Monday Jun 03, 2002

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I left portland on Halloween morning, arriving in NYC that night. I spent a week there, surrounded, on all sides.I went to Cavestomp, a psychedelic/garage weekender. Turning on during The Creation was a religious experience, and seeing The Kaisers for the first time was well worth the price of the ticket. All together I was left with a bad taste in my mouth when it comes to NYC. To be very concise, i'ts a big fucking strip mall. New York is history, I want to be somewhere history its being made, not coddled.
On to Bisbee, a small border town on our side set in the most stunning desert in the USA. I let the mosquitoes eat my blood, so that when I left I would have bruises to remember the summer by. The summer, slapping my face and calling me a slut for moving on to fall, how sweet.
sash:
Brian K. Vaughan his made his name as one of the best comics writers of the Twenty-first century. He created two long running series, the science fiction fable YThe Last Man and the political superhero tale Ex Machina. Vaughan also created the series Runaways for Marvel and wrote...
motorfirebox:
Most exciting comic I've read in quite a while. It's an interesting mix--on one hand, you've got allegories so clear and undisguised that I'm not even sure they count as allegories; on the other, you've got frickin' redcoat military officer robots with TVs for heads. It reminds me of stories kids tell each other in kindergarten, those massive whopper lies about how you spent the summer fourwheeling and your fourwheeler had silver tires and could fly*, only in this that shit is actually going on and these characters have to live in in and deal with it. The world doesn't make sense, but some of the people in it do.

*probably not a lie I told my friends in kindergarten

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