2012 what are you reading thread

Apropos of nothing, just would like to add that Mark Evanier's blog is well worth a comics fan's time, if y'all aren't already reading it. Yesterday's piece about Ben Oda was really nice, and very much an Evanier Blog Post.

http://www.newsfromme.com/

Finally reading the newly-collected FLEX MENTALLO. Must say it's more technically adept, but I miss the candy colors so far.

I haven't been reading many comics the last few months. I got a pretty good stack of newer issues to to read. In the last couple of days though I picked back off my shelf and finished the last issues in Essential Captain America Vol. 3 and some in Essential Avengers Vol. 5, which is basically Steve Englehart's first stories in both titles.

Carl Barks' "Donald Duck: Lost in the Andes" - jesus christ this is some sour stuff. definitely a few in here I will not be reading with my child.

reading Courtney Crumrin with my daughter - suitably goth teen witch stuff

read new Bechdel, My Friend Dahmer book, um, the "Lost in Andes" Carl Barks collection. thinking about going back to Cerebus next, but i'm kinda in the mood for some more lighter reading before diving back into Sim's mind. any suggestions?

i would like to HEARTILY recommend Joe Daly. Dude is amazing. It's too early to even think this but I wanna say he's on a par with Clowes or Woodring.
http://www.avoidthefuture.com/2010/05/interview-joe-daly-creator-of-dungeon.html

i'm also rereading Parasyte, which is great and slowly slowly slowly tunneling through McNeal's Finder

wow, that daly book looks really interesting

Red Monkey is fun but Dungeon Quest is top of the line. Very much like the book you would've written in high school about you and your friends going on a D&D quest except more fucked up and somehow it works. It also has the dash shaw penchant for obsessively charting and updating minutia in the margins. Can't wait until it's available in a complete single volume; it's gonna be in my top 100

and volume three is out in a few days!

i think johnny ryan is kinda doing the same thing with prison pit and it's not bad, but it's, you know, johnny ryan, so it's more like an autistic kid drew it on notebook paper

man i should not be allowed to look at amazon
i'll be buying those fanta EC repackages

I'm glad you're so effusive, I want to be convinced into buying some comix

aaaand i just bought:

Gloriana by Kevin Huizenga
Journalism by Joe Sacco
Dungeon Quest: Book Three (Vol. 3) by Joe Daly
Scrublands by Joe Daly

yay amex points

mordy i can pretty much guarantee you're going to love dungeon quest; it is tailor made for nerds like us

the origin of Fuckitor

ok, i ordered the dungeon quest books and the sacco. i'm still willing to make a play on one or two more if someone feels particularly passionate about recommending something??

Jake Karns needs your money

idk, i just read that fuckitor comic + it was pretty disturbing

new LOEG is out...?

personally I find Karns disturbing yet hilarious.

sort of like Frankenhooker

it was def funny, but i don't think it's something i want to own... also, i think i got the point from the few panels at that link. i don't need to see more.

fukitor is great if you have a taste for s. clay wilson and/or Ec comix; I would totally cop that he's not for everyone.
mordy, if you haven't read sacco's footnotes in gaza you TOTALLY should

DIAL H was surprisingly good, having just read the first two issues.

The Don McGregor/Paul Gulacy SABRE (1982) is insane. Probably unpalatable to a lot of readers of today's comics, but I dug it. Is it good? Well, I dunno. Is it engaging? You bet.

I've never read SABRE, but those pages you shared on tumblr where cool.

I've been reading the classic Frank Miller DAREDEVIL and the BONE -ROSE story. For some reason I've be ER read the latter and so far it's good.

I figure most people would think that SABRE is too ponderous to actually read. I don't agree.

Wondering what the rights situation for that book is. Would like to see a tribute edition one day, but I bet there's only like twenty people on the planet who'd actually buy it. And I'm tired of printing books people won't buy.

always felt that the v. last thing don mcgregor needed was LESS editorial... constraint, tho' i have a certain fondness for the DETECTIVES INC follow-up GN by mcgregor and rogers.

never been a huge gulacy fan tho, kinda stiff and derivative of steranko, w/out any of steranko's (kirby-derived) energy and mad design skillz

i'm reviewing: fantagraphics.com/jewishimages - haven't gotten it yet tho

Sounds cool mate

forks, u were otm re dungeon quest. so fucking funny. i'm half-way through the third book and the only reason i haven't finished it yet is bc i'm pacing myself so that i can enjoy it longer. should i check out daly's other stuff?

hells yes

just don't expect them to be quite that good

I am really really enjoying Rucka's current run on Punisher.

I bought a used copy of Gipi's The Innocents. Love that guy.
http://wordswithoutborders.org/article/taken-from-life-an-interview-with-gipi/

Also strongly recommending everyone get on the Kazimir Strzepek train, dude is great
http://studygroupcomics.com/main/category/contributor/kazimir-strzepek/
^i assume these are the beginnings of Mourning Star #3? It's been almost five years since the last book.

Yes. Fkin love Mourning Star.

i wanna set up a comic reading day at my pad with Jon and Mordy. I've got several walls of reading material and could buy a few beers, order some food and curate an hour or three of choice reading. I'd encourage folks to bring material for me to get at as well.
Who else is a NYC/NJ ILCor? Maybe we should make a day to do this.

Once I finish prepping my hardcover (three weeks?) I'll be pretty free.

Just read through a bunch of the offerings of Monkeybrain comics on Comixology. The Roberson/Culver and Tobin/Coover books stand out as superior in the initial offerings.

Also splurged and bought THE KREE/SKRULL WAR issues of THE AVENGERS. Roy Thomas, Sal Buscema, John Buscema, Neal Adams and Tom Palmer. There's some great fun in there, far more unhinged than I thought they would be at first.

rilke - new poems (stephen cohn tr.)
plato - republic, parmenides (b. jowett tr.)

Over the weekend I finished reading the original run of Frank Miller on DAREDEVIL (I re-read BORN AGAIN a few years ago). I haven't read them since they came out, but truly understand why they still receive such praise. There is so much story packed in each issue; his run as writer & artist is roughly two years and he puts in what would now be a decade's worth of developments. Also, much more adult and fucked in the head than I expected. Hard to believe these had the Comics Code seal on them.

I think I'll work my way through 80s Miller in the next few weeks. Been a good while since I've read ELEKTRA or YEAR ONE.

i went to the comic book shop today during lunch hoping to find mourning star. no luck, tho. i guess it's OOP? anyway, i wanted to leave with something so i bought that hunter s thompson bio - Gonzo i think it's called or something? guy at the store said it was good so i figured what the hell.

I haven't read them since they came out, but truly understand why they still receive such praise.

I do too... even still when I went back to them a couple years ago I didn't hesitate to get rid of them. They're unrelentingly bleak, not really enjoyable to read. Probably most enjoyable for the artwork/design.

like the drug stuff is just ridiculous

They're brutally dark. And Daredevil is a dickhead. Glorious work though.

they're "adult" in the most juvenile way possible

Joshua Ferris - Then We Came To The End (amusing enough)
E.L. Doctorow - Homer & Langley (grabbed me instantly)
Essays of E.B. White (meh, tbh)

whoops, sorry thought this was the book thread

Through the Judge Dredd epics, somebody just streamed several torrents of them. Currently on Chopper.

curious where ppl are getting cbr's of 50's-80's shit these days (aside from torrents, which I can't do). My main go-to place pretty much became a ghost town with the Mega shutdown. PM me if there's somewhere I should know about.