That's fun!
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 April 2016 19:11 (eight years ago) link
one of the T0rr3nt$!!?!?!? services i frequent just posted an 80 gig collection of more or less every Dell comic. 1300 issues of Four Color alone! I don't quite know what to make of it; I had no idea such a thing even existed.
― ulysses, Monday, 11 April 2016 00:45 (eight years ago) link
Dell?
― Nhex, Monday, 11 April 2016 02:57 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxTLgX4nS1g
― ulysses, Monday, 11 April 2016 03:10 (eight years ago) link
basically (from the 40's until the 70's) ALL the walter lantz, disney, little lulu, merry melodies, hanna barbera, television and movie adaptation comics in existencein their prime, more popular than marvel or dc ever were
― ulysses, Monday, 11 April 2016 03:14 (eight years ago) link
they sold (second hand) a lot of IP to Valiant and then Dark Horse, so they're also the original home of Turok and Magnus Robot Fighter
― ulysses, Monday, 11 April 2016 03:18 (eight years ago) link
i also just, er, ACQUIRED full publishing libraries for First and Milestone. Lots to explore!
― ulysses, Monday, 11 April 2016 03:20 (eight years ago) link
I liked that Wendy thing from Hazlitt & Hairpin
http://wendycore.tumblr.com/
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 11 April 2016 09:12 (eight years ago) link
Just finished Brian K Vaughan's -collected _Private Eye_ series, which includes his original pitch emails to artist Marcos Martin. There's a weird tone in the pitch document where he's describing the future, non-Internet world he wants the book to inhabit. He's describing his problems with current society, as it were, being all digital and smartphoney and tablety, and tips his hand a little _too_ much in such a way that reads to me like "these are the complaints of a really privileged white dude in LA who's been balls-deep in too much media for too long".
The book itself is pretty good; the philosophy behind its world-building kinda off.
― Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Sunday, 17 April 2016 10:56 (eight years ago) link
Weird, considering (iirc) that series was supposed to be an experiment in digital comics
― Nhex, Sunday, 17 April 2016 20:27 (eight years ago) link
Perhaps it's a requirement of his job to be into all this stuff and he feels trapped.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 17 April 2016 21:57 (eight years ago) link
Anyone still reading the BPRD/Hellboy stuff in 2016? I feel like the really long game they're playing with dark forces taking over the planet is kind of dragging, but there are hints it's starting to move toward an end. The Abe Sapien title seems to be starting to loop back toward the center and I enjoyed the most recent issue
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 14:13 (eight years ago) link
new chester is great, love that dude though maybe wouldn't want to hang out w him
― adam, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 14:21 (eight years ago) link
Or shake his hand
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 14:28 (eight years ago) link
lol
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 14:31 (eight years ago) link
I haven't really been able to enjoy hellboy stuff not drawn by mignola. He is 10x more alive as a cartoonist than a writer to me.
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link
i agree
― ulysses, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 15:33 (eight years ago) link
I wanted to get a recent issue of Abe Sapien because it has Santiago Caruso, his first comic work. I think he's genuinely one of the greatest illustrators of all time. I like Corben's Hellboy work too but I wish he didn't Mignolize the faces of Hellboy in the later stuff.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 15:37 (eight years ago) link
so, my completely non-serious graphic literature question
I've never been to a larger traveling fan exhibition thing. The... *cough* wizard world *cough* one is coming through my city. Is it.. bad? Kind of tempted to drop in to say hi to Colleen Doran and Peter David
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 15:47 (eight years ago) link
hellboy stuff with normal-style mainstream comics art is the worst. there's one BRPD story written by GEOFF JOHNS and illustrated by SOME SCRUB that just lays bare the entire enterprise
― adam, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 15:54 (eight years ago) link
please don't tell me that *sobs*
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 15:55 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, a lot of the fill in artists on Hellboy don't work that well. That's probably why you never see most of them again. I wish Gene Colan did more for Hellboy.
If Wizard magazine from some years back is representative of the current convention, then it's probably not good. It epitomized a lot of what was wrong with mainstream comics. But it was funny on occasion.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 17:20 (eight years ago) link
Did not know Colan did some hellboy! Would read that!
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 17:49 (eight years ago) link
It was only something like 7 pages though.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 17:52 (eight years ago) link
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