It's a bio piece on Collier's grandfather. Collier's typically very straight-forward but his narrative voice takes a backseat - the story is just a torrent of anecdotes and memory that ceaselessly hopscotches backward and forward in time. Like I said - wow.
It's in his Portraits From Life collection, which, according to the book, was published in 2001 by D&Q.
― HOLY MOPEDS (R Baez), Thursday, 27 December 2012 00:37 (eleven years ago) link
ALSO:
Dustin Harbin's Boxes is pretty amazing as well.
― HOLY MOPEDS (R Baez), Thursday, 27 December 2012 02:47 (eleven years ago) link
It's in his Portraits From Life collection, which, according to the book, was published in 2001 by D&Q.― HOLY MOPEDS (R Baez)
― HOLY MOPEDS (R Baez)
Thanks, I ordered this today - I'm a bit behind on the Collier books! I see he has at least three more that are more recent.
― JCL, Friday, 28 December 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
I'm a bit behind on the Collier books! I see he has at least three more that are more recent.
Is Chimo among them? If so, I kinda envy you your first reading of that.
― HOLY MOPEDS (R Baez), Saturday, 29 December 2012 02:39 (eleven years ago) link
Hawkeye remains excellent, predictably. Aja aping a scrolling coin-op in the Avengers bit = swell.
I tuned in to Hawkeye after all the recommendations ... and I gotta say, I'm genuinely shocked at how much of a ripoff of Year One and Born Again it is (I've only read the first issue). Are they just figuring people have forgotten those books, or haven't read them? Or is it some sort of ultimate fanboy homage? This is a bit like Giffen aping Munoz ... but worse, because every last detail is being stolen of story as well as art (the Hawkeye series is played much more for laughs and is not nearly as brutal and harrowing as Born Again, in fairness though).
― Brakhage, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
prophet continues to be excellent
― ILX is not a non-profit — we are just not profitable (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 02:37 (eleven years ago) link
I like a lot of what Fraction does, the Iron Man run was great in patches. If I hadn't devoured the Miller/Mazzucchelli stuff when it came out, maybe I wouldn't have this visceral reaction. It's like having somebody ring your doorbell dressed as your dead sister.
― Brakhage, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 02:55 (eleven years ago) link
I kind of see that but I don't think the comparison stands past first issue? Hawkeye is pretty goody and comedic
― mh, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
It grows out of that? Ok, yeah, I'll check out the rest of the run.
In other WAYR news am digging the Dredd Case Files reprints, I haven't read this stuff in years so it's a total nostalgia blast
― Brakhage, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 03:54 (eleven years ago) link
2013 what are you reading thread
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 11:35 (eleven years ago) link