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Picked up at the comic shop yesterday:
- Criminal #7 - part two of Brubaker and Phillips' second arc in this pitch-perfect crime series. Also features an essay by Steven Grant on Robert Altman's film adaptation of Chandler's The Long Goodbye. If you haven't read the first arc, "Coward", the collection is in stores now.
- Knights of the Dinner Table #128 - stories for gamers about gamers. If you've ever played D&D, this is a must-read.
- Jack of Fables #12 - begins a new arc entitled "The Bad Prince". I sense that Pris will be at least half-naked before this one's done.
Also started the Gene Wolfe collection Latro in the Mist, which collects Soldier of the Mist and Soldier of Arete, both from the 80s. I'm a huge fan of Wolfe's New Sun and Knight-Wizard novels, so I was excited to run across these books, which translate the writings of a Roman mercenary in ancient Greece who loses his short-term memory every night and must continuously re-read and update his diary scrolls in order to have any sense of what is happening to and around him. You'd think that this device would get old quickly, but Wolfe pulls it off like no-one else could. Sometimes when you read Wolfe you get confused, because he leaves things out of the narrative, making it hard to understand how the story gets from point A to point B, and he often refers to things that happened in the story's chronology but weren't actually written about, but I've found that you can trust him to eventually give you enough pieces of the puzzle to eventually discover how everything fits together. That's part of the fun of reading him. He's the Mamet of the sci-fi/fantasy world.
