2012 what are you reading thread

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.

newsgroups?

Mordy, I bought that HST thing online on a whim. Kind of has a moment or two, mostly just seems like the voice is off.

try mIRC. back when i was downloading a ton of comics i hung out on some #comics chat. if you set up a TCP whatever fileserv (which was easy to do and i did) you even get access to like members-only fservs + html landing pages for downloads. i haven't done it in awhile tho, so i couldn't tell you where to begin..

ELEKTRA: ASSASSIN is still really crazy good. And crazy. Crazy, mostly.

picked up Jason Shiga's Empire State hardcover for ten bucks last week. what an appallingly trite and pointless pile of shit - it's amazing enough that any author could finish it and then think it worth turning in, but that real grown-up book publishers and editors all pumped it through the system is just astounding.

at least it meant a paycheque for John Pham to "colour" it, hope he'll get around to Sublife #3 some day

that seems unnecessarily harsh

no man I really want Sublife #3 to come out!

DIAL H #3 was good, but everytime they mentioned telephones I kept thinking about that DOOM PATROL story and just want to read that instead.

new volume of Dungeon Quest is SO GOOD, loads of really weird weed smoking and homoerotic stuff tho so tread carefully
new huizenga is unsurprisingly brilliant.
looking forward to reading sacco's journalism tonight

i cosign the brilliance of new dungeon quest

kevin h is unstoppable, best of his generation IMO

his stream of consciousness stuff is so ballsy and clever

What the hell is Dungeon Quest *googles furiously*

it's so good! get it asap. fantographics publishes it

I can't I'm reading "everything Bolano ever wrote" right now

2666 is pretty sweet too, i must admit

new huizenga is unsurprisingly brilliant.

wait what's the new huizenga?

gloriana

lol, that is 11 years old

(first time in hardcover tho)