Monday: Labor Day.

I have been very successful in doing nothing this weekend.

The ramen place changed their hours, and so "mid afternoon ramen" is no longer an option.

So I had to go with the backup sushi option.

I decided earlier this weekend to use my free comic credit at Amazon to pick up the original Secret Wars from 1984.  It isn't bad, but it's very dated.

Important introduction panel for a bunch of frankly D-list bad guys with a few highlights, such as the boots of Galactus.

Ultron is a jerk.

To Galactus.  Clearly a great idea.

Magneto is a jerk.

Actually "X is a jerk" works pretty well for just about every character in the book.  I get that this is the first big crossover thing, but all the bickering and infighting is stupid.

Iron Man using the super efficient "roller skate" technology.

Monica's in here too, but she's generally relegated to searching for things.  She has not been a jerk in the issues I've finished.

Johnny Storm: jerk.  Piotr Rasputin: jerk, in a doubly creepy way with all his talk about missing Kitty Pryde, and "how she's still too young."  Yikes.  Also, that's Rhodey in the Iron Man suit, because I think this was when Tony was an alcoholic.  Rhodey also wins a "not a jerk" prize.

Jim Shooter, writer of this whole thing: probably shouldn't be allowed to write female characters

Jen is here, along with regular Hulk, who is a gamma powered jerk.  Jen is helpfully sarcastic.

Dazzler is here only in flashback form, where she uses Sonic Jimmy (I'm not bothering to look up this loser's name) to defeat Galactus.

Charles Xavier: a walking jerk.  Ororo isn't happy with his shit.

Poor Clint.  Also, more Monica.

The story is kind of a giant wreck, with Doom leading his bunch of losers, Captain America leading everybody people have heard of, X and Magneto leading the X-Men as a "we don't want to work with the other good guys, because they're pretty mutant-racist", Galactus standing quietly ignoring everyone else while pondering how he got dragged into this whole stupid mess, and the Beyonder, who we haven't seen yet.

Probably for the best, really.

That's his Secret Wars 2 style, and I seem to recall that's one reason SW2 isn't as well received as the first one.  Compared to DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths a year later, this is a much worse story.  Crisis has a few "smash the toys together" bits, but it spends a lot of time doing the universe reordering stuff it was designed to do.  SW is just non-stop toy smashing, with a side bit of unnecessary colonization, when Team Good Guys move into a village so they can take advantage of the village healer (the lady in purple in the Iron Man/Colossus/Human Torch panel above).  Let's just go with "this hasn't aged well."

• Cities and regulations.
• Ok, but no.  a) If I lived with other people, and we couldn't come to a stable ice cream sharing system, then I'm living with the wrong people.  b) Ice cream comes in paper cartons.  You pull this shit, I rip the bottom off the carton and eat the whole thing.  Somebody's moving, I might as well enjoy some Ben and Jerry's.
• Postcard pictures with current reshoots.  Spoiler: everything's ruined.