Nuadha Prime - June 10th, 2008
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12:39 am
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City of Ember
One of my favorite YA books I have ever read, City of Ember, is being made into a movie!
Tags: books, movies
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04:16 am
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Five Good Things
1. Lawn is mowed- Managed to get up and mow the lawn yesterday before the next storm came in. You know you are getting old when this is one of your "good things."
2. Firefly in Spanish- To practice my Spanish, I sometimes like to play DVDs I own in Spanish. I just discovered that Firefly has a Spanish language track.
3. Flavia cuddles- Some things need no explaining.
4. Central Air- I turned the central air on this weekend and am thankful for it. It has been really oppressive outside, but nice and comfortable inside.
5. Chocolate
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11:40 pm
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Top Five or Ten Meme again
Comment, and I will assign you a top 5 or top 10 list to provide. Top 10 favorite cheeses, top 5 reasons why Colossus is the greats of the X-Men, whatever. In turn, others may comment and receive lists from you.
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) curgoth asked me for my top five DC stories of the last 5 years. In particular, he said he was looking for graphic novels to read, so I am limiting this to stories that have been collected in graphic novel form.
In no particular order:
Fables- Although this started over five years ago, I list this because the recent collections have continued with the high level of quality and this continues to be one of the best Vertigo titles to read. Fables is the story of exiled fables and legends living in the real world. The main characters include Snow White, The Big Bad Wolf, Little Boy Blue, Pinnochio, Rose Red, Beauty and the Beast, Jack the Giant-killer and more. This book is written by Bill Willingham.
Superman: Red Son- This one just barely squeezes in to the "last five years" marker. This is Mark Millar's tale of a world where Superman's rocket landed in Communist Russia and he became "The People's Hero," championing Communism. This book is extremely well written and has some fantastic art.
Seven Soldiers- Grant Morrison and several artists recreated seven DC characters including Mister Miracle, Frankenstein, The Guardian and Klarion, the Witch-boy. (OK, he didn't change anything on Zatanna, so I guess he only recreated six of the characters.) Each character had his or her own miniseries and plot all tied in to one overarcing plot. It was filled with typical Morrison weirdness, the way I like it. They are all available in graphic novel, so start with volume one
It's a Bird...- This autobiographical Vertigo title by Steven Seagle tells about an author's struggle over the question of how to write the Man of Steel and how it ties to events in his own life, including his family's "dark secret." While it is not quite up there with Maus, I would still use this as an example to anyone who wants to see how well comics can tell non-superhero stories....and of course it also gets to tie in with the greatest superhero of them all.
Greg Rucka's Wonder Woman run- Greg Rucka only wrote Wonder Woman for a couple years, but during those couple years, it was almost always my favorite comic each month. I believe the first collection of his run is 'Down to Earth.' In his Wonder Woman run, he did a fantastic job of blending the Greek Gods and mythic aspects of the character with modern day storylines. I would highly recommend anything written by Rucka for DC in the last five years, including his run of Superman, The Omac Project, and Checkmate. However, his best comic and (I believe) one of the best comics to come out during this millenium has been Wonder Woman.
Honorable mentions:
52- It would have been on the list, except the ending was kind of disappointing for me.
Greg Rucka's Superman run
Gail Simone and John Byrne's Action Comics run
Superman: Up, Up and Away- I may not have liked the later issues of Busiek's Superman run as much, but the first story arc was great.
Villains United
Green Lantern Corps: Rebirth and Green Lantern Corps
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