Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: Creation Myths, Volume 1

Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: Creation Myths, Volume 1 by Brian Holguin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Damn it now I have to buy the next one!

This was amazing. Really takes you back into the world of The Dark Crystal. I love the characters created by Brian Froud/Jim Henson and Brian Holguin really gives them a new dimension.
I was worried that is would look to cartoony but the way they have designed the speech "bubbles" to be jagged actually added something rather than detracted.
Loved it!


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Snow White By Matt Phelan very short review

Snow White: A Graphic Novel by Matt Phelan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a re-telling of Snow White set in the 1920's told mostly by the beautiful sketched illustrations. A very quick "read" (There really isn't much to read).

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Weekly Reading Discussion #1

Weekly Reading Discussion #1

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Recommended Quick Reads | #StrikeBackVideoAThon

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Day 15 Literary Photo Challenge: Currently Reading

I am currently reading reading a few books. Mainly I' reading Amari by Steven Atwood which I got through Library Thing for free. I'm halfway through Catwoman vol 1. I'm listening to the Collected Public Domain Works of H.P. Lovecraft from Liborvox. 

The Widowmaker: A Thriller For Horror Buffs I have been reading on and off for a while now but it hasn't really grabbed me.

Yay! More Harley Quinn

As I was leaving work yesterday, I said to some of my work mates "Yay, I'm going to the comic book store"

Their response: "Oh your so funny" thinking I was joking. As you can see I wasn't joking. I was in fact off to buy a joker (not the joker but close enough)

Purchased the new Harley Quinn #0 and raced home to read it straight away.

This was a great idea with each artist getting a page each and having a conversation with Harley about how she wants to be drawn and that she doesn't want to be a stereotype. 

If I remember correctly this was the one they got in trouble from for drawing her naked and committing suicide, but they seem to have dropped that out.

This also set up the first of the series with her having a visit from a mysterious man in a dark car telling her she has inherited a 4 story house.

Can't wait for the next installment! 

Photo challenge (catch up day 1) this months reading list.

Technically day 1 of the photo challenge my proposed reading list for December. I stress the word proposed because the list in my head always changes as I actually come to the end of a book.

Also I have a list of ebooks that need reading because they need reviews.

But yay for comic books, sci-fi and historical fiction.

List:

Comic Books

•  Catwoman, vol 1 of new 52, Judd Winick and Guillem March
• Witch Craft, 1,2 & 3 of 3, James Robinson, Peter Snejbjerg and Teddy Kristiansen
• Ballads, Charles Vess

Novels

• Insurgent, Book 2 Divergent trilogy, Veronica Roth
• Allegiant, Book 3 Divergent trilogy, Veronica Roth
• The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett 

Why I Read Comics (The One That Sparked It All)

So I used to read Catwoman on and off as a teenager and I decided recently to get back into it since we had the reset of the new #52. I am not sure how I fell about the new #52 reset of comics and I have deliberately avoided reading any commentary on it, so I don't even know how I am expected to feel, so I will leave that discussion to another post.
 
As a kid and early teen, my mum would drive us the two hours to the city for the second hand card fairs and they were always one of the best days on the calender. It started out with trading cards and that gave me an appreciation for art no matter how small or mass produced the medium.  Pretty soon the trading card hype peaked and petered out but I still had a hankering for the art that I once got from trading cards.
In stepped the comic book!
Sure, having a mum that was into trading card (she was collecting them as well, there was a self serving motive to her motivations of persuading us to start a collection too,) we had comics in the house and i had read them in passing but they hadn't grabbed me yet. So, as the desks of trading card sellers shrank and the space was taken over by boxes of comics, well naturally I was attracted to the $1 comics boxes for a) a bargain and b) something to browse after I had finished looking at the cards.  One auspicious day I found this comic;

I'll admit, I judged a book by its cover, but what a cover. I had never been a traditional superhero comic book reader because they had never appealed to be with the big steroidy muscle men always doing the right thing and beating up the bad guy. But this was different, no brightly coloured cover with a suited man doing what suited men do. No this was the "hero" vulnerable in the distance being visited or haunted by a ghostly visage. As a teenage, I thought i could relate to this sort of "superhero" and she was a she and in purple (my favorite colour.  

And I have never looked back, with my stacks of random comics I have collected over the years, literally judging comic books by their covers and buy with that instinct and feeling I had back then.

Now I am going back to my comic book roots with Catwoman Vol 1 of the new #52.

I look forward to reliving the feelings of old.

This week’s acquisitions.

My local comic book store’s very helpful staff tell me that there will be a Harley Quinn series starting some time in November so got the one off to get back into the swing of things. I have to admit I quite enjoyed it and am now looking forward to the series…hopefully.

I also picked up the first of The Hollows, even though there was 1-4 on the shelf, just to see how it goes. i really liked the story line. Set in a post apocalyptic Japan where the lucky survivors live in gargantuan, genetically modified trees high above the not so lucky survivors who need to scratch out a life whilst protecting themselves from the soul sucking Hollows.  

I could be good, i will tell you how it goes. 

Ok, so I know I said that I was going to start reading The Eye of the World but it turned out that I was in a graphic novel mood and not a long read mood this week.
 Just finished The Wonderful Wizard of Oz graphic novel by Eric Shanower and have been reliving the feeling i had as a child watching the movie. The land of Oz and Wonderland are always going to be my favorite fantasy lands and i will always be a sucker to read/watch/listen to any adaptation, interpretation or re-imagining just to visit these worlds again.