Rick Veitch's CAN'T GET NO

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I started reading this tonight while procrastinating. The narration makes his work on The Question read like Hemingway, & seemed kinda superfluous (there was one attempt @ simile that just flicked me right between the eyes rubber-band style), so I just started ignoring the words & looking @ the pics. I haven't finished it, but it's very very good (sez the guy that's half-reading). And when it gets to The Moment (and, if you know what the cover looks like, you know what that is) ... wow. The entire sequence is fantastic, and there's one nearly page-sized panel that just breaks my heart & reminds me of all the anger & confusion & sadness I felt when it happened.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 23 June 2006 03:48 (twenty years ago)

[geekypedant] It's CAN'T GET NO [/geekypedant]

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Friday, 23 June 2006 04:02 (twenty years ago)

Flipping through a copy in the shop, it looked amazing, but I won't know for sure until I have money again.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 23 June 2006 13:53 (twenty years ago)

THIS WAS BEAUTIFUL. AWESOME. THUMBS UP.

― ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ (chaki), Saturday, 24 June 2006 02:35 (twenty years ago)

Have you dudes read other Veitch stuff? If so, how do you feel it compares?

There are times when I think that Veitch might be my favorite comics artist ever. Despite the chaff.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 24 June 2006 02:39 (twenty years ago)

I still haven't read it. But the 18 issues of "Roarin' Rick's Rare Bit Fiends" are amon the jewels of my collection.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 24 June 2006 03:01 (twenty years ago)

The storytelling and the art is bizarrely beautiful. It's definitely its own book. That part where he's climbing in the heads of all the presidents was pretty awesome... but I dunno, I found the florid prose a little grating and unrelenting after a while.

Did the guy who got his nose cut off remind anyone else of Ord from the Breakworld? or was that just me

― Laurah (laurah), Saturday, 24 June 2006 12:04 (twenty years ago)

I actually didn't like it much at all, and I tend to like Veitch--really interesting concept behind this one, but I thought the captions were a serious misfire, & the whole thing didn't quite hang together for me.

― Douglas (Douglas), Saturday, 24 June 2006 14:28 (twenty years ago)

It didn't need the prose/poetry. At all.

I'm not entirely sure I'd have liked it better by the omission of the words, either. Ambitious, yes, and we need more of that sort of creative ambition in comics, but I'm not quite sure CAN'T GET NO hit the mark it was looking for.

Back in the day, I was a huge fan of Veitch's florid prose, and Moore's for that matter. If you cornered me with torches and pitchforks, I'd probably admit that they overdid it and the kind of restraint that Moore showed in captioning WATCHMEN (as opposed to SWAMP THING) served the work better. I'd have admired CAN'T GET NO for having balls of steel had the captioning been left off altogether and maybe putting the text in an appendix at the end if he felt it absolutely necessary. As it is, I'd call it a remarkable work, but I'm not so sure it's going to be quoted in five or ten years.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Saturday, 24 June 2006 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I "finished" it last night, & while I'd like to defend the employment of the captions (the disjointed imagistic prose reinforcing the dreaminess of the narrative - cf. Rare Bit Fiends), I just ended up glossing over them. A little tightening up in the boxes would've gone a long way. The art was fantastic, though.

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 24 June 2006 16:00 (twenty years ago)

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