A few that I put in reviews for today:
Stumptown, Vol. 2 (Rucka/Southworth) Oni Press – 5/5 – Joyfully gritty contemporary Portland private detective action.
Leaving Megalopolis (Simone/Calafiore) Painfully Normal Press – 3/5 – Too short and too cliched, but still a decent read.
Kingdom Come (Waid/Ross) DC – 5/5 – Re-read, still awesome counter-deconstruction of the super-hero genre.
Five Ghosts, Vol. 1 (Barbiere/Mooneyham) Image – 3/5 – Should have been pulp adventure awesomeness, but rushes things and loses focus.
East of West, Vol. 1 (Hickman/Dragotta) Image – 3/5 – Lots of imaginative world-building in this apocalyptic tale, but ultimately too muddled for greatness.
Supercrooks (Millar/Yu) Image – 4/5 – Fun, lightweight villanous caper tale — an inconsequential but enjoyable romp.
Lazarus, Vol. 1 (Rucka/Lark) Image – 4/5 – Evocative of "The Hunger Games", but with far better dystopian worldbuilding and much better characters and action. [Couldn't quite give this one a 5, but it's the ongoing I'm most excited about right now.]
Morning Glories, Vol. 4 (Spencer/Eisma) Image – 3/5 – Too hooked to quit this nicely done but too confusing / teasing "Lost" style tale.
Looking at the above, I'm amazed by the number of Image titles included. Part of that is just a matter of what I purchased / read over the last three months or so, but, honestly, though I am enjoying what Marvel is producing these days (let's not talk about DC, where my pull list has dried to a trickle), little of it has been kick-ass incredible enough (or contained enough) to make me want to buy collections of it. Of the 39 GN/TPBs I read this year, only 7 were Marvel books.
Top-rated (5 stars of 5) things I read this year:
Kingdom Come
Stumptown, Vol. 2
Atomic Robo, Vol. 1
Saga, Vol. 2
The Complete Battlefields, Vol. 2
Hawkeye, Vol. 2
Fables, Vol. 18
Saucer Country, Vol. 1
Essential Warlock, Vol. 1
Scarlet, Vol. 1
Make of that list what you will when it comes to describing my personality or aesthetic.
Here's looking forward to a new year of comic/illustrated goodness!
***Dave Hill’s bookshelf: illustrated (showing 1-30 of 175) (sorted by: date read) (cover view)
***Dave Hill has 175 books on his illustrated shelf: Kingdom Come by Mark Waid, Lazarus, Vol. 1: Family by Greg Rucka, Five Ghosts, Vol. 1: The Haunting …
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Lazarus one of the best books out just now. I picked the single issues and is the book I look forward to reading each month.
I think it's definitely trending toward 5-star greatness.