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Things I read in June

Read more comics people!

This month my attention turned to catching up on a number of the graphic novels I have piled up and threatened to read and never quite got around to or re-reading others.

We shall start with the walking dead and I will happily declare that I am one of those who insists that the comics are far better than the TV show. I do not do this in a way that makes me seem like a dickhead I hope it is simply a fact.

I also re-read the last 3 of Saga which is one of my favourite ever graphic novels. I’m not going to bore you with what it’s about but there are some robots and aliens and a whole fabulous love story and a cat that knows you’re lying and its fucking awesome…

And Watchmen. Alan Moore’s work of pure genius and something I find wonderfully comforting . I can’t do it justice, just buy it and read it otherwise you’re missing out and your life is shitter because you haven’t.

Shit reviews,great comics.

Read them.

Hugs

Things I read in February

Couldn’t not read ‘Go set a watchman’ after reading ‘To kill a mockingbird’ and I bloody loved it! Some people don’t, and they’re entitled to their incorrect opinion. Im no critic, so don’t know how to properly review a book, but I just enjoyed it so. Funny, moving, beautifully written and scratched that itch left after reading Mockingbird…

Island by David Almond was a lovely surprise, and I finished it in one sitting. Well written, characters I quickly came to care about and a tender tale of…hmm…fate? Coincidence? Happenstance? Whatever it was I enjoyed it and sometimes that is all that matters.

The Last Man graphic novel has been turned into an Amazing TV show, and im determined to finish the series before I watch it. I bloody love Brian K Vaughan, and his work on SAGA is one of my most favourite graphic novel series. Im enjoying this very much and do so wont anything post apocalyptic, although may might say as all men being dead bar one is less apocalypse and more blissful-everyday-is-like-Christmas.

What you reading this month?

Saga. This ones for Simon

More than just a comic book to me.

If you’re a comic reader you know that now and again you stumble upon something that just grabs you and demands your attention and from then on you’re hooked.  For me, from the minute I first read SAGA by Fiona Staples and Brian E Vaughan, I knew this  was going to be one of those experiences.

The reason I got into it was because of the owner of the local comic shop Simon Shaw.  I told him I was after something new and he asked me what I liked.  I explained the sort of stories and art that I enjoyed and almost straight away he was in no doubt that I would love Saga and he was absolutely right.

As much as I like to think I know a bit about comics, I don’t really and when you meet someone like Simon you realise what real passion looks like and there is something so brilliant about just knowing someone like that because that passion is truly infectious.  For the years that have followed I have bowed to his superior knowledge so many times and whilst my wallet may have suffered he has never been wrong.

It is with a real sadness though that I won’t get to have my arm twisted to pick up something new any more because Simon passed away this week.  He was only forty and had beaten cancer and a heart attack took him far too soon.

Thanks for everything mate I will miss you and I’m sure I will think about you every time I read it.