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What Are We Reading November 2017

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1jnwelch
Nov 2, 2017, 12:55 pm

I liked Shade The Changing Girl by Cecil Castellucci a lot. I loved her Plain Janes and Janes in Love a few years ago. This one's very different - a benign alien bird takes over the comatose body of a high school bully-girl. Weird and good. Can't wait for the next one.

2apokoliptian
Modificato: Nov 2, 2017, 5:15 pm

There is a trailer of a new series based on Grant Morrison's Happy! it looks like that it will be true to the source material and darkly fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7OYkSgmM-w

3jnwelch
Nov 2, 2017, 6:02 pm

>2 apokoliptian: That looks good!

4apokoliptian
Nov 3, 2017, 9:11 pm

I've finished Patience by Daniel Clowes, which tells the story a man travelling in time to fix an event that ruined his life. IMHO, it is a good book, but a little overhyped. For me, it will be difficult to Clowes to overcome Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron.

5apokoliptian
Modificato: Nov 7, 2017, 8:13 pm

By Odin's beard, this was a Norse Weekend! I've have read:

- A Midsummer's Night Wedding: A mini-series by Alan Zelenetz and Charles Vess originally published in Marvel Fanfare, now contained in Thor: The Warriors Three. This is a light, funny story with a Shakespearian inspiration, being one of the first works of Vess. This duo also crafted the amazing The Raven Banner.

- Thor, Vol.1: The God Butcher: By Jason Aaron and Esad Ribic, this story is the closest thing that Thor can get to a Parker novel. A lot of action and rage. Ribic, for his body of work, can be added to the pantheon of definitive Thor artists.

- Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman: I know, it is not a comic book, but Gaiman does a compilation of the Edda and streamline it. It is a definitive reference for his works in Sandman and American Gods.

6apokoliptian
Nov 6, 2017, 9:30 pm

The film Thor: Ragnarok was a pleasant surprise. Highly recommended!

7jnwelch
Nov 7, 2017, 12:14 pm

>4 apokoliptian: I liked Patience by Daniel Clowes a lot, apokoliptian; my favorite of his since Ghost World. Thanks for the tip on Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron.

>5 apokoliptian: Sounds like a great Norse weekend. I enjoyed Norse Mythology - Gaiman is a reliable good time, in my experience.

>6 apokoliptian: Thor: Ragnarok tore up the box office in the States, far exceeding the take for all the other movies. Glad to hear your recommendation.

I just finished Spinning by Tillie Walden, a pretty good graphic memoir of her childhood as a hard-working figure skater, and her coming to understand she likes girls.

I was underwhelmed by Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too. It was cute, but I don't understand its popularity.

8apokoliptian
Modificato: Nov 7, 2017, 7:46 pm

>7 jnwelch:
Hi Joe, I like very much Ghost World, but it is one of the few cases in which I think that the film was tighter (or more fluid) than the original source material.
If you have the oportunity, I recommend you to check the compilation of Eightball. There are some really funny material in there, like Dan Pussey or Lloyd Llewellyn. It is Clowes in his fresh start.

9Euryale
Nov 16, 2017, 9:25 am

This month I read the first two volumes of The Phoenix Requiem for my comics book club, and I just picked up The Book of Ballads and the manga adaptation of All You Need Is Kill from the library.

10jnwelch
Nov 16, 2017, 9:53 am

>8 apokoliptian: Thanks. I've wishlisted Eightball.

>9 Euryale: Those are all new to me. A comic books club sounds like fun.

I just finished Pashmina, a pretty good graphic story of a young woman connecting her family in the USA with her family in India.

11sweetiegherkin
Nov 17, 2017, 10:18 pm

>7 jnwelch:, >8 apokoliptian: I liked Patience more than Ghost World myself. I also thought the Ghost World movie was better than the comic. My friend I watched it with, however, absolutely hated it. To each her own I suppose. (Also, to be fair, she hadn't read the comic.)

After years of it being on my TBR list, I finally read Capote in Kansas, which was a short, enjoyable fictionalized account of Truman Capote's research into writing his book In Cold Blood. If you're a fan of Capote and/or In Cold Blood, I'd recommend this graphic novel.

12defaults
Nov 18, 2017, 2:19 pm

I'm at the fourth—and final, I think—volume of Le combat ordinaire by Manu Larcenet. Funny and touching. It's a "regular life" sort of tale for grown-ups but they don't get much better than this.

13sweetiegherkin
Modificato: Nov 27, 2017, 2:24 pm

Hope everyone who celebrates had a nice Thanksgiving.

I just read Lynd Ward's Vertigo, which is a wordless novel. All of the illustrations are prints from woodcuts made by Ward. It was written in the 1930s and depicts three intersecting character's lives as they deal with the aftereffects of the Great Depression. Very lovely, but tragic, book.

edited to correct touchstone