Comics

[inulro]

I finally went in to the new-ish comic book shop in town, Excelsior (Bond Street) some weeks ago, and came away with the first two volumes of Mike Carey's The Unwritten.

It's astonishingly good. The only thing that's stopped me going out and buying the lot is I'm having a temporary cash shortage. There are obvious comparisons to be drawn to Sandman, but I actually think The Unwritten is better - more tightly plotted, more concepts that I just think I've wrapped my head around only to lose my grasp.

Also got my hands on volumes 2 and 3 of Sandman: Overture which I finally got round to reading today. It's - not Gaiman's best work. It's not quite as bad as The Eternals, but it's very all over the place.

Also got the third graphic novel of Scalped, but I haven't read the first two since they came out in 2008, so I'm going to have to go back to the beginning before I get underway with the rest of the series.

There's ads for new comics in the Sandmans. Have any of you read Dead Boy Detectives? Like the concept, but Toby Litt's writing it. I read one of his books once and it was fucking awful (deadkidsongs, for the record. One year I will learn the more awesome the title, the more the book sucks as a rule).

Any other current titles I should be looking out for? I used to just get all of the Vertigo output back when they first came up with Vertigo. Yes, I'm that old.

Comments

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the Unwritten rec, I have just bought vol 1 - have been looking for new comics (and I've been out of the loop long enough that 2010 counts as "new" to me :-/

[girfan.livejournal.com]

So far, Dead Boy Detectives has been good. We have also been reading Umbral by Anthony Johnstone, though it's not normally what I like reading.