last week’s comics this week, 2023w42-43

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  • DAREDEVIL 02: big improvement over last issue. Intrigued by where it goes next. In, still.

  • NIGHTWING 107 / TITANS 04: love Taylor, et al's work with these characters. Still very in; along with Ryan North's FF, TITANS is the rare team book that I enjoy.

  • CATWOMAN 158: waiting for Gotham War to end so we can get on with the new status quo. Will decide with the next issue if I continue, as I do love Selina and how Howard writes her.

  • BENEATH THE TREES WHERE NO ONE CAN SEE 01: dark, disturbing, and utterly brilliant. So very, very in; my favorite release of the week.

  • CYBERPUNK 2077: XOXO 01: trend of amazing transmedia CP deepenings continues. Love / in.

  • SUBGENRE 01: I'm a sucker for over-sized genre playtime. In.

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I've cut my working hours down to one early morning stare / type session, (more/less) from the time I awaken at 0445 until 0715, replacing (temporarily, probably – though I do like how knowing that this is all I get each day lights a fire under my ass) the second chunk of work with reading and, as has been the wont of late, nodding off. Helps prepare me for the afternoon of visiting and death prep. My greatest fear in all of this being that I'll run out of prep before he runs out of breath. Not big on familial / communal sharing of grief: prefer to process it by myself (in the car ride or in the journal) or, as has been the case in this latest round of familial dying off, project-managing each and every decision and wearing the weight of it on my shoulders.

(I HAVE THE POWER (of attorney).)

His brain fog is foggier by the day; hoping that he doesn't have to deal with it much longer – I know it pisses him off – but he remains, for the most part, lucid (though less himself), the last month+ being not a sudden decline but the final act of a decline that's been in process for the last few years, at least since his sister and brother died in 2020, and certainly since my mother last year.

Chorus from Dylan's Mississippi ringing in my ears: "Got nothing for you / had nothing before / don't even have anything for myself anymore..."