Lady Sheridan wrote:unikrunk wrote:Lady Sheridan wrote:I've recently gotten into Miller's Elektra collections. I thought Elektra: Assassin was a wonderfully sick mind trip, and Elektra Lives Again was all sorts of sad. I only wish I'd read it in the quiet of my own home and not while at the hair salon. There's times the stream of consciousness style just seems like a cop-out ("Er, I don't know how to get Elektra from point A to B, so I'll make her into this nun.") but it's a nice puzzle to put together.
Plus I got the original hardback of ELA for maybe $10.00, mint condition, what a steal.
DAMMIT, I have been trying to find a TPB of Assasin! Comic book guy told me it not in print; make Mongo mad.
I love the beast-milk stuff in that series, and most of the sheid operative's wigs.
/BEAST-MILK
I've been trying to find one of Assassin too and haven't gotten lucky like I did with Lives Again.
Keep checking Abe's Books, I have really good luck on there finding out of print TPB's--unlike Amazon, it's usually little independent bookstores who are cheap and honest about the condition.
I haven't had much luck with Amazon when it comes to older and out of print books, they're too expensive for battered copies.
As a relatively unsullied, comic book non-reader, ( AKA pre-Zone),
Elektra: Assasin was the first TPB I ever picked up.
It seduced me from the neglected bottom shelf of a second-hand shop (thrift-store?) book-alcove, ( the usual haunts I go to in any given dead end town and browsing for random reads).
I have to say, having nothing but a scattering of comic reading from my youth, it kind of blew me away.
As Colin says, it depends on the invidual and their own sensibilities I guess, but I savoured finding something so rewarding and obviously above the 1980's microwave cooking recipie books, Windows 95 for Dummies, and tupperware journals it was buried with.
Being thrown in the deep-end, in my case at least, was a drowning worth having, I'd say.
All the more so now I realise how lucky I was to even spy a copy in the first place...
(I'd lend it out to you in a hearbeat, Uni, if the big drink wasn't hampering my man Mustaffah's wheels)
In regards to the book itself - the latter stages of it appeal less to me, I 'spose, although the motifs like the Demon Milk are definately to be savoured, but that first chapter I think is a perfect amalgamation of susinct story set-up, origin-telling, myth-making and general artistic hutzpah.
It's devisive, undoubtedly, but the functional in funny-booking is just as an artful craft to master, and (in form and function), I think it sells it kinda beautifully, I really do.
As a whole, I still just pick it up regularly from the book shelf by my bed (notably devoid of tuperware journals - they get their own air-tight chamber in the underground library, natch), and flick through it, random panels neon-lasering crazey-wonder patterns into the back of my skull.
It's perhaps a primo prize to land on someone potentially unrepsonsive to it's charms, but if they were a curious enough kitty to be genuinely interested in the first place, I would encourage 'em anyway...
Worked for a Zoner or three...
EDIT: It's lacking verbage, but to tide you over untill you get the Uni-Glider to work, 'Krunk...
Stick It.
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