Rolling Comic Books 2022

I wish I knew Maggie to appresh the Detention better! there's some wild-ass hensleying in it for sure tho

RIP Kevin O'Neill. Need to read more of his non League stuff.

Shame to hear, RIP.

RIP Carlos Pacheco.

O'Neill's "Nemesis the Warlock" was some mind warping strange comics to my teenage mind. That artwork kinda freaked some people out. I seemed to recall there being some issues with a US printer as the employees thought it was was obscene at one point in the 80s.

I'd say that series, Marshall Law and a graphic novel that he did with Pat Mills for DC called Metalzolic are worth searching out.

I never read Nemesis because it looked so creepy. I still find it creepy! But will give it a shot.

I’ve always felt like there’s a very “my brain does not want to look at that” quality to O’Neill’s art, which is probably why he’s so great!

Not a printer - the CCA.

I need to get on Orochi soon

Kerascoet's Beauty is getting a paperback reprint this month

For the single-digits number of people still following the big two:

Any thoughts on DC Universe Infinite Ultra, other than that name being a mouthful? They're claiming the yearly price is "introductory" and going to go up to an unspecified number at the end of the month. I'm not sure if I care about getting new comics sooner, but I'm wondering how expanded the Black Label/Vertigo selection is

Might be appealing for a one-off year’s payment based on what’s in the vertigo library.

Weirdly I am finally rediscovering the joys of paper collected editions. I’ve had Jason Aaron’s Avengers run on my iPad for years and never wanted to read it; but now I’m whizzing through it after taking the trades out of my local library

i flip through the current books but it's impossible to care tbh

I got the Dorian Gray adaptation by Corominas today and it's pretty stunning, I haven't seen much else like it. I don't think it has ever been in english but I guess a familiarity with the source material will help
https://www.danielmaghen-editions.com/catalogue/dorian-gray/

Kentaro Miura - Giganto Maxia

Kaiju desert adventure with nice creature and setting designs. The main characters (an increasingly young looking girl who pisses on a wrestler to keep him energized) are insanely powerful so it feels like the opposite of the struggle in Berserk.

I found it a little slight and it seemed just open ended enough in case he managed to finish Berserk so who knows if there was grander plans.

I didn't think Japan (written by Buronsen) was especially good but I hadn't heard of King Of Wolves until today, has anyone read it?

Reading the first Nemesis The Warlock omnibus in honour of Kevin O'Neill. I love that the humans are the bad guys but not in an essentialist way - there are humans who join the good side but crucially they are not promoted to main character status for it. Also surely this is one of the main influences on Warhammer 40k?

The art is uniformly excellent, wild stuff - by O'Neill but also Bryan Talbot and Jesus Redondo, whom I'd never heard of but who def holds his own.

I know I'm late to this, but I've just noticed how much Martínez looks like his face has been drawn by Ken Reid in this picture

https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1606364688756899844/UAUvB9Wa?format=jpg&name=medium

really should be speech bubble next to him saying "ERK!!"

i am doing my yearly reread of Berserk in honor of the final miura volume being released. astonishing how quick he got so good and how incredibly complex and dark the story is.

exporting the ILB what did you read this year tradition because hell why not:

* - I really loved this

Grandville: L'integral, Bryan Talbot
Gil Jourdan - Premieres Aventures, M. Tillieux
Hyperthick #1-3, Steve Aylett
*Crisis Zone, Simon Hanselmann
*Warlock, Jim Starlin et al
Popeye Vol.1: 1986-1989, Bobby London
Mickey Mouse: Race To Death Valley, Floyd Gottfredson
The Caterer, Steve Aylett
*Red Flowers, Yoshiharu Tsuge
Dancing Plague, Gareth Brookes
*Black Panther, Vol.1, Christopher Priest, Mark Teixeira et al
Lupin III: Greatest Heists, Monkey Punch
Miles Morales, Vol.1, Saladin Ahmed, Javier Garron et al
Sobek, James Stokoe
Misty, Vol.2-3, Malcolm Shaw et al
Mickey Mouse: The Man From Alcatraz, Romano Scarppa
*Chartwell Manor, Glenn Head
The Swamp, Yoshiharu Tsuge
Beta Ray Bill: Argent Star, Daniel Warren Johnson
Guardians Of The Galaxy, Vol.1, Al Ewing, Juann Cabal et al
*Hellboy Vol.6, Mike Mignola, Scott Hampton et al
Poussey: L'integrale, Peyo
*The Thief Inoue Akizazu, Osamu Tezuka
Apollo's Song, Osamu Tezuka
*Red Seas, Vol.1, Ian Edginton, Steve Yeowell
* The Good Asian, Vol.1&2, Pornsak Pichetshote, Alexandre Tefekghi et al
The Birth Of Kitaro, Shigeru Mizuki
* Paralell Lives, Oliver Schrauwen
Concrete Surfer, Pat Mills, Christine Ellingham
The Man Without Talent, Yoshiharu Tsuge
Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files Vol.1, Matt Wagner et al
TMNT Adventures, Vol.2, Dean Clarrain, Ryan Brown et al
Seven Soldiers Of Victory Vol.1-4, Grant Morrison et al
*Chainsaw Man, Vol.1-6, Tatsuki Fujimoto
Good Night, Hem, Jason
Umma's Table, Yeon-Sik Hong
Jinty: Land Of No Tears/The Human Zoo, Pat Mills et al
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter, Dan Abnett, Tom Mandrake et al
Falconspeare, Johnson-Cadwell
Orochi Vol.1-2, Kazuo Umezzo
*I Want You, Lisa Hanawalt
Keeping Two, Jordan Crane
*The Best Of 2000AD, various
Something Is Killing The Children, James Tynion IV et al
*Newburn, Vol.1, Chip Zdarsky, Jason Phillips
Stages Of Rot, Linnea Sterte
Reckless: Follow Me Down, Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips
Absolute Sandman, Vol.1, Neil Gaiman et al
*Nemesis The Warlock, Vol.1, Pat Mills, Kevin O'Neill et al

> *Nemesis The Warlock, Vol.1, Pat Mills, Kevin O'Neill et al

oh, i should've picked this up from home at christmas.

and then sold it on amazon to some sucker

"1 Used from £190.00"

points of overlap

*Crisis Zone, Simon Hanselmann
Mickey Mouse: Race To Death Valley, Floyd Gottfredson
Sobek, James Stokoe
*Chartwell Manor, Glenn Head
Apollo's Song, Osamu Tezuka
* Paralell Lives, Oliver Schrauwen
*I Want You, Lisa Hanawalt
*Newburn, Vol.1, Chip Zdarsky, Jason Phillips

Something I should say more often: nice drawings, shame about the faces

Here are the TCJ Best of 2022 lists:

The Best Comics of 2002

My reaction is similar every year to the point where it's a ritual: I look forward eagerly to the lists; once I read them am horrified by the bulk of them*; find comfort in the lists of Jog, Tucker, Cynthia Rose**, Ristau, Nicholson***, one or two others; revert back to my default state of ruing the State of Modern Comics (TM) (or should that just be modern comics criticism).

*Giving the side-eye this year to any list featuring Jordan Crane. Great editor, good cartoonist, but some of the most bathetic scenarios known to mankind (which is saying a lot in indie comics).

**Had no idea there was a new version of Objectif Pub (a gorgeous 1980s compilation of ads drawn by cartoonists, mostly of the ligne claire/Atom Style a la Chaland, Benoit, Clerc etc.) - one of my most treasured, ah, objects.

***Even the good lists suffer from a fill-in-the-blanks predictability: here's RJ Casey with a New Yorker cartoon, here's the 2000AD entry for Jog; here's Tucker with the edgy DC genre entry.

Ah, I'm just being crabby.

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