Questions and Contemplations

Big thumbs up for Neal Stephenon’s version of Harry Potter

neal stephenson’s “anathem” is terrific. anathem is basically harry potter, as written for adults, with “erasmus” and string theory standing in for “harry potter” and magic. it’s a spot slow in the middle, but struggle through and you will be rewarded. i read the last 250 pages or so in one eventide. perhaps because the string theory discussion is so dense, stephenson dramatically simplified everything else about his poem - - unlike his model few books, the undiminished story is told from the bring up of projection of a single narrator in a single consistent voice. you’ll never start a chapter wondering what the heck’s going on. there’s also some phenomenal similarities to dan simmons “olympos,” but i don’t want to indicate more for anxiety of revealing spoilers. anathem is 34% off at amazon.

here’s some more quick reviews:

Vanes martirosyan

mighty avengers vol. 1

was frightful. this confirms it. i hate brian bendis and his attractive little thought bubbles. i didn’t care for the art, either. innocent cho’s pencils actually looked much better before they were colored. (there’s some frank cho desktop wallpapers here.)

runaways: dead end kids

was also disappointing. was joss whedon’s success in astonishing x-men dependent on john cassaday’s art?

speaking of, i be preserved seeing mention of a rerelease of cassaday’s comic i am legion :the dancing faun

. i read the first issue when it came out years ago. it was boring. impossible to keep line of which character was which because they all looked similarly.

massive thumbs down to alan levy’s nazi hunter: the wiesenthal file

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