I couldn't do it.
Reading Lovecraftian horror first thing in the morning was just too much. So, though I will finish reading the stuff I pulled out, I'm taking a break and am instead going to read the much happier, more optimistic, first series of The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl.
I don't know what more I can say about this comic that I haven't said before. It's easily the best thing Marvel has put out in the last decade or so. While I loved Secret Wars, and Hickman's Fantastic Four, and Bendis' Avengers, Squirrel Girl blows them all away. It's funny, poignant, exciting, kind....really, all of the things that we want in a superhero comic but perhaps didn't know we wanted in a superhero comic. Doreen is an amazing character, full of hope and charity, and her relationships with her friends (both squirrel and human), coupled with some superheroics, make her one of the, strangely, most relatable heroes to have emerged from the House of Ideas.
I'm going to read the truncated (by Secret Wars) first volume, and then perhaps jump back into the Cthulhu stuff with a fresh, and fortified, mind.
"You have learned too late not to jump in the face of the great Kraven, but know this: your body will serve as a warning to future generations."
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