Return

I'd forgotten all about this for a while.

That seems to happen to me a great deal. Things get lost. I forget stuff. Just the other day I was cleaning up and came across a box of stuff I'd not opened in 4 or 5 years. Did you know I own Sandman and Death action figures, as well as a model of Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost In The Shell? I sure as hell didn't.

Well, that's not entirely true. I knew but the knowledge had left me for a while. I own a great deal of crap.

Speaking of forgotten things, I bought some comics today. It's been many years (probably about 6) since I last purchased comics on any sort of regular basis. I was too poor to afford them and had a habit of committing myself to far too many titles at once. Recently the old craving has come back & the cleanup, resulting in my discovery of all the issues of Dark Victory, had me thinking it was about time I see what's out there.

The result of all this was a trip to King's Comics on my lunchbreak today. There was a lot of stuff I'd never seen before. Some looked interesting, some looked like complete shite. The only problem with the interesting titles was that they were all about 7 issues in & I couldn't be bothered looking for back issues.
Then I spotted it.
On a bottom shelf.
A series with a great name and a brilliant writer/artist combo. Best of all, they had all 6 issues in a single pack. I have discovered the joy of The Boys by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. How can it get any cooler? The guy who wrote Preacher (as well as some of my favorite Judge Dredd stories) combined with the artist responsible for Transmetropolitan. It's absolutely brilliant. Violent, funny, clever, witty. Oh, and filthy. If any of you were fans of either Preacher (or Hitman, Adventures of the Rifle Brigade, Just a Pilgrim, etc) or Transmetropolitan, you simply must check out this new series. It's currently on hiatus, having been pulled by DC due to issues with the content, but it's due to start up again next month.
I can't wait.