Once upon a fabled time...

Tonight's Sunday night TV flick is X-Men 2. As previously chatted about, Hugh Jackman is one of my MILFs. Though most of his movies eliminate his secksay Aussie accent, he's just awesome eye candy. As Wolvie, well now, that's just one fantasy come true.

With X-Men on the telly, it got me thinking to blog about comics again. It's no secret that I'm a comic book/graphic novel fan. Over the recent years, my collection of graphic novels has expanded exponentially (I realized this more so with moving many many boxes of books). Many people dis the DC/Marvel universes as ridiculous reading. I tend to admit that it's partly true. My main reason why I read them is that they are *extremely* light reads. After spending all day reading journal articles, I want something that doesn't require any thinking.

However there are some reads that I highly recommend to anyone. I've already talked about "Y: The Last Man" series. This time around I'll chat about Snow White, Red Riding Hood, the three pigs, and the Big Bad Wolf. No, I'm not talking about Hans Christian Andersen collected work, Aesop's stories or the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, well not exactly. I'm talking about Fables the ongoing comic series by Bill Willingham. This series has to be one of most faves, if not of all time. It takes all that you know (and everything you didn't know) about fairy tales and wraps it up into this brilliantly written story about every known Fable living in modern day New York. The series has now grown into two spin offs (one about Jack of... well, Jack. I never realized that so many fairy tales had Jack as the hero) and an upcoming release series about Cinderella. There's also one novel (yes, an actual BOOK!) regarding the real story of Peter Piper.

Before you yawn and think, "oooh fairy tales - wowie", it's not just fairy tales, it's fairy tales redux. This series goes beyond the Prince Charming (oh he's there, but as the womanizer you always knew yet the original tales sugar coated that drama), the witch with the gingerbread house (she's still wickedly evilish, but honestly just misunderstood), and the wooden boy Pinocchio (who laments about still being a boy - see inset). The material Willingham has to work with seems to be endless - which I'm glad, as I anxiously await the next publication release.

Since we're on the topic of comics, some comic music to accompany. One of my long time faves is the Superman's Song by Crash Test Dummies. This song is a sweet sorrow ballad of probably the most recognized superhero. I'll admit that I'm not a big Superman fan (too much of a good boy scout, I'm more of a "dark knight" lovah), but I do read some storylines of Supes. This song hits it on the nail of the reality of Supes. Bill from the Kill Bill movie also had a good explanation of Mr. Kent. But that's for another day and another blog. Night folks!