good, even.
― ulysses, Thursday, 5 May 2016 18:17 (eight years ago) link
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
I hadn't put his name together with his work, but I grew up on Batman: TAS, and his animation work holds up so well. Very, very sad.
― one way street, Friday, 13 May 2016 18:05 (eight years ago) link
That's awful. He's such great artist with a clear vision and imaginative sense of design, as retro as it may be. DC New Frontier and those Donald Westlake adaptations were a joy to read.
― Tuomas, Friday, 13 May 2016 21:40 (eight years ago) link
Very sad, really liked his work
― Nhex, Saturday, 14 May 2016 02:39 (eight years ago) link
Rest in peace, Darwyn
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 14 May 2016 04:57 (eight years ago) link
??
― μpright mammal (mh), Saturday, 14 May 2016 05:16 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, the announcement of palliative care was very much a last minute thing. RIP
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Saturday, 14 May 2016 09:00 (eight years ago) link
Or not? Some real confusion.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Saturday, 14 May 2016 10:12 (eight years ago) link
He's still alive AFAICT.
― Peanut Duck (Old Lunch), Saturday, 14 May 2016 13:26 (eight years ago) link
Now confirmed to have passed on by Mike Allred (although the confusion is not helped by him deleting the confirmation by Darwyn's wife Marsha - she apparently wants time to come to terms with it before it's announced.)
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Saturday, 14 May 2016 14:21 (eight years ago) link
Sad news. Cooke's work is wonderful.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 14 May 2016 17:20 (eight years ago) link
I went to one of Darwyn's lectures at TCAF about a decade ago, he seemed like a swell guy, very supportive of other artists, whether they were DC or D&Q, he wasn't snobby. He spoke about being relieved to get away from superhero stuff, that he'd been preparing something autobiographical - I wonder what happened with that?
I also remember his storytelling advice: "There's no scene that couldn't be improved by being set in an abandoned fairground" - legit the best writing advice I've ever heard.
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 15 May 2016 19:11 (eight years ago) link
He spoke about being relieved to get away from superhero stuff, that he'd been preparing something autobiographical - I wonder what happened with that?
He was seduced back with The Spirit offer and couldn't resist, sadly.
― glandular lansbury (sic), Sunday, 15 May 2016 22:54 (eight years ago) link
been busy buying and reading a bunch of stuff written by Ales Kot
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 18:45 (eight years ago) link
I often forget how many years I spent reading Beano, Dandy, Beezer and Topper when I was little. I might be remembering wrong but it seems like so many of the plots were about getting food. Not sure I was ever an actual fan of many of the stories apart from maybe a few characters like Korky The Cat but I did read hundreds of them. I always fucking hated Dennis The Menace, why did anyone like that stupid looking asshole? I wanted the other characters to murder him.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 00:07 (eight years ago) link
Dairy Queen had Dennis the Menace characters on their cups for a number of years so I have a tolerance
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 00:46 (eight years ago) link
Different Dennis. Those Brits have zero respect for US IP, I tells ya.
― Peanut Duck (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 02:09 (eight years ago) link
IIRC the two Dennises were created independently of each other, they both debuted in the same year?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 04:19 (eight years ago) link
Yes, I keed, I keed. And not just the same year but the same week.
― Peanut Duck (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 04:53 (eight years ago) link
Is good, on Darwyn Cooke:
http://thewalrus.ca/capes-and-tights/
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 23 May 2016 23:34 (eight years ago) link
I guess any of the special free comics from free comic book day will all be gone? I wanted that Mignola/Corben short so I guess I'll have to wait til it's collected into a book?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 11:08 (eight years ago) link
not sure if anyone here works in your local comic shop
― glandular lansbury (sic), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 12:20 (eight years ago) link
But generally in comic shops I'm guessing they give them all away pretty quickly
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 12:32 (eight years ago) link
okay
― glandular lansbury (sic), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 12:36 (eight years ago) link
If it's not some ridiculously limited edition thing, you should be able to find it for purchase online pretty easily and at a reasonable price.
― Corn Elephant, Jr. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 12:37 (eight years ago) link
I've come to accept that my expectation of free FCBD comics shouldn't extend past the actual date of FCBD.
― Corn Elephant, Jr. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 12:38 (eight years ago) link
Looks like Comixology/Amazon now has an unlimited subscription plan thing, with a handful of publishers contributing content.
The browsing is kind of half-assed on the web, which is true of most of the unlimited services (I've used Marvel Unlimited and some other service, maybe Scribd, for reading Valiant titles). It looks like some titles from Image/IDW/Valiant/Dark Horse/Fantagraphics (!)/Boom! Studios are on there now.
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 18:19 (eight years ago) link
among other publishers, which I failed to notice on the first screen
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 18:24 (eight years ago) link
on another note, going back to the conversation about the state of comic book retailers...
I had some errands to run near a comic/game store I don't usually frequent. Their comics section isn't bad these days! I have no idea why, but they decided to run with the business decision of stocking as many collections and graphic novels as possible, which is great. Unfortunately, when I got to the cash register, a gamer dude was breathlessly pontificating at the cashier about the balance of some game or another pending some new expansion. HE SMELLED SO BAD. Like, I usually brush off the stereotype of gamers as really awkward dudes who smell bad but GOOD GOD MAN
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
Probably v slow on the uptake here, but recently discovered the great comics of Kate Beaton, many of which are free to read here:
http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 18:38 (eight years ago) link
i am off to look into that comixology subscription, would love a better option than torrenting for casual reading
― ulysses, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 19:33 (eight years ago) link
I've read many entertaining anecdotes about bad comic shop experiences. Often about shop workers insulting customers. Here's a favourite I remember
Customer: Do you have any Creepy issues from Warren?Comic Store Guy: Creepy is from Dark Horse, idiot!
Any of you guys have any memorably bad experiences?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 19:36 (eight years ago) link
While the range of titles is deep, however, the amount you can read from each title is relatively thin. Many comics are limited to just the first volume. Anything beyond that, well, you can pick up the collections from Comixology.
Apparently the service plans to cycle through the content being offered, much like Netflix does, with new and old series and issues being added but with no specific window announced yet.
― ulysses, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 19:40 (eight years ago) link
Jesus christ, the idea of a digital comic service that's run like Netflix makes me want to die. Read issues 1-5, 7, 15, and 32 this month and then maybe two months from now they'll swap those out with like half the issues that were missing.
― Wet Food (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 19:43 (eight years ago) link
lol that's how i read elf quest as a kid - i went to the library and took out whichever of those oversized hard covers they had available. iirc i read the last volume first and had no idea who any of the characters were.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 19:45 (eight years ago) link
for $6 a month you can read the first twenty pages and then random chapters in all our novels! how can you lose!
― ulysses, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 19:48 (eight years ago) link
honestly that's how pretty much all of the subscription ones are run right now afaik, with Marvel being the one that seems to delete few while continually adding more
I would love, and probably pay extra for, a service that was just "here's every available comic we're able to offer from this publisher" for a premium price, with the acknowledgement that people are going to subscribe for a couple months to binge everything from several series. But that doesn't keep people hanging on to their subscriptions. It looks like their compromise is a scattering of content for $6 per month. Which is a nice deal, but it's obviously meant as a taster to get you to buy more titles.
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 19:53 (eight years ago) link
Marvel Unlimited seems to do pretty well with keeping the titles they have; never seen them remove much?
― ulysses, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 19:57 (eight years ago) link
they usually only do it when they really screwed up their initial upload
like the ones where the exposition dialog boxes were in a different font and their digital comic creation process resulted in them just being ??? ????? ???
I have still seen a couple of those panels, though
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 20:04 (eight years ago) link
oh yeah, i remember that being particularly bad with the avengers
― ulysses, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 20:05 (eight years ago) link
I subscribed to Unlimited for about 18 months - it's terrific but the lo-res scan quality started to bug me, so I quit and I've mostly just been buying off the main app now, where everything's super high quality and (apologies) I genuinely enjoy reading via the panel-to-panel thing.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 23:52 (eight years ago) link