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I'm a well read grad student who's bluntly honest about all things, although I try to be most honest about myself.   

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Separate Orbits
Yael Mermelstein
Progress: 119/427pages
BATMAN #53 ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
LeeWeeksBatman53, TomKingBatman53
BATMAN #54 ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
MattWagnerBatman54, TomKingBatman54
BATMAN #52 ((DC REBIRTH)) ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
LeeWeeksBatman52, TomKingBatman52
BATMAN #51 ((DC REBIRTH)) ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
LeeWeeksBatman51, TomKingBatman51
Infinity Wars: Iron Hammer (2018) #1 (of 2)
Al Ewing, Humberto Ramos
Champions (2019-) #4
Jim Zub, Jacinto Benavente
SUICIDE SQUAD #46 ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
JosLuisSS46, RobWilliamsSS46
SUICIDE SQUAD #45 ((SINK ATLANTIS)) ((DC REBIRTH )) ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
JosLuisSuicideSquad45, RobWilliamsSuicideSquad45
Champions (2019-) #3
Jim Zub, Jacinto Benavente

Spawn remains a favorite character, partly due to nostalgia

Spawn #98 - Brian Holguin, Todd McFarlane, Brian Haberlin, Dan Kemp, Danny Miki, Tom Orzechowski, Greg Capullo

I remember reading Spawn when it just came out, reading it, and being just in awe.   It was dark and gritty and violent a felt a little naughty in all the right ways.   Then again, I was younger, and my dad was super concerned about violence desensitizing me, and has been since forever.   It's something that I didn't appreciate then - but do now, as I adore that he was that worried about me, and remained that worried about all his children.   Better that than apathy. 

 

It also leant reads like this a secret thrill: it was everything I shouldn't be reading, but enjoyed.   And to my relief, it didn't really desensitize me.  I wanted to see the fictional evil guys dead.   (I'm anti-death penalty in real life, just to be clear.   The other things that it didn't do to me: make me less sympathetic towards the heroic characters, nor did it tear down that wall between the real and fantasy.  If anything, I have a stronger wall up now, and I cry just as easily when painful and unfair things happen both in real life and to characters.)

 

Still, that thrill.   The more I read Spawn, the more I realize that dirty little secret, that thrill of the dirty little secret, follows this comic along and probably always will.   I get it, even now, when rereading these titles, or reading new-to-me issues.   I got bored and wandered off when the story didn't seem to be going anywhere, and was sucked back in recently.   I'm really enjoying this.   I forgot how much I adore Cyan, the daughter of Spawn's widow and his best friend.   (Wanda, said widow, got married to Terry Fitzgerald after Al Simmons died.)   Her psychic ability is still misunderstood here, and she's fighting to help Spawn, even as she's grilled by her toy, which mutates into a horrific demon.  (Who looks like a bear, but really, if you're teddy suddenly was human sized and talking to you while looking like bear, wouldn't little you be terrified?)

 

Spawn and Angela track down the demon who's been unleashed, grilling the two minor demons.   Until Angela feels more angels, and has to go deal with them before they accidentally unleash the Apocalypse.   Good intentions, though, so you understand how that goes.   

 

It's fun, it's horrifically violent - that little thrill again, and I'm loving the nostalgia factor on this.  Fun, fun times!