A big Hellblazer favor

You should include Gotham Central! And, um, She-Hulk!

(sorry Ken, I don't have that one)

Gotham Central is a great idea!

Oh and I meant to say--anyone who thinks they can help, please email me. And obviously this request is sort of limited to CT residents.

but singing detective and hellblazer aren't american

Ken, while I'm in CT, I don't have any TPBs that you might need. Have you tried checking area libraries? Dunno what Yale carries, but I imagine a few have some TPBs handy that might be of use. And, like you said, a day spent @ B&N drinking an overpriced coffee drink & reading comics ain't a bad day @ all.

If it is law then certainly any lawyer characters. So yes, the last two She-Hulk trades and splurges of Daredevil.

I'd help you out if I could.
I've never read Criminal! I love Jim Thompson, how have I overlooked this one?
Has anyone ever GNized Thompson?

Thanks to everyone whoe helped. In case anyone is interested, a guy named Lee Wang pointed me to: http://trackerb.zcultfm.com:6969/ Thanks!

I spent last night reading a lot of Delano issues until 5 in the morning. Not a good idea! It's annoying, b/c a lot of times he'll have good ideas, interesting characters, and one of the best versions of JC himself, but then he'll just sort of mash them together into a big, Englished-up, octopus-monstered mess. One thing I've noticed is that the classic JC story makes him a master strategist but the plot resolves itself via an incomprehensible deus ex machina--incomprehensible b/c the writer doesn't really provide us with the "rules" of the what JC can and can't do beforehand. The plot structures are analogous to Jenkins in The Inhumans or, more successfully, most GM stories (like his JLA Batman or Fantastic Four). But almost every Hellblazer writer--including Delano, Jenkins, and Carey--can't pull this off and the stories end with magic babbling (the Vertigo equivalent to Star Trek pseudo-tech solutions) and the appearance of a plot. I'm not trying to be harsh; it's just disappointing. Weirdly enough, Garth Ennis (who we usually don't think of as a plot-writer), doesn't seem to have this problem.

Huk-L - I just finished reading Criminal. It's pretty great but small (under 150 pages), you should read it. I get the feeling (from google and Robert Polito's Savage art, a biography of thompson) that it's less conspicuously "evil" than his other stuff. A lot of it seems harrowing in how how irrelevant it is to the crime--midlife crisis, a wife whose husband doesn't love her, a husband whose wife dies.