Oh, no, Tom! Not, obviously, that I know that shop at all, but the loss of any brick-and-mortar bookstore is a sorrow. At least it sounds like they have plans for some kind of ongoing existence as a press if not a physical store?
On a completely other Other Media topic... I just finished S1 of
Daredevil
and loved it rather a lot despite having zero previous knowledge of the character or his world. So what of the considerable amount of written and drawn Daredevil should I be seeking out (or are there any storylines/writers I need to avoid) between now and whenever S2 happens to get fully caught up on the history and texture of his life and Hell's Kitchen and where it all falls in the bigger Marvel 'verse?
So what of the considerable amount of written and drawn Daredevil should I be seeking out
You're lucky in that Daredevil has probably had more great story arcs by more great writer/artist teams than any other character in the MCU.
Oh no! I love Bergen Street Comics! Made extra special by the memory of hanging there with Scola!
So what of the considerable amount of written and drawn Daredevil should I be seeking out (or are there any storylines/writers I need to avoid) between now and whenever S2 happens to get fully caught up on the history and texture of his life and Hell's Kitchen and where it all falls in the bigger Marvel 'verse?
The show takes most of its cues from the Miller run and the Bendis/Maleev run. The Brubaker/Lark run is pretty good too and includes a volume co-written with your pal Greg Rucka.
You will want to read the Miller run before S2 because Elektra.
Anyone else reading Gaiman's Sandman: Overture?
Yes, and ... meh. I feel like it was mostly unnecessary, and that's not how I'm supposed to feel about Sandman.
I liked it, but I'm left wondering
how the hell Desire was able to pull a ship out of the Dreaming and keep it from showing up in Destiny's book.
Noelle Stevenson just became the youngest author ever to be a National Book Award finalist.
