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		<title>What I&#8217;ve Been Reading: January 2, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Incognito #1 As with Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillip&#8217;sÂ  Sleeper, a familiar noir trope is getting a superpowered rerub:Â  the former supercriminal Zack Overkill, now drugged into normalcy and on parole, is struggling with his government-enforced rehabilitation and longs for the power he once possessed.Â  As with Criminal, the plot and story are onlyhalf of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>Incognito #1</strong></em><br />
As with Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillip&#8217;sÂ  <em>Sleeper</em>, a familiar noir trope is getting a superpowered rerub:Â  the former supercriminal Zack Overkill, now drugged into normalcy and on parole, is struggling with his government-enforced rehabilitation and longs for the power he once possessed.Â  As with <em>Criminal</em>, the plot and story are onlyhalf of the pleasure I get from reading Brubaker&#8217;s script; the construction is frequently elegant in its simplicity and the way he manages to surprise even when tinkering with the hoariest of clichÃ©s is envious.Â  Phillips and Staples, again, serve as the perfect counterpart to Brubaker&#8217;s script, deceptively minimal, reinforcing the point that less is more: murky swaths of digital watercolor underpins Phillips&#8217;s strong composition to help tell the story better than any amount of Photoshop gradient ever could.</p>
<p><strong>The Winter Men Winter Special<br />
</strong>It&#8217;s been two damn years, people. Â  I&#8217;m going to have to find my back issues before I even think about reading this thing I brought home.Â  I&#8217;m frankly a bit surprised that Wildstorm even bothered to put this out; I can&#8217;t imagine it&#8217;s sold enough to pay for its print run at this late date, but I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;d rather placate the few thousand buyers who&#8217;d whine about a collection containing a conclusion they weren&#8217;t able to buy off the stands.Â  (In other words, expect to see an unread copy show up at Goodwill or the like during my next big purge.)</p>
<p><strong>Final Crisis: Secret Files<br />
</strong>If I&#8217;d looked beyond the very nice cover by Frank Quitely and realized that the majority of this special revolved around Len Wein giving a proper origin to Libra (who I think was used by Morrison because he was a blank slate, serving his story needs as required while giving the instigator of <em>Final Crisis</em> the sort of tie to the universe at large that a lot of DC fans expect,) I wouldn&#8217;t have purchased it.Â  It&#8217;s a great deal of &#8220;What went on before&#8221; for a character that really didn&#8217;t need it.Â  There&#8217;s also two text pieces (Grant Morrison &#8220;explains&#8221; the Anti-Life equation in a very ugly page that&#8217;s facing a page from the Crime Bible) and some sketches by J.G. Jones and Morrison.</p>
<p><strong>Punisher War Zone #4</strong><br />
Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon could burn my home down and as long as it formed the shape of the Punisher&#8217;s skull emblem, I&#8217;d be OK with it.</p>
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