Well, brought on more by stuff (like that fic that Teppy linked to last week) outside of the book than in the book itself. . . (because Dick isn't really in a fun place right now, is he?)

Well, brought on more by stuff (like that fic that Teppy linked to last week) outside of the book than in the book itself. . .

Heh. I gotta run to the comic store at lunch and pick up 2 weeks' worth of comics, including a bunch that aren't on my regular pull list.

What are your five desert island comics?

Mine are:

• Love and Rockets
• Hicksville, by Dylan Horrocks
• Bone, by Jeff Smith
• The Cartoon History of the Universe, by Larry Gonick
• The Complete Peanuts, by Schulz

(a very close runner-up is Why I Hate Saturn, by Kyle Baker

What are your five desert island comics?

Nice to see some love for Zot.

I'm just going to go with my most pleasurable comic reading experiences.

1. Love & Rockets
2. Swamp Thing (Moore run)
3. The Invisibles
4. Nexus
5. Hmmmm. Feels like I should toss in something mainstream superheroish here to at least honor my early enthusiasms. Could be the Claremont X-Men. Could be the Denny O'Neil/Neal Adams Batman. But I think I'll opt for Walt Simonson's run on Thor. That was fun, and it looked great too. Beta Ray Bill!

Honorable Mention: Zot, Mister Miracle (I liked all of Kirby's 4th World stories, but Scott Free's escape from Apokolips fired up my 10 y.o. imagination), American Flagg, Miller's Daredevil, Eightball, Hate, Jim Woodring, Pogo, Krazy Kat.

• Sandman
• Starman
• JSA
• Spider-Woman V1
• Batgirl: Year One

On account of I believe in being entertained while I'm on my desert island, and not depressed, I have left off several worthy classics.

Only one bat-title for Ple! Well, at least Spider-Woman retains her hold over Ple's imagination.

See: entertained, not depressed. Also, everything I put up there save JSA involves a fairly complete story arc, even if the characters do pop up again from time to time, so I wouldn't be wishing I had that issue where it crossed over with X and then zipped into Y for a while.

Actually, I may go ahead and swap Young Justice for JSA. It's a coin toss, which I tried to type toin coss, as they're the two books that have made me WEEP LIKE A GIRLY MAN.

Shreddies:

I'm out of Spider-Woman. The re-read is complete. Now I'm cursing and needing to track down various Avengers and Wolverine issues, as well as Alias 19-21.

And then? Then there shall be fic.

Oh yes.

Because Jessica needs love from someone other than Bendis. Also, because Bendis claims that he has no intention of Lindsay showing up, and I need more Lindsay.

Vague spoiler of the "probably only Victor and I care" sort up there. And I could be projecting about Victor.

I liked all of Kirby's 4th World stories, but Scott Free's escape from Apokolips fired up my 10 y.o. imagination

For me it was "The Pact" (I think) which was the story of how Scott wound up on Apokolips (and Orion wound up on New Genesis) in the first place.

So I'll throw that one out there:

• New Gods
• Legion of Super Heroes v3
• Powers
• The Complete Peanuts, by Schulz
• the complete Bloom County

Hmmm. This is mostly a list of what I'd like to curl up and read from end to end now...but I think they'd be okay on a desert island too

• Sandman
• Uncanny X-Men
• Batgirl
• Hellblazer
• Books of Magic

Joss Astounishing for another year.