Last Two

I finished Scarlet Traces and Channel Zero last night.

I liked this Scarlet Traces more then the first, maybe because it ended on a happier note. I did like the forboading tone of the first one more while the second seemed more linear and look, another crazy coincident. The villians and heroes were less dramatic and more accommodating. As I write this I wonder why I liked the second more. Maybe I should read the first again. Maybe this story was just more accessible and had less random artistic dialog moments even though the actual story was worse.

Channel Zero is good, pessimistic, difficult to read, busy, and different. I could explain each of these adjectives and talk about the book, but it would be better to just read it and come up with your own sentence or list of adjectives to describe it. I'll probably read this again at some point and get something more from it.

The one thing I didn't like was communism played such a strong role as the alternative which annoyed me. I always fell like capitalism verse communism is too confining for any dialog or solutions to be discussed. My favorite moment was the guns on one side and video cameras on the other.

Until I have money to get more comics I'm reading Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall. This is my second time through and I loved every second the first time through. I enjoyed it adding stories and fleshing out the characters combined with the different art. I do wonder how accessible it is to a non-Fables reader or if it would be a good way to introduce someone to the books since I don't think the Fables story gets really good until about the forth TPB.