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Although the first book "No Normal" of the new Ms. Marvel comic was very innovative and full of interesting ideas, i have to say that by this second book, it was starting to remind me of why I drifted away from the superhero genre in general, and when I realized they were featuring Wolverine in the comic (and not in an ironic way, but in a real “Isn’t this cool that Wolverine is in this comic” kind of way), I realized I was probably not the demographic Ms. Marvel was going for...

Mowgli Meets Steely Dan

While digging Steely Dan's awesome 1974 album Pretzel Logic one night, I was amused to find that the album's closer "Monkey In Your Soul"  really gave me the feel of monkeys swaying along, and though I know it's really the story of a friend with an addiction, I couldn't help but wonder what it would look like if King Louie sung it to Mowgli to convince him they really were brothers in the classic Jungle Book movie.

All-New X-Factor,Vol.3: Axis

The Big Book Of Losers

The Tale Of One Bad Rat #1-4

I originally picked up the series THE TALE OF ONE BAD RAT on a trip to Maui and I remember just reading the entire four issue miniseries of a young English Beatrix Potter-loving girl who flees her home to escape from a sexually abusive household, in the motel room one afternoon, just being blown away by the powerful story and incredible art.
At the time my friend had recommended it to me because Bryan Talbot had drawn stuff for Sandman, but from that moment on, Talbot would always be on my radar ass the person who created this wonderful strip.

FreakAngels, Vol.1-6

I originally read FreakAngels as an online comic which you'd read two or three pages every week but besides the maddening wait of reading a comic  in such small increments over such a long stretch, I never got the handle of viewing a comic page on the computer, and always ended up scrolling around and around to "see" the whole page.

When they'd amassed a books' worth of chapters, they'd release them into beautiful trade paperbacks, and it was these that I really loved reading. And at the end of the whole series, they even offered up a FreakAngels slipcase to house all 6 books, an time I picked up for myself!

Well, the series had its ups and downs, and though the conclusion to the series was kind of subdued, the futuristic story of 12 children born at the same time with strange powers who "break" the world as teens and spend the rest of their lives trying to fix it, is full of so much good stuff, great characters, wonderful, witty dialog, and absolutely nail-biting situations that I 'll read this one again and again!