A nice week, nothing too big, except GoGo Monster which I’m still waiting for Borders to get.
- Daytripper #1– One of the best books that no one read this decade was De: Tales, a collection of short stories written and drawn by twin brothers Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon. Their tales of Brazillian life combined a bit of autobiography and slice-of-life stories with a wonderful magical realism to create a book that had sounds all its own. I still think I could hear Brazil outside of the windows that Ba and Moon drew in that book. I haven’t read that much of what Daytripper is supposed to be about but I keep hoping that it will capture a sound and rhythm like De: Tales did.
- Ex Machina Vol 8 Dirty Tricks TP– It feels like it’s been forever since I read about Mayor Hundred and his NYC and I can’t remember where this story is at right now. But that usually happens. I guess, like I seem to do once a year, I’ll have to pull out all of the collections and just read them straight through.
- Phonogram 2 Singles Club #6– With this and Daytripper in one day, I think I’m going to be pretty happy after reading comics tomorrow night.
- GoGo Monster HC– Now that I think of it, I don’t know if I’ve ever finished Tekkon Kinkreet. I think I know what I’m reading next.
- Naoki Urasawas 20th Century Boys Vol 6 TP– Volume 5 was the one I was really waiting for, one of those “everything you think you know is going to change volumes.” After six volumes of each, I still can’t figure out which I like more, this or Pluto. Pluto is so much more reserved and compact while 20th Century Boys is so sprawling and free.
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