Comics This Week
“Space Ghost” (Joe Kelly, Ariel Olivetti)
I don’t know what I expected from a comicbook promising “the true origin of the animated star!”, but I stupidly went ahead and plonked down $20 for it anyway. Well. Umm. The painted covers by Alex Ross are kinda nice. Ariel Olivetti’s art is stiff but… umm… colourful? And the story… the story, umm. The story has giant insects? And… uh… the closing line is, charmingly enough, “a very big rock”? This comic really doesn’t have that many redeeming values — it’s meaningless, predictable, soulless, repetitive and just takes itself way too seriously. Guhh. What a waste of money.
“Y: The Last Man Vol. 5: Ring of Truth” (Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra)
The big reveal on why all the men died and Yorick didn’t! Solid instalment in this critically-acclaimed series. I liked it, just like I did the last four volumes.