Random Comics

I’ve read some comics over the past… three weeks? These are early-2000s issues of a long-running Norwegian anthology — I never picked up any Norwegian comics at the time, and I don’t quite remember why… Because it’s really good. There’s a great variety to the pieces, but I guess you could sum them up with “early 20s comics” — they’re either humour, or they’re very serious indeed. You know. “Profound.” And I like both, so I spend a very comfortable evening reading these books. It’s published by the people who published all of Jason’s earliest work, and these are from around the time when he was breaking through globally, which is fun. But there’s just a lot of really original (and entertaining) comics in here. I should see if the used comics store have more of these (I picked them up there). I got some more periodical comics, but not a lot. The best of the bunch is, I guess, Black Cat. It’s fun. Al Ewing’s Venom is also good, but unfortunately they started a crossover series which…