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chuckroThe New Father - Jethrien beat me to reviewing this one. I agree with her review--it's a really good book. If you're expecting to become a father soon, read it. (I believe the same author has several other books regarding pregnancy and toddler years; I haven't read them, but I expect they'd also be pretty decent.)
Office Superman - A self-help business book written by a fan of Superman comics who doesn’t really understand office politics in execution, but has read a lot of books on the subject and is very good at tying platitudes to comic trivia. There's nothing in here in terms of comics trivia I don't either already know or have a better source for; and there's nothing here in terms of useful career advice I didn't get a better version of in b-school.
I caught up on a big stack of DC's New 52 books (mostly issues in the #9-#17 range, depending on title). Nothing really excited me, honestly. Green Lantern and Animal Man both did another big crossover round of the cosmic zombie apocalypse story that worked so well for Blackest Night a few years ago. The Joker tortured the Batman family. An extra-super Kryptonian tried to destroy the Earth and it took a lot of really repetitive scenes to stop him. And the surviving Vertigo titles (Fables, Hellblazer) have kinda run out of stories to tell. The best of the lot: iZombie ended in a really satisfactory way, The Unwritten continues to be fun, the first plot arc of Earth 2 was cute, and while the plotline of I, Vampire is nothing special, the dialogue has been top-notch.
Office Superman - A self-help business book written by a fan of Superman comics who doesn’t really understand office politics in execution, but has read a lot of books on the subject and is very good at tying platitudes to comic trivia. There's nothing in here in terms of comics trivia I don't either already know or have a better source for; and there's nothing here in terms of useful career advice I didn't get a better version of in b-school.
I caught up on a big stack of DC's New 52 books (mostly issues in the #9-#17 range, depending on title). Nothing really excited me, honestly. Green Lantern and Animal Man both did another big crossover round of the cosmic zombie apocalypse story that worked so well for Blackest Night a few years ago. The Joker tortured the Batman family. An extra-super Kryptonian tried to destroy the Earth and it took a lot of really repetitive scenes to stop him. And the surviving Vertigo titles (Fables, Hellblazer) have kinda run out of stories to tell. The best of the lot: iZombie ended in a really satisfactory way, The Unwritten continues to be fun, the first plot arc of Earth 2 was cute, and while the plotline of I, Vampire is nothing special, the dialogue has been top-notch.
