2014 what are you reading thread

so idk who's been reading "the wicked & the divine" as uh religiously as i have, but the new issue of sex criminals includes an extended riff on a porn movie called 'the lick-ed and the divine' starring two wicdiv character lookalikes, had me roaring on the bus

Havent gotten the fukitor collection yet but now I kinda want it

in some ways it's better just bc it's so insane - it clearly understands that it is pulpy pornographic cartoon violence and it delivers gleeful thrills on every page. ennis takes himself too seriously and so his violence + grossness are such intense downers.

Lol of course yr here :)

Meant to link this is previous post

http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2013/10/the-feminist-phantasmagoria-of-fukitor/

The TCJ review gave me pause initially, but ultimately it felt at odds with the bits I've seen.

from the aforementioned "ahem" forum: the complete Miss Don't Touch Me with at least two chapters of not-yet-released-in-America material
I have the first two US books (and will buy the others when they are released here) but getting them now on digital is a great giftmas treat.

Pretty sure that is the collection that just came out from nbm.

Well, the new book is the page count of the combined first two volumes. If the story is still going after that, why did NBM call it complete?

Wish NBM had wider distribution, I rarely see their books, even in specialist stores. Probably doesn't help that so much of their output has so much extreme content, even the stuff that looks all-ages friendly.

Wish nbm would do a completist Rick Geary compendium. There's soooo much magazine and anthology stuff that was never collected.

Wish NBM had wider distribution,

They have broader distribution than DC Comics to comic book stores, and the same UK bookstore distribution as Marvel, Archie, Dark Horse, Fantagraphics, Legendary, Humanoids, Knockabout, Blank Slate, Panini and Toon Books, not to mention Bantam, Doubleday, National Geographic, Putnam and Moleskine notebooks.

Jon - They've got some Geary books coming. Just saw them in the upcoming section.

Sic - I'm a little surprised by that. I do see some and have bought a few in recent times, but somehow I never see Dungeon in Forbidden Planet or Waterstones.

okay, so wrt Miss Don't Touch Me: It seems their "complete" edition adds about 30 to 50 pages of new material. They are "sold out" of volume one and are selling volume two for $3 on their website and there is no volume three to be purchased. This is one of those cases where i feel well justified, having bought the first two volumes at retail, to download the unpublished finale. Very disappointing way to treat a reader/customer imo.

Wolf Hall by Mantel. Next: Wolf's Hour by McCammon.

got all excited for half a second about a graphic novel adaptation of wolf hall

seems like it would be well suited for an adaptation

meaning TV or film

was hella confused until i realized calstars doesn't know this is the comics thread

it's a new year, someone remember to put COMIX ED. in the next one

lol sorry dudes!

i was thinking if someone was doing robert r mccammon comic adaptations i was gonna hafta go get those.

they are doing a tv adap of wolf hall xp hbo iirc?

it's a new year, someone remember to put COMIX ED. in the next one

No!

ILC was here first, the ILB folks should put "BOOKS WITH JUST TEXT AND NO PICS ED." to their thread.

it's just too much to ask these "books" people to know what board they're on

But I enjoy our usual cycle of "mistaken post about Thomas Paine biography" followed by passive-aggressive rebuttal of comics' worth

ILC was here first, the ILB folks should put "BOOKS WITH JUST TEXT AND NO PICS ED." to their thread.

― Tuomas, Monday, 29 December 2014

That would probably rule out a lot of books, especially nonfiction.

sigh

"what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"

http://media.giphy.com/media/6ZHUmnZdVQB9K/giphy.gif

Been stuck at home sick for the past week so got into Blacksad and The Wake

I was really put off by the whole furry connotations of Blacksad but it is a gorgeous piece of work

The Wake begins as a stereotypical Eurocomix thing but keeps building the moral ambiguity and craft until by the fifth or sixth vol it's totally cranking

Wake is pretty good, yes

Going to start a "What are you Watching" on the I Love Game Casting board.

Curious what youse thought about the end of the Wake (potential spoiler - I thought it was a daft cop-out and waste of potential)

First seven-eight issues are terrific tho'

Oh it ends? I'm only up to ... no. 11. They just announced no. 17, so I didn't think it was wrapping up. (Are we talking about the same book? I'm talking about the French one, 'Sillage')

Haha, I'm thinking of some trashy Vertigo comic. Yours sounds better.

http://www.eurocomics.info/wake.html

Someone's gotta name the new 2015 thread and I'm not going to screw it up.

I'll screw it up then.
Rolling 2015 Reading Funnybooks Thread