Saturday, January 10, 2004
I got new comics today after not going to "the store" for a month.. It's better that way, as I actually end up with more than 5 minutes worth of reading material.. I get so few regular comics it's usually not worth my time to take the trip to get them weekly. On top of that, I've fallen out of using the shitty PREVIEWS at all over the last year, because any books in there that I need to special order I can usually pick up from the creator or publisher themselves at one of the conventions I go to (admittedly not at the sweet 25% discount I get as a former employee of the local comics pimp).
Another trend in my reading I'm noticing is how much more excited I am about certain mainstream genre books than I am to read many new "alternative" comics. I mean, I subscribe to both NEW X-MEN and EVIL EYE, and I would make no bones about the fact that I think that NXM is a far better comic than EE (as long as Grant Morrison is writing it, and even when someone like Phil Jiminez is drawing it), even though I must like Richard Sala on some level or else I never would have put it on my pull list.. I just don't get as excited about pulling the Evil Eye out of it's mylar to read the convoluted 11th installment of the annual installment of "goofy-but-allegedly-creepy-pulp-pastiche-characters Killing each other off repeatedly" as I used to. Sometimes I want a really well written genre comic, even if it's disguised as a superhero comic, like NewXmen (sci-fi), Sleeper (espionage thriller), Alias (detectives), Planetary (more pulp nonsense but more fun), or whatever.
That said, the new ANGRY YOUTH COMIX (#6) is the best issue yet, andone of my favorite things I've gotten in a while. From "Sherlock McRape" ("Sherlock McRape! I need your help!" -"sure, but it'll cost you 66 rapes!") To an alien encounter where the matians come out and tell Loady and Sinus that "MARS NEEDS NIGGER SHIT" ... Turns out martians call ice cream Nigger shit! It only gets better.. but then I love that kind of absurdity/immaturity. The new BLACK HOLE was really good too, but there are unfortunately no mentions of nigger shit. ¶ 3:39 AM
Another trend in my reading I'm noticing is how much more excited I am about certain mainstream genre books than I am to read many new "alternative" comics. I mean, I subscribe to both NEW X-MEN and EVIL EYE, and I would make no bones about the fact that I think that NXM is a far better comic than EE (as long as Grant Morrison is writing it, and even when someone like Phil Jiminez is drawing it), even though I must like Richard Sala on some level or else I never would have put it on my pull list.. I just don't get as excited about pulling the Evil Eye out of it's mylar to read the convoluted 11th installment of the annual installment of "goofy-but-allegedly-creepy-pulp-pastiche-characters Killing each other off repeatedly" as I used to. Sometimes I want a really well written genre comic, even if it's disguised as a superhero comic, like NewXmen (sci-fi), Sleeper (espionage thriller), Alias (detectives), Planetary (more pulp nonsense but more fun), or whatever.
That said, the new ANGRY YOUTH COMIX (#6) is the best issue yet, andone of my favorite things I've gotten in a while. From "Sherlock McRape" ("Sherlock McRape! I need your help!" -"sure, but it'll cost you 66 rapes!") To an alien encounter where the matians come out and tell Loady and Sinus that "MARS NEEDS NIGGER SHIT" ... Turns out martians call ice cream Nigger shit! It only gets better.. but then I love that kind of absurdity/immaturity. The new BLACK HOLE was really good too, but there are unfortunately no mentions of nigger shit. ¶ 3:39 AM
