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Promethea #32: The last issue, “Wrap Party”. When I saw that this issue could be taken apart and reassembled as a poster, my first thought was that Alan Moore’s where Dave Sim was twenty years ago. (One of the “Mind Games” issues of Cerebus could be reassembled the same way.) But since this issue is just a long discourse on the author’s mystical belief system, maybe he’s caught up even closer. Moore’s magical mystery lessons are always very clever, but not always engaging, and I’d be lots happier if he’d pick up Grant Morrison’s trick of integrating his mystical teachings into the story. Speaking of which...
JLA Classified #2 and 3: Grant Morrison in mainstream supers mode, flashy and funny and occasionally sloppy. He seems to be taking on The Authority here, with a group of supers — the Ultramarines — who are willing to kill, and tying in a post-Crisis version of Earth Prime, the world where superheroes only exist in comic books. Not as good as We3 (the three-issue Morrison mini about military animal cyborgs that ended a week or two back); about on par with Vimanarama #1 (three-issue Morrison romantic comedy about Hindu mythology, or maybe superheroes, like there’s a difference, also came out last week).
Daisy Kutter: The Last Train: Cowgirl train robber versus killer robots, with a few hands of Texas Hold ’Em along the way, from Kazu Kibuishi. Mostly predictable story, but gets a long way on visual charm.
Love Eats Brains graphic novel: Haven’t read it yet. I picked up a floppy of this at some point, maybe just an ashcan, and I think I liked it. At least, I had enough of a positive reaction to shell out $12 for the graphic novel. I’ll probably get to it tomorrow.
Promethea #32: The last issue, “Wrap Party”. When I saw that this issue could be taken apart and reassembled as a poster, my first thought was that Alan Moore’s where Dave Sim was twenty years ago. (One of the “Mind Games” issues of Cerebus could be reassembled the same way.) But since this issue is just a long discourse on the author’s mystical belief system, maybe he’s caught up even closer. Moore’s magical mystery lessons are always very clever, but not always engaging, and I’d be lots happier if he’d pick up Grant Morrison’s trick of integrating his mystical teachings into the story. Speaking of which...
JLA Classified #2 and 3: Grant Morrison in mainstream supers mode, flashy and funny and occasionally sloppy. He seems to be taking on The Authority here, with a group of supers — the Ultramarines — who are willing to kill, and tying in a post-Crisis version of Earth Prime, the world where superheroes only exist in comic books. Not as good as We3 (the three-issue Morrison mini about military animal cyborgs that ended a week or two back); about on par with Vimanarama #1 (three-issue Morrison romantic comedy about Hindu mythology, or maybe superheroes, like there’s a difference, also came out last week).
Daisy Kutter: The Last Train: Cowgirl train robber versus killer robots, with a few hands of Texas Hold ’Em along the way, from Kazu Kibuishi. Mostly predictable story, but gets a long way on visual charm.
Love Eats Brains graphic novel: Haven’t read it yet. I picked up a floppy of this at some point, maybe just an ashcan, and I think I liked it. At least, I had enough of a positive reaction to shell out $12 for the graphic novel. I’ll probably get to it tomorrow.