Starmania
I have embarked upon my Journey Into Morrison, and I keep meaning to write up my first chunk (basically, Animal Man) while I wait for my Doom Patrol trades to arrive.
Instead, I just got detoured by The Starman Omnibus Vol. 1, which is as great as I remembered it being when I read the series originally in trades & floppies.
It really is a landmark accomplishment: Superhero comics written with both respect and irreverence, blending the “real” and the fantastic effortlessly, creating relatable characters who live alongside outrageous beings without a single hesitation or bit of irony. Absolutely sincere, gorgeous artwork from Tony Harris; I’m finding I enjoy his early style (less photo-real, more shadowy and abstract) more than his current style on Ex Machina, though he also does great work on that title.
Anyway, that’s where I’m at: Knee-deep in Starman, and loving it.
Also in my active reading pile:
Untold Tales of Spider-Man (old floppies; great Busiek done-in-ones) Red Tornado (4-issue mini from early eighties; some of Busiek’s first published work, drawn by Carmine Infantino) Channel Zero (Brian Wood goodness) Aqua Leung (just started it; so far, trippy) Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA (NOT comics)
You should read Invisibles while on some sort of drug. Just cold medicine (admittedly, while rockin a Flu) while trying to read this convinced me that John Lennon really WAS God. No, REALLY! I called someone and informed him of this and then fell asleep. That was only like 3 or 4 pages in but it still makes me want to do real drugs…