Read a couple graphic novels this week.
Scott Pilgrim vol. 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets it Together by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Hilarious. The third volume kind of meandered a bit, but this volume, like its title suggests, gets it together and has a much more focused narrative. Really, just read Scott Pilgrim. You owe it to yourself.
Zombies Calling by Faith Erin Hicks
Fun story. I initially gave everyone English accents in my head before I realized they were all in Canada and the protagonist, Joss, is just an England fangirl. She's also an old-school zombie movie fangirl, which is what this whole book's about. Basically, zombies start appearing and Joss decides to put all the knowledge she's attained from watching countless zombie movies to use. She plays by "the rules"--funny commonalities in all zombie movies, like the fact that the protagonist of any zombie movie, whether they've had any training whatsoever or not, suddenly becomes a super-badass who can take down zombies left and right, narrowly escaping cannibalization at every turn. She's joined by her two roommates and, basically, most of the book is a comedic send-up of a lot of zombie movie clichés (one of my favorites being Joss' disdain for "fast zombies," which she describes as nonsensical pandering to the low attention spans of today's moviegoers). In the end, things get a bit too real for Joss' liking as the zombies go from relatively harmless to downright scary and Joss learns a few life lessons along the way. All in all, it was really quite good when you realize that this was Hicks' first printed comic.
