November 2012
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Once again, the cover caught me! For those of you who don't know me, I'm writing my MA thesis on fairy tales right now and I have had a thing for the Little Red Riding Hood story lately. You can read about that on my other blog: "Must I Write?"
The next thing I noticed was that this anthology contains stories from Kate Beaton, of Hark, A Vagrant (hilarious, and one of Christian's favorites) and Gail Simone (current writer of Batgirl). So, I was curious and I picked it up.
There are some real gems in here. Steve Reynolds tells a poignant but funny story about his dad's floating ear, Dave Johnson tells the hilarious story about how he met Bob Layton, and Gail Simone's depiction of a comic book store in the Victorian(?) period selling comics called "Bat Gentleman" and "Lady Wonder" is awesome.
But, I have to say that I had two big favorites: the first was Kristyna Baczynski's "Due Returns" and the second was Ivan Brandon's "I'm Through." Apparently I also have a thing for portal stories.
Totally worth the $4!
I loved the Strontium Dog meets Elephantmen story in this anthology. Makes me wish I had kept reading the actual Elephantmen series.
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