Previous Post I'll start. Reading ( Prose ): The Sherman Alexie book " Indian Killer ", a multi-perspective murder mystery about a Spokane-Indian themed serial killer who scalps their victims. Given Alexie's literary background, the focus is more on the wave of anti-Native American bigotry sparked by the murders, rather than the mystery itself. Reading ( Comics ): Invincible Iron Man by Matt Fraction and Salvador Larroca is my favorite superhero comic on the stands at the moment, for so directly and brutally addressing Tony Stark's self-hating ablism by forcing him to sequentially lobotomize himself ( I won't spoil how the World's Most Wanted story wrapped up here, but....damn ). For graphic novels, I finally got my own copy of We3 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, a brilliant animal rights story with surprisingly non-anthropomorphized protagonists. Watching ( TV ): Teppen Toppa Gurren Lagann, the anime by Studio Gainax that could be considered a Crowning Series of Awesome. Galaxy-sized drills powered by sheer determination? Sold! Watching ( Movie ): Planet 51, an awful animated movie I saw on behalf of a young boy I've done some behavioral work with. I'm glad he enjoyed it, because I only got five minutes into the " the alien world is like 50's America and the human is the alien " gimmick before I was terminally bored by the predictable puerility. Playing: Super Smash Bros. Brawl for Wii, the greatest feat of Nintendo nostalgia porn to date, with a pretty good fighting game attached as well. Any others?

... And it's mostly been Comic Books!

From DC:

- The Batman Books (Batgirl, Batman, Batman: Streets of Gotham, Detective Comics & Gotham City Sirens): I'm giving BG & B:SoG a few more issues to see if they'll be better (not really sure I like the stories going on in the books). I thought was BG was going to be a lot better given that it followed up the awesomeness that was the mini-series "Oracle: The Cure". Both Batman & GCS has been good, I like how they have been written. Detective Comics has been been but I'd continue to pick up the book if even if the story was not so good because of JH Williams III's art.

- The Superman Books(Action Comics, Adventure Comics, Power Girl, Supergirl, Superman, Superman: Secret Origin & Superman: World of New Krypton): I started to pick up Action Comics to read the awesome Legion story by Geoff Johns but then it went into the cool Brainiac arc & followed into the whole New Krypton thing which then I started to pick up the entire line to get the whole story. It's been pretty good for the most part. I'm really surprised that I actually like the Supergirl book. I'm wondering what will happen to New Krypton after this whole storyline/Story Arc is over. Adventure Comics is awesome & has one of the "second Feature" stories that I actually like. Plus, Issue #4 was been pure Awesome! Superman: Secret Origin isn't anything really all that different then what has been said before but it's the little changes/ additions by Johns & the art by Gary Frank that makes be pick it up. Power Girl is the one book that doesn't really tie into the whole "New Krypton" thing or anything else but it's one of the more fun books out there.

- I'm reading Blackest Night, it's tie-in miniseries (could have done without the BN Superman miniseries, it missed on a few point for me. The BN Batman series was cool & I really look forward to seeing where the events from BN Titans series play out) & a number of the other tie-in issues (Like Doom Patrol). As for the series at large: I've been enjoying it & wondering how it will all turn out.

- Booster Gold: what can i say about this book? A lot probably but it's one of the constantly better solo hero books I read.

- Flash: Rebirth: a good book that has lost some of it momentum (pun?) do it it's lack of coming out on time (there a few months in between each issue) but when it comes out it's good!

- Justice Society of America: I'm not so sure about this book anymore, since the new writer & artist has come aboard not liking this book so much. The recent 80 page giant was really well done. The art for the Damage/Dr. Mid-Nite story was really inventively done.

- The Unwritten: hmmm.... what can I say about this book? I'm not exactly sure. It is one of the more literary books I read out there. A definite read & book I'd recommend to anyone & have to 2 people.

Graphic Novels!:

- I picked up the first trade of Secret Six because I heard the book was good & it was for the most part. Not sure I'd pick up the next one but a nice series.

- Superman: Red Son: an elseworlds tale of if Superman grew up Communist, a good story with a twist ending I wasn't expecting.

- Over the course of a bout a month I've read almost the entire series Y The Last man. & it's been interesting ride. I'm sort of sad that in 2 trades it'll be over.

- Over my trip abroad (to Australia & New Zealand) I read Watchmen & it was good. I also saw the movie & that as crap.

- I've read Final Crisis at least 2 or 3 times hoping to understand it all & I still down. I'm also starting to think I never will.

- I started to read James Robinson's Starman in the omnibus' & it's a good series.

On to Marvel......

- Agents of Atlas: Good Book written by a really nice guy, Jeff Parker (I've met him a few times).

- Avengers: The Initiative: a book I've enjoyed in the past & am sticking around to see how it survives the Dark Reign of Norman Osborn.

- Captain America: Reborn: Good Book! The normal Cap book is on hiatus & this book is telling the story of how Steve Rogers is coming back.

- Dark Avengers: I pick up this book mostly for one person: Norman Osborn. I'm waiting for his epic fail.

- Fantastic Four: wasn't so hot on the later half of the Millar/Hitch run on the book but the new arc with new writer, Jonathan Hickman, is turning into something really interesting. I hope he can maintain the awesome!

- Guardians of Galaxy: was a good book but since I have not been following "War of Kings" the book has kind of lost me (I only feel like I'm getting a part of a larger story which I am). Since this book will tie into the "Realm of Kings" storyline I'm not sure how much longer I'll stay with the book.

- Incredible Hercules: I started to pick this up because I heard the Agent of Atlas would be having a back up stories in the book so I thought I'd check it out before hand & I sort of hopped that I had been reading the book before now since It's really good. Good writing, good art, good characterization of those in the book. The "Assault of New Olympus" arc/event looks to be interesting.

- Invincible Iron Man: I started to read this because I liked the Iron Man movie & have continued to read the book since it's just plain awesome!

- Mighty Avengers: One of the consistently best team books I read. When writer Dan Slott said that he wanted to put the "most Avengery Avengers books" He wasn't lying.

- Secret Warriors: The other book by Jonathan Hickman that I read & it's good.

-X-Babies: This book is kind of letting me down. It's not really about the X-Babies themselves but more about "How can we bring back Star Comics characters?" If I'm going to buy a book called X-Babies, I want it to be about the X-Babies!