Tax Day comics

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I got my taxes back yesterday and decided that it would be a time time to burn some cash and pick up a couple of trades. While the comic shop in Prince George doesn't have the greatest singles collection, they have a fantastic bookshelf full of trade paperbacks. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the best selection in Northern BC. This is what I picked up: Seaguy, Sleeper and the second trade of 100 Bullets.

Seaguy was pretty good. Yeah, it had a lot of Morrison's mad ideas, but they seemed more stream of concious than anything else, rarely delivering on their promises. Despite that, the story got much better as it approached the end with the upped action the big moon revelation, despite its abrupt ending. Knowning that Morrison had plans for two other arcs after the first one compounds the situation. The revelations at the end of the story felt like a big tease, like I was only seeing the first ten minutes of a movie. Hopefully sales will convince DC to bring out the next two arcs, but considering how obtuse the story was, I doubt it.

I picked up the first issue of Sleeper two years ago based on Brubaker's promise that if you didn't like the first issue, you could send it to him and get a refund. I wasn't impressed, but liked it enough not to go through with the refund. I had the same experience with 100 Bullets a couple of years ago. Read it, and was underwhelmed. Since then, I think that my brain has been re-wired to like noir. Hell, I'll probably like the Third Man if I saw it again. Sleeper is like a train. It starts slow, but when it gets going, it's tough to stop. Solid characterization and moral ambiguity makes this one of the better deconstructions of the super villian, much better than Mark Millar's attempt with Wanted.