― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link
LOEB: "So there's this new Supergirl, and, like, Superman's all on her because she's from Krypton SUPPOSEDLY, and Batman's all jealous like 'Hell no she's a freak!' so he contacts Wonder Woman to whisk her away to Amazonia or whatever, but then Darkseid wants some of that too, yeah? So he raids the place, kills that blue-helmet chick from Crisis, and takes her away."
ED: "OK, so what happens in the next issue?"
LOEB: "Next? Dude, that's the plot for the first THREE issues!"
Why I made Jeph Loeb sound like a Yale Repetory reject auditioning for the O.C., I dunno.
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 June 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Friday, 4 June 2004 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 June 2004 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― David Nolan (David N.), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Monday, 7 June 2004 04:28 (nineteen years ago) link
Anyway.
Went to the library last night and scored some Greg Rucka NOVELS. Turns out there's this huge section behind the Graphic Novel shelf that has books without pictures.
I also got:Batman: As the Crow Flies - Wow. Dustin Nguyen is awesome. Now I have a much better idea of how much he brings to the Mahnke awesomeness (a lot).Avengers: Supreme Power - I haven't had much luck getting into the Avengers, but what the fuck. It's free.Scene of the Crime - Brubaker & Lark! Together again for the first time! Or something.
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Borrowed Perez's "Gods & Monsters" Wonder Woman book, the latest Y trade (with THE EXPLANATION), Rucka's Superman "Unconventional Warfare" (which looked great, skimming it - seemed like they've done a good job modernizing the characters), a Way of the Rat trade (also looks great), the two Green Lantern & Green Arrow trades (the pointing, the pointing!), and a pile of others. All freeeeeeeeeeeee.
― scamperingalpaca (Chris Hill), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link
The Nguyen that inks Doug Mahnke is the one whose first name is "Tom", I believe.
Is "As the crow flies" good? It's like 20 bucks down here in argentina, and I wasn't planning to get it, but I've been interested in the few stuff I've seen from Dustin Nguyen, and I happen to have that money, which would sure be much more useful if spent in other, more important and truly needed stuff, but now I'm starting to feel this irrepressible urge to waste it in some generic Batman comic that will make me feel very guilty after I have bought it (i get this feeling, like, once or twice a year)
― iodine (iodine), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link
You are correct, sir, and I am a giant asshole.It's okay. The art is great, the story is so-so. I'm not sure where I stand on Winnick. I've read some really great stuff by him (the "Red Hood" business) and a lot of mediocre stuff (Green Arrow).
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Btw, there's nothing like the guilt after you have bought an extremely expensive comic.
― iodine (iodine), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― iodine (iodine), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link
Ya know, the last time that I went to the library and got a stack of comic book books out, the librarian was all chatty with me about her experiences with "graphic novels" and how much she loved The Sandman! I never would have expected it from her, since she looked about 55. She was more impressed with my taste in reading material than I was, since I was mostly just checking out a bunch of kiddie comics stuff like Fushigi Yuugi and Astro Boy and shit! "Graphic novels"? WTF?!?
― Chris F. (servoret), Saturday, 20 August 2005 06:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 20 August 2005 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris F. (servoret), Sunday, 21 August 2005 05:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 27 August 2005 08:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 5 September 2005 05:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 5 September 2005 05:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 5 September 2005 05:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 5 September 2005 06:41 (eighteen years ago) link
And I mean I'm trying to look past the racism.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 5 September 2005 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 06:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 08:36 (eighteen years ago) link
A Contract With God, To The Heart Of The Storm, and that's about it really. Luckily for you, both are being published in one volume along with Dropsie Avenue (I think) as the launch title under his new 'real publisher' deal.
― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Gaz I thought of something else you should get from Kino the other day! but then I forgot it again. stay tuned!
― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 02:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 07:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link
The Dreamer reads like fucking Molesworth* wrote it! "and then JACQUES KIRBEE came to work for me he is pretty good but much shorter than me he thinks he's so tough but look at my muscles *hem hem* the comics in WALLY RENSIE's head are better than what all these other legends what I employ draw o I AM GRATE chiz chiz"
*ie not Willans
― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 8 September 2005 04:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Goon: Heaps of RuinationFinder: TalismanHellboy: Weird Tales 2100 Bullets: Six Feet Under the GunScott Pilgrim Vols. 1 & 2Mary Jane: Circle of Friends
― Leeeeeeeee (Leee), Saturday, 17 September 2005 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 18 September 2005 05:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Over the weekend I got Birth of a Nation, Rose (the Bone prequel), the Goon vol. 1 & 2, and 100 Bullets vol. 3. Maddie got Cerebus: High Society, Epileptic, and some other stuff.
I'm extremely happy to have finally read BoaN and Goon, and 100 Bullets and Cerebus are perfect examples of "I would read it but don't want to spend twenty bucks to do it".
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 November 2005 17:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 7 November 2005 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 November 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Also French nouvelle vague! Alphaville & Le Samourai
And that new autechre. :(
― c(''c) (Leee), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 01:02 (eighteen years ago) link
w00t! I've been watching some public library Godard lately myself. The last public library comic I got out was probably Jimmy Corrigan, but that was a while ago. I wish my PL had Finder.
― Chris F. (servoret), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 09:06 (eighteen years ago) link
i gotjimmy corriganthat frank cho book wosname meadows (ouch! how crap is it?)burn's black holeclowe's ice havenorbiter (ellis)the bone telephone bookand an acme novelty hardcover
yipes!
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 24 February 2006 10:56 (eighteen years ago) link
I understand that if you want antropomorphic animals and soft-core cheesecake in the service of non-humour-based jokes, then Liberty Meadows hits the spot, though if so you may wish to consider killing yourself for the good of everyone.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 24 February 2006 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 24 February 2006 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link
yet to read orbiter (weren't you singing the collen doran praise to me?)
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 24 February 2006 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 24 February 2006 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link
I started reading this at uComics.com for the pulchritude, but I'm starting to hate myself for it. The animals aren't funny and the humans all need a punch in the face.
But in the meantime, my library got the copy of Comics Between the Panels that I requested in nine days, so big ups to them.
― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Friday, 24 February 2006 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― mullygrabber, Thursday, 16 March 2006 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 16 March 2006 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link
in other news, I bought the Flaming Carrot colour photo-comic and it is shit, your suspicions were totally founded.
― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 17 March 2006 05:22 (eighteen years ago) link