2014 what are you reading thread

he's not that i'm aware of? i was just using that as an example. i wish he would.

http://comicsalliance.com/gilbert-hernandez-sensation-comics-featuring-wonder-woman-dc-digital-first/

Finger on the pulse, there, forks.

huh. well it makes sense.

kinda but still weird

Another DC imprint called Helix focused on science fiction, including a Lucius Shepard series called Vermillion (wonder if there is a prose version?), Some titles got carried over to Vertigo.

What about royalties from digital versions?

If Jon's issues were available digitally, DC would start paying out at 60,000 sales.

lol Transmetropolitan started on helix

yeah, i have those somewhere. with the exception of that and matt howarth's book i think i hated every helix comic i read

which reminds me, 2020 Visions was an awesome comic that was never collected by Vertigo, but has a b&w collection. I would almost recommend finding the original though.

Been looking at loads of Dave McKean covers, never released how much he resembled Vaughn Oliver and Quay Brothers.

Yeah he is almost a quay biter tbh

they're quay better

Dockwood - Jon McNaught - just caught up w/ this guy, gorgeous illustrative cartooning set in a small English town, equal parts Chris Ware and Phillip Larkin

So I just got in that mood, and re-read The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck for the umpteenth time. It really is one of the great novels of the nineties. Every time it returns to Scotland, it just gets me.

preach

I really should pick up that book

i probably already said this but ms. marvel and the wicked + the divine are both killing the shit out of everything rn and you should be reading them

adorable guest appearance (arc??) with wolverine in ms marvel this month

Journey Into Mystery aside, there's a combination of smugness and emo and try-hardiness about Gillen's comics that I find completely toxic. I totally get his appeal. But his characters are spanners.

I love Ms Marvel though!

i don't disagree with you about the tone but they do generally make for good readin' nonetheless

So guys, what was the last comic that really knocked your fucking socks off?

For me the best parts of Miura's Berserk did that. The second volume of Phoenix by Tezuka was close to that. Sadly both of them were last year I think.

last one that comes to mind was this:
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2014/01/exclusive-preview-what-we-need-to-know-by-willy-linthout/

i don't want to encourage that

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lettering in those samples was unbearable

i like that lettering! and i like linthout's previous book a lot as well:
http://www.amazon.com/Years-Elephant-Willy-Linthout/dp/8492444304

smugness and emo and try-hardiness about Gillen's comics

haha i totally sense this arrogance/smugness in the writing but i'm sorta taking it as part of the conceit of having so many deity characters

Yeah, that's why he's great at writing Loki! But I find it tiring when every character is a variation on that theme.

The smugness is part of his trademark style tbh, going back to his game reviewing days

Game reviewing! I get it now. I don't like it. But I get it.

btw I don't mean that as a slam, I was very fond of his games journo work

should i read phonogram if enjoying w+d btw y/n

Yes! I didn't like it either so you probably will. The first series is better though than "Singles Club".

haha ok

just bought the whole young avengers run and am pretty gobsmacked at how great it is

a lot of it reminds me of buffy at its best

gieron & mckelvie's run, that is

Emily Carroll's first collection Through The Woods out this week. I Might get it.

Some of you might be interested in Ragnarok, Walter Simonson's creator owned Norse mythology thing.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=22670

Mulling over getting the Boody Rogers collection that came out a few years ago. I read a few reprints in an issue of Comics Journal once. Crazy stuff, particularly how the main character grew really big feet in one story and seemed to keep them in later stories.

btw i read through the whole kieron young avengers last night, up til 4 in the morning

hot diggity

lol i typed 'kieron' thinking i was on twitter and it would autocomplete

just got the new o'malley - seconds

oh dude lmk how that is, considering it

waiting for paperback but seeing that it's lettered by Harbin instead of a computer makes me more anticipatory, that was the biggest (only!) flaw with Scott Pilgrim for me

thanks for reminding me, i will get it next time i tithe our amazon overlords

from comments on the ~utility belt~ supergirl has had added to her costume:

If you want to take selfies, you need a phone and for that you need pockets.

This is probably how the pouch-pocalypse of the '90s happened. It began with a good idea. Those superheroes need some place to carry their ammo, communication device and probably money. Then Liefeld thought maybe they need snacks and drinks too, so more pouches were added. And then they need to first aid kits, various scifi gadgets, repair kits for their outfits, a scarf maybe for those cold missions, a Walkman for those downtimes, tapes for the Walkman, a novel for the more literary types, a camera if they need to take photos of villain lairs, extra film for that camera, mints, toothbrush and toothpaste because they have so many teeth, hot oil for muscle cramps because Liefeld characters have more muscles than real humans, and so on.

That's great.

Titan are said to be reprinting a Druillet book, 6 Voyages. I'd be surprised if they just stopped there. I wonder if the translation will be new because some people say all those old translations were very poor.
I still don't have Salammbo so I hope they reprint that.

I just finished off Steve Lafler's Complete Bughouse and recommend it unreservedly.
http://www.co2comics.com/pages/co2_bughouse.html
http://www.amazon.com/M%C3%A9nage-%C3%A0-BUGHOUSE-Steve-Lafler/dp/B008PVLBJA/

I always welcome translated stuff (I'm going to put a list of all my translation wishes in the reprint thread soon) but now I'm starting to get the sneaking suspicion that these things are just getting released to tie in with a film adaptation (WOW! MOVIES! WOW! CELEBRITIES! Everybody knows comics are only good for films, games, toys and merchandise to be based on them).

With all the talk of Alan Moore asking people to boycott the Hercules film based on Steve Moore's comic (minus the gay relationship), Phoebe Gloeckner's Diary Of A Teenage Girl, Refn's version of Incal. Plus all the usual stuff.

hey, if it takes a movie to get good comics back into print, who cares?

Yes! to new Druillet editions. I remember reading somewhere - probably Jack Kirby Collector - that Kirby once went into a comic shop and out of everything on display he picked up a Druillet book and said, "Now THAT's comics!"