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[bryant]

Of interest to some: looks like Grimjack is coming back. Grimjack was John Ostrander's first major work; he'd go on to write Suicide Squad and Spectre. It's about a gritty cynical assassin/mercenary/detective living in a city where realities meet; Sigil and Nexus clearly owe the series a significant debt.

(Via the Ghoul.)

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[bryant]

Same here. I'm aware that I could drop everything I'm reading now and barely feel it. But -- I'd miss stuff I'm enjoying. So hm.

[rfrancis]

My compromise to myself, more fully laid out, was this:

First, that I'd continue getting Shonen Jump, because if nothing else it's a heck of a buy -- that much material for like five bucks is, in my mind, an embarrassment to the rest of the industry. So I get that.

Second, I picked out several titles that I wanted to get in trade paperback as available. They didn't have to be current titles if they're available in trade, and indeed, many or most aren't. I need to update the list, but I believe it's something like:

Fables
Mystique
4
Losers
Queen & Country
Sin City
Transmetropolitan
Invisibles

And basically I just try to pace out how I order to keep my finances reasonable. I ordered the new Fables trade in AUG04, Ultimate Spider-Man (which I have stopped after reading it) and Losers in SEP04, Mystique and FF Legends: John Byrne (so I do occasionally throw in ringers) in OCT04. And, uh, forgot to place an order for NOV04 so I'm going back to cover that this week probably.

Really my list above is incomplete; I'll get any Blue Monday collections that come out, for instance, but that's so rare it isn't a big scheduling concern. But this is the general idea.

What interested me after the fact is how there were only two (and now only one) superhero comics per se (I don't count Mystique, really) that I'm even bothering with. I'm not a crusader about the topic as, for example, Ellis has been off and on, but I'm just tired of it, I guess, and it seems like nothing really new is being said, anyway.

I should note here that I have my moments of temptation with Waid's new Legion series, although so far they haven't been strong or frequent enough to make me actually do anything about it.

-R