Monarch of the Glen / Zits
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jazzfishNeil Gaiman, "The Monarch of the Glen"
I'd thought it would take me awhile to get into this story (it took two reads for me to really get into American Gods, after all) but right on page two Gaiman is making fun of either Texans or Scots. So, hey. It's an American Gods story, and (despite American Gods feeling like the end of the tale) it works pretty well. If I'd paid more attention over the summer I might even have picked up on some elements as fast as I should have, instead of waiting for them to be spelled out for me. Oh well.
Shadow's a much better character than I originally thought he was. I've said that before, but it bears reiteration.
Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman, Humongous Zits / Big Honkin' Zits / Zits: Supersized
Three treasuries, comprising the first six Zits collections. It's amusing, it's occasionally brilliant, it's got bits I relate to all to well and bits I don't. I prefer Foxtrot but Zits is still decent stuff. Beats the sappiness of For Better or Worse hands down. (And we've got several other Zits collections at work, giving me plenty to do during kiosk shifts.)
Hey, it's a comic strip. You want detailed character analysis? Go read someone's master's thesis on the subject. (Or maybe just Pearls Before Swine from the week of Christmas '03 if it's still in their web archives.)
I'd thought it would take me awhile to get into this story (it took two reads for me to really get into American Gods, after all) but right on page two Gaiman is making fun of either Texans or Scots. So, hey. It's an American Gods story, and (despite American Gods feeling like the end of the tale) it works pretty well. If I'd paid more attention over the summer I might even have picked up on some elements as fast as I should have, instead of waiting for them to be spelled out for me. Oh well.
Shadow's a much better character than I originally thought he was. I've said that before, but it bears reiteration.
Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman, Humongous Zits / Big Honkin' Zits / Zits: Supersized
Three treasuries, comprising the first six Zits collections. It's amusing, it's occasionally brilliant, it's got bits I relate to all to well and bits I don't. I prefer Foxtrot but Zits is still decent stuff. Beats the sappiness of For Better or Worse hands down. (And we've got several other Zits collections at work, giving me plenty to do during kiosk shifts.)
Hey, it's a comic strip. You want detailed character analysis? Go read someone's master's thesis on the subject. (Or maybe just Pearls Before Swine from the week of Christmas '03 if it's still in their web archives.)