Books that I want to read

Coming up later this year is a new comic by Vertigo comics called Testament. The premise is intriguing, as it's an alogorical comic about the Bible. Much like how cinema often reinterprets the Dracula myth for each generation, Testament reimagines the Old Testament in a world much like our own. Seeing as Vertigo usually trades their comics 6 months after the end of an arc, I'll be waiting until next October to pick the series up.

My buddy from tree planting recommended a book to me called the Dice Man. He assures me that it's one of the greatest novels that he's ever read. Considering how much reading material digested, I'll take his word for it. He tells me that it's a book about a psychologist that, in a fit of boredom, decides to make all his life choices based on a roll of the dice. Denis urged me to go into the book clean, knowing no more than that, so thats what I have planned.

The collected edition of Demo is coming out later this year, the critically acclaimed comic by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan. Originally sold as "what if kids had powers in the real world", it looks to be much better than that.

Also published by AiT-Planet Lar, the guys that brought out Demo is Tales From Fish Camp. It involves tales of hard drinking and hard work, which sounds like tree planting.

The first two trades of Scott Pilgrim will be waiting for me in PG when I get back. I look forward to this more than anything else.

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