How I Spent My Spring Break…

I spent spring break they way I spend any break.  I read.  I also watched some Night Stalker and crashed on a friend’s hide-a-bed for a couple nights while reading.  I’m not a very exciting person.  Sorry.

I caught up on Gene’s Journal, Much the Miller’s Son, Arthur, King of Time and Space. Of the three, I love Arthur the most, due to it’s odd-ball nature, Arthurian content and the fact that it really got me caring about the characters.  Plus it made me sympathize with the Arthur-Guenevere-Lancelot love triangle scenario in which Arthur knows what’s going on (and as I normally view those three as ranging from stupid to malicious…).  Gene’s Journal is fun, but it’s more of a comic strip format, leaving me laughing, but with not much in the way of emotional ties.  Much totally lampoons the Robin Hood stories, and is not appropriate for children.  Seriously.  It is, however, entertaining and I’m still reading updates.

Webcomics whose archives I’m reading right now:  Winters in Lavelle, Accursed Dragon and Wapsi Square.  Earlier today I found Finder’s Keepers, which I think beats out Lackadaisy as my all-time favorite webcomic.  The world is awesome, the character interaction is fun and generally realistic, the art is great and I FREAKING LOVE THIS COMIC.  Plus it updates regularly, which means I won’t have to agonize over it quite as much.

I also bought and read Seanan McGuire‘s A Local Habitation, C. E. Murphy‘s Walking Dead and Holly Black‘s graphic novel The Good Neighbors: Kin, with art by Ted Naifeh.  They were all better than I’d dared hope they would be.  Now I’m stuck waiting for sequels, except for the second book in The Good Neighbors, Kith, which I am too cheap to purchase before it goes to paperback (besides, then it would be a different size on the shelf…).

Back to the daily grind.

Happy reading,

PhantasticStudent

P.S.  I also caught up on Catena and Cross Hare, which are both good and suitable for young audiences.   The art in Catena reminds me of all those cartoons I grew up watching.  Cross Hare is just adorable.

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