Comics

My one comic per year, this time Hickman’s Secret Wars. By complete chance, the same guy who wrote my one-comic last year, House of X/Powers of X. I enjoyed this quite a bit. Read to prepare for Avengers: Doomsday which I probably will not see til it comes out on streaming; I’m not excited for the film. Lots of characters I’ve never heard of. I enjoyed the art and the story. I have very little knowledge of Dr. Doom, but what little I had apparently comes from this comic. God Emperor Doom. Lots of fun. ...

I probably read one comic book omnibus or graphic novel a year. Last weekend in Philly a very chatty bartender told me that I simply had to read HoX/PoX. He was very friendly and poured heavy drinks and so while I was busy giving googlyeyes to the other bartender I promised I’d read it. For whatever reason I take my word seriously and so ordered this and read it this week. It’s pretty good! I probably haven’t read an X-Men comic in 20 years, I don’t even know what the last one was that I’d have read. The X-Men have a special place in my heart as the 2000s era films were some of the first I recall seeing in the theater, and naturally the gay/queer-analogy of it all speaks to me. The analogy is sort of present here, although it is of course all very fantastic. Who wouldn’t want a land of their own to be who they are? ...