Last Couple Weeks of Comics

Comics from the past couple of weeks.

Scalped Vol. 2 Casino Boogie - This started bad and ended good. The cool part about this was how it retold the same day from so many characters points of view. It also made me realize that I don't like the protagonist.
Faker - Pretty random and pretty good. Very dark and cynical.
Powers Annual #1 - I needed my Power's fix and took it. This series also seems to be behind in TPBs, much like Invincible.
Secret Invasion #1 - Not sure why I'm reading this, but I want it to be good. Of course iFanboy spoiled it in a mini so I didn't get too much extra from reading it.
Un-Men Vol. 1 Get Your Freak On - This was fun and dark. I don't know anything about the Swamp Thing background of these characters and this story was so so. I'm not sure if I'll check out the next one.
Palestine - Need to read this. I enjoyed his book about the Balkan war so much I really wanted to check this out.
Serenity #2 - I really really really don't know what this isn't an ongoing series. You can tell there are so many stories still to be told. It isn't boring or lame like the Buffy and Angel series' and t works in comic book form.
Dead Space #2 - The first issue was good, decent story, good art, and a reasonable universe, this one was pretty bland. Oh well.

Arab in America - I finally got around to reading this. I wanted to like this, I wanted to be interested by it, and I wanted to learn something. I was disappointed and felt like all I read was someone rant about how they like no one and everyone is wrong.

Walking Dead

I just loaned Walking Dead to another zombie fan. So I reread them all. So good. So many things I missed the first time. The introduction in the first volume by Kirkman is rather reveling having read the series up too book seven. It's also so sad reading it knowing a spoiler form the current issues that the group of 13 go down to 5. I also counted all the heads in the force and it looks like there are 40, ie the entire town. I can't wait until volume 8 comes out in the next month or so.

On a related note I'm still waiting for the next Invincible TPB which seem to be behind schedule by a bit.

Comics on Computers

I like online comics. Easy to read, they fit the screen, etc. I can't stand comic books that are on computers. I have to scroll every which way, zoom in to read, they don't fit the screen, and some idiots also expect you to read both pages at once like a physical book. They are designed for a vertical paper world and computer screens are horizontal. The experience isn't there for me.

Which frustrates me. I wouldn't mind Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited or the Heroes graphic novel except for trying to read them, and well, you have to read a comic book to enjoy them.

These two comics are by the same creative team.

First Moon - Read this first and started off being annoyed by the dialogue, then was confused by the modern story, but the historical fiction story was decent. Also the artist needs to learn that whitespace is since his drawings have five billion black lines going everywhere right next to each other, way too busy. I think my favorite part was the short essay at the end covering the history.

Continuity - Much better read and art. I think he was trying to make a point about the meaning of live through dreams, but I totally missed it. It was weird that this women had bad things happen and decides never to sleep/dream instead of realizing that dreams are random with the potential for both good and bad things happen in them. She dreams a police state because she's upset and fixates on that instead of thinking calm down and dream something happy. I guess characters are more interesting if they have flaws and make mistakes so they have something to redeem themselves against. Well there is the whole heros quest where bad things happen and the hero has to persevere, but flaws seem to be the current direction of pop culture.