Absolute Martian Manhunter 2: The Agency
They lost me with this one. More swirling clouds of psychedelic smoke. More inexplicable happenings in an alternate alien and/or psychological reality.
I couldn’t even tell you what the story is about. There’s some secret government agency that’s keeping tabs on the “Martians.” They capture MM, somehow, and spirit him away to some black hole called Nihilo Bay, which is literally a black hole, to perform an autopsy on him. Or vivisect him, since he’s still alive. In the meantime, John Jones’s marriage is breaking down and he’s been saddled with a blue Martian named Despair-the-Zero. Despair spends the rest of the comic whispering in John’s ear about how he should just kill himself but John digs deep and shrugs him off and manages to rescue MM. How does he break into Nihilo Bay? Where is Nihilo Bay? Does Nihilo Bay even exist? Don’t know. “We break the mind/body barrier and leave physical reality in our incomprehensible dust . . .” and Bam! there we are.
Is any of this real? Or is it all just a figment of John’s imagination as he’s having a breakdown over the death of his son? Or is his son really dead? We know the Martians can’t be killed because they “do not have death concept. Life death do not apply.” So the White Martian is still out there too, dancing in a conga line with the other Martians. Maybe. Or perhaps it’s all psychodrama-a-go-go. In any event, I’m out. It does look great but I can’t take it anymore.
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Read the support forums every day. You’ll get frustrated but you might learn a thing or two from others’ troubles 🙂
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Where do you find the time? Plus all the sites you comment on. I’m just running around posting this before heading out the door now.
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I work. I eat. I read. I blog. I sleep.
That pretty much sums up my life 🙂
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I’ve always wondered, do you have a desktop at home that you do your writing on? I’m assuming you do most of your commenting on your phone.
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I’m a committed laptop guy. But I have a lap desk so I can sit on the couch and use it in a stable manner.
If my comments are between 7am-4pm, eastern time, I’m probably on the phone. Otherwise I’m on the laptop.
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Yep, I figured you were using your phone when you were commenting from the field!
Just thinking now how messed up it is that in order to get the classic editor back I had to go into the dashboard and . . . de-select the classic editor.
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Yep, that makes zero sense.
Wp keeps pushing and at some point, probably not that far off, they will kill the old editor.
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And when that happens I think I’ll be out of here.
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I’m guessing this Absolute title won’t be going on for much longer
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As I understand it this was the completion of the series. So my giving up doesn’t count for much!
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Know when to hold’em, know when to fold’em – (the comic, NOT the blog). 😁
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This comic was totally bonkers. Even if they hadn’t ended it I was giving up.
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