What I Bought 8/16/2019 - Part 3

I'm in one of those rare times where I actually have an abundance of things to post about, between comics, baseball games, old movies, my story, and whatnot. I'm sure this time will pass all too soon, though. Until then, let's get to the last book from the stuff I bought two weeks ago.

Giant Days #53, by John Allison (writer), Max Sarin (artist), Whitney Cogar (colorist), Jim Campbell (letterer) - Leave it to Susan to put her fist at the wrong angle for the bump. Back of the hand parallel to the ground, not perpendicular! She's the Dave Batista of Giant Days' Evolution. Which would make Esther HHH and Daisy, Randy Orton? That can't be right. I despise Randy Orton. Hang on, let me spend 27 hours in a dark room working on this.

It's the final week of classes. Esther has entered some fugue state of preparation, while Susan seems mostly calm, probably because she has a lot more schooling to go. Daisy is freaked out over the rash of bizarre pranks that have descended upon her peaceful hall. The pranks are the result of that rude girl Coralie, who simply couldn't tolerate that one time Daisy asked her to be considerate of others. Unfortunately, Daisy attempts to go full police state after ingesting Polish flu medicine to catch Coralie in the act and succeeds only in ruining her final week at school. Which was precisely Coralie's plan, as she's just a troll. Her win is for anyone to waste their time playing her game. I suppose that's a good lesson to learn, although if a person replaces all the kitchen fixtures with cardboard, you really have to do something. That's ruining the living experience for all the other students.

I'm really hoping there's some form of comeuppance for her next issue. Really, I was hoping that as she walked away gloating either Esther or Susan would come running in with a Superman punch to the jaw, Roman Reigns style. Probably Esther. Susan's diminished lung capacity would probably keep her from doing that sort of coordinated running, jumping, and hitting.

I'm really all in on the wrestling references in this post. Just seems appropriate.

I love the complete shift in Daisy's look once she gets on those flu pills. Frazzled Daisy is always impressive, just for how much of a mess she looks like, with her hair and limbs allover, but doped up Daisy is something else. The dark shadows and increased contrast around her face, the scowling in doorways with glasses you can't see her eyes through. The weird hair and '90s hacker look.

Two other bits I enjoyed were the aghast look on Saffy's face when Daisy takes those pills (and the bizarre little green rectangles as Daisy drifts into the Night World), and when Susan and Esther are getting ready for the dance. We see Susan fighting to bring her hair to some order in one panel, then Esther takes over and in three panels, she's got Susan looking like a 40s film actress. Didn't even distract Susan from helping Daisy realize she might be Cora's target. Not that it helped Daisy any.