There are some Bigfoot problems that hit harder than others — and for certain legendary figures, male pattern baldness anxiety isn’t just about looks… it’s about legacy. Today’s comic imagines what happens when one very famous cryptid starts wondering if his myth might not survive a receding hairline.
What I’m Watching: Invincible, JJK, and the Great Animation Trade-Off
I’ve been watching Invincible with my sons, and I’ve got… thoughts.
First off: the story? Very, very good. Genuinely compelling stuff — even though the violence and gore is way past my personal comfort range. I'm not super comfortable with one character shooting another. The stuff that happens on a median-level episode of Invincible is a real challenge for me.
As someone who does NSFW comics, I'm constantly amazed at how perfectly acceptable Invincible is... yet an animated series based on Phil Foglio's XXXenophile would have people losing their ever-loving minds.
Further, it's a little disappointing to go from watching Jujutsu Kaisen (which we're also following at the moment) to watching Invincible.
JJK features jaw-dropping visuals and animation that constantly raises the bar episode after episode. It's phenomenal.
On the other side of the spectrum, Invincible clearly put all of its budget into getting celebrity voice talent. Some of them are very good.
I just wish a few of those Amazon dollars had been spent on the animation. Some of the scenes are pretty clearly PNGs that get enlarged to show an object moving through space, and it's a goddamned embarrassment.
But the story itself is very, very good.
This Week in Villainy: April 22-28, 2007
Who’s Up and Who’s Thwarted
Mr. Mind: He started as a downright cute caterpillar-like creature who provided a mild threat to the Captain Marvel Family. We saw him weave a cocoon in DC’s “52,” but that was almost a year ago. Now, last week, in
Week 51 of “52,” we see the new Mr. Mind.
And he’s scary as hell.
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Turns out Mind was revealed to have transplanted himself from his cocoon to within Skeets, the robotic companion of Booster Gold, to complete his transformation. Destroying Skeets from within, Mind adopted his identity and schemed to consume the multiverse, which had returned to existence as a result of the Infinite Crisis. Discovering that Rip Hunter was aware of his plans, if not his identity, Mind, as Skeets, attempted to hunt him down and draw him out, to no avail. Eventually, he discovered Hunter hiding in the bottle city of Kandor, but when Hunter turned the Phantom Zone projector on him, Mind overpowered it and actually “ate” the zone itself. At the end of week 51, Mind tracked Hunter and Booster down to the lab of T.O. Morrow, where his gestation completed and he emerged from within Skeets in a monstrous imago form, vowing to devour all the universes.
Starting with this one.This ain’t your father’s Mr. Mind.
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