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.