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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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Yael Mermelstein
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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

WatXM Volume 6 - Wolverine Family Drama!

Wolverine and the X-Men, Vol. 6 - Jason Aaron, Ramón Pérez

Rereading these volumes (although really in the original comic format) just reminds me that Jason Aaron writes the perfect Wolverine story.   Wolverine-centric story.   Both.   This time, Wolvie leads the kid into the Savage Land for a survival course - but just the new kids who aren't fitting in, and the troublemakers, and loners.   The ones who need to learn how to work as a team.  

 

And it's more than Dog - his older brother - showing up, or fighting dinosaurs and robots and cowboys.   It really is about the kids growing up, and learning to stick up for themselves, but more importantly work as a unit.   And between the acidic wit, and the shooting robots, there is a lot of issues that the kids work out.   And it's amazing to me that this happens is four issues, with the last being a bittersweet look at the future of the school.   Much more sweet than bitter, and almost fluffy, although the nostalgia and Logan questioning how much good he's done does add a bitter enough flavor to keep it from being too sugary.  In the end?   The balance is perfect for the story, and both times I read it, I was sure Logan would make the wrong choice.   Both times, he does the right thing, and it just... relieves me in the end.  I care about him, the school, and I like the future that's presented in this issue enough that I cheer when Logan takes advice from a former student and makes the right call. 

 

There are jokes about measuring genitals - in which Dog tells the robots he's got some genitals to measure, and all this ties into the theme of Dog's abuse, and shows just how far reaching the effects were.   Dog is really, really messed up in the head, and even jokes that you brush aside at first as just being funny show this. 

 

Although, just so Eye-Boy knows, no, shooting robots doesn't make you badass.   It just makes you a dick.   (Which I guess is okay since future-you redeems that one moment of ignorance.)

 

Oh, yeah, and just in case you're wondering, there is a time travel motif in Dog's story arc, including this brilliant moment of hilarity: "He says his name is Dog, and that he's Wolverine's kind-hearted-time-traveling brother who's come here from old-timey-times to teach us the ways of the redneck Force."  

 

Gotta love Kid Omega, even when he's being a total dick.   Wait, no, especially then.   Brilliant.   Perfection.   I love, love, love this series!