Monsters Are My Business #1, Avengers: Twilight #5, Love Me: A Romance Story #1
Two great new books, while those old Avengers are still going strong.
Monsters Are My Business #1 (Dark Horse Comics) is fun. We have a trio of nutters for hire, living in the Boglands, the only part of a city where people still live after a long spell of literally acid rain fell for weeks and not only drove most residents out but also ushered monsters in. Hillary, a supposed cold-hearted necromancer, seems to be the brain of the team, huge rogue Griz is the brawn and … well, Cuddles is a koala.
Their main business comes from locals seeking lost relatives and the like, usual PI stuff, but in this episode they’re approached by a government creep who wants them to rescue an extraction team recently sent beyond the safe boundary who haven’t returned. Griz and Cuddles set off and soon find themselves confronted by something disgusting.
Nicely drawn, speedily constructed and adventurous fun.
Monsters Are My Business - Forbidden Planet
In Avengers: Twilight #5 Red Skull kills the president and gets on with his plan to reveal himself to the nation as their new, apparently trustworthy, leader while Captain America’s team fight back, broadcasting to the nation to try and counteract the brain-washing, as Cap, Thor, Hawkeye, a barely agile Luke and Iron Man do battle against Skull and Jason Stark, and it’s ho hum until Skull introduces his secret weapon, a neurologically challenged Hulk. Bit dull (and very dismal cover art!), but never mind.
Avengers: Twilight - Forbidden Planet
Love Me: A Romance Story #1 begins with , “Oh my God! This city stinks worse than my shit!” That’s Frida the cat talking. She shares an apartment with Nina Simone-loving robot JoJo, who works as taxi driver and enjoys his job.
He’s a big tatty lump of a thing, kind-hearted and waiting for love. When a beautiful lawyer named Gilda uses his cab and suggests going to a movie later his world is turned upside down. He’s in love. Then she doesn't turn up which is inescapably sad. A forlorn JoJo, single red rose dangling…
It’s a sweet read and the artwork a ravishing jumble. I’m just hoping she’s been kidnapped and we’re in for a bumbling rescue job. JoJo deserves a happy ending.
This is a romance, because I am already in love with this book.