More comical goodness - with minor spoilers

I got over to the library this morning. I picked up several comics: a Powers trade paperback titled Who Killed Retro Girl?; a Stormwatch trade called Forces of Nature or something like that; volume 6 of the complete Crumb, and The Big Book of Grimm. I also got a collection of short stories called something something Supermen, doing the whole post-human thing. The Powers book was a fun read. I wasn't expecting one of the superheroes to pull a Jack Ruby on Retro Girl's killer. This was my first encounter with Stormwatch. It looks like maybe this volume comes fairly late in the run as I can see some of the themes in the Authority starting to develop. And Jenny Sparks shows up in it in all her washed-up rockstar glory. Volumes two through five of Crumb were not to be found today, so I leaped straight from the mostly innocent Crumb of volume 1 right into the psychedelic, pornographic, radical material he is more known for. Jumping gears like that was a little bit of a shock. I mean, I've seen this sort of stuff in comics before but it was still kinda odd to be at the public library, checking out a comic book that depicts a cartoon orgy on the cover at the same time I'm getting my daughter some frickin' Elmo DVDs. The Big Book of Grimm is another excellent entry in the Big Book line, this particular volume presenting the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm as they originally appeared in all their horrific glory. I have yet to read a Big Book that didn't deliver.

I haven't started the sci-fi short stories yet. I'm not sure if I'll get to it or not. I seem to be on a big sequential art kick lately. "Are you obsessed with comic books?" -- my wife.