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I know I’m supposed to hate this series - Jonah Hex fans had a collective conniption fit over seeing their Western hero transported to a Mad Max-style future - but I loved every panel of the first 12 issues (well…close). I hadn’t read Jonah Hex, so I was not coming from that history, and it couldn’t be ruined for me. I just love the non-stop action, the surprises, and the villains. My ratings will be controversial.

I'll revisit Hex #s 1-7, which function as one story arc, before meeting the challenge of Le Guin's Always Coming Home. So - a dreadful, ruined, ultra-dangerous post apocalypse, before jumping over to what looks like a quieter, more harmonious vision of the future (for someone). Tis the season to look for the best predictions...

So, maybe this and a Captain America graphic novel, before I go off my weekend comics binge, and go back to novels. Some other stuff I hauled out of storage, in the comics line, may be used to jump-start the New Year…or I’ll sneak Hex, or Vigilante (2009), in before that.

Okay! I’m suddenly thinking ‘Comic Book Marathon!!’ for the rest of the weekend, or maybe longer. I often start the year with comics as a cheater’s way to get a lot of books banked as Read, and at year’s end, if I have not quite read 300 books, out come the comics again. But this year’s end…I’m just gonna blaze through some comics for fun, no pressure, just some light, relaxing powering down…until The Puppet Show.

I read Book 3, The Curator, recently, because it was set at Christmas. Courtney at work got curious about it, and decided to try the series too, but with Book 1 (I have taken some teasing about not doing that). When we saw each other again days later, she was almost finished Book 1, and had ordered Book 2 - and I was done with Book 3 and gave it to her. I will have this book and Book 2 today, and we are both happy.

I knew a few weeks back, when I was reading Assassins Anonymous and enjoying it, that I might get in the mood for more of the same before New Year. I had this in reserve as a follow-up, and now I'm well into it. It is indeed similar to Assassins Anonymous - but of course not a clone, and so I don't feel I've made a mistake putting the books relatively close together. Fun Thriller.

An average first few chapters - and the last Mystery I read was Craven’s The Curator, a hard act to follow - but one little plot development in this one, and the whole thing has lit up in the best way. I’m happy.