Comics This Indeterminate-Time-Frame
Bought a few harder-to-find Oni Press books at a store off Divisadero and Haight (I think), a ten-minute walk from my friends’ apartment. Slowly getting around to finishing them…
“Too Much Hopeless Savages! Volume 3” (Jen Van Meter)
Not nearly as enjoyable as the previous volume, Ground Zero (last mentioned here) — I just don’t like Christine Norrie’s art as much as I did Bryan Lee O’Malley’s — but still good fun. Speaking of Bryan Lee O’Malley…
“Scott Pilgrim Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life (Scott Pilgrim Volume 1)” (Bryan Lee O’Malley)
When the story starts, everything looks relatively normal: Scott Pilgrim is a 23-year-old in a rock band dating a high school girl. At some point, though, he meets a rollerblading delivery girl who blades through his dreams and whose seven evil ex-boyfriends show up to fight Scott in elaborate song-and-dance video-game-style fight sequences. WTF?! Utterly lovable nonsense.
Also just bought a couple of days ago (woot, 20% discount at Kinokuniya):
“Powers Vol. 8: Legends” (Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Avon Oeming)
Great story that ties well into previous stories, tying together some continuity that was rather lacking in the last two volumes. The powers ban and its effect on law enforcement, as well as the superhuman turf war, make for some very interesting developments (and a shocking and grisly end to a supporting cast member).