2012 what are you reading thread

forks, should i read Dungeon? i love sfar but i've never seen it before...

I'm bot Forks, but emphatically YES! Dungeon is a blast.

Not forks, bot forks, same thing. :)

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exactly.

anyways FUCK YES to Dungeon; it's probably my favorite currently active book.
the difficulty is in figuring where to start; part of the appeal is that all the books inform one another, but often in oblique ways that can take a lot of reading to figure out. I would say start here:
http://www.amazon.com/Dungeon-Zenith-Set-Vols-1-3/dp/156163624X/

I bought a slew of Dungeon sight unseen, was very pleasantly surprised.

ok, i ordered that zenith set. if i like it, forks, i'll be relying on you to tell me what to get next.

I would tentatively offer the following order based on what's currently available:
Zenith 1-3
Early Years 1-2
Parade 1-2
Twilight 1-3
Monsters 1-4
Each book is two complete stories, so there's currently 28 dungeon stories translated in English

Yeah, Zenith was what I read first. Really great stuff.

Forks on point - I think that's a good order for reading them.

FWIW: Zenith is friendly funny stories about the golden days of the Dungeon, Early Years explores the idealistic youth of the Dungeonkeeper, Parade is more lighthearted stories in the golden days, Twilight is about what happens to Marvin and Herbert after the golden days and Monsters offers deeper backstory for everyone with a rotating cast of artists

i read only a single volume of Twilight, but it was pretty cool. i should hunt more of them down

Just got a copy of the city of ember: the graphic novel-- idk anything about the original source material but it looks like children protagonists in post-apoc setting?

thinking about checking this out too: http://www.215ink.com/catalog/transmeet.html

anyone know anything about any of their titles?

the dungeon volumes came in -- i'm looking forward to reading them this weekend!

yer gonna love em.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_(comics)
argh SEVEN unpublished-in-English stories and nothing new in about a year from NBM WTF WTF WTF

from the guy who does johnny hiro: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2144748693/alison-and-her-rainy-day-robot

Okay I just started reading about all of the changes to the Avengers and seeing Cannonball and Sunspot on the main roster is like WOW AWESOME

Gonna go bankrupt buying all of these comics

Got a link? I know nothing of this stuff

Just bought the first Dungeon Early Years on recommendation of this thread, and loving it after only 20 pages. Thanks guys!

Oops, starting in the wrong order, but enjoying it anyway!

As long as you read each arc in order you can enjoy each however you like. Some bits will resonate more of you know this or that, but hey, that's what re-reading is for.

each successive series directly informs the earlier works in really meaningful ways so the book really rewards rereading at intervals
you'll be pretty confused in twilight. ride it out. much is explained.
by the way, Ralph Azhum is unsurprisingly great

read vol 1 of zenith today. lots of fun. i feel like there are some moments that are super classic sfar (like a line or illustration that is completely weirdo in his style) and i wonder how closely they worked together on dungeon?

i assume really closely, bc that's how these things go, but did sfar share some of the writing?

yeah, sfar and trondheim co-write pretty much all of dungeon, sorry i didn't make that clear.
I see more trondheim touches honestly but together they're very voltron.

i can't believe i'm just finding out about these. i spent the last ~4 years wondering where all the new sfar in translation books were

http://www.tcj.com/reviews/dungeon-monstres-vol-4/
simply can't believe it's taken them over a year to get a new volume out in english grrrrrrrr

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g6NiBNNcn44/UFrHarmlz5I/AAAAAAAABqk/fJCbdhrNIOQ/s1600/thehivecover.jpg

Out tomorrow!

that's been out for a couple of weeks, I saw a big stack of the Cape edition in a bookshop last week

(for a fairly ludicrous $36)

wait did he finish it, what was the deal with that

presumably he's finished this chapter, which is book 2 of 3

amazon just sent me a note sending they sent today

xp wow the love for Dungeon is pretty inspiring and I'll pick up that 3-book initial set

Hive is pretty UH, very in line with what i've come to expect from Burns

NBM should make a kickstarter for translating the rest of what's available

Liking Hive even though, yeah, it's predictable Burns. Friend of mine got me into Wolverine and the X-Men too, which is surprisingly good even when it's inundated with Avengers/X-Men crossover bullshit I really don't care about.

Not a comic, but has anyone checked out Steve Howe's Marvel Comics: The Untold Story? I'm about halfway through and it's a pretty satisfying read so far, referencing stuff like Stan Lee's screenplay with Alain Resnais that I totally forgot about.

It's in my Amazon cart but I haven't bought it yet.

current google search page with little nemo on it is unbelievably good

yeah that's gorgeous

wow, really good. scott mccloud would be proud

Not a comic, but has anyone checked out Steve Howe's Marvel Comics: The Untold Story? I'm about halfway through and it's a pretty satisfying read so far, referencing stuff like Stan Lee's screenplay with Alain Resnais that I totally forgot about.

yeah, def want to read this - the spurgeon/raphael stan lee biography also goes into detail about the resnais collaboration (iirc, there were in fact two unproduced screenplays in the end), and it also mentions stan's early 70s silver surfer screenplay, which apparently had a blaxploitation theme! the sad truth of stan's career is that w/out inspired collaborators like kirby and ditko, he simply wasn't a good enough writer to ever make it in the movies.

w/out a romita (& 4 years of ditko's momentum) he couldn't even make it in comics

wow, really good. scott mccloud would be proud

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Talked to the Google Doodle team in advance about today's beautiful Winsor McCay webcomic. Fantastic to see it in action!

I think I chose the wrong book to start with houellebecq. I just finished the map and the territory in a few days - it wasn't boring - but I was expecting it to be much more brutal. the artspeak was not that good but he was probably mocking it most of the time I hope, and I wanted to know more about olga, william morris, jed's father, houellebecq himself, the novel should have been longer! the small amounts of caustic stuff made me laugh quite a lot, what should I read if I want houellebecq at his most unpleasant?

Whoa that Google Nemo thing is incredible.

Blog I follow reminded me of Giardino's 'Little Ego' which is awesome, he's great ...

Picked up some Dungeon and loving it, polished off Zenith and now on to the Parades.

w/out a romita (& 4 years of ditko's momentum) he couldn't even make it in comics

^^^