Books I Would Like to Buy:
Achewood Vol. 3: A Home For Scared People HC
by Chris O
nstad; Dark Horse, $16.99
I was pretty late in coming to Chris Onstad’s brilliant Achewood webcomic. The thought of going back through all the different strips archived on his site is too daunting for me, especially since I hate reading long stretches of comics on the computer. I’m grateful to Dark Horse for collecting the series into these handsome hardcovers. I’ve read the first one, The Great Outdoor Fight, which collected a long-running story, and own the second one, although I haven’t gotten around to reading it yet.
Achewood is a talking animal strip, which is not usually my thing, but I find it surprisingly funny. The characters are quite memorable, and I appreciate the hip-hop sensibilities that Onstad brings to his work. It’s a fully-realized world he sets his stories in, and I’ve been enjoying learning about it.
And, with the pace at which he seems to be updating the site lately, it shouldn’t take too long for the Dark Horse books to get caught up to him.
Pinocchio Vampire Slayer Vo
l. 2
by Van Jensen and Dustin Higgins; Slave Labor, $14.95
The first volume of this series of graphic novels (I’m not sure how many the creators are planning on doing) was a good read. The notion behind it is that Pinocchio, the wooden boy with the growing nose, becomes a slayer, hunting down vampires. There’s a good revenge story backing the whole thing, and he works with the Blue Fairy to deal with the vamps.
Apparently this second volume is going to give Pinocchio more allies, which should be entertaining. This is by no means a groundbreaking or revolutionary comic, but it is decent fun, in a Fables sort of way.
So, what would you buy Were Money No Object?
