This month isn’t as good as last months. I thought last issue told a pretty coherent story and then layered that story with a bunch of in-jokes, sight gags and comedy references whereas this issue is just a series of events, but with humor throughout.

If I had to criticize Imperium, that is, ostensibly, what I do after all, it would be that there isn’t a clear line of where this story is going. The first issue sets up a Utopia, so we know where the story ends, and then flashes back to a period of unrest.

I do not know what happened here in this conclusion of the White Queen. White Queen takes out the Trickster lady and makes a run at the Black Queen getting her and her daughter killed in the process.

We get a pretty anti-climactic ending to this series this month. The positives this series had going for it were that it really nailed the Army of Darkness tone and Ash’s voice. The action was fast paced but well done and all in all it was a nice addition to the series.

X-O Manowar can be inspired at times. Hell, occasionally I think it even touches the lofty perch of art. In this particular issue there is a moment that Aric, the Manowar himself, unable to stop a planet from being destroyed simply embraces one of the unlucky inhabitants left behind.

This is a busy god damn book. It was busy last month too, but I was hoping it would narrow focus a bit and get down to the nitty gritty.

This one, this one is interesting, perhaps more so than the other Altered State books I’ve read. I’ve always thought of The Shadow as the Batman of pulp comics (perhaps Batman is The Shadow of modern comics?) but in a Justice League of pulp comics I would use The Shadow to fill the Batman role.

I’m speechless. I have no idea what to say about this. Nothing happens in this issue, it’s mostly entirely unnecessary flashback. Something the previous issues have struggled with is jumping all over the place with no real narrative direction.

Jungle Jim fuels my love of the Pulpy-verse once more! Is Pulpy-verse catching on by the way? It is kind of goofy. Maybe ‘Kings-land’ is cooler? I still like Pulpy-verse, there’s just something about it but it needs to be called something.

This is a pretty dense issue all things considered. The story builds a little on the previous issue but the narrative framing device uses The Island of Dr. Moreau to provide parallels between the characters in the book and the emotional state of Goon.

Oh, you’re back. Has it been a month already? No need to talk through the power of exposition I know what you’re going to say.