Having taken a mental beating over a rejection letter from the Washington Post, I sat in my tent the last few weeks and drank coffee with Achilles. Today I am back to work and put forth the below.
The two picks for this week are a similar genre in that they both are crime/criminal based and it is hard to decide who the good guy really is. Both reads left a feeling that the criminals have somehow placed a slight amount of accomplice guilt or sympathy in the reader at the end. It could also be that I read to many crime stories … The last pages of Reckless however contains a letter at the end about the creative teams reason for going away from the traditional comic form and cutting loose the story in a series of graphic novels. I really would like that letter done as a podcast by Ed Brubaker with a little further discussion about the pulp industry.
A special mention on Beta Ray Bill. Readers who want to know more about this character should check out the series. There is a healthy bit of character building and historical reference in the characters timeline. The art is a painful style for me but the story continues to get me to read the next issue because of the sympathy built as the story progresses.
- Break Out #2
- Spider-Man #3 (JJ Abrams)
- The Fourth Man #4
- Twig #1
- Black Cat #12
- Strange Academy #7
- Autumnal #7
- Dark Knights of Steel #3
- Stillwater #7
- Spider Woman #8
- Black Widow #10
- Me You Love In The Dark #3
- Beta Ray Bill #4
- Mouse Guard: The Owlhen Caregiver & Other Tales One Shot
- Reckless Volume One HC
I realize these posts have spread out a little but the book store requirements have taken additional time from the schedule and this is one of the things that suffered. I will catch up soon though.