― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 09:46 (eighteen years ago) link
2) Having recently started, there is an enormous back catalogue for me to dive into, and you guys and gals have (unknowingly) pointed me to some things i've really liked : Sleeper, Runaways, She-Hulk etc. At the moment i'm thoroughly enjoying Morrison's Doom Patrol. Thanks ILC !
3) I love lists and polls, but have no intention in participating due to abysmal knowledge of comic history.
― spin dr. wolf (idle hands), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 10:35 (eighteen years ago) link
that doesn't stop me!
― Mark C (Markco), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 10:44 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Tom (freakytrigge...), October 18th, 2005.
ditto.
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link
I think my preference is clear.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Nor me!
― Leeeeeeeeee (Leee), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 05:33 (eighteen years ago) link
2. Zenith and Marvelman, two of my few non-shit finds via the above shameful process.
3. Yes indeedy. But they cause me angst, too - should I have put _that_ one above _that_ one, or the other way round? Help!
― James Morrison (JRSM), Saturday, 22 April 2006 08:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― James Morrison (JRSM), Saturday, 22 April 2006 08:30 (eighteen years ago) link
I thought I may as well add one of these...
1. It was there, and I thought "ooooh, comics!". I was intrigued to see what sort of conversation was going on that wasn't about music, or indeed, everything. Also, ILC brings the ROFFLES.
2. Actually, I'm really not in to reading comics. I like drawing comics, and reading comics is either a) Argh! This is terrible! or b) Argh! This is terrible! I'll never be this good!
I mean, I've simplified that a bit, but I get so frustrated either way that I've actually started avoiding it a bit. Seriously, I have a whole shelf of books I haven't read because of this. Stuff like Jimmy Corrigan and Hicksville and whatnot. I've had them for over a year, and never tried to read them.
I put this down to the fact that the last time I really read a whole collection, I felt compelled to draw an entire comic, and I try to avoid that. So yeah. The last comic I read was All-Star Superman 1, but I forgot to buy the rest. Also after that I spent a whole week working out if I'd written anything with big revealo splash pages in, and worrying that maybe I'd missed a trick. Oh shit no, it was Optic Nerve 9! It made me get obsessed with girl's hair.
3. Yeah, why not?
― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Saturday, 22 April 2006 11:06 (eighteen years ago) link
1) I do believe that Matthew P. first pointed me in the general direction of the ilXor-mania. I used to haunt Barbelith fairly regularly back in the day until it became a withered old mummy filled with shit. I was looking for better comics discussion, and lo! ILC!
2) My most recent gaga-inducer was the Kirby Fourth World stuff, which I've found online in .cbr format and, most importantly, IN COLOR. There are a few spreads amongst that lot that made me actually gasp slightly, such was their awe-inspiring beauty.
I think I thought that Kirby was vaguely brain-damaged or something when I was young. I think I maybe still think that, except now in a good way.
3) Polls? Eh... Lists? YES, PLEASE.
― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 23 April 2006 18:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― c(''c) (Leee), Sunday, 23 April 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 23 April 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm an unashamed X-Men fan and so I'm systematically attempting to correct the gaps in my indie comic knowledge. I am the only female comics fan I know to loathe Strangers In Paradise. I'm a moderator on The Engine, Warren Ellis's comics board. I don't have a comic book tattoo but I don't know how long that will last. Once I bought comics out of a quarter bin just so I could lounge around on them for a photo shoot. If my house caught on fire I would save my cats, then my comics, then myself. And I'm geek enough to have applied for jobs at DC, Dark Horse, and Pantheon (with no results).
― Madolan, Monday, 24 April 2006 14:39 (eighteen years ago) link
Poor Jordan!
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 24 April 2006 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link
HAH!
― c(''c) (Leee), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Madolan, Monday, 24 April 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link
:D
― INTERPERV (popshots75`), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link
2) Nothing much recently - I rather loved Mouse Guard but am finding it insanely difficult to track down issue #2 (although this may possibly be due to the fact that it might not have been published yet - but I'm sure I've seen it somewhere, dammit!)
3) I can take 'em or leave 'em. If they're going, I'll participate. If not, I'm not going to agitate for them.
― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 10:50 (eighteen years ago) link
1) via my recent discovery of ILM, which at first impressed and then disillusioned me (I doubt any of the fine folk here would be inclined to call me retarded for expressing a deep love for ABBA and The Pipettes...) ILC, in contrast, is a place of overall fun where nobody takes themselves too seriously and people are obsessed with Lois Lane - I can relate.
2) Lotsa little things - SHAOLIN COWBOY, SPIDER MAN AND HIS HEARTING OF MARY JANE, Kevin Huizenga, George Perez' run on WONDER WOMAN (which I just discovered), my obsession with Grant Morrison which hasn't waned since I was 15, those wacky Hernandez brothers, YOTSUBA&!, and various ETCs...
3) Participation in such activities is something I'm fairly indifferent to, but I'm reasonably willing if cornered. Being an audience to them is another story - I'm always happy to learn of anything that may give me an edge, taste-wise, over my peers...
― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 04:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― c(''c) (Leee), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 04:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― c(''c) (Leee), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 04:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 04:11 (seventeen years ago) link
2. Umm I guess I just jumped on board the Scott Pilgrim gravy train, for some reason I was not drawn in by and even a little put off by the previews I read but I bought #3 on a whim just because it was cheap and the art was way cute and I ended up really enjoying it.
Oddly I am kind of re-evaluating the George Perez Wonder Woman comics I bought out of the quarter bin and really dug when I was younger. It may just be that I had it pointed out to me that like every single female superhero has sexual assault in her background and this is no exception and THAT IS LAME, but man, that run gets kind of super boring sometimes and no fair having the big girl superhero be the boring one. I know that this problem of snoozedom is not exactly unique to that one specific run of Wonder Woman but you know.
3. HELLYEAH
― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 07:27 (seventeen years ago) link
1. through ILM, of course. and yes, ILC is far, far better.2. been reading old '60's Thor the last couple weeks, Essential volume one last week and now Essential volume 2. The lead stories sucked before Kirby took over the art for good, and they can still be pretty iffy. Tales of Asgard, though, is pretty awesome, even if they crap all over the mythology. 3. I am not entirely averse to polls and lists.
― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Kooky! I'm only up to issue three of Perez' run, so I'll be wary of any sad sex that appears.
And, yes, SCOTT PILGRIM is awesome. I shoulda included it on my current faves.
― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link
1. Through ILM. Those dudes take the word "nerd" to places I didn't know existed.
2. Believe or not, All Star Supes. I've been buying the issues but hadn't had time to read them until the other night and now I think it's one of my favorite comics ever.
3. Heck yes. Mainly just for reading the results. I've learned a lot about comics from the ILC Best Ever Poll.
― sheep sheet (serious sheet), Thursday, 29 June 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link
My history with comics: When i went back to college at 23 a good friend i met there collected X-Men Comics and had an wasome action figure collection. Having no originallity of my own, I attempted to copy his collecting habbit. Once when I wondered into a comic store to see if they had any good figures, I noticed Batman Wardrums with Steph Brown on the cover. I thought is was Carrie since I had never read comics but knew of Carrie. The guy told me no, that it was someone else and I picked it up curious. Long story Short Now I Buy Everything
Young Avengers is pretty awsome Thats my most recent find.
― Christopher Goodnight (saintsaucey), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Christopher Goodnight (saintsaucey), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 6 July 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link