― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link
omg youre right! i thouhgt this was all the kamui there was.
― :|, Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link
(yay magick comix)
― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Still, some arcs or mini-series are clearly meant to be of a piece, and just happen to be released in issues first (like the first Kabuki collection?). There's also the phenomenon of "writing for the trade", the same as filming for the dvd I guess.
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link
The Diary of a Teenage Girl - Phoebe GloecknerEpileptic - David B.Summer Blonde - Adrian TomineI Never Liked You - Chester Brown
I understand the Blankets backlash but I think that there is something rich being uncovered throughout the story in the religious overtones. Like jaymc says, there's a lot that you don't catch visually the first time through that adds a very sophisticated counter-element to the plot. That said, I totally understand why someone would not want to read about sad teenage boy nostalgia.
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link
I didn't like Tomine untill recently when I gave him another chance w/ Summer Blonde and loved it. A few weeks ago I was at a party of like 8 people, me and 3 others in the living room, then 4 people in the hallway who left after an hour. I was like hey who was that? And my friend was like, that was Adrian Tomine, and I was like WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU INTRODUCE ME!!!!
Phoebe Gloeckner's work is amazing.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link
Tomine is great but I fear he is becoming predictable.
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― kephm, Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't!
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link
It's issues #5-8 of Optic Nerve (I think). But it's where he really hits his stride.
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
I thought the original Aliens V Predator story was a good book too, the one set in the futuristic farming ranch, again delicous artwork.
Arkham Asylum was okay with some great character designs but I felt it weakened towards the end.
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 8 October 2004 07:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― ___ (___), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:31 (nineteen years ago) link
Is that the one where the Japanese woman joins the Predator tribe? If so, god, I read that as a kid and I've been looking for it for ages. It's got to be out of print.
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 8 October 2004 12:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 8 October 2004 12:23 (nineteen years ago) link
And one more Alan Moore not mentioned so far: Skizz
― Joe Kay (feethurt), Friday, 8 October 2004 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 8 October 2004 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 8 October 2004 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link
(maybe you couldn't make it look more better)
― gaz (gaz), Friday, 8 October 2004 13:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 8 October 2004 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Friday, 8 October 2004 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 8 October 2004 14:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 8 October 2004 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 8 October 2004 14:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Or American Splendor by Harvey Pekar. Drawn by Crumb.
Sacco is brilliant.
― Stew S (stew s), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Love and Rockets received numerous props upthread. I've been reading it since issue 18.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stew S (stew s), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 8 October 2004 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stewart Smith (stew s), Friday, 8 October 2004 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Gilbert Hernandez is a nightmare, he's been working on a soap opera of a story involving the same characters since 1982/83. I'd say, just go out and buy the Palomar book, then the Poison River collection, which is not contained in the book frustratingly, because it contains essential flashback/back-story about Luba. Read that last.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1560975393/qid=1097273528/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/103-9932494-7466215?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1560971517/qid=1097273558/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-9932494-7466215?v=glance&s=books
Hey! my amazon review is up there!
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 8 October 2004 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 8 October 2004 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 9 October 2004 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 9 October 2004 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― robots in love (robotsinlove), Saturday, 9 October 2004 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link
Burns's art is beautiful, but his stories don't amount to all that much, for me. I've not read Black Hole.
GNs/albums/TPBs I've been spending money on lately: various Bendis things (I'm enjoying the Daredevil ones especially) and Phoenix (my single highest GN recommendation) and Astro Boy by Osamu Tezuka.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 10 October 2004 09:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Sunday, 10 October 2004 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 10 October 2004 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 10 October 2004 14:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh well, for the record, my favourite comics (available in handy book format - I was gonna get all pedantic about the TPB/GN thing):
* It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken - Seth* Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron - Clowes* The Poor Bastard - Joe Matt* Uncanny X-men - Dark Phoenix Saga* Quit Your Job - James Kochalka* American Elf - James Kochalka* Dark Knight Returns - Miller, Janson, Varley* Lum: Uruseia Yatsura Perfect Collection - Rumiko Takahashi* Summer of Love - Debbie Drechsler* Star Wars: Dark Empire - Veitch, Kennedy* The 3 X-Statix books collected so far.
― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 10 October 2004 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link