All Good Things...

This week's a lot denser than I figured - not one, not two, but three comics by me dropping on the same day! Luckily they all have very different tones...

DON'T KEEP US IN SUSPENSE! WHAT'S OUT THIS WEEK?

Immortal Thor #24, that's what!

In which the story we've been telling from the very beginning - since that backup in 2023's Thor Annual - comes to a head. It's twenty pages of story bursting at the seams as loyalties are tested, long-held schemes bear fruit, the dead return to the land of the living and Thor makes his final stand at the brink of Asgard. Jan Bazaldua draws the living hel out of it and Matt Hollingsworth provides suitably epic color art - all I can hope for on my end is that it leaves you breathless and wondering how we can possibly top it in issue #25.

Also out today - across the aisle and a little sideways, in the Absolute Universe - we have Absolute Green Lantern #3, in which the mystery builds, the horror creeps and nobody gets to solve the puzzle. What's talking in Hal Jordan's head? Why don't people see the corpses at the edge of Evergreen? What did John Stewart know, and what did Abin Sur do to him because of it? What is the nature of the judgment? At this point in the telling, it's mostly questions, but if you look hard - and with Jahnoy Lindsay illustrating the action beats and character moments in his own gorgeous style, that's no chore - you might start to see the answers.

And speaking of light and darkness - it's All-New Venom #7! In which old pals Mary Jane Watson and Flash Thompson have a touching reunion that gets out of control fast. Meanwhile, Rick's paranoid, Robbie's questioning his earlier decisions, Dylan's running wild and everybody's favorite boyfriend, The Dud, is screwing up yet again.

Oh, and there's a new arch-villain in town, beautifully delineated by the incredible Carlos Gómez and colored by Frank D'Armata.

IS THAT THE TIME?

I've got to run! Love, strength and justice to all who need it, and in the spirit of Pride - it's hard to call it a happy one, but it's damn sure a necessary one - I'll play us out with "Disappointing" by John Grant feat. Tracey Thorn.