Yay, comics! I got:
Wormwood #3. Meh. It has a couple of laughs, but I feel like Garth Ennis is treading water.
Phonogram #6. I have to reread the whole thing in one gulp now, but I really enjoyed it even if I got almost none of the BritPop references. Thank goodness there's a glossary.
Black Summer #0. I'll just quote Ellis's backmatter: "What happens when a superhero's pursuit of justice leads him to the inexorable conclusion that he must kill his President to save his country?" I suspect the answer is: "Mayhem!"
Army@Love #s 1-3. Excellent. Sort of Transmet meets M*A*S*H (the movie, that is). Vicious and dark and hilarious. FX should make it into a series. Also, I love that there's a character named Flabbergast. I think this is my favorite new book since Casanova.
Has anyone read SPN #2 yet?
Do you think that
the unnamed hunter is someone we've seen or heard of in the show, or someone new? Continuitywise, I'd love him to be Bill Harvelle, but my vision of Bill is a little more rural hunter and a little less paramilitary badass.
I know it's not show canon, but the comic
really makes John's choices more understandable. So far two of the people who formed Mary's (and presumably the family's) main support system are dead, and everyone new who helps out John is tied in with the hunting/supernatural world.
Also, love the
Impala
origins.
Oh, it would be great if the
unknown hunter were Bill Harvelle!
And so fars as the
Impala
part of the story goes -- didn't
John already have the car in the
pilot?
You're right about the
impala,
sumi. I had forgotten that. So maybe he has
two of them
now?
Do you think that
Well, I think
that he looks a bit too old. But the art is (IMHO) kinda crappy, so it may not be a good indicator of age
.
didn't... pilot
I checked (because I'm like that), and while
it does look like John is sitting on the Impala with the boys, you can also see the station wagon parked in the driveway. So one could wank that the uncle came over because of the fire. Or, John left the Impala with Mary's family because he had the boys with him and needed the wagon to cart them around.
I was thinking it might be
Elkins. Or someone else of that general age group. Probably not Bill, because I think he looked older than that, even allowing for art stuff.
Fables I'm a bit meh about. I just don't see what all the fuss is about
I felt the exact same way about it. I have friends who think
Fables
is super-nifty, but ... meh. I kept being distracted by how much
better
it could have been.
Cover for the Buffy Season 8, arc 1 trade (coming out in September.)
And the Alternate cover for Buffy Season 8 #6. Although, I really, really liked the regular one, you know?
Cover for the Buffy Season 8, arc 1 trade (coming out in September.)
So it's Buffy, Xander, and... the ship's captain from Starship Troopers?
