Two things taking up a lot of my time recently:
Bloc Party, A Weekend in the City. An outstanding second effort from my favorite new English band. Darker and more dense than their debut,
Silent Alarm, I’ve had this for two days and listened to it 7 times already. By far, the best album I've bought in the past 6 months.
The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard. I’ve always been and always will be a comic book reader, but as I’ve gotten older, my tastes have turned away from traditional superhero stories. Most of what I like to read (
Fables,
Y: The Last Man,
Rex Mundi) is more adult fare, often dealing with an alternate history or apocalyptic scenario, some sort of twist on reality as we know it. Recently, I’ve been hearing some praise for The Walking Dead, so I picked up the first four collections at the library. Borrowing heavily from various influences (
28 Days Later,
The Stand,
Dawn of the Dead), the storyline follows a Kentucky policeman named Rick Grimes who awakens from a coma to find that the country is overrun by zombies. As he adjusts to the new world order, Rick heads to Atlanta to search for his wife’s family and joins with a group of survivors as they struggle to find a safe haven. With some striking black-and-white art, the authors are able to tell a compelling story of the survivors’ struggle to retain their humanity while doing what they must to keep themselves alive.
Bloc Party, A Weekend in the City. An outstanding second effort from my favorite new English band. Darker and more dense than their debut, Silent Alarm, I’ve had this for two days and listened to it 7 times already. By far, the best album I've bought in the past 6 months.
The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard. I’ve always been and always will be a comic book reader, but as I’ve gotten older, my tastes have turned away from traditional superhero stories. Most of what I like to read (Fables, Y: The Last Man, Rex Mundi) is more adult fare, often dealing with an alternate history or apocalyptic scenario, some sort of twist on reality as we know it. Recently, I’ve been hearing some praise for The Walking Dead, so I picked up the first four collections at the library. Borrowing heavily from various influences (28 Days Later, The Stand, Dawn of the Dead), the storyline follows a Kentucky policeman named Rick Grimes who awakens from a coma to find that the country is overrun by zombies. As he adjusts to the new world order, Rick heads to Atlanta to search for his wife’s family and joins with a group of survivors as they struggle to find a safe haven. With some striking black-and-white art, the authors are able to tell a compelling story of the survivors’ struggle to retain their humanity while doing what they must to keep themselves alive.
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