jimmy olsen comic ended which means I can finally have a sort of set canon point if I ever actually app jimmy olsen anywhere but more importantly let's look at dex-starr being cute

that's a very happy cat

the cat has a bubble

it's dex-starr so the cat has an alien power rage ring and it vomits toxic red goo everywhere and that's why he has a bubble

i love him

i stg i can hear him purring

a very good panel:

blooth wayne

all the junk in the back seat of jimmy olsen's ufo:

that's a h for hero dial lmao

jimmy olsen not dead; back

is that a thighmaster

absolutely

FRATRI-SNIDE

nice

also dex-starr is the best lantern and I will not be swayed otherwise

i mean that's just objectively true

so julian gets arrested but he still did spend the whole olsen family fortune:

but then:

omg related to lex luthor

later:

I should mention that one of the driving plot threads of this series is that the Daily Planet is going bankrupt and Jimmy's dumb video essays are the only thing that makes money, there's a whole plot where he develops a mean youtube alterego "timmy olsen"

omg jimmy

there are three great jimmy v lex scenes in this series and only one of them involves a fake mustache

besties!!!

anyway that is the story buy the trade, pray that dc lets jimmy keep dex-starr

🙏

he is so happy… he just needed a forever home

aww

I am here for this content!

A+ alien cat

the true cat owner experience:

anyway hawkeye: freefall also ended… last week? and I have mixed thoughts

positives: it was a fast-moving series, and like this jimmy olsen book did a good job juggling a couple different plotlines and keeping everything moving while showcasing a main character with a ton of connections. i like the idea of clint/night nurse. the art was great, imo. and a lot of funny lines.

negatives: ??? still very unsure about this clint character direction???

I might go back and read it all at once because there was a huge break in the publishing schedule, but I'm not sure we ever got a great explanation as to why Clint suddenly started axing people as Ronin??? this is not MCU Clint and doesn't act like MCU Clint. And then, ofc, because he's Clint everything just sort of starts going wrong.

I mean the title "freefall" clearly indicates it's about a downward spiral, and it delivers, but it's kind of a Matt Murdock arc

wh? he didn't even kill people when he was originally ronin

Bullseye gets involved and starts dressing up as both Hawkeye and Ronin to fuck around with Clint who is doing the same thing, except, it's Bullseye, so:

yeah it's weird…

and like maybe he's not killing people but the whole thing is "people in the superhero community freaking out about clint/ronin going too far" and stuff like this:

maybe he's not supposed to be killing that guy??

i don't....i don't know what else you DO when you slash someone that high up with a sword

but on the other hand, comics

yeah like… if they meant to make it like "clint is more violent than normal but still not killing anyone" they didn't make that very clear and so it felt weird to me

yeah, "worryingly brutal" would work fine to me but we need to know that's what it is

I guess he does say this later:

otoh, like, he's lying that entire time:

but okay I do think he wasn't supposed to be actually killing anyone it just sure really looked like that

anyway clint does a bunch of questionable stuff to stop the hood, and in the process gets a bunch of his friends killed and/or maimed by bullseye!! so everyone is mad at him:

parker robbins confirmed for swiftie:

i'm cracking up over Falcon (Old One)

he calls bucky "world's greasiest cyborg" and i'm here for it

anyway here's how it ends:

and again like… it's a weird place to end a mini where idk if there's going to be any follow-up

it's a matt murdock character arc without the guaranteed matt murdock comeback

I should also say that Natasha is the only hero that completely sees through the "I'm not Ronin" act, which, makes sense on one level

(I guess Spider-Man figures it out eventually too)

but it's also definitely a plot that requires all the other heroes to be a little dumb so that Clint can pull off all the shenanigans here, and there are like, a lot of heroes in this book

it doesn't ruin it for me or anything but it's not my fav comics trope either

still, better than… spider-woman #2 which i'll also talk about a little

jess is an interesting character and she's had a whole… whole bunch of directions over the years, and I kind of dig that this new series is really embracing it

her son is a prominent plot point so they're not ignoring the events of that series despite the random costume change

good

but like, this is a spider-woman: origin flashback, no??

and yeah they should have doublechecked that recap page huh

but I feel like with the bendis/maleev post-secret invasion series, and the hopeless/rodriguez p.i. stories

both books worked (when they did work) because they had a distinct genre they were operating in and also a distinct artist who could sell that aesthetic

this book doesn't have that, at least so far (I'm aware the hopeless book originally had like… greg land and was just an event tie-in so there's certainly still time)

and I don't get enough of a sense of what jessica drew is like beyond her crazy backstory and a sort of generic snarkiness?

we know she loves her son, because she says so, but it isn't about her being a mother

the hawkeye mini and the jimmy olsen book are both about characters, like jessica, that have had a ton of iterations and character directions, but they had a more distinctive voice right from the get go, helped a lot by the art, imo

but also I think a better sense of how the weird comics backstory informs that voice

also I read strikeforce and it's hard to get a sense of jessica drew beyond "snarky" in that book, too