The Quitter by Harvey Pekar

Good book.

Ronin by Frank Miller

It is by Frank Miller. What more do I have to say. Read it.

Not all Miller stuff is good though. All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder; it still sucks given a one year hiatus.

DC's Infinite Crisis Reviewed!!!

Issue 1: Sets the stage for the plot,detailing current situation of iur heroes, with the JLA Tower destroyed and the Trinity in a fall out.

Issue 2: Sets up the situation of Earth-2 Superman and his gang, last seen in Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Issue 3: Main villian revealed.

Issue 4 - 6: WHAM! BAM! POW! KRRRSSH! KOOOM! Set up for 52 (A year without Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman). End of series.

Not very well written. It got increasingly boring as I read into issue 4. but the pacing was done well. The first crisis was a lot better in terms of plot, but badly paced.

The art is great. At least I liked it.

Shenzhen, Captain Atom and BATMAN

Shezhen: A Travelogue From China by Guy Delisle
Delisle's experience working in China is fleshed out here. Very nice read, ith interesting observations and comments on the city of Shenzhen, its people and its culture. Delisle also managed to go to Hong Kong for a day, and we get some insights into the state as well.

Captain Atom: Armageddon by Will Pfieffer
A 12 issue maxi-series created to reboot the Wildstorm universe. It makes comparisons between DC and Wildstorm. Other than that, there is nothing much good about the series other than being a standard "superhero trapped in another dimension's Earth" story.

Batman and the Monster Man by Matt Wagner
Batman: Year Two. This is a rewrite of an early Batman story (Detective Comics #36, nine issues short of #27). I liked it.

Batman: City of Crime by David Lapham
The characters in this arc 13 parts seem to be out of character. Batman saying "Hello Oswald"? Shouldn't he give villians the silent treatment when he's not asking a question. Lapham has done a great job in building the atmosphere of Gotham City, making it feel alive and sinister. If not for the bad concept, this comic is otherwise very well written.

Bardin the Superrealist: His Deeds, His Utterances, His Exploits and His Perambulations by Max

The book consists of one page strips and multiple pages stories. The issues handled include religion, and the complicatedness of comic book comentary.

Pros: Great bizarre ideas, like the sementary, and the nightmare creatures. The surreal stories like the last one are good.

Cons: Too short. The themes are insufficiently explored. What happened to Bardin's superreal powers, or the Andulasian Dog. Why feature the dog in one short story when it is an interesting character.

Reviews, not for you, but for me to remember the nice comics i read

Demo by Brian Wood
Tales of young people. Loved it very much.
"Mixed Tape" is my favourite story.

Brownsville by Kleid
Historical novel about real Jewish gangsters. Quite thrilling. Good pacing.

Name of the Game by Will Eisner
Best graphic novel of Eisner's. Only one I managed to read with patience. Good drama.

Vampire Loves by Joann Sfar
One of my favourite novels. Puts Sfar in my top ten favourite writers list.

A second list of comics read

By Sergio Aragones
Boogeyman
Louder Than Words
The Groo Jamboree
The Groo Houndbook

By Warren Ellis
Ministry in Space
Ocean
Orbiter
Planetary:
Vol 1 All Over the World
Vol 2 The Fourth Man
Vol 3 Leaving the 20th Century
Global Frequency:
Vol 1 Planet Ablaze
Vol 2 Detonation Radio

Paul Auster's City of Glass adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli

Paul Moves Out by Michel Rabagliati

Channel Zero by Brian Wood

Daredevil vs Punisher by David Lapham

What is this blog

It is for me to keep record of my readings. Read too many comics. Can't remember what I have read.
This blog is not for anyone to read. I cannot even be bothered with the bad language usage here.
Read The Brightside of Everything @ nypsmile.blogspot.com. That is where my writings are.

Rememberance of Comics Read

What I have read so far:

By Craig Thompson
Blankets
Good Bye, Chunky Rice

Maus by Art Spiegelman

Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Boy in the World by Chris Ware

The Tale of One Bad Rat by BryanTalbot

By Ted Naifeh
Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things
Courtney Crumrin and the Conven of Mystics
Courtney Crumrin in the Twilight Kingdom

By Neil Gaiman
Violent Cases
Black Orchid
Sandman:
Main series (10 Volumes)
Endless Nights
Death: The High Cost of Living
Marvel 1602 Volume 1
Harlequin Valentine

By Alan Moore
Watchmen
Captain Britain: Jasper's Warp
V for Vendetta
From Hell
Top Ten
Supreme:
The Story of the Year
The Return
The ballad of Halo Jones

By Frank Miller
Batman:
The Dark Knight Returns
The Dark Knight Strikes Again
Year One
Daredevil: The Man Without Fear
300
The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot

Sin City:
A Dame to Kill For
The Big Fat Kill
Family Values
Booze, Broads and Bullets
Hell and Back

By Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale
Superman For All Seasons
Batman:
The Long Halloween
Dark Victory
Haunted Knight
Spider-Man Blue
Daredevil Yellow

By Jeff Smith
Bone:
Main Series (9 Volumes)
Rose
Stupid, Stupid Rat Tails

By Kurt Busiek
Marvels
Astro City:
Life in the Big City
Family Album
Confession
Tarnished Angel

By Grant Morrison
Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth
Animal Man

By Mike Mignola
Hellboy:
Seed of Destruction
The Chained Coffin and Others
Conqueror Worm
Hellboy Junior by Bill Wray and Various

By Joe Sacco
Palestine
War's End
The Fixer

Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis (Vol 1 and 2)
Embroideries

From Marvel Comics
Young Avengers Vol 1
Fantastic Four/Iron Man: Big in Japan
Spider-Man: The Other
Avengers: Kree-Skrull War
Mary Jane
From DC comics
Kingdom Come
Batman:
Knightfall
Gotham County Line by Steve Niles
Broken City by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso
Death in the Family

You Never Liked Me by Chester Brown

Ghost World by Dan Clowes

Akira by Kastuhiro Otomo

By Jean Jacques Sempe
Monsieur Lambert
Mixed Messages
Sunny Spells
Everything is Complicated

First Second Books
A.L.I.E.E.E.N. by Lewis Trondheim
American Born Chinese by Gene Yang
Vampire Loves by Joann Sfar

Metropolis by Osamu Tezuka

Recently
Brownsville by Neil Kleid and Jake Allen