2012 what are you reading thread

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).

i did! maybe i just started reading the wrong one? rosie the mechanic or something - SO BORING

the first half of the maggie the mechanic collection isn't so great. after that it's all good.

I think there are multiple threads devoted to this argument. NEWBIES: skip over the Jaime stories featuring actual rockets and jump straight into the LA punk girl stuff. It gets better. Lots better.

I'm with Mordy. Is there a specific issue or volume number you can tell us to let us start at the good stuff and ignore the boring stuff?

it's still the first collection - just skip past all the stories that kinda look like Cadillacs and Dinosaurs

or just go to Beto's stuff, i think he was pretty strong out the gate

(though much like Jaime, his skills improve immensely over time)

Jaime: start half-way through Maggie the Mechanic, or skip forward to The Girl from HOPPERS.

Gilbert: start with Heartbreak Soup. This is my go-to comics gift for people who don't read comics.

guys, I'm just now reading all the Hellboy/B.P.R.D. stories.

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

That was exactly what I meant! They're not breaking any new ground but still as solid as ever.

returning to Palomar meant I liked the Beto parts more than I expected

Oh cool, I didn't realize! A return to Palomar is a good move for Beto. I find that I'm generally only really interested in his Palomar stuff or his experimental work (a la Fear Of Comics).

early L&R is mediocre but almost every great long-running comic starts off kind of weak, with precious few exceptions.

I'm a Hernandestan, so I think they went from good to great, and got the mediocre out of the way in 1970s pre-L&R juvenilia, sketchbooks and fanzine illos. Except for Mario, I think his work has always been mediocre.

http://archive.org/details/0476_Untitled_Milton_Caniff_01_45_26_20

Damn. That look's cool.

no sound as far as i can tell

Twitter friend of mine grabbed the first two of those Fantagraphics EC artist-themed volumes. Reading Kurtzman's now. Feeling inadequate.

huh, amazon doesn't have them out yet

He picked them up at SPX, where Fantagraphics was pre-selling them. The Kurtzman and Wood volumes will be out next month or so.