That Which Shiri Is Reading

It’s stay-cation week for me and I have read pretty much fuck-all because my four year old is being a four year old, my two year old is being a two year old, my internal clock is still ‘effed up from three out of four weeks being nightshifts in the last month instead of two, the hubs has been working late pretty much every night, and I’ve been spending what time I have had watching Man of Steel (finally; the last half hour was pretty fly), and working on an as yet untitled project involving space Musketeers.

I have, however, found a few scattered half hours here and there to delve into some comics I’ve had my eye on for a while, including:

I love this guy almost as much as I love his BAMF!
image via comicbookrealm.com

I won’t claim to be blown away, at least not yet, but through issue four, Chris Claremont’s Nightcrawler is good, clean, Kurt Wagner fun with a side of pissed off Wolverine to keep it from getting too positive/hopeful (you’d be annoyed if you lost your healing ability, too, especially if your power involved adamantium claws ripping through your knuckles, no?).  No doubt buckles will be swashed and he’s doing it all for love, though I’m hoping things will go a little more in depth and, of course, get bloody and messy because *punch* *explode.*  Digging the more traditional art as well; fits with the old school X-men featured.

Necromancy and Death with an iPod.
image via comixology.com

Speaking of art, I love it when the writer and artist are one in the same; there’s always a little something extra special when the interpretation is completely unfiltered; all the little nuances of facial expression, movement, consume detail, etc that can be lost in translation from writer to artist.  Also, Death Vigil is an Image book and I’m always happy when I can send a cash infusion, albeit a small one, in their direction because I like their “creator owned” business model.

Honestly, Sejic had me at evil necromancers and Death Knights but issue one was even better than I had anticipated: the art is gorgeous, the story catches you up without being too info-dumpy, and it gets all Scandinavian up in there: Death is lovely, witty, and smiles, which is almost as good as playing chess on the beach and definitely has a leg up in the action department.  Plenty of wise-assery to go around as well, which I find essential in a good comic.

Pizza demon, GO!
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Yeah, it’s goofy, but Teen Titans, Go! is cute and my kids love it and I get it to read to them.  The digital versions are  scroll text, add speech bubbles in dialogue order, and adds to incomplete panels to move the story, which makes the thing much easier to read aloud.  All the hilarity of the 12 minute television show but actually requiring a commitment of attention span from the little geeks.  I and Z sat through the first 9 issues this morning…  Good, dorklings.

(addendae: okay, first, sorry about the typos.  I think I fixed them.  Second: I have now taught girl dorkling to yell, “BAMF” when I bring her into a room containing other humans after a nap and she thinks it’s hilarious)