It's actually almost light out when I go to work now, what with the clocks being set back. Of course, I get maybe 3 hours of sunlight to enjoy after I get off work, but I spend a lot of afternoons napping anyway, so that's not huge loss.
Much like the first It's Jeff from back in spring, this is a collection of short strips Thompson and the Gurihiru team did on Marvel's digital app first. And so it's mostly Jeff being adorable, or ravenous, or adorably ravenous. (Ravenously adorable?)
Gwen trying to find some way to make Jeff stop pulling at the bandages on his injured tail, and Jeff dealing with the indignity of Cone of Shame. Jeff encountering a toy store full of merchandise starring him. Unlicensed merchandise, no less. Remarkably, the guilty party is not Deadpool. Jeff being caught up in mad science where he's first shrunk and menaced by an ant, and then he and the ant become giant. Which leads to a funny gag of Jeff growing so large he wears part of Avengers' tower as a hat, which he then carefully replaces on the building after he climbs down.
Two of my favorites were when Jeff confronts a bully dog at the dog park, so that all the dogs can play with the ball and have fun, and the one where Gwenpool and Kate Bishop have him try on different Halloween costumes. The first demonstrating it's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's that one of the dogs is a shark.
It's fluff, but as before, it's cute fluff.
A small team is sent to the failed colony on Mars by a big corporation for. . .something. The specifics are not revealed, because our viewpoint character is a hacker the corporation caught after she released a lot of their private information into the world. So the soldier in charge isn't being very forthcoming.
Their shuttle crashes for some reason, forcing them to hike to the destination, where they encounter hungry dogs with big red boils on their bodies. The squad psionic deals with them, but about wipes herself and everyone else out in the process. The empath is not doing well surrounded by all the death and horror, and considering what they find at the mansion, he's probably not going to be feeling better any time soon.
Chapman tries to give a little backstory or a hint of personality to each character, granting that Ryker (the other soldier) has a personality of "complains a lot". Paz, the psionic, seems to have an overachiever thing going, or maybe she doesn't like following orders. They're all in vaguely similar armor, if colored somewhat differently, but Coleman uses enough close-up panels to show their distinctive faces.
It feels like the real conflict is going to be not between the squad and whatever that was on the last page (some horrible melding of man and tubing), but between Cass the hacker and Morgan the leader. Because there's no explanation for what went wrong with the shuttle, or why it crashed, and Morgan admits to the empath he's hiding things, but couches it as relating to the patents they're trying to recover.
When Cass was injured and it damaged the control collar, Morgan injected her with controlling nanites under the cover of sealing the wound. Cass took steps to negate that, so it's a question of if Morgan has figured that out yet, and can Cass figure out what's going on and take measures first? it may just be genre familiarity, but it feels significant we don't know specifically what they're looking for, and that Morgan knows more than he's telling anyone, even the people who aren't criminals doing a Suicide Squad stint.
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