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And the follow-up TPB post
May. 8th, 2015 10:24 pmRunaways: The Complete Collection Volume 1 - This is the first 18 issues / the first complete storyline featuring the characters, with a couple of shocking twists. The fact that there didn’t seem to be any clues as to the last one—the identity of the mole—actually frustrated me, given how plotted out the rest of the story seemed. It felt, I don’t know, not “thrown in”, but certainly “cheap.” I’m also amused by some of the similarities to Vaughan’s run on Swamp Thing--there are certain themes he obviously likes to explore when writing a superpowered child on the run from “evil” parents.
Ms. Marvel Volume 2: Generation Why - While this gets a little preachy, it remains such, such fun. It clearly takes place in a world not trying to be like our own, where a super-powered brown girl is treated like Superboy in the ‘60s—respected for her capabilities, helped by the police, adored by the crowds. It’s positive and optimistic, and I can’t find a way to argue with that. (My complaint is mostly about a slightly grating “middle-aged woman writes the standard ‘don’t shit on millennials’ speech coming from a teenager” near the story’s climax. G. Willow Wilson is my age, a classic “Gen Y” in-betweener, and the speech feels like a cross between her complaints and a 22-year-old’s Tumblr screed. 16-year-old Kamala doesn’t even count as a “millennial”, she’s part of “generation Z” / “post-millennials”.)
Earth-2 Volume 4: The Dark Age - I think, perhaps, we’ve had a few too many secret origins and new characters added, as this volume brings in the Earth-2 new Batman, Red Tornado and a character I suspect will be the rebooted Val-Or. One threat is brushed aside to bring in much bigger ones, and it seems very unlikely that Earth-2 will outlive its comic series.
Unwritten Volume 10: War Stories - Tommy Taylor gets home to a world that’s effectively in ruins, as the stories that drive it all run free and Leviathan slowly dies. It’s clear that the end is coming, as setups from earlier in the series start getting their payoffs and a final confrontation mounts. I look forward to the final volume.
Fables Vol. 16: Super Team, Fables, Vol. 17: Inherit the Wind, Fables, Vol. 18: Cubs in Toyland, Fables, Vol. 19: Snow White - I had read fragmented pieces of the first three books as my supply of free pamphlets was drying up a few years ago. So I knew, for instance, that Mister Dark was beaten and the repercussions thereof, but it’s nice to get all of the bits in order. Also of note, stories about missing children and children in trouble are a lot harder to read now than a few years ago. Fables apparently (finally) ends with Volume 22; in a few months I’ll probably buy the last three books and finish out the series.
Ms. Marvel Volume 2: Generation Why - While this gets a little preachy, it remains such, such fun. It clearly takes place in a world not trying to be like our own, where a super-powered brown girl is treated like Superboy in the ‘60s—respected for her capabilities, helped by the police, adored by the crowds. It’s positive and optimistic, and I can’t find a way to argue with that. (My complaint is mostly about a slightly grating “middle-aged woman writes the standard ‘don’t shit on millennials’ speech coming from a teenager” near the story’s climax. G. Willow Wilson is my age, a classic “Gen Y” in-betweener, and the speech feels like a cross between her complaints and a 22-year-old’s Tumblr screed. 16-year-old Kamala doesn’t even count as a “millennial”, she’s part of “generation Z” / “post-millennials”.)
Earth-2 Volume 4: The Dark Age - I think, perhaps, we’ve had a few too many secret origins and new characters added, as this volume brings in the Earth-2 new Batman, Red Tornado and a character I suspect will be the rebooted Val-Or. One threat is brushed aside to bring in much bigger ones, and it seems very unlikely that Earth-2 will outlive its comic series.
Unwritten Volume 10: War Stories - Tommy Taylor gets home to a world that’s effectively in ruins, as the stories that drive it all run free and Leviathan slowly dies. It’s clear that the end is coming, as setups from earlier in the series start getting their payoffs and a final confrontation mounts. I look forward to the final volume.
Fables Vol. 16: Super Team, Fables, Vol. 17: Inherit the Wind, Fables, Vol. 18: Cubs in Toyland, Fables, Vol. 19: Snow White - I had read fragmented pieces of the first three books as my supply of free pamphlets was drying up a few years ago. So I knew, for instance, that Mister Dark was beaten and the repercussions thereof, but it’s nice to get all of the bits in order. Also of note, stories about missing children and children in trouble are a lot harder to read now than a few years ago. Fables apparently (finally) ends with Volume 22; in a few months I’ll probably buy the last three books and finish out the series.
