One of my coworkers is leaving next week. To focus on being a parent, which, OK, kids need parents. Just means more work for the rest of us until we hire a replacement and train them up. I already got enough work as it is. Where's that recession to stifle this economic growth?
Drake takes Gosalyn to visit Morgana, and gets a cool reception from her family. He also finds out Launchpad's acting as sidekick to Morgana's dad. But Morgana's game to try the suburban life, which allows the opportunity for puns like her making "ghoul-ash" for breakfast and accidentally turning Honker into pudding when trying to make a dessert for Gosalyn's lunch.
His attempt to be a volunteer at the elementary school community garden gets him suspended, because his inventions are untested and dangerous. Well, how do you expect to learn if they're dangerous without testing? This is the problem with schools now, everything has to be by the book. Drake and Morgana leave, just as Bushroot causes the garden to attack the school, and that's where the issue ends.
Lauro's still doing that thing where Drake's eyes are colored red instead of black with no pattern I can clearly discern. He's drawing Drake as looking very sad for not being a superhero any more. Lots of slumped shoulders and glum expressions. If you figure he doesn't really want to give it up for being a responsible parent, I suppose it makes sense. But I figured he'd look a little more happy than he does.
I did actually chuckle at one panel. When the school gardener goes missing, but his uniform is left behind, the mayor remarks, 'Poor Earl! He must be so cold!' And Jeff Eckleberry seems to be having fun with the goofy sounds effects. So that's something. Not enough, but it's something
To Min-Jae's complete surprise - but not to anyone with a functional brain - Doom intends to take the power of the Psylot Gem for himself. Min-Jae goes ahead and throws in with Doom anyway, until Tae apologizes for turning away from his past and his friend. That would ignore the fact Min-Jae became a bigger and more ruthless criminal by the time Tae got back home to his aunt. There was a whole flashback about Tae's aunt pointing out his old crew was threatening the local shopkeepers with violence if they didn't pay up. Was Tae just supposed to show up and go back to committing crimes with his old friend/brother?
I guess we're meant to be believe that in some timeline where Tae both decides to stop being a crook and goes back to his friends, he convinces them to clean up their acts as well. Because Min-Jae is touched by this heartwarming speech and switches sides again. Doom jobs out to him, because he apparently didn't even design a backdoor into Min-Jae's shitty robots to control them. Nobody half-asses as completely as DOOM! Tae gets his powers back, gets chewed out by Lady Bright for keeping secrets, tells everyone about his past. Min-Jae slinks off into the shadows somewhere.
This rather obviously didn't work for me at all. I at least conclusively know I don't find Taegukgi an interesting enough character for him to headline a five-issue mini-series. Especially when he's part of an entire team of characters that all seem more interesting. Kim could have spent issues on a different character, or on how Taegukgi assembled this team. Something. Anything!
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