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
, 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.)

The third of Darwyn Cooke's adaptions of Richard Stark novels about a particularly focused criminal,
Parker: The Score
. (See my reviews of the first two:
The Hunter and
The Outfit.)

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
, 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
, 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.)

Michel Rabagliati's
The Song of Roland
, 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.)

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
. 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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