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[lyssie]

I've bought some comics off and on recently.

Saga - first trade Really liked this. Good pacing, and yanked me RIGHT in. Basically, nique was like, "I'm almost done with it." then she was done. Twenty-thirty minutes later, I was like, "WHY ISN'T THERE MORE?"

I love the narrative, I love the ghost girl. I even love the silly war between whatsit and whatsit. I love that it starts with a birth and the trade ends with grandparents. I love the ridiculousness of the prophecy.

I didn't really love the bounty hunters (and the spider one was just gross). I thought the constant amount of naked dick and sex was hilarious.

In short: really liked, and shall be getting the next one.

Ghost (the run by Kelly Sue Deconnick that came out within the last year) - It was short, but entertaining. I really would like more? idk. I suspect I won't get more. I'm a sucker for amnesiac girls who rip people's hearts out through their ribs.

The New Ghostbusters - JANINE MELNITZ. Unf. So amazing. This is really a silly book, but has some nice skewering of the sexism and bullshit that goes into things. Basically, I read it for the crack.

Captain Marvel: In Pursuit of Flight - So. I liked it. But I didn't like it as much as I thought I would. I think I had too high expectations for the premise (LADY PILOTS IN WWII, SIGN ME UP. sigh), and I just. idk. Carol didn't really pull me in? I guess?

Also, about a third of the time, I had no idea who was speaking. Some of that was the art, but, uh, some of it was that there didn't seem to be any differentiation between characters (and I'm still not sure how many women were in that pilot group)

I feel like it could have spent a lot more time in the past, but I guess that wasn't the point.

I'll get the next trade (I've already ordered it), if only to see if I like Carol or not.

But I'd rather have a new comic set in WWII all about female pilots. :/

Comments

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Ahhh Captain Marvel. I preordered the next trade, too, and I'm really excited for it.

I got the first issue of Saga when it was free on Comixology, but I haven't read any more of it. I keep hearing it's really good, though. Fiona Staples does have really neat art!

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I preordered the next trade---I didn't hate it, and I liked it (I just would rather read about lady pilots in WWII, apparently? idk. I think I need to go get more memoirs or something). And I'll happily read more.

Saga is just cracktastic, and the only space opera out there right now. Sigh

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

I just would rather read about lady pilots in WWII, apparently? idk. I think I need to go get more memoirs or something

Kelly Sue DeConnick recommended The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight by Martha Ackmann on her tumblr (http://kellysue.tumblr.com).

(Edit: Sorry, HTML fail.)

[rihansu.livejournal.com]

KSD said that Dexter Soy who did the art for 1-4 is really young and new to comics and at first she didn't realize how much direction she needed to give him and how to write to his strengths as an artist. Which I honestly didn't notice the first time through, but I'm still so new to comics and I need a lot of time to process art because I'm just not visual like that.

Captain Marvel had me locked in the first issue with the bit about girls born mad and put here to punch holes in the sky. But I also thought that was Carol's inner monologue at first so that probably influenced me a lot.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Heh. I actually thought his art was all right? There were a few times it wasn't so easy to tell who was who, but--the second artist was almost worse about that. There are three or four panels where the conversation makes no sense because I couldn't tell which one was Carol and which was the woman that was so obviously supposed to be Jackie Cochran. And there was a nice... oil-painting feel to his stuff.

[fahrbotdrusilla]

aw, I like Carol. But the second trade was more her dealing with everyday life (it basically treats her as a person, imagine that). The next Marvel event apparently deals with her, and I'm sort of thinking I might end up just getting that in trades.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

That's cool, too. (I need to just read more WWII lady pilot memoirs or something, I guess)

[antiwesley.livejournal.com]

The art has been getting progressively worse on Carol's book. I like the story, yes, but the art? The art is sadly, what's going to cancel the book.

New Ghostbusters (and Ghostbusters in general) has been a top notch read for some time.

Saga, I'm majorly behind on. It's good, but I always saved it for last, and by then the new books had arrived, and it got lost in the shuffle.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

The art getting worse makes me sad, though I'll still get the next trade (if I want more books about women doing shit, I should put my money where my mouth is).

And I'll probably go back and pick up the rest of the Ghostbusters run, as I liked what I've read so far.