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dherblay

Yesterday's library trip

Aug 13, 2005 20:53

As well as my fitness kick, I've been on a real graphic novel tear, because nothing says fitness and athleticism like a great big stack of comic books. I've been following my own advice and visiting my local libraries. Yesterday, I finally managed to restrain myself and return more books than I took out.

Returned:

Complete Atomic City tales,vol.1: ( Read more... )

comic books

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angeyja August 14 2005, 01:53:26 UTC

I have _Gift_ coming on ILL btw. And eleven others. I've only read _Endless Nights_ on the Sandman but if you are still thinking of _Lucifer_ reading these first is more traditional.

dherblay August 14 2005, 03:36:53 UTC

I'm thinking of Lucifer! I'm thinking of that and Fables.

well, thinking is good.. can be angeyja August 14 2005, 23:02:58 UTC

..you're a bad influence:
http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=angeyja scan down to the ILL section.

While I am at it, googling your pen pal yields a top hit of:
CHAPTER 33 The Motive Powers of Destructionism
http://www.econlib.org/library/Mises/msS12.html

Thought you might like to know. Speaking of thinking, anything on the X-men yet?

I've been writing on Lucifer too much the last couple of weeks and am getting a little burnt on it now. And re: The Dark Knight Returns is that one you've just read now for the first time?

Re: well, thinking is good.. can be dherblay August 14 2005, 23:37:18 UTC

Yay for being a bad influence! Though, I've read only three of those! (Painting that ate Paris, Death: The High Cost of Living, and Gifted.) I don't really have too many thoughts on X-Men yet. I'm only up through vol. 4. Plus, I don't think all that often.

I read Dark Knight Returns in 1994 or 1995, and I may have read it before that in 1988-1990, though I doubt that. What I just now read was Dark Knight Strikes Again, which is the sequel, much in the same way that Demetrius and the Gladiator is the sequel to The Robe.

Re: well, .. angeyja August 15 2005, 01:17:24 UTC

..more reminded than influenced maybe. I can't blame you for me!

I went to looksee if there were any Fables in the network, and then one thing sort of led to another.

angeyja August 20 2005, 01:33:43 UTC

I am several into _Fables_ now.

D'H, I have to ask about _The Gift_ and the Quitely connection? I am not seeing it at all.

And it isn't relevant to the pencillers but I was a little disappointed by _The Gift_. Did you like it?

dherblay August 20 2005, 01:42:40 UTC

Do you mean Gifted? I guess the connection in my mind was that they were the two 21st Century X-Men pencillers I had experience of, and I think the first since The Age of Apocalypse back in '95.

The high point of Gifted for me was the last panel of the second issue, where Whedon leads the reader to seriously believe that Hank desires to rid himself of his mutation. Beyond that, I can't recall much of what happens (Colossus comes back).

I read the first volume of Fables last night. It was pleasant, but I wasn't blown away. I guess I expected something a little more fantastic and less procedural (though the procedures were the stuff of fantasy). I've read too many noir pastiche comic books recently.

angeyja August 20 2005, 02:06:02 UTC

Do you mean Gifted ( ... )

dherblay August 20 2005, 02:48:01 UTC

I was reading someone over from dc_clocktower reviewing the new Frank Miller Batman & Robin book, and she said something about having to learn to look at the artwork instead of just skipping from word balloon to word balloon. That's still something I have to work on! I can generally remember what I dislike, and occasionally even what I like, but I'm not sure I've learned to associate those reactions with the artist's name.

Has the second collection of Joss's X-Men been released yet? I have every comic penned by Grant Morrison through the middle of 2004 sitting on my hard-drive (don't tell the FBI), but when I walk into a library I can be overcome with the need to grab, grab, grab, and then those books take precedence until their due dates. But I am looking forward to reading these, and once I do, I will let you know what I think, even if it's just a perfunctory comment.

Ok, superhero comics I've read lately that interpolate noir PI or police procedural pastiches:

Gotham Central, the first two collections: Homicide on Batman's streets
Madrox: the X ( ... )

angeyja August 21 2005, 00:37:20 UTC

I was reading someone

There's no reason you have to work on it D'H. I did already mention my lack of "eye" and knowledge, yes? The Quitely thing just puzzled me. It is fine.

I was just thinking just now it would have been fun to see the Spectrum exhibit with you were you closer. Do you really dislike more than you like? That has me curious.

Has the second collection of Joss's X-Men been released yet?

I don't know; I read the collected Vol 1-6. I was sort of looking for a reason to read the balance. Marvel was my thing more than DC. (remember it was late 80s early 90s mainly.) I also read Death the Time of your Life last night and Fables:Wooden Soldiers and something pretty cool that Marissa Lingen is letting me beta. *crinkle nose* I tired to read the Bach Frederick the II book but I really don't think I can. It's done like a story and it just reads too much author interplation.

Ihave every comic penned by Grant Morrison through the middle of 2004
sitting on my hard-drive (don't tell the FBI),I like looking on screen ( ... )

dherblay August 21 2005, 01:34:25 UTC

Go to the Con! I'd much rather you have fun than Neil Gaiman have money. The one thing about Sandman is that libraries are pretty much required to have them, even snooty ones in Bath (ask atpotch). (Oh, wait, your library doesn't. It does look like someone's gone through and pretty much either checked out or stolen every copy!) I haven't read The Invisibles yet -- libraries aren't required to have at least the first volume (Cleveland Heights has only the second) -- but it's on my hard drive yadda yadda. Because I too would prefer to read comics in hard copy rather than on the computer if I can help it, I probably won't get to it until after I'm back from Peru.

I really enjoyed Top Ten. I find myself really liking Alan Moore's work, especially in later things like Top Ten and Supreme (which I read today) and Tom Strong where he just has fun. Watchmen was no fun, and I let that color my view of him, and comics, for a long time. (His Swamp Thing, though not much for the hijinks, has turned out to be one of my favorite comics ever.) His late ( ... )

Death has my smile angeyja August 21 2005, 02:39:36 UTC

Go to the Con!

I am trying. I already paid for the bloody thing, and the next in 2006 (palencar) and I really want to see the artwork in person; it is supposed to be unexeceptional.

I'd much rather you have fun than Neil Gaiman have money.

*smile* I do like Neil though. It is more that I put a chunk in the car last month. And ben's tuition.

The one thing about Sandman is that libraries are pretty much required to have them, even snooty ones in Bath.

Albany is often described as a slice of the midwest plunked into NY. Nice for bellweather plotting; not so for graphic novels.

(Oh, wait, your library doesn't. It does look like someone's gone through and pretty much either checked out or stolen every copy!)It is a bit odd... when something newly purchased hangs out for three weeks being "catalogued." Slow readers on staff ( ... )

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