Here’s this week’s.
Second Favorite book of the week : Wonder Woman.
Favorite : Booster Gold.
Wonder Woman and Booster Gold were, indeed, excellent.
GL Corps was solid, and the creepy little blue guys were uncharacteristically not-wrongheaded for a change. Superman was not bad (though Action remains more interesting).
Countdown and its Mystery tie-in continue to annoy – particularly the characterization of Triplicate Girl as a sniveling damsel-in-distress. She’s taken on LSH-class villains, and yet she’s a wreck whose every expression here is pop-eyed dismay. ugh.
I got X-Factor Volume 2 and 3 (Life and Death Matters and Many Lives of Madrox) in the mail this week, and enjoyed them both. I’m usually late in discovering good series now that I’m a trade paperbacks-only collector, but this X-Factor run by Peter David is right up my alley. Small-scale superheroics, plenty of noir atmosphere, character development, and enough humor to break up the darkness. It actually reminds me a bit of Angel, my favorite and much-missed TV show, complete with the detective agency setting.
Anyway, Jamie Madrox is my new favorite Marvel character after reading the first three X-Factor TPBs this month. Even better, the copy of Madrox: Multiple Choice that I just won for cheap on eBay arrived today, so I’m looking forward to reading that one next.
I’m glad to hear Booster Gold is pleasing so many people. I love the character, and I’m eagerly anticipating discovering this series in TPB form.
Yesterday I finished Ordinary Victories, a 2004 GN by Manu Larcenet (and if I’m behind the curve with this, please bear with me – I do a lot of my graph reading courtesy of the San Francisco public library, which actually has a pretty good selection of graphic novels and TPBs in circulation, and. so sometimes it takes me a while to pick up on new stuff). It was pretty excellent, and a change from my usual choices in sequential storytelling – a moving, realistic story about art, friendship, and family ties, done mostly in a “bigfoot” visual style. The story depicts a period in the life of George, a young French art photographer, after he moves to the country; and that’s all I will say about it – except that it actually made me cry a couple of times, and when my boyfriend (who I basically turned on to GNs and modern comics) finished it this morning he was a little teared up too.
Marvel’s signed a deal with a French publisher recently - they’re bringing over some of the French comics to be published in the States, apparently. Might be something you want to look into. I’m eyeing… Sky Doll? I think that was the title.