Been on vacation. Been sick. And then I just been lazy. Bad blogger I am. But hey, I'm back... to let you know I'm off on holiday again. To the great state of New York I go, to wend my wares at the New York City Comicon!
Aw, who am I kidding. I have no wares to wend. I'm just gonna browse the stalls and drink beer with my comic buds.
But in the meantime, here's an oh so seldom untrue update to tide you over:
The Hunter page 24
Kung Fu Monkeyface page 12
What else can I say? Read a bunch of books on holiday. Nothing too terribly memorable though. Working my way through the Richard Stark Parker books which continue to be top-notch. Just polished off The Outfit.
I might have to pick up the first two Darwyn Cooke adaptations at the con. Oh, I did read Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book.
That was good stuff. Especially if you're kind of an overgrown ten-year-old. Like myself. Very keen Dave McKean illustrations too.
On the movie front, a couple of little seen gems to pick up at the video store: the superfantasticawesome Doomsday from Neil Marshall.
It's like The Road Warrior and Escape from New York made sweet sweet love and spawned an evil ultraviolent post-apocalyptic love child. Hilarious, desperately derivative and perfect in every way.
The other one of note is City Island starring Andy Garcia in the best farcical fucked-up family comedy since Moonstruck.
Why had I never heard of these movies?
As for comics, my darling of the moment is Scarlet by Bendis and Maleev.
This is the one I've been waiting for since the end of Alias and Daredevil. Two of my comic book heroes back in their wheelhouse and at the top of their game. Two issues in and looking goooood. Hellz yeah.
Okay, that's it for now.
Seeya in October!
