Earlier in the day I dragged myself to the comic shop on five hours sleep and spent far too much money. Every week I make it my mission to drop a few titles and every week I pick up new ones, for shame. I even ended up buying the Final Crisis tie-in Requiem for a dead Martian or whatever the fuck it's called. So much for my plan to stick to the core Crisis mini series.
Weakling that I am, I also allowed Gosh!'s Andrew to foist his latest recommendation on me. Damn your eyes sir! To be fair to the man he hasn't given me a dud yet, and his latest pick Joker's Asylum: Penguin by Jasons Aaron and Pearson is indeed a fine comic. Great riff on The Penguin, insane Batman cameo and The Joker doing his best impression of EC's Crypt-Keeper. KERCHINNG! Aaron digs as far down into The Penguin's psyche as you can in 22 pages, while Pearson's Romitaesque pencils are lent a nightmarish quality by Dave McCaig's dark colours and the artist's own deep inks.
So anyway, that's the only comic I've read today, but I bought a LOT more. Ah well, at least I managed to resist the temptation of spending £50 on the HUGE Heroclix Galactus in Forbidden Planet. It's calling my name though, and I'm not sure if I can fight its Man Toy advances for much longer. Dirty fucking Devourer of dosh!
"I'm hungry for your hard earned Sutton!"
4 comments:
Holy Moses, that Galactus is a monster! If I didn't have my Classic Marvel Figurine Collector one I'd be down there like a shot.
Glad you liked the Penguin. The whole "litany of revenge" sequence felt a bit like something lifted from Moore or Morrison, but it was a good little read, for sure, and one that can happily be read by itself, which almost feels like a novelty these days.
what next...Trion Juggernaut?
Mr Salmond: What was that Batman cameo about though?
Mr Wheatley: Where did you dredge that obscurity from?
Batman as comic foil!
"I'll be watching."
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