2012 what are you reading thread

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)

yes.

ordered dungeon quest

"2666" is not pretty sweet. I was liking it until it got to the fourth part. I figured it'd go in this direction, with the "Bouvard et Pecuchet" references in the previous chapters, but this is some Bret Easton Ellis-level grinding and I feel like I'm wasting my time. Also I'm annoyed that everybody read it already four years ago. And b/c I loved "The Savage Detectives" and "Amulet".

So annoyed that I forgot why I came to this thread, which wasn't to bitch about 2666 but to talk about how happy I was to start reading 60s Incredible Hulk last night

First and last parts of 2666 were alright.

The part about the murders was all time tedium.

To tie it into comics, the only other time I felt so bogged down by a book was Reads.

Funny! I just finished "Women" a month ago and haven't gone any further

then you'll LOOOOOVE Are You My Mother?

xp

I've been reading King City but put it down for a bit. Probably picking it up this weekend.

http://www.comicsbeat.com/2012/05/07/preview-dungeon-quest-book-three-by-joe-daly/

xxxpost There's some good stuff here and there after Women but yeah it's pretty rough for the most part.

I avoided this problem entirely by just skipping Reads. at this point the only other volume I haven't read and am curious about is Minds.

In hindsight that is the way to go but at that point I had convinced myself I was going to read the whole thing (the actual breaking point was the first half of The Last Day, where the cumulative effect of Reads, Rick's Story, the goddamn Woody Allen character etc etc, caused me to say "fuck it" and skip to the end).

Minds was OK, though.

owenp, what 60s hulks? have always found the v early issues by lee and kirby p rough going (not helped by leaden dick ayers inking) but once the roy thomas/herb trimpe were established (i'm guessing late 60s) its a really consistent marvel comic bk w/ some near-classic issues ("Heaven is a Very Small Hulk"!) i esp like the way that thomas (and the ppl who followed him like steve englehart and len wein) couldn't just write 'The Hulk' in a caption - he always had to be 'the emerald man-beast' or 'the jade goliath' or whateves

or have i said too much abt dopey old marvel shit

No I am feeling yr prose on this, Ward. I need to get one of those Hulk Essentials one o' these days.

agree w Ward - Hulk doesn't get interesting til the late 60s/early 70s

I'd like to get another look at the issues John Severin inked.

i had a friend in high school who was a serious hulk nerd and he had (in reprint or original) basically every issue of the hulk and any appearance in marvel books. this was before there was a broader mass market audience for this stuff so as you might imagine he spent a lot of cash on it. i read most all of it and i found the hulk, more or less until peter david, to be kind of a not very good character

well, it is always difficult to write the adventures of an inarticulate monster-simpleton every month for years and years - didn't p david 'solve' that by turning hulk super-brainy? - but he can also function as the focal point around which an amusing supporting cast can orbit (a bit like tomb of dracula, maybe)? some writers solve it by being geniuses - eg steve gerber had v merry fun w/ the hulk in his defenders issues.

yeah WmC, trimpe/sev was well tasty - kirbyesque dynamism in the pencils, meticulous rendering in the inking. sev was also performing miracles over dick ayers on sgt fury round abt the same time.