Reading Wednesday

[coffeeandink]

What are you reading now?
Sean Howe, Marvel Comics: The Untold Story. I started this on the way home last night, so I've only just gotten up to the invention of the Fantastic Four and Spider-man.  So far, my impressions are that the early twentieth-century magazine industry was extremely sketchy and that comics' habit of treating creative workers

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[elishavah]

I picked up Saga vol. 1 from the library recently at the suggestion of a friend, and I am fascinated by the world. But yeah, I wasn't sure if it was just me being fairly unfamiliar with current comics conventions or what, but while I appreciate being dropped in medias res as much as the next person, it does seem to move awfully fast. Maybe because of that, the most interesting characters for me so far are The Will and Lying Cat.

[coffeeandink]

I don't have trouble following anything, but so far I am much more interested in the world than in the individual characters.

[novin_ha]

I was very meh about the latest issue of Saga due to the fake-out (that kind of thing is best left to certain vampire franchises). But I really sympathise with both Alana and Marko, and I'm vaguely surprised by that, because I already like them more than I did Y: The Last Man protagonists. And the grandparents were a cool plot twist, or else I just really enjoy the idea of fantasy/sci-fi characters having grandparents.

[coffeeandink]

I liked the grandparents, too. The story seems to be accumulating a lot of different kinds of families.

[tavella]

Tony Stark did assassinate some Atlantean diplomats during Civil War, IIRC, but oddly enough was just fine with hanging with Namor and trying to run the world.

ETA: In fact, my memory is that his problem with Namor was that he walked out when Tony explained how they should run the world to the little cabal he had.

[coffeeandink]

That was T'Challa. Namor doesn't walk out until they discover the Skrull infiltration.

[cellia]

I think Stark brainwashed Osborn to assassinate them for... reasons? Not reasons in any way related to Namor or Atlantis, though. I think maybe it was supposed to fail? Or rally people together or something? I can't remember exactly. The comics tried presenting it as yet another "iffy but for attempted for the greater good," Tony did during "Civil War" but actually failed to give any compelling reason it needed to happen at all, making Tony (and the journalists who found out about it) look evil and/or dumb.