avram | Comics with people I know

OK, the Spark collection doesn’t seem to have shipped, so I didn’t get to look at it and see if it’s a hardcover. I did pick up the first Girl Genius collection (which shipped last week but I didn’t feel like buying it then); Authority: Kev, which was mildly amusing but has convinced me that I’ve seen Garth Ennis pull all his best tricks, and am unlikely to get much new enjoyment out of anything he produces.

I got Weasel #5, which I liked, but would have enjoyed more if I’d read 1-4 just before it; the continuing story, “Ripple”, ended a bit abruptly, so the fourth installment was actually the meatiest, and I felt let down having waited all these months for an anti-climatic ending.

Naughty Bits #36 mentions the lovely and talented mamishka on page 2, and depicts her painting a mural at Bothell Books; and I suspect the be-hatted woman in the middle top panel on page 3 might be annathepiper. I’ve emailed Roberta Gregory to check (and to pass her a link to more info about a news item she mentioned).