Susan Hated Literature

ISBN:1563899426
Author: Bill Willingham Penciller: Lan Medina Inkers: Steve Leiloha & Craig HamiltonColourist: Sherilyn van Valkenburgh Letterer: Todd Klein Original Series Covers: James Jean & Alex Maleev
DDC: 741.5973

Once Upon a Time in a fictional land called New York City. Chapter One: Old Tales Revisited. In which we meet many of our principal players and get just the first hint or two of some of the myriad troubles to come.

Legends in Exile is the collected first five chapters of the whole Fables series. In it we are introduced to the fables, a collection of characters who have settled in New York. Originally these fairy tale legends lived in their own worlds, but were driven out by The Adversary. Now they must live among the mundanes, never letting any but their own kind know of who and what they are. And now it seems that there is a murderer in their midst, and everyone wants to know who killed Rose Red.

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ISBN: 1401204953
Author: Frank Quitely & Grant Morrison
DDC: 741.5973

I heard about this comic over at The Woolamaloo Gazette, and when I took a look on the forbiddenplanet site it was quite cheap around nine euro I think, so I impulse purchased.

The plot is sort of Homeward Bound meets violence, death and the army. Three animals have been modified, equipped with armour, guns and taught how to speak, and are employed by the USAF as assassins. But the time has come for them to be decomissioned.

The rest of the book is their attempt to escape, and in the words of 1 we3 home now.

Sounds a bit Disney-esque, and it could easily have been quite “ah, purty animals go home.” But it isn’t. The animals don’t really say all that much. How much conversation can you expect from a dog, a cat and rabbit? So a lot of the book lets the artwork do the story-telling. And very effectively, imo.

I mentioned in my review of The Astonishing X-Men that I’m not a huge comic book/graphic novel reader, but that’ll change if I find more like this.

This is a very sad, moving book, and almost every other review I’ve read of it mentions how affecting it is. So I won’t say “enjoy”, but I do think it is worth picking up.

10/10, comic, graphic novel, sci fi

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Author: Joss Whedon & John Cassidy
DDC: 741.5973
ISBN:0785115315
X-Men verse

I’ve always been a theoretical fan of the X-Mencomics. What I mean is that I’ve always thought they were cool, but I’ve never bought one. I did love the X-Men cartoon, but never really got to watch enough of it. So when the films were released I knew a bit of background, but I wouldn’t really say I knew a lot.

I guess the problem for me is that there is just so much back story that it is hard to know where to start with the comics. I’ve always been a person to start at the beginning, and work my way to the most recent, but OMG the expense! So I never bothered. But I’m a Joss-girl, so I thought that his X-Men would be a good place to start.

Gifted is the first volume of Joss Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men and I did enjoy it. But as with many comics/graphic novels there is the sense of slightly being cheated price-wise. I know it isn’t really, considering how many people are needed to make a comic (writer, inker, colourist, speech-bubble-head etc), but still..

Whedon places Kitty in the central role (yet again a young female character, more than a little bit of a pattern), but most of the other familar characters are there too. Of course there are also a few I don’t know, but I’m sure the majority are more than familar to real fans.
I read it in one go, but will probably go back over it in order to pay more attention to the actual graphic part.

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