(Not a particularly major negative, I'll admit.)
So the four books I have this week all came: from the library. And I expect to have more library books next week, since several are already on hold for me in the closed-for-the-weekend library building.
Ms. Marvel Vol. 6: Civil War II looks like a World Cup score (Ms. Marvel advances!), but it's just another superhero crossover. This series -- written by G.Willow Wilson, with art this time out by Adrian Alphona, Takeshi Miyazawa and Mirka Andolpho -- is generally listed as one of the superhero comics of interest to people outside the usual audience. In this case, I think "outside the usual audience" means younger, less WASPy, and more female, and possibly "more liberal" and/or "interested in less cliched stories." I've been reading it in fits and starts, and have not been as impressed as the hype led me to believe. But I'm reading a book a day this year, which means finding more more more to read.
I'm pretty sure I read Formerly Known as the Justice League in floppy-comics form, when it was coming out in 2003, but that was before this blog started and I lost all those old comics in my 2011 flood. And I did like the Keith Giffen/J.M. DeMatteis/Kevin Maguire incarnation of the Justice League, since, frankly, you can't take superheroes all that seriously anyway.
Soonish is a book I thought was comics, but it seems to be mostly prose. So it may not end up getting read before it needs to go back to the library, sadly. It's a nonfiction book about various technologies that don't quite exist yet but probably will soon, by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith -- she's a biology professor/researcher, and he's the cartoonist of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
And Imagine Wanting Only This is an autobiographical graphic "novel" by Kristen Radtke, which I've actually already read as I type this. (Book-A-Day makes me get to things quickly.) It's good and distinct and interesting -- look for my post about it on the 27th.
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