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A Twisted Day In The Life Of...
Anenigma
Danielle
Geek In Black
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Go Fug Yourself
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Warren Ellis
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In this morning's round of Bad Signal emails, Warren Ellis pondered the possible number of people who are eager to get their hands on his new project, "Desolation Jones", but are unable to purchase it for lack of nearby bookstores. Add me to the "Needs comics, cannot travel" list.
Our small public library has a very limited selection of graphic novels in the juvenile section. I never even knew they were there, because I don't think to look for books like "The Watchmen" and "Maus" in the same section I look for "Harry Potter" and "The Golden Compass". Kevin sniffed them out within five minutes of entering the building, leaving me in fiction somewhere near L, returning with two crinkled and waterlogged Marvel books. I powered through "Ultimate X-Men" issue 1, "Ultimate Spider-Man" issues 1 & 2, "Death", "Promethea" issue 1, and "Ghost World", and "The Watchmen" in a very short amount of time. Of course, this exhausted the entire stock of comics available within a 100 mile and left me starving for more books that I couldn't get my hands on.
Up to that point, I had only read the "PREACHER" series, and the "Transmetropolitan" series, and a "Squee!" book. "Ultimate X-Men" was my first foray into the world of superhero comics and I have a schoolgirl crush on Colossus. What girl wouldn't love to pamper and adore an attractive, moody Russian loner with inhuman strength and the ability to rearrange his molecular structure to that of organic steel?
Kevin sent me more "Ultimate X-Men", up to issue 25. I enjoy reading them, but having to unstuff a computer file, set up all of the .pdf images at once so that they are large enough to read and I can just flip through the quickly without having to stop after every page and resize images sort of leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It's feeding my comic book lust, but requires a good four or five minutes of preparation. I like books that are all ready to read. Just open the cover and turn the pages.
