Books I Bought Last Week

[madmanpoet]

I buy precious few floppies now, but it seems like they all fell on the same Wednesday, last.

Astonishing X-Men #14I know, I know. I'm a grownup. Didn't I outgrow X-Men 16 years ago? Probably. Then the X-Men grew up right back with first Grant and now Buffy creator Joss Whedon helming up the flagship team with thought provoking and gorgeously

Comments

[bonerici]

why do you people insist on calling comic books, "books". Has our adult onset attention deficit disorder culture grown so pervasive that illustrated comics having less words than "Fun with Dick and Jane" are called "books" now?

I've noticed that all the grown up comic book readers insist on calling their comix, "books", it's not just you, flores. Also, at $3 for a comic book, how on earth are children supposed to afford them? There has been a quiet revolution in comic books, where affordable magazines for children made with pulpy yellow paper and blurry inks have been entirely replaced by porno quality graphics on high quality paper. The $1 comic book, which would be affordable for kids (according to my inflation calculator, it's the equivalent to a 10 cent superman comic in 1945) just doesn't exist anymore.

If you adults don't buy x-men who will? Nobody else can afford it.

[madmanpoet]

1) I think you are being needlessly myopic. The best comic books are about one million times more literate and more challenging intellectually than anything else written today, maybe ever. I can count on one hand the number of writers of straight fiction who are as adept at both form and plot as Alan Moore at his best. There is a huge difference between Whedon's Astonishing X-Men or Morrison's New X-Men and "Fun With Dick and Jane" or whatever... the fact that you ask this question is a function, sadly, of your ignorance

[bonerici]

The best comic books are about one million times more literate and more challenging intellectually than anything else written today, maybe ever.

/me speachless

[l_neiman]

I don't know about "ever", but you can certainly make a compelling case by using writers like Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore and Frank Miller, :-).

Luis