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46. Mage: The Hero Discovered vol 2 by Matt Wagner - The art is great. The story is fun. There's really not much more to recommend. The grouch gets powers and fights the bad guys. There's a bunch of past stuff that gets connected to King Arthur. A dude shows up and breathes fire because he's really a dragon. The supporting characters get killed and the baseball bat the one was holding turns out to be excalibur. I like Matt Wager's Grendel comics but the main hero ones - meh.
47. Likely Stories by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham - I don't care for many Neil Gaiman short stories. I like his novels and I like his comic book output but his short stories always feel like they are more clever than good. (see also China Mieville) This one I think I liked more and yet they are fading from memory (like a dream - ooooh symbolism for an entire career). The connection of everyone meeting in a speakeasy and the stories coming into it is a pretty good framing device even though the first story is not even about the bar. It just shows the window in the first panel. The rest is about a guy who has sworn off sex because he doesn't want the pressure of performing (was right there with you) who gets a disease that seems venerial but it's actually taking over his entire body. Other stories include a man obsessed with a model who is always 19 (an interesting take on the fact that Playboy always had a disposable rotation of women who all looked the same) a guy who ends up hooked up with the cannibal neighbor lady and then a haunted house in the woods that makes all the bullies disappear. Like most Neil Gaiman stories, the ideas are good but he doesn't really do much with them.
48. The Last Dragon by Jane Yolen and Rebecca Guay - Ooh pretty. This is a love story about a schmuck trying to fight a dragon while pretending to be a hero and a woman who knows much more than him. They fall in love. They kill the dragon. The story isn't as important as the artwork which is beautiful.
49.Summertime Rendering vol 1 by Yasuki Tanaka - Can you tell that I still need to take a bath and have a podiatrist appointment in 25 minutes? Well that's the case. THis one is about a boy who returns to his village for a funeral because his old friend/could have been lover is dead. Then he gets killed by a girl who doubles for another girl. There are doubles. There's the Groundhog Day thing. Apparently this one is not as popular as Higurashi. So basically it's Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets Groundhog Day.
50. Only The End of the World Again by Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell - It's a werewolf story. I don't even remember it. Oh yeah. It takes place in Innsmouth. So it's werewolf fighting Cthulu. Yeah.
47. Likely Stories by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham - I don't care for many Neil Gaiman short stories. I like his novels and I like his comic book output but his short stories always feel like they are more clever than good. (see also China Mieville) This one I think I liked more and yet they are fading from memory (like a dream - ooooh symbolism for an entire career). The connection of everyone meeting in a speakeasy and the stories coming into it is a pretty good framing device even though the first story is not even about the bar. It just shows the window in the first panel. The rest is about a guy who has sworn off sex because he doesn't want the pressure of performing (was right there with you) who gets a disease that seems venerial but it's actually taking over his entire body. Other stories include a man obsessed with a model who is always 19 (an interesting take on the fact that Playboy always had a disposable rotation of women who all looked the same) a guy who ends up hooked up with the cannibal neighbor lady and then a haunted house in the woods that makes all the bullies disappear. Like most Neil Gaiman stories, the ideas are good but he doesn't really do much with them.
48. The Last Dragon by Jane Yolen and Rebecca Guay - Ooh pretty. This is a love story about a schmuck trying to fight a dragon while pretending to be a hero and a woman who knows much more than him. They fall in love. They kill the dragon. The story isn't as important as the artwork which is beautiful.
49.Summertime Rendering vol 1 by Yasuki Tanaka - Can you tell that I still need to take a bath and have a podiatrist appointment in 25 minutes? Well that's the case. THis one is about a boy who returns to his village for a funeral because his old friend/could have been lover is dead. Then he gets killed by a girl who doubles for another girl. There are doubles. There's the Groundhog Day thing. Apparently this one is not as popular as Higurashi. So basically it's Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets Groundhog Day.
50. Only The End of the World Again by Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell - It's a werewolf story. I don't even remember it. Oh yeah. It takes place in Innsmouth. So it's werewolf fighting Cthulu. Yeah.
