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Jul. 10th, 2004 08:13 pmI have now lost 13 lb in my sleep.
So, the other day I was babbling about things I'm reading/enjoying, and I also got into a discussion with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nematoddity about whether or not the Sandman books have ugly art (not the McKean, though), and what women looked like in comic books in the nineties.
Big images behind the tags.
( What I think of when I think of women in comics...Maggie and Hopey )
( Some manga pretty...Alchino )
( Takashima Kazusa draws good )
( Death Note! A new kind of shinigami... )
Also, I finished Louise Welsh's The Cutting Room. It is gay. I had no idea it would be massively gay. I think I just naturally gravitate toward such things. A couple sex scenes of a fanfic caliber, a protagonist who reminds me a bit of my beloved Nick Cave (except, well, gay), and a bunch of tawdry Scots and a hot fag-hag. Oh, and there's a mystery in there, too. It also makes Glasgow seem like the kind of gray, damp, crumbling-edifice sort of place I'd like to visit. I recommend it highly to anyone who likes gay, mysteries, gay mysteries and general sordidness.
Most of the way through Richard K. Morgan's Broken Angels. There's no reason for me to think that I'm going to end up any less happy with this one than his first book, Altered Carbon. If you like Gibson, you might like Morgan, although he's a lot harder-edged. Oh, and there are good (het) sex scenes in Morgan, which is a nice bonus.
So, the other day I was babbling about things I'm reading/enjoying, and I also got into a discussion with
nematoddity about whether or not the Sandman books have ugly art (not the McKean, though), and what women looked like in comic books in the nineties. Big images behind the tags.
( What I think of when I think of women in comics...Maggie and Hopey )
( Some manga pretty...Alchino )
( Takashima Kazusa draws good )
( Death Note! A new kind of shinigami... )
Also, I finished Louise Welsh's The Cutting Room. It is gay. I had no idea it would be massively gay. I think I just naturally gravitate toward such things. A couple sex scenes of a fanfic caliber, a protagonist who reminds me a bit of my beloved Nick Cave (except, well, gay), and a bunch of tawdry Scots and a hot fag-hag. Oh, and there's a mystery in there, too. It also makes Glasgow seem like the kind of gray, damp, crumbling-edifice sort of place I'd like to visit. I recommend it highly to anyone who likes gay, mysteries, gay mysteries and general sordidness.
Most of the way through Richard K. Morgan's Broken Angels. There's no reason for me to think that I'm going to end up any less happy with this one than his first book, Altered Carbon. If you like Gibson, you might like Morgan, although he's a lot harder-edged. Oh, and there are good (het) sex scenes in Morgan, which is a nice bonus.
