2014 what are you reading thread

where were we talking about ROM?

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I think it was the Guardians of the Galaxy film thread? Relating to Mantlo's authorship of Rom and Rocket Raccoon, I believe?

Still plowing through my massive Marvel silver age undertaking. I've read everything up through the end of '65 now, and after a hell of a lot of gasps and sputters, they're finally starting to fire on...well, if not all cylinders at least more than before. I appreciate the move to longer storylines (some over a year long!). Just finished reading the intro of Galactus and Silver Surfer for the first time. Much more nuanced (and almost small scale) than I had imagined all these years. And also almost casually dropped in between a couple of other storylines. Just started Spidey: The College Years. I've been surprisingly enjoying the Fury stuff (both Howling Commandos and SHIELD) quite a bit. Both books had a weightiness and sense of purpose that was in a bit shorter supply among the other titles at the time.

In all honesty, I still haven't finished reading Ant Man. That shit went from poor to downright dire pretty quickly.

Also, that recent color collection of Lee & Kirby's Tales of Asgard is the only thing I've read thus far that I'm thinking of getting as an upgrade to my current Essential copies. Storywise, it's almost exactly what I always wanted from Thor, and it looks great even in black and white.

Tales of Asgard is so awesome

I thought those weren't included in Essential Thor?

After the first miniseries, a lot of the early Hulk stuff really sucks.

Any good artists you guys been noticing in mainstream American comics in the past few years?

is anybody reading batman '66?

Tumblr has way too many amazing artists on it. Just discovered Manu Larcenet and Loic Locatelli today.

Here's a bunch of tumblrs.

http://www.loiclocatelli.com/
http://unomoralez.tumblr.com/
http://nightofthecomics.tumblr.com/
http://samhiti.tumblr.com/

Sometimes I'm like "Bah! There's hardly any good comic artists around today" but there might be more than ever, they are just a bit hard to find sometimes. Also, all these comic artists really blend in with a general amazing scene of illustrators, concept designers and cartoonists. Loads of them are French.

reading legion of super-heroes. started w/ the waid series and now moving onto some other stuff. i've never really read them before (i've only seen them crossing over into other titles i've read) but some of these stories are pretty great.

man i torrented the fourth world omnibus and reading it feels like homework, but out of curiosity i grabbed a hard copy off a shelf at the shop friday and it was like 'wow,' i instantly understood why it was worth the money

I kind of would be interested to read all the LOSH comics from start to finish tbh. Insane there isnt currently a title being published.

Levitz was fired

Not that his recent Legion run was any good.

no (idk I only read the two issues that Giffen did) (the only Legion comics I have bought in the last 20 years were also reunion jobs by Levitz/Giffen) but him writing is not the point

true. He kept the Legion going through thick and thin because it mattered to him. And his 70s and 80s work is what made me a fan.

The Abnett & Lanning led run in the 90s/early 00s was quite god. I hope people rediscover that sooner or later.

OK, so Grant Morrison's Multiversity #1 finally appeared, and it's pretty promising. Structure seems to be going to be a mini-7-Soldiers thing.

I will probably read it cuz hey why not but man this sounds exactly like Final Crisis, 7 Soldiers etc. How many of thees multiple-reality-doomsday-scenario things can one write

I read some annotations of it, looks pretty awesome tbh, i love this crap

i liked multiversity #1 a lot

http://www.tickld.com/x/the-difference-between-dc-and-marvel-this-is-priceless

lol

http://wellnotwisely.tumblr.com/post/95086233531/beaute-illustrations-by-kerascoet#notes

Really looking forward to the Kerascoet books in October, I just hope that cover image will be included inside.

Yeah i think that's the endpapers?

I mentioned the new English Dungeon earlier, looks like they're reprinting all of them as well, so good chance to grab ones you're missing

Cool. I've got the Carlos Nine one (which to be honest, the stories didn't grab me at all) but I otherwise ignored it until I started grooving to online images by Blain and Star and I want more Dungeon books for that reason. Dave Cooper was supposed to do one but he missed the deadlines.

Are they doing them in bigger collections? That would be great.

The book I had recommends it for children but it has several horrific rape scenes in it!

Sfar not Star

A comment I left for this podcast
http://www.factualopinion.com/the_factual_opinion/2014/08/the-top-four-horror-comics.html

I'm only familiar with the Japanese stuff and some of Emily Carroll and Al Columbia. I might go for some of these others someday.

That really sucks that Museum Of Terror seems to have been stopped due to the public intolerance to short stories. I gave my copies away years ago and haven't been able to get replacements because they are more expensive to find than Uzimaki and Gyo. I'm actually holding out for a reprint if someone wants to attempt that again. Maybe the Tomie parts will get their own book again.

The "Pigeons From Hell" (Robert E Howard) adaptation in Spookhouse 2 (specifically that version) by Scott Hampton is by far the scariest comic I've ever read, quite possibly the most memorable comics experience I've ever had. It was actually terrifying (although I was in my late teens at the time; since everyday is Halloween for me I'd be less scared now) and for the first time in many years I was scared to go back and look at certain pages.
Those two Spookhouse books (mostly adaptations) made me believe that Hampton is one of the most powerful comic artists who sadly, rarely gets to show what he can do. I bought a number of his later mainstream collaborations and none of them had the same magic.
I try and recommend Spookhouse 1-2 fairly often.

The adaptation of Ramsey Campbell's "Again" that appeared in Taboo had a really powerful final image that chilled me.

Hino wasn't all that scary (actually, the start of Red Snake was pretty scary but it promised a bit more than it delivered).
As annoyed as I am about the lack of translated horror manga in the past several years, we did get lucky with Hino, we got Hino Horror 1-14 (15-16 were cancelled), Panorama Of Hell, Hell Baby, Lullabies From Hell, Art Of Hideshi Hino and a story in an anthology (which I sadly don't own).

I wish I could read French because a lot more Junji Ito and Maruo was translated into French.
Really drives me nuts that after a few good years, horror manga in English totally dried up. Some of the Hino was a bit samey and a few of the Umezu books were not so great and I think people might have got tired of the stuff (also tired of J-horror films and the remakes) and manga sales in general went downhill but for fuck's sake! Some publisher needs to get it going again.
I wonder if the Uzimaki hardback book sold well? Maybe they would have translated more if it sold better?

Are they doing them in bigger collections? That would be great.

Looks like they're just reprinting what they already have, also in those sets-of-three-with-a-ribbon-around-em. So no giant omnibuses or anything

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she's so good
"you alone walk this path"

as the self-proclaimed ILX #1 dungeon fanboy, I am super excited by the last volume of twilight and plan to reread the whole goldurn thing from scratch.

I'm pissed they're not releasing the six OTHER volumes of Monsters and Parade that have already dropped in Europe and would desperately love to find scanlated copies

If Dungeon is popular enough to get a reprint, I wish they'd print it in the original size too. I don't really like reading those NBM and Cinebook half-size editions where you have to squint your eyes to see the details.

I never really felt I had to squint, they are pretty small though. The only time the shrinking was a reading problem for me was The Incal.

Does Forbidden Planet UK or Waterstones do NBM books because I never see them in shops?

don't like the smaller size either. didn't realize that they were shrunk, but you could sort of tell given the detail in the artwork

Picked up julia wertz's "the infinite wait" yesterday and plowed through it. Love her so much. Also got the first couple issues of transformers vs g.i. joe which are maybe the first floppies I've gotten in a decade.

those look crazy good but i think i'm waiting for the trade.
feel so nerdy even thinking that

nah, it's much nerdier to buy the floppies

I feel stupid just saying the title but it is good, really!

...from the creator of FART PARTY

i think we were talking about transformers vs gi joe but yes, we are saying we are more embarrassed by being into transformers vs gi joe than the new work from the creator of FART PARTY

The Infinite Wait was cool, but it felt like a bit of an intermediate work, I would've liked for her to continue her life story from where she left it in Drinking at the Movies. Though IIRC she herself says that writing about that period was hard (Drinking at the Movies hints she went through some dark times), so she did The Infinite Wait in between. That said, I loooved the part in TIW where she illustrates every job she's ever had, anyone who's had a shitty job could totally relate to that.

Agree Industry is the best of the three pieces in TIW. I havent read Drinking at the Movies yet but am planning on getting Museum of Mistakes when it comes out.

I love when people do comics about their jobs. The issue of Lucky Gabrielle Bell did about her day jobs was all-time.

carol tyler's the job thing is worth a peek
i kinda love carol tyler

Cant remember if I've posted Kurokawa John's Tumblr. Quite offbeat horror art, I think he has some stuff published in small press.

http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/24-792/Jaybird-HC

This looks quite interesting. Not familiar with the creators.

Deadpool #34 you guys.

really adore those deadpool era flashback issues.

Hip Hop Family Tree Vol 2 by Ed Piskow

I seem to be one of the few who have found Deadpool to be nothing but irritating and unnecessary, but Posehn-scripted Deadpool has me intrigued.

The latest issue might as well be subtitled 'Marvel, what were you thinking giving Rob Liefeld a job' or 'Jesus Christ, we published some seriously shitty comics in the 90s'.

loved this page of a recent deadpool

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