FMTM, Baby!
I just made plans for July 25th. I’ll be at the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco, watching From Monument to Masses, ?-ziq, HIM, and some other band. Rawk! That’ll give me a chance to pick up the new FMTM album that’s out now. They’re actually playing tonight at Gilman Street, but it looks like I’ll be staying in and watching Adaptation and Punch Drunk Love.
100 Bullets #46 came out this week, and it’s the last issue before the series goes bi-monthly (allowing the team to do a run on Batman at the same time). Some of the plot-thickening that happened in that issue was pretty interesting. I think we’ve got a clearer idea of what Sheperd is up to now, but I’m not really clear on what the situation between Lono and Loop is at the moment. Is Lono still planning on killing Loop at the end of the issue? Does he, in fact, kill him? Is that the meaning of the dead bird in the last panel? If I know anything about 100 Bullets, it’s that you can never count on anything being true unless it’s shown explicitly. And even then, as is the case with Lono, you might be wrong. Good stuff…Although Risso’s artwork is looking a little more cartoon-y and exaggerated in this storyline. Looking at Lono in the first few issues, and looking at him now, he’s become a hulking, cartoon brute, rather than the larger framed, muscular powerhouse.
More later…
