I joke at work my allergies are a psychosomatic response to being at work, but I really wonder. My allergies are fine at home, and as soon as I get to work, nose starts running. It's clearly a sign for me to run away from that place, but I want to save my vacation days for a better time.
In more relevant, but probably no more interesting news, I went to the store hoping for four comics. Five, if I was really lucky. I found two. Oh well.
6th Universe's version Galactus is a problem, especially since Strange can't trust his magic to do what he wants. I feel as though I did not understand the whole "letting magic do as it will" thing from the first issue. 7th Universe Galactus' mom has a Mother-Cube (slams head repeatedly against desk) that will help Omnimax feel things, and hopefully make him stop eating their planet. If the Surfer can keep his herald occupied. That herald being the evil scientist guy they're after. The Surfer tricks him and steals his power, but gets sent home in the process. Meanwhile, the rest of the team, plus Galactus' mom, is sent back to the 5th Universe, which appears to be a Lovecraftian horror show. I thought that was the Cancerverse. Everything old is new again is old again, or something.
Interesting the Surfer's the one not coming along, since he apparently knows who the Masked Raider is, and knows the Raider has somehow anticipated everything Strange has done. Ugh, I hope the Surfer is wrong about that. I hate those, "I knew you would do exactly that thing, no matter how risky or imbecilic," type characters. And unlike the Surfer, I have no idea who the Raider is, so I don't have any particular reason to give him benefit of the doubt, or not hate him on principle.
Not ecstatic Taaia is going to be tagging along either, since that means more of the "Kirby Speak". It still just feels so forced and needlessly meta-referential. But what the hell, they're going to throw her into a universe dominated by magic, so we'll see how she takes to that. Plus, her baby boy is alone back at her place now. I hope he doesn't get hungry.
At least the book looks gorgeous. The color work Rodriguez is doing looks fantastic. The battle between the Surfer and Carlo Zota is particularly nice, but also the way Omnimax' face is always in shadow, matching the Surfer's musings that this Devourer lacks the reluctance and regret in his feeding that marks Galactus' feeding. Granted, I've never cared much for Galactus' excuses that he only does what he must, or he is of cosmic consonance or whatever bullshit writers handwave for why characters shouldn't kill Big G when they have the chance, but I suppose him feeling bad about all those lives he snuffs out counts for a tiny bit of something.
Penny is running her father's convenience store because he's taken ill, and she can't afford to go back to college. So she spends her evenings at home, watching movies out of the mysterious "Deadbox", with films no one has ever heard of. In this issue, the movie is about the humans sending a perfect representative to an alien world we've befriended through long-range communication. But it's a long voyage alone for the human, and by the time he arrives, he's not what his hosts expected.
Considering her father appears to be wasting away, and we see a DVD called "The Vanishing Man" in the panel just before, I'm assuming the two are related. Which means the film Penny watched is related to her fate somehow. The person who stays behind in a community she doesn't have a lot of love for, the whole God n' guns thing, but maybe she can't get back, either. Whatever she had in college, she's not getting back to it, and it's already forgotten about her. On to the next person hoping they can get a degree that will get them a useful job without falling too deep into the debt hole.
Tiesma's art has a scratchy, rough edge to it. Makes everyone look a little threadbare and weathered, while Popov's coloring is mostly a muted, muddy tone. It's a dying community most likely, at least economically. Hard to say about it socially, so far. It's not changing, it just settled at a certain point and began to decay. Although even the coloring for the movie is kind of odd. The representative (or "volunteer", as the movie keeps calling him) looks a greenish-grey even before his physical and mental state begin to decay, and while Earth is comparatively brighter than everything else, it's not blindingly so.
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