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<\/a>While libraries have a reputation for sharing lofty knowledge and art, that doesn\u2019t change the fact that your average library customer is here to pick up the latest murder mystery or spy thriller. And I think those people would enjoy \u201cThe Fade Out\u201d by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. \u201cThe Fade Out\u201d is a noir-style drama set in 1940s Hollywood \u2014 on the set of a film noir movie. Troubled screenwriter Charlie Parish wakes up in a bathtub after his latest bender, barely able to remember the night before. He finds himself in a stranger\u2019s home, with the dead body of his film\u2019s leading lady on the living room floor. While he\u2019s pretty sure that he isn\u2019t the killer, he knows that his alibi of \u201cI was blackout drunk 20 feet away\u201d is unlikely to hold water with the police. The mystery becomes a sordid look at Hollywood excess, Red Scare repression, and crushed souls in the land of dreams.<\/p>\n\u201cSaga,\u201d by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples, is another beloved series not for children. Imagine a gritty version of \u201cStar Wars,\u201d unafraid of sex, violence or dark humor. A man and a woman from two enemy races fall in love, have a child and begin life on the run from both of their home worlds. Surprisingly, Vaughan has said that he wanted to explore the theme of parenthood and cloaked it in the guise of intergalactic space adventure, which makes it a fun, thoughtful and sometimes touching read.<\/p>\n \u2014Jake Sexton es bibliotecario en la sucursal de La Mesa de la Biblioteca del Condado de San Diego. Llame a la biblioteca al 619-469-2151, visite en persona en 8074 Allison Ave. u obtenga informaci\u00f3n en l\u00ednea en sdcl.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Por Jake Sexton<\/p>","protected":false},"author":736,"featured_media":222049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11548","_seopress_titles_title":"La Mesa Reads: Best new comic titles now available at the library","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11549,11548,11550],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-la-mesa-courier","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>One of the year\u2019s other most-acclaimed titles is \u201cBitch Planet.\u201d Called \u201cMargaret Atwood meets Quentin Tarantino,\u201d this subversive comic by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro takes the gritty sci-fi and exploitation films of the 1970s and combines them with a sexist version of \u201c1984.\u201d Any woman who refuses to behave in the \u201cproper\u201d feminine manner is at risk of arrest and incarceration on an all-female prison planet. But the \u201cnon-compliant\u201d inmates at this prison aren\u2019t all victims. Some are rowdy, mad, and ready to fight. The entire comic is a sly satire of a shallow and patriarchal culture, and leaves the reader wondering how far away we are from this level of injustice.<\/p>\n<\/a>Lastly, I\u2019d recommend \u201cMs. Marvel\u201d by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona. Suitable for all ages, this common superhero story defies expectation and makes clever metaphorical points about identity, youth and society. Our main character is 16-year old Kamala Khan, a Muslim girl from New Jersey. Her struggles to fulfill the expectations of her religious parents, her subtly racist classmates and her adventure-seeking self are symbolized by her newly-gained superpower: to alter her body into any size or shape. Without a heavy hand, the comic tells a fantastical story, while touching on themes of faith, race, technology and celebrity that are quite smart. It\u2019s also great to see a major comic publisher (Marvel Comics) taking a big step towards a stable of heroes who represent their increasingly diverse fan base.<\/p>\n