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Dec. 6th, 2007
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Dec. 6th, 2007 12:53 pmSo, I got the first book in the Scott Pilgrim series because ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kinra told me I should. Interesting book, although the story drags a bit. It's about a slacker who's in a band and dating a girl who I beleive is barely not in the statutory rape category. It gets interesting when he meets an Amazon.ca deliverygirl (wait, they have their own crew of delivery people?) and begins to have kung fu battles with her ex-boyfriends. All right, I can deal with that.
Hopefully there's less emo slacker stuff (you wanna see that? Go here and enjoy) and more fighting guys in later editions. Or am I missing some clever Manga riff?
Also finished The Long Halloween (and discovered that MPL is a bit slow when it comes to reminding people of books being overdue). Not sure whygranolademonic disliked it so. It was an interesting bit, with a cute gimmick and it served to explain why Harvey Dent got splashed in the face with acid by a gangster when Gotham's criminal element seems mostly to consist of crazy people, cat burglars and alleyway muggers.
As I mentioned, I got the first TPB for X-Men First Class. Enjoyable book, and a good set of fun stories about the X-Men's early days.
Also read Shellshocked, the first compilation of Blue Beetle books. Enjoyable. I'm not sure where the plotting was divided between Rogers and Giffen, but it was fun. Good way to introduce a new character into the DCU. I particularly like how he shined off Oracle. Can't wait to get the next book.
kinra told me I should. Interesting book, although the story drags a bit. It's about a slacker who's in a band and dating a girl who I beleive is barely not in the statutory rape category. It gets interesting when he meets an Amazon.ca deliverygirl (wait, they have their own crew of delivery people?) and begins to have kung fu battles with her ex-boyfriends. All right, I can deal with that. Hopefully there's less emo slacker stuff (you wanna see that? Go here and enjoy) and more fighting guys in later editions. Or am I missing some clever Manga riff?
Also finished The Long Halloween (and discovered that MPL is a bit slow when it comes to reminding people of books being overdue). Not sure why
granolademonic disliked it so. It was an interesting bit, with a cute gimmick and it served to explain why Harvey Dent got splashed in the face with acid by a gangster when Gotham's criminal element seems mostly to consist of crazy people, cat burglars and alleyway muggers. As I mentioned, I got the first TPB for X-Men First Class. Enjoyable book, and a good set of fun stories about the X-Men's early days.
Also read Shellshocked, the first compilation of Blue Beetle books. Enjoyable. I'm not sure where the plotting was divided between Rogers and Giffen, but it was fun. Good way to introduce a new character into the DCU. I particularly like how he shined off Oracle. Can't wait to get the next book.