Noir An Anthology Of Crime Comics TP-- It's been a year filled with crime graphic novels, hasn't it? Well, Dark Horse is here with their entry into that category with an anthology by a lot of comic writers and artists who do really good crime stories.
Sugarshock One Shot (One-Shot Wonders)-- This is yet another repacking of Joss Whedon and Fabio Moon's MySpace comic but it's some fun stuff. Maybe it's the Fabio Moon connection, but this story felt a lot like Whedon trying to pull a Fraction and write a crazy, stream of conscious type story.
Final Crisis Legion Of Three Worlds HC-- Let's just call this what it really is-- Legion of Super-Heroes porn. Luckily, I happen to be a fan of such stuff (hey, I actually enjoy The Lightning Saga) so this is up on my list of books to get. Other than the awful turn that the end takes (talks about by Chad Nevett and Tim Callahan
here coincidentally enough,) this isn't a bad story even if it short changes the Archie and the Waid Legions. The fun in this book was in the comfort it provided for a long time Legion fan. Does that make it a good book? No but it'll be a nice book to pull off the shelf now and again just to catch up with the Legion. Besides, everyone knows that the Time Trapper was Cosmic Boy.
Angel vs Frankenstein One Shot Incentive John Byrne Virgin Cover-- I'm not getting this. I'm just posting it because I have to chuckle every time I see the words "John Byrne Virgin" together. Yes, I'm only 12 years old.
Elephantmen #22-- Here's a title that I really need to try and reconnect with. The first 12-15 issues were some of my favorite books a few years ago but then the book hit all kinds of shipping issues and delays and, while I've gotten and enjoyed all of the issues since, I've lost track of the larger story that Richard Starkings is trying to tell.
Captain America Road To Reborn HC-- As far as I can tell, there's only 4 issues in this and Marvel is still charging $24.99 for this. That's over $6 per issue! I've been all over these hardcovers for a couple of years but this price point is ridiculous for what they're reprinting. Even if they reprint #601 twice (in color and again showcasing Gene Colan's black & white artwork,) that's still $5 per issue. I don't know if Marvel's trying to put a high price point on their collections in the hope that more people will go back to the single issues but all this is doing is making me think it's time to drop even more Marvel books in any sort of form.
Dominic Fortune #3-- Well, I'll drop anything that doesn't have midgets doing perverted acts. Luckily, Howard Chaykin's Dominic Fortune has midgets doing perverted acts so that book is safe.
Nexus Space Opera TP-- Kind of like Elephantmen, here was a book that wasn't helped at all by the delays and shipping issues. To this day, Nexus remains one of my all-time favorite comics but I couldn't muster up a lot of enthusiasm over this series because I couldn't follow it. Here's hoping that it holds together better as one large story and here's still hoping that this isn't the last we see of Baron and Rude's Nexus.
Naoki Urasawas 20th Century Boys Vol 5 GN-- Reading the 4th volume, Otcho became my favorite character in this series. Something about his journey, what little we know if it, really struck me. Much like he did in Monster, Urasawa is taking his time telling this story, giving the characters space and time so we can get to know them rather than having them just be means to deliver plot points.
Real Vol 6 GN-- Speaking of characters, I love how Inoue's story is more about broken people rather than wheelchair basketball. The game is what unites everyone but Inoue is telling a fantastic story about how our lives don't go the way we want them to. The saying is that life is what happens while you wait for your plan for your life to begin. While that may be a bit of a cliche, it's what Real is about as life happens to these young men, taking them off of the path they had planned out for themselves.
What A Wonderful World Vol 1 GN
What A Wonderful World Vol 2 GN-- These collections of Inio Asano's inter-connected short stories. After discovering Asano's Solanin late last year, I've been waiting to see more of his work.