Oh, for what leaves the eyes in such a state as to feel the green radioactive ooze pooling out from the sockets?



Certainly not keeping regular daylight hours helps a lot. A whole barrel load of good apparently comes from working in the same time zone as the people what stand in the same room. And when one time zone steps out of another and runs for weeks and months, there's the possibility that the red will make green.

Outside possibility with a boon of drinking heavy of green drink (as others drink purple and grape).

 

Grey and red, the colours from the sides are already well into the swing of things. Politics, the machinations of men and their behind the scenes schemes all pretty much doing something. It's just not something that makes reading the second issue an easy to join task with the surrounding beats of the beast.

Clearly things are afoot and with the hand of commie evil out there on the warpath, the whole of the United States is screaming for a saviour or two who don't go around banking red cents. To that end, there environment is clear. Now, making the most of the slide into it all, that's another thing entirely. A brunt to bear.

Step right up, step right up, the floor is pretty slippery, now watch where the feet go asteppin'.

 

Having problems figuring what day of the week it is no matter how many reads of the calendar and desk notes? Forget about trying to figure out when the smoke of night and blaze of day happens in this comic then. No easy colour codes for the blind, it's a swing into the nightmare world ruled by Freddy and back again. It's like a haze of drugs that burn purple and nobody else is clearer for the message.

They'll have a nice opening with a spill of blood and that there shines in the face of the horrors for the outline. Of course, it does help to at least get something of an origin in the first issue, and in a single page, it's all out here for the guy in the red and green/black striped sweater.

When in the playground of this maniac, nobody gets an easy night's sleep. Reading this is the distillation of the movie series, and it's quite and easy feeling to just put it down and not feel like needing another dose.

 

Tom Cruise ain't looking outside the walls into the world much these days. Not since the birth of Suri with Katie Holmes holed up in some bunker. And yet they still make much on the covers of the women's magazines.



Dip it in red, it's the Lord of Darkness from the film, Legend. The one starring Cruise, Mia Sara and Tim Curry.

 

Mixing in a handful of straight laced coffee beans between dunking heads into Red Bull*, the OzComics 24 Hour challenge begins in earnest for the Queen's Birthday Long Weekend.

One comic from start to finish in 24 measly Earth hours. Effects of prolonged, and a day isn't really prolonged, could drive some to the crazy bin next to the bargain books.

Take a look at last year's winners if so inclined.


*Substitute for your adrenalin rush drug of choice. Some prefer just chewing on chili peppers for that added bleed into excitement to keep them awake. Whatever works. Whatever works.

 

With the adventures of Red Sonja spotty at best over the past year, there was hope in finding a reason for vigour in the pages of this Doom encounter.

Lots of dark runs rampant through the veins of this issue. The brooding denial of defeat just sapping away all kinds of energy. Red Sonja proves to be as strong and as defiant as ever in her chain mail bikini. Outside of that though, there was no connection at all to the story.

 

For the lovers of goth, tragedy and mysticism, The Crow is all that and a bag of sorrow.

 

Now that's quite the angle for a shot of the Deadpool statue from Bowen Designs.

So very shiny.

 

July 21. Nothing much happens. Leaving much time to wonder why it can't always be like this. Then again, it really is. Just before the weekend is sucked into a naked vacuum where by the only thing that stands between the sanity and the insane asylum is a week's long sleep. That never happens to be the case...

Astonishing X-Men #11 marks out life as the penultimate issue of the Whedon and Cassaday run. At least for the first year. Nice work here. Shame about the tardiness of the schedule. But there are other things to read while waiting.

Ex Machina #13 continues with part two of the new storyline. If it doesn't, then the issue looked at the other night -- about three weeks ago -- was certainly not #12. Anyway, it's an Eisner winner.

Feels like only last week that #79 hit. So seeing Ultimate Spider-Man #80 on for this week makes the rush to read #76 that more pressing. To an extent.

Red Sonja #1 answers the question, "What happened to Red Sonja?" All those variant covers going crazy and with no sense of monetary ratcheting. Late or just finally here, either way, it's apparently a comic that really exists. Way to go Dynamite!