Friday Review - Something Old, Something New
Mish read an Advanced Reading Copy of Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis: Crooked Little Vein delivers Warren Ellis' distinctive style out of the graphic novel section and into the unsuspecting hands of mainstream America, and for this I am positively gleeful. The novel follows the twisted journey of one Mike McGill - PI, shit-magnet, and straight man to Ellis' humor - through the perverse underworld of a surprisingly recognizable America in pursuit of an iconic relic of "the good old days". Set in pseudo-present day, Ellis feels no particular need to embellish the habits of America's practicing perverts as we saw in Transmetropolitan , but still succeeds in hitting the reader as powerfully as ever with his concise prose and fantastically disturbing imagery. Benn read Dishwasher by Pete Jordan: Pete Jordan converted his youthful restlessness and anti-authoritarian inclinations into what would seem a simple enough quest - to wash dishes in all 50 states. Turnin