3 blondes and a redhead

Got in 4 comics on the train ride to NY.
Hope you all are getting tickets to New York Comiccon-- it turns out I'll be doing a session during the professional time on "Creating a mini-con at your library (or in your community)". Can you dig it??

Air 4
The story continues with Blythe, bird snakes, wishing for Zayn. After issue 3, I nearly gave up on Air, but the story is imaginative and unusual enough by G. Willow Wilson to hang on. The art by MK Perker is vivid and expressive. I always want to support Vertigo titles, so I'll stay with Air. Enjoyed the bird naturalist cover this issue.

Buffy, Season 8, issue 19
Phillygirl and I admitted to not truly understanding Season 8, and what is going on, despite being huge Buffy fans. I think it was the delay and the time jump-- this issue with a future (bad) Willow and Buffy choices helped it gel better for me. Fray is spotlighted again.

Spider-Man loves Mary Jane 4
COVER BY: TERRY MOORE
WRITER: TERRY MOORE
PENCILS: CRAIG ROUSSEAU
A cyber-bully website trashing Mary Jane appears, and MJ wonders who hates her so much. The writing continues to be cute, teenagey. I have to say the cross hatches on MJ's face in the interior this issue bugged me. It made her look wrinkly to me -not the look they want for a teenage MJ!



Jack of Fables
Simply the best dialogue in all of comics right now, Sturges and Willingham continue to hit the mark with the rogue Jack. Part of 1 of 5 involves a war at Golden Boughs, the Page sisters, Book Burner, Revise-- and Jack being their leader?

The Guilty Ones

Went to see Spring Awakening on Broadway. I liked it. It didn't pack the emotional punch I thought, but the voices were outstanding and a few songs were excellent. One of the leads is the Blake Bashoff - he plays Karl, Alex's boyfriend on Lost.

Thanks to a NY train ride, I read 7 comics.

Buffy the VS 12
Drew Goddard (Lost writer) takes on Buffy in this arc. Everyone's hot over the Buffy with a chick scene. It was funny to see most of the scooby gang discover her and Satsu (is that her name?) together. Xander's "beautiful burning eye" was especially funny, as was his normal geeky pursuit of a girl. And our Andrew- that will be comic fun. Beautiful cover, well written, and in the spirit of what we love of the Buffyverse.

Justice Society 13
The overcrowding of the JSA comes to play in trying to find space for new JSA'ers. Sad to say I've never read Kingdom Come, so the Gog ref's-- I'm following but don't really understand. There are getting to be so many characters I have to keep flipping to the front to see their names and summary.

Let's see, I also read the latest Rex Libris, Birds of Prey, the new Doctor Who...have a stack at home too. I'm reading People of the Book-- dedicated "for the librarians".

Fun blog:
Stuff White People Like

Snow day

Snow! Over 5 inches, letting me use the snow thrower we got 2 years ago for the first real time. It was my regular day off, so I cleaned some, watched Michael Clayton, played Wii.

Tomorrow shoreturtle will be diving in the ocean for the Polar Plunge!

DMZ 28 Soames
It seems that DMZ has been these standalone issues for a year. I miss a singular story of Matty's experience in the war and the DMZ. The stories are well written and drawn, and even poignant at times, but I just want to get back into the characters I know.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 11 A Beautiful Sunset
Buffy's distance from others is highlighted here. I barely remembered the kiss that woke her, but apparently it was from Satsu, a slayer. I love her dialogue with Xander. Dawn is still a giant, but Xander threw a party to let off slayer steam. An unrevealed villian tries to "strip her of her greatest armor...her moral certainty" I can be the gushing fangirl, but reading the letters column to Joss-- those are some gushers!

Mundane world of the library

Batgirl - Detective Comics #359, Carmine Infantino - pencils

Uh huh! Got my free professional badge number for April's New York Comicon! And the Friday has 6 hours of trade show for just dealers, pros, and librarians! Of course, most of the artists and big name guests are never there, but it is a great time to visit tables that are swamp city later.

Just saw that the Luna Brothers have a new project. I really loved Girls and Ultra, so this is a must for me to pick up.

Recent reads-

Justice Society of America (another Superman? What does he want?)

Buffy (Faith v. Buffy and wacked out rich girl Gigi)
Y the Last Man 59 (the ends are coming together. and Yorick seems calm.)

Still have The Vinyl Underground 2 and the Infinite Halloween Special.

It doesn't seem like a festive holiday season (yet?). I think money and mortgage and endless war has made all of us tense and not hopeful during these last few years. Gas costs might go to record levels by Thxgiving-- but I am happy to go to Cooperstown, NY for Thanksgiving, and finally visit the Hall of Fame even with an expensive drive!

cardboard boxes.

Packing and more packing. Up to episode 11 of Flight of the Conchords before the HBO freebie goes away. Finished Jane Eyre today- clearly ahead of her time with questions of self and independence and marriage and class.

Phillygirl should be happy that The Middleman was optioned for a TV show. If you haven't read the story of the spunky redhead artist and her involvement in a secret spy agency, go find it now!

Finally read some comics-
Buffy Season 8, issue 6
Brian K. Vaughan comic and dramatic voice comes to the Buffy series-- with Faith at the center of the story. I loved hearing Faith's tough girl quotes, and her dialogue with Giles. With 2000 slayers in the world, Gigi is a rich and protected slayer with a Warlock coaching her. Can Faith fake her way into society to get a chance to take her out??

The Boys issue 10
Raunchy as usual, but I haven't been laughing quite as much. The Boys are headed to Russia next, so maybe this storyline will grab me again.

Justice League wedding special
Ollies bachelor party, the league of injustice, the girls dancing on the town. I hated the butt shot cover of Wonder Woman. Otherwise, a workable issue with some villian and good guy fights...

And the last Y had a major development for one character right? These last issues have been so spread out, but the end is 2 issues away. I'm not sure how I feel about that Disturbia boy being Yorick for the film-- at least he seems intelligent.

Irish Rover

Happy St. Patrick's Day from the redhead! After digging out of the ice and snow, I hope to have a pint or two. Here are two images from a comic in Gaelic I got at Forbidden Planet Dublin.

Cló Mhaigh Eo is a publisher of books in Irish for children and young people as well as a series of acclaimed Irish graphic novels. The company is based in Claremorris, County Mayo in the West of Ireland.


Of interest to me:
I've always loved Aquaman. I was buying the previous Aquaman, then came on board to Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis. The last few issues with villian "The Fisherman" was just confusing. The Comic Treadmill sums up the latest abandonment

An Aquaman run by a new creative team that abruptly changed directions and promised to bring new vitality to a title that has floundered for direction for years launched to great fanfare and potential and has been just as abruptly abandoned by the creative team for a new team that will likely abruptly change directions and promise to bring new vitality to the title.

Divalicious I really liked Penny&Aggie

Dynamo 5 sells out this title has the buzz!

Mike Oeming's Omega Flight preview

Buffy's back