You may have noticed last Friday's post vanished for about a day. It was, for some reason, flagged as spam. Odd, considering it's a type of post I've done literally hundreds of times previously. I did go ahead and send them some feedback that it would help if they could provide a little more detail into why a particular post was violating community guidelines, because otherwise it's hard for me to know what I messed up, so I can avoid going through this whole mess again in the future.
Anyway, with that spectacular start to the week out of the way, and the latest chance to see whether the ramshackle, bastardized form of democracy in this country will survive still to come, let's talk about comics.
Babs kills a few stragglers of Tiberius' guys, who have taken all the dwarves prisoner (along with their silver), thanks to Mork the Orc's info (I keep expecting Ennis to spell "Mork" with a "c", to match "orc".) Burrows draws it violent, if cartoonish, considering one guy gets his face neatly sliced off, but there's not entrails flying around or anything. Which Mork and his buddies are busy showing to Tiberius, because Mork's still convinced that a group of orcs, goblins and trolls working with a bunch of guys who want to drive non-human races out can't possibly go wrong. Shades of that Our Dumb Century headline, "Japan Forms Alliance with White Supremacists in Well-Thought-Out Scheme."
One of the group manages to track at least part of Babs' history through various vague sources, so we get a quick recap of her life. Essentially, she's kicked a lot of ass, usually without intending to draw attention to herself, but she has a real knack for picking losers. Makes money, blows it on gambling or land speculation. Works for a doomed side in a war, and not, apparently, out of some desire to help the underdog.
Meanwhile, Babs is arguing with her sword while rescuing the dwarves (and killing more of Tiberius' guys.) Barry objecting to being stuck in the ground as a placeholder made me laugh a little. In addition to the dwarves having nothing to pay Babs with - but they're good for it, they swear - Tiberius' guys seem to have taken Babs' friend Izzy prisoner as well. So she's going to have to give chase, on a boat full of elves. Which is apparently a horrible fate.
The whole thread with Tiberius and Mork, I'm just waiting for their inevitable and humiliating deaths. But watching Babs kind of blindly hack her way through life, careening from one situation - I almost called them adventures, but feel like that's not really what they are - to another, is entertaining. She seems to simply act on her first impulse at gaining any new piece of information, and that's a lot of fun.
The, whatever the thing with all the hands is, drops Jimmy at the same place where those two young boys' dad works. Meanwhile, the boys are talking their babysitter, Kira (the girl who Jimmy tried to mug in #1) into investigating a place they think The Pedestrian will show up next. Instead, they run into a bunch of the guy on the cover, in a nifty sequence by von Gorman where the Don't Walk signal flashes, and it appears on their faces each time (and more appear each time), but then vanishes when the signal goes dark.
The cop lady shows up to help, though I feel like von Gorman has the most trouble drawing her face. Like he's trying to add a few more lines to show she's a bit older than Kira, but mostly makes her face seem kind of indistinct, or like her lips are pressed on, Mr. Potato Head-style. Whatever, she's going to drop everyone where the boys' dad works, but it's closed. That's ominous.
Randy, having been fired after nearly getting killed by Jimmy, is helping the crossing guard lady get Pedestrian up and running again. By gathering a bunch of road signs. Relax, they're from a salvage yard, she's not committing vandalism. Just in time, because the cop and the kids get attacked by a whole mess of the mask guys, who the kids' dad has been recruiting for, some reason.
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