Empress is very good.

Also: he brings almost nothing of his actual personality to his role, which is a GOOD thing. I've seen a dozen of his movies and have very little idea what he's like irl. He's the very definition of a blank slate (again, a GOOD thing).

I was *this close* to dropping it before BKV decided to start telling a compelling story again.

Aaaannd it's ending. Waid & Samnee are moving on after #13.

Three years ago I'd guess half my pull list was Marvel (Punisher, DD, Black Widow, Cap, Black Panther, Hawkeye, plus some others). Now I'm down to one title, and with Black Widow ending (again) I'm going to be completely free.

Garf body, Pam head? Or Pam body, Garf head?!

This is it. Excellent timeline recap!

The Prestige?

Wrt. 1) This is out of left field, but I've always guessed this takes place on a terraformed Mars. It has crazy canyons & geography similar to Westworld, it's empty (no contrails in the air, eg), and they work out of a glowing red control room.

Hrm. Worth exploring…

Absolutely. I was trying to describe her performance to a friend, how ERW plays the emotional and physical aspects flawlessly (switching between modes etc), but more importantly she has to project a burgeoning consciousness always below the surface.

I don't know if this an original theory, but I think the scenes with Bernard & Dolores occur before a lot of the other action. It's his voice that tells her to fire the gun, where to find it, etc. He's observing her gaining consciousness before many of the events on the show.

I dropped WicDiv a few months back —I just couldn't handle the character & artist hopping arc. It felt aimless and the primary plot grew hazier and hazier. It's a shame because I loved the first 15 issues or so.

I dropped it a couple of issues ago. I couldn't get behind having multiple protagonists to follow. That decision just robbed the story of any coherence, and like Asa mentioned above, it made me stop caring about the characters.

Seeing that illustration really brought me back —I haven't thought about Macdonald Hall in decades!

Love YMRT!

This week:

Go back and get her run on Power Girl, maybe 5 years ago? It's great, and it's a shame she can't or won't do a monthly book anymore.

Sick very small niche burn!

I remember seeing Philip Glass tour Koyaanisqatsi back in the <cough>nineties<cough>. Seeing all three would be a slog, though!