Roger’s Comic Ramblings: What I’m Reading (and How I Got There)
Bloom County: The Complete Library Vol. 3
Westfield’s Roger Ash talks about some books he’s reading and really enjoying. And some he’s leaving well enough alone.
Westfield’s Roger Ash talks about some books he’s reading and really enjoying. And some he’s leaving well enough alone.
Too Much Cool Stuff – Not Enough $$$ – February ’10
by KC Carlson
This month, the big news from Marvel and DC is, respectively, The Heroic Age and Brightest Day. Most details on The Heroic Age are still CLASSIFIED, other than the fact that it will launch in May with the publication of a new Avengers #1 by Brian Michael Bendis and John Romita Jr. (No word yet on when the numbering will revert to the long-standing Avengers numbering, as most Marvel titles eventually do, but at this point, with several more-or-less interconnecting Avengers titles over the past few years, it might be just too difficult – or controversial – to calculate.)
KC’s Bookshelf: IDW’s Bloom County: The Complete Library: Volume One 1980-1982
by KC Carlson
At first glance, Bloom County seems like an odd choice for archival quality comic strip collections, since it’s only some 30 years old (as opposed to some of the 50, 60, 70, or even older strips currently being archived). And all of its original collections are still in print. But upon closer inspection, there are a lot of gaps (and dropped strips) in those collections, leading to a fairly big cache of “lost” or uncollected strips, demanding a complete reprinting. With the publication of Bloom County: The Complete Library: Volume One 1980-1982 (the first of a projected five volumes), the vaults have been thrown open and those “lost” strips are finally coming back into the light. And what a fascinating story they tell!