What I'm Not Talking about This Week

 So, has anything happened lately?  Not much, huh.  Well, I've been through some difficulties, all minor.  I started reading a new book yesterday.  It was the latest novel for adults from an author more known for his work for children.  It was the first of his adult works that I have read, and it was nothing like his others.  While I know that ht formats aren't exactly the same and I shouldn't expect them to be, the changes in this book wherefore like it was a completely different person.  Sure, some of the underlying snark was there, but that was about all this book had in common with his other novels.  The genre was the same, modern fantasy.  One of the main characters was also a teenager.  I have only read a few chapters so far, but I'm having problems with the abrupt change in style.  The language and the situations were so unlike what I read before.  Now, I've read books by other authors who have shifted audiences, and the changes were not this great.  The styles remained the same, even when most other things changed.  Maybe I will find some differences when I get to read more, but I have feeling that I will have a hard time going through with it.  On the other hand, I breezed through another book I read.  Technically, it was a comic book collection, but I say it still counts as a book, even if some critics suggest otherwise.  I got the collection because the series was cancelled before all the issues could be printed.  The remaining two issues were available as digital copies only.  Since I do not consider those books, I had to wait until the entire run got collected and printed.  Yes, this means I actually bought a book, through my store, for just two issues, when I already had the other eight issues in the collections, as well as the short piece included with another book.  I hate to say it, but the stories were slightly disappointing.  It was a two parter that showed how the character was dealing with a major problem she was going through that had lasted the last few issues.  She was coping with it a little worse than she could have, but she was optimistic, even when dealing with a natural disaster and a somewhat rouge element in the US government.  However, the story felt rushed and only added to show that the character was moving on even after the series was cancelled.  That's right.  The series had been cancelled months ahead of the issues before the decision was made to publish the final two issues online only, and then the delay of a few more months before the collection was printed.  The publisher could have just let the two issues never see print, but they decided to put them online instead.  In fact, this publisher has been doing that with many of their issues over the last few months.  Letting the last issues of a title to be cancelled go online only.  I think other publishers are doing this as well, with the issues only seeing print when the trade collections come out.  It is a tacky thing to do.  Yes, we are cancelling your favorite series, and you won't get to see those final issues in print unless you pay for the collection, which includes all the other issues you have already bought.  I wouldn't be so mad, if the story had been better, but it wasn't.  I will have another cancelled series come out in December.  This time, it will include a three issue storyline from the title.  Hopefully, it will turn out better than this experience.