Saturday, March 1, 2008

The Month In Review


Savannah Mirisola-Sullivan
here

Well, February was fun. Here's the booklist:


-Stephen Dunn, Everything Else in the World.

-Warren Ellis (Hitch, illust.), The Authority, issues one through eleven: "the circle", "shiftships", and "outer dark".

-Christos Gage (Robertson, illust.), The Authority: Prime, issues one through five.

-Louise Gluck, Meadowlands.

-Mark Millar (Quitely, illust.), The Authority, issues twelve through sixteen: "the nativity".

-Alan Moore (O'Neill, illust.), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, volume one: issues one through six and volume two: issues one through six.

-Grant Morrison (various illust.), Doom Patrol, issues nineteen through thirty-five: "Crawling from the Wreckage", "the Butterfly Collector", "Imaginary Friends", "Nowhere Man", "the Painting that Ate Paris", "the Kingdom of No", "Going Underground", "the Word Made Flesh", "Decreator", "the Puppet Theater", "the Soul of a New Machine", and "Down Paradise Way".

-Brian Vaughan (Guerra, illust.), Y: The Last Man, issues one through fifty-four: "Unmanned", "Cycles", "One Small Step", "Comedy & Tragedy", "Safeword", "Widow's Pass", "Tongues of Flame", "Hero's Journey", "Ring of Truth", "Girl on Girl", "Boy Loses Girl", "Paper Dolls", "the Hour of Our Death", "Buttons", "1,000 Typewriters", "Kimono Dragons", "the Tin Man", "Gehenna", "Motherland", "the Obituarist", and "Tragicomic".

-Brian Wood (Burchielli, illust.), DMZ, issue twenty-eight: "Soames".
-Brian Wood (Cowan, illust.), Fight for Tomorrow, issues one through six.
-Brian Wood (Gianfelice, illust.), Northlanders, issues one through three: "Sven the Returned".

Once again, you'll see a rather large number of comics. Once again, you'll note that I am unapologetic. There's something about the medium--especially the more serialized ones I've been reading--that lends itself well to reading in my present situation. The fact of the matter is, when I'm reading almost a book a day--dry, academic books that make my eyes feel like bleeding--the last thing I want to do is come home and read more tiny lines of text. With comic books, I get the reading without the squinting and wishing I could gouge out my eyes.


I've written pretty extensively on most of the comics on this list, and I've already written about the poems. So here are some general statements unrelated to the booklist. One, Pizza from DTP tastes like cardboard. Two, My Name Is Earl is a pretty funny TV show, not great, but pretty damn funny.


On a more personal note--don't worry, a brief one--let me say that, while I've been enjoying college life, I've forgotten how dangerous it can be when everyone living in a two-mile radius is sleep-deprived, under-sexed, and over-competitive. Do with that what you will