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Comics Read in November

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00:06 / 19.11.03

I just today received New X-Men's New Worlds tpb and am currently reviewing it away from work. These issues are largely the middle chapter filler stories that are 'necessary' in crafting a grand cycle like Morrison's within a franchise. Can easily remove my continuity warden badge for the nearly nonsensical X-Corp groups. I will reserve judgement on the disagreements around Fantomex' entrance until we've seen the end.

I began to reread my Filth run, last night. As far as three issues in, it already made oodles more sense to have one issue immediately follow the next (and the whole run to thumb through withal.)

Re Tom Strong et al:

Being able to gorge myself on the ABC universe's vast (beit sometimes slow) output to its fullest extent has satisfied the "I must have it all" urge I have always fought with comics. Most other options would either provide me with choices that I would buy and regret or would send me further down the American poverty chasm in my pursuit of completion. ABC (in its entirety), does neither and is, if not written by, inspired by one whom I call a "Genius That Lives".

Last week, I picked up issues three and five of Terra Obscura. I read issue four without realizing that I hadn't picked up three. It will be nice to sit with all five and better get to know this complete other world of new characters. I do admit that knowing how much of Tom Strong's affiliated universe is not Moore material causes me to more carefully weigh my future acquisitions.

09:06 / 19.11.03

Having a great time reading the first 20 issues of Fantastic Four. Really digging Kirby's art for the first time; so many big headded villains! Stan and Jack actually appear in issue 10! Sue Storm is hurt by readers' comments in issue 11! Meta fiction with really big heads! YAY!

ULTIMATE CURRRRLASSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10:07 / 19.11.03

think sgood not to underestimate stan's contribution to those early issues. the dialogue is unrelentingly fraught and the sheer dysfunction of the characters is reinforced again and again. you want them to smile and pat each other on the back after they've mopped up the molecule man or whatever, but they just keep on bickering.

16:12 / 19.11.03

Fraely: Are you reading those in the Essential Fantastic Four collection? I have that on order... eeeee, now I really can't wait!

Aaand, I'm starting on X-Force/X-Statix tonight! EEEEEEE!!

00:41 / 20.11.03

Yeah, and lemme tell ya, it sure is a doozy of an essential read. The volume should be called the Ultimate Essential Classic Fantastic Four Genius With Jack 'n' Stan Marvel.

Yeah..They just keep bickering... and Doctor Doom always comes back...

00:22 / 27.11.03

Well, I am in hog heaven. I have the Essential Fantastic Four Vol 1 finally, NXM 149 (which I just read), and Radix bought up the rest of the X-Statix issues up to the current issue.

Now we have no money.

On a sad note, I looked at the new Catwoman... and I was really turned off. Her boobs and her butt look like they're made of silicone, there's a series of panels that show only her crotch in silhouette, then another of her boobs being zipped into her catsuit --and that's just the first three pages. So it looks like my Catwoman collection is complete for now.

00:31 / 27.11.03

Stan and Jack's FF is quite possibly my favourite superhero run of all time, and the Thing is right up there as one of my favourite superheroes. The fact that he's basically Kirby doesn't hurt any, either.

Oh, Kirby. How I miss you.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

00:42 / 27.11.03

Eightball #22. Fucking geez. This is the third time I read it (I wasn't craaaazy about it, I seem to remember) but this just gets better and better... and better. This has given me such a comics enthusiasm that I'm going to be tearing my hair out for a few days wondering what to do. (It's ok, comics always do that to me. They are like information explosions in my brain). So much in there, so much to like. And it's a single issue.

Is this the normal size for a single issue? This is the only issue I have... And it seems very... wide for a comic. Nothing wrong with that, it's a beautiful little package (so much condensed in there! As good as any "graphic novel") I'm just wondering what size he was working at. He must have been working pretty big, right?

Lovely, just lovely.

I just ordered David Boring as well. Someone help me!

(As much as I love comics, I really don't read them a lot because if I do I can't get anything done myself.. they really do seem to be the purest form of art for me. I've never known anything to affect me so much... I might just be odd, though. I've done it now though, must be up to about 3 or 4 comics (not including x-men, that's like chocolate) this year. example: after reading summer blonde I quit my job to draw a comic. Why are they like speed in my brain?)

01:27 / 27.11.03

They do that shit to me too, Suede. It's that right/left brain collusion.

02:01 / 27.11.03

Eightball #22 is awesome. I thought that Feel The Fear was very much in that vein, actually.

10:24 / 27.11.03

I htink I want to mention Ult6#4 here too. this really is a sprinkle me with sparkly shit til I call you mummy kind of comic. by whiich i mean i like it very much

generally bendis - peh, stop trying so hard to impress me - but his reversal of goodies and baddies in this book is fantastic. there's a scene in the latest issue where gwb is having a very big go at Fury, and you're cheering him on while he's doing it, because as has been laid out time and time again since the start of the Ultimate line, Fury is just fascist scum in gucci. get it? he makes gwb out to be the good-guy! audacious characterology and no mistake.

the rest of the ultimates just stand around detaining civilians for no reason and doing what they're told, while the sinister something burn with righteous anger at having had their human rights so unceremoniously stripped. meantime peter just stands around being impressed by his 'heroes' like some dumbfuck who should be out making his own way in the world, and then the goblin comes calling. it's wicked, really really fucking brilliant writing, and hairsine on pencils and pens is getting close to jhw3 quality.

gush gush, it just struck me pretty hard that one is all.

jack staff: please have jack staff do something other than getting smacked in the head paul, it's not funny any more.

and what else? i did get something else last weekend but can't remember what it was. i dunno is promethea out yet? or smax? will i be happy when i go to the shop on saturday?

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

14:23 / 27.11.03

Persephone : Eightball #22 is awesome. I thought that Feel The Fear was very much in that vein, actually.

This is me:

I am purring very loudly.

13:54 / 29.11.03

On Tom Strong: Peter Hogan wrote the last issue without even an Alan Moore plotting credit (though I'm sure Moore helped out a little bit), as I mentioned before. I thought it was interesting that at a recent convention, Jim Lee said Moore was choosing future guest-writers for TOM STRONG...he promised that they would be 'interesting' choices. I kind of hoped Moore would write the final issues of TS himself since he's ending the ABC line, and the world is ending and all, but hey...I gotta trust Moore, I guess.

The new CATWOMAN: decent writing by Brubaker, a little bland gangster-wise. The art by Gulacy: not so great. Seriously made me think about dropping this book, although I sort of want to see the Zeiss/Catwoman confrontation (did Brubaker create Zeiss, by the way? I think he did).

The most recent EMPIRE (#5) was pretty good!

03:09 / 30.11.03

I think Brubes created Zeiss; he had a pop at Batman when the fella wrote that title, anyway.

I see Geoff Johns is writing Tom Strong #25. To which I say, "baws."

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