Journey Into Mystery Journeys into History

Sif's adventures (in this particular book) come to an end. I'll miss it. Between Valerio Schiti's artwork and Kathryn Immonen's take on the warrior goddess the book was pretty much perfect. Any book that can make me want to watch the adventures of one of Volstagg's children and Heimdal's pet Helhound deserves a special kind of attention. That was a single issue between adventures, by the way. A filler issue. And I would have bought a whole series based on it.

Sif in particular was fantastic. I love the righteous fury characters, but Sif had something else going for her. She wasn't some brooding antihero. She enjoyed the testing of her skills through combat. She enjoyed fighting for her land. And she was social. Between monster fights she would have dinner with friends, or snowball fights with the Mortal kids in town.

X-23 Target Terminated

This was a thing. I was simply testing something out, something small that dictated everything I was doing wrong for years and so simple I've been beating myself up over it for a week now for not seeing it sooner, and it quickly evolved into my desktop background. This is one of the more annoying parts of being an artist, you tend to learn something that makes you regret releasing the previously-good pieces of hog shite that you were so proud of...

I don't need to explain X-23 to you, I've got plenty of pictures and explanations in the archive. What I will do is ramble on about her in Avengers Arena. Let me say I'm loving the book so far. They haven't backed down from the deathmatch aspects of the story in the slightest, which makes me worry for Laura up there. She's the obvious win, which everyone in the book seems to know, and her powers make her indestructible so... a writer might need to get rid of her to make things interesting.

Or the trigger scent can come back.

I'm not sure how I feel about Laura's treatment in the book so far. She seems much more... mentally stable than she's ever seemed. I know the whole "Every time I enter a room I list off how to kill everyone there" but it hasn't seeped into her speech. There hasn't really been any social awkwardness when it comes to her character interactions. It's a minor thing, but I notice it because I'm a massive fan.

Now to go into spoilers for the issue that came out today. You have been warned. Assuming that whatsherface would even notice before Laura slipped a claw between two ribs and into her heart there's simply no way that Laura couldn't take that bitch of a mech suit. It was barely held together, whatsherface (Apex) mentioned how it wasn't nearly as good as the old Sentinel it came from, and I've seen Laura get a great shot in on a Nimrod (Sentinel from the future), and destroy one of the modern ONE Sentinels in Messiah Complex.

Like I said above, love the book. It's murdered some of my favourite characters and I still love it. But Laura, even in the context of the book itself, with everyone so awed by her, knowing to stay the furk away from her, seems to be being handled oddly. Not even poorly, just different. But she is my favourite character, so I notice, and I ponder.