V for Vendetta!!!

I'm about a quarter of the way through and already I like it way better than the movie (and I do really really like the movie), particularly the character of Evey.

I also got "Does This Cape Make Me Look Fat?" which is a pretty damn funny look at the social aspects of being a superhero. Good stuff

Anyways, did anybody else get anything cool?

For me:

Maus
300
$50.00 which I just used to order From Hell. Not sure what the other $15.00 will go to. Maybe towards starting Sin City, or getting either Superman: Chronicles or Batman the Long Halloween.

But this weekend, I finished
Watchmen & Superman for all Seasons
Currently reading Origin, then moving on to V.

As much as I wanted to read V soon after Watchmen, getting into (what I would imagine is) another cerebral read, would've been a bit tiring. Even if I paced myself with Watchmen.

Comic or geek oriented:
Watchmen
Star Wars Space Battles starter and booster ... and I already have 3 doubles

I got a bunch of money for X-Mas that can be translated into comics, but no actual comics themselves.

I did hand out four copies of Pride of Baghdad for X-Mas though. Figure that spread some good cheer or whatever...

Yeah, I gave this to a friend of mine for X-mas, as well. He's a casual comic reader. Reads Squadron Supreme, and I turned him on to the entire Infinite Crisis/Identity Crisis saga, and Ultimate FF.

He seemed to genuinley like it, but wasn't too happy with the ending. Of course, I don't think you're supposed to be.

And of course, basing it off a true story Vaughn (yes, I know I'm spelling that incorrectly) didn't have much of a choice either.

I was actually surprised by the ending. I had read that it was based on actual events (very loosely mind you) but I didn't know how it ended.

Got and reading the Watchmen, where I am constantly amazed at the genius of Alan Moore. Loved V for Vendetta, though I consider the movie and the comic separate entities/stories. Loved the movie too, though I felt it was more of a political statement by the Matrix brothers than an adaptation of the comic.

^Sums up my thoughts on the movie quite well.

I got several trades for Christmas. So far I've read:

Ult. Spidey vol 2. - Ultimate Spidey is awesome. It's just plain fun comics.
Winter Soldier 1 & 2 - great story, great art. Even if you already know the ending.
Now I'm reading Squadron Supreme, and that's really good.

Still need to read:

Invincible vol 1
Thunderbolts vol 3
and a couple of others. Can't remember them right now.

The only trade I got was the hardcover Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do. A pretty decent story, but one I'm glad I got in trade from what I hear about that delay in publishing.

However, along the lines of comics, I did get the JLU:Season One (season three of the series for the uninitiated). Man, what a great season.