For once I've actually read things: Wednesday edition

[starlady]

what I'm reading
I thnk technically I'm reading the Bloodchildren anthology. I've only read the introduction, though, so I have no impression of it yet.

what I've just read
I devoured The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson on Monday and LOVED it. It's SO GOOD, AUGH. I also read Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon on Sunday and finished up Carthage Ascendant last night. Hawkeye was great, though the art by the dude who isn't David Aja isn't anywhere near as good, and the fully-drawn superhero style of Young Avengers #6 weirds me out: it's too hyper real. Yes, I am first and foremost a manga and alternative comics reader. 

what I'll read next
I have two John M. Ford Star Trek novels, How Much for Just the Planet? and The Final Reflection, to take with me on my three-week cross-country odyssey, as well as the next Book of Ash and a bunch of ebooks. HMfJtP? went way over my head when I read it in middle school (I was never a musical theater nerd), so hopefully this time around I'll get the jokes.

Comments

[fairestcat]

I read Young Avengers Presents #6 quite some time ago and like the art, but re-reading it again at the back of the Hawkeye trade it came across as very jarring. Hawkeye has such a strong distinctive style that I had to retrain my eyes how to look at more traditional kirby-school style art.

[trouble]

I have a real fondness for How Much for Just the Planet but it's a lot of in-jokes.

I remember really liking Final Reflection.

[wild_irises]

Oooh, thanks! I bought the Bloodchildren anthology and forgot I had it, since I don't read much electronically.

You're in for a treat with those John M. Ford Star Treks, very different from each other.

[snickfic]

I didn't care much for HMfJtP; it felt too silly for me. Like the other person said, in-jokes (like Ilen the Magian). I quite liked The Final Reflection, though.

[oracne]

Hawkeye is in my TBR! Sad it's not all Aja art.