Two books this week, both of them from the library. And both of them are somewhat oversized - one much more than the other - which is the reason why I went for physical copies rather than trying to read them digitally.
I guess I'm trying to read the Asterix series. Asterix the Gladiator is the fourth one, by original creators Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo (I think Goscinny was involved, however old he was then, in the most recent new material, but Uderzo has left us). Gladiator was originally published in 1964, with this English-language edition coming in 2004. I read the first Asterix omnibus almost two years ago - I thought it was much more recently than that! - and have had the next ones in my library app, to get to "eventually." Eventually came a few weeks ago, but I found cramming Uderzo's album-sized pages down to my tablet - and especially their smallish lettering - was not going to be a good experience. So, instead, I checked to see if a real ink-on-paper edition was in my reach, and this one was. It's a pretty battered thing, from the YA section of a random library in a town near me, but it'll do.
The other one is a gigantic oversized thing:
Wednesday Comics, which reprints a project that presented a bunch of DC superhero comics by major creators on tabloid-sized newsprint, as if they were Sunday newspaper comics. Now, as far as I can see, the
content of these stories is all very standard DC - guys in costumes punching each other until the bad guy gives up - which is slightly disappointing. (How awesome would it be to have Superman and Lois goofing around a la
Blondie, or Krypto in
Marmaduke situations, or Zatanna doing
Broom Hilda? But no one ever asks me for my crazy ideas.) So this is a big, physically unwieldy thing that exists to showcase the same kind of art and stories, just
bigger. And Big Two stuff always wants to be
bigger anyway. So I didn't want to spend money on this, or try to store it, but getting it from the library is just about right.
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