Harrow County Vol.6-7

Binging on "The Good Place'

Got the first two seasons of the wonderful NBC comedy drama "The Good Place" on DVD and blasted through BOTH of 'em in a week, just in time to begin watching its Season Three premiere which started last night!

Such a great little show about a self-professed "Arizona Trashbag" named Eleanor Shellstrop (played by the highly delectable Kristen Bell) who dies and is accidentally sent to Heaven instead of Hell and her exploits as she does her very best to keep her true badness a secret as she attempts to become a person worthy of "the Good Place"!

Everyone is great in the show, including William Jackson Harper as Chidi Anagonye, an Ethics Professor determined to help Eleanor find her "nice" self, Manny Jacinto as a rapper-masquerading as a monk named Jianyu, Angelic AI Assistant Janet played by D'Arcy Carden, and Cheers veteran Ted Danson as Michael, the Good Place's cheery overseer.

Ooooh, and special mention MUST be made of Jameela Jamil as the lusciously curvy spoiled and self-centered socialite Tahani Al-Jamil who became my favorite character from the very first episode and has remained my biggest motivation for keeping up with the awesome show!

Just finished watching the first episode of Season Three on the NBC streaming site, and I had to laugh realizing this is the first ACTUAL Television show I've been interested in enough to watch one by one, weekly, as it airs!usually I wait for shows like this to come out on DVD and then jsut binge 'em, but I love the Good Place too much to wait!!!!

So far, this show has kept me on my toes guessing just WHERE each episode is going to lead!!! Such a FUN, innovative series!!!

Monstress, Vol.3: Haven

Femme Magnifique

The Walking Dead Vol. 30: New World Order

Oblivion Song, Vol.One: Chapter One

A few months I picked up the first two issues of Oblivion Song and noted that, while it was intriguing, it would read better in collected form so I decdied to drop the monthlies and wait for the volume trades.

Welp, Volume One just came out and I gotta say this is shaping up to be yet another great Kirkman series, along with Outcast and Walking Dead.

East Of West Vol.8

Starting all over again from Vol.1 before I dig into the 8th volume in the awesome east of west series....

Outcast: Vol.6: Invasion

Things are moving along swimmingly for Kyle and his gang of Demon-exorcising co-horts but I AM worrying that the characters will become just another "Walking Dead" retread as he becomes the de-facto :"head" of his group, complete with headquarters and fences to "keep the bad guys out"....

Hellboy Short Stories Vol.2

Picked this up thinking it was the second book after "Seed Of Destruction", but come to find out I missed  Vol 2 of that AND Volume One of the Short Stories! Doh!

Lazarus: X+66 / Sourcebook Collection, Vol.One

 When Image announced that Lazarus was going on hiatus and was going to be publishing a story called Lazarus X+66 featuring side-characters (and guest artists) in its stead, I wasn't going to pick it up. I was only concerned about the main story and wasn't sure how these side stories would hold up to the greater work.

The  Graphic Novel came out in April (along with the Lazarus Sourcebook), but i didn't pick it up til i happened to be at the comic shop Other Realms with Jas, and seeing both books there on the shelf, I couldn't resist and bought 'em...and MAN am I GLAD I did!

Far from being mere filler stories, these were gripping, emotional and absolutely ESSENTIAL sides to the Lazarus storyline and I enjoyed it so, so much!

Usagi Yojimbo Vol. 32

And it's time for the latest graphic novel collection of Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo!

After reading this month's skull-bustingly complex issue of The Wicked+ The Divine, it's nice to have a low-key "just for fun" series to read, and Usagi fits the bill nicely!

Dropping "Paper Girls" as a Monthly Pull

I've decided to drop Paper Girls as a monthly pull and switching to purchasing the collected editions instead.

So little happens in each issue and it's just not worth the time it takes to trudge all the way down to the comic store and trudge all the way back for a comic that I blow through in 2 minutes.

Much easier to wait til an entire arc is collected (and cheaper, too).

Most of the titles I buy are Collected Editions, anyway, with only Saga and The Wicked+ The Divine as regular monthly pulls. For those keeping score:

The Series I'm Buying in Collected Editions:

East Of West

Outcast

Manifest Destiny

Monstress

Oblivion Song*

The Walking Dead

Paper Girls

Usagi Yojimbo

as well as THESE titles, if they EVER get out of LIMBO status:

They're Not Like Us

Injection

Nowhere Men

Series I Dropped for The Time Being:

These just haven't been grabbing me lately so I'm taking time off of these titles 

(but I may go back later and catch up where I left off)

Sex Criminals

Snotgirl

Harrow County

Violent Love

*I bought floppies of #1 and #2 of Oblivion Song but decided to wait for the collected editions for the rest of the series.

Also going to wait for the collected trade for the Bryan K Vaughn mini-series BARRIER.

Factoid Books Paradox Press

Re-reading the "BIG BOOK OF..." Factoid series from Paradox Press, staring from it's classic BIG BOOK OF URBAN LEGENDS...

Hellboy Omnibus, Volume 1

This was a bit of fortuitous timing!!! I was JUST telling Gerg the other month that I wanted to start reading Hellboy, and wanted to know which books to start from. Going online, I was THRILLED to find that they were gonna release an OMNIBUS of Hellboy's entire run in a few months time!!!

As soon as I saw this baby on the shelves at Gecko's I grabbed it up and blew through it in record time! Now time to wait for the future Omnibuses to follow!!!

Oblivion Song

Checking out the new Robert Kirkman series "Oblivion Song". Was gonna wait until it got collected into a trade, but since Gecko's had the first two issues, I decided, what the hell, I'll check it out. Pretty good so far!!!

EDIT:
Decided to wait until Oblivion Song is collected into Graphic Novel form rather than buying the floppies each month.