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Miko Sez: Go Buy Top Ten vol 2!
Jul. 21st, 2003 02:43 amSo I went to my comic book shop today. It was hot. I hate driving my car in this heat, but like the idiot I am I've let another weekend slip by without arranging to have my air conditioner recharged.
So I go in, and there's all these kids running around, getting in the way. It's not like Gabriel's shop has wide aisles you know. They're all into this war game of some sort that you play with small plastic hero figures based on DC and Marvel characters. "I only play with DC characters," one kid says. "Why would anyone want to play with Marvel characters?"
Probably it's a game I could have gotten into when I was a kid. I guess I'm a grumpy old man now. ^_^
Gabriel hands me a single comic and says it's a light week. There's one of those massive comic book collector people at the counter -- guy who is at least six foot six, maybe six eight, and probably four hundred pounds. I wander about the shop, dodging kids, hoping to find something else to pick up. I consider the dvd for Alien Nine, but I just don't know if I'd like the series or not. I've looked through the comic and haven't decided to buy it yet either.
I look on the comic shelves for a new Top Ten graphic novel, just like I do every week. I've heard that Alan Moore is going to stop writing all of his America's Comics titles except for League of Extraorinary Gentlemen, which he's going to do a third story arc for. This makes me sad because Top Ten is such a cool comic, too cool for words. I know they did more comics beyond the first graphic novel, but I've been slowly coming to the conclusion that they will never collect the rest of them into a second graphic novel. Maybe there wasn't enough to make a second collection. I don't really know, I never bought the comic, just the first novel.
And then, just as I'm about to give up and pay for my single comic, I look up on one of the walls. There on display is the Top Ten graphic novel -- volume one, and... another one?
Cool! It's volume 2, at last!
( It's the coolest comic I've picked up in months. Really. )
So I go in, and there's all these kids running around, getting in the way. It's not like Gabriel's shop has wide aisles you know. They're all into this war game of some sort that you play with small plastic hero figures based on DC and Marvel characters. "I only play with DC characters," one kid says. "Why would anyone want to play with Marvel characters?"
Probably it's a game I could have gotten into when I was a kid. I guess I'm a grumpy old man now. ^_^
Gabriel hands me a single comic and says it's a light week. There's one of those massive comic book collector people at the counter -- guy who is at least six foot six, maybe six eight, and probably four hundred pounds. I wander about the shop, dodging kids, hoping to find something else to pick up. I consider the dvd for Alien Nine, but I just don't know if I'd like the series or not. I've looked through the comic and haven't decided to buy it yet either.
I look on the comic shelves for a new Top Ten graphic novel, just like I do every week. I've heard that Alan Moore is going to stop writing all of his America's Comics titles except for League of Extraorinary Gentlemen, which he's going to do a third story arc for. This makes me sad because Top Ten is such a cool comic, too cool for words. I know they did more comics beyond the first graphic novel, but I've been slowly coming to the conclusion that they will never collect the rest of them into a second graphic novel. Maybe there wasn't enough to make a second collection. I don't really know, I never bought the comic, just the first novel.
And then, just as I'm about to give up and pay for my single comic, I look up on one of the walls. There on display is the Top Ten graphic novel -- volume one, and... another one?
Cool! It's volume 2, at last!
( It's the coolest comic I've picked up in months. Really. )
