Watching the plans fall into the allotted slots in the first story just hangs a direction into a well known path. Creaking over into the punch line panel and it's a raw feeling to know where the dirty foot prints were leading. All in the mud and the consistency of the step, the weaving in and out for the course is interesting. If not over a page too many. Damn, it's all there in the title of the story after all.

Taste a bit of the sorbet and a pirate in the mix seems perfunctory. The flatness of the end coming up to bring it right home with the third story in the issue. And it's where the issue really nicks in a favour for what is a good old story. Veronica's solution to her public speaking problem is revelatory. Perhaps this Archie fella should be used as much as he's using the Betty/Archie/Veronica triad. Sure works for Veronica in this situation.

 

Finally, someone rips off the month of May from the calendar to reveal June. That's pretty late. Any hoo, June 15, and a movie about gymnastics, Stick It, with that girl from Our Generation/American Dreams. Looks like a nice smack in the groin from the bar.

Double the goodies in Archie And Friends #101. So we have the Veronicas pick up the other half of their two-parter appearance from the previous issue. Add to that, Katy Keene. Whoever she is. Well, when you start picking up a comic on a gimmick...

Another half of a two-parter is Ex Machina Special #2. Nice for those who already have the first issue of this special. That wouldn't be many though.

Much like collecting the last few issues of Cerebus and Bone, Spider-Girl #99 is only one more issue away from the end of it all. After that, it'll be something like Strangers In Paradise. That too is drawing the curtains.

And the thing about the nose relates to nothing inbetween.

 

Day of days will arrive on May 25. The release of X-Men 3: The Last Stand to close it all out and possibly shoot off with some splinters come good turn of money. Or it could be the new end of the first trilogy set. Who knows, the money knows.

Futurama Comics #25 where Bender, Fry and Leela going all Robin Hood on New New York's grass. Or something like that. There appears to be nothing more than a fuzzy cover out there and a not quite clear solicit read for the issue itself. Still, 25 already is impressive given that 22 remains unread.

Missing the first round of the fight, it was high time to reorder and grab Veronica #167. With Archie and Friends #100 featuring the second appearance of The Veronicas, why not go back and catch them in the act the first time around when it wasn't that far into the past? No reason not to.

 

May 4 sees the release of Mission: Impossible 3, the second sequel in the Mission: Impossible franchise. And yes, that Tom Cruise will be back again as Ethan Hunt. All good really. Real good. Except for those doves coming out of nowhere all the time and the ripping off of their faces in the second one. Well overdone that was. Really baked.

Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #8, Weiringo is back on this again, right? Any way, looks like the least depressing of all the Spider-Man comics out there.

And Ultimate Spider-Man #94 seems depressing and feels like it for a while now. Sure, the kid's got problems, but does he do anything in a straight line any more?

At least Archie And Friends #100 will bring in some offbeat action.