Wizard World hits Portland about once a year and always strikes me as being more a really expensive vendortainment sale and chance to pay celebrities a lot of money for a photo. You have plenty of this for any con nowadays, but this aspect seems the primary objective for the event.
Truth be told, I did consider going a few years back when they brought James Hong to town just for the chance to meet James Hong.
― Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 21:43 (eight years ago) link
I should dress as the Maestro if I go meet Peter David, right
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 21:44 (eight years ago) link
yes.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 21:45 (eight years ago) link
Those BPRD Plague of Frogs omnibuses are a great read. Guy Davis did most of the art on that mega arc. It is one of the best 'superhero' doomsday stories.
It is getting near the end of the next chapter, however there are other series fitting in other eras of the BPRD and Hellboy.
In general, I think the whole Mignolaverse is pretty high quality. I particularly like the Baltimore series myself.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 22:18 (eight years ago) link
You have plenty of this for any con nowadays
You're saying this in the city where Linework NW happens and a couple of hours from where Short Run happens (not to mention Jet City and ECCC)
― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 21 April 2016 00:59 (eight years ago) link
Is there a good place to start for Mignola? Or, like, what's a career peak moment if I'm lazy and only want to read a six-issue story to get the idea?
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 21 April 2016 11:45 (eight years ago) link
I would say the first arc he did without Byrne's help but I can't remember the title rn someone help me out.
The Amazing Screw-On Head is a wonderful standalone piece, too.
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 April 2016 14:27 (eight years ago) link
but it only had one print run, smaller than his Hellboy books of the time
I've still never seen a copy
― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 21 April 2016 15:00 (eight years ago) link
the hellboy arc or screw-on head?
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 21 April 2016 15:15 (eight years ago) link
screw-on
so he never collected it in an odds and sods? Wow.
*clutches copy of amazing screw-on head to breast*
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 April 2016 15:18 (eight years ago) link
http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/16-870/The-Amazing-Screw-On-Head-and-Other-Curious-Objects-hardcover-collection
― koogs, Thursday, 21 April 2016 15:26 (eight years ago) link
I was going to say, I've seen that collection and got the digital version during a sale. It's in stock on amazon.
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 21 April 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link
expensive for what it is though.
didn't think much to ASOH tbh unless i'm mis-remembering it.
i think any of the dozen or so hellboy trades would suit. get the one with the nazis and the zombies in it (jokes!)
― koogs, Thursday, 21 April 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link
I just wanted to go to the shop and buy a comic book
― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 21 April 2016 16:11 (eight years ago) link
not wait eight years and then pay $40 to have a hardcover with some extra crap mailed from America
― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 21 April 2016 16:13 (eight years ago) link
the trades should be widely available. i've even seen them in libraries.
― koogs, Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:28 (eight years ago) link
that still doesn't help the eight year gap at first*, nor the interest in going and buying a single self-contained comic that received such glowing reaction. and Dark Horse's site doesn't seen to indicate there has been a trade, six years after the HC that you note as being poor value anyway
*seven years after it won the Eisner. Four years after the TV adaptation!
― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:31 (eight years ago) link
dark horse making suspect release decisions? well, I never!
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:45 (eight years ago) link
Oh, the trade recommendation was for chuck, who wanted 6 issues mobile fix. That got confused with your screw on head comment somewhere along the way.
― koogs, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:49 (eight years ago) link
Mignola, not mobile
Thanks! Can you recommend a Hellboy/BRPD too? Have tried the first vol a few times bit find it a bit boring.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 22 April 2016 10:59 (eight years ago) link
Plague of Frogs is a decent place to jump in -- it's where they started a main storyline rather than just the monster of the week stories. There are still the one-offs, but it's where some of the doomsday predictions that were whispered in other stories start to play out
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 22 April 2016 15:05 (eight years ago) link
conqueror worm is very good. i prefer the fragmented semicontinuity of the early miniseries to the later more traditional approach. plague of frogs is still awesome though
― adam, Friday, 22 April 2016 15:09 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, the more cohesive Hellboy stories before the BPRD title launched are the best
Eventually the characterization of the different BPRD members starts to gel and I really like a few of them. I think they're finally getting around to really pulling back the covers on Abe Sapien's early relationship with the team, which should be good.
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 22 April 2016 15:20 (eight years ago) link
it's really for the Hellboy die-hards, but the stuff about his lineage and origin is super-nerdy and pretty wild
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 22 April 2016 15:25 (eight years ago) link
Thanks!
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 22 April 2016 16:24 (eight years ago) link
I'd just start with first Hellboy trade up to when he leaves the BPRD then read the war on frogs omnibus trades.
― earlnash, Friday, 22 April 2016 16:55 (eight years ago) link
this looks incredible
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/04/paul-kirchner-on-murder-by-remote-control-the-lost.html
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 16:15 (eight years ago) link
Annie Mok interviews Julie Doucet on her recent collage work: http://www.tcj.com/the-starting-point-an-interview-with-julie-doucet/
― one way street, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:14 (eight years ago) link
damn Murder by Remote Control looks awesome!
― Nhex, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 20:28 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, the only thing I remember by Kirchner is The Bus. This looks great.
― kills 1.8 percent of household germs (WilliamC), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 20:40 (eight years ago) link
Trondheim meets Mickey Mouse!
Mickey Craziest Adventures HcPublished by IDW PUBLISHING(W) Lewis Trondheim & Various (A/CA) Nicolas Keramidas It's a 'lost' 1965 Disney epic, deemed too wild for publication and saved only in tantalizing fragments... or is it? When Pegleg Pete and the Beagle Boys shrink and steal Scrooge's Money Bin, Mickey and Donald must track them down-in what is really a brand-new album-length thriller by comics masters Lewis Trondheim and Nicolas Keramidas: told in an amazing indy style and presented like a treasure suspended in time! Bullet points: ' Advance solicited for September release! ' By popular demand IDW brings an outrageous new Disney graphic novel to America-featuring the work of Lewis Trondheim (A.L.I.E.E.E.N, Little Nothings), Inkpot Award winner and two-time Eisner Award nominee! ' Trondheim and Nicolas Keramidas match a cutting-edge psychedelic look with the traditions of their beloved Disney inspirations-Floyd Gottfredson and Carl Barks!
Published by IDW PUBLISHING
(W) Lewis Trondheim & Various (A/CA) Nicolas Keramidas It's a 'lost' 1965 Disney epic, deemed too wild for publication and saved only in tantalizing fragments... or is it? When Pegleg Pete and the Beagle Boys shrink and steal Scrooge's Money Bin, Mickey and Donald must track them down-in what is really a brand-new album-length thriller by comics masters Lewis Trondheim and Nicolas Keramidas: told in an amazing indy style and presented like a treasure suspended in time! Bullet points: ' Advance solicited for September release! ' By popular demand IDW brings an outrageous new Disney graphic novel to America-featuring the work of Lewis Trondheim (A.L.I.E.E.E.N, Little Nothings), Inkpot Award winner and two-time Eisner Award nominee! ' Trondheim and Nicolas Keramidas match a cutting-edge psychedelic look with the traditions of their beloved Disney inspirations-Floyd Gottfredson and Carl Barks!
― Your Ass Is Grass And I Will Mow It With My Face (Old Lunch), Saturday, 30 April 2016 01:24 (eight years ago) link
Wow, great great news!
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 30 April 2016 03:26 (eight years ago) link
Murder by Remote Control is indeed awesome
― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Saturday, 30 April 2016 03:36 (eight years ago) link
the art on that mickey book looks great; I hope to see it scanlated or for sale ASAPhttp://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/01/08/cover-for-lewis-trondheims-mickey-mouse-released/
― ulysses, Saturday, 30 April 2016 14:52 (eight years ago) link
In the latest issue of Justice League, Superwoman from the Crime Syndicate finally gives birth to the baby teased at the end of Forever Evil. Why is this a big deal?
Because she gives birth in her costume. Which, in case you'd forgotten, looks like this:
http://logoonline.mtvnimages.com/uri/mgid:file:http:shared:newnownext.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/3380463-crime-syndicate-1459023879.jpg?quality=0.85&format=jpg&width=480
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 08:49 (eight years ago) link
kids gonna have some issues
― ulysses, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 14:06 (eight years ago) link
I just finished reading the first book of Nameless City by Faith Erin Hicks (of Superhero Girl and Friends with Boys fame), and it was excellent! Kinda reminded me of Avatar the Last Airbender (the animated series, not the awful movie adaptation), in that it takes place in an Eastern Asian influenced fantasy world, and deals with the effects of colonialism and war in a thoughtful and multi-faceted way, while still being appropriate for kids. It's more low fantasy though, with no magical/supernatural elements in the story, at least not yet. Can't wait for the next book in the series to come out.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 5 May 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link
Also, I really like Hicks' artwork, it's so clean and flows so effortlessly:
http://www.trbimg.com/img-56fc2f2a/turbine/07-namelesscity-faitherinhicks-jk-15things-0404-j-20160330
― Tuomas, Thursday, 5 May 2016 16:34 (eight years ago) link
yeah, that looks godo.
― ulysses, Thursday, 5 May 2016 18:17 (eight years ago) link
good, even.
Tuomas, have you read Carla Speed McNeil's Finder? I have no idea why that description reminded me of Finder, but it did, and it's good.
― Your Ass Is Grass And I Will Mow It With My Face (Old Lunch), Thursday, 5 May 2016 18:45 (eight years ago) link
only just investigated the, er, archives at libgen.io, and hooooooly shit
― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Friday, 6 May 2016 01:05 (eight years ago) link
how would one join?
― ulysses, Friday, 6 May 2016 03:05 (eight years ago) link
I actually have the first few Finder books in my shelf, and I tried to read it from the beginning, but it felt so dense and kinda hard to follow that I didn't manage to finish the first book. I should try it again one of these days.
― Tuomas, Friday, 6 May 2016 05:50 (eight years ago) link
Tuomas, you should read the "Talisman" arc sometime (it's been printed as a separate volume): it ties into some of the series' ongoing narratives, but it's compelling and accessible on its own. ("Mystery Date" and "Dream Sequence" also work without requiring too much prior knowledge.) I love Finder, but the first arc (Sin Eater) is probably the least inviting part of the series.
― one way street, Friday, 6 May 2016 12:48 (eight years ago) link
Shittiness
http://www.newsarama.com/29274-creator-darwyn-cooke-receiving-palliative-care-for-aggressive-cancer.html
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 13 May 2016 16:08 (eight years ago) link
that sucks.
― ulysses, Friday, 13 May 2016 16:16 (eight years ago) link
That's terrible. Palliative usually = the prognosis is terminal, iirc.
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Friday, 13 May 2016 17:11 (eight years ago) link
aw man. those animated shows were so good. :(
― Οὖτις, Friday, 13 May 2016 17:15 (eight years ago) link