I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: one of the cooler things about a quarter-bin sale is when you find an entire run of a series. Last year, I found most of the Vertigo series Coffin Hill and Clean Room. In the past, it’s been miniseries like Howard Chaykin’s Blackhawk or randomin independent books like Katumi or Starslayer.

The two series I found this time were completey different from one another: a love story and a post-apocalyptic nightmare.

The love story is Love Fights, a series from the mid-2000s by Andi Watson. I’d once owned the trade of Breakfast After Noon, a breakup story that took place amidst economic hardship in England. Love Fights is a romantic comedy set against the backdrop of a world of superheroes and our main characters are the creators of comics featuring said superheroes.

It’s cute. The love story is all about missed chances and micommunication as well as getting caught up in the capers of the heroes themselves. The meta commentary that goes with certain heroes having more popular comics that pay more based on how close they are to the “A-List” is clever. Watson’s art style is so minimal, though, that it doesn’t always serve the story well. Or maybe that’s because I kept comparing the book to Thom Zahler’s work, especially Love and Capes. In fact, he’d be great on a book like this.

The other series was Resurrection, which ran for 13 issues plus an FCBD “zero” issue. The premise here is that aliens invaded the Earth ten years earlier and then recently left. No rebellion, no truce, no other reason except they just … left. In a Walkind Dead-type of story, we are here to see how humanity has tried to survive and what has become of the United States.

I wound up with the whole series, even though I had to look that up because issue #13 ends with a cliffhanger. And it wasn’t untiil I started reading that I realized this was volume 2. There had been an earlier miniseries.

I don’t think I needed the first volume to get the second. Mark Guggenheim writes a story that gives us enough background and shares enough mystery that I was hooked pretty quickly. And as we go, the mystery seems to get adjusted and rewritten, as a group of survivors makes their way from Pennsylvania to Washington, D.C. Throughout, we get flashbacks to the invasion or right after the aliens left. There are also some good one-off “Tales from the Resurrection” stories in a few issues.

The cliffhanger is frustrating, especially because none of the answers of the story’s central questions were remotely provided. Not even that much of a hint.

Keep, Sell, Donate, or Trash?

Into the recycling bin they went. But if you ever see them in the cheapie bins, give them a try.