how are we spending our wednesdays?

or else #5

final crisis #4

final crisis submit

superman: new krypton

secret invasion #7

criminal #6

invincible #54

new avengers 46

trinity #21

unknown soldier #1

captain america #43

daredevil #112

ultimate spider-man 127

runaways #3

x-factor #36

hellblazer #248

x-men legacy#217

thunderbolts #125

Aetheric Mechanics

northlanders vol. 1

i live here

I had assumed Kevin Huizenga would be spending all his creativity on his Ignatz series "Ganges," so seeing Or Else #5 on the shelf was a pleasant surprise. This issue includes stories on spiders, turtles, sentence diagraming, wasting time, tuesdays and, of course, Glen Ganges. Instead of the usual scenario of Ganges and his wife analyzing some aspect of life, this issue gives him the lead role in an adaptation of a story in Giorgio Manganelli story about political oppression . I enjoyed "The Spiders around the House: A Special Report" the most and "Which Sentences are we Diagraming?" the least. They are both about exactly what you think they are.

In Final Crisis #4, the world is being overrun by the Anti-life equation. Kalibak returns as a tiger, the Tattooed man starts looking like Metron, and, in my favorite moment of the issue, Terrible Turrpin becomes Darkseid. In the midst of this were a couple of scenes of Wally West looking useless next to Barry Allen, which saddens me. Mark Waid's run with Wally really changed the way I look at super hero comics and I'm very unhappy this character is being swept to the side. I've been enjoying Final Crisis, though the first 3 issues really felt like an a long prelude. I hope we are finally on the cusp of something REALLY HAPPENING here.

Take a look at I Live Here if your comic store carries it. At first glance I thought it was a large hardcover, but it is actually four volumes in one case that folds out like a dvd box set. The four books include journals, comics paintings and fabric art telling the tragic stories of people living in four overlooked regions of the world: Ingushetia, Burma, Ciudad Juarez and Malawi. A full review will follow later this week.


-NM