It’s been a busy week reading-wise for me; first up was finishing off Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars, which is one of those ‘been meaning to read for ages, finally got around to it’ sort of books. It was as awesome as I hoped it would be and has me scrambling for Planetary Romance books of any stripe. Luckily publishing house Planet Stories has the hook-up with Almuric by Robert E. Howard. Looking forward to delving into that one.
Comics-wise I read and enjoyed Gray/Palmiotti/Connor’s first issue of Power Girl, which I think will be a book I intend to follow with some regularity. Grell’s The Warlord #2 was a vast improvement over issue #1, so he’s got my money for the long haul. Tomasi, Champagne, and Snejberg(sounds like a naughty evening)’s work on The Mighty has made it an equal parts fun and creepy deconstructionist take on the Superman archetype that I’d encourage you to seek out.
In trades I went onto a big western kick starting with Garth Ennis and Mike Wolfer’s Streets of Glory. While Ennis tends to make my molars grind when he goes anywhere near superheroes, I can’t deny his ability as a storyteller of grim, hard tales of the old west. Wolfer’s art is dámņ good too, bringing in both the beauty of the environment and the horror of the sudden violence of Ennis’s prose. Really good. I also got caught up on Gray and Palmiotti’s frankly amazing work reviving the character of Jonah Hex, picking up Only the Good Die Young, Luck Runs Out, and Bullets Don’t Lie (volumes 4-6 respectively). If you want entertaining done-in-one stories with a badass lead character I’d say give these a try. They’re a welcome break from all the cape and tights continuity clusterpiles out there.
Whew. It’s a pretty tall stack and I plan to go more in depth into reviewing on my blog, but that’s a rough list of what I’ve been into of late. Next up? Marvel’s Spider-Man 2099. Illustrated by Rick Leonardi and written by some guy. . .Patrick? Paul? Percy? It’ll come to me eventually. In any case, it looks like a helluva lot of fun.
Stacy
Ps. I kid, I kid. Looking forward to reading the book Peter. You? You’re awesome.
I read that CHUCK, BETTER OFF TED and DOLLHOUSE have been renewed! Woohoo!
Got my comics today, and also a big honkin’ book by Joe Simon, The Best of Simon and Kirby, copyright Joe Simon and the estate of Jack Kirby, Titan Books, $39.95, and worth every frakkin’ cent.
Jack of Fables – The Great Fables Crossover is the best story in the Fables franchise in ages. I hope this rubs off on the regular titles later.
Batman: Battle for the Cowl – The story ends about where we thought it would, but doesn’t really end. It’s all set-up. I could have skipped this, though it wasn’t a bad miniseries, merely extraneous.
Angel – A bit odd and not really what I want from an Angel comic, and the art is iffy, but still entertaining and better than the Buffy comic has been for some time.
The quarterly Ex Machina came out this week.
.
2 comics for kids from BOOM!
.
Herogasm, a The Boys spin off.
.
The comic that I will probably enjoy the most this week is Tiny Titans. The cover has Supergirl and Kid Flash in a race. Also, a special appearance by Lobo.
Just read Hulk #12 the story was ok, but i wonder if anyone else is tired of not knowing who or what the red hulk is?
Yes, and I haven’t even followed it for 6 months.
Let’s see…I run an online funnybook subscription service, and I am evil and take library privileges.
Books read but not collected: Boys Herogasm #1 (either you like Ennis’ stuff or you don’t…I do, so here more of it is), Ex Machina #42, Fantastic Four #566 (enjoyed both of them), Hulk #12 (liked it, but yes, Steve, I too am getting sick up to my clavicle of not knowing who the Red Hulk is), Supergirl (the whole World of Krypton thing is starting to wear on me), and Superman Batman (another parallel world story with familiar-yet-not-quite characters…yawn).
Books collected personally, Big Book of Barry Ween (stellar, wonderful to have it in a single volume), Brave and the Bold #23 (we’ll see…like the art), Incredibles Family Matters #2 (enjoying it), PVP Animated Series DVD (a stitch), Superman Ending Battle collection (liked the original stories when I read them, and it’s nice to have the trade).
So the big items I got this week were things I’d read before. A good week, though.
I hate to admit it, but this week my fun reading has consisted almost entirely of Potato Moon. Seriously. I’m about to commence upon parts 31-33. Otherwise it’s been policy memos, which is Not Pleasant.
I bought the “X-Men Forever” prologue issue, which is mostly reprint, with eight new pages at the end.
I really like this idea. I’d love to see a similar series with “What if Peter David hadn’t left the Hulk with issue 467?”
But in the meantime, this seems pretty cool. This whole thing already feels more *right* somehow than some of the other attempts to bring Claremont back to the X-franchise. I hope this does well and Claremont is allowed to really go nuts with this. (There is a great twist at the end of the franchise that really gives an “anything can happen” feel to the whole thing. I REALLY hope it is not a feint, because it is quite a brilliant way to establish this series as different from any other X-Men comic, in several ways.)
I’m looking forward to the first issue in June.
Re: Hulk – I second the motion. That would be at the top of my reading list
I read ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ this week.
Haven’t picked up comics for a couple of weeks, but I am just whizzing right through “Furies of Calderon” by Jim Butcher. I love his Dresden Files series and he stretches his literary muscles with this new (to me – copyright is 2004) series. Book two awaits after I kill this last 50 pages this morning…
I’m currently reading “Journey to the End of the Night” by Louis Ferdinand Céline and wow! It’s QUITE a trip! I really love that book, it’s totally crazy but sooo dark. Incidentally i wanted to make a pause the other night and read something lighter and i picked “Aquaman: Time & Tide” which i had yet to read since i bought it. It was a really cool reading but to be honest it was frustrating because it was good and therefore waaaaaay too short IMO. I’d have loved at least 2 more issues, i really felt as if you had many more things to say about Arthur/Orin’s youth and didn’t have enough space to tell the whole story and i wondered if the 4-issues was your choice for it or something DC asked you to make with? Anyway i loved many things including these hilarious dialogues with the sharks and how you tripped on their lack of memory, or when Aquaman is told that “curry” is a spice so he can’t go with that name because it’d be ridiculous. There was all along that perfect balance between light humor and darker drama that i’ve always loved in your work. I wish the ongoing was collected as well…
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It’s been a busy week reading-wise for me; first up was finishing off Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars, which is one of those ‘been meaning to read for ages, finally got around to it’ sort of books. It was as awesome as I hoped it would be and has me scrambling for Planetary Romance books of any stripe. Luckily publishing house Planet Stories has the hook-up with Almuric by Robert E. Howard. Looking forward to delving into that one.
Comics-wise I read and enjoyed Gray/Palmiotti/Connor’s first issue of Power Girl, which I think will be a book I intend to follow with some regularity. Grell’s The Warlord #2 was a vast improvement over issue #1, so he’s got my money for the long haul. Tomasi, Champagne, and Snejberg(sounds like a naughty evening)’s work on The Mighty has made it an equal parts fun and creepy deconstructionist take on the Superman archetype that I’d encourage you to seek out.
In trades I went onto a big western kick starting with Garth Ennis and Mike Wolfer’s Streets of Glory. While Ennis tends to make my molars grind when he goes anywhere near superheroes, I can’t deny his ability as a storyteller of grim, hard tales of the old west. Wolfer’s art is dámņ good too, bringing in both the beauty of the environment and the horror of the sudden violence of Ennis’s prose. Really good. I also got caught up on Gray and Palmiotti’s frankly amazing work reviving the character of Jonah Hex, picking up Only the Good Die Young, Luck Runs Out, and Bullets Don’t Lie (volumes 4-6 respectively). If you want entertaining done-in-one stories with a badass lead character I’d say give these a try. They’re a welcome break from all the cape and tights continuity clusterpiles out there.
Whew. It’s a pretty tall stack and I plan to go more in depth into reviewing on my blog, but that’s a rough list of what I’ve been into of late. Next up? Marvel’s Spider-Man 2099. Illustrated by Rick Leonardi and written by some guy. . .Patrick? Paul? Percy? It’ll come to me eventually. In any case, it looks like a helluva lot of fun.
Stacy
Ps. I kid, I kid. Looking forward to reading the book Peter. You? You’re awesome.
I read that CHUCK, BETTER OFF TED and DOLLHOUSE have been renewed! Woohoo!
Got my comics today, and also a big honkin’ book by Joe Simon, The Best of Simon and Kirby, copyright Joe Simon and the estate of Jack Kirby, Titan Books, $39.95, and worth every frakkin’ cent.
Jack of Fables – The Great Fables Crossover is the best story in the Fables franchise in ages. I hope this rubs off on the regular titles later.
Batman: Battle for the Cowl – The story ends about where we thought it would, but doesn’t really end. It’s all set-up. I could have skipped this, though it wasn’t a bad miniseries, merely extraneous.
Angel – A bit odd and not really what I want from an Angel comic, and the art is iffy, but still entertaining and better than the Buffy comic has been for some time.
The quarterly Ex Machina came out this week.
.
2 comics for kids from BOOM!
.
Herogasm, a The Boys spin off.
.
The comic that I will probably enjoy the most this week is Tiny Titans. The cover has Supergirl and Kid Flash in a race. Also, a special appearance by Lobo.
Just read Hulk #12 the story was ok, but i wonder if anyone else is tired of not knowing who or what the red hulk is?
Yes, and I haven’t even followed it for 6 months.
Let’s see…I run an online funnybook subscription service, and I am evil and take library privileges.
Books read but not collected: Boys Herogasm #1 (either you like Ennis’ stuff or you don’t…I do, so here more of it is), Ex Machina #42, Fantastic Four #566 (enjoyed both of them), Hulk #12 (liked it, but yes, Steve, I too am getting sick up to my clavicle of not knowing who the Red Hulk is), Supergirl (the whole World of Krypton thing is starting to wear on me), and Superman Batman (another parallel world story with familiar-yet-not-quite characters…yawn).
Books collected personally, Big Book of Barry Ween (stellar, wonderful to have it in a single volume), Brave and the Bold #23 (we’ll see…like the art), Incredibles Family Matters #2 (enjoying it), PVP Animated Series DVD (a stitch), Superman Ending Battle collection (liked the original stories when I read them, and it’s nice to have the trade).
So the big items I got this week were things I’d read before. A good week, though.
I hate to admit it, but this week my fun reading has consisted almost entirely of Potato Moon. Seriously. I’m about to commence upon parts 31-33. Otherwise it’s been policy memos, which is Not Pleasant.
I bought the “X-Men Forever” prologue issue, which is mostly reprint, with eight new pages at the end.
I really like this idea. I’d love to see a similar series with “What if Peter David hadn’t left the Hulk with issue 467?”
But in the meantime, this seems pretty cool. This whole thing already feels more *right* somehow than some of the other attempts to bring Claremont back to the X-franchise. I hope this does well and Claremont is allowed to really go nuts with this. (There is a great twist at the end of the franchise that really gives an “anything can happen” feel to the whole thing. I REALLY hope it is not a feint, because it is quite a brilliant way to establish this series as different from any other X-Men comic, in several ways.)
I’m looking forward to the first issue in June.
Re: Hulk – I second the motion. That would be at the top of my reading list
I read ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ this week.
Haven’t picked up comics for a couple of weeks, but I am just whizzing right through “Furies of Calderon” by Jim Butcher. I love his Dresden Files series and he stretches his literary muscles with this new (to me – copyright is 2004) series. Book two awaits after I kill this last 50 pages this morning…
I’m currently reading “Journey to the End of the Night” by Louis Ferdinand Céline and wow! It’s QUITE a trip! I really love that book, it’s totally crazy but sooo dark. Incidentally i wanted to make a pause the other night and read something lighter and i picked “Aquaman: Time & Tide” which i had yet to read since i bought it. It was a really cool reading but to be honest it was frustrating because it was good and therefore waaaaaay too short IMO. I’d have loved at least 2 more issues, i really felt as if you had many more things to say about Arthur/Orin’s youth and didn’t have enough space to tell the whole story and i wondered if the 4-issues was your choice for it or something DC asked you to make with? Anyway i loved many things including these hilarious dialogues with the sharks and how you tripped on their lack of memory, or when Aquaman is told that “curry” is a spice so he can’t go with that name because it’d be ridiculous. There was all along that perfect balance between light humor and darker drama that i’ve always loved in your work. I wish the ongoing was collected as well…