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I have so many comics to catch up on. It’s only appropriate that this NIE mid-term break is called a “reading week”, I guess.

“The Ultimates 2 Vol. 1: Gods And Monsters” (Mark Millar, Bryan Hitch)
Millar and Hitch finally return with their widescreen no-holds-barred rendition of the Ultimate Universe’s Avengers. The first series felt a bit like the creators were still doing The Authority — especially the second volume with the alien invasion — but this volume is definitely all-Avengers fun. From the trial of the Incredible Hulk (he ate 800 innocent human beings in the first volume, after all), to Thor being exposed for a fraud (or is he merely a victim of Loki’s machinations? A clever nod to the origin of the original Avengers), to Hank Pym’s attempt at joining the sad-sack Defenders. Nothing ground-shatteringly brilliant, but still rather good fun, I thought.

“Deer Park (Buddha, Vol. 5)” (Osamu Tezuka)
Volume 5 of 8, continuing Osamu Tezuka’s work of ground-shattering brilliance. It’s great, and I wish it weren’t $50 a volume. I don’t have that much more to say about it.

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