Wish List: Gender-Bending Mind-Twists
The two other things I'm most anticipating this year? The return of Casanova and the fourth volume of Cthulhu Tales.
Much as I love Matt Fraction as a writer, I've unsubscribed from Uncanny X-Men. I just don't care enough and Marvel's big metaplot isn't interesting enough to me at the moment to try to keep up. I also got more than slightly pissed when the main storyline of Uncanny X-Men was diverted into some tie-in book so that one issue ended with a cliffhanger and the next started with that story having been entirely resolved with zero help for the reader. Throw in that the trailer for Iron Man 2 makes it look like a neocon wet dream and I'm running out of works to like. Casanova is very much on that list of things still left to me, though.
The first two volumes were smart, sexy, funny, touching, creative and had great action sequences. Plus, it's about a swinging super-spy who spends at least a couple of issues quite comfortably living as a woman. How does it get better than this? My old laptop had one of the stickers for W.A.S.T.E. on it just so people would ask me what that villainous organization's name stood for ("We're All So Terribly Excited"). I loved Casanova and had assumed Fraction's move to the big-time had killed it. Happily, quite the contrary.
Lastly, I've already read the individual comics contained therein but I have such a love for Cthulhu Tales that I am eagerly awaiting the fourth volume's collected form, due out on March 2 of this year. For real, if you enjoy horror comics or Lovecraft and his derivatives, check this out. Of all the books on the market that claim to share some portion of the stage with the Mythos, this one comes closest by far. It knocks all the others I've read into a cocked hat at fifty paces.
Work begins on long-awaited third volume of Casanova [ComicBookResources.com]
Klarion
Posted to Preview on 8 January 2010
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