This week brings a few things on my list. Air and Hellblazer (and might I suggest that those of you not reading Air at the moment pick up the first trade this week? Ms. G. Willow Wilson brings the goods, I promise), but I’m starting to feel like there aren’t enough monthlies with my name on them.
I know there are a ton of comics out there that I’m not reading, and I’m sure I’d like a good number of ‘em, but until some of those new Vertigo books they teased us with at NYCC come out, I need new suggestions. Help me out.
I read Blankets this week. It made me cry. It deserves its own post, and shall get one when I have a spare moment.
March 18th, 2009 at 2:26 am
Well, even though volume 2 apparently comes out tomorrow, you could always start out on Pluto.
The best way to describe it is that this series is Naoki Urasawa doing for Astro Boy what Alan Moore did for Charleston with Watchmen. It’s a thought-provoking update of a classic Astro Boy storyline to the current political climate, and after Monster and 20th Century Boys, Urasawa is on the top of his game here. It’s a work that both stands on its own and builds of preexisting knowledge of the storyline it’s adapting.
March 18th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
I’ll second Dave’s call for Pluto. I reviewed the first volume last week and can’t wait to read the second as soon as possible.
Also, the eighth collection of Nikolai Dante, The Beast of Rudinshtein, should be in stores this week, and these are some pretty terrific stories as well, with gorgeous art by Simon Fraser and John Burns.