Yesterday's library trip
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:
Returned:
- Complete Atomic City tales,vol.1: ( Read more... )
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 but I'd really rather have hard copy? I think Mr Morrison is seriously good btw.
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.
I am very much the same. That is where the Bach came from. I just discovered the UHL system online catalogue recently though and I've been indulging the loan part. (I am trying not to spend any money right now on books (very awkward that) because I have already paid for the World Fantasy Con in November and I would really like to go to it. I don't have a big hard drive. ;-))
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.
Danke. Carey will be finishing the series sometime in 2006. He is also pretty good, I think, altho even more of a niche author than some of the others.
Ok, superhero comics I've read lately that interpolate noir PI or police
procedural pastiches..
Top Ten: Alan Moore looks at the
detective squad in a city where everyone's a
superhero.
Any good?
I haven't read Jim Butcher.
I think you'd like him and like the _Lucifer_ would be happy to loan this out if you get interested. Light, fun, but very very good (solid world building, plotting, characterization and such.)
I did just finish reading all ofSandman, and I recommend it, though I have trouble remembering how
all the characters know each other.
*grin* This is a should read and I want to but the library doesn't have these. I think Gaiman shifted gears in (as Carey found his voice in Vol 4.) Have you heard of Mirrormask?
I prefer the stand-alone issues
collected in books 3, 6 and to a lesser extent 8 over any of the story
arcs, but volume four, "A Game of You," is the single long arc by which I
find myself amazed and touched.
*sigh* well if I don't go to the con I am sure my disposable pennies will partially go here.
Comics I'd recommend ..
Thanks, very! Noted. Have you read Morrison's _Invisibles_ yet?
Mmmph. That must be part of the hard drive thingy. Someone wrote me this week and said he thought they would give me nightmares. I cancelled the order except for the first one.. but I am a little twitched. I'd rather not have any nightmares if possible.
Linkage: http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=5783 there's spoilers in the way carey does em but they are the mild but good kind.. ie pay close attention to the first book. Prolly avoid this link, if you're a purist.
And thanks for the posting.
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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 work that I like seems to be very much about comics; he makes the metafiction an element of the plot.
I do in fact like more comic art than I hate, but that which I hate tends to stay with me more. One of the disservices really bad art does is get in between me and the story, so that unassumingness can become itself a virtue. That said, I can't think of too much art I've really hated: Marc Hempel's work on Sandman: The Kindly Ones, which appears to combine an alternative comix style with the look of woodcuts into a whole that looks hamfisted and juvenile, is much of the reason I don't think more highly of the series as a whole; and while I love Kyle Baker's writing, his anarchic and cartoonish work is wholly more inappropriate to the serious downer-fest of Truth: Red, White and Black than it is to the new Plastic Man, and even there it doesn't look right.
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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.
It isn't one library but about thirteen, linked.. excepting Sch'dy. That has me curious as they were sorta known for their SF collection, back in the day. There is a Gunther Korus potrait of one of my sisters hanging there btw (she is wearing a shirt of mine and her feet look huge so this is OK. Mr Korus once suggested that I keep art as a hobby.. just so you can appropriately frame my remarks here;-))
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.
No worries. As you wish.
I really enjoyed Top Ten.
I will keep that in mind. The grokking of why and what seems to be harder come by.
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.
I have only read one of his.
Watchmen was no fun,
How so?
and I let that color my view of him, and comics, for a long time.
*blink* the genre?
His Swamp Thing, though not much for the hijinks, has turned out to be one of my favorite comics ever.) His late work that I like seems to be very much about comics; he makes the metafiction an element of the plot.
ST is seminal. Of course I haven't read it. I am not typically gendered but I am waited for other stories. Being 45 I am not as patient as perhaps I should be.
Is that what you like about him?
I do in fact like more comic art than I hate, but that which I hate tends to stay with me more.
*smile* that is _rather_ american. I don't hate any per se. I just, well, Quitely did soemthing a little different.. I like McKean's work (do see Mirrormask?) and also
so.. who what do you like then?
One of the disservices really bad art does is get in between me and the story, so that unassumingness can become itself a virtue.
Yes.. I want the art to hold up its end. That is really what I was on about when I was posting. Because I think that it can. This is/was more about cover art; but still.
That said, I can't think of too much art I've really hated: Marc Hempel's work on Sandman: The Kindly Ones, which appears to combine an alternative comix style with the look of woodcuts into a whole that looks hamfisted and juvenile, is much of the reason I don't think more highly of the series as a whole; and while I love Kyle Baker's writing, his anarchic and cartoonish work is wholly more inappropriate to the serious downer-fest of Truth: Red, White and Black than it is to the new Plastic Man, and even there it doesn't look right
How not right?
I suspect. I thought about this last night you are going to have my to read list very full. Will you take some pics in Peru?
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