Comics
Every Wednesday I go to what my grandmother would describe as a "funny book store" to get my weekly nerd on. From now on, I'll list what I got and then hopefully, at a later time, I will review them. And since I still have last weeks stack sitting around, I'll list those, too.
From this week:
52: Week Twenty-Two
I'm really enjoying this series, even though sometimes it seems like it seems like nothing is happening. Then again, it will all lead to something, and with Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid, I'm safely assuming that it will be something quite excellent.
Slight warning: if you are not really up on the whole "DC Universe" (or that there is one), this might not read that well. Or it might, I can't tell cause I have sectioned off a small part of my brain to house that information.
The Winter Men #5
This is a series that is best described by Warren Ellis: "John Paul Leon Turns in the art job of his career, but the standout, even in that company, is writer Brett Lewis, who is writing some of the best dialogue I have ever read." Amen!
Sadly, this is coming out in drips from what I assume are rewrites from having some dumbass editor cut the book from 12 issues to 8.
Read it.
Elephantmen #3
Really enjoying this book. And the title doesn't lie.
Criminal #1
He wrote Scene Of The Crime, Deadenders, and A Complete Lowlife, so it was easy to pick this up.
The Other Side #1
New writer/"rookie sensation" and Cameron Stewart, who was so excellent on Seaguy that my friend, who is quite sane, was debating on whether to get a tattoo of a tuna.
I think that warrants giving this book a shot.
Get a Life
I like the art and decided to give the plot (described by Publisher Weekly as "Jean is a smalltime literary figureÂa novelist, translator and jazz collectorÂon the cusp of 30, realizing that life is moving faster than he is. He's got an apartment too cheap to leave, with a landlady he can't stand; his old friends are getting married, having children, casually revealing long-ago betrayals and inflicting their own life disasters on him. He's fine at attracting women, but can't sustain a serious relationship for long. By the end of the book, he's repeatedly playing daddy to other people's babies and recalling the days when the life of an artist and culture-vulture seemed a lot easier.") as shot.
Invincible: Eight Is Enough
I was told buy one of the guys from the shop that this reads like an excellent spider-man clone at the beginnig, but by the end of book two it twists and then explodes. I have the first book lying around the house from the guy who used to live in my apartment (haven't read it yet), so I picked this up to see if it's true. I'll let you know.
Lullaby: Power Grabber
Kinda the same situation. I have the first book, this time I bought it, but haven't read it yet. My friend Kesi, who always claims I don't like anything that he reads, goes batty for this book, so I'll have to see if he's right.
DC One Million
Mini series from 1999 written by Grant Morrison. Those last two words are enough to get me to buy it. That, and it was $6.
Superman: The Man of Steel
Confession: Superman Returns really had an affect* on me, maybe someday I'll get into that, so I find myself actually buying the comics. This book is the John Byrne revamp form 1986 that I haven't read in, oh, about 20 years. I just wanted to re-read it.
* Here's how much I liked the movie:
So, that's what I got this week. I'll give something resembling a review, probably as if written by a highly intelligent rock, about each of them sometime soon. I'll also get around to writing about what I got last week.
From this week:
52: Week Twenty-Two
I'm really enjoying this series, even though sometimes it seems like it seems like nothing is happening. Then again, it will all lead to something, and with Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid, I'm safely assuming that it will be something quite excellent.
Slight warning: if you are not really up on the whole "DC Universe" (or that there is one), this might not read that well. Or it might, I can't tell cause I have sectioned off a small part of my brain to house that information.
The Winter Men #5
This is a series that is best described by Warren Ellis: "John Paul Leon Turns in the art job of his career, but the standout, even in that company, is writer Brett Lewis, who is writing some of the best dialogue I have ever read." Amen!
Sadly, this is coming out in drips from what I assume are rewrites from having some dumbass editor cut the book from 12 issues to 8.
Read it.
Elephantmen #3
Really enjoying this book. And the title doesn't lie.
Criminal #1
He wrote Scene Of The Crime, Deadenders, and A Complete Lowlife, so it was easy to pick this up.
The Other Side #1
New writer/"rookie sensation" and Cameron Stewart, who was so excellent on Seaguy that my friend, who is quite sane, was debating on whether to get a tattoo of a tuna.
I think that warrants giving this book a shot.
Get a Life
I like the art and decided to give the plot (described by Publisher Weekly as "Jean is a smalltime literary figureÂa novelist, translator and jazz collectorÂon the cusp of 30, realizing that life is moving faster than he is. He's got an apartment too cheap to leave, with a landlady he can't stand; his old friends are getting married, having children, casually revealing long-ago betrayals and inflicting their own life disasters on him. He's fine at attracting women, but can't sustain a serious relationship for long. By the end of the book, he's repeatedly playing daddy to other people's babies and recalling the days when the life of an artist and culture-vulture seemed a lot easier.") as shot.
Invincible: Eight Is Enough
I was told buy one of the guys from the shop that this reads like an excellent spider-man clone at the beginnig, but by the end of book two it twists and then explodes. I have the first book lying around the house from the guy who used to live in my apartment (haven't read it yet), so I picked this up to see if it's true. I'll let you know.
Lullaby: Power Grabber
Kinda the same situation. I have the first book, this time I bought it, but haven't read it yet. My friend Kesi, who always claims I don't like anything that he reads, goes batty for this book, so I'll have to see if he's right.
DC One Million
Mini series from 1999 written by Grant Morrison. Those last two words are enough to get me to buy it. That, and it was $6.
Superman: The Man of Steel
Confession: Superman Returns really had an affect* on me, maybe someday I'll get into that, so I find myself actually buying the comics. This book is the John Byrne revamp form 1986 that I haven't read in, oh, about 20 years. I just wanted to re-read it.
* Here's how much I liked the movie:
So, that's what I got this week. I'll give something resembling a review, probably as if written by a highly intelligent rock, about each of them sometime soon. I'll also get around to writing about what I got last week.
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