InsaneJournal

Current mood:

enthralled

I KNEW it!
If there was any doubt in my mind that graphic novelists/comic-book writers are evil, evil people, it has been dispelled. And no, Warren Ellis isn't the one who did it.

So, back at the SDCC, I picked up First In Space at the Oni Press booth and asked the author/artist James Vining, to sign it for me. I hadn't read the book yet; it had just gotten some good work of mouth and wanted to have a look at it. He asked me to drop him an e-mail once I'd read it and let him know what I thought.

So I read the book, enjoyed it very much, and sent an e-mail. The subject of 'First In Space' being the use of animals in the space race, the subject of Laika came up.

Now, Laika was to me what Old Yeller is to most kids, OK? The fact that none of the books I read as a kid ever mentioned how they got that poor pup back down from space was just a wee bit traumatic. It was worse finding out that no, there was no euthanasia involved in her death. I mentioned this in the course of the e-mail.

And yet he recommends that I read this.

Argh!

And, of course, I'm gonna buy it, because these people are very good at what they do, which is tap-dancing all over my emotions. But that's why we read this stuff, right?

We'll talk about David Hine and Poison Candy once I return my eyeballs to their sockets.