Though the current project started as a series of posts charting my grief journey after the death of my mother, I am no longer actively grieving. Now, the blog charts a conversation in living, mainly whatever I want it to be. This is an activity that goes well with the theme of this blog (updated 2018). The Sense of Doubt blog is dedicated to my motto: EMBRACE UNCERTAINTY. I promote questioning everything because just when I think I know something is concrete, I find out that it’s not.
Hey, Mom! The Explanation.
Here's the permanent dedicated link to my first Hey, Mom! post and the explanation of the feature it contains.
Also,
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Friday, December 13, 2019
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1760 - Archie has ideas
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1760 - Archie has ideas - THAT ONE THING
While grading robot was being a robot that grades and does little else, he spotted this lovely panel clipped from an actual Archie comic on, yes,. INSTAGRAM. He was taking a grading break.
What might Archie be alluding to here? I mean, really? In the shower?
What's next? Does he drop the soap?
LOW POWER MODE: I sometimes put the blog in what I call LOW POWER MODE. If you see this note, the blog is operating like a sleeping computer, maintaining static memory, but making no new computations. If I am in low power mode, it's because I do not have time to do much that's inventive, original, or even substantive on the blog. This means I am posting straight shares, limited content posts, reprints, often something qualifying for the THAT ONE THING category and other easy to make posts to keep me daily. That's the deal. Thanks for reading.
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- Days ago = 1623 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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Monday, December 29, 2014
Weekly Comics for 1407.23
Weekly Comics List 1407.23
Hello again, it's me. It's still December 2014 as I type this, and I am still writing about July 2014. Slowly, I am catching up. Again this will be a quick survey of comics from one week in July, but a week it was. GREAT comics came out this week and the titles I read are so good that I had to share a full cover gallery of all nineteen titles. Also, I can say, now, as of December 26, 2014, that none of these comics still resides in the back log and that I have read them all.
Let's move along. The Internet really helps me to refresh my memory on comics from over five months ago.
As I type, today, I just enjoyed two days of Christmas holidays with family. On Christmas Eve, I celebrated with my immediate family, my wife and kids, and then at her parents' house, the Creagers. Then, yesterday, on actual Christmas Day, I celebrated with my parents, sister, and brother-in-law, and since my wife got off work early, we were able to watch The Interview together, a satire about North Korea that had made a lot of news and that she wanted to see.
Now, today, Dec. 26th, I am back at work as I have final grades for two classes due tomorrow morning. But I am happy to be able to take little breaks to cobble together yet another long overdue blog post.
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I find that I am turning to IGN and Comic Book Round Up (more the latter) for each of these belated blog posts.
Here's the links:
IGN ROUND UP
COMIC BOOK ROUND UP FOR JULY 23 2014
Superman is still riding high on the strength of John Romita Jr.'s art in this week for July. After Romita's debut last month (as described in Weekly Comics for 1406.25), the strength of the art alone keeps this book ranked second. Really, given my enjoyment of them and/or anticipation of them, any of the top seven could have been interchangeable. You will see Superman fade in subsequent months. I just read the most recent issue (Superman #37 as please remember that I am writing this in December about July comics) last night, and I was underwhelmed despite the catastrophic events in the story and the gorgeous art.
But any week that Afterlife with Archie comes out, it will take top spot. Though issue #5 came out only a little over a month before this one (Weekly Comics for 1405.14), there would be a long wait until the next one. (What will be the post for comics released 1412.10.) Many critics were underwhelmed by the last issue and the conclusion to the first arc of stories. But this issue embarks on a new set off issues, though fans will surely be frustrated in waiting five months for the next installment.CBR shares 14 "critic" reviews, which total to an average score 9.1. Eight reviewers give this a 10/10 and the lowest rating is a six, clearly by a reviewer who did not put a great deal of consideration into the review. Sure, the comic portrays Lovecraft and Lovecraftian horrors dead on without modification (because the doctor is even named Lovecraft), but so what? This whole comic title is borrowing from something borrowed from a motif that borrowed from a trope. Are we really going to criticize the brilliance of this work with quibbles about being too derivative. The reviewer himself who gave it the six (from Multiversity) claimed that there were oodles and oodles of comics to read each week, which prompts me to dismiss his overly harsh opinion is ill-conceived.
Setting aside the six of ten, the lowest score for this issue is one lone seven and then an eight and an 8.3. Philistines!
I would much rather focus on the EIGHT reviewers who gave this issue an 10/10, quite unabashedly.
Here's a good one
DEN OF GEEK REVIEW
Here's a tidbit.
Francavilla's art here is at a series best. His monsters --culiminating with a jaw-dropping splash page of that most terrible of Old Gods, Cthulhu -- are full of ghastly detail that reinforce how Francavilla is the most talented artist in the industry today. In the book's letters section, Aguirre-Sacasa declares that he and Francavilla are absolute H.P. Lovecraft fanatics. But more than that, each subsequent issue illustrates their combined passion for the horror genre as a whole. (The Wicker Man is referenced repeatedly here, and spotting the nods to other horror classics is quickly becoming a past time for Afterlife with Archie readers). This issue's Hammer Horror meets American Horror Story by way of Lovecraft may be a full of familiar pastiches, yet it is one that makes readers eagerly anticipate each new development in this bold twisted Archieverse. Things keep getting scarier in each new issue, and that is a wonderful thing.
This issue is a great change of pace and another reason that Afterlife with Archie always hits the top of my stack when it comes out. I would place this title in my top five favourite comics of the year. Collected edition for the first arc is out. It's worth the investment.
Velvet should have taken the second spot. Superman edged Velvet simply due to my adoration of Romita and my hope that the new creative team would re-vitalize the title and the character. Superman has been in need of a boost for some time. Though I am in the minority in liking the JMS run, this was the last time, in my memory, that I was eagerly anticipating this comic. John Romita Jr's coming, much like the arrival at DC of Jack Kirby in the 1970s, rocketed this comic to the top of my stack, but sadly, it has not sustained the level of excellence I had hoped for.
And here's something funny, the same Multiversity reviewer who gave Afterlife with Archie #6 a six of ten gave Superman #33 an eight out of ten, proving that he's either too rushed, too over-fan-boy-focused on the traditional super heroes or just a moron.
Sure this issue of Superman doesn't suck, but it's not higher on the scale than Afterlife with Archie #6 by any stretch of the imagination. Further proving my point that the Multiversity reviewer is way off base.
The Johns-Romita run on Superman keep with many of the familiar tropes of the rich history of Superman, such as seen here with Perry White displaying the Daily Planet page as the titles for the comic issue. So, there's a lot to like here, but in hindsight, I would have dropped this book to seventh in the rankings after the throwback to the 1970s, retro Might Avengers with gorgeous Greg Land art.
Also, apparently, the cover I have on display in my cover gallery did not make it to print as the issue's final cover, which I would know if I had dug out the issue rather than using the Internet to write these mini-glimpse reviews. Still, as traditional super hero fare goes, this issue and the Johns/Romita run has been enjoyable, though (if I can remember) I will have some critical things to share about December's Superman #37 when I get to it.
Velvet #6 was mis-listed at CBR for last week. Here's the link: COMIC ROUND UP - VELVET #6.
This is a week for favourite comics as Velvet definitely ranks in my top five. I would rank this title over others that I love but that are top ten and not top five, such as Lazarus, The Walking Dead, and Daredevil.
I have raved about Velvet before and now that the title embarks on its second story arc, a part of the overall ongoing story, I am even more impressed and pleased.I cannot do much better than the remarks of others.
Here's some other people's thoughts: from NEWSARAMA:
Spy fiction, once thought a dying genre, is one that takes a delicate hand to do well. With so many spy stories of recent years relying on sci-fi like technology or dizzying set pieces, Velvet stands apart as a solidly entertaining throwback to the nickel novels of old. Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting, and Elizabeth Breitweiser have given us a character and title unafraid to take the methodical pace of older spy fiction and translate it beautifully into the medium of comics. Velvet #6 takes the already engaging titular character and presents her as a directed force of vengeance shaped by the mistakes and lies of her past, making her a living, breathing, and compelling protagonist. Velvet has been this good from the start and from the looks of Issue #6, it won’t stop being this good for a long while.
FROM WE THE NERDY
The narrative is truly engaging, but where this book takes it to the next level is the way it looks. The art is stunning and the colouring is so consistent and spectacular that it makes this book one of those rare few where it is worth picking up just for the visuals. But luckily it’s not just an art book, it is a truly magnificent art book with a fantastic story that keeps the reader on the edge of their seat while rooting for the protagonist.
and from CAPELESS CRUSADER
Brubaker is no stranger to the spy game—most recently, his run on Winter Soldier featured a heavily espionage influenced direction. His comfort with the genre allows him to turn convention on its head repeatedly in “Velvet #6.” Spy thrillers have relied on tropes for essentially as long as the sub-genre has existed. But the modern upheaval in story-telling has allowed Brubaker to relentlessly pursue a strong female lead character and lend a little bit of much needed diversity to the popular comics scene. “Velvet #6” relies on the protagonist’s strong narration to provide any needed exposition and gravitas. It’s refreshing to see Velvet as a worthy lead in a book that wouldn’t/couldn’t have existed only a few decades ago where female lead characters took their cues from James Bond films.
With some of these other comics, Batman Zero Year: Finale #33 edges one of my personal faves, Aquaman, for fourth in the stack because it is the finale of the Riddler saga. This comic earned high ratings overall from many reviewers. It was a great conclusion to the Zero Year Riddler saga. The Batman Zero Year saga was a fantastic mix of Batman mythology, filling in background of young Bruce Wayne while telling a story dependent on Gotham City as a part of the plot. Fantastic!!
Not only have I written about Batman but I have raved about the next four comic titles: Aquaman,
Daredevil, Mighty Avengers, and Amazing Spider-Man.
And before any one accuses me of over-focus on Marvel Comics, please note that my top ten this week is a nice mix of four companies with the Archie and Image books as well as only two Marvels in the top ten and six DC Comics. This is surely unusual as I buy and read more Marvel titles than DC titles. Then again, of the nineteen titles released this week, only four of them came from Marvel.
I could run the gamut of titles and comment on all of them, but I am pressed for time and five months late, so a few more quick observations and I will leave you with NINETEEN comic book covers.
Amazing Spider-Man has continued to get more and more excellent and has edged upwards in my stack since July. I have started ranking Saga, Supreme Blue Rose, and Trees higher, even though with comics that take longer to read I tend to rank them lower just for that reason. As much as I love Walt Simonson's art, I did not continue to buy Ragnarok. Batman Eternal has improved and is rarely in last place any more, though the Flash often ranks low as the new creative team is just not as good as the original, New 52, team of Buccellato and Manapul. I keep reading All New Invaders out of love for the original book from the 1970s. This book is good but it's not having the same effect on me as the original (as if anything could).
I let Buffy the Vampire Slayer: season 10 stack up in the back log and only recently cleared it. This is just circumstantial as I have been enjoying this book very much (though it's not top ten). Likewise, though I liked some of the re-imagining of the Greek gods, I was not too invested in the new 52 version of Wonder Woman. But after letting the title back log until I had six-seven issues, I read them all recently and was pleasantly surprised. Meanwhile, as of December, we are two issues into the new creative team (the Finches), and I have already written my thoughts on the debut of the new Wonder Woman for whenever I catch up to November.
And before any one accuses me of over-focus on Marvel Comics, please note that my top ten this week is a nice mix of four companies with the Archie and Image books as well as only two Marvels in the top ten and six DC Comics. This is surely unusual as I buy and read more Marvel titles than DC titles. Then again, of the nineteen titles released this week, only four of them came from Marvel.
I could run the gamut of titles and comment on all of them, but I am pressed for time and five months late, so a few more quick observations and I will leave you with NINETEEN comic book covers.
Amazing Spider-Man has continued to get more and more excellent and has edged upwards in my stack since July. I have started ranking Saga, Supreme Blue Rose, and Trees higher, even though with comics that take longer to read I tend to rank them lower just for that reason. As much as I love Walt Simonson's art, I did not continue to buy Ragnarok. Batman Eternal has improved and is rarely in last place any more, though the Flash often ranks low as the new creative team is just not as good as the original, New 52, team of Buccellato and Manapul. I keep reading All New Invaders out of love for the original book from the 1970s. This book is good but it's not having the same effect on me as the original (as if anything could).
I let Buffy the Vampire Slayer: season 10 stack up in the back log and only recently cleared it. This is just circumstantial as I have been enjoying this book very much (though it's not top ten). Likewise, though I liked some of the re-imagining of the Greek gods, I was not too invested in the new 52 version of Wonder Woman. But after letting the title back log until I had six-seven issues, I read them all recently and was pleasantly surprised. Meanwhile, as of December, we are two issues into the new creative team (the Finches), and I have already written my thoughts on the debut of the new Wonder Woman for whenever I catch up to November.
WEEKLY COMICS LIST
Afterlife with Archie #6
Afterlife with Archie #6
Superman #33
Velvet #6
Batman Zero Year: Finale #33
Aquaman #33
Daredevil #6
Mighty Avengers - Original Sin #12
Amazing Spider-Man #4
The New 52: Futures End #12
The New 52: Futures End #12
Batman and Robin #33
All New Invaders #008
Saga #21
Ragnarok #1
Flash #33
Supreme Blue Rose #1
Trees #3Ragnarok #1
Flash #33
Batman Eternal #16
BACK LOG
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: season 10: #5
Wonder Woman #33
COVER GALLERY
Okay, I went a bit overboard this week by showing all the covers for the week's comics (plus one extra variant), but this week of July (during SDCC - San Diego Comic Con) was a huge week for comics. Great stuff. JUST LOOK AT ALL THIS GORGEOUS ART!!
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Sunday, July 27, 2014
Weekly Comics for 1405.14
Weekly Comics for 1405.14
I am cheating. I am using Superman: Doomed as a masthead for this blog entry and now, in late July, I have still not read it. That seems disingenuous, yes? But is is a very cool image and worth showing off.
I could leave the spoilers thing here, but I am not planning too many in this post. Though I guess there are some if you have not read these comics even in my brief remarks.
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Given that it is a fun and a quick read, Afterlife with Archie is often going to take the top spot the week that it comes out. It continues to be a completely entertaining comic and an intriguing spin on the old Archie model.
I love these "slasher-film-esque" lingerie covers by Andrew Pepoy. Gorgeous Veronica cover here.
Issue five focuses on the Lodge butler Smithers and all he does to keep the Lodge family safe and sound. The story establishes how Smithers learned to be a great butler from his father, to be as his father advised "invisible."
Smithers is a great thread of continuity as he observes everything going on in the Lodge mansion, the refuge for the still living residents of Riverdale. Smithers observes the rather large cast, checking in with other students not often seen in the Archie stories. Smithers confronts a distraught Veronica, bemoaning that Archie went to Betty for solace for killing his zombified father and not to her.
Ultimately, Smithers helps after Archie convinces Mr. Lodge that they cannot stay in Lodge Manor until they are completely surrounded by zombies, who will find a way inside. As confirmation of his prediction, two zombies begin to climb through a heating vent. After they are dispatched, we learn that the zombies were Betty's parents.
This issue, which concludes book one of the series (due soon in a collected edition) show what's left of the gang escaping Lodge Manor, armed and ready to battle through hordes of zombies as they continue to fight for their survival in this dangerous new world.
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After slipping in the rankings, The Walking Dead #127 soars to number two, just behind the Archie book, which simply wins due to the fun factor. The series jumps ahead two years after the recent "All Out War" saga, which concluded the issue before. I skimmed some of the reviews online. Some reviewers felt this issue was too mundane given the high-tension, violence, and action of the previous ten or so issues. But this is to be expected and long-time readers of comics should expect it.
But it's almost a rule in comics that there must be some down time after a big story arc. Historically in a book like X-Men, thinking specifically here of several arcs during Chris Claremont's long run, after the team has been in space fighting Brood and were believed dead for eight issues, that they have a picnic and play softball in the next. Do readers need to see them play softball? Actually, yes, they do. The down time is necessary to re-establish character and work on down time.
But it's not all down time. The issue opens with a new group of characters in a tight spot. The new characters are rescued by a band from the new Alexandria community. Lead by Jesus, a cavalry leads a huge horde of zombies away from the stranded new group and then invites them to speak with Rick and earn a place in their community.
After the opening gambit, and Adlard's gorgeous two-page spread of a horde of zombies so massive that it stretches out of sight in the distance, the reader is treated to life around the new community, where Rick and the others have settled into a sustainable living arrangement, growing food and under-going the business of re-establishing civilization.
As the double-sized issue winds down, we see Rick talk with a very grown up Carl, a move that surely is meant to match what will need to happen in the TV show, as the young boy wants to strike out on his own and go apprentice at Hilltop. In the final scene, we see Carl go into a cellar and talk to how he tried to convince his dad to let him go to Hilltop, the other community. On the last page, it is revealed that this "confidante" is an imprisoned Negan. The story concludes with Negan asking Carl: "Do you still want to kill me?" and Carl replies, "Yes, Negan. You know I do."
This is an excellent transitional issue, setting up much of what is needed for the next story arc. Many of the criticisms leveled against it by comic book reviewers online rob Kirkland of his agency, of his ability to tell different types of stories. After the constant action and what seems like a dragged out conflict in the "All Out War" saga, this tale and set up of a new story that will develop slowly but feed the desire to see how the survivors survive is a nice change of pace.
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Fantastic Four #004 - It's no surprise that I am going to keep writing about and shilling for my favorite comic books.
If I have not made the point enough times on this blog, I established well on my T-shirt blog how much I love THE FANTASTIC FOUR.
Check out this entry for T-shirt #344 - Fantastic Four, which contains a lengthy review of the first new issue of this current run of the Fantastic Four comic book, plus a ton of Fantastic Four content and a collection of links for all of my previous Fantastic Four content on the T-shirt blog. Lest I forget, there was some Fantastic Four content on this blog. In fact, it was my first blog entry here at SENSE OF DOUBT:
THE “New and Improved” INVISIBLE WOMAN: Does she look like she needs protecting?

So, with this week, I come to the fourth issue of the current issues of Fantastic Four, better known as The World's Greatest Comic Magazine.
Here we have a return of the Frightful Four, who attacked Ben Grimm and a powerless Johnny Storm. Though Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman arrive, the battle goes poorly, especially without the Human Torch. The Thing gets clobbered by a new Bulldozer, a woman, the original's daughter, who has donned the gear and has a bad attitude for all things Fantastic. Just in time, the FF crew -- She-Hulk, Ant Man, and Ms. Thing -- show up and lend a hand. Turns out the whole thing was a lure. Unable to resist attacking Johnny when powerless, Reed Richards engineered a lure for the Frightful Four's vanity, knowing they would be beaten and captured.
Though this issue is not the best of the lot so far, it's a crucial story for what's to come, and the final scene sets up the next story. As the Fantastic Four return to the Baxter Building after bagging the Frightful Four, they find themselves locked out of their home, their children re-located to a "safe" location, and the team served with papers to appear in court.
More to come as it appears that issue #5 came out two weeks later!
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Didn't I just write about Justice League United #0? Indeed, see COMICS FOR 1404.23.
My comments for Justice League United #1 are much the same. Jeff Lemire and Mike McKone. These two creators together will get me to buy the book no matter what it is. Start a comic with a throw down between Lobo and Hawkman? Love it. Adam Strange fully outfitted and featured in a full page spread taking flight: awesome. And best of all, some great stuff with Martian Manhunter, ending in another full page spread in which the alien blasts apart a giant monster once it's made of wood (as its composition kept changing). Strong writing, beautiful art, some of my favorite characters. Already, this title has catapulted above where I rank either of the other Justice League comics.
Looking forward to more!
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Lastly, I would like to confess my weakness for weekly episodic narrative. The New 52: Future's End series at DC has just enough of the right elements to capture my attention. The cast is better than the previous 52 weekly that ran from 2006-2007. With Firestorm, Grifter, Frankenstein, Batman Beyond, Mister Terrific, Robin, Lois Lane, and more, this series has just the right cast to keep my interest enough to buy a weekly comic book. I like the premise of stories set five years in the future with some serious and disturbing outcomes having befallen the big name heroes, such as Superman, Batman, and Green Arrow. Slated to run weekly for a year, 52 issues, ending in March of 2015, at first, I was not ordering the comic, expecting to give it up at some point, but with the last month's order, I decided to pre-order the issues. This is not the kind of comic every one will embrace, even the most hardcore comic readers will shy away from this due to lack of interest and/or lack of commitment to a weekly comic. And yet with Azzarello, Lemire, Giffen, and Jurgens writing and a bevy of artists including Zircher, Merino, Jurgens, Lopresti, and others, the book has some quality names behind it. It's worth the price of admission.
As for the rest, given that I am writing two months later, many of these were forgettable. The various Avengers books at Marvel are such a mish-mash of story upon story upon story without resolution that I have no idea what these dealt with. I did like Avengers #29, despite Leinil Yu's art. Good Doctor Strange stuff. And as I write this, two months later, it seems like Joaquin Phoenix may play the good doctor in the forthcoming movie. If nothing else, Frank Cho's cover for Avengers #29 grabbed me.
I am liking Starlight #3 as a rumination on what happens when John Carter (the source on which this character and story is based) gets old and can't quite do what he used to do and yet still gives his all to save the other world where he's more than a hero, he's a savior. Millar writes deftly enough, and Parlov's Moebius style art is beautiful.
Lastly, I would like to confess my weakness for weekly episodic narrative. The New 52: Future's End series at DC has just enough of the right elements to capture my attention. The cast is better than the previous 52 weekly that ran from 2006-2007. With Firestorm, Grifter, Frankenstein, Batman Beyond, Mister Terrific, Robin, Lois Lane, and more, this series has just the right cast to keep my interest enough to buy a weekly comic book. I like the premise of stories set five years in the future with some serious and disturbing outcomes having befallen the big name heroes, such as Superman, Batman, and Green Arrow. Slated to run weekly for a year, 52 issues, ending in March of 2015, at first, I was not ordering the comic, expecting to give it up at some point, but with the last month's order, I decided to pre-order the issues. This is not the kind of comic every one will embrace, even the most hardcore comic readers will shy away from this due to lack of interest and/or lack of commitment to a weekly comic. And yet with Azzarello, Lemire, Giffen, and Jurgens writing and a bevy of artists including Zircher, Merino, Jurgens, Lopresti, and others, the book has some quality names behind it. It's worth the price of admission.
WEEKLY COMICS LIST
The Walking Dead #127
Fantastic Four #004
Justice League United #1
All-New X-Men #027
Avengers (Original Sin) #29
New Avengers #018
Uber #13
Starlight #3
Stray Bullets: Killers #3
Iron Man #025
Secret Avengers #003
Batgirl #31
Captain Marvel #003
Captain America #020
Superman: Doomed #1 (one shot)
Superman/Wonder Woman #8
The New 52: Future's End #1
The New 52: Future's End #2
Batman Eternal #6
Fables #140
BACK LOG
Avengers Undercover #004
SPECIAL PURCHASE
Locus Issue 640 Vol. 72 No. 5
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