Morrison WAS really important to me for the longest time, wrote a whole ass book about them, but the last few years left me so cold in a way that made me less interested even in the stuff I liked before
I read the first Underworld USA book ages ago (loved it) and never got around to the sequels... One day I'll crack it open again.
Dunno why really. Guess I just wanted two threads...
La Tierra Del Fuego by Sylvia Iparraguirre
The prise is good, but the interiority of the characters isn't quite there. And since the whole point is that white society doesn't respect the interiority of Jemmy Button it doesn't work when we only see it at such a remove.
Must be an odd first lesson
I must sell books to make room for new books that I will later sell to make room for new books that I will later sell to make room for new books that I will later sell to make room for new books that I will later sell to make room for new books that I will later sell to make room for new books that
White Jazz by James Ellroy
At times so obtuse and self-referential you'd think it's Grant Morrison on Final Crisis. But when you reach the end you gotta bang your hand on the table and shout "the son-of-bitch did it!"
"your story has been rejected"
Barbosa: The Man Who Drew Flashman by Lawrence Blackmore.
The prose is strictly workmanlike, and the historical research leaves much to be desired (a lot of 'we don't know' and 'the story has it'). Still, nice bunch of pictures. That man could hold a brush...
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean (audiobook)
Not quite as good as The Library Book or The Orchid Thief, but Orlean is the rare popular non-fiction writer who actually manages to both tell an interesting story and successfully tie it to a wider cultural discussion.
Either that or put some Lovecraft stuff in the work.
"Through a circle that ever returneth in / To the self-same spot,"
Arthur Barbosa
Judges (16:28-30)
Judges (19: 29–30)
Revelation 13:1–10
Book of Genesis (chapter 32:22–32)
Book of Judges.
Chapter 1, Verse 1
The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black by E. B. Hudspeth
... Well... It's short. I like that it's short.
Ennis / Ezquerra / Baumann / Robbins
War Story: Condors
I believe the first national-level politician to quote Warhammer 40K has not only been born, but is already walking among us as an adult.
Can anybody recognize the artist here? A children's version of Last of the Mohicans, no credit anywhere.
Looks a bit like Hugo Pratt to me, but I don't think it's him.
I guess...
On War by Carl von Clausewitz
All in all... I'm against it
Random Arthur Ferrier
Carl WOKE Clausewitz
(I'll see myself out)
Also, this collection doesn't have the "Vendetta in Gotham" story even though "Die Laughing" directly builds on it.
An odd choice.
The Batman / Judge Dredd Case Files by Wagner, Grant Bisley at el.
Everyone involved did better work on the same concepts before and after.
At best - a fun art showcase for 1990s style artwork.
At worst - generic crossover plotting.
Los Detectives Salvajes by Roberto Bolaño.
It is true, what they say, "manuscripts don't burn"