Cover of J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic BiographyBetter late than never, here's my twitter diary of comics I read in 2010.This list doesn't contain many of the single issue comics I read, just the compendiums and TPBs.
1/4/2010 Start the new year right with 'The Golden Age of DC Comics: 365 Days' by Les Daniels & Chip Kidd
1/17/2010 "Reading ""Crisis on Infinite Earths"" compendium. ridiculously complete history of the creation"
1/30/2010 "Iron Man vs Dr Doom... explosions, intrigue, Camelot and time travel. Should be great, but I'm just not that into it."
1/30/2010 Read Hunter X Hunter #3 last night. Related to Battle Royale?
1/31/2010 Reading 2 vol. set of Humbug magazine. I <3 the annotations @ end. Exclnt companion to this. 2/4/2010 "Reading ""The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels"" Nice basic list of 60 graphic novels + discussion of graphic novels
2/4/2010 "Read 'The Flash: Emergency Stop' last night. Fun story with ""The Suit."" Also the ""Speed Force"" uniform."
2/10/2010 "The ""Incal Noir"" by Moebius & Jodorowsky is one of the best sci-fi graphic novels IMHO"
2/16/2010 "Reading 'Uncle Sam & the Freedom Fighters: Brave New World'. Good story, despite mutations. A luscious Phantom Woman."
2/18/2010 "Just discovered Naoki Urasawa's ""20th Century Boys"" #manga series. I'm hooked"
2/18/2010 20th century boys...for some reason I want to relate this to Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner. Why?
2/18/2010 About to read Batman: R.I.P. by Grant Morrison
2/18/2010 "I'm 1/2way thru ""Big Man Japan"". Mockumentary re: bygone days of monster fighters. sad,funny, odd #manga #japan"
2/20/2010 "The 2nd reading of Batman RIP makes more sense, but the story still has some odd gaps"
2/20/2010 "You caught me looking at "The Devil's Panties Volume 2"
2/20/2010 Kim Deitch is always a master. The art & story on 'Alias the Cat' enthrall me. Waldo is a devil!
2/21/2010 "Finished "Big Man Japan" The ending confused the kids--they haven't seen enough old monster movies vis a vis Ultraman"
2/24/2010 Nosing around TFAW in Milwaukie. Picked up the last copy they had of Stumptown #2. 2/25/2010 Reading comics w/the covers over my head: Countdown to Final Crisis. Mary Marvel just got powers back frm Black Adam
3/5/2010 Blog post: Reviews of what I read in February
3/6/2010 "On Vol 4 of Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys -- getting intense, building obstacles"
3/7/2010 Reading "J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography" by Rick Geary. 100 pg bio of the FBI "director for life."
3/7/2010 Fact: In 1960 the FBI had only 5 black employees, all servants to the director.
3/7/2010 Fact: in 1920 Hoover oversaw the detention of 6,328 immigrants as subversives. Only 1000 found ""guilty"" & none deported
3/7/2010 Geary's artwork on "Hoover" manages to be both utilitarian & occasionally impressionistic!
3/7/2010 what would Kirk do? 'Goats The Corndog Imperative' by Jonathan Rosenberg
3/11/2010 Reading "Diana prince:wonder woman" in Comics Journal #299."
3/16/2010 picked up Green Lantern #47 at #eccc10. Convoluted story by John Broome, art by Gil Kane . Loved it.
3/16/2010 I'd never read any of the "Pol Manning" GL stories
3/19/2010 BridgeCityComx Hey-o! Scott Pilgrim fans, listen up... the wait is over Vol. 6 is coming on July 20!
3/20/2010 Got this by Rucka & Lieber at #eccc10. Lieber said he was paid to stay away during film production
3/20/2010 Reading Stumptown #2 by Greg Rucka & Matt Southworth. Lots of #pdx scenery in the detective story
3/20/2010 "Reading Siege #1. Allusions to Iraq intel, Oklahoma city bombing, religious right"
3/20/2010 "Earlier I re-read Ellie Connelly ""preview"" --like a Victorian mystic tintin in america" http://www.ellieconnelly.com
3/24/2010 Reading the "New Avengers, Vol. 1
" by Brian Michael Bendis"3/27/2010 Reading 'A Wrinkle in Time
' to my 4th grader3/27/2010 Finally reading 'The Bizarre Comics of Boody Rogers
.' Seen 'em as a kid. Yes, they're still bizarre."3/27/2010 Just read 'Avengers Disassembled
.' 3/27/2010 Next up: 'Whiteout Vol. 1
' by Rucka & Lieber. I just read why she killed her husband...sort of.3/29/2010 The bizarre book of Boody Rogers
3/31/2010 Still reading Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys
. Finished 5,6,7. Getting 8 & 9 next. How many volumes are there?"3/31/2010 While I'm reading Naoki Urasawa's, I figured I'd also try his "Monster
" Anyone hooked on that?"4/1/2010 with Identity Crisis
, Brad [Meltzer] was working out some serious personal issues heh." 4/4/2010 Nice turn of the story by Gaiman on "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?
" Did not disappoint a tried & true fan4/4/2010 Also liked addt'l material esp. "Pavane" & "Black & White World
". All stories tended to be a bit talky."4/12/2010 Avengers on the brain! "Secret Invasion
" last night, Avengers, Vol. 2 
tonight"4/21/2010 Looking forward to the release of 'Wally Gropius
' by Tim Hensley. Reminds me of European "BD"s like tintin"4/23/2010 Get the 1st chapter of Sarah Oleksyk's story "Ivy" free. Sarah will be at stumptown comics fest #pdxcomics"
5/18/2010 Read Yoshihiro Tatsumi's 'Black Blizzard
'. Cinematic, I can see why he called it #gekiga, not #manga"5/18/2010 Here's an excerpt from 'Black Blizzard
'. 5/18/2010 gekiga -> manga is akin to Will Eisner calling his work 'graphic novels' as opposed to "comic books""
5/20/2010 Surprised by "The Farewell Appearance of Daphne Dean in 'The Flash Archives Vol 4
'. Thot I'd read all the early Flash" 5/2/2010 Reading Veitch's 'The Maximortal
,' a twisted vision of a "real" superman incl. Einstein, Oppenheimer & a faux Disney5/12/2010 Finished Deitch's 'Shadowland
'. Holy crud! "DaVinci Code"? More like a "Dali Code"! Amazine story & art!5/12/2010 Reading 'Shadowland
'. One review on Amazon says "This is Deitch's DaVinci code."" 5/14/2010 So, I started to read the #manga Old Boy
. Vol 1 was intriguing. Maybe the female lead gets more believable 5/23/2010 Reading Chris Ware's 'Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
' 6/1/2010 Looks good! RT: @comicinfo: As FEAR AGENT Ends, Writer Rick Remender Reveals Secrets"
6/1/2010 Read 'Ghost World: Special Edition
' last night. Good, but essentially GW + screenplay with some extras. 6/1/2010 re-reading the comic makes me want to watch the movie again...'Ghost World
' 6/1/2010 Also read 'Mercury
' by Hope Larson. Good story. The art style grew on me as I read it. 6/1/2010 Just read 'Brat Pack
' by Rick Veitch -- definite talent for the gross & twisted. A mature tale of sidekicks gone bad 6/5/2010 Got 'Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka
' @ the library. Did not realize it was vol. 6. Great stuff want to start from beginning6/5/2010 I read 1/2 of 'Persepolis
' today. Surprisingly full of insight & humor. The art is honest & clean 6/6/2010 Saw they've got "20th Century Boys
" dvd out. I'll have to rent it at Movie Madness #manga6/8/2010 Reading 'Tales of the Fear Agent
'-- great! 2-4 page sci-fi/noir tales reminiscent of 50's EC comics, with a bite." 6/13/2010 Reading 'Nightwing & Flamebird Vol. 1
' by Greg Rucka, looking forward to vol 2." http://amzn.to/dy1WtJ 6/16/2010 Cool! Another Portland comic. I've been reading Stumptown
#pdxcomics6/17/2010 Yes! reading 'Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys, Vol. 8
' tonight for bedtime." 6/17/2010 Also, if I stay awake long enough: 'Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 1
'. Start from the beginning this time"6/18/2010 'Carl Barks: Conversations
' is a fun, occasionally repetitive set of interviews w/Barks. Great to hear his perspective" 6/18/2010 'Carl Barks: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity
' is a bit heavier, but still good bio. I preferred 'Conversations'6/21/2010 Dan Clowes says 'Wally Gropius
' is his "favorite book of the year by a wide margin..." I'm gonna buy it 6/21/2010 If you love Archie comics, prepare to be shocked by 'The Pin-Up Art of Dan DeCarlo
'. Scandalous! (tee hee) 6/23/2010 on the nightstand: 'Hopeless Savages Volume 2
' by @Hopelessjen and Bryan Lee O'Malley. 6/25/2010 Read 'Pluto:Urasawa x Tezuka Vol 3
'. 8 vol. series is a retelling of "Greatest Robot on Earth" 6/25/2010 Interesting the way Urasawa re-imagines the story- art more "realistic" vs Tezuka's almost iconic style."
6/27/2010 Reading 'Haunted' by Philippe Dupuy
. compelling scribbles, dredging up funny, dreamlike stories. running themes6/27/2010 Haunted's running = pun (ow!) recurring plot of running, & themes that reappear. pits, art, dogs, guts, gaps, & forest friends
6/30/2010 Started 'Invincible Iron Man Omnibus Vol. 1
' by Matt Fraction last night. Good bio-terror/Iron man/Stane plot 7/7/2010 Boing boing mentioned 'Basil Wolverton's Culture Corner
' today. Great stuff! 7/20/2010 'Werewolves of Montpellier
' looks good. I'll have to check it out. 7/30/2010 Sir, I am a poet. (Drew Weing's "Set to Sea")"
8/1/2010 Jean Craighead George = great kid eco-writer. 'Who Really Killed Cock Robin?
' = one of my favorite 5th grade books 8/9/2010 Summer reading? Try 'Consider Phlebas
' by Iain Banks. Episodic like Star Trek, yet 'way more graphic. 8/9/2010 'The Atrocity Archives
' by Charles Stross is what happens when the "IT crowd" meets Cthulu.8/9/2010 'The Jennifer Morgue
' was more cohesive than "Atrocity Archives". If Ian Fleming played D&D..."8/13/2010 Reading 'Naoki Urasawa's Monster
#1'. Bit melodramatic, but not what I expected. Surgeon tracks a psycho killer8/13/2010 'Temperance
' sounds like a graphic novel spawn in the vein of philip dick. 8/14/2010 read 'Werewolves of Montpellier
' last night. Clean art, laconic style, sparse dialog, nice story. 8/14/2010 1 reservation re:'Werewolves': the stylistic characters (crows, dogs, bunnies) all looked too similar
8/14/2010 Now I want to read more by Jason: 'I Killed Adolf Hitler
': assassin goes back in time, Hitler steals time machine.8/14/2010 More Jason 'The Left Bank Gang
': Cartoonists Hemingway, Pound, Fitzgerald & Joyce struggle in Paris8/25/2010 Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me
. I still want this8/26/2010 Read 'The Left Bank Gang' last night. Hemingway, Fitzgerald & Pound as starving cartoonists in 20's Paris, w/a twist
8/26/2010 Also started 'X-Men: Kitty Pryde and Wolverine
'. Can't believe I've never read this story 9/2/2010 Note to self: Read 'The Best American Comics Criticism
' 2010.9/3/2010 Action is character. F Scott Fitz. shoulda been writing comics. An alternative: Jason's "Left Bank Gang
"9/8/2010 @GNReporter talks w/Cathy Malkasian re: Temperance
. If you like allegory (eg Narnia Chronicles
) you might like this 9/9/2010 Reading 'Petey & Pussy
'. Crazy foul-mouthed cat & dog w/bald men heads have adventures. Weird!9/10/2010 I've been reading quite a bit of Jason lately. Would you say he's of the Franco-Belgian school?
9/11/2010 My reviews of "I Killed Hitler", "Left Bank Gang" and "Werewolves of Montpellier".
9/13/2010 Peter Bagge's Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me
= funny+thoughtful. I eschew Libertarian politics but he has some great points9/25/2010 Amazon says 'X'ed Out
' by Charles Burns will be out in October. Anyone read an early review copy? Looks good 9/26/2010 'The Last Musketeer
' is a cartoon movie serial, mixing 3 musketeers, robots & alien invasions, yet still chivalrous9/26/2010 I found 'You Can't Get There From Here
' the least engaging. Frankenstein & monster have girl troubles.9/26/2010 'Tell Me Something
', similar to "Living & Dead", minus the zombies, plus thieves. Somehow more engaging."9/26/2010 'Meow, Baby!
' Jason strip & short gag stories w/mummies, skeletons, zombies & angels. In vein of laconic Gary Larson"9/26/2010 'Almost Silent
' by Jason collects "Meow, Baby" "Tell Me Something" "You Can't Get there..." & "The Living & The Dead"9/26/2010 'Pocket Full of Rain
' is Jason's "origin story." Collected from "Mjau Mjau" magazine, interesting in its unevenness." 9/26/2010 If you like silent films, romance flicks, or zombie movies, check out 'The Living and the Dead'. A sweet tale."
9/26/2010 Bits of weekend were filled with Jason's blank-eyed dog/crow people. After 3 books (see link) wanted to fill the set...
9/26/2010 'Hey, Wait...
' is Jason's "A Separate Peace
" carried through to the end.10/1/2010 Been reading Rucka's 'Queen & Country Vol. 1
'. Tight spy action in vein of Le Carre, but with strong female character. 10/1/2010 Now 'Queen & Country Vol 2
' I'm liking Carla Speed McNeil's rendition of characters. None of the art pulls any punches 10/2/2010 Some comics I'm a total sucker for. eg: 'Tom Strong
' is Doc Savage re-imagined w/a polyethnic/species cast 10/2/2010 Also Peter Bagge's 'Apocalypse Nerd
'. Gotta love it 'cause he takes pot-shots at everyone, an epic Hate-fest10/8/2010 Underground, by Jeff Parker & Steve Lieber, mentioned on BoingBoing today
10/13/2010 Anyone disillusioned w/voting this fall _must_ read 'Citizen Vince
'. Gangsters v Pols in this Reagan era novel 10/23/2010 Reading 'Ocean' by Warren Ellis. Cool hard-tech solar system space thriller.
10/29/2010 Steve Lieber & Jeff Parker's "Underground" in glorious black & white."
11/16/2010 Getting 'The Freak Brothers Omnibus' for my birthday. Of all the drug-culture #comix, these guys are the funniest
11/16/2010 Also got 'Best American Comics Criticism
'. Interesting love/HATE piece on Spider-man by Peter Bagge, & other essays 11/17/2010 The Freak Brothers showed up on my doorstep today
11/25/2010 Lying in bed reading the 'The Freak Brothers Omnibus
' 12/4/2010 Reading Greg Rucka's "Queen & Country vol 3
." Then going to get an x-mas tree 12/4/2010 Later... I'll pick up Naoki Urasawa's "20th Century Boys, Vol. 11
". The twists & turns of the story are compelling12/14/2010 Reading '3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man.' a 3-sided tale of a poor giant hired by the CIA in the 60's.
12/14/2010 Naoki Urasawa's '20th Century Boys
' is still compelling @ vol 11. How many more? Some twists in this one!12/15/2010 Some musings on "3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man" #graphicnovels #comics"
12/20/2010 Reading 'CHEW Vol. 1
.' Mix of humor, sci-fi, "men in black" & cannibalism (mostly humor). Hard for some to stomach?12/20/2010 Also on my "to read" pile: Chester Brown's "Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography" Looks great!"
12/29/2010 Jason's "dead mickey"
