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Outsiders trade paperback by Judd Winnick.
It was pretty good. Not stupendous. It was not as instantly likeable as Exiles when I first started reading that. I like the concept behind the robot from the future (though I don't especially like how she was visually interpreted by the artist). I also like Metamorpho II's origin. Pretty clever. All in all, I don't think I'll be getting another trade. It just wasn't THAT good.

Warren Ellis' Strange Killings. Not bad. Seemed a bit rushed at times. Definitely didn't get any interior views of the characters, which was a shame. I didn't come away understanding the main character's motivations. It seemed like Ellis was somewhat resting on the laurels of the infrerred "subjective morality" that he usually uses for his characters. Like, it was just understood that he was morally justified in his actions. Or whatever.

But I also read Dark Blue (also by Ellis), which was really good. Sometimes his premise is good, but his delivery is lacking, or vice versa. This one is choice on both. It, too, was slightly rushed, but maybe he just works faster and I should just get used to it? I mean, I often feel like he's moving too fast, but maybe that's just his style. Anyway, it was about this CIA agent who undergoes drug treatments of this drug which creates a shared narcotic reality. In the reality, a guy dies, but haunts it and sort of controls it. Sort of a Matrix meets Seven for the Narcotic world, or "narcospace."

I also finished A Brief History of Everything, by Ken Wilber, over the weekend. It seems that with every book by him I read, I not only understand his integral view better, but also feel like I can convey it better, as well. Hmmm, what really stuck out for me in this one? Let me think about it...

Brian posted at 2:14 PM.