Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. vol.1 "This is What They Want" by Warren Ellis

If you recall the original posting on this blog, you will note that this was not on the list of borrowed books. I decided to break my rules in this regard because I had been borrowing it from Wade for a while before handing it back unread right before I started this resolution. His insistence that I read this got it placed onto the list.

I've yet to read anything by Warren Ellis that I didn't like. Transmetropolitan is the greatest Hunter Thompson fan fiction anyone has ever written, Fell is a delightfully twisted detective comic, and Crooked Little Vein is, well... I learned a lot about fetishes that I didn't believe were real until I looked them up on the internet.

And so it is with Nextwave, a comic series with which Ellis seems intent on giving the middle finger to the entirety of modern comic books. It is fast-paced almost to a fault, story arcs never last more than two issues, and he gleefully mocks the entire concept of gritty anti-heroes with dark pasts. There is almost nothing I can compare it to, other than perhaps Joss Whedon's Sugarshock, but to be honest the pacing and rapid-fire jokes are the only things the two books have in common. An example of what had me in stitches:

I don't know about you, but I thought that was hilarious.

Well, that's it. I have finished (or at least decided not to finish after careful consideration) every book I had borrowed at the beginning of the year. It is now time to turn my attention to my own library. I'm pretty psyched about it. Do you know why? I haven't read this next book since high school, and it's long overdue for a re-read.

Next: The Hitchhikers Trilogy (All Five Books!) by Douglas Adams.