Is it May? Cause it feels like May...

Hello,
How awesome is the weather this week? Here in SLC it is beautiful and awesome reading weather as well.

Reviews
Fables #61
This is a continuation of the Good Prince series. In this issue Flycatcher heads up to the Farm and has a talk with Boy Blue. Cheers to Willingham for combining an anti-war message with awesome new insights into characters, like Boy Blue here, that add new layers. I was also impressed with the writing of the interrogation scenes. Granny is quite a clever woman.

Wonder Woman: Love and Murder
Popular writer Jodi Picoult wrote this 6 issue arc last summer. Here I was finally able to pick it up in trade and found it fairly interesting. I confess that I am not really a Wonder Woman fan but Picoult's name got me to pick this up. The first issue was kindof rough, I found it hard to believe that Wonder Woman was unaware of credit cards. I also found some of the meta-jokes somewhat annoying. However by the third issue of the arc the action really picked up. The latter half, especially the last two issues, revealed a great examination of the Wonder Woman mythos. I found this especially true in the confrontation between Wonder Woman and her mother Hypolita. Which would you choose love or duty? Wonder Woman realizes that's not really the choice she needs to make. She can have both.

Civil War: Amazing Spider-Man
I picked up this collection of issues #532-538 because I wanted to read about the unmasking a Spider-Man. With hindsight these issues were clearly meant to lay the foundation for the reboot of the Brand New Day Storyline (which I commented on in my review of #545 in my January 30, 2008 post). I've always dug the emotional personal side of the Peter Parker saga. These issues showcase the tug-of-war that Peter suffers during the Civil War over Superhero Registration. I thought this was very well written and I actually felt sorry for him. Especially in his confrontation scene with Capt. America. This also contained a great discussion of the meaning of inalienable rights in the US today.

Reading List
Books
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England

Comic Books
Fables #62

Magazines
Entertainment Weekly

Check Out Count: 54 (!)

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