Random Back Issues #15 - Giant Days #29

I believe you're supposed to save that sort of thing for graduate school. With college budgets shrinking, assistantship dollars are at a premium.

The first single issue of Giant Days I bought, the main thread is Esther's status as Queen of the English Lit department being threatened by Emilia, who transferred in after some huge dispute about whether Pentatonix is madrigals. I have no idea what that sentence means. Just looking up definitions on Google leads me to believe Esther's correct, and a pentatonix could be a madrigal. Why can't a madrigal have five tones? Don't answer that.

Esther's response, reasoned and well-thought out as always, is to try and curry favor with the chief professor, creepy lecher Ken Lord. Which leads to her getting completely wasted at some social gathering, and nearly letting Lord take her home with him. Emilia ends up saving her, and the two become fast friends for about five minutes. Then it turns out McGraw's cheating on Emilia with Susan (who had actually been advising Esther to make friends, which should have been a clear warning sign), and everything falls to hell.

Fortunately, the next time Esther runs afoul of Ken, 33 issues from now, she's on much more sure footing, and sends him down in flames, and gets to stuff herself with fancy cheeses again (her intelligence about taking advantage of free food is something I highly relate to). It's fantastic.

The other plot thread is Daisy's attempt to set Ed up with one of her friends from Archaeology, who is also interested in all sorts of science fiction things, just like Ed. Well then clearly they're a perfect match. When's the wedding? Geez, even I know more about relationships than Daisy. Not by much, by I do.

Ed didn't feel the spark, or whatever, so there was no follow-up date, which leads to Daisy screaming at him in the grocery store. Daisy is about one issue away from starting her disastrous relationship with Ingrid, so I'm just going to assume that is her penance for being Miss Nosey Matchmaker.

{5th longbox, 59th comic. Giant Days #29, by John Allison (writer), Max Sarin (penciler), Liz Fleming (inker), Whitney Cogar (colorist), Jim Campbell (letterer)}