Welcome back my friends, to the show that sometimes ends. It's been a few days, I took a quick trip this weekend and it took me some time to get back. Sorry! Let's get to it, shall we? I still have a ton of last week's books to talk about, but let's stop living in the past:
Fables #43: Thumbs UP. How do I love Fables, let me count the ways: 1)Buckingham's art, 2) the pictures in between the sequential panels, 3) the way old characters and story lines are so well intertwined with 4) the current ingenious story. All kinda of goodness to be found in these pages. If I ever got all trades, or all digital comics, ill still buy Fables the day it hits a shelf. And so should you.
Green Arrow #56: I hate to do this, but thumbs down. I hate to do it cause GA is one of my favorites. It's the only book I own original art for (a two page spread from Longbow Hunters. Grell was godlike back then). BUT: when the only thing the title chracter does is the same thing he did the previous issue: thumbs down. When the bad guy spends an issue setting up that which was already set up: thumbs down. And when Ron Garney follows Ron Garney, instead of following Tom Fowler: thumbs down. Maybe something new will happen next issue. Love the James Jean covers though, this and Fables.
Runaways #10: thumbs up. Better than last issue, this was fun. And you can tell Vaughan and Alphona are enjoying themselves playing with the mainstream Marvel characters. Runaways is another book I'd get in single issues, although the all in one Hardcover is tempting.
Manhunter #16: Meh. It's a good issue, the status quo is about to change. I just feel disconnected from the previous couple of issues. And I hate feeling HATE feeling like I missed an issue (or worse, a page, though that's not the case here, just mentioning a pet comic peeve). And this issue makes me feel like I missed something.
Marvel Knights Spider-Man #20: Thumbs down. Way down. Are those jumping sharks I see? Aunt May and Mary Jane in Iron Man armor helping Peter. Remember kids, cut with the veins, not across them when trying to kill yourself instead of reading this.... this..... ack!!!
X-Men #177: thumbs up? House of M - Decimation has me intrigued. For the first time in a long time I'm curious what happens in the X-books again. Oh, and Polaris has seemingly lost her powers. ooooooooOOO.
For reader reference: I started reading comics because of the X-Men, back around the time of Fall of the Mutants. I collected every X-book from then on until Age of Apocalypse, and I mean every X-book. Series, Limited series, one-shot, spiral bound guide to the mansion, you name it, I have it. I even tracked down most X-books that came before. My collection runs from Giant-Sized #1 through AoA. With many before then, too, the earlies being Uncanny #2. But by AoA I was looking for a jumping off point, just reading them because I always had, and getting bitterer each time I read an issue. So I stopped. It's funny, before then I used to think the day I stopped reading X-Men was the day I stopped collecting comics. I havent touched the X-books since then, and this is the first time I've been interested enough to do so. But more than I want to read the X-books, I just want to see the list of every mutant left, and see where they are. Who do I have to kill to see that?!?!
Uh be, uh be, uh be, that's all (for now) folks!
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