Read in September

Another month, another big pile of books. This is where I ritually mention that a lot of this is comics, and so it's not as impressive as it might seem. So let's take that as read and dive right into the list:

• Howard Chaykin's American Flagg!, Vol. 1 (9/1)
  
• Alissa Torres & Sungyoon Choi, American Widow (9/1)
  
• Osamu Tezuka, Dororo, Vol. 3 (9/2)
  
• Ian Frazier, Lamentations of the Father (9/3)
  
• Takashi Okzaki, Afro Samurai, Vol. 1 (9/3)
  
• Satol Yuiga, E'S, Vol. 1 (9/4)
  
• Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto, Vol. 23 (9/5)
  Either you already know what's going on or you don't care, by this point. I'm still reading 'em, and the end (or, at least, the current storyline) is coming into sight.
  
• Rick Geary, The Lindbergh Child (9/7)
  
• Park SoHee, Goong: The Royal Palace, Vol. 2 (9/8)
  
• Anonymous, ed., Scrambled Ink (9/9)
  
• Ed Park, Personal Days (9/9)
  
• Uhm JungHyum, Forest of Gray City, Vol. 2 (9/10)
  
• Paul Collins, Not Even Wrong (9/10)
  
• Kara & Woo SooJung, Legend, Vol. 2 (9/11)
  
• Holly Black & Ted Naifeh, The Good Neighbors, Book One: Kin (9/12)
  
• Lawrence Block, Hit and Run (9/12)
  
• Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto, Vol. 24 (9/13)
  And more ninja action that none of you will really care about.
  
• Paul Gravett & Peter Stanbury, Holy Sh*t! The World's Weirdest Comic Books (9/14)
  
• Kazuto Okada, Sundome, Vol. 3 (9/17)
  
• Steven Brust, Jhegaala (9/17)
  
• Takane Yonetani, Make Love & Peace (9/18)
  
• Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto, Vol. 25 (9/20)
  Nope; I don't really remember what happens in this one. It'll probably come back to me when I get to #26, but trying to dredge it up out of thin air isn't getting anything.
  
• Jim Holt, Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes (9/1)
  
• William Messner-Loebs, Journey: The Adventures of Wolverine MacAlistaire, Vol. 1 (9/21)
  
• Saika Kuneida, Future Lovers, Vol. 1 (9/1)
  
• Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima, Path of the Assassin, Vol. 11: Hikuma Castle (9/23)
  This series is confusing for entirely different reasons than Naruto is: it's an occasionally true-to-life historical series about the battle to unify Japan about five hundred years ago. There are lots of characters, and dialogue is routinely of the "If we do X, then B will do Y and go to Q, where C will do W and force D to join our cause. But, instead, if we do Z, B will stay where he is, but C and D will join forces against us and attack R -- which will bring E in on our side!" style, which is often opaque to me. So I'm reading it for the battle scenes and the character stuff between the two heroes.
  
• David Heatley, My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (9/23)
  
• Jane & Michael Stern, Two for the Road (bound galleys) (9/23)
  
• Julian Barnes, Nothing to Be Frightened Of (9/24)
  
• Jeremy Tinder, Cry Yourself To Sleep (9/25)
  
• Nicolas Mahler, Van Helsing's Night Off (9/26)
  
• Mawil, Beach Safari (9/27)
  
• Chris Blain, Gus and His Gang (9/29)
  
• The Hernandez Brothers, Love & Rockets: New Stories, No. 1 (9/30)

And that was September. I see I'm behind on writing about a large number of those books -- funny, I don't remember doing anything else interesting with my time last month....