I got Delillo's, The Names on the mail today.

I am reading More Than it Hurts You by Darin Strauss which I like so far.

I am still rereading PR.

And I am reading a bunch of other research material... still.

wormwood, gentleman corpse: it only hurts when i pee. book 2 of templesmith's series about a worm that animates corpses, this time he gets bitten by a leprechaun after a leprechaun pit fight, and has to track down the leprechaun queen or die!

suburban glamour. written and drawn by jamie mckelvie, who i think has some potential, though i'm not 100% in his work. teenage girl in dead end town feels that she doesn't belong, and when the faeries turn up it looks like she might be right.

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jamie mckelvie, who i think has some potential, though i'm not 100% in his work

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who feels that way. Sometimes his designs are really good, and apparently he's pretty young.

i find some of his stuff too sketchy, and there is too much noise about how hip he is. interesting to see him write his own stuff, i'm sure the other stuff i've seen by him was written by others.

Court of the Air - Sort of half Victorian steampunk, half fantasy/sci-fi. It was a pretty fun read though. The plot is too weird to really attempt to describe in a paragraph, but something along the lines of a Dickensian variant of Lord of the Rings trying to stop the return of the Aztec gods. Or something...

Woken Furies (Takeshi Kovacs Novels) (2005) by Richard K. Morgan

First, I really didn't like Altered Carbon. I'm only reading this, because its been so long, I've forgotten what cyberpunk is like to read any more.

I'm about 3-chapters in. Its OK. However, its niether deep nor heady stuff.

The Grapes of Wrath. I'd only ever read Of Mice and Men. When I read about Grapes of Wrath as a "road book" I knew I'd like it. It's very good so far.

the new york four - brian wood/ryan kelly - part of the minx series of graphic novels from DC. 4 first year girl students in NYC

I don't read enough comics of late.

Caught up on DMZ (mostly) and Fell (mostly) though.

It occurs to me: No one has written an existentiaL COMIC, HAVE THEY?

pEKAR A LITTLE MAYBE, BUT STILL...

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jamie mckelvie, who i think has some potential, though i'm not 100% in his work

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who feels that way. Sometimes his designs are really good, and apparently he's pretty young.

What does this guy write or draw for?

I only see his art on his site.

Where are the comics or what are they called?

Look him up, man. The one I know off the top of my head is Phonogram.

My original comment was actually more about his art than his writing. He draws a little stiff and simplistic for my tastes, sometimes. (Remember, I am very very critical. Rare indeed is the artist I can't find some fault with. My own art is made almost entirely of fault.)

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Look him up, man. The one I know off the top of my head is Phonogram.

My original comment was actually more about his art than his writing. He draws a little stiff and simplistic for my tastes, sometimes. (Remember, I am very very critical. Rare indeed is the artist I can't find some fault with. My own art is made almost entirely of fault.)

OK, how about this: Should I read either of his works?

I shouldn't say, since I haven't actually read too much of it. But I guess that counts as an anti-recommendation of a sort.

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I shouldn't say, since I haven't actually read too much of it. But I guess that counts as an anti-recommendation of a sort.

It does.

he didn't write phonogram kieron gillen did. i found its we're so cool because we know all this obscure british music and you don't attitude a little tiresome. but then saying that, someone like me who thinks that the kind of indy pop they are talking about was much more mainstream than a lot of stuff is probably not their target audience.

the basic idea of phonogram, music as magic, cultural magic, the effect of culture/music/the force of the piece to shape reality/society was an interesting one. but the art like colin says was a bit patchy, and the writing was a bit self-indulgent at times. but on the whole it was readable enough, and a nice alternative which should probably be supported.

similar with suburban glamour. though, with that i decided against individual issues and bought the collected edition. in some ways the art here is even patchier, though at points i think the colouring was part of the problem. the writing was probably actually decently solid, probably more so than the art actually.

as for the brian wood one, its probably in the category of demo/local stuff. its not bad, but i find the end a little disappointing. but on the whole this series of minx graphic novels is actually pretty solid - even if it is aimed at teenage girls, doesn't make them unreadable, still human stories, which i like.

Teenage girls aren't human, I remember. there was something vaguely mythical about them, like unicorns, except you saw them all the time, but they looked a lot older than you. They giggled a lot, which could be cute but was also annoying.

Yeah, and they had too much shit in their purses and were obsessed with their tans.

I'm pretty sure they were a sub-species.

They seem to molt once they reach college. Maybe it's the beer.

Many, many tech manuals. It's thrilling stuff: When the pump betrays the hydraulic system, will the emergency accumulator be able to operate the actuators? Tune in next week to find out!

lol....good luck with that, blue.

This one: loved it