2 posts tagged “comic”

I just finished reading Transmetropolitan. It was incredibly awesome, and as I've been discussing it with random people over the past few days I've been getting several recommendations, and I think I've got some more reading lined up. I'm pretty excited about it.

It's not often anymore that I read/watch something that is bad ass not only because it's violent and dark, but also because it's intelligent and insightful. This whole series fit the bill perfectly. It paints a huge, beautifully disgusting, terribly witty, and strangely enthralling picture. It managed to be bitterly cynical and desperately hopeful at the same time. You know, the kind of thing that makes you feel disgusted, and inspired at the same time.

I also love stories about journalism, I especially like the idea of someone working the same media machine that's being used daily to brainwash us into apathy to enact awareness and change.

Anyway, if you ever get the chance to read all 60 issues, go for it. If you're not sure how to go about doing that, just ask... I can point you in the right direction. I have no regrets about all the time I spent scrolling and clicking. I'd love to eventually own legit copies of the whole thing. In fact, It's one of my next short term goals.

I've decided that tonight I'm going to A) catch up on Blood+. And then B) I'm going to commit to reading through all of It Never Rains again, there's a few pages at the end I've missed and I really want to just go through the whole thing again.

I didn't have much in the way of "growing up" as a rebellious youth, something in my idealism kept me from being your typical rebel and as a result I didn't do a whole lot of reckless things. Sometimes I regret not having that in my past. However, I remember very clearly being in high school and reading Reggie Reno's It Never Rains and feeling like the part of me that wanted those things was being satisfied.

it's probably the only time I can genuinely say that I lived my life vicariously through a comic. And the work reggie did there was so genuine and raw that to this day I still feel a pang in my heart when I see or hear anything realating to those charactors.

anyway, I guess as a form of escapisim, and self endulgance I'll exersize my right to dissapear into the world that so clearly represents all of what I missed out on doing the past 4 years of my life.

alot of times it's easy to look down on that stuff and assume that it's all a waste of time, and pointless and that people would be better off if they just skipped it and grew up.

but I'm standing on the verge of making the important desicions in my life, the pivitol ones that decide when this whole growing up thing, becoming an adult thing, getting a good job, making a family, starting life thing, i'm deciding when that happens, and where it heads. and part of me knows that once you decide, there's not a whole lot for turning back, and I'm afraid that maybe I missed something important by skipping over all that childish and foolish seeking.

I'll probably never know the answer to that.