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.
Secret Invasion #8 hit the stands like a grenade (huge explosion that comes about a little
later than you’d like).
And it will send huge ripples across the Marvel Universe.
It looks like a pretty brilliant ret-con for a good dozen-or-so of Marvel’s A- and B-List heroes. You really have to hand it to them… this is the Mother of all Iron-Clad Ret-Cons. Any dead characters can be brought back question free. Anything they did before they died can be explained as the actions of a Skrull who was genetically programmed to act
exactly like the huma they were replacing.
So Mockingbird and Spider-Woman are back. Jarvis, too.
But perhaps the greatest moment happened exactly as Your Favorite Blogger
predicted. Norman Osborne played a key role in the defeat of the Skrulls — even pulling the trigger on the Skrull Queen herself.
And most importantly, Norman closes the chapter by wresting control of the Initiative from Tony Stark (using politics rather than pumpkins, mind you). Then he stalks to a secret room in Avengers Tower(!) and convenes a meeting among some serious A-list Marvel baddies: the Sub-Mariner, White Queen, Dr. Doom, the newly-feminized Loki and the Hood. It’s a nicely finessed lead-in to
Dark Reign, which hits comic shops Christmas Eve.
Mwa-ha-ho-ho-ho.
