Weekend Reading-- Beans and Dreams


Driving in to work this morning, I was listening to Wood and Vince on the 11 O'Clock Comics podcast talk about Beanworld. This made me both happy and sad. I was happy to hear them talk about Larry Marder's fantastic comic but sad that I've had Dark Horse's three hardcovers sitting on a shelf and haven't been able to get to read through them yet. I've read a lot of Beanworld but it's been while since I last dived into the series. I really want to try and find a chunk of time to sit down and go through all three of the books, immersing myself in Marder's world. The other night, I got to see Neil Gaiman do a reading out in Naperville. While there, I picked up a copy of P.Craig Russell's adaptation of The Dream Hunters. For some reason when it was coming out as a comic, Russell's version of this story, originally a novella illlustrated by Yoshika Amano, just didn't click with me. But looking through this collection, I'm just completely in awe of Russell's lyrical style. I just love his artwork and it looks fantastic in this book.