Seconds

Finally!!!
I finished seconds yesterday and I was quite impressed with it. I have to admit that at first I was slightly confused by it and wasn't really sure if he really had a plot to work with but i guess that Bryan Lee O'Malley always surprises.
The story is weird and it does kinda feel like he didn't really have anything to work with except food but even so he manages to make a rather excellent comic from it!

I do love how he manages to get what has become his signature trademark quote of 'bread makes you fat' in all his comics! It's true that bread does make you fat but thanks to the film and the comics, the nerds and comic lovers of this world have all learnt that bread makes us fat.

The story is simple, Katy is a chef and having been successful with one restaurant, she is now opening another which is taking more money than she has. An accident happens at work and she starts eating mushrooms (never a good idea) and changing her history until she has changed it so many times that she is completely confused and no longer really knows anything. Eventually she gets back to her original life and decides to just live with it. She pays more than she wanted to for her restaurant but it opens, she gets the man that she wanted and the restaurant does well, so all's well in the end.

Seconds has just come out and my sister actually went to see Bryan Lee O'Malley and got her book signed by him (which i promptly stole and read).

Loved it!

Killing Joke

I read Arkham Asylum over a year ago and have to admit that I haven't really read any other Batman since. I switched towards the league of extraordinary gentlemen and then stopped reading graphic novels altogether.
So... what did I make of it??
It was Graphic (NO WAY!!!) and occasionally I feel that graphic novels take it too far just because of the name but appart from that I loved it.
The Joker keeps escaping and tries to turn commissioner Gordon insane but he doesn't manage it thanks to batman. There was less in it than in Arkham asylum but i still spent a lot of time stroking the hardback copy in my room. I know that for most of us the Joker is the best character in Batman and he doesn't disappoint in these graphic novels.
This is an Alan Moore novel and therefore worth reading. Whilst it's easy to have an idea of what the plot was in my head, it's not easy to really write it down so i'd just recommend that if you're a batman fan and haven't read it, do.