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Stuff I've read today
May. 16th, 2012 10:21 pmHey,
So I chugged through a bunch of stuff today.
Comics: Went into Worcester and picked up my subscription. They sure do think I want The New Deadwardians. It's an interesting concept, but not really my bag. What did I get?
iZombie -- this is the comic book about hipster monsters in Eugene, Oregon fending off the apocalypse. It's been pretty good for its two-year run and apparently is ending with Issue 28. Which is good because it was starting to drag for me, but with only 3 issues to go, I'll be happy to ride it to the end.
Batman and Robin -- I think I'm pretty much done with this one. It's not bad, it's just not something I want to keep up with any more. I think the Bruce/Damien dynamic is pretty good but this last issue kinda went off the rails. I'm betting Chris Sims didn't care for it either.
The Sixth Gun -- A supernatural Western involving six guns forged by the Devil, each with a terrible mystic power. They keep doing interesting things with it and just when I think it's going to fall into wash-rinse-repeat mode, they change it up. In the previous issue, the heroine suffered hearing loss from an explosion so the entire issue was silent without dialog or even sound effects. It was interesting.
Cassanova -- This book. I really need to get all the issues together and read them back-to-back because it makes heavy use of multiverses and that means it can be wildly disjointed, but it continues to be fascinating even when you have to struggle a bit.
Fankenstein Agent of S.H.A.D.E -- Hands down my favorite "New DC" title. It's the Creature Commandos with a Hellboy twist. Always a good 32-pages of monster-on-monster beatdown.
Saga -- Oh man, this is just an excellent title and I strongly recommend it to folks. It's a "Demon and Angel fall in love and have a baby" deal except it's a super sci-fi setting so the Angel and Demon are aliens and there are intergalactic bounty hunters and...it's good stuff.
In the book department I've resumed my slow plow through the Dumarest Saga -- a series of books by E.C. Tubb about Earl Dumarest's quest to return home to long-forgotten Earth. Book six of the series Lallia finds Earl hiring on to a decrepit ship plying a region of space engulfed by a dust cloud. Along the way they pick up a beautiful woman named Lallia and have some adventures.
So, not gonna lie, the women are basically set dressing in these stories and you might expect that, like Conan's women, they never last from one book to the next. This particular story was pretty weak all around although Earl does get a lot of really useful information on this quest. Which is good because we're now one-fifth of the way through a 30+ book series spanning 30 years. I'll be interested to see how/if this series grows and changes as the author matures. Mindless popcorn reading, I'll let you know if gets stunning.
So that's what I've been reading. Next up: Vienna in 1889.
later
Tom
So I chugged through a bunch of stuff today.
Comics: Went into Worcester and picked up my subscription. They sure do think I want The New Deadwardians. It's an interesting concept, but not really my bag. What did I get?
iZombie -- this is the comic book about hipster monsters in Eugene, Oregon fending off the apocalypse. It's been pretty good for its two-year run and apparently is ending with Issue 28. Which is good because it was starting to drag for me, but with only 3 issues to go, I'll be happy to ride it to the end.
Batman and Robin -- I think I'm pretty much done with this one. It's not bad, it's just not something I want to keep up with any more. I think the Bruce/Damien dynamic is pretty good but this last issue kinda went off the rails. I'm betting Chris Sims didn't care for it either.
The Sixth Gun -- A supernatural Western involving six guns forged by the Devil, each with a terrible mystic power. They keep doing interesting things with it and just when I think it's going to fall into wash-rinse-repeat mode, they change it up. In the previous issue, the heroine suffered hearing loss from an explosion so the entire issue was silent without dialog or even sound effects. It was interesting.
Cassanova -- This book. I really need to get all the issues together and read them back-to-back because it makes heavy use of multiverses and that means it can be wildly disjointed, but it continues to be fascinating even when you have to struggle a bit.
Fankenstein Agent of S.H.A.D.E -- Hands down my favorite "New DC" title. It's the Creature Commandos with a Hellboy twist. Always a good 32-pages of monster-on-monster beatdown.
Saga -- Oh man, this is just an excellent title and I strongly recommend it to folks. It's a "Demon and Angel fall in love and have a baby" deal except it's a super sci-fi setting so the Angel and Demon are aliens and there are intergalactic bounty hunters and...it's good stuff.
In the book department I've resumed my slow plow through the Dumarest Saga -- a series of books by E.C. Tubb about Earl Dumarest's quest to return home to long-forgotten Earth. Book six of the series Lallia finds Earl hiring on to a decrepit ship plying a region of space engulfed by a dust cloud. Along the way they pick up a beautiful woman named Lallia and have some adventures.
So, not gonna lie, the women are basically set dressing in these stories and you might expect that, like Conan's women, they never last from one book to the next. This particular story was pretty weak all around although Earl does get a lot of really useful information on this quest. Which is good because we're now one-fifth of the way through a 30+ book series spanning 30 years. I'll be interested to see how/if this series grows and changes as the author matures. Mindless popcorn reading, I'll let you know if gets stunning.
So that's what I've been reading. Next up: Vienna in 1889.
later
Tom
