Zdarsky's DD run is one of the weaker ones imo - it's not bad! it's just DD is probably the most consistently good mainstream superhero comic (tends to get good writers on long runs) so there's a lot to live up to and I wasn't sure this one did. I thought it had too much repetition over the whole DD manslaughtering a guy thing. Or idk maybe I was just a bit fatigued bc I caned all of Soule + Zdarsky over Xmas break.
― salsa shark, Sunday, 16 January 2022 14:21 (two years ago) link
i'm curious too, but never started the run. one day i'll catch up with the last 20 years of Daredevil. someday...
― Nhex, Sunday, 16 January 2022 17:48 (two years ago) link
https://treasuryofbritishcomics.com/between-the-historical-and-the-fantastical-on-don-lawrences-karl-the-viking/Never seen this stuff before
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 5 February 2022 19:33 (two years ago) link
rebellion is constantly pumping out old boy's comic collections that confound me.
Who knew about Marney the Fox for instance?http://doomrocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/marneyTF_01.jpg
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 February 2022 21:25 (two years ago) link
Didn't know about the Karl The Viking release so it is now on my buy list
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Saturday, 5 February 2022 22:46 (two years ago) link
Good artwork on both
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 5 February 2022 23:00 (two years ago) link
we're not even gonna try for a 2022 thread?
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 6 February 2022 11:58 (two years ago) link
Agreed that Rebellion are finally doing justice to the IPC library that they inherited, though there is still so much that has never been reprinted.
The Book Palace company have also been reprinting classic Brit comics for a number of years now. They're a small publisher, so their prices are not cheap, but I would especially recommend the Larrigan collection in their Fleetway Picture Library series, with great illustrative artwork by Arturo del Castillo:
https://bookpalace.com/bpb/Larriganpeek/26/index.html
Of course, the cream of Leo Baxendale, Ken Reid, Davey Law's etc work for DC Thomson's humour comics has never been reprinted in any kind of coherent fashion. Which makes this two-volume set of Reid's non-Thomson stuff especially essential:
https://www.brokenfrontier.com/frankie-stein-ken-reid-power-pack-jasper-grasper/
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 6 February 2022 13:06 (two years ago) link
Rolling Comic Books 2022
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 7 February 2022 00:26 (two years ago) link
I like how Marney the Fox thinks: "'Tis the stumbling approach of hated man!"
― gjoon1, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 23:30 (two years ago) link
I do too!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 February 2022 00:06 (two years ago) link
the reference point is at least partially the original Bambi book