Some Great Trade Paper Backs You Never Heard Of

One, The American Way by John Ridleyand Georges Jeanty. This is a great book i picked up about 3 years ago now; it was an unexpected find at a library that just blew me away. Its about a super hero cold war that is being engaged in by the United States and Russia in 1962, where the united states has the only super heroes and basically stages all these elaborate battles for them to win. It is only after there American icon Old Glory, a flag wielding super patriot, dies of a heart attack in Battle, and is replaced with, the New American, an African American who's races is strategically hidden, and then inadvertently revealed, that stuff gets crazy. Awesome story about Civil Rights, corrupt government, and its got crazy racist southern superheroes.



Two, Global Frequency by Warren Ellis. Cool Si-Fi book dealing with a huge world wide network or spies, kinda. The network, called the Global frequency, consists of people with really specialized skills. this network is lead by a woman named Miranda Zero and a genius hacker chick code named Aleph. Each issues is a one-and-done thing witch is cool, and each story deals with some crazy super science world destroying stuff. really cool book. you want to check it out.

Quick post "Why I Like Slightly More Indie Books"

I will start by saying this, i just recently had an epiphany, i kind of don't really look forward to getting my super hero books every week, and i think that is because i know they will have to deal with continuity of their entire universe in some way. They will either ignore it some how or work around it. examples which brought me to this conclusion: X-factor and Justice League: Generation Lost. i have read 1-5 of the trades on X-Factor and the first 6 issues of Generation. In the last couple of days i realize that they both really upset me with how they deal with continuity and how i think they will deal with it in the future. JLGL will coast comfortably outside of continuity because the whole point of the story is they are fighting a dude no one knows exists; and i just got to the point in XF that they just upp'in dumped Layla in the future and they will probably never get her back because she is a character born of House of M. basically ex machina, invincible, walking dead, Y the last man, and other junk i read doesn't have to deal with all the "how we gonna deal with continuity in our 'tiny book in a big universe' problem this week" I feel that not having to deal with a giant load of history makes indiy and/or limited series better books month to month.


edit: just did some research. guess layla comes back later for a lil. still mad

edit(part deuce): Now I have read up to vol. 8 of XF; i thought i was going to drop it, but my comic shop had the trades for half off. So, i have read it i thought it was pretty cool, but i think i am done now (for real), i feel the only reason i kept reading the book was because of the mystery around layla, now that that stuff has been explained i think im jumping off. still dont like books that skirt around issues of continuity ungracefully.