Sometimes, I just have to stop and remind myself why I love this gig, and why I love comics.
Right now it’s not hard. Next to me, I’ve got Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (someone read my Christmas list!), Phonogram: Rue Britannia, and The Vinyl Underground: Pretty Dead Things, just waiting to be read. I polished off Scalped #24 and Northlanders #13 over dinner, and they were worth the week’s wait.
This year, I read all of Y the Last Man, Planetary (well, aside from the long-lost final issue), a whole bunch of original graphic novels, and re-read all of Local and Sandman about three times. Each. Don’t even ask how many times I re-read Transmetropolitan. It was an election year, that’s all I’ll say.
My job is awesome.
January 7th, 2009 at 1:47 am
lol Sarah thx for rubbing it in…and yes because of several radio shows doing specials on it..I am on TP five of a Y the last man read-a-thon…addictive stuff….
January 7th, 2009 at 3:23 am
Transmetropolitan is awesome! Got the first trade signed by Darrick Robertson last summer. He’s a really nice guy.
January 7th, 2009 at 8:51 am
last I heard, Planetary 27 was in the drawing stage. Perhaps we’ll see it solicited for April? Hope, wish, dream…
Cheers,
B
January 7th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Ah, the Vinyl Underground. Yet another fine Vertigo series that failed to find the audience it deserved