I didn't manage to get everything from July. A couple of books I couldn't find, and there was no copy of Moon Knight for a price I was willing to pay. Maybe I'll find them next month. Of the six I did find, they kindly break out into neat categories, so let's start with a couple that are wrapping up.
The contestants present their movie themed cakes, although the one guy made Downton Abbey. Isn't that TV show? What should be grounds for immediate disqualification, is not. Corruption amongst the judges! Corruption most foul! Eh, what am I saying? It's a fake baking show, who gives a turkey? Shauna's just about got the mystery solved, but she might also be about to get eliminated.
A fortunately timed protest saves her, and she lays the whole thing out. I guess it makes sense. As much as any other answer would. At any rate, props to Sarin and Borras for making the most visually interesting, "detective explains everything" scene I've ever seen. The expressiveness of the characters, the swirl of hearts following Shauna's fingers, the shift in posture of one of the guilty parties when the jig is truly up.
We even get a chase scene I would never have expected, plus the phrase, "Cake Jail is no picnic." And while none of Shauna, Sunil, or Maisie win, we find out on the last page they took a vacation to Switzerland together and had a good time. Proving the real Bakery Tent prize was the potential friends they kept from getting murdered along the way.
So, this was nice. Not my favorite thing Allison has written, but nice. I never particularly felt like I was drawn into the mystery, that Allison wanted the reader to try and solve it, but it was funny, even though I know next to nothing about baking or cooking competition shows. And I love Sarin's art, so all good.
Let's get this over with, I got an appointment with a bottle of turpentine to blot this from my memory.
Patsy didn't kill the Stupidly Named Love Interest. She saved him from Blackheart, but he used the door-thing, saw Patsy as she "really" is, went nuts, and killed himself. Rick Sheridan knows this because. . . the Imaginator recorded it, but it's busted, so I don't know. Sleepwalker stopped hiding this info from him, I guess. He lets Patsy read it from his mind, she freaks, blasts Daimon into the sea. Daimon doesn't show up again, nor is there any sort of resolution of that in this comic. Just shuffles off to Buffalo.
Rick convinces her to walk through the door thing, and she turns back into a human again, but she's out of it. Rick watches over her, Hedy uses a spell to exorcise Patsy's mother's ghost from her home, which. . .seems like something you would discuss before doing unilaterally. At the very end, Patsy puts on the costume, still appearing to be out of it. She keeps muttering, "Good. Bad." then continuing in internal monologue, "Who's to say?" Which makes it seem like she probably shouldn't be leaping around rooftops.
Also, it happens one page (albeit an indeterminate amount of time) after She-Hulk and Stark ask Rick to watch over Patsy. Great job, Rick!
Oooooooooooooof. This thing is just a mess. The door shows your true form (and Demon Hellcat is still a boring design.) But it doesn't show your true form, because people are different things and Patsy's too locked into binary thinking. Or it's because "Hell is lies." In which case it wouldn't be a "True-Form Door," would it? Hedy banishing Patsy's mother's while Patsy's lost in her own head, why? Because Patsy was never going to do it herself? No closure or any sort of conclusion between mother and daughter (granted we've seen that 40 times over the decades)?
Oh, and we're told Daimon and Blackheart probably just lost interest in Patsy because she appears broken. That's this mini-series in a nutshell. Too much stuff, so Cantwell just chucks some of it in the trash at the end. Because he either didn't have a better plan when he included it, or he's shit at pacing and didn't leave himself enough room.
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I regret to inform you that there is at least one Downton Abbey film, and I think they may be making another.
The Pacheco cover being referenced is that one issue of Avengers Forever in which the ongoing plot stopped so Busiek could sort out the conflicting origins of the OG Human Torch and the Vision. Somewhere around the middle, #7 or #8 I think.
Well, that explains it about Downton Abbey, and it does seem like a better cake choice than Speed or Suspiria, which a couple of the other contestants tried.
As for the Pacheco homage, I wondered if it was an Avengers Forever one, but that was mostly because I couldn't think of anything more notable he'd done with Marvel.
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