Comics I Think Are Awesome

Cassanova – by Matt “I now write major Marvel comics” Fraction with art from the Brazillian Wondertwins of Ba/Moon. And spies.

Phonogram – Music, Magic and More good shit for people of quality from a Videogame Journalist/Guy who writes Thor some and Some very nice art.

Mouse Guard – Mice with swords and heroics.

Nightly News – Grim, crazy and featuring a great art style by Johnathan Hickman who is now doing major shit over at Marvel.

Incognito – A super-mafia goon in Witness Protection. Damn good comic and also a stepping stone between regular Super-hero stuff and Brubaker’s Criminal.

Planetary – Every single issue. Possibly the most important comic series to ME, Warren Ellis at possibly his best and John Cassiddy doing amazing art.

Daredevil – Pretty much everything from the Kevin Smith Relaunch to the recent end of it has been great, the parts that SEEM bad are good and only look bad due to what’s around them.

All-Star Superman – Grant Morrison’s loveletter to the Man of Steel and manages to be true to the ‘Classic’ world of comics and also throughly modern with Frank Quitely throwing in some super-detailed art.

Ex-Machina – The Mayor of NYC has a super-power. Mostly about politics, but really more about trying to do the right thing and believe in something larger than yourself. Brian K. Vaughn writes it, Tony Harris draws it.

Starman – Also drawn by Tony Harris. A long 80 issue DC series that is unique in that is has a proper ending. Possibly the only good thing to come out of the early 90s comics.

eBooks

Hey gang, I got my first free eBook on my phone.  I spell it lower-case ‘E’ with a capital ‘B’ afterwards, like how the ipod used to be, back before it sold out (well, selling out at Target).  I forgot what the ‘e’ stands for, I think it may be as in ‘me’, so it’s a meBook, implying ownership by me, but the way eBooks work, you don’t really ever own the book (Amazon teaches that!).  It may stand for electronic book, but what the fuck, the book itself is not an electronic device, even though an electric self-turning book would be quite cool, if a bit pointless.

I think it means ‘e’ like in financial equations, as the book industry expects eBooks to earn them some money and save them from uncertain doom.

Whatever it stands for, I got one, it’s Accelerando by Charles Stross, and I have read 2 paragraphs of it on my phone.  I read it like that because this is the future now, I may not have a VR headset to make fake things real, but I can now make real things fake, which is almost as good.