Saturday, February 9, 2008

Comics Overwhelm me

At $30 a pop, comics aint cheap, and following series can be really costly, it looks. Also, you can't trust a series to be very good all the times, so you gotta start following authors. I think John FU realized this a while ago, but it's only taken me the past couple of weeks to even begin to realize it, so my favorite authors at this point are the following:

-Mike Carey (Lucifer, a run on Constantine: Hellblazer, plus several other things I haven't read yet)
-Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets, A short Constantine, and some Superman, I've heard)
-Brain K. Vaughn (A real up-and-comer this one, similar in writing style to Joss Whedon, which means several of his characters always talk the same, not the best or most realistic, but tells a good, funny story, and of Y: The Last Man, Pride of Baghdad, and Runaways fame)
-Alan Moore ( is really good, a little talky and abstract, but really damn good, and if you don't know what he's famous for, shame on you)
-Jamie Delano (started the Constantine spin off, I think, and really made the character. Constantine's changed since then, less guilty, more dirty, gangster Brittish sometimes, less angry at the tories, which is good because a lot of his political talk is entirely rhetoric-based, and he did Outlaw Nation, which I think I need to read again)

Them's the breaks on what L B Johnson has to say on them Comic fellers, which is always open for reassesment. Turns out the old Lyndon B. Johnson was a big southern bird, and several times during the talks on Vietnam mocked critics of the war in his cabinet pretty harshly. The one I know is, "Well, if it isn't Mr. Stop-the-bombing?"

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