RECENTLY ACQUIRED: Books & DVDs

Brief Notes

The DC Vault is a kind of informal history of DC comics with the emphasis on rare graphics and reproductions of various artifacts like memos of historical interest, pencil artwork, and a whole mess of stuff. I got it for about a third of the normal price from a professional American Amazon marketplace seller.


Young Frankenstein & Blazing Saddles are both cheap special editions of two movies I love and Mel Brooks at his best.

Love & Rockets X is a short graphic novel from Gilbert Hernandez set mostly in LA and deals with the effects of different cultural groups meeting & is more fun than that sounds. I read bits of it in magazine form but never the entire story before.

Omaha the Cat Dancer, another graphic novel, dates from 1978 and is the first in a soap opera type series with anthropomorphic animals and a strong explicit sexual element. I was disappointed with the story side. It may get better but I don't feel inclined to spend more money finding out.

The Sinbad Triple is, of course, three vintage Ray Harryhausen fantasy movies with his trademark and much -loved stop-motion animation. Creaky now, they still have a certain charm and I look forward to watching them for the umpteenth times.

Zack & Miri Make A Porno is Kevin Smith's latest movie. Despite not being his best, it's still good rude fun and, despite the title, it's a love story.

All these DVDs cost less than five pounds which is a lot of good entertainment for the money. I've also got a couple of cheap creature features winging their scaly way from the States plus a doublepack of Alligator/Alligator 2 from Amazon.