Random Comics

Huh! I read some more comics. I finished off Leo’s Betelguese series. Scenes like this really bring home how little variation there is in Leo’s human characters (beyond hairdos). It’s pretty amusing once you start noticing it. But there’s plenty of variation in his other creatures. These albums are really exciting, I have to say — so many interesting things happen, and so many mysteries. Of course, that means that the mysteries have to be somewhat resolved in the final album (or “episode”, as Leo calls them), and the solutions are never as intriguing as the mysteries. So a bit of a letdown, but still a really fun read. (Which really helps, since my French is baaad.) New Kim Deitch! That’s something to celebrate. This is not another chapter in his mega-cycle about oldee tymey cartoonists and their creation, but is instead a kinda meandering not-really-a-story tied together by scenes of Deitch talking to his wife about stories (and her coming up with a story). It’s a thoroughly…