
Pull List: Fred Van Lente
I know what I read. You know what you read. Wouldn’t you like to know what the writers and artists read? I would. So we’ve asked them. We began these Pull Lists last week with Seth Kushner. They’ll be a regular Wednesday feature here at Parallel Worlds. – Dan Greenfield
This week, it’s Fred Van Lente, the Brookyn-based writer of such awesomeness as “The Comic Book History of Comics,” “Action Philosophers,” and, currently, Valiant’s “Archer and Armstrong.”
These are the books Van Lente’s enjoying right now:
East of West by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta (Image)
Super-fun post-apocalyptic Western with eye-popping art by my buddy Nick.
Revival by Tim Seeley and Mike Norton (Image)
A “rural noir” set in a Wisconsin town where the dead won’t stay that way. Reminds me of early Stephen King in the best possible way.
Kinski by Gabriel Hardman (Monkeybrain)
At first glance, a straightforward story about a marketing flak who steals a dog. At second glance…
How to Fake a Moon Landing by Darryl Cunningham (Abrams)
A beloved British science cartoonist debunks common denier myths — the title chapter and the one on evolution are worth the cover price by themselves.
Swamp Thing by Charles Soule & Kano (DC)
Everyone’s favorite swamp hero (next to Man-Thing) goes on a world tour to stop various biological horrors.
Also for New York interest alone, people should pick up Charles’s Strange Attractors hardback graphic novel. A group of chaos-theory math fanatics keep the super-complex city from running properly in deceptively mundane ways … and protect it from an oncoming threat.
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