changing faces and alternate universes

Books in the mail! I love getting books in the mail! Now I can start on The Towers of Trebizond and Baudolino. I also picked up Junko Mizuno’s Princess Mermaid. The art is in color (first manga I’ve read with color art) and looks totally trippy.

I finished reading a couple graphic novels over the weekend. I read the first Human Target collection. The main character of the comic is a man named Christopher Chance who impersonates people who are going to be assassinated.
There are so many characters disguised as other characters it gets a little confusing at time. It was not the best comic for me to be reading over the shoulder of a friend while I was riding the subway because it was easy to lose track of what was going on. However, when I sat down and read Human Target with more concentration, I was able to appreciate the twisting storyline. It is a great suspense comic.

I also picked up the Planetary collection
Crossing Worlds, which collects the Planetary crossovers with The Authority, JLA, and Batman. I missed a couple of the crossovers when they first came out, so I was happy to find the collected edition. Jakita Wagner’s encounter with Batman was lovely 🙂