on the digital front. "Issue" #60. Wow. Which means that I'm now 60 bucks in for this comic book. Fuck, that's a lot of cheddar . . . but I'll be back for more next Tuesday. This is a consistently good and often excellent work, for sure, and I am not about to wait around for it to come out in the print version. Besides, the cost is about the same.
And speaking of digital comics, I also picked up
I re-read the four print issues I had purchased when they first came out and pretty quickly saw that the reason I'd been confused at the storyline was (1) because I hadn't been paying much attention--it really was quite straightforward most of the time and (2) --and I hate to say it, but--the art was sometimes not very clear. Which is funny, because the art had been one of the main draws for me on this book. But after reading those four issues I decided I needed to get up to speed, so I went back to Comixology and looked for the collections . . . and, of course, I had waited too long and the price had bounced back up. I was about to just say fuck it and pay the extra dollars when it occurred to me that I should look on Kindle, and sure enough . . . they were still $5.99 a pop there. That's a pretty big difference. Pays to check sometimes. And I've just about finished reading both volumes at this point, and it's been kind of fun. In fact, it made me wonder what the original Cave Carson run had been like, so I took a look around for those issues. There weren't very many. And they were hideously expensive, and, of course, never reprinted. Comixology does have two issues up, though, so I might could have a look at them. Although it does work against the whole OCD thing to just have two issues of the run . . . and not even the first two.
I paid for Comixology Unlimited this month, and the irony is that I haven't read anything on it for a week or so. If I don't find myself getting back to it in the near future I guess I'll go ahead and cancel it. There is some good shit there that I'd like to read, though, so here's hoping.
This Week's Print Comics: Grass Kings #15, Royal City #11, Saga #52. Also Previews, which now includes free with purchase insert books from DC, Image, and Marvel. That's a whole lot of previews.
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| Grass Kings #15 |
Funny. I read the first 3 issues of this title on Comixology at reduced prices, and when a new issue hit the stands I picked it up for a look and was really impressed by the quality of the book--especially theheavy cardstock cover. So I ended up ordering print back issues from Midtown Comics. And they arrived very soon thereafter, and I reread the first one and enjoyed it all over again, but then for some reason I didn't read any more. In fact, I didn't read another issue until #15, which I think is the last of the series. I don't usually behave in this strange way. I will read the other issues, for sure, and probably soon, though, as I really like this book a lot. Besides, issue 15 was pretty fucking puzzling for some reason or other.
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| Royal City #11 |
And now I find out that Royal City is coming to an end in the near future . . . with issue #14, I think. This is another book I've had a strange relationship with. Bought the first two issues from the stands and liked them, but decided to shift to Comixology's Day Old Bread for the third, fourth and fifth issues. Then issue six came out with a supercool variant cover (a tribute to Sonic Youth's Goo by Jeffrey Brown), so I bought that off the stands, and then re-read all of the issues and decided that I actually did need this book in print and have continued to buy it new and hard since then. It's a good story. With one caveat: I love Jeff Lemire's art immensely, and, in fact, it's definitely one of the main reasons that I buy this book . . . but to be honest, there are moments wherein his artistic skill (or approach, perhaps) is not commensurate with the needs of the story. Specifically in terms of his ability to create distinct facial features. The story really relies upon that, and Lemire makes me work much harder than I should have to work . . . and, in fact, sometimes causes me to miss important stuff . . . because of that factor. He has worked with other artists on some of his books, and I have to wish that he had done that on this one. But what the fuck, I love Royal City and am sorry to see it go.
As for this Saga . . . this so-called Saga . . . I continue to buy this in print for two reasons: (1) it still feels more real to me than an e-comic and (2) I want to support the very nice people at The Great Escape, so I don't want my buy list to get too thin. And I do dearly love this book.
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