Between Little League for the boy, swimming for the girls, housework, taking the kids to dinner cuz we were too lazy to cook and purchasing tickets for last Sunday's NHL East Semi-Finals game (fucking Bruins...the ONE game I go to in years and they lose!) I didn't think I'd be able to get my son and me to the comic store to take advantage. But I did...and we walked away with some cool stuff...
The comics across the top are the free ones, chosen by my son. The ones across the bottom (and the Munchkin Cthulhu expansion pack) were most decidedly not free.
They were not all, in my opinion, good buys. I do not care for the Lenore comic; I read the back cover, flipped through a few pages to check out the art work, and it looked "cute" and novel enough, so I got it - actually for my wife of all people who said to get her something if the mood so struck me (The Tank Girl comic was also purchased with that in mind...her being the tough, independent Aussie Sheila and all).
The primary focus of the graphic novel is dark humor, with many of the stories having amusing twist endings.
Errrr...amusing is not what came to mind when we read the first episode. In it she babysits and takes the baby out to feed the birds. After she unwittingly leaves the seeds in the baby carriage, birds descend upon the baby and peck it to death. I haven't read anymore. I plan on seeing if they'll take it as a return (a gift for someone who didn't like it) and trade in.
The high point is definitely the Spider Man book the store manager gave my son. He'd got a stack of them to give away as promotions and had been "consistently forgetting to do so" as he said. So now my son has the "Ten Greatest Spider Man Stories Ever, Vol. 1". As I have mentioned before I was not a big follower of the Marvel Universe so I couldn't tell you if they are, but my son is happy, and loves reading the villain stats.
The Fall of Cthulhu and Cthulhu Tales graphic novels will probably wait longer than I want them to before I read them. But hey, I'm a busy guy for the next few months...
3 comments:
One of these years I'm going to take a Saturday off and go to this damn thing. I can't remember the last time I read a comic.
How 'bout dem Bruins?
As someone who collected comics as a kid when my son went through his much shorter period of interest in them I was amazed at the adult level the stories were.
My Superman comics were pretty much about some super villain hatching yet another plot to destroy or enslave humanity.
Now they involve sloppy liberal emotions like love and tolerance. At least they are drawing Lois with nice boobs now.
Randal - Don't remind me about the Bruins. I need to pop anxiety meds every time they try to take the fucking puck out of their own zone. Unreal.
BB - So true. I think Marvel is releasing a new title - "Diversity Booby Force" - next year.
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