I wasn't sure if the store in town would have both the books I wanted last week, but I lucked out. Even had the cover I preferred for one of them. I don't think that was the high point of last week - I got in a good run on Sunday with no major issues, and the feared Snowmaggedon turned out to be another dud - but it was at least in the running. Things are kind of at a low flow right now. Nothing terrible, but not much groovy either.
Having discovered Hitler's bunker at the end of last issue, Rock and Easy Company. . . withdrew to their Command Center? I guess you want to plan and outfit a mission like this appropriately, but this is the third time they've had a sit-down to make plans. Where's the urgency, especially considering they blew up the factory that was producing the re-gens? Doesn't this offer more time for the Nazis to dig in and prepare?
It does at least match Allied doctrinaire for the war, at least. Slow to move unless there's a shitload of airpower or artillery backing them up.
Anyway, Easy parachutes back in, and Campbell starts giving Rock internal monologue for the first time. Odd shift this late in proceedings, but it feels more like the character I'm accustomed to. The bunker gets bombed, but there are still plenty of re-gens, so Easy has to fight in. The sniper takes out Hitler's doctor while Rock, Jackie and Bulldozer confront a amped up Hitler and Eva Braun (who Jackie gives a shotgun blast to the gut.) Rock's fighting Hitler, and tells the rest of the guys to call in another bombing run and then get out.
I don't really follow that decision. Hitler's demonstrating he's pretty tough, but he's not bulletproof, and the few re-gens acting as bodyguards were in the process of being killed. Why do it this way? Rock's got at least one grenade, cram it it down Hitler's mouth and call it a day. Just kinda odd plot arc there.
Risso gets the chance to draw some more gore and severed limbs with the fighting here. There's also one panel where Eva pounces on Jackie and her outline is entirely filled in with black, except for her underwear, which are white. Not sure about the point of that, either. But there's also a panel of a green outline of a doorway, with the re-gens dark outlines in it, and the black space on either side of the door is filled with their laughter, colored red. That was a nice panel.
So nostalgia won out for at least one month. St. Canard's dedicating a statue to Darkwing, but as everyone goes to take a picture of the unveiling with their cell phones, Megavolt somehow takes control of them and sets them after Darkwing. He escapes, pursues Megavolt, the jet crashes, Gosalyn tries to lure in Megavolt by using a lot of electricity pretending to be a band singing about Darkwing. Darkwing gets electrocuted saving her, but this overloads the city's power system and frees everyone from Megavolt's control.
It sort of recaptures the feel of the cartoon. It's a done-in-one, Darkwing's got a big ego that is punctured by certain circumstances (the first person to talk about how Darkwing helped the city is Herb Muddlefoot, who spends 2 hours on Darkwing helping him find a tupperware shipment he left under his bed). Gosalyn tries to help, there are some bad puns. Lauro's art is a little inconsistent but mostly on model, although he seems to struggle keeping eyes lined up. There's a couple where Launchpad in particular appears to be looking two different directions simultaneously. He's very good at giving the characters - especially Darkwing - expressive body language. He doesn't do the huge eyes or limbs stretching to comical degree approach, but they do visibly react to things in decently wide range.
No one actually captures Megavolt, though. He tries to electrocute the kids, Darkwing rushes to help them, gets fried, everyone is free of the mind control and Megavolt. . .just isn't there? No one even comments on if he got away or someone caught him. The issue ends with Darkwing reaserting to Gosalyn she can't have a cellphone, the mayor thanking Darkwing for saving the city again and him restating to the people preparing to take photos that every side is his good side. That ending isn't that out of place, bringing things back around to his ego and the dedication ceremony, but the villain of the week seems to have slipped through the cracks.
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