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I Feel Terrible
...about not reviewing stuff this week. I have a little of Vampire Loves written and 1/3rd of Art out of Time, but I just don't know if it's going to happen. Work-work has been crushing me the past couple weeks, and I'm finishing everything up for vacation starting Friday. I'm weeks behind on the goofy 52 project, so I'll have to do a massive catching up on that. I also read Kings in Disguise, which is amazing. Ellis' JLA Classified tpb, which was good. Jason's The Left Bank Gang...I realize I forgot to review Stassen's Deogratias. Lots to get to, but no reason to half-ass it.
I may do more, but I'll say that tonight I read Fraction/Ba's Cassanova #1, the second book in the 16 page "FELL" format, and it's pretty cool. Ba has a nice kind of Tim Sale-y thing going, Fraction has some kooky ideas, there are some laughs. I lost my way a bit in the last third, and I don't think it was entirely satisfying as a stand-alone the way the first issue of FELL was. I'm ambivalent on the Fraction essay at the end. I understand the need to personalize the book for readers and that's cool, but I kind of would prefer to think he knows the book is nonsense and not try to tell me it's a lot more. I do like it, just not sure how much supercool unflappable hero stuff I can dig before I want it to get a little deeper.
Johnny Ryan's Comic Book Holocaust is an essential purchase, even if you're buying it to burn and take out of commission. It's just amazingly unhinged. I wouldn't recommend reading it all in one sitting like I did, though, as I eventually just grew uneasy with it. The spoofs of alternative comics are probably the best, as there's a little more to dig into that the spoofs of long-running comic strips. The book is probably more disturbing the more you think about it. Several gags involve men with vaginas...no black character ever has a laugh on a white character. It's a tremendous, sustained work of indecency.
Edited all the Comic Foundry stuff the past couple days. Exhausting. Should be a decent issue, though.
I may do more, but I'll say that tonight I read Fraction/Ba's Cassanova #1, the second book in the 16 page "FELL" format, and it's pretty cool. Ba has a nice kind of Tim Sale-y thing going, Fraction has some kooky ideas, there are some laughs. I lost my way a bit in the last third, and I don't think it was entirely satisfying as a stand-alone the way the first issue of FELL was. I'm ambivalent on the Fraction essay at the end. I understand the need to personalize the book for readers and that's cool, but I kind of would prefer to think he knows the book is nonsense and not try to tell me it's a lot more. I do like it, just not sure how much supercool unflappable hero stuff I can dig before I want it to get a little deeper.
Johnny Ryan's Comic Book Holocaust is an essential purchase, even if you're buying it to burn and take out of commission. It's just amazingly unhinged. I wouldn't recommend reading it all in one sitting like I did, though, as I eventually just grew uneasy with it. The spoofs of alternative comics are probably the best, as there's a little more to dig into that the spoofs of long-running comic strips. The book is probably more disturbing the more you think about it. Several gags involve men with vaginas...no black character ever has a laugh on a white character. It's a tremendous, sustained work of indecency.
Edited all the Comic Foundry stuff the past couple days. Exhausting. Should be a decent issue, though.
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