It's been a hectic and busy week -- I had jury duty Tuesday-Thursday, and then was at a conference part of the day on Friday (on top of a major quarterly project at work being due Tuesday) -- but, on the way out of NYC yesterday, I did manage to stick my head into a comics shop and buy some books.
And this is what I found:
Gloriana![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vVFTkazhOwJQs5uXAvt5Iuv34Dzioow1zam2AfkL_Ewxv1g-UuXOGGNUuMCMva8SNsTXXPDoKfzTUsF5ohsxcoMrvsiVSXLQm51brQhn6KV-jPqAiePNBMJWDkSgiKElAa1T89NCUG1_dnuVI=s0-d)
, a small-format book of comics by Kevin Huizenga, mostly about his semi-autobiographical character Glenn Ganges. (See my review of his
Curses, which also featured Ganges. I also looked at
The Wild Kingdom, which was less definable.)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq51YcEZw32Sy6eVOA01nUM3clYnCdxsGOvHqE1Bf-0nn0QeihBMnfFnAL8SQfND4bOLHpdpii___1VAdSfqOCJV9WTdJH5sX7EPK7M3m78EqD506JmuoNT1j7E8tWoqUzBE_j/s200/Parker-The+Score.JPG)
The third of Darwyn Cooke's adaptions of Richard Stark novels about a particularly focused criminal,
Parker: The Score![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vSiOWCFZSTLDUIh9M1qcqTeLfLhIt7WuYN8QFXu7eQPknD3n4h58nADOEZvO8HIv451KMu_b7o3-dXupoFL3JwWzz-yw1lGhCpaY78-Kxr76sw0OPJ58x-56mnR8AabSf_LzKXZkf3B8QjRLdg=s0-d)
. (See my reviews of the first two:
The Hunter and
The Outfit.)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7os1wmcO06b9KKHesQeEp9ee8IumpjLzWWFFd2jZYMxh4k2LjuhBMDr6EKGt5sN9gqJ1PH7PtRu_pFGZt1Y5FQUDpD4RbjlB98b5nDwCfktYa5t5IKZ0C6MFpyvmXJgVBYig-/s200/Lovers%2527+Lane.JPG)
The fifth of Rick Geary's "Treasury of XXth Century Murder" books -- which followed eight similar books of Victorian murder and an initial larger-format collection -- is
Lovers' Lane![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uHY2hGLsxc14dP1PQG6af27GVN_uiviDv3bFoTArTJ4WaifCxm_DtA4UubJHqOhOkyd9exwSm3kurb76_ic3cdS_vjO1qUC-Kp3tPvZ1HUsMdW_VeSRm4JAwVfkVwytq7yR19iAxbS7uA-ZFCD=s0-d)
, about a dual murder in New Jersey in 1922. (I've reviewed a bunch of them:
The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans,
The Lindbergh Child,
Famous Players,
The Case of Madeleine Smith,
The Saga of the Bloody Benders, and
The Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti.)
Love and Rockets: New Stories, No. 5![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_ufLmgkLPItQbibYUhnOp1tknZh7Tk73uj19-5rXH5-q6CpAydALYJ8yhH3hUbndA37DpWCFv38ZVOKizma2D1lVlDjzEEnS0NvurCLg2sKWdipXohAPSOThSROJc318-FceM32a3207b-yWldd=s0-d)
, the latest in the current annual series from Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez. (I reviewed
1,
2, and
3, but still haven't read 4 -- I might end up holding it for my massive re-read of
Love and Rockets, or maybe not.)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVGeRJhUEglNLJxhI5GQ30Xf3r3Iv6ko8ffdPb0jZ0goa1w05r3nnJDTRSvZnf2syxXTPiI9QBOeBcBkno7FpLtacf0SHC2rRZ03Cl4OXvBmkJH252gurJMPdAkSeMhfLBIc-I/s200/Song+of+Roland.JPG)
Michel Rabagliati's
The Song of Roland![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sWCAG-gdc86G5AvSR4-CnZA-FRgPO4hjqlJGr7s4gkL0CPTndoiqe2xXu4OMBNdyI3DByVT3zXJQuw0_60uNOhCko86m06hCqu3k4qHy93fIEkhCdP-j9jveO5XKf02p7Gi9a5icMrQJ-OLL7p=s0-d)
, another in his series of semi-autobiographical stories about his stand-in, Paul. (See my reviews of
Paul Goes Fishing,
Paul Has a Summer Job, and
Paul Moves Out.)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM5929dlcZy5vLp3UCxeiQyOXTEJSWDtc-czQOy0RpP3Qx0fEsD9ul0ssHrueZXocYlC1gDuuuW2x62_ZaYrI36O9duCPz2P9m2x5d-IsHQb0wsXRzuIR-Zy-jA_TfsFtltt8j/s200/God+and+Science.JPG)
And last was another
Love and Rockets book, the all-Jaime collection with the jawbreaker of a title
God and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vxYRrraGlAqyI34-j3nNMdU3El8J9nOUVv6J0szIwToUtX33oQBl4-MHQVwmOfjLwG7HVhHmeX0lGMobywZfs4kP_4aIWDkeU2yxIHr4tKBN_pCf69ez395avHz2VQvJsGhahAdRWd6jScNiDz=s0-d)
. I wasn't as thrilled by this superhero/women's wrestling story as most Internet commentators were -- possibly because I have very little residual affection for superheroes, unlike most of the comics world -- but I do want to see how it reads as a single book, and as part of the overall
L&R experience.
1 comment:
I strongly recommend just reading L&R New Stories #4. The Jaime story here is just as powerful as the one in #3, which it follows.
I just finished #5, which is also wonderful, but you could possibly hold off on that one - especially as the Beto one has lots of Palomar references which I only dimly understood as I really need to do my own re-read!
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