More Comics This Indeterminate-Time-Frame
Finished a couple more. Soon enough I’ll get around to tackling the 10lb Love and Rockets monsters, Palomar and Locas by the Hernandez brothers. Sure, they’re 30% of the price on Amazon compared to here, but carrying them back in my luggage: ouch.
“The Authority: Kev” (Garth Ennis)
Garth Ennis and Glenn Fabry of Preacher fame take on everyone’s favourite ridiculously over-the-top authoritarian (sorry) superheroes in this compilation of the two miniseries. Ennis fails to shock anyone who’s read his other work, and some of his jokes feel just a little recycled (the cabinet minister with odd bondage fetishes even looks like the meat dude from Preacher)… but he still made me laugh even with the most predictable jokes (British dude to over-sensitive Midnighter: “fag?” Midnighter: “WHAT?!” British dude: “Do ye want a cigarette or not?”; caption: “The Carrier. Flub-flub-flubbity flub-flub.”). Good enough for me.
“Daredevil Vol. 11: Golden Age” (Brian Michael Bendis)
Yet another volume from the prolific Bendis/Maleev team. The art’s spectacular as always, especially the flashback bits, but Bendis’ magic seems to be wearing off. The story was very well set-up for an exciting climax that never materialised, instead resolving all too suddenly and conveniently. Unfortunate. Pretty pretty art, though.
“Lost At Sea” (Bryan Lee O’Malley)
Yet another Bryan Lee O’Malley graphic novel, this time less light-hearted than the previous one I mentioned (but then, it’s not too hard to be less light-hearted than the combo-dancing-fighting-mania that was Scott Pilgrim). A simple tale about a girl who’s taking a road trip with some newfound friends, only she doesn’t have her soul. She thinks a cat stole it. A little Murakami-esque, no? With the cats and all. Suitably surreal, too.