #6: Writer Gerard Way, Penciller/Cover Nick Derington, Inker Tom Fowler, Colorist Tamra Bonvillain & Letterer Todd Klein.  And so endeth Book the One with a reunion with Jane.

So missed a week due to being unable to actually find the comics shop's new location the first time. But made sure to bring the written down address the next time. So big pull of comics.

Paper Girls #13: Writer Brian K. Vaughn, Artist Cliff Chiang, Colors Matt Wilson, Letters + Design Jared K. Fletcher & Color flats Dee Cunniffe. Still more variations of time travel shenanigans.
Mighty Man #1: Story Erik Larsen, Art and colors Nikos Koutsis & Letters Ferran Delgado. Did not know anything about a new Dragon tie-in until seeing it at the store. Though it seems like another attempt at a Freak Force book, with new Mighty Man IV, Rapture II and Dart III to go with Super-Patriot, Barbaric, Horridus & Richochet.

ROM #8: Plot & script by Christos Gage & Chris Ryall, Pencils & inks by Paolo Villanelli, Colors by ALessandra Alexakis & Letters by Shawn Lee. G.I.Joe's Beachhead is still a doofus. Oh and Space Knight Orphion still just wants to cleanse the Earth and Space Knight Livia is torn between loyalty to her old boyfriend ROM and her Cleanse-the-Earth boss.
Jem and the Holograms #24 & #25: Written by Kelly Thompson, Art by Gisele Lagace, Colors by M. Victoria Robado & Letters by Shawn Lee. So the whole new drummer Raya vs. old drummer returning Shana is solved by just having Shana switch to playing bass in the band. So no drama there. Is drama from Jerrica letting her boyfriend know about Jem sorta being fake and about Synergy. Plus the reality crew trailing around for a scoop on Stormer (because the Misfits are doing a reality show in their mini-series). Oh and drama from the Stingers who are vacationing right next to the Holograms in Hawai'i. Such drama!

the Flintstones #10: Writer Mark Russell, Artist Steve Pugh, Colorist Chris Chuckry & Letterer Dave Sharpe. Vacuum Cleaner NOOOOOO! Truly he was the best of us.
Future Quest #11: Story Jeff Parker, Art Evan "Doc" Shaner, Colors Veronica Gandini & Letters ALW Studios' Dave Lanphear. Everyone teams-up to fight Omnikron. Space-Ghost & crew, the Herculoids, the Quests, Mightor, Frankenstein Jr, Birdman, the Impossibles, Deva, evil Dr. Zin. Everybody. FINALLY.

Lobster Johnson & the Pirate's Ghost #1: Story by Mike Mignola & John Arcudi, Art by Tonci Zonjic & Letters by Clem Robins. Man, I hadn't realized the ol' Lobster still hadn't finished off Boss Wald or his Henchman In White.

Giant Days #25: Created & written by John Allison, Pencils by Max Sarin, Inks by Liz Fleming, Colors by Whitney Cogar & Letters by Jim Campbell. Christmas with Susan's demi-seperated parents and her many, many older sisters.

Empowered and the Soldier of Love #2: Story by Adam Warren & Art by Karla Diaz.  Hmmm.  I think one of Emp's team-mates might be accidentally responsible for the Luv/Lust Epidemic.

Jem & the Holograms: the Misfits #3: Written by Kelly Thompson & Sophie Campbell, Art by Jenn St-Onge, Colors by M. Victoria Robado & Letters by Shawn Lee.  Blaze reaches a decision about her artistic future and has to tell Pizaz about it.

Doom Patrol #5: Writer Gerard Way, Artist Nick Derington, Colorist Tamra Bonvillain & Letterer Todd Klein.  Danny and Casey do some short time travelling after recruiting some help in order to save Danny and Danny's People.

Lumberjanes #36: Written by Shannon Watters & Kat Leyh, Illustrated by Carolyn Nowak, Colors by Maarta Laiho & Letters by Aubrey Aiese.  And the roller derby match concludes with FRIENDSHIP.  Also dangerous skating on a track full of deadly obstacles.

Shutter #28: Writer Joe Keatinge, Artist Leila Del Duca, Colorist Owen Gieni & Letterer John Workman.  A look back at life with Alarm Cat.
Savage Dragon #222: Writer/Artist/Creator Erik Larsen, Letters Chris Eliopoulos, Colors Nikos Kovtsis & Flats Mike Toris.  Malcolm gets another half-sibling and Jennifer meets with Dragon for the first time since her wedding disappearance.

Skipped a couple weeks while feeling sick, but back for March.

The Flintsones #9: Writer Mark Russell, Artist Steve Pugh, Colorist Chris Chuckry & Letterer Dave Sharpe.  Mr. Slate tries out a new religion and the appliances go to rescue one of their own.

Rat Queens #1: Writer Kurtis J. Wiebe, Artist Owen Gieni & Letterer Ryan Ferrier.  The Queens are back with a new artist.  And a relaunch that jumps forward from the last story-arc, just skipping the unfinished bits.
Paper Girls #12: Writer Brian K. Vaughn, Artist Cliff Chiang, Colors Matt Wilson, Letters & design Jared K. Fletcher & Color flats Dee Cunniffe.  Erin & Tiff find a way to communicate with Stone-Age Girl, while Mac & KJ recover after being washed down river.  Plus Time Travel Lady encounters other locals.
Savage Dragon #221: Creator Erik Larsen, Letters Chris Eliopoulos, Colors Nikos Kovtsis & Flats Mike Toris.  Angel is reunited with her mom and the pair look for an escape from Glumworld.  Plus Classic Dragon does some baby-sitting of his grand-kids.  Plus meets up with Alex again.

Giant Days #24: Written by John Allison, Pencils by Max Sarin, Inks by Liz Fleming, Colors by Whitney Cogar & Letters by Jim Campbell.  Susan continues to be sick and refuse to seek medical help.  So the other girls are forced to call in parental back-up.  Specically Susan's dad Big Geoff.

Knights of the Dinner Table #240: EiC Jolly R. Blackburn with support from Steve Johansson, David S. Kenzer, Brian Jelke + Barbara Blackburn.  Cody Winkle's take down of the Black Hands enters its end phase.  And the Hard 8 crew are put thru their paces play testing the next edition of Cattlepunk.  And Pete tries to tempt Sara into recovering a certain cursed die to take to the grudge match between the Hard 8-ers and the Knights.

the Flintstones #8: Writer Mark Russell, Artist Steve Pugh, Colorist Chris Chuckry & Letterer Dave Sharpe:  This time around Stony Danza, the basis of consumerism and female vs. male valuations.

Invincible #132: Writer Robert Kirkman, Penciler & Inker Cory Walker, Colorist Nathan Fairbairn & Letterer Rus Wooton: Thragg's attack on Mark and his family sets up the final arc of the series.
Paper Girls #11: Writer Brian K. Vaughan, Artrist Cliff Chiang, Colors Matt Wilson, Letters + Design Jared K. Fletcher & Color flats Dee Cunniffe.   The girls meet one of their new neighbors.  Also another time traveler.
Arclight #4: Art & colors Marian Churchland, Story Brandon Graham & Letters Ariana Maher.  I can never really adequetly describe a Graham story.  At least not his fantasy/scifi stuff.  There are corpse drones and blood magics and knights and stuff.

The Misfits #2: Written by Kelly Thompson, Art by Jenn St-Onge, Colors by M. Victoria Robado & Letters by Shawn Lee.  I somehow missed the fist issue of this spin-off mini.  Which has the Misfits attempting to move past losing their recording contract by agreeing to do a reality show.  This issue has Stormer deciding if she can go along with it, especially since the producers all want to push her into "storylines" about her dating the enemy or her weight.

Giant Days #23: Created & Written by John Allison, Pencils by Max Sarin, Inks by Liz Fleming, Colors by Whitney Cogar & Letters by Jim Campbell:  Esther, Susan and Daisy throw a dinner party.

Lumberjanes #34: Written by Shannon Watters & Kat Leyh, Illustrated by Carolyn Nowak, Colors by Maarta Laiho & Letters by Aubrey Aiese.  The 'Janes help the Yeti ex-guards get their pad back from SasSquatters.

Future Quest #9: Story Jeff Parker, Art Ron Randall, Colors Veronica Gandini & Letters ALW Studios' Dave Lanphear.  Everybody teams up to fight cosmic monsters.  And Race gets drafted into the Space Force.
Doom Patrol #4: Writer Gerard Way, Artist Nick Derington, Colorist Tamra Bonvillain & Letterer Todd Klein: Sam has a talk with his son.  Cliff & Larry visit the Negative Space.  And Casey & Fugg meet Ricardo and then abscond with Danny.

Jem & the Holograms #23: Written by Kelly Thompson, Art by Meredith McClaren, Colors by M. Victoria Robado & Letters by Shawn Lee: After Fox leaves them in the lurch, Raya of the Stingers steps up to help the Holograms.  Then fireworks.  Too much fireworks.  And Jem breaks up with Riot.

Shutter #26: Writer Joe Keatinge, Artist Leila Del Duca, Colorist Owen Gieni & Letterer John Workman.  Kate confronts Cassius and tries to convince him to go along with her plan of universal restart, but he just wants to pull pack the curtain on it all.
Saga #42: Art by Fiona Staples, Written by Brian K. Vaughn & Lettering by Fonografiks.  The comet world of Phang becomes a war casulty.
Island #14: Farel Dalrymple "Pop Gun War: Chain Letter", Jess Polard "Liquid Shell", Remy Boydell & Michelle Perez "the Pervert", Troy Nixey "the Crime of Iron", Ana Galvan "Hotline to Death" & M.L. MacDonald "the Hunt"; edited by Brandon Graham & Emma Rios.

The Flintstones #7: Writer Mark Russel, Penciller Rick Leonardi, Inker Scott Hanna, Colorist Chris Chuckry & Letterer Dave Sharpe.  More Gazoo.  The Church of Gerald briefly tries out Indulgences aka Pay 4 Forgiveness.

Jem & the Holograms #22:  Written by Kelly Thompson, Art by Meredith McClaren, Colors by M. Victoria Robado & Letters by Shawn Lee.  Boo!  Bad Fox!  Boo!

Giant Days #22:  Created & Written by John Allison, Pencils by Max Sarin, Inks by Liz Fleming, Colors by Whitney Cogar & Letters by Jim Campbell.  Aw, Daisy gets a girlfriend.  How sweet.

the Wicked & the Divine #25:  Writer Kieron Gillen, Artist Jamie McKelvie, Colourist Matthew Wilson, Letterer Clayton Cowles & Flatter Dee Cunniffe.  Persephone and Woden reach an..understanding.
the Autumnlands #14: Writer Kurt Busiek, Artist Benjamin Dewey, Color Art Jordie Bellaire & Lettering & Design John Roshell & Jimmy Betancourt of comicraft.  The Galateans reach a decision in regards to their own survival.

Monstress #9: Written by Marjorie Liu, Illustrated by Sana Takeda, Lettered by Rus Wooton. The Half-Wolf and her half-prisoner travel to the Isle of Mists.  And the rulers of the world plot to use them.  Or at least survive them.
Shutter #25: Writer Joe Keatinge, Artist Leila Del Duca, Colorist Owen Gieni & Letterer John Workman.  Commenserating their 25th issue and partnership with Image.
Saga #41: Art by Fiona Staples, Written by Brian K. Vaughan & Letters & Design Fonografiks.  Prince Robot gets subdued and the March attempts to make a Score before the comet world ends.  Oh and Fat Will tries to win back Lying Cat.

ROM #6: Plot/Script by Christos Gage & Chris Ryall, Pencils/Inks by Paolo Villanelli, Colors by Alessandra Alexakis & Letters by Shawn Lee.  Rom has a "discussion" with his co-workers Livia and Orphion.

Lumberjanes #33: Written by Shannon Watters & Kat Leyh, Illustrated by Carolyn Nowak, Colors by Maarta Laiho & Letters by Aubrey Aiese.  Barney officially becomes a 'Jane and Diane rejoins the camp.

Future Quest #8: Story Jeff Parker, Ar Ariel Olivetti, Letters ALW Studios' Dave Lanphear.  Ok, looks like this issue has all the main players finally on the board.  And so the story can advance a bit more beyond the whole new character, fight scene, new character, fight scene.  And it looks like Dr. Zin's control of F.E.A.R. is collapsing just as he reaches an accomidation alliance with Dr. Quest.

So I didn't go in for comics until the Sunday after Black Friday and didn't get much.  Then I skipped a week 'cause I thought I didn't get anything, though there was.  So heavy pull for this week, with two weeks of books.

The Flintstones #6: Writer Mark Russell, Artist Steve Pugh, Colorist Chris Chuckry & Letterer Dave Sharpe.  Can civilization (which is to say Bedrock City) survive the threat of DOOOM?

Giant Days #21: Written by John Allison, Pencils by Max Sarin, Inks by Liz Fleming, Colors by Whitney Cogar & Letters by Jim Campbell.  The Girls get robbed and go looking for Justice.  Also we learn that Daisy's parents were lost in the Bermuda Triangle.  Which, hey, given the background of this comic, could mean they're still alive.

Saga #40: Art by Fiona Staples, Written by Brian K. Vaughan & Letters & Design by Fonografiks.  Everything for the poor comet based community is about to go from really bad to totally fucked.
Arclight #3: Art and colors Marian Churchland, Story Brandon Graham & Letters Ariana Maher.  This used to be part of Graham's 8House title, so it took me a bit to figure out whether I actually had the previous two issues.
Shutter #24: Writer Joe Keatinge, Artist Leila Del Duca, Colorist Owen Gieni & Letterer John Workman.  Focusing in on the physical rehab and background of gunfighter Huckleberry.  Who is apparantly half-dinosaur.
Savage Dragon #218: by Erik Larsen, Letters by Chris Eliopoulos, Colors by Kikos Kovtsis & Flats by Mike Toris.  Malcolm runs about trying to see if his family's regenerative blood can be used to cure his father-in-law's cancer.
the Wicked & the Divine #24: Kieron GIllen Writer, Jamie McKelvie Artist, Matthew Wilson Colourist, Clayton Cowles Letterer & Dee Cunniffe Flatter.  Continuing fall-out and readjustment from the death of Ananke and Persephone sort of being the remaining Gods' leader.
Monstress #8: Written by Marjorie Liu, Illustrated by Sana Takeda & Lettered by Rus Wooton.  Adventures at Sea!
Island #13: Editors Brandon Graham & Emma Rios, Contributors Jack Cole, Grim Wilkins, Fil Barlow, Lando, Cynthia Alfonso & Roque Romero.  A couple interesting silent stories.  And one with a robot on a bicycle.

Thanks to a Diamond shipping shortage a light week.  Only three titles, starting with Doom Patrol #3: Writer Gerard Way, Artist Nick Derington, Colorist Tamra Bonvillain & Letterer Todd Klein.  Expanding bakc stories for the Negative Man and Casey the EMT, plus the villainous Vectra group.
Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy #6: Written by Chynna Clugston Flores, Pencils Kelly & Nichole Matthews, Inks Jenna Ayoub, Colors Whitney Cogar & Letters by Warren Montgomery.  I know I keep saying this, but this should really have been at most 4-issues.  Maybe even just three.  Still, all returns to the status quo, likely never to influence either title again.

Knights of the Dinner Table #237: E-I-C Jolly Blackburn with assistance from Barbara Blackburn, Steve Johansson, David S. Kenzer & Brian Jelke.  The Knights engage in some B&E while trying to reach out to Brian.  And the Black Hands latest party make-up struggles as always with the players self-centerdness.  Though Newt is once again working hard to be Just The Worst to play with.  And finally a chance encounter lets Sarah try to bring Brian back to the "family".

the Wicked & the Divine #23: Art Kevin Wada, Articles Leigh Alexander, Dorian Lynskey, Laurie Penny, Mary HK Choi & Ezekiel Kweku & Colors Matthew Wilson.  This one is done in a magazine style so I'm kind of veeeeeery slowly reading the articles.
Bitch Planet #9: Script Kelly Sue deConnick, Art Valentine De Landro, Colors Kelly Fitzpatrick & Letters Clayton Cowles. Grief-stricken father opens all the cells.  Violence happens.
Prophet: Earth War #6: Story Brandon Graham & Simon Roy, Art Simon Roy, Giannis Milonogiannis, Grim Wilkins & Brandon Graham, Colors Joseph Bergin III, Brandon Graham & Lin Visel & Letters Ed Brisson.  Four years in and all done.
Southern Bastards #15: Writer Jason Aaron, Art & color Jason Latour & Letters Jared K. Fletcher.  Coach Boss is looking at a losing season on the field and Roberta Tubb is following him like an angry shadow.

ROM #4: Plot & script Christos Gage & Chris Ryall, Pencils & Colors David Messina, Inks Michele Pasta, Color assist Alessandra Alexakis & Letters Shawn Lee.  ROM's capture leads to more Wraiths getting exposed to non-infected and then killed.  Plus more Space-Knights in the future?

Giant Days #20: Created & written John Allison, Pencils Max Sarin, Inks Liz Fleming, Colors Whiney Cogar & Letters Jim Campbell.  The girls spend a day at IKEA furnishing their new apartment.  The lads have a pleasant day before the arrival of the terrible return of Dean Thompson, garbage roomie.

The Flintstones #5: Writer Mark Russell, Artist Steve Pugh, Colorist Chris Chuckry & Letterer Dave Sharpe.  Elections!  For the town and the school.  And flashbacks to the Tree People War.

Saga #39: Art by Fiona Staples, Writer Brian K. Vaughn & Lettering & design Fonografiks.  With the closing down of the Freelancers Guild (fat) the Will becomes just (fat) William.
Savage Dragon #217:   Writer/creator Erik Larsen, Letters Erik Wooton, Colors Nikos Kovtsis & Flats Mike Toris.  While Max struggles with super-powered child care with the help of Angel and Kevin, Malcolm is on a road-trip to deal with a dangerous super-villain with the ability to gift others with enhancements.  Leading to a white writer having three black characters (one a 2nd generation cop) (Spawn, Ant and Malcom Dragon) discussing #BLM and police misconduct.

Future Quest #6: Story Jeff Parker, Art Evan "Doc" Shaner & Ron Randall, Colors Veronica Gandini & Letters ALW Stuios' Dave Lanphear.  Back-up story Jeff Parker, Art Craig Rousseau, Colors Jeremy Lawson & Letters Lanphear.  No new introductions this time, but we do see what Space Ghost has been up to.  And the back-up has the Impossibles graduate from tv capes to actual villain battling heroes.

Lumberjanes #31:  Written by Shannon Watters & Kat Leyh, Illustrated by Carey Pietsch, Colors by Maarta Laiho & Letters by Aubrey Aiese.  More 'Janes vs. Petrification Birds with help from Diane/Artemis and Ligo the Gorgon.

Monstress #7: Written by Marjorie Liu, Illustrated by Sana Takeda & lettered by Rus Wooton.  Back to monster-haunted teens, now with tiger pirates.
Shutter #23: Writer Joe Keatinge, Artist Leila Del Duca, Colorist Owen Gieni & Letterer John Workman.  After the deadly ambush ending last volume, Kat goes back to start to regroup and replan.
Southern Cross #8: Story Becky Cloonan, art Andy Belanger, Colours Lee Loughridge & letters Serge LaPointe.  Oddly a horrible murder of the foreman doesn't do much to lower tensions on a space mining rig manned by drugged out near-mutinous crew held down by a short-tempered security force.  Also, maybe ghosts.

Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy #5: Written by Chynna Clugston Flores, Pencils by Kelly & Nichole Matthews, Inks by Jenna Ayoub, Colors by Whitney Cogar & Letters by Warren Montgomery.  So with Louise losing her temper the 'Janes and Academites have to go on the offense against the lodge guardians.

Doom Patrol #2: Writer Gerard Way, Artist NIck Derington, Colorist Tamra Bonvillain & Letterer Todd Klein.  Negative Man!  Robot-Man beating up weird goons!  Flex Mentallo!

Resident Alien: the Man With No Name #2: Script Peter Hogan & Art Steve Parkhouse.  Doc Haryy gets a dying wish from a vagrant after a meth lab explosion.  And then sort of has a dinner date.

Superfuckers Forever #3: All stuffs James Kockalka with back-up story by Box Brown.  Idiot super-teens are still idiot teens.

Paper Girls #10: Writer Brian K. Vaughn, Aritist Cliff Chiang, Colors Matt Wilson, Letters & design Jared K. Fletcher & Color flats Dee Cunniffe:  Both the "bad" and "good" time traveler groups seem to moving into the mindset of fuck everything.  Like that Futurama where the Professor just says screw paradox and the time line and Fry becomes his own Grandpa.
The Autumnlands #13: Writer Kurt Busiek, Artist Benjamin Dewey, Color art Jordie Bellaire & Lettering & design JOhn Roshell & Jimmy Betancourt of Comicraft.  Ok, so the Galitaans weren't going all self destructive because Bertie decided to fuck them.  But because Bertie the Goat ordered them to suicide in the most painful way possible in revenge for the death of his tribe.

Future Quest #5: Story Jeff Parker, Art Evan "Doc" Shaner, Colors Hi-Fi & Letters ALW Studios' Dave Lanphear.  The origins of Mi-Tor AND the Impossibles.  Plus a new Mi-Tor.  Also Birdman saves a cat from a dinosaur.
The Flintstones #4: Writer Mark Russell, Artist Steve Pugh, Colorist Chris Chuckry & Letterer Dave Sharpe.  The deviance of marriage vs. the more traditional sex-cave system of procreation.  Also domestication of the cat.  Caveman: I love you kitty!  Sabretooth: I prefer you to starvation.

Giant Days #19: Written by John Allison, Pencils by Max Sarin, Inks by Liz Fleming, Letters by Jim Campbell & Colors by Whitney Cogar.  The girls take a break from their Summer jobs to go to an outdoor music festival.  With mud and drugs and porta potties and calligraphy!

Knights of the Dinner Table #236: EiC Jolly Blackburn with Barbara Blackburn, David S. Kenzer, Brian Jelke & Steve Johansson.  The fall-out from Bob and Sheila's break-up continues.  While the Knights and the Hard8 crew prep for their re-match session.  And Brian continues to work at making amends to his friends.

Very much slacked off on this one.  Starting with Island #11: Edited by Brandon Graham & Emma Rios.  With work by Matt Sheean, Malachi Ward, Grim Wilkins, Robin Bougie, Joseph Bergin III, Remy Boydell and Michelle Perez this issue.
Saga #38: Art by Fiona Staples, Written by Brian K Vaughan & Letters & Design by Fonografiks.  Fuck you the March.  I hope you get to be the second Freelancer sort-of murdered by Prince Robot.

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #12: Writer Ryan North, Artist Erica Henderson, Color artist Rico Renzi, & Letterer Travis Lanham.  Brain Drain the brain-in-a-jar fights crime.  And Doreen and Nancy going off to a cabin in the woods with Maureen, Mom of Squirrel Girl.

Lumberjanes #30: Written by Shannon Watters & Kat Leyh, Illustrated by Carey Pietsch, Colors by Maarta Laiho & Letters by Aubrey Aiese.  Misunderstood Gorgons, gods being jerks and stange bird monsters.

Astro City #39: Writer Kurt Busiek, Guest artist Carmen Carnero, Lettering & Design John Roshell of Comicraft & Color art Peter Pantazis.  More Shadow Hill and the origin of the Hanged Man.

The Wicked & the Divine: 1831AD: Writer Kieron Gillen, Artist Stephanie Hans & Letterer Clayton Cowles.  A one-shot, with the celebrity Divinities this time being period writers.  I'm terrible at figuring out the "real" people who become gods are, but I think Shelly is Morrigan, Byron is Lucifer, Mary Shelly is Woden and her sister is Woden.  And Keats maybe as Hades who dies at the start?  I'm even less certain of the several mentioned and shown in passing.  Like the thing with the killer ape and stolen heart makes me think Thoth is supposed to have been Poe?
Savage Dragon #216: Creator/writer/artist Erik Larsen, Letters Chris Eliopoulos, Colors Nikos Kovtsis & Flats Mike Toris.  Ugh, an Ant cameo.  Also Larsen is not the best at drawing babies.

Giant Days #18: Written by John Allison, Pencils by Max Sarin, Inks by Liz Fleming, Colors by Whitney Cogar & Letters by Jim Campbell.  End of the year and housing woes, term paper mill woes and possible dating non-woes.

Superfuckers Forever #2: All James Kochalka except the short Grotus back-up by Laura Knetzer.  Superdan is back and Princess Sunshine and Jack Krak are a feuding for his attention.
Jem and the Holgrams #19: Written by Kelly Thompson, Art by Meredith McClaren, Colors by M. Victoria Robado & Letters by Shawn Lee.  Dang.  Them Stingers are jerks.  Driving Pizzazz back into selfish, angry jerk mode.
ROM #3: Plot/Script by Christos Gage & Chris Ryall, Pencils & Colors by David Messina, Inks by Michele Pasta, Color Assist by Alessandra Alexakis & Letters by Chris Mowry.  I have to admit I kind of have a hard time remembering that war vet Darby Mason and police officer and Wraith infectee Camilla Byers are seperate characters.

Dark Horse Presents #26: EiC Mike Richardson.  No Finder this issue = sad.  Still, work by Kaare Andrews, Paul Levitz, Al Gordon and John Arcudi.  Also a Maverick/Crazy Cops story by Jimmy Palmiotti and Just Gray NOT working with Palmiotti's wife.  Not that Aaron Campbell is bad or anything.

Knights of the Dinner Table #235: Development Team Jolly R. Black Burn, Steve Johansson, David S. Kenzer, Brian Jelke & Barbara Blackburn.  Those previous harsh truths have put Brian in a bit of a depressive funk.  Also the Black Hands start a new campaign with Nitro back behind the screen.

Southern Cross #7: Story Becky Cloonan, Art Andy Belanger, Colours Lee Loughridge & Letters Serge LaPointe.  How nice, more cosmic space horror mystery.  With a single survivor from the missing "Southern Cross" arriving at Titan.

Resident Alien: the Man With No Name #1:  Script Peter Hogan & Art Steve Parkhouse.  Also nice, a new chapter/mini of Hogan & Parkhouse's mystery solvin' alien small town doctor.  With more government conspicarcy-ing.

Astro City #38:  Writer Kurt Busiek, Artist Brent E. Anderson, Lettering & Design John Roshell & Jimmy Betancourt of Comicraft & Color art Peter Pantazis.  1929s Astro CIty with a little more of the Blasphemy Boys and introducing pulp-era capes Cloak of Night, the Five Fists, Yankee Sheikh (and a hunch-backed mad scienctist foe I'd like to see more of) and the issues main attraction Jazzbaby.  Who may have been Mr. Cakewalk?  Which makes me wonder if she/they are an era-specific entity and thus maybe connected to the Bouncing Beatnik?
Doom Patrol #1:  Writer Gerard Way, Artist Nick Derington, Colorist Tamra Bonvillain & Letterer Nick Derington.  I was pretty much sold on this new semi-Vertigo Young Animal launch title just by Gerard Way writes Doom Patrol.  And it is gloriously almost incomprehensibley weird.
Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy #4:  Written by Chynna Clugston Flores, Pencils by Rosemary Valero-O'Connell, Inks by Maddi Gonzalez, COlors by Whitney Cogar & Letters by Warren Montgomery.  All the groups are now in vacation house for the never-ending birthday party.  And maybe have a plan to break the spell holding them all.  Of course there are still TWO whole issues to go so complications must ensue.

Dark Horse Presents #25: Editor Mike Richardson w/ various creators.  Latest "Finder" section by Carla Speed McNeil as always the big stand-out for me.  Though more Paul Levitz detective noir, Al Gordon post-apocalyptic Tarzan, Rich Wodall's space-girl Tarzan and a closing to the latest "Mr. Monster" story.

Superf*ckers Forever #1: by James Kochalka.  This was a nice surprise.  I hadn't heard anything in advance about Kochalka doing another volume of Superf*ckers.  I also grabbed the variant cover by Ryan Ottley, letting me see what the characters would look like if they were part of Invincible.

The Wicked & the Divine #22: Wirter Kieron Gillen, Artist Jamie McKelvie, Colourist Matthew Wilson, Letterer Clayton Cowles & Flatter Dee Cunniffe.  And as Persephone and the other Pantheon members confront Anneke this story-arc closes.  Violently as always.

Lumberjanes #29: Written by Shannon Wattes & Kat Leyh, Illustrated by Carey Piesch, Colors by Maarta Laiho & Letters by Aubrey Aiese.  April is very enthusiastic about the first joint breakfast with Zodiac Cabin.  Which is spoiled by supernatural shennagins.  Looks like teen goddess Diane has got some 'splainen to do.

Another light week, with only Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy #3 (written by Chynna Clugston Flores, pencils by ROsemary Valero-O'Connel, inks by Maddi Gonzalez, colors by Whitney Cogar & letters by Warren Montgomery), which despite the enjoyable team-ups plus the stellar creatives is beginning to feel a little padded.  Three more issues?  That means some kind of branching story coming out of the logical finish for issue four.

Also grabbed the All-New, All-Different Avengers (is that really the entire official title?  sheesh) Annual #1 anthology.  For the "Duck Amok" sytle She-Hulk story by Natasha Allegri and the "Squirrel Girl vs. Ms. Marvel" by Faith Erin Hicks (with colors by Megan Wilson) if nothing else.