What I’m Reading, Part 2 (Contemporary Comics)
Thursday, October 4th, 2007Anticipation for the next issue was one of the things I loved most about collecting comics when I was a kid. For the longest time, we didn’t have a comic book store in my town, so most of my comics were bought on Thursday afternoons when the new comics would come in at the 7-11, and read, if not in the parking lot, then on the floor of the living room as soon as I got home.
Back then I would look forward to practically everything that came out. I’m not so crazy now, but there are still a few that I can’t wait for.
I’m a huge fan of Richard Sala. His latest comic is called Delphine and the next issue of that is the one I’m waiting for the most. So far, this series has been awesome!
I’ve loved reading Hellboy since the very first issue. I’ve always admired Mike Mignola’s artwork, and even though he’s not drawing the books anymore, the artists that are working on the Hellboy and B.P.R.D. titles are excellent. Guy Davis and Duncan Fegredo both have nice art styles, but what blows me away is that they seem to be able to draw anything. They’re really good.
The other title that I’m always looking forward to is Love and Rockets. Even after all this time, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez still manage to amaze me with their writing, their artwork, and their beautiful characters.
October 4th, 2007 at 2:29 am
If you like the Hellboy comics, you should check out Hellboy: Animated, if you haven’t already. The characters carried over pretty well and they retained elements of the comics here and there (even almost the whole “Heads” story.) I think Sword of Storms was the better out of the two, but Blood and Iron was good in its own, creepy way.
And just to be ironic, Dark Horse has come out with 2 volumes so far of Hellboy: Animated comics books that are pretty good reads, though, they’re basically “Hellboy: Lite”.
October 4th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
I haven’t seen those. I’ll have to put them on at the top of my Netflix list. It sounds great. How about The Amazing Screw-On Head? I haven’t seen it, but was just checking out the reviews on that DVD as well. It looks worth a rent too.
October 7th, 2007 at 1:06 am
I actually have that (Screw-on Head) in the high end of my Netflix queue right now, so I’ll probably get to watch it in the next couple weeks. It’s only like 22 minutes long, but I’ve read it’s good.