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marlowe189. Secret Wars Prelude by John Hickman, Jim Shooter et al. - I did want to read Secret Wars, the new Secret Wars, the one that put Miles Morales into the Marvel Universe in order to put a nail on the coffin of the Ultimate titles (they lasted much longer than the New Universe). So I put Secret Wars on hold at the library. I ended up getting a lot of crap. I don't even know if Secret Wars is even its own title or if all the Marvel titles just participated in the Secret Wars storyline in order to let everyone know what was up. Quite a few of the Marvel titles went white and then the next week came back as if nothing is changed (except Kamala Khan has a new friend who is also Spiderman). I probably should try to find that out. Anyhow, prelude gives us the last couple issues of the original Secret Wars, a Fantastic Four title, the first Ultimate Spiderman with Miles Morales and the New Avengers where some alien being comes along and lets everyone know that the world is ending. In other words, we get that Doctor Doom is going to be the master power in the series, Miles Morales is going to be part of the Marvel Universe and Hickman pretty much just figures that Crisis on the Infinite Earths gave us a great set up for this kind of thing so why not use it?
Pretty dull.
90. Smashed by Junji Ito - This might be the last Junji Ito book I get from the library, or the last one I haven't read yet. I plan on putting Uzemaki on hold to re-read frequently if I don't just buy it first. These are great little stories and none of them have quite the power of the one with the human shaped holes in the mountain. The one where all these people end up stuck in one place is quite chilling. Mostly because the twist is not that they are rooted to that place over grief or sorrow but over guilt that they might not even feel themselves. The main woman's boss ends up in her apartment and only later is it revealed that he's the one that assaulted her (even as he's confessing his love). A lot of the stories are one element story including the one where the anorexic woman is given sustenance from vampire bats, the laughing syndrome one and the one where everyone who eats a form of honey gets smushed. This is an enjoyable Junji Ito book but they all are.
Pretty dull.
90. Smashed by Junji Ito - This might be the last Junji Ito book I get from the library, or the last one I haven't read yet. I plan on putting Uzemaki on hold to re-read frequently if I don't just buy it first. These are great little stories and none of them have quite the power of the one with the human shaped holes in the mountain. The one where all these people end up stuck in one place is quite chilling. Mostly because the twist is not that they are rooted to that place over grief or sorrow but over guilt that they might not even feel themselves. The main woman's boss ends up in her apartment and only later is it revealed that he's the one that assaulted her (even as he's confessing his love). A lot of the stories are one element story including the one where the anorexic woman is given sustenance from vampire bats, the laughing syndrome one and the one where everyone who eats a form of honey gets smushed. This is an enjoyable Junji Ito book but they all are.
