Yes yes time for another quick comic review as I have spent the last weekend nestled in the dry craggy nooks of the Sisikyou County mountains relaxing with friends in their converted bus doing absolutely nothing but eating and reading sweet comics! Thanks again Joe for the new books! Lets start with BLACK SUMMER, a single 8 issue trade that came out in 2005 done yet again by Warren Ellis. Can't help but like how the book starts off, with a masked superhero, once part of an elite citizen defense team, now turned anti-government vigilante, walking into the White House press room drenched in gore calmly stating that he has just killed the President and his cabinet for their numerous atrocities, and demands that we citizens hold free elections to start anew. Super amazing and ultra detailed art by Juan Jose Ryp in the vein of Geoff Darrow. As with a lot of the single books that Ellis puts out, I only wish that this series would have gone on longer. As with OCEAN and ORBITER I felt that those stories and histories could have been stretched over many many issues. They just seem to go so gosh darn quick! But then I must keep in mind that I am furiously reading this thing all at once and not waiting month to month for each issue to come out...
Next Up: DOOM PATROL by Grant Morrison. Written in 1989, classic 60's super heroes are revamped by Morrison into a completely new and surreal take on the genre. This is most definitely a predecessor to THE INVISIBLES as again we are dealing with a group of anti heroes who defy all our social and political expectations, they are all outcasts, all handicapped in some way and are dealing with very unconventional situations. Very Grant Morrison like themes of Meta fiction and dreams/reality. Super. Awesome. I don't know why it has taken me so long to read this thing. Cant wait to get my hands on the next trade...
I am also in the process of reading WATERLOO SUNSET by Andrew Stephenson. Thanks again joe! Just a little way into this thing and it is warming up to me. It has the atmosphere of WASTELAND, a comic I am not particularly fond of. And here again we have another mysterious be-goggled "hunter" who wanders the post-apocalyptic landscape, but this seems to be going in a direction that's keeping me interested....we shall see...
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