What comic are you reading at the moment.

Jack B. Badd

ztoical wrote: »

Top of the reading list at the mo Mr Amperduke - seriously do I need to say anything about this? Go buy it now.

\o/ Fysh's copy arrived yesterday and I duly appropriated it I'm being good and trying to pace myself so I've still got a chapter left to read tonight.

Also picked up Lost Girls a short while back which, despite all the controversy, was actually quite a good read and I wasn't shocked and appalled - though I may now be going to hell. The artwork was interesting and while I'm not a huge fan of erotica I found the storyline was reasonably well paced and held my attention (the second book of the three probably being the best). The last book felt like it lagged a small bit but I get the feeling that I might have been getting a tiny bit bored of the whole "sexual liberation"-ness of it all. Still, if only for the artwork I'm happy it's part of my liberry

spooydermot

Northlanders 3: Don't feel that this is doing much at the mo - think I'll be dropping it soon

Tranformers Devastation 5: not totally sold on these Reavers, but there's a couple of other strands (Headmasters - Dinobots) that seem to be on their way nicely

The Vinyl Underground 5: Really good issue, I think I'll be staying with this one.

Buffy season 8 #11: worth the price for the 'itchy neck' joke alone


Wormwood Gentleman Corpse #1: Nice to see the return of this series. looking forward to more.

Doktor Sleepless #5: good issue - a bit more info on who is Reinhardt and who is in the cell.

Mr.Amperduke Arrived in the post a few days ago and I've been limiting myself to one chapter a night. great stuff

Freakangels #1: Really like the art in this, first issue on-line at www.freakangels.com , and as world+dog knows its free every week.

ztoical

spooydermot wrote: »

Freakangels #1: Really like the art in this, first issue on-line at www.freakangels.com , and as world+dog knows its free every week.

couple of comments about freak angels over on this thread So far so good thou its hard to comment on the story at this stage. Art wise it is nice but it reminds me alot of Josh Middletons work esp Sky between Branches.


Also did anyone else pick up Fugger? I ended up with 3 copies as I wasn't paying attenting in FP or Tower Records and they each put a copy in my bags and I picked a copy up in Story. I'm not sure what its meant to be is it just satirical, political, 50/50 of each or something else entirely. Theres only an email for contact, no name, no information if its on going or just this issue.

bombidol

I picked up Fugger too. No idea whats going on it.

markw999

NOt much atm, nothing is really catching my eye

Am reading the Anita Blake comics, purely because they're comfy because I've read all the books.

I miss Transmetropolitan and Cerebus. I need a monthly fix

ztoical

bombidol wrote: »

I picked up Fugger too. No idea whats going on it.

emailed them friday got this reply today:

Hello,

The idea (at the moment) is for Fugger to continue on an infrequent basis dependent upon resources, time, and money. The next Fugger will come out when fate makes it amenable. Fugger will be appearing on the net at some future date.

There are no names on the publication because it was just meant to be a mysterious little rag that couldn't be traced to any source that might, for example, cause potential readers to go "oh, those jokers" or "oh, that joker" and instead just take it for what it is.

It's meant to be satirical, politicalish, existentialish and funny.

Hope you like it. Due to circumstances Internet facilities are not to easy to come across just at present. Thank you for your interest. All the best.

Fysh

I keep meaning to write up reviews for the massive pile o' stuff I've accumulated in the last couple of weeks, but becoming intimidated by the sheer size of it. So I'll have to do it in chunks:

Ultimate Iron Man II 3 of 4

An improvement on the earlier two parts, but this still feels like a pointless series. Art is pretty enough to cover up the lack of substance to the story, but this feels like Card decided to ditch his finished script at the last minute and change the whole thing so that this is now the second part in a trilogy. Disappointing.

The Chemist #2

Aaaaaaaaages after the first one came out, the second issue finally materialises. This feels very european to me, in the sense of down-to-earth caper rather than over-the-top action. Sure, there's action in it but it's mostly our heroes trying to escape rather than having a huge scrap. Nice premise, nice artwork, will see where it goes. Not even sure if this is a mini or an ongoing, but I'm onboard for now.

Mister Amperduke

Should be at the top of everyone's lists for the next while. Like everyone else who'd heard about it, I've been looking forward to this for ages and it didn't disappoint. The whole damn thing is silent, which makes it all the more atmospheric and oppressive. Considering that most of the story is about a model town populated by living lego men, there's a lot of depth to the story and Bob did a stellar job of fleshing everything out. I'll be sitting down to read it again at the weekend, and then decide who I'm going to give my second copy to (was going to give it to my nephew as a present, but it's probably a bit too gory for an 8-year-old). Confirmation, as if any was needed, that Bob is in fact the Mack Daddy of the irish comics scene.

Contraband

A bit weird, this one - I heard about it last year through ComicSpace back when it was called Mobile Pornography, but part of the publishing deal with SLG was apparently to change the name and make it an easier sell. A weird mix of thriller, social commentary and speculative sci-fi with an art style that I'd more usually associate with autobiographical comics, this is an unusually dense story. The book is about the same size as Mister Amperduke, but it's very talky - a good thing as it's got a lot of ideas in it. I'll have to re-read it to make my mind up, but I suspect it's one of those stories where the concept and ideas are stronger than the actual narrative used to explore them.

More stuff when I finish reading it:
Lost Girls, Action Philosophers vol 1 & 3 (I keep dipping into them and reading bits rather than going through the whole thing), Casanova, Beyond Palomar (which I read half of and then forgot about), Pride of Bagdhad, Amulet vol 1, and possibly others I'm forgetting.

bombidol

Both punisher titles this month were terrible.

Fysh

Just read Pride Of Baghdad and my first thoughts are "How did this piece of tat win a Best Original Graphic Novel award?" Harsh words, perhaps, but I vaguely recall this getting good reviews, and I can't really see any reason to praise this.

The artwork is good, but not exceptional enough. There are some splash pages and double-page spreads which look fantastic, but for the most part the artwork is functional rather than jaw-dropping.

The story, though...oh, what a shoddy story. The characters feel like they were lifted from The Lion King (an effect complemented by the artwork, and which I don't mean to be dismissive) except where Vaughan wants to have deep 'n' meaningful bits. Like the scene involving

the lioness remembering the Bad Old Days of being raped by roving brigand-lions

, or the scene where

the Wise Old Woman of the pride tries to form an alliance with the other animals so that they can overthrow the zookeepers and escape, and then spares the life of an antelope that reneged on the deal just to prove that lions keep their word

. This felt like Vaughan wanted to write a grown-up version of The Lion King, but it just doesn't work for me. Partly because, well, something like The Lion King doesn't work for "mature" writing like Vaughan's, because his brand of mature writing cannot translate onto animal characters, and partly because the story he's written is set in a realistic & gritty world but with happy jolly day-glo characters. They don't mesh for me.

All of which is compounded by the fact that I've read We3, which has stronger artwork and much stronger writing. Shocking words indeed, given that I generally don't rate Morrison's writing all that much. The strength of We3 was that it didn't anthropomorphise the animal characters; the weakness of Pride Of Baghdad (at least to my mind) is that it does.

Before I started reading this, I was wondering whether I'd notice any common tics in Vaughan's writing - specifically, whether he was going to make a habit of killing off characters for the sake of the dramatic value added to the story. Given that

he did this at the end of Y : The Last Man and openly talked about it being a deliberate choice in his work on Runaways

, I was wondering whether it would be something that he'd do often enough to get in the way of me enjoying his writing. It didn't get in the way this time, but only because there were far bigger problems with this comic.

bombidol

I quite enjoyed pride of baghdad personally. It was far from the greatest thing Ive ever read but it was very far from the worst.

Fysh

Criminal volume 1 & 2

I finally got around to picking up the first trade of this series after seeing it recommended yet again somewhere, and enjoyed it so much that I picked up the second trade a week later. At first I wasn't sure what sort of book it was going to be, but once I sat down and actually read it I was entranced. The writing is fantastic; it's reminiscent of the likes of Raymond Chandler or Frank Miller without aping either of them, and the artwork is fantastic to boot - it evokes the world and the characters perfectly.

I get the impression that the material is better suited to reading in collected editions, but since the series is relaunching shortly I may well take a chance on the monthly.

Ubu Bubu #1

I loved Bear and Angry Little Robot, so it pretty much stands to reason that I was going to like this. Everyone should have space in their world for comics about a cute little cat possessed by eldritch doom. Part of the appeal of this is the cutesy look, it's an art style that I can only take in certain amounts but it contrasts nicely with the absurd mock-horror of the storyline (which, let's face it, is an excuse for making a load of silly jokes, much like most of Bear was). The only bad thing about this is the 3-month wait between issues.

Amulet volume 1 : The StoneKeeper

Digest-sized book from the guy who does Copper, you say? Good stuff! There's a certain wariness I have about OGN's with "VOlume 1" written on the front; which I struggle to properly explain. Too often, it seems that the approach of telling you that the book is "Volume 1 of x" is not so much to let you know that you're starting a series, so much as it's a warning flag to tell you that things won't get interesting until the end, at which point you can expect to buy the sequel, wherein you may find the same behaviour repeated. It's not always the case, but I've seen it a few too many times to not at least have a momentary pause when confronted with a new series.

Happily, Amulet doesn't suffer from this. It's not so much a kid's book as an all-ages book, and it has a nice mixture of a reasonably straightforward adventure/fantasy storyline in the vein of Harry Potter or His Dark Materials and the sort of whimsy that I associate with the COpper strips in the Flight series. The artwork is lush as always; I'll be honest, I would put up with very basic storytelling if it were presented with Kibuishi's artwork. The only complaint I could make about this is the size - I understand the reason to go for the pocket-digest format, but I'd love to have this in standard TPB size. The artwork deserves it.

I'm not sure how long the series is intended to be, but I'll be happily buying the next volume whenever it comes out.

Casanova Volume 1 : Luxuria

This is a bit mad, and I can't quite decide what to make of it. I like the visual style in use, it's a refreshing change from full-colour or b/w books, and the writing is full to the brim of ideas. At the same time, I suspect it would get old after a time and I don't see myself following this on a monthly basis. I've no doubt it's a personal mileage thing; there's the spirit of what Ellis did in Nextwave to this, but I don't quite know if I'd be in it for the long haul. Wikipedia claims that Fraction is considering something like a 50-issue run for this (the first collection is 7 issues, and he has apparently stated that he'd like to have 7 collections in total). I'll have to re-read it before I can decide for definite, but I don't think I'll be picking up the second collection or the monthly.

DC Universe : The Stories Of Alan Moore

I'd originally wanted to pick this up because I wanted to have a copy of The Killing Joke, and as threads elsewhere on the forum have mentioned, it can be hard to get hold of. (Of course, I found out the day after picking this up that a 20th anniversary reissue is due to hit in the run-up to the premiere of The Dark Knight, but never mind). I'm glad I picked this up because I like Alan Moore's work, and I was curious to read more of his company-owned work. This was a treat for me. I don't particularly follow any DC characters regularly, and my knowledge of the DCU comes more from the likes of Wikipedia, Scans_daily and discussion fora than from the comics themselves. However, I enjoyed almost every story in this collection immensely, and was stunned to find that Moore even managed to craft a couple of Superman stories that engaged me (I don't think I've ever found a superman story to interest me in continuity, and have only really enjoyed Red Son and It's A Bird... previously). I think Killing Joke is still probably the best single story in here, but I was pleasantly surprised at the overall level of quality.

ztoical

Scott Pilgrim and the infinite sadness 3 For some reason I have 1 and 2 of Scott Pilgrim, missed 3 and jumped to 4 so I'm back tracking. If you haven't checked out any of the Scott Pilgrim series its well worth a look.

The Umbrella Academy 6 Awwwww its issue 6 of 6. Really enjoyed this series.

Hawaiian Dick 3 picked up the first few issues cus I liked the art esp the watercolour style colouring but the story is starting to move now.

Northlanders 1/2/3 Brian Wood does viking - great writing, great pencils, great inking, great colouring - just great. Ok not the best review but so far I'm really enjoying this series. My only gripe is the covers - they're kinda crap

Hickee 4 Hickee is an anthology that features among other Graham Annable who I stalked around the stumptown comics festival a few years back cus he just rocks.

Loveless 22 I really love Zezelj's style and the very simple coloiring works well with it. This issue is pretty much The Defiant Ones thou much more graphic then the film could ever be.

Lifelike One writer,12 artists telling "slice of life" stories - Marvin Mann's Smoke Break being my fav. Another cover that just doesn't work for me - splicing different art onto the cover might work in getting the anthology feel across but the different styles don't work well together the whole thing looks a mess.

constitutionus

new avengers illuminati

got this in trade form. i really really liked it. ive first seen cheungs art in his x force days and its come along nicely since then. the story is essentially five self contained stories that are loosely linked spread over a fair few years (not a million miles away from the one shot with the same name that came out prior to civil war) this mini seems to be leading into the "secret invasion" storyline up coming just like the former and while by no means necessary it is a nice addition to that. in a way it acts like a retrospective of the big events of the marvel universe

my favourite was the infinty gauntlet eps , if only for the "reed, take off the glove reed" sequences

Declan O'Shea

ztoical wrote: »

Loveless 22 I really love Zezelj's style and the very simple coloiring works well with it. This issue is pretty much The Defiant Ones thou much more graphic then the film could ever be.


I'm so glad people read this book, its great. I really thought it was gonna be just some short run thing.

Fysh

Think I forgot to mention Angst : The Best of Norwegian Comics in my last batch of posts. It was a surprisingly good read, although the generally dour national demeanour that I've found common to the few Norwegians I've met was in full effect. Definitely worth looking at for a bit of variety though; the first strip in particular had a great art style, something like a cartoon version of a cubist Picasso painting.

As for me, yesterday I picked up:

Criminal volume 2 #1

A great read, as I expected from the first volume. Interesting backmatter, although I'm going to give this series 6-8 issues as a monthly and see how I find it. (I get the whole "support the monthly" thing, but really, I don't have space to store them).

The Atheist volume 1

Waaaaaaaaaaaaay back when, I remember reading issue 1 of this and enjoying it. Now, about 4 years later, the trade hits. Is it good? Yes. It's the sort of story you might get in a good run on Hellblazer; but it doesn't feel jaded and stuck in a loop like Hellblazer does, partly because the conceit is that Antoine Sharpe (the titular Atheist) is a "consultant" who specialises in identifying in debunking supernatural phenomena and solving cases too strange for standard government agencies. The one niggle I have with this is that, like Heaven's Devils before it, it's a 4-issue story that was plagued by long delays and has a last-issue artist changeover that's quite jarring.

My LCS doesn't seem to have received Gravel #1 or Narcopolis #2 this week, so I haven't checked them out yet.

Did anyone pick up Kick-Ass #1? I had a look and it didn't really grab my attention - I got the impression it's retreading similar ground to Wanted. (Then again, I'm not a big Millar fan). I'm curious to see what the overall reaction is, though, and whether it lives up to the cover's claim that "the greatest superhero book of all time is finally here". (Millar being self-deprecating as always there :rolleyes:)

navin.r.johnson

Just got stuck back into the Preachers too. Became hooked on westerns after I read them first time round. Watch Unforgiven with the Saint of Killers in mind, incredible. Just finished Swamp Thing 8, not liking the idea of having no 'next' one to read. I think Rick Veitch did brilliantly in carrying on from Alan Moore.
Reading the short story collection 'A Contract With God' by Will Eisner too, I had read Dropsie Ave. before which was an extension of it. It's amazingly confessional, based in and around the neighbourhood that he grew up about a guy grieving his daughter after she dies, at the time he wrote it Eisners only daughter had just passed away.

ztoical

Fearless 4 - well its the end of the mini-series and it feels kind anti climatic. I enjoyed this series up until half way through this issue and then it got kinda blah. It wasn't bad but everything felt a bit rushed for the last few pages and the colouring didn't pop this issue like it did in the last one.

The Authority Prime 1 - 4 usually I'm a big authority fan and it doesn't take much to entertain me with them but this outing is the most boring Authority story I've ever read. The art is really lack luster and the colouring is super awful - the whole book feels and looks really beige

Madame Mirage 1 - 5 I really wanted to love this as Paul Dini is the writer but its a best average. I get the whole female shadow vibe thing Dini was aiming for with the look of the character but I couldn't stop humming the theme to Carmen Sandiego. The art is very hit and miss. When its good its really nice but then theres just some awful perspective shots and slight off anatomy that ruins everything.

Teen Titans 1 - I'm back tracking as I picked issue two up but missed 1. I really love Art in this book mainly cus Aqualad looks like Eddie Munster in some parts and it might just be me but i get a really 80's monster squad/goonies feel off the writing.

Loveless 21 - more back tracking as I jumped from 20 to 22. I also picked up the first Loveless graphic novel as I'd too many early issues to feel in and it was easier to just buy the collected trade. This is a really under rated series - I'm not a fan of westerns in any forum [book, movie, tv, etc] but I really like this book. Its Brian Azzarello of 100 Bullets/Hellblazer writing so if you like any of those give Loveless a look

Rasl 1 Its written and drawn by Jeff Smith do I really need to say anything more?

Mixtape Volume 1 - so not really a comic but an artbook by Jim Mahfood who some might recall as the artists for the clerks comics. Its alot of poster art mainly which I like but wish there was some more roughs and process sketches to look at to.

Insomnia 3 - from Matt Broersma, I really love this book not just for the story which is like a cross between french comics and storytelling and early Panter/Bruns work but for the book design as well. Really great job by Fantagraphics on the print job, great paper stock used and the wrap around cover is brill.

steve66

Undergod wrote: »

Beano is better than Dandy.

I'm in the dandy camp myself. But I preferred Sparky to either of them.
Is it too early to be replying to this post
M

Hairspray

Heya im a hugmoungous fan of the green arrow and black canary series ,just wondering if anyone else is reading it currently?

I used to be a comic book hater till i saw the wedding special in forbidden planet and have been hooked ever since!!Its in my eyes a really great comic and supposedly one of the biggest selllers from d.c at the moment.

Fysh

I picked up a few things this week, but haven't had a chance to read them all yet. I also found a couple of bits and pieces I've been wanting for a while, which is good.

Omega the Unknown #1 & #6

So I finally got a copy of #1 around the same time as #6 hits stores, and it's compelling stuff. I don't see enough mainstream comics as unashamedly weird as this, and the fact that the writing is solid (and should be gearing to some sort of proper conclusion at the end of the 10-issue series) combines with Dalrymple's wonderful artwork to make something fantastic.

Gravel #1

Someone mentioned that the artwork in this wasn't great, and while it's not terrible I did spot a few panels where I groaned and thought to myself "[insert body part]s don't work like that". Overall it was reasonable fluff, essentially Hellblazer-type stories for people who're bored of the direction that Hellblazer is going in now that it's got a 50-year-old crankypants and 200+ issues of backstory to weight it down. Still though, I suspect Gravel was better-suited to mini-series than an ongoing...

The Engineer #2

Disappointingly, the hinted-at weirdness towards the end of #1 was resolved quite simply, and it looks like the series has been revised into a 3-issue mini rather than a 4-issue mini. I'll get the concluding issue to see where it goes, but I doubt I'd check out any further Engineer stories. The concept doesn't seem all that strong.

Strange Killings : Strong Medicine

Finally got my hands on this just recently. It's not the best of the William Gravel stories, although it's a solid tale more in keeping with the first couple of stories about Gravel. I have yet to check out Necromancer, which I'm oddly looking forward to, but I suspect that Gravel stories are best when the weirdness factor is a bit stronger than it was in this story...


Yet to read : DMZ vol 4, Narcopolis issue 2, Lullaby vol 2 : Power Grabber, Comic Book Comics (by the guys who gave the world Action Philosophers!)

MortgageBroker

i am reading an old tatty Mad Magazine and loving 'spy vs spy' it has to be one of the best ever!

Fysh

Spy Vs Spy is most definitely one of my favourite comics from when I was a kid. I remember "borrowing" my brother's Mad Magazine just for that strip (well, and for the fold-in joke pages, although some of them were a bit crap...)

MortgageBroker

yeah, spy vs spy was a childhood thing for me too, but its timeless! i totally forgot about those fold up pages! in a way they were ingenius, but also muck. the little mini-comics in the border of pages were the biz as well! wow... didn't think anybody else here would have been into mad!

ztoical

Spy vs Spy is great thou I'm slightly biased cus I use to work for Peter Kuper - did you see the animated mountain dew ads featuring the black and white spy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSFhFXU-PQQ

MortgageBroker

OMG! i have never seen that! so cool... they should do a proper t.v. show of them, just small clips done between prime time shows, and you could also plug different things (such as Mountain Dew have done) but still make it interesting to watch, that way i wouldn't change channels every damn time the ads come on

thebaddy

ztoical wrote: »

I use to work for Peter Kuper

What did you do for him? I love his crazy autobio comics and his weird Kafka adaptations, what was that series he did "Bleeding Heart Comics" or something?

There's a cool interview with him in the last Comics Journal.

ztoical

thebaddy wrote: »

What did you do for him?

I worked for world war three illustrated the comics anthology he and Seth Tobocman started and still edit. Use to lay out the issues, do corrections in photoshop and some touch ups depending on the art - lots of running around new york collecting art and what not. Got to hang out in Peters studio while sorting some mail order subs and was very tempted to steal some of the amazing art on the walls [framed page from maus!] Silkscreened some of his Richie Bush stuff for shirts.

I helped run his table at MoCCA a couple of years ago and this tiny kid, couldn't have been more then 6 came over and started going on and on about how much he loved spy vs spy - got 40 mins of this kid retelling nearly every spy vs spy strip it was so cute.

thebaddy

ztoical wrote: »

Insomnia 3 - from Matt Broersma, I really love this book not just for the story which is like a cross between french comics and storytelling and early Panter/Bruns work but for the book design as well. Really great job by Fantagraphics on the print job, great paper stock used and the wrap around cover is brill.

Yeah picked up the three issues of it just last week in sub city. Cost me the guts of thirty quid but its worth it. Love the variations on his style he uses in each issue.

Fysh

I have a scarily large heap of stuff I need to write up on here, but it may be better to just post up a few small things while I get organised.

Speak Of The Devil #1-5

Having heard about this last year and become infatuated with Gilbert Hernandez's work in Love & Rockets, I was caught by surprise when I saw #5 of 6 on the shelves recently. I was able to pick up the back issues easily enough, and am very glad of it because this is a fantastically odd series. It starts out innocently enough but about half way through there's a dramatic shift that makes me wonder where it's all going to wrap up. There's a great contrast between the apparent simplicity of Hernandez's smooth curves & simple tones, and the complexity & shades-of-grey nature of the story and its characters. I have the single issues, but I'll be picking up the TPB once it's released.

Tales Of The Unexpected : The Spectre

I was excited when I heard about this a while back, particularly when I heard that the original issues had featured a back-up story starring Dr Terry Thirteen, the Ghost-breaker. I haven't read Architecture & Mortality yet (although being a Brian Azzarello story I still hold out hope for it) but this Spectre story is poor enough that even having picked it up on sale for £4 I still feel gypped. For starters the central conceit for the whole story (a murder mystery in a slum-tenement building where all the residents have potential motives for the murder) was already featured in a previous 3-issue story and is dragged out in a frankly feeble manner. Beyond that, I get the impression that neither Lapham as writer nor DC as publishers really have any idea what to do with the character of The Spectre. The Wrath of God made flesh seems to be unwilling to try and reform those who it believes or knows are about to sin against God's law, but there's no sense of a greater context to this - whether the God represented by the Spectre is a vengeful Old-Testament Christian God, some amalgam of all known deities, or what. It feels, in fact, as though the whole "wrath of god" thing was just an off-the-cuff conceit to make the character as powerful as need be, and grant them licence to commit horrible things to people with divine licence.

All of which is a shame, because the Spectre is one of those characters like the Phantom Stranger where you could have some really interesting stories around them given the right circumstances and context, but instead they're forcibly kept in a storytelling world that's not suited to them so the stories they're in suffer.

Gravel #2

Another issue that's all fight and no trousers, so to speak. There's plenty of chatter here, but it's all discourse in the run-up to a fight and while it serves the plot somewhat, there's too little story development for this to feel decent. Ellis has commented on Whitechapel that issue #3 should pick up somewhat, but I'll probably stick with the singles until issue 6 or 7 (end of the first big storyline) and decide then whether I'm still interested.

Anna Mercury #1

Picked this up on a whim, and kind of regret it. I normally like Ellis's work, but this doesn't do it for me. All the promotional material pushes it as being retro-pulp, but to me it's just a bad knock-off of Aeon Flux and The Matrix. There's nothing exactly wrong with it, but there's nothing particularly right either.

Strange Killings: Necromancer

2 years after publication, I finally found a copy of the TPB. It's good, weird enough to fit with the Strange Killings series, but it almost feels a bit over-long. Probably because it's basically a zombie story and Ellis's other zombie story (Blackgas) was a 3-issue mini. There's a nice twist on zombie behaviour in this, and an interesting different side of Bill Gravel on display, and overall it has me thinking that Gravel the ongoing series isn't as good an idea as Strange Killings, the series of mini-series starring Bill Gravel. Ah well...

(more to come later when I've got time)

TheForeSkins

Everybodys Dead and the Reign of Starscream as well as whatever Transformer Spotlights I can get my hand on