tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post2254902656599165387..comments2024-03-29T00:20:03.012+13:00Comments on The Tearoom of Despair: Loving the awfulBob Temukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09181473725170489213noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-47153860698675979982009-02-09T14:39:00.000+13:002009-02-09T14:39:00.000+13:00Zom: Oh God, I know. The bits of it I read in the ...Zom: Oh God, I know. The bits of it I read in the store and the general critical mauling it received were enough to convince me of the awfulness, and yet....<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the kind words, Inkwell Bookstore. I'm trying my best. I do have access to an excellent library, and after recently spending two years in a small town where the only comics in the local library were the first Geoff Johns Teen Titans trade and one of his Flash books, I've been devouring everything a proper big city library has to offer.<BR/><BR/>In fact, I am currently a member of seven different libraries around New Zealand, and have been regularly borrowing books from two in the same city for more than a year now. I think I might have a problem with library addiction.Bob Temukahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09181473725170489213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-12920978801560131012009-02-08T04:54:00.000+13:002009-02-08T04:54:00.000+13:003 things:1. Your local library sounds like a prett...3 things:<BR/><BR/>1. Your local library sounds like a pretty well-stocked place.<BR/><BR/>2. "Just because it’s Vertigo doesn’t mean it has to be brown." When Vertigo decides it's time for a makeover, this oughta be their slogan.<BR/><BR/>3. Your writing is wonderful. You're my favorite 'new' voice on the net.Inkwell Bookstorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-11993164509469024642009-02-06T23:58:00.000+13:002009-02-06T23:58:00.000+13:00I'm feeling you, but seriously Loeb's Ultimates is...I'm feeling you, but seriously Loeb's Ultimates is dangerously bad. Wolverine bad. Read it and you'll start to worry that there's something very, very wrong with your life.<BR/><BR/>You have been warnedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-86439068912639139052009-02-04T15:51:00.000+13:002009-02-04T15:51:00.000+13:00I just got a couple of his recent Hulk issues yest...I just got a couple of his recent Hulk issues yesterday for $1 each, and was completely baffled. Lovely Art Adams art though...<BR/><BR/>Still, I'm keenly awaiting the day when his Ultimates turns up at the local library, and I will grab it with glee when it does. <BR/><BR/>I once had shame, but no more.Bob Temukahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09181473725170489213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-76982678008059862472009-02-04T07:35:00.000+13:002009-02-04T07:35:00.000+13:00Totally with you on Loeb. The man's writing is jus...Totally with you on Loeb. The man's writing is just CLUMSY, which would be fine if he was some amateur just puddling around, but he's ostensibly one of the bigger names in comics, yet he can barely string together a coherent plot. It baffles me. (As TV's Heroes slowly started to go off the rails I told my wife it was all Jeph Loeb's fault.)Nikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08817525516356141103noreply@blogger.com