2012 what are you reading thread

The JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY I've read has been solid (not caught up at all though), as was his THOR that preceded it. THOR and related SIEGE issues were probably the highlight of that stupid event. I wasn't a big fan of the much vaunted PHONOGRAM either, but Britpop wasn't my bag in the first place.

Journey into Mystery is a pretty fun comic, although coming to an end soon I gather. There are definitely some good issues in the run, especially anything to do with Loki's 'dog' and the 'Mephisto walks into a bar issue'.

Skipping back a bit. Comics with a gaming inspiration: please check out Levon Jihanian's work. He is serializing his work currently on the Study Group site. His project is called Danger Country. I bought a Danger Country mini from him at Stumptown last year which was super great.

His work is like a deranged ADVENTURE TIME rendered in the spare early DnD guidebook style. I felt the mini was light for the price, but that's a pretty common feeling with minis (for me.) Still interesting, though.

why can't I get ADVENTURE TIME dvds in UK gaaaaah

Got most of my big orders yesterday --
Complete Captain Easy Sundays Vol. 1 (1933-1935)
The Art of Jaime Hernandez
Casanova Vol. 1 - Luxuria
Krazy & Ignatz - Complete Sundays Vol. 3 (1935-1944)

Hope to get the K&I Vol. 1 today -- was a little surprised that Fanta shipped them separately.

Guys guys
http://www.comicstripnation.com/broom-hilda/broom-hilda-20120725.html

wow

to be fair, unlike america's editorial cartoonists (who should be fkin ashamed of themselves), the dude who draws Broom Hilda files his shit way ahead of time. But yeah wow.

Yeah, I was gonna say, newspaper strip artists have to work weeks in advance. I remember one interviewee (Trudeau?) saying he'd gotten down to 2-3 weeks out from publication and his syndicate was shitting bricks.

didn't even get it at first and then

In other news, Desert Island will have a copy of Essential Hulk Vol. 3 by Friday...

my fantagraphics lost in the andes turned up today woot

that council of owls batman storyline is surprisingly enjoyable!

Anyone read/seen this? http://www.thezoom.co.uk/ Quite wonderful, and actually funny homemade comic by a British 11-year-old. It's very Oink.

good find!

Yeah, that's a lot of fun.

The Parkinson's Disease is getting too much to handle with a daily deadline; Richard Thompson is ending Cul de Sac next month.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/richard-thompson-ends-cul-de-sac-comic/2012/08/17/06a7fda6-e819-11e1-a3d2-2a05679928ef_blog.html

This is killing me.

still never seen it. there's no US compilation?
Finder is amazing btw

Lots of collections!
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=cul%20de%20sac%20richard%20thompson&index=blended&link_code=qs&sourceid=Mozilla-search&tag=mozilla-20

http://www.gocomics.com/culdesac

http://assets.amuniversal.com/821fa8304dbf102dbf94001438c0f03b

cool, i will buy one.

Some reader-selected favourites.

those are great! which collection should i get?

I've always read it online and it's been great from the earliest days, so I can't recommend one over the other. Looks like Golden Treasury has the most.

yeah, Thompson had been a pro cartoonist for yeeaars before launching even the Sunday-only Cul De Sac (he also has a second weekly strip, Richard's Poor Almanac, that's been going a decade longer than the syndicated daily CDS), so by the time the syndicated version happened he was well on top of his game.

Chris Mautner's six favourite Cul De Sac characters

Nice. Just ordered the treasury from Amazon. Thanks for the rec!

anyone read Trollope? Can You Forgive Her? is a fabulous 830-page yarn.

i've only read Crisis on Infinite Parish Churches, tho i hear Secret Wardens is p gd too

Trollope, very prolific, kind of the John Byrne of his era, no?

http://www.ep.tc/john-wilcock/index.html

Looks great!

I just picked up Tom Gauld's Goliath and Joost Swarte's Is That All There Is? for $2 each. Psyched to read them both.

Just finished Irredeemable which was interesting. think I'd had the first several for last couple of year but not read them. But it was interesting, not 00% sure about the ending.

Now reading through The Unwritten, got about 1/2 way so far.

Also been reading Ender's Game which I had d/loaded part of a while back. Enjoyed it, though it is obviously based on a children's book, even if they are hyper intelligent warmongers.

Which was the companion story to Irredeemable? Or was that the one? I read the first couple volumes of that (the one about the reformed supervillain) without having read the original series it was spunoff of, not bad. I should go back and pick these up at some point. Are they both over?

I just picked up Tom Gauld's Goliath and Joost Swarte's Is That All There Is? for $2 each. Psyched to read them both.

jealous

Which was the companion story to Irredeemable? Or was that the one? I read the first couple volumes of that (the one about the reformed supervillain) without having read the original series it was spunoff of, not bad. I should go back and pick these up at some point. Are they both over?

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Incorruptible, not sure if it's over but would think it likely since Irredeemable came to a pretty definite stop. Assume it had a life of its own not purely in tandem with Irredeemable so it might have continued.

Love and Rockets 5 is as good as you think it is
Got the Joost Swarte book, now in softcover

fuck, they're up to #5 now? jesus. i still haven't finished the old vol. 2 reprints

what if i think it won't be very good?

love & rockets and extraordinary gentlemen are probably the two most critically acclaimed comics that i do not enjoy

you are just wrong, sorry ;_;

about which? both?

jamie's drawing alone = pure pleasure

about L&R

(I like LoEG a lot but it's not in any realm near to L&R)

I've kind of lost the thread of Gilbert's comics -- if there are subtextual or metatextual levels to his work of the last few years, I'm not getting them, and don't really enjoy the straight narrative enough to want to try.

But Jaime, every panel for me is an amazing distillation of everything great about comics. I get a buzz just looking at it.

Slaine, from the beginning onwards. Currently got him being pursued by Lord weird Slough Feig after he tried to rescue Medb a few issues earlier.

Got up to date with Unwritten over last few days, hadn't realised it was still ongoing.

re: L&R, it prob helps if you enjoyed archie comics as a kid (or now).