Still Behind

I borrowed comics from a friend and read most of Messiah Complex and Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men run. I was also loaned Children of the Atom which I haven't read yet. I've mostly been reading trades. Reading the Astonishing issues was cool because I was able to enjoy the ads. It was an anthropological snapshot of games and movies. Both of the stories I read were interesting. Comparing where Emma Frost was when she first met the group and now was interesting. I like how the Astonishing story is pretty much about Kitty.

I picked up comics last week Bone Vol: 7 Ghost Circles and something else that apparently wasn't that memorable. Nothing much happened in the Bone comic, they all just traveled and talked about nothing.

Last week I also got Ultimate X-Men Vol. 17 Sentinels and Ultimate Fantastic 4 Vol. 9 Silver Surfer. I read X-Men first and I'm so so on the whole direction of this comic and where it is going. The Silver Surfer story seemed all over the place.

Last night I picked up X-Men First Class Vol. 1 Tomorrow's Brightest, Silver Surfer: Requiem, and Animal Man Book 1 Animal Man. I only just started reading First Class and I feel like I'm reading X-Men version 3, with Ultimates being version 2.

From before, I finished Longbow Hunters and thought it was so so. Maybe I don't have enough comparison with the era it came out in, but it just didn't seem that solid on the story. The art was good.

Behind

I'm so far behind on all the comics I've been reading. I finally finished The Best American Comics 2007 and of all the things I've read The Surrogates was probably the best.

So this weeks purchases:
- Buffy #10 - It was a one shot which was nice, the story was sort of all over, but I liked it.
- Green Arrow The Longbow Hunters - Haven't read it yet.
- Powers Vol 11: Secret Identity - I liked this more then the last one, but I still feel like the stories in a rut. Wow, another bunch of deaths. I mean they are detectives so it makes sense, but at this point things seem recitative.
- The Escapists - Waiting to see if the comic book club picks this book.