So Baz has been trying to work his way through a Far Side collection. It is an uphill battle for the following reasons ( Read more... )

Not in the good way ( Read more... )

Our library has a selection of graphic novels/trade paperbacks. It's not extensive, but they get props for having it (weirdly shelved in Art, but still there). I picked up a collection of strips called Modesty Blaise: Top Traitor. It's RIPPING. Modesty, a sultry-eyed secret-agent/former-crime-lord, um, fights crime. With her trusty cockney sidekick ( Read more... )

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( spoilertastic for the book, I haven't seen the movie )

On comic books: Still, always tragically behind, but I finished by Savage She-Hulk omnibus. Also, Powers #30 for the win. Also also, Baz is intrigued by Red Hulk, and wants to know if he's from a different country or something. I told him we would keep the comic books, and when he could read, he could find out for himself. Then he stayed up later ( Read more... )

( cut for the bored )

I am firing Zanadu.
( comic store-related ranting below )

No, I haven't read any of them yet, but I went to pick up what was ready of my pull-list from Zanadu. I got 4 titles, so I suspect they didn't get them all, but I only gave them the list on Monday, so I doubt it's all internalized. One must pick up her own comics out of the folders in back. We are #68, just shy of sex-requiring-balance (I have ( Read more... )

Yesterday, we made a momentous change -- we switched our comics pull list from Comic Book Ink (who we loved but were an inconvenient 30-mile round trip) to Zanadu Comics. Zanadu wins hands-down on location, being 2.5 blocks from where we work. So far, though, they do not win on cheeriness, friendliness, or flexibility. Also, I got a sort of weird ( Read more... )