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Running COMPLETELY against the crowd here:
Yesterday I came home and discovered that my old landlords had sent my refunded damage deposit from my previous apartment. I was floored -- I'd actually managed to forget I'd be getting that money, and hadn't taken it into account when doing financial planning for this year.
Flush with money, I promptly went out and bought... the latest four Lucifer graphic novels.*
:-)
Betcha thought I was going to say Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, didn't you?
Well, no. I'm saving that for next weekend, when I'll need something to read on a long car trip.
But I bought Lucifer now. Because Mike Carey is a genius. Because Peter Gross, Dean Ormston, Ryan Kelly, and Daniel Vozzo are great artists. Because seriously, how can you NOT like an epic story about the devil? Who is cunning and powerful and makes plans that are wheels within wheels within wheels, and who always keeps the letter of his word, and who can never, ever win anyway, because god is omnipotent and omniscient. And people around him get hurt, and try to make things be 'right' or 'good,' and he doesn't care so long as he gets what he wants.
I already finished reading Inferno. When I get home this evening, I'm going to plow straight through Mansions of the Silence, Exodus, and The Wolf Beneath the Tree.
(If you're interested, the series starts with Devil in the Gateway, and then continues through Children and Monsters, A Dalliance With the Damned, and The Divine Comedy. Also, as per the * above, these aren't really true graphic novels. That is, they weren't written and drawn as a unit, but as a series of monthly issues that were later collected. True, Carey writes with an eye to the collection -- he's a firm believer in story arcs and in sidestories that come back with greater importance later -- but still, I'm just enough of a comics snob to be a little finicky about terminology. *sigh*)
Yesterday I came home and discovered that my old landlords had sent my refunded damage deposit from my previous apartment. I was floored -- I'd actually managed to forget I'd be getting that money, and hadn't taken it into account when doing financial planning for this year.
Flush with money, I promptly went out and bought... the latest four Lucifer graphic novels.*
:-)
Betcha thought I was going to say Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, didn't you?
Well, no. I'm saving that for next weekend, when I'll need something to read on a long car trip.
But I bought Lucifer now. Because Mike Carey is a genius. Because Peter Gross, Dean Ormston, Ryan Kelly, and Daniel Vozzo are great artists. Because seriously, how can you NOT like an epic story about the devil? Who is cunning and powerful and makes plans that are wheels within wheels within wheels, and who always keeps the letter of his word, and who can never, ever win anyway, because god is omnipotent and omniscient. And people around him get hurt, and try to make things be 'right' or 'good,' and he doesn't care so long as he gets what he wants.
I already finished reading Inferno. When I get home this evening, I'm going to plow straight through Mansions of the Silence, Exodus, and The Wolf Beneath the Tree.
(If you're interested, the series starts with Devil in the Gateway, and then continues through Children and Monsters, A Dalliance With the Damned, and The Divine Comedy. Also, as per the * above, these aren't really true graphic novels. That is, they weren't written and drawn as a unit, but as a series of monthly issues that were later collected. True, Carey writes with an eye to the collection -- he's a firm believer in story arcs and in sidestories that come back with greater importance later -- but still, I'm just enough of a comics snob to be a little finicky about terminology. *sigh*)
