Wednesday, October 20, 2004

large quantities of comics

i decided this morning that i could no longer wait to pick up whatever comics i had waiting for me (i think it's been almost 4 weeks since i last bought comics!), and walked down to chapel hill comics during my lunch break. woo! i had some great stuff on hold, plus i splurged and bought the love and rockets locas book (which seems to be missing the very first maggie and hopey story, wtf, unless it's out of order--and really, that NEEDS to be in there, b/c the hair-cutting scene comes back again way later in the series! also, none of the izzy/flies on the ceiling stories made the cut). i also picked up jeffrey brown's book bighead, which i hadn't planned on buying ever, but which got pretty good reviews from andrew and his lovely wife (and i was so amused at andrew saying "it's a nice change from him whining about his girlfriend" that i had to buy it).

so far, the issues from my haul that i've most enjoyed have been luba #9 (oh my god, talk about cliffhangers), kabuki #2 (david mack's art and arrangements never fail to amaze me), y the last man (ok, THAT is the most cliffhanger-y of the bunch!!!), powers (yes, cooper, this issue was awesome, but did the end of it actually surprise you?), and fables (snow white gives birth!). i also got the new luba's comics and stories, nyx, caper, batgirl, plastic man, and a couple issues of a minicomic called snake pit that looks pretty adorable.

it's enough to make a girl procrastinate further on her homework!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

missing stories? what up with that?!? i mean, it's 710 pages. you'd think they could just make it 723 or whatever and include actually everything, instead of just almost everything.

-georg

Alicia K. said...

i guess i can see not having the izzy stuff--that would be like another 100 pages. but to not have the first story! it just drops you right into maggie's letters from zhato. it's really kind of a weird beginning, since you don't know how these people know each other unless you've read the stuff already.