Spending too much on comics

[avram]

I pulled a medium-level stupid today, spending about $30 on a pair of graphic novels when I could’ve waited for Monday’s Memorial Day sale and saved 30%.

I got into Manhattan in the afternoon, and figured I was gonna spend some time waiting around at Starbucks so I might as well do my comics shopping early and have something else to read. I got Promethea #30, which is clearly building towards a climax, but I care less than I used to. Moore’s been climaxing for the past several issues, spread out over most of the past year. Just cum already, wouldja? My arms are getting tired.

I also got the TPB of The Walking Dead, by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore. Haven’t read it yet.

I returned at 5 PM to meet the usual gang (womzilla, kent_allard_jr, drcpunk, bugsybanana), and found that Joss Whedon was the writer for Astonishing X-Men #1. What really caught my eye was John Cassady’s art. The first few pages show Kitty Pryde returning to the X-Mansion, thinking back over old times. We see her memories as scenes from earlier issues, inserted into the present-day background. Each scene is drawn in the style of the original artist, and Cassady captures Paul Smith perfectly, and John Byrne almost as well. (The other scene was after my time.)

And I saw a copy of The Bloody Streets of Paris (Jacques Tardi and Leo Malet) and felt like I had to have it. Something about the art just called to me. More after I’ve read it.

Other comics news, via Thought Balloons: Collections of Grant Morrison’s Doom Patrol are soon to be released! Volume 1 in September, 2 in December.