What I Bought 10/12/2019 - Part 2

Another week spent mostly out on inspections. Not as much fun two weeks in a row. And this pretty much does it for me having a bunch of posts saved up and ready to go It was a nice six weeks while it lasted. Today we're looking at the other two comics I'm buying from Marvel this month.

Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #49, by Ryan North (writer), Derek Charm (artist), Rico Renzi (color artist), Travis Lanham (letterer) - I really like the colors on that cover. The pink, the green, the purple. It's like a particularly deadly sunset over a septic pond!

The battle between the villains and Doreen's friends goes back and forth, helpfully tracked by the "Chance-Of-Winning-The-Big-Fight-Scene-O-Meter". The squirrels show up to help, Mordo has a spell for that. The Avengers show up, Melissa gives her allies each suits of Tony's armor. Captain Marvel tries an ambush, Doom has nanobots for that. All the villains Doreen's helped over the years show up to lend a hand? Well, Doom has a plan for that, but it's not one anybody else is going to like. Oh Doom, you're such a cad!

That was a lot of fun. I didn't expect the arrival of Kraven and Co. I was pleased to see Melissa have the opportunity to realize how dumb it was to think she actually had a handle on a partnership with Doom. Any partnership with Doom is ultimately reliant on him deciding to honor the terms, because otherwise, he's going to backstab at some point. You can't stop it, you can only hope to survive it.

Charm's nauseous squirrels are adorable, and I laughed at the panel of Fin Fang Foom looking perplexed and angry at all these squirrels crawling all over him. Although they look like brown leeches in that panel. I would be freaked out about that, too. The whole page of Doreen being blasted across the park and almost not being able to get up was really well done. Probably because we haven't seen her fail to get up yet. She's gotten up and realized she needs to try something else plenty of times, but that still involved getting up.

I laughed at the explanation for how the Avengers showed up, even with Melissa blocking Tony's distress call. She-Hulk made a really good point, although I could have seen the argument no media showed up because they've become blase about climactic super-battles. It would have been understandable. Also, Melissa, or whoever it was, trying to blast that poor cameraman.

Black Cat #5, by Jed MacKay (writer), Travel Foreman (artist), Brian Reber (color artist), Ferran Delgado (letterer) - Not sure what exactly we're seeing there. I guess all the potential ways it could end for Felicia. Hence the "9 Lives" thing.

Blastaar has something that keeps the Negative Zone portal from closing, so the building is on lockdown. So Felicia and her guys can't just run. Not that Johnny could beat Blastaar on his own, anyway. So Felicia's got to stay, and Felicia has to fight. All the more since Blastaar's taken a shine to her. Little surprised she'd be his type, but I don't know what the women of his species look like, and it could just be a conqueror mentality. You're mine, like everything is mine. Anyway, with a little help from Trapster's arsenal, and Doc managing to hotwire the Fantasticar, Felicia dumps Blastaar back into the Negative Zone. Then Sue Richards shows up, but she's mostly interested in yelling at Johnny, so Felicia and the guys get to leave, with the book.

So I guess we can add "Black Cat" to the list of people Blastaar has grudges against. I never did get to see him settle things with Star-Lord or Nova after they pissed him off in the Abnett/Lanning days.

While I like how absolutely furious Foreman draws Sue (I can see why she's the one Felicia did not want to mess with), I'm surprised she's that pissed. Yes, Sue, Blastaar forced open the Negative Zone portal and attacked your house. Don't act like this is the first time this kind of thing has happened. Or else tell Reed to get rid of the damn portal.

For all that Felicia is wondering in this issue if she's a bad person, it seems like she was going to do something crazy and possibly self-sacrificing with that device before Sue showed up. She tells Doc and Sonny to get Johnny, and makes sure Bruno can get himself moving, but what was she going to be doing? She's holding the device. Was she going to keep it, and hope her powers kept it from exploding somehow?

Foreman draws Blastaar a lot uglier and crazier than I'm used to seeing him. He's very lumpy, massive neck, from certain angles, looks like his nose barely projects off his face. Heck, from certain angle it looks like his face just grows out of his neck, no skull involved. They do things differently in the Negative Zone.