Hosive

in this segment, i’ll detail my amore for the art and medium of comics. the title comes from a comic shop i frequented as a kid and a nod to my boy q and his blog. i only recently restarted this feature so you might want to go back to the earlier posts to read what this is all about. ironically….despite this picture, i don’t really read too much marvel stuff.

here’s what i’ve been reading lately, starting with my non-spandex pick:

y the last man just finished not that long ago…and with the current comic avalanche on hollywood and movies, this modern classic should be adapted very soon. but that’s what we thought about the watchmen 25 years ago. and watchmen was named on time magazine’s top 100 novels of the 20th century! but watchmen gets its due in the spring of 2009. hopefully, y gets greenlit faster!

y is not about superheroes but a thriller about a plague that wipes out every male on the planet except for one guy named yorick and his monkey. the women rule the world and yorick is the last man on earth. what happened? what will happen to humanity? who did this? it’s a series of mysteries and social analysis….for example, what happens when women are really in charge? the answer…a nuanced, depends on which women!

brian k vaughn who writes for lost(the tv show)scripts this 10 volume set. pia guerra provides most of the pencils. and they create a realistic, disturbing window into a possible future. high recommendations but be warned…its an rated r read. i took a girl to an anime movie once and her mom thought i took her to a cartoon…like for kids. this is not for kids.

j g jones provides the covers and when i actually met j g, sketching in my sketchbook above, i thought he looked really familiar. on the covers of y….he drew himself as yorick!

speaking of j g jones, he’s doing the covers and most of the interiors for final crisis…the universal cataclysmic threat to all the dc heroes. reading this series feels like something evil has crawled into the room…under the couch or under the bed….something insidious is taking over the world…and everything is falling apart. it comes from one of the writers i trust, grant morrison. he crafts complex mindbenders that make you feel like you’re on something…..drugs done for you! which might just be the case.

i’m a sucker for these epics and i trust grant and j g to deliver. the third issue just came out with a bunch of specials to supplement the story. this is definitely worth my time as opposed to other dc mega projects that have just bored me.