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The Circle

Super big thanks to Louis Kwok for including me among his other guest contributors on the recent episode of Kwok Talk, Synonyms and Baby Hymns. Louis reviews Wonder Woman: The Circle with support from myself and Angela P of A Comic Book Girl.  I’ve only recently started listening to Kwok Talk, but I am fast becoming a big fan.

Fierce!

Madame Xanadu Vol 02 Exodus Noir Written by Matt Wagner, Art by Michael Wm. Kaluta

Ok, I know I already reviewed the first volume of this one, and pretty recently really, but this  is so good, I can’t let it pass by.  The two volumes have drastically different art, but both are so excellent that this is now near the top of my “recommend to new readers” pile.  Exodus Noir features 2 stories that are beautifully interwoven.  We have the murder mystery set in 1940, and the tragic romance set in the days of the inquisition.  Magic, love, passion and death.  All told with some of the most eloquent layouts I have seen.  I need to get a scanner hooked up one of these days so that I can post examples.  In the meantime, you’ll have to just go out and buy this.  It’s really that good.

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So everything that I read has been coming out in trades lately, and I have been reading like mad.  Unfortunately I have been snowed under with random, time consuming stuff, so all the awesome comics I have been reading have been accumulating in a large, sad pile.  On top of that, Brian Cronin over at Comic Book Resources has been doing his “Year of Cool Comics” Series, and it keeps making me throw stuff on the pile.  So he’s to blame for this one.

Wonder Woman's face bugs me

JLA Earth 2 Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely

This is the story of 2 earths.  One we know very well.  The JLA are Earth’s protectors, and Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman heroic ideals. On the other Earth, the anti-matter Earth, the citizens live in fear of the Crime Syndicate of Amerika and their horrible destructive whims, and Lex Luthor is a benevolent genius who only wants to help his people.

I really had a good time reading this.  It’s eccentric in that special Grant Morrison way, and his insanity works really well here.  I love they way the Crime Syndicate characters are shown to be the opposites of their good guy counter-parts.  Superwoman in the broom closet with Jimmy Olsen while the wimpy Lt Kent listens outside just cracked me up.  Especially Lt Kent’s little mustache.

I have a huge back log of books to get through, so I’m going to try to crack out a bunch of these quick little 5 minute things, one book at time.  In the meantime, I need to get downstairs for the new episode of Lost.

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If anyone is interested, I’ve started doing random brain drops at GDRComics.  Mostly store stuff.  Like today, look at the pretty Ramune-rainbow

Still Cold From The Truck

This is what happens when I take my pull pile to the bar. I get all swept up in how pretty it looks all spread out on the table. This is also a test of my remote blogging capabilities.