I'm Going to Wichita
Aug. 25th, 2003 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jakebe
Hey there, all...
Zen Comics 2 came into the Bookshop today...guess who snatched it up before it even made the shelves? I feel vaguely guilty, for some reason. :)
Almost cried on the bus stop today while reading Steppenwolf. Harry Haller has a moment where everything comes together and he is truly, joyously happy. It was beautiful. Hesse has now joined Peter Beagle and Ray Bradbury as my favorite authors. More on that later.
So I finally got my comics fix for the month; Morrison and Audley(?) turned in subpar efforts on New X-Men and Uncanny X-Men respectively, but I guess off months are allowed. Cyclops was shaping up to be pretty interesting before he started having this whole mental breakdown thing, though.
Anywho, Fables came through in a pretty big way. The second chapter of "Storybook Love" offered quite a few surprises, and I was very pleased with it. One of the best were saved for the end, when the comic *really* started getting a surreal, fairy-tale groove. :)
Basically, Snow White and Bigby Wolf (get it, Bigby...heh, never mind. :)) woke up from an enchantment placed on them in the middle of the woods. They hurry to their car, get a blowout and crash. Snow makes it out OK, but Bigby takes a broken arm. He makes Snow White set it, shifts into wolf form and pretty much runs the show from then on.
I never quite got what people saw in wolves. I mean, they're *nice*, I do like them, but I never saw the extra oomph that made people fall in love with them. I think I've got it now, though. :) Bigby is an incredible character; cautious, but decisive, cunning and quick. He carefully considers just about everything he can before making a decision, and once he's made it, that's it. He's got his shit together. The clincher comes when Snow White settles in on his back (in wolf form, he's the size of a large pony); he says, "Hold on tight, Snow; there's no way you can possibly hurt me."
My knees buckled. :)
Apparently, for the past few months Bigby has been coming on to Snow pretty hard, and she wants explanations. So, here she is, in the middle of the woods, surrounded by an enormous wolf who's getting set to tell her a good old-fashioned fairy tale by the end of the issue. I can't wait for next month. :D
I also talked about Hemingway and Shakespeare with a wolf before work this morning, and that...helped. :) There's something about macrophiles who are passionate about books that's intimidating and alluring all at the same time. <:) Anywho, that's it for me, I promise; dinner with some guys after work, and more than likely I'm going to start editing "Donna" when I get home. Oh, and see about what's going down with Mustsy.
Zen Comics 2 came into the Bookshop today...guess who snatched it up before it even made the shelves? I feel vaguely guilty, for some reason. :)
Almost cried on the bus stop today while reading Steppenwolf. Harry Haller has a moment where everything comes together and he is truly, joyously happy. It was beautiful. Hesse has now joined Peter Beagle and Ray Bradbury as my favorite authors. More on that later.
So I finally got my comics fix for the month; Morrison and Audley(?) turned in subpar efforts on New X-Men and Uncanny X-Men respectively, but I guess off months are allowed. Cyclops was shaping up to be pretty interesting before he started having this whole mental breakdown thing, though.
Anywho, Fables came through in a pretty big way. The second chapter of "Storybook Love" offered quite a few surprises, and I was very pleased with it. One of the best were saved for the end, when the comic *really* started getting a surreal, fairy-tale groove. :)
Basically, Snow White and Bigby Wolf (get it, Bigby...heh, never mind. :)) woke up from an enchantment placed on them in the middle of the woods. They hurry to their car, get a blowout and crash. Snow makes it out OK, but Bigby takes a broken arm. He makes Snow White set it, shifts into wolf form and pretty much runs the show from then on.
I never quite got what people saw in wolves. I mean, they're *nice*, I do like them, but I never saw the extra oomph that made people fall in love with them. I think I've got it now, though. :) Bigby is an incredible character; cautious, but decisive, cunning and quick. He carefully considers just about everything he can before making a decision, and once he's made it, that's it. He's got his shit together. The clincher comes when Snow White settles in on his back (in wolf form, he's the size of a large pony); he says, "Hold on tight, Snow; there's no way you can possibly hurt me."
My knees buckled. :)
Apparently, for the past few months Bigby has been coming on to Snow pretty hard, and she wants explanations. So, here she is, in the middle of the woods, surrounded by an enormous wolf who's getting set to tell her a good old-fashioned fairy tale by the end of the issue. I can't wait for next month. :D
I also talked about Hemingway and Shakespeare with a wolf before work this morning, and that...helped. :) There's something about macrophiles who are passionate about books that's intimidating and alluring all at the same time. <:) Anywho, that's it for me, I promise; dinner with some guys after work, and more than likely I'm going to start editing "Donna" when I get home. Oh, and see about what's going down with Mustsy.
