What I Bought 7/27/2020 - Part 1

It started raining a bit ago, which means we might finally break out of this miserable heat wave for a bit. Was like living in an armpit every time I walked outside.

In more cheerful news, two comics I wanted came out this month, plus one from last month I'd been waiting on showed up. Something to discuss!

Wicked Things #3, by John Allison (writer), Max Sarin (artist), Whitney Cogar (colorist), Jim Campbell (letterer) - A picture of misery. Or possibly of someone plotting a murder. Which, considering the police already suspect her of murder, is not good.

Lotte gets to see what her life is like for the near future. Put simply, it sucks. The detectives won't let her help them solve their cases, insisting she instead make them hot beverages. When she sneaks a glance at their cases and pieces together a pattern that suggests someone is going to heist the hot not smartphones that are hitting the stores, she is summarily dismissed because, 'Police work isn't Sherlock Holmes and conspiracies.' Which is true. Police work is being peaceful protestors with nightsticks. Or maybe that's just here in the States. Hopefully British police are more civilized.

She also gets to meet the people sharing the government housing with her, including two people who look like they fell out of The Great Gatsby (probably serial killers), and one large fellow who may make his own jam and does not want you touching it. Understandable. I also have a thing about people touching my stuff without asking. It's mine, keep your grubby mitts off it!

The more we get away from all those other, incredibly annoying teen detectives, the more I like this. The cops are, if anything, more obnoxious (other than Geoff, which makes me think he's actually crooked). Most of them won't deign to even look at ehr when they address her, and when they do, it's with contempt or disinterest. Like they're so great at their jobs. I'm pretty sure Lotte will get to make them all look like morons in short order, so it's OK. Your shipment of comeuppance will arrive in 5-7 business days. And in these trying times, isn't that what we all really want? To see assholes get what's coming to them?

The other, whatever you'd call the people she's living with, are interesting from the brief bits of them we see. I'm vaguely terrified to learn what's up with Monica and Somerset (the Gatsby pair), but Bulldog seems like a fellow who might be helpful for sneaking out without setting off the alarms. Hey, every crime you solve or prevent cancels out one crime you committed. And if you haven't committed any, it gets saved away for when you commit crimes in the future. That's math.

I'm waiting to see if Lotte gets to wear clothes other than the grey sweats. They must let her have other clothes eventually, right? Even just some of her own sent from home by her mother? Maybe not. I'm not sure if that room has actually closet space. It reminds me of some of the housing I used for wildlife biology temp jobs. The one in Iowa, where the mattress sat flat on the floor. Or the one in Knoxville, with the air mattress and one chair in the entire house.