It’s Jeff! collects Marvel Unlimited’s baby shark comic for all readers

It’s a new dawn for Marvel Comics as this week print readers were able to get their hands on the first hard copies of It’s Jeff! one of the breakout sucesses of Marvel’s infinite scroll comics, available exclusively on the Marvel Unlimited subscription service.

If you didn’t You can find it here a Marvel Unlimited subscription and wanted to get a load of Jeff, you were stink out of luck until this week, when the first print issue collecting Jeff’s adventures hit comic shop shelves.

Jeff: Who are they? Kelley Thompson introduces Jeff in the pages West Coast Avengers, where he charmed audiences as Gwenpool’s pet. After the series was over, Gwenpool brought her pet to DeadpoolHe charmed the audience again at this location. Thompson finally teamed with Gurihiru to perform last fall. It’s JeffA series of short silent comedy sketches featuring Jeff doing cute things in the Marvel Comics setting.

This baby land shark does have an origin story. Don’t look a gift shark in the continuity mouth: He’s cute, he’s a shark, he has legs, he has low stakes adventures and everyone loves him. It’s not complicated. It’s Jeff.

Were there other things happening within the pages of comics we love? We’ll tell you. Welcome to Monday Funnies, Polygon’s weekly list of the books that our comics editor enjoyed this past week. It’s part society pages of superhero lives, part reading recommendations, part “look at this cool art.” There may be some spoilers. It may not provide enough context. There will still be some great comics. This is the latest edition.

Image by Kelly Thompson/Gurihiru/Marvel Comics

It’s Jeff!The story is simple. Jeff does some crazy things and then finds a funny way to escape. There’s no particular theme: One day he’s sledding with superheroes, the next he’s apparently charming tourists while visiting the tulip fields of Holland. Thompson’s Sunday Funnies are simple stories, but Gurihiru is a master of their charm. Again, it’s simple, but there’s simply no downside.

Image: Tini Howard, Sweeney Boo/DC Comics

Solidarity against these rent-a–goons Your rights are yours! STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS!

Image: Leah Williams, Marguerite Sauvage/DC Comics

Action Comics is both DC’s main plot Superman book these days AndAn anthology series that includes multiple backup stories to the main story. One of these backups, writer Leah Williams and artist Marguerite Sauvage’s “Head Like a Hole” is so fascinating I wish it was its own mini or ongoing. The creators are wrestling the dragon of figuring out how to fit Power Girl — with her eternally rocky place in DC continuity — into the new status quo of the Superfamily.

The concept: Because of reasons, Power Girl has developed some quirky new psychic powers, and when combined with the psychological expertise and psyonic powers of the Teen Titans’ Omen, they team up for a psychotherapy practice where, while Omen guides patients through talk therapy, Power Girl astral projects into their heads to punch mental manifestations of their trauma, insecurities, and anxieties, helping them defeat and identify what they might otherwise be unable to recognize.

It’s a twist on Very common trope in modern Serious Superhero Stories — a character attending talk therapy — but with a creative visual/action element and a close character focus that keeps it from being subsumed by goofiness. Sauvage’s trippy mental landscapes feel borderless and floaty, aiding the understanding that this is all metaphor.

DC: Give these characters a book!