Ahhh, now that’s a Wednesday at the comic shop. Oddly enough, my giddy joy comes from titles that have been out for a while as opposed to anything new, but who cares? It came, I bought, I smiled.
I can’t say enough good things about Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life from Oni, and hopefully I’ll be able to narrow the list down to a manageable length when I get around to reviewing it. (In the meantime, why not take a look at what folks like Rose Curtin, Greg McElhatton, and Kevin Melrose had to say?)
The only downside to the Pilgrim love is that it’s kept me from perusing the latest volume of Sgt. Frog. All things in time, though. I laughed out loud at the cover, which looks like nothing so much as a snapshot from a Manga Archetypes High School Reunion.
Also showing up late (Diamond shorted the shopkeep) was the second issue of DC’s Adam Strange, which I liked even better than the first. Andy Diggle has such a fresh take on the character, while taking the best of his foundations, and art by Pascal Ferry is glorious and perfect, from the slums of Gotham to the remote reaches of outer space. (And no prior appreciation of the character is required for admission. Just ask Paul O’Brien.)
And, okay, it was really self-indulgent of me, but it’s my birthday and I needed something to counteract the autopsy, so I bought myself the second volume of Girl Genius, too. Besides, who needs food? I could stand to lose a few pounds.