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Whenever I don't feel like working on my thesis, the novel will be beckoning me.

― Unexplained Bacon (Leee), Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:06 (eighteen years ago) link

You need to incorporate in INTO your thesis, then you'll be straight.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 5 May 2005 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link

I would only end up hating it -- it's what's happening with my thesis right now. (Stupid Alias the tv show!)

― Unexplained Bacon (Leee), Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Ooh it started off slowly, but now it is the heating up!

― Le (Leee), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Okay guys. I've read the first two, and seeing this thread has made me want to go read the third, so it's off to the comic shop I go...

thanks!

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I should get me some more, too.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

i read a buncha these - they're good reading (and i like all the artists, which is cool) but it feels like there isn't quite enough at stake sometimes: viz. whichever one where it looked like they might get involved with a scheme to bring down mugabe, bcz obviously they wouldn't...

up to volume five i think. does the new minder three last any longer than the others?

― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't understand what you mean by "stakes" -- do you mean in relation to (political) reality?

the new minder three = Brian Butler?

― Le (Leee), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Somewhat perversely, I like the lower stakes arcs better, i.e. the ones where they are running around London politicking and trying to keep their jobs rather than fighting terrorism.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:03 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

HOO WOO.

There is also a new Q&C novel coming out this fall.

― Leeeeee (Leee), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Randall Jarell? Wasn't that a prominent U.S. poet in the 50s?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Hey, the Declassified vol. 3 #2 is very good and on time!

― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Thursday, 4 August 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link

It's out? Sweet.

I was thinking about Declassified the other day after reading the new Courtney Crumrin thing, which is doing the same thing (going back and doing solo stories delving into the pasts of peripheral characters).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 4 August 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

DAMN YOU RUCKA

Re: the book.

BTW, the paperback version of A Gentlemen's Game features a few pages from the (OUT THIS MONTH?) new Q&C novel.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 20 October 2005 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Rucka said that the first few pages would make us want to punch him!

― Leeeeeeeeee (Leee), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link

He's pretty right!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link

October 25 when Rucka becomes punchable!

― Leeeeeeeeee (Leee), Friday, 21 October 2005 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link

The ONE THING that disappointed me about AGG - when they were doing the thing before the thing, I KNEW that the thing was gonna get the thing. KNEW KNEW KNEW.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 21 October 2005 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link

OTM! But you may want to keep AGG spoilers to I have finally read A GENTLEMAN'S GAME (spoilers etc.)

― Leeeeeeeeee (Leee), Friday, 21 October 2005 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link

My bad! I'll delete & move.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 21 October 2005 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

omg! guys this is great! i love this series so far!

like seemingly everyone else i got snookered on the whole "two #1s" thing and read declassified first. which is ok though, i really liked it, and it served as a very nice amuse-gueule for the series. since then i've read the "real" #1 and #2, the latter of which is my favourite so far. a really terrific story.

go queen & country!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 11 December 2005 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link

how are the other artists?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 11 December 2005 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Vol. 1 - Cartoony but great!
2 - Eh!
3 - Big juggies! Lots of complaints! But one of my favorite Crocker designs!
4 - Cool, inna Dave McKean-stylee!
5 - Very different, but now one of my favorites!
6 - Less cartoony than 1, but still good!
7 - Cartoony like 1 because the artist returns for one issue, then BIG KNOCKERS again! But a lot more polished than 3!

― Obsessing over the unobtainable and nonexistent. (Leee), Sunday, 11 December 2005 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I have a feeling everyone but you & me will be on the same page re: Leandro Fernandez (Vol. 3). Carla Speed McNeil (Vol. 5) is my fave, to this point, w/ Steve Rolston (Vol. 1 & the first chapter of Vol. 7) a close 2nd. I think they're all good, FWIW.

― David R. (popshots75`), Sunday, 11 December 2005 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Here is an example of CS McNeil's art, a sketch of Q&C's delightfully sassy Kate!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/plechazunga/comics/csm-kate-small.jpg

― Obsessing over the unobtainable and nonexistent. (Leee), Sunday, 11 December 2005 20:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Those are not fart lines!

― Obsessing over the unobtainable and nonexistent. (Leee), Sunday, 11 December 2005 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link

that's what she said

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 12 December 2005 01:15 (eighteen years ago) link

More representative example of CSM's

― Obsessing over the unobtainable and nonexistent. (Leee), Monday, 12 December 2005 03:28 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

I've started rereading my trades in order again, and Broken Ground came off flat! Crocker wasn't quite mean enough, and the contrast between the first-person narration in Broken Ground and the lack thereof in all the subsequent volumes changes the texture and maybe even the narrative of Q&C.
However, Morninstar is better than I remember -- I didn't like it as much originally because very little happened, but then when I got to the "Wizard"/Harry Potter line and Crocker telling Kate to "shut up," Morningstar is probably the first volume of Q&C as we know it.

― c(''c) (Leee), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 00:31 (eighteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

I never finished this series, so now I'm re-reading from the beginning. Just started vol. 5. I'm not a huge Carla Speed McNeil fan, and in fact i would say that volumes 3 & 4 have my fave art, as it is the least 'cartoony.' The cartoony vibes give me some weird cognitive dissonance, like, it feel disconnected from how serious the tone of the series is.

whatever it's still all good.

― ian, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link

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