So one thing about The Hive that's bothering me: I can't really place where the scenes with the iteration of Doug on the cover take place. He's gained a lot of weight (from the meds?) and his hair is longer, and the scenes he's in make it seem like he's no longer with Sarah, but I was under the impression that immediately post head-injury was the "present" of the story. Not that flash-forwards are off-limits, but it's a bit disorienting (more so than the rest of the book, I mean).
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Sunday, 21 October 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
man, this was so great. just sorta skimming past the burns vs clowes arguments upthread, right now i'd vote for burns over most anybody (it's cool, i haven't read building stories yet), just because of how singular he is; i don't know that clowes does anything that's so distinctive in terms of mood - that's the obvious thing to wheel out in praise of burns, & maybe my lack of attention to horror & suspense as genres means that it's just distinctive to me, but as period pieces & as a bildungsroman & in catching the weird, self-aware sadness of youth, love that keeps you awake, it's really uniquely rendered i think. i enjoyed it so much, anyway. there's a kind of alex katz quality to the images, too; so clean & fresh. it's so moving to see the interactions between the book's characters and the comics they read, because he observes both so well, & with different emphases. i sorta want the first row of this on my wall.
― kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Friday, 14 December 2012 07:05 (eleven years ago) link
http://i2.cdnds.net/13/46/618x861/comics-charles-burns-sugar-skull-teaser.jpg
― mustread guy (schlump), Friday, 3 January 2014 02:53 (ten years ago) link
hahaha yesssss
― CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Friday, 3 January 2014 08:04 (ten years ago) link
Clowes was funny for a couple years in the 90s. By contrast, Burns has several decades of really unique, quality work behind him.
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 3 January 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
"clowes was funny for a couple years in the 90s" was the name of a subforum on the old comics journal message board, i think.
― eh mec, elle est ou ma caisse? (ytth), Sunday, 5 January 2014 03:00 (ten years ago) link
this is out!
― schlump, Saturday, 4 October 2014 17:27 (nine years ago) link
this one is the end of the trilogy right?
― Mordy, Saturday, 4 October 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
yep.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 4 October 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
psa: it rules
― schlump, Saturday, 4 October 2014 21:32 (nine years ago) link
this guy is a treasure
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 8 September 2015 16:58 (eight years ago) link
just read X'ed Out and The Hive from the library, they don't have Sugar Skull in yet
i highly recommend getting all three and reading it start-to-finish in one sitting.
― eh mec, elle est ou ma caisse? (ytth), Friday, 11 September 2015 02:01 (eight years ago) link
Just finished doing the above and, not to get too much into spoilers, I'm not sure how to feel about the conclusion. It seems to wrap things up neatly in a way I really didn't expect based on Black Hole and that doesn't ring entirely true with the setup of the first two volumes. I can appreciate it as a commentary on immature, self-obsessed indie comic heroes, but I don't know if that's enough of a payoff. Maybe there's more ambiguity intended but it def doesn't seem that way from the last few pages.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 02:18 (seven years ago) link