Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Dr. Gym'll's Cultural Rarities Comics I'm going to read...some day.

Yeah. It seems like it used to spoken of a lot more back in the day. Now, you'd think that all Miller ever did that was great was Daredevil, Dark Knight, Batman: Year One, Sin City and 300.

I have Ronin. It's pretty good from what I remember. Been years since I read it though...to give a full opinion at this point.

Another highly underrated Miller story: Robocop vs. Terminator. One of the greatest stories of the 90's.

^ With Walt Simonson on art, no less. Oddly enough, I don't remember much about it. Vaguely seem to recall not being all that enamored with it.

Ronin is Miller's best work in my humble opinion.

Really? Do tell, Jer!

Ronin changed everything before Dark Knight Returns changed everything. It is MIller experimenting and establishing his style. An original take that seamlessly blends science fiction with fantasy. It was written and drawn before Miller had fully developed his world view, so there is more focus on the actual story. It's a fairly simple and beautiful story that doesn't have the weight of having to be oh so relevant and artistic.

I've still only read portions of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home. I've really got to read it all the way through one of these days. That, and its "sequel": Are You My Mother.

I used to have half a dozen of the Dykes To Watch Out For collections. I've always been a fan of hers.

A recent announcement about the upcoming final issue of Fables reminded me that I once promised Lardy I'd read the second Fables trade because he says that's where it gets really good.

Never let it be said I don't keep my promises...even if sometimes it takes me a long time...

Just finished placing a library request for it.

I really want to get the trade paperback collection of "The Enigma."

I'd also like to finally get the few remaining Elseworlds I don't own. The Nail books, Thrillkiller, Generations III...

I love the first Nail and think the second gets a bad rap.

I finally read Enigma for the first time a few months ago and I loved it.

My main interest comes from the fact that Milligan reused a character from his Animal Man run. There was mention of someone called Envelope Girl and to my knowledge she's prominent in Enigma.

She is indeed.

I thought Enigma was decent enough at the time.

I think it's a challenging read, especially the first couple issues -- where the art may or may not have been sloppy by design to better reflect the protagonist's state of mind -- but ultimately a rewarding one.

So, even though I never really got into Alison Bechdel's best-known work, the aforementioned DTWOF, I have really been getting into autobiographical comics these past 2 or 3 years. So when the time came for me to take a chance on "Fun Home" and "Are You My Mother," my expectations were modest.

"Fun Home" arrived at my local branch library a few hours ago. I had expected to just read a few pages and then set it aside, so I could catch up with my "CoIE" re-read and with Ibby's Postboot Legion re-read in the Legion forum.

The best laid plans...et cetera.

I read "Fun Home" from start to finish in one bug-eyed, open-jawed sitting! The theme of synchronicity is a major part of "Fun Home," and while I've always believed in synchronicity, never have I been more of a believer until tonight, as Alison's memoirs illuminated parallel after eerie parallels with my own life...and with my family!

Or, to put it more succinctly, before I read this book, no author -- female or male, prose or sequential -- had ever made me want to read James Joyce.

Now I'm about to go to my library website to place holds on the complete Joyce oeuvre.

Oh. And "Are You My Mother" will probably arrive at my local branch tomorrow. Needles and pins.

Huh. Took me three whole days to read "Are You My Mother." It wasn't bad at all, but it lacked the urgency, the concision ("Fun Home" was almost 50 pages shorter,) and the relatability of its predecessors. Also, where "Fun Home" delved into metaphysics without ever feeling pretentious, "Are You My Mother" nearly drowns in its heavy-handed reliance on pop psychology. Still a worthwhile read for fans of "Fun Home" or of Bedchel in general, in my opinion.