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Comic Run 05-21-10

Friday, May 21st, 2010

A day late. Ah well, there are things tomorrow.

American Vampire #3
YAY VENGEANCE! This is just fun. Vampires can be fun again! Not angsty, not absorbed in romance, just a whole lot of fun seeking out revenge and hunters and the hunted and all that fun stuff. It’s about time we got some of this. It’s been far too long.

Devil #4
I’m pretty sure this story didn’t actually make any sense. Caged devil wants out, but she can’t actually ever leave. And the monster that isn’t hurt with explosions, cars running into it or gunfire gets cut with a sword. Yeah, not sense making.

Joe the Barbarian #5
NO! JACK! I really liked this one, though. Lots of interplay between the two universes and there’s even a little bit of a conversation with mom this time around to show that there are dire troubles in both worlds. And the lines between the universes blur a little more.

Kill Shakespeare #2
I’m not sure how I feel about this anymore. Mostly because little progress was actually made in the story. They start out and mutiny goes afoot as soon as Hamlet gets knocked out. I thought they’d be travelling in a smaller pack, I guess, and it would focus more on Hamlet’s journey than the evilness of King Richard.

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Comic Run 04-29-10

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Big haul today. Which was probably dumb since Free Comic Book Day is on Saturday. Ah well.

American Vampire #2
Okay, I’m pretty sure that the Stephen King story does fit pretty seamlessly into the main story, or it will. Still, I think I’m enjoying the main story more, what with her now left alone to figure out what being a vampire entails while her only potential teacher goes off to somewhere else. This is going to be fun.

Garrison #1
Near as I can tell, it’s the future and surveillance has rendered crime inert because the American populace has given up their right to privacy. And then there’s a guy named Garrison who has a mental hit list and is going around killing a large number of people. This is all I got so far.

The Great Unknown #3
At bloody last! I don’t know that it’s worth the wait because the top half of the book is essentially a tirade on piracy in the modern age and it takes it’s sweet time getting on with the story, but it’s still nice seeing another installment of it again. So, I’ll be seeing the next issue in another six months, right?

The Guild #2
Aw, she’s so cute with her finally figuring out the game and having it turn her into one of those “WoW is awesome but I still have a life” pre-zombie kids. It’s only a matter of time, though, young Codex. Also, I really am kind of starting to detest that psychologist she goes to. Just a little.

The Last Unicorn #1
Accurate to the book rather that the movie, I presume, but nothing actually happens in this issue. She is the last unicorn, she leaves her forest and meets a schizophrenic butterfly who tells her about the red bull in no certain terms. It’s, like, four pages of story. Maybe six. The art is very pretty, though.

Song of Saya #3
That was actually a pretty fun mini overall. I’m a little confused by a couple of the elements, but honestly, it’s probably because I haven’t let the story digest yet. It was delightfully eerie the whole way through and the question of reality was always there. And brain surgery is still terrifying.

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Comic Run 03-18-10

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

American Vampire #1
There are three comics in here!  THREE! Well, two and a preview for Area 10, but still! It’s all pretty nicely done too, though I admit I like the first one better than the second. But damn, that’s a lot of story in one comic compared to usual. Also, the vampires are confusing me as current, though it’s not sparklepires so they’ll get a second look from me.

One thing that series did, it’s made me give every other vampire series a second shot.

Choker #2
Well, it looks like they’re at least going to try and tie everything in from the first issue and this whole thing is reading like a pretty fun little horror title so far. There’s a lot of little unanswered questions and some intriguing plot elements being introduced. Also, I can’t get over that name.

Devil #2
It’s still very Japanese. That’s just not going to change about the series, but this dilemma is actually pretty fun. The faux-science in it is annoying as hell, yes, and the medium is making me analyze it more than if it were printed in manga form, but as a story it’s still pretty entertaining.

Joe the Barbarian #3
Ah, the Area 10 thing is in all the Vertigo books this week.

Anotehr wonderful issue and, now that I know that it’s only 8 issues long and that Joe may actually be in mortal peril, this issue was fabulous. Well, it would have been before, but it’s great knowing these things. More than that, it’s nice to see that this trek to the kitchen is positively epic.

X23
First: shut up, I like her. So long as she isn’t doing an angsty monologue, anyway, and that was essentially all this was. There is no action and, while I did like to see the meet up with the Nyx characters, t all sort of boiled down to Laura being angsty for an entire issue and ending on a more upbeat note of her having people to fall back on. Character exposition and nothing else. Ah well.

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