Rolling 2015 Reading Funnybooks Thread

I can't decide whether this is the greatest ever solicit or the worst ever.

DOOMED #2
Written by SCOTT LOBDELL
Art and cover by JAVIER FERNANDEZ
1:25 Variant cover by MATEUS SANTOLUOCO
On sale JULY 15 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T

The secret origin of our Doomed hero is revealed! Plus: Tons of stuff gets smashed!

just digitally paged through Schau and Runde's "Margarin"
good lord

https://tytempletonart.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/daredevil-hearts.jpg

Yay!

haha wow

Got preview copies of Secret Wars #1 in the mail, just finished it, zero idea WTF is going on in it. It's like an Avengers 2 fight scene across 32 pages

Bought Johnny Viable And His Terse Friends for my brother because he's a big Aylett fan. Read some of the fake letters pages and they were hilarious. He has such an impressive knack for surreal absurdity.

Bitch Planet is awful good.

i haven't read the newest one yet--i liked it a lot at first but it feels a little like the story is wandering and i'm losing a little interest.

I tapped out on Bitch Planet. Wasn't clicking with me at all.

Picked up a used copy of Toppi's Sharaz-De: Tales from the Arabian Nights that Archaia published in 2013. It's gorgeous.

alex + ada wrapping up this month, i've really been enjoying that one.

Crickets #4 came out (!!!) and I haven't held a better-smelling comic book in years

It's a liiittle frustrating in that the whole issue is Part 2 of one of the stories from #3, but that wouldn't be a problem if Harkham gets another issue out within a year.

I never got #2 because of Diamond dumping it; just looked and it's going for $100 on Amazon. WELP

Black River is about the ugliest and most dispiriting comic i've ever read, think Johnny Ryan with a straight face
http://www.tcj.com/reviews/colville-and-black-river/
panel clips don't really do it justice, it's the sheer accumulation that does it.

anybody gonna read a-force

i read it. it's cute. i think we discussed it briefly over on the secret wars thread?

Xpost forks you could have just said "josh Simmons"

He obviously has his thing, idgi but there it is.

A-Force is in my ever-increasing to-read stack.

Black River was my first exposure to Josh Simmons. A bit of internet reading suggests this is his milieu, eh? It's dark as fuck; a grimmer and messier Chris Ware in spirit.

yeah it does nothing for me whatsoever. facile.

in other news, I can report that Avengers #50 (1968) has both a full page ad for The Mothers' We're Only In It For The Money LP and an in-story reference to Wonder Warthog...

*frantically pulls up the issue*

I've gathered most of the Secret Wars comics from the last couple of weeks but haven't started them, I don't think I can do the whole mess Aldo-like justice.

Sales are crazy but I think people might burn out quickly with so many miniseries and wrap-up series and the main one.

Haven't read this week's stuff but last week's crossovery stuff was pretty fun. Nothing exceptional but I think there's something to be said for "fun and forgettable". So far they really seem to be getting the portentous-to-goofiness ratio just right.

Simmons shifted into that blacker-none-blacker mode in the last ten years; his earlier stuff was played more goofy and jaunty, even when dark at the core. In, for eg, House it added up to less than the sum of its parts for me, but Cockbone was a masterpiece for that accumulative effect.

Is Priest's Black Panther run supposed to be making me nauseous? I'm 15 issues in, does this get better?

Just read Superman: Earth One Volume Three, I'm sorry to say. It's basically the same as Morrison's Action Comics. He even gets armour at the end. I can't imagine who DC thinks the audience for this is, aside from grumpy old jerks who hate-read library copies.

Er

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvw1iENsPgc

Akira the Don and a mate, innit. Old Shell-Head isn't actually involved beyond doing wizard hands in the video.

He does look old, but then he is - Zenith was 28 years ago.

i have a Fauves single he was involved in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0WS6nn7L7g

i just read Fumimura and Ikegama's "Sanctuary" from front to back, it's as misogynistic and well drawn and lengthy as Cerebus.... it's an amazing piece of work and compulsively readable but potential readers should be aware that one of the lead characters is a guy who rapes women in bathroom stalls as a kind of wacky character flaw

I ended up with a fair amount of down time while traveling and ended up binge-buying and reading much of the Judge Dredd stories of recent years via amazon/kindle. I need more Dirty Frank, now.

I've never read many of those Fumimura and Koike comics but I've always found them interesting to read about. Some of them are so politically incorrect that it's hard to imagine them getting officially translated now but it's fascinating how they delve into all these feelings seemingly without trying to rationalize anything too much. I suppose that could make them tedious too but I'd like to read more of the stuff.

they're pretty fetishistic but undeniably well executed in terms of long form story and flawless draftsmanship
http://www.dtaweb.com/ryoichi_ikegami/images/content/sanctuary_vol3_1.jpg

I like Ikegami's art. To anyone who's read Crying Freeman: maybe my memory is faulty but wasn't there a scene in which the hero tries to subdue a woman by punching into her vagina?

I always knew Sho Fumimura better as Buronson. I didn't discover until last year that he named himself after Charles Bronson, just like the guy that got that Refn film based on his life.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/house-of-1000-manga/2015-05-07/poverty-princesses-and-zombies/.87920

Three books about people working in Japanese industry.

I adored the online sampler version of Manga Zombie, it's probably my favourite book about comics, very inspiring, even if I finally got to read those comics and they were all disappointing, the book feels almost like an exciting manifesto or rallying cry for more fucked up comics.

omg SO GOOD

http://www.comicbookresources.com/imgsrv/preview/0/0/1/TF-GIJ-07-pr-5-0bbfe.jpg

what is that??

xp I remember reading a few pages of Sanctuary in the '90s as a teenager and being pretty shocked. the artwork was pretty captivating

Just read Swallow Me Whole by Nate Powell (2008), pretty good- loved the mood and brush work

I'm sure that image is from the Scioli Transformers/GI Joe thing.

Any Richard Sala fans? I've never read a single thing by him but his work looks quite interesting.

i love sala but he's very one note. Try anything!

yeah I haven't read him in a decade bcz I felt I'd read both of his stories enough times by then, but none of the versions of them are bad

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/481/18555949782_0ae893be87_z.jpg

Wow, this Joker 75 variant cover with him as St Sebastian for GA by Billy The Sink might just be the best thing DC's published in years.

damn

i like Bill S's cover for Detective Comics: Convergence #2

http://www.dccomics.com/comics/convergence-2015/convergence-detective-comics-2

and this recent catwoman sleeve was striking:

http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2014/11/24/preview-monday-catwoman-36-and-dead-boy-detectives-11

guys you are trying to point to "the best thing DC's published in years" and the best you can do is single images specifically designed to destabilise the marketplace and damage their customers very ability to sell actual good comics to potential readers

lol yes

Neat single pieces of art are nice, but publishing garbage between the covers that's only for people who would read super pajamas people regardless of writer and putting gimmicks on top is... well, the exact thing the editorial staff did in the 90s when they worked elsewhere

or maybe koogs' aren't variant-associated, zing browser won't show me

but you still can't think of actual comics

that detective comics was written by len wein? mildly interested now...

scabbing for Before Watchmen pays big dividends

When was the last time Len Wein wrote a good comic - 1973?