{"id":7850,"date":"2005-08-06T11:29:02","date_gmt":"2005-08-06T18:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/08\/06\/bt05-what-lurks-behind-the-blog.html"},"modified":"2005-08-06T11:29:02","modified_gmt":"2005-08-06T18:29:02","slug":"bt05_what_lurks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/06\/bt05_what_lurks.html","title":{"rendered":"BT05 – What Lurks Behind the Blog!"},"content":{"rendered":"

All right, back to the reviews! <\/p>\n

Katherine’s actually being pretty cool about this. Polite. Not interrupting. Bugging her mom to take her out for ice cream. She rocks, too.<\/p>\n

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Review code format (ranked 1-5, blah to faboo): [writing \/ art \/ new reader? \/ non-comics reader?]<\/b><\/p>\n


Fantastic Four Visionaries<\/strong>: John Byrne (Vol. 4)<\/a><\/em> (Marvel) [4\/5\/3\/2<\/b>] (collects #258-267, Alpha Flight #4, Thing #10)
\nw\/a. John Byrne<\/em>
\nOne of the best runs in FF history and a direct descendent from the Lee\/Kirby “feel” on the series, Byrne’s work from 1983 (!!) is always rereadable. This collection includes Doctor Doom’s plot with Terrax (and both of their “final” fates), the Trial of Reed Richards for his saving of Galactus, the introduction of She-Hulk to the team (after the Secret Wars), and the fate of Reed and Sue’s second child. There are some clunkers here, too — often when Byrne tried to introduce his own villains to the series — but lots of great stuff as swell.<\/p>\n


Girl Genius<\/strong>: Angela Heterodyne and the Monster Engine (Vol. 3)<\/a><\/em> (Airship) [5\/4\/4\/4<\/b>] (collects #7-10)
\nw\/a. Phil & Kaja Foglio<\/em>
\nGirl Genius is now going the online<\/a> route, only publishing these sorts of collection volumes (the plan is) as the stories fill out. That’s fine, because the wait is worth it. A faboo combo of steampunk, magic, mystery, madness, blood, and Foglio humor, GG is always worth reading and marveling at the visual and backstory richness. In this volume, Agatha’s been brought aboad the giant airship Castle Wulfenbach airship, where she gets introduced to any number of delightful characters, as she fends off insane heroes, sinister geniuses and their sons, and deals with lots and lots of robots. Every page provokes a gasp, a hoot, and a goggle. Worth reading, and rereading, then loaning to friends to make them laugh, then reading again when you get them back. Triffic.<\/p>\n


Heaven’s War<\/strong><\/a><\/em> (Image) [2\/2\/2\/2<\/b>]
\nw. Micah Harris; a. Michael Gaydos<\/em>
\nAleister Crowley manipulates an angelic war in the heavens in 1938, and only the Inklings (yes, those <\/em>Inklings) can stop him. That’s as coherent a description as I can come up with, and that’s from the back cover. The art is sketchy-realistic, but far too static. The writing is … difficult to get through. This is one for the eBay stack.<\/p>\n


Hellblazer<\/strong>: Setting Sun<\/a><\/em> (Vertigo) [5\/4\/4\/4<\/b>] (collects #140-143)
\nw. Warren Ellis; a. Various<\/em>
\nThe last four issues from Ellis on this title, and some of the best. No big arc going on here, just some stand-alone stories, including a final installment that shows John Constantine at is most wickedly, bastardly funny. If someone asks you what Constantine\/Hellblazer is like, just hand them this one book. The art is a from various sources, but all of it is solid. <\/p>\n

(listening to: Shore, Howard, & Ben Del Meastro, “Forth Eorlingas” from <\/i>LOTR2: Two Towers)<\/i><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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