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Without any ado whatsoever, the booklist:
April Booklist
-Jason Aaron (Guerra, illust.), Scalped, issue 16.
-Brian Azzarello (Risso, illust.), 100 Bullets, issues one through fifty-nine.
-Billy Collins, The Apple that Astonished Paris.
-Warren Ellis (Percio, illust.), Anna Mercury, issue one.
-Warren Ellis (Duffield, illust.), FreakAngels, issues one through twelve.
-Gage (Robertson, illust.), The Authority: Prime, issue six.
-David Lapham (Lapham, illust.), Young Liars, issues one and two.
-Haruki Murikami, Kafka on the Shore.
-Si Spencer (Gane, illust.), The Vinyl Underground, issues one through seven.
-Brian Vaughan (Harris, illust.), Ex Machina, issues eleven through thirty-five.
-Brian Wood (Burchielli, illust.), DMZ, issue thirty.
-Brian Wood (Gianfelice, illust.), Northlanders, issue five.
Of course, I'm behind by a couple days, but it's been busy. I thought you all might be interested in my stats for this past months, which have oscillated around 15 unique visitors a day. Pretty cool, huh? I want to quick highlight the facts that (1) I'm done with The Authority: Prime, and the only way I'll ever read a new Authority Book is if hell freezes over; (2) The Vinyl Underground isn't bad; (3) Billy Collins's early work isn't half as annoying as his late work, or, in other words, you might want to check out The Apple that Astonished Paris; and (4) Infinite Monkey (the local and excellent comic store) is on a well-earned vacation, and it's killing me.
I went and saw Iron Man, which was something of a joke. It was entertaining, but it's moralistic bullshit got a little old, considering how mind-numbingly simplistic it was. Not that there's anything wrong with simplistic morals in a dumb action movie. The problem is, Iron Man seemed to think that it's morals were fresh and new, and, frankly, I don't think it comes as much of a surprise to most of the American public that--gasp!--people who make weapons and sell them indiscriminately are assholes!
What's more, they tried to veer away from the "arab-as-the-bad-guy" stereotype by having an apolitical bad guy, whose motives and agenda was left unclear. But, whoops, they were still brown people, and, thus, got haplessly mowed down. It's like they (the creators of Iron Man) recognized that they wanted to move beyond the stereotypical action movie tropes, but they did a half-assed job so it came of as even more racist and inane than usual. Whatever. Apparently, most people liked it.
Lastly, I'm listening to Heretic Pride, the new Mountain Goats album, and it's quite good. That is all.
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