What I Bought 6/20/2025 - Part 2

I was looking ahead to July, and at the moment, it looks like 2 books out that I'd want every week of the month. Assuming I want to keep buying today's selection, that is.

Resurrection Man: Quantum Karma #3, by Ram V (writer), Anand RK and Jackson Guice (artists), Mike Spicer (colorist), Aditya Bidikar (letterer) - That cover feels like the collage project I tried to do for art in 10th grade.

So, in this story, Mitch and the guy who would become Vandal Savage were a couple of cavemen who found a weird meteor that changed them. Savage killed Mitch, which obviously didn't take, but Mitch, despite making a spear from the meteor, opted not to respond in kind. Even given the chance to go back and do it differently, Mitch doesn't. And then Savage shows up to challenge Mitch while he's protecting Rhea, the scientist lady in Ivy Town.

Mitch wins the fight, still sticking around, right up until Rhea finishes her project (which looks like a Cosmic Cube.) And Mitch takes the cube with him, because his future/alternate self says it'll be useful. Though he Mitch feels bad about hurting her, of course. In the meantime, Vandal Savage comes across the Japanese general, still looking like a skinned corpse. And when he hears how this game came to be like this, Savage lops off his hand and lets the guy eat it.

I guess Mitch can only see his own timeline and the changes he's wrought. Otherwise, he ought to know what his betrayal did to Rhea, the crap Savage is pulling, and so on. I don't know if he'd change what he did - maybe he'd just not get close to Rhea, lurk in the shadows and wait - but it doesn't seem like this attempt to avert disaster is going great.

Maybe that's not really what Other Mitch is after. I don't know why he needs the cosmic cube for this big plan to save things. I'm not sure he is actually a Mitch Shelly. I'm probably not supposed to doubt that, but Anand mostly keeps his face shadowed by his cloak. There were a couple of panels in issue 2 that you could see more of his face, but other than startlingly blue eyes the same shade as Mitch, the faces are such vaguely defined shapes I wouldn't really say they're identical. I'm probably not meant to be doubting that, but I'm suspicious of cloaked figures speaking in vague portents.