Graphic Novels

The Wedding of Deadpool

• If any comic can spark my interest, this just might be the one.
• I loved the movies.
• I have never read the comic.
• I lost interest.
• In the word by word, anyway.
• The dialogue is not as witty as I had hoped.
• I like the short story format.
• With lots of different graphic styles.
• Cheesecake only goes so far.
• I'm falling asleep.
• The weathered old-time comic book is fun.
• But just fun.

The Beats
A Graphic History

• He looks sort of haunted.
• I will be grazing.
• Not reading.
• Drugs, Sex, & Poetry.
• That's not why they criticized the book.
• The track is great fun.
• Feel like gambling?
• I feel like gambling.
• Burroughs the druggie.
• I'm hoping.
• A stick up 'artist.'
• He does not disappoint.
• Are bookcases easy to draw?
• Gone! Beat Poetry Man! Gone!
• 'Uneven' just means you publish the bad stuff, too.
• And then, I lost interest.
• Odd how that corresponded directly with the change in artist.

But I Like It

• Rock & Roll, baby!
• Complete with CD.
• Loosing interest fast.
• The splash page was fun.
• The intro comic sparked my interest.
• But I'm turning pages fast, now.
• Half-art (concept sketches and whatnot) hardly ever does it for me.
• I imagine the posters and album art would be good for one in a chemically altered state of consciousness.
• A whole lot of I don't care.
• Bracketed by a bit of mildly interesting stuff.

Indeh

• It's good art.
• Story doesn't look like my sort of thing.
• I've already flipped through it once.
• If this were the first book of the day, things might have been different.
• But my neck has had about enough.
• Yeah, I don't care about the story.
• The history.
• Now, throw in some goblins or Elves...

I'm back to reading Science Fiction... and whatever else comes my way.

Sharp Ends
Joe Abercrombie

• It's supposed to be 'Delightfully Twisted and Evil.'
• Starting with the flap.
• I don't like the proper nouns.
• I don't like the map.
• If you say bastard enough, it does become funny.
• I laughed.
• I like the pattern.
• Overall, I can't say I care.
• Little of an in for me.
• But light.
• The appeal is right on the surface.

Sudden Setup
Barb Han

• Harlequin Harley.
• As in, it's a motorcycle romance.
• 1,774.
• That's a lot of books.
• A cast of characters.
• My mind's going blank.
• I swear I just saw a sigil in the margin.
• Or maybe, I mean glyph.
• She's given him a nickname.
• He's thoughtful.
• It's the little things.
• A mystery I won't be trying to follow.
• Much less, solve.
• It follows that he can use a gun.
• It's her father's posthumous last request.
• Romantic.
• Touching.

American Science Fiction
Four Classic Novels
1953-1956
The Space Merchants
More Than Human
The Long Tomorrow
The Shrinking Man

• The Space Merchants
• I could read this.
• Or at least, start.
• The compilation of stories is new, modern, and hardback.
• I like the glossy feel of the paper.
• Damn Consies!
• It doesn't pay to have a conscience.
• I can only assume.
• Hubba! Hubba!


• More Than Human
• Begs the question.
• Is it?
• Is it, really?
• How to beg?
• I sense it to be a mystery.
• I guess, they are all mysteries.
• Especially if you only skim them.
• Flat out skipped.
• To kill a man that isn't there.
• Because you are somewhere else.
• Got it?
• Homo Gestalt.
• What could be.
• So what is.
• Love.
• I'd like to believe.
• But I can't hold on to the dream.
• A companion worthy of the name.


• The Long Tomorrow
• Less is more.
• Almost the hint of a mystery makes it unsettling.
• A mystery means void.
• It means you got nothing to say.
• Touche.
• Too much knowledge is a dangerous thing.
• There are worse things to fear than death.
• If knowledge of sin is a sin in itself, then can it be that only sinners are righteous?


• The Shrinking Man
• I flipped by the story break the first time around.
• Doomed to failure.
• Going against my Incredibly Shrinking Interest, as it is.

Clockwork Angels
Kevin J. Anderson

• I find it hard to believe the song was that good.
• I wonder if he verbally records his writing?
• At 100+ novels, I have incredibly low expectations.
• High production values.
• I want the lyrics to the song.
• Not a song, an album.
• It's in an appendix.
• Clocks and watches throughout.
• I'm not finding the in.
• I am sure it will be a commercial success.
• Copyright by Core Music Publishing.
• I would really like to care more than I do.

Sex Criminals
Volume One
One Weird Trick
Matt Fraction & Chip Zdardky

• I won't.
• The magic of it all.
• A girl's got to have her priorities.
• It's how I got my first mag.
• You could get caught.
• Or bored.
• Nice art.
• I don't think I care about the story.
• Of course, I was never expecting to drop in.
• The swirls representing magic are the best part.
• Soothing warm colors.
• I can't see bothering to pick up the sequel.
• But...

Locke & Key
Welcome to Lovecraft
Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez

• I don't know why I recognize the name.
• I am expecting an ever-quicker flip through.
• Than the last.
• This ain't reading, friends.
• A door.
• I can start there.
• A dead body.
• Well, that escalated quickly.
• Titties.
• Show 'em if you got 'em.
• Cheaters never prosper.
• Death follows her around.
• It's/He's got a crush on her, I'd say.
• Oh, I like that.
• I've been doing this traveling thing all wrong.
• It makes Dream Sense.
• That's what happens when you don't read the words.
• Overall, nice story hooks.

Black Science
Volume 1
How To Fall Forever
Rick Remender, Matteo Scalera, & Dean White

• "Gleet!"
• Frog People.
• Sexy Frog People.
• The big pictures are ruined by the page-folds.
• Also, I think I'd rather be reading Heart of Darkness.
• Dark Humour.
• Is the bottle completely empty?
• Or the opposite of full.
• Gas masks don't do it for me.
• Done with the art.
• Done with the book.
• Wait!
• Monkeys!
• Now, I'm done.

Black River
Josh Simmons

• Post apocalyptic.
• That's how you build team spirit.
• Kill 'em dead.
• Going nowhere.
• So let's kill some-one.
• Some-two.
• Not much point to it all.
• Though, perhaps, the most realistic apocalyptic fiction I've read in awhile.
• Another one bites the dust.
• Grim.
• And there you are.
• The End.
• Doesn't matter much how you get there.

Star Wars
Mutiny At Mon Cala

• General Leia.
• I don't take her seriously.
• Maybe, I'm sexist.
• Or maybe, her role was always sex-based.
• I like the screen scroll.
• Pretty boy.
• Bribery.
• The hard way.
• Old bits never die.
• The just get stuck in the serials.
• Bit of a bully.
• I'm guessing the comic was created with the aid of a computer.
• The curves are too fine.
• Too much work to do by hand.
• The Empire is big on its large structural edifices.
• The plot is hard to care about.
• Is that the second or third bar scene?
• In all the excitement, I lost count.
• C3PO.
• Is that his name?
• Either way, feeding lines is his game.
• All Pimp Daddy.
• Did you say?
• Yes!
• I like the fake packaging.

Star Wars
The Ashes Of Jedha

• Luke! Luke! Luke!
• Not as interesting.
• Hard to put my finger on why.
• I like the dusty alley.
• Maybe, that's why.
• I want ambience.
• The action means little to me.
• Do or Die!
• Turns out.
• Death is an option.
• That's not a good plan.
• Any other would be better.
• Then, it's decided.
• Too much like a Super Hero.
• What good is money if you can't give it away.

Magic The Gathering
Book 1

• Flaming.
• Something.
• And the chase is on.
• The wench is the/a love interest.
• Really heavy on the monotone.
• Why barbwire?
• That's nice.
• I like her crystal.
• Well, cauldron.
• Fun turn of phrase.
• The juxtaposition of it all.
• The flash-page gallery is what this comic should have been.
• Could have been.

East of West
One
Hickman - Dragotta - Martin

• Green Line Killer.
• Mostly.
• I like the pattern-leaf on the book-flap.
• Front and back.
• Ha!
• Wooton got no play on the front cover.
• Get away!
• Sloppy.
• With tusks like that.
• He might as well be an orc.
• Folks is going to die.
• Lordy!
• I like Darkie.
• I don't care for the horse.
• Don't talk sass.
• Fun!
• You could write a comic about her.
• Alone.
• Nice futuristic buildings.
• Not the same old.
• Only in comic books.
• Do I like a gun pointing at me like that.
• Staring down the barrel, as it were.
• Great!
• And good art, too.
• I mean, I'm flipping.
• But I'm, also, finding reasons to stop.
• Shards of Shadow!
• Who knows their intent?
• I will run with the idea.
• Maybe.
• Her's are crows.
• Same as her name.
• So, I am safe with mine.
• I guess I can't have it all.
• Three more in that series, I do believe.
• Maybe, I'll put off posting for one more day.
• Nope.
• Six more.
• On the shelf, at least.

East of West
Two - Three - Five - Six -Seven
Hickman - Dragotta - Martin

• Wasn't he the bartender?
• Proof!
• I like the visuals.
• Justice takes a lot more than an eye for an eye.
• I have my favorites.
• Those that steal the show.
• Not soon enough.
• It reminds me of Drunna, a bit.
• Now, that's a gun.
• Next book, The Crow.
• I'm not really sure who survived and why.
• I don't like that he could shoot back.
• The book is falling apart.
• Literally.
• Next up.
• I don't know this character.
• Someone to fill out the demographics.
• Enemies.
• All around.
• She's drawn too flat.
• More like a M.U.L.E.
• An asteroid harvester of old.
• Revenge.
• Naked Ninja!
• Poison.
• Ride the White Wolf.
• On to the sixth title.
• And this is where I noticed the 'of' in the title.
• Previously, East West.
• I don't think it makes much difference.
• I look forward to the aphorisms.
• The fighting makes no never mind to me.
• Nor do I care for the monsters.
• There is a reason why I'm flipping through all in a single sitting.
• There is no charm in chemical dependency.
• And the second year ends.
• Onto the next.
• Final for me.
• And I'm done.
• Odd how that went.