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I get Fantagraphics' booksellers catalog - the one where they tell you what's coming out in the next 6 months. There's a lot that would interest most of the posters here, but of special importance is The Comics Journal # 292 (street date: 7/10) - "Grant Morrison catches up with the Journal vis-a-vis his X-Men run, the ambitious "maxiseries" 7 Soldiers of Victory and how that led to becoming one of the architects of the DC Comics universe, until he scaled back to focus on writing the acclaimed All-Star Superman." Expect lots of snarkiness and looking down noses at mainstream comics while falling over themselves to laud A-S S, as is their MO. I love the Journal, but they always forget that most comic book lovers, no matter how highbrow their tastes have become, started out loving mainstream comics. Either way, Morrison's a great interview - $12 is worth it.
ReplyDeletehey geoff, not sure if this has been asked before. but i was wondering, given your interest in popular genres such as superhero comics and tv shows such as Lost and Buffy, one might expect you to be reading sci-fi, fantasy, and/or horror novels. but your taste in literature seems to swing heavily towards the canonical/classics and poetry.
ReplyDeleteno TOR books for you?
Geoff, I'm wondering if you've read Christopher Priest's Black Panther series. I think there's some interesting anxiety-of-influence stuff going on there that might interest you: Priest revises Dark Knight Returns in one short storyline and does some other Panther/Batman stuff, and most notably, he contends with the legacy of the wacky Kirby Panther in the series' later issues -- everything from "Enemy of the State II" on through about issue 48 or so. Plus, it's just a good comic, especially as it settles into a regular art team (Sal Velluto and Bob Almond, doing their best work) somewhere in the second year or so. (My favorite bit is how Velluto/Almond draw Kirby Panther and his supporting cast to look like Kirby creations in the midst of the rest of the cast, rendered in more contemporary style -- I think I've seen this sort of thing done since then, but not before). And there's a joyous kitchen-sink approach that reminds me of Matt Fraction et al. (I wrote a longer appreciation of the run here, if you'll forgive the link.)
ReplyDeleteI don't know if anybody else is interested in this, but I would love to see what some of the regular commenters here would consider to be their favorite movies of 2007. I just posted mine over at my blog, so does anybody else want to share their picks?
ReplyDeleteAlso, I just saw Cloverfield yesterday, and it was awesome. Best movie of 2008, so far. ;-)
I cross-posted my video review for Cloverfield to my blog - although why anyone would want to watch or read another review about it at this point is beyond me.
ReplyDeleteMarc -- thanks.
ReplyDeleteScene -- no TOR books for me. It makes people INSANE, but the thing is there is a lot of stuff out there in the world and you have to triage somehow. I do it by generally NOT READING NOVELS. When I did read novels I read kind of a lot, including major stuff like Don Quixote, Magic Mountain, Moby-Dick, Ulysses, Faulkner's five major books, Gravity's Rainbow, and so on. So it is not like I do not know what I am missing. But it takes A LOT to get me to read a novel now. I do not know what a fantasy book would have to do to get me to read it but WOW it would be a lot. So thats the story there. Basically, with the kind of free time I have now, I prefer stuff short from and/or serial -- so TV, comics, and poetry.
Prof Fury -- I have not read that, but you are making me want to. And there is no reason to apologize for providing a link to your blog.
Matt -- coincidentally, I just answered this question in a blog post five minutes ago.
Streebo -- thanks.