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30 Thoughts About 30 Comics – Thought Bubble To Hellbreak….

Published Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:01:17 -0600

Last updated Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:01:59 -0600

The Thought Bubble Anthology is back, which means it must be Thought Bubble this weekend and I should really start packing or something. So what are we to be curious today? Can we discern any signs of intelligence from this week's comics?

Wakanda burns America via UN proxy in Ultimates. You know, after pointing out exactly what's happening in the Marvel Universe right now. Between his book and Captain America, the US is getting a pretty rough ride right now from Marvel…

It's come to this, when you cant tell if the new Enchantress is meant to be of a different ethnicity to how she is portrayed on the cover of Illuminati. Maybe it's time to break out those colour guides again from Ronald Wimberley. Maybe that's where all these Colour Your Own books from Marvel will come in, letting folk racebend whoever and whyever they choose.

I've been having conversations with British Telecom over my broadband connection today. I have to say it felt very much like Imperium #10. I'm sure I was making similar noises.

Adventure Time #46 feels very familiar as well. That's the problem when voices from beyond are reading from a preprepared script.

It's amazing just how reasonable and sane a relaunched Carnage makes Eddie Brock with a new symbiote….

Crossed Badlands almost mentions the kind of film you really shouldn't mention in Crossed Badlands….

The Beetles? The cavern? In Hamburg maybe? Is Chewbacca making a Beatles reference a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away?

While Last Sons Of America #1 is making it's own Star Wars references. Sadly that's where the reference chain must end.

The Bone Boys? Boneville surely, Fone Bone, Smiley Bone, Phoney Bone and all the other Bones. Shame no one can find it. But, Goddamned #1, that's where I'd start.

While in Batman & Robin Eternal, we get a better idea of the services offered by Mother – and the extent of her abilities to mould and shape people into what she needs them to be, giving her a rather fitting title, for a price. Freud-central, this one. Parent-murdering Batman can't be long in coming….

There is no Avengers? Tell all the comics with the word "Avengers" in the title right now… inclding this one, All-New, All-Different Avengers #1…

Language can be a tricky thing, as Starfire shows she has seen one early episode of the American Office.

While Sleepy Hollow: Providence #4 also does its best to join in. Probably been watching Parks & Rec.

From New Teen Titans… seriously, that's just not the kind of thing a gentleman says about a lady in her earshot.

Not that the Crossed +100 have any care for such things. Sorry, the Crawss… and the consequences of their century long plan.

While War Stories #14 has a threat of biblical proportions. The wrath of God? The closest thing they might come to one?

Unity #24 shows just how much we, as a specie, have to offer the universe. Death by reality television is clearly only something we could have come up with.

Postal Dossier #1 introduces the looming threat that is the Amish Mafia dealing in over-the-counter medicine. It's all a matter of perspective. After all "this is a lovely milk churn, it would be a shame if something happened to it" can still sound sinister….

While Letter 44 #21 prefers self-medication….

In the original graphic novel Adventure Time: Masked Mayhem, every gameboy needs to get a new skin now and then…. or they may just go a little silly.

Exactly. Just give him some new decals in the rather gorgeous Diesel #3 and everything will be fine. You have the skills.

Though it clearly hasn't helped these mecha in D4VE2 #3. They've just been customised to annoyance.

Nowhere near a match for this one though. In Batman/Superman, Superman tests the limits of his current power set, by timing how long he can stand being in the presence of this little rat before he punts the kid into the heart of the sun.

wicked

Getting rid of annoyance can have all sorts of side benefits as the Wicked And The Divine origin stories discover….

The Last Fall #5 has no time for such niceties. It's sun-kicking all the way through.

String Divers #4 begins to lose narrative coherence. Well worth diving in and getting lost in t all. Cover featured on today's Bleeding Cool Magazine as well, natch.

You never want to reach that number in The X-Files Season 11 #4. Why can't everyone just go in on one?

There actually has to be a no-leaking zone on Cybertron? No wonder they all left in Transformers Robots In Disguise #4.

Hellbreak Vol 1 gives us Bleeding Cool's T-shirt line for San Diego next year, nice and early.

Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London. Where, tomorrow at 5.30pm, Noelle Stevenson will be signing Lumberjanes and at 7.30pm hosting an Orbital Director's Commentary. The signing is open to everyone, but the Director's Commentary is ticketed to avoid over-crowding.