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.
The Week in Villainy: Taking stock of super-villains
— Dark Reign: Hawkeye: Of all the villains who have assumed the mantle of replacement Avengers under Norman Osborne, none are having a tougher time with the transition than Bullseye, who now goes by Hawkeye.
In issue 1 of
Dark Reign: Hawkeye, Bullseye is having trouble getting used to playing hero under Norman Osborne’s Dark Avengers. Osborne promises him blood in exchange for Bullseye playing nice for the cameras, but it proves too much for the assassin.
At the end of the first of this five-issue series, Bullseye looks as if he might actually be finding a balance between bloodletting and heroing by going down the “kill only the evil-doers” route. But as he dispatches the victim he’d saved only seconds ago, we see that his psychosis is perhaps a few leagues too deep for that.
For the record. I could have really done without the visual of how he dispatched said victim, by the way. It’s not for the squeemish
By issue 2, Bulls/Hawk-eye has to deal with the TV news camera crew who caught him in the act of being himself.
This is shaping up to be a terrific run. Bullseye is a powerful character, when he’s in the right hands. And writer Andy Diggle has the chops to do it very well. Throw in a rock-solid visual crew of Tom Raney and Scott Hanna, and you’ve got a keeper.
Bullseye, who has recently been played somewhat clownish, scores some major VQ points in this series, bringing his rating up to a respectable eight. We’ll be checking in again at the end of the series for an adjustment, if necessary.
