Sep 23 Reading

 Continuing.

1. NYer 8/7/23. Long, pre-death feature on Prigozhin (and how he had seemed to have "gotten away with it")
2. NYer 8/14/23. Nice retrospective review of Steven Millhauser.
3. New Teen Titans v5. It's.. the human scenes. Like Donna walking in on the mess between Terry and his ex. Though Terry is terryble.
4. New Teen Titans v6. George Perez inking himself is... kind of messy. 
5. NYer 7/10&17/23. "[C]ontinued exercise of craft breeds competence in it, but in writing there are other things than competence. THere are certain organic values, such as intensity of feeling, freshness of perception, moral earnestness and conviction. These are virtues that may exist in beginning writers and unfortunately they may exist more in the beginning than in the later stages" Tennessee Williams. 
6. The Continuous Life of Katherine Martinhoe. Not sure what I think. The two novae (TV eyes and information overload sickness) go together, but I'm not sure of the overall point. Are we to think we got the continuous Katherine or not? Wasn't she changed utterly, multiple times in her life? Maybe even every day in her last week. 
7. Cannon by Wally Wood. Men's adventure with naked ladies on almost every page. Wood said something like "never draw what you can copy, never copy what you can trace, never trace what you can cut out, and go to town on the rest
8. NYer 9/4/23. An all archival issue with Thurber cover, articles by Nabokov, Mitchell, Grann, Orleans. Story by Murakami and poem by Oliver. 
9. Invincible v 10:  Includes issue 50 and the break with Cecil. Like with NTT, the best part is the people, like Ryan and Eve's love talk. 
10. New Teen Titans v8. Almost no Perez, but still kind of ok. The end of my initial time with the series. 
11. The Captive (Proust). Who is the captive, Marcel (just now named) or Albertine? There's an especially symphonic sequence where a ton of past themes--the "little phrase," pining for Mama, "inverts," more I'm forgetting, come together and intertwine at the party where Charlus is snubbed by Madame Verdurin. 
12. After the Funeral. Another Poirot, entertaining but based on a caprice as usual. He actually hires an agent for background information, which seems to be a variation of the formula. 
13. Invincible v 11. Still on his own, and back together with Eve. Cameo of Dr Venture and Brock Samson at the burger joint. 
14. NYer 8/28/23. 5 out this month; maybe only 3 in? There was a fashion issue?
15. The Bat Man of Gotham. Chip Zdarksy and some mostly bad artists. Is it funny? The skeleton im Gordon is. The straining after the Bat Shark Repellent is not.