That Looks Interesting: KC’s Column
- Posted by Johanna on October 27, 2007 at 2:57 pm
- Category: KC
The first edition of KC’s review column, That Looks Interesting, is now up! He covers She-Hulk #22, Action Comics #855-857, X-Men: First Class #5, and the Serenity and Spirit hardcovers.
I think his introduction says it all:
People buy comic books for a lot of different reasons. Not all of them good. Or even rational. For some, they are an investment (“This issue of Captain Crappy will someday be worth a ba-jillion dollars and I can use the money to send my kids to college.”). For others, they are a collectible (“I own all 753 issues of Confounding Comics, and I’m not missing this one, even if I haven’t read an issue since 1956!”). Others are often brainwashed (“I WILL BUY THIS ISSUE OF ZOMBIE TUBA BECAUSE GIZZARD MAGAZINE TOLD ME TO. AND I WILL BE HAPPY. YAY.”). And some brave souls, although their numbers seem to be dwindling, actually buy comic books because they enjoy reading them (“I like to read comic books. Please don’t hit me.”).
Update: And KC’s new look at the week ahead is also up! I wrote this part: “Death death death… Death!”
October 27, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Ra’s is a zo… TTCNBN, too.
And Lord Havok et al got their own mini because there are still characters from the Giffen/DeMattias JL that aren’t dead yet, silly.
October 27, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Some very good reviews there.
I’m sort of curious about She-Hulk, as I never knew anything about the character before Slott buto do like David’s work.
I’ve ben curious about the Donner/Johns pairing on Superman, so good to hear this is working for KC. I’ll probably check out the eventual trade.
I’ve yet to try out X-Men: First Class, got sort of burned out on X-stuff, but do mean to eventually.
I need to look for the Spirit collection, I have issues #1-4, and loved them and I’d never read any or about Spirit stuff before. I was curious about the Batman/Spirit story since I’m not a big fan of Loeb’s work.
On his coming up stuff, good job, especially the “Ow, OWW” line.
I know I’m kind of excited to see how Johns and Frank do on that LSH story especially. Johns said he’s basically using all the LSH stuff up to COIE, which is smart as that was the story that sort of hampered the LSH most for the longest time. (nearly every series since has been about explaining it in some way)
Its a good time to be a LSH fan with that storyline starting, Shooter back on the regular title, and Torres on the adventure book. Plus even the second season of the LSH cartoon has sort of grown up a bit. Though I found it odd to see Vi as a gigling, giddy goose on the show.
Dang, I think this is the most I’ve had to say about comics in a long time lol. So goood job fostering discussion KC… you too Johanna.:)
October 29, 2007 at 2:27 pm
I suggest that you make a separate entry for the look at the week ahead, as I would not have seen it if I hadn’t gone down the page to see Comments.
October 29, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Alan, when the schedule settles down with practice, I will make two separate notes. These two columns came so close together — that’ll likely change. Thanks for the feedback!