Achewood, Chris Onstad
Is honest to doggy my favourite thing ever.
All-Star Superman, Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely
Yeah, okay, don't know if it would be on any top ten type lists of mine.
Black Hole
I bought this for a friend's birthday, read it quickly before I wrapped it, and should probably go back and read it again. Also, be a less crappy present giver.
Blankets, Craig Thompson
And apparently that's a a habit of mine because I did exactly the same thing with this. Oops. Also on I should read again.
DC: The New Frontier, Darwyn Cooke
I really enjoyed this.
Eightball #23 (“The Death Ray”), Daniel Clowes
Yup.
The Goon, Eric Powell
Meh.
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
I was put off reading this for ages because of all the hype, but I loved it. I've read it four or five times in the last few months. Still haven't watched the film though.
Promethea, Alan Moore & J.H. Williams III
I really was not a huge fan of this. If they wanted an Alan Moore on the list why not The Black Dossier?
Y: The Last Man, Brian K. Vaughan
I was so invested in this that I'm still dealing with the trauma of the ending.
The others I haven't read, but I'm totes putting them on my Christmas list.
Like P-C, the absence of Powers seems weird to me.
I guess they picked
Daredevil
for their Bendis. Which I'm okay with, as it shows that you can be list-worthy even writing a mainstream title.
I've gotten yet another person hooked on
Firefly,
and his comment was "Jayne Cobb and Titus Pullo should open a bar together."
Black Hole
is great. Loved it a lot. When did
Epileptic
come out? It is also brilliant. Y is best though!
Has anyone read
Chew
? The first trade comes out tomorrow and I'm going to pick it up. A co-worker recommended it to me, and it sounds pretty interesting and entertaining.
True Stories of the 'Core Marvel Universe':
In the Marvel Universe, Thor -- the literal Norse god of Thunder -- was turned into a frog for three issues, including one where his magic hammer turned him into a 6'6" frog-man (er, frog-god), which had the side effect of chipping his hammer so that another frog (who had once been a man before he was cursed by a fortune-teller) could turn into a normal-sized frog-god, which came in handy when he had to team up with a teleporting dog and a sabretooth tiger to get magic gems back from an alien from Jupiter's moon who was in love with the living embodiment of Death.
In the Marvel Universe, Thor -- the literal Norse god of Thunder -- was turned into a frog for three issues, including one where his magic hammer turned him into a 6'6" frog-man
Well, yeah, but that was a great Walt Simonson story.
I have no idea why comics got such a bad rap.
I picked up the first
Chew
trade, and it's good stuff. I recommend it.
