Worlds Within Worlds...

So, I finally got around to visiting Target to check out the Marvel Age books. Some pretty fun stuff in there actually. I didn't realize that there was actually two varieties. One is a like a thicker monthly and is about $5. The other is squarebound and more like $14. MA Fantastic 4 is pretty bleh. What's up with our firery friend looking like a certain Captain America villain? Mangaverse seemed like it had some promise but kind of hit-or-miss. Some of the designs looked interesting, but most of the times eyes just looked wrong. The highlight as far as art seemed to be a story in the middle in more of an animated "Dreamwave" style. The most interesting to me in the $5 titles was one where I can't remember the title. It involves a boy who is a fan of the various Marvel characters, done in a sketchy style at times. Looked like it'd be fun, and any book with a cover having a cuuute dog resting on Spidey's head can't be all that bad, right?

For the squarebounds, X-men Evolution seemed pretty good. Seemed similar to the cartoon both in art style and content. There was a reprinting of some older Avengers stories, but out of all three, the one most interesting to me was an Origins book. Basically it contained the first couple of issues of the original stories for several titles, like X-men, Hulk, Avengers, Spider-man, and even one issue of Doctor Strange. If I wasn't so tight on money right now, I think I'd pick that up, as I've never read these original stories before. Also, people aren't kidding when they say those early stories were not uncompressed. Parker gets introduced, bitten by the spider, and learns of his powers within like 2-3 pages. He's already wrestling by at least page 4...

While I was there, took a quick peek at the DVD selection. Was tempted by $10 Office Space deal.. Also, I didn't realize season box sets of Scooby Doo were out! Scooby is one of my guilty pleasures, and I was always really put off by those "best of" collections. I have to grab this one of these days...