I am sooooo behind on 1602.

I don't know -- they did say "ashes." I didn't see her death coming, and I realise that I really should have, because protecting shipmates and dying doing so is how it went down the first time.

Reading these posts without highlighting the spoilers is very interesting.

That is all.

I should be able to pick up my new "tales" and "1602" after work -- cannot wait.

I am looking forward to more people having read 1602 #7. I want to discuss!

I was at the comicbook store the other day unfortunately it was the day before Tales of the Vampires #3 came out. I looked at 1602 because so many people here have been talking about it. They had all the copies except the first one, so I didn't get them.

Just got done reading this week's selection of new comics. This is my favorite ToV so far. But I liked Jane's story better than Ultimate!Drew's. God I love that woman and want to feast on her brains daily. I (spoilery - in a big way for the Goddard/Dracula story) laughed a lot at the Goddard story - funny - very funny, but I couldn't enjoy it as much as I should have because of the Xander-as-the-ultimate-buttmonkey yet again stuff. I know, I know. Get a sense of humor already, Tina - it's a comic. I have Xander issues. I'm not too proud to admit it.

I am excited to see an Edlund-written story in the next installment.

Comicbook store dude told me that there is a very strong rumor that Brian Vaughan's name is in the hat as an upcoming X-Men writer along with everybody elses. This would make me infinitely happy. Though he already seems to have a lot on his plate (Y, Runaways, Spiderman & Doc Oc).

Speaking of vampires: last week I bought and thoroughly enjoyed the 30 Days and Nights tpb. Iffin' you like the vamp tales - I thought it was a pretty good one.

Speaking of vampires: last week I bought and thoroughly enjoyed the 30 Days and Nights tpb. Iffin' you like the vamp tales - I thought it was a pretty good one.

Definitely. Written by Steve Niles and illustrated by Ben Templesmith, it is a really cool story with a premise (vampires take on Barrow, Alaska in the winter when it is perpetually dark for 30 days in the winter) that makes everybody go "why didn't I think of that?" A sequel to the series just finished in December that should be collected soon and was just as good. (There was also a collection of 4 short stories that came out last week se in the same universe). Templesmith was also the guy who created the cover for Tales of the Vampires #2.

Speaking of Tales, the Dracula story was prestty funny, and Jane's story was well done. The framing sequence (whitefonted to let everyone get to it) makes clear that it takes place in an earlier age, and the Tales are said to be "some that have yet been", so my theory that the protagonist is Gile's grandmother is still a possibility).

1602 was full of HSQ, and moved quickly, but I have a hard time figuring out how they are going to wrap things up in one more issue. The reveal at the end seemingly raises more questions, but I guess I'd still have similar questions if Virginia had been revealed to be the Traveller.

The bit about Neil Gaiman'sReed Richard's comments on stories was interesting, if a bit meta. His comment how a cure for Ben Grimm would be bad for a story rings particularly true after that past year in the Fantastic Four.

Jeff -

(There was also a collection of 4 short stories that came out last week se in the same universe)

Are they all drawn by Templesmith and was one of them Love Me Tenderloin ?

I picked up 30 Days and Night due to recognizing his name from ToV #2 and loving the cover. I am new to his work - but I bought the above oddly named comic and LOOOVED it - if this is one of the short stories - I gotta get the rest. Did Niles write the other ones? Sorry - I'm sure I could look this up myself. But ...you know, lazy.

Re: ToV:

I thought Roger might be Roger Wyndam-Pryce, but realized RW-P's childhood post-dates electric light by quite a bit (the girl writing by candle being the big time period clue we've got so far).

And yes -- JE's story was much the strongest in this one.