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    Comics shipping the week of July 24th, 2006

    in Bring the Noise

    Posted

    Hellblazer All His Engines SC

    Loveless #9

    Lucifer Vol 10 Morningstar TP

    Neil Gaimans Neverwhere #8

    Spike vs Dracula #4

    Battle Pope Color #9

    X-Men #189

    2000AD Prog 1498

     

    Add to this the last few weeks comics I've not been to pick up from Page 45 yet and my bank is possibly going to send someone round to break my thumbs soon.

    vertigo's best single issues.

    in Comics

    Posted

    If Swamp Thing v2 counts retrospectively...... Issue 55.

     

    The reason:

     

    If you wear black then kindly, irritating strangers will touch your arm consolingly and inform you that the world keeps on turning.

     

    They're right. It does. However much you beg it to stop.

     

    It turns and lets grenadine spill over the horizon, sends hard bars of gold through my window and I wake up and feel happy for three seconds and then I remember.

     

    It turns and tips people out of their beds and into their cars, their offices, an avalanche of tiny men and women tumbling though life... All trying not to think about what's waiting at the bottom.

     

    Sometimes it turns and sends us reeling into each other's arms. We cling tight, excited and laughing, strangers thrown together on a moving funhouse floor. Intoxicated by the motion we forget all the risks.

     

    And then the world turns... and somebody falls off...

     

    And, oh God, it's such a long way down.

     

    Numb with shock we can only stand and watch as they fall away from us, gradually getting smaller... Receeding in our memories until they are no longer visible.

     

    We gather in cemeteries, tense and silent as if listening for the impact; the splash of a pebble dropped into a dark well, trying to measure its deph. Trying to measure how far we have to fall.

     

    No impact comes; no splash. The moment passes. The world turns and we turn away, getting on with our lives... Wrapping ourselves in comforting banalities to keep us warm against the cold.

     

    'Time's a great healer.'

     

    'At least it was quick.'

     

    'The world keeps on turning.'

    Lucifer

    in Comics

    Posted

    On reading #75 I have the same mix of being depressed that it is over and happiness that I know the end of the story that I got with The Sandman.

     

    It was also interesting to see part of The Sandman redrawn, edited and reworked. I have to admit to being anal enough that I opened up The Sandman so I could see all the differences. 'How would this be drawn now by someone else' is something I always think about when reading older comics with more limited colouring so it was a rather special touch for me.

    Yet another movie related elimiation game

    in Bring the Noise

    Posted

    The Godfather (1972) 13+1-14

     

    3. The Godfather: Part II (1974) 16+1=17

    4. The Lord of the Rings: ROTK (2003) 7

    5. Casablanca (1942) 11+1=12

    6. Schindler's List (1993) 9

    7. Seven Samurai (1954) 17

    8. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 13

    9. Pulp Fiction (1994) 11

    10. Star Wars (1977) 3-3=0

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