Rolling 2015 Reading Funnybooks Thread

on loan

Ah. Off topic for this thread but I saw they're the only ppl who seem to offer an ebook of England's Hidden Reverse.

hm. i will check that out.

https://www.comixology.com/Powers/bundle/160?tid=E150212001&utm_source=comiXology+Digital+Comics+Newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=E150212001_Icon_Powers_Sale

Powers collection on sale for 50% off at Comixology

This is fascinating:
http://www.tcj.com/working-stiff-working-loose-the-1950s-career-of-john-stanley/
who among us knew that John Stanley revived Krazy Kat seven years after Herriman's death? Or that it looked like THIS?!?!?
http://images.tcj.com/2015/02/6-IgnatzPanelsFromKat-650x500.jpg

Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca's Darth Vader #1 was a really good read. I quite liked Larroca's artwork on Iron Man, but he seems to be a kid in a candy store drawing this Star Wars series. I'm definitely not a Star Wars geek but I am a fan, so it is cool to see a scene between Vader and Jabba. It was a pretty well done 'licensed' comic by filling in the blanks on scenes for the comic.

Anyone else notice that the minute Dark Horse lost the Star Wars license, Marvel instantly published their entire catalog in digital format with Marvel logos on it?

Licensed comics makes strange bedfellows. One of the weirder ones I have seen in the past few years was DC putting out a showcase of the 1975 Marvel black and white magazines

Which ones?

I was kind of referring to how certain comic properties would go from one company to another. Back in the mid 70s to come out along a terrible Doc Savage movie, Marvel comics did two Doc Savage comic book series. One was a regular comic book and the other was in their black and white magazine like Savage Sword of Conan. A few years ago, DC still with the rights of Doc Savage reprinted those black and white magazine issues. This year Dynamite is reprinting the same 70s Marvel comics issues in a hard cover. Quite a few of the characters that came out of the pulps have been with multiple publishers in comics also like the Shadow, Elric and Conan.

http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/dreadstar-tv-series-jim-starlin-universal-cable-productions-benderspink-1201435486/

That seems like a bad idea

I'm pleased that Starlin is getting a payday, and it serves as another reminder about the importance of retaining the copyright to your creations. Whether it will actually happen is anyone's guess.

Cartoon or live action? I think I'd prefer the former.

That seems like a bad idea

― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, February 18, 2015

i choose to hope

I'm all for starlin getting paid, just think dread star is one of the weaker properties he could forward

The Kaluta art book is the most delayed item I've ever waited for. I think that book was promised over 5 years ago.

Anybody rate Frank Thorne's Red Sonja? The recent collections were coloured so badly Thorne was horrified and the "art editions" are huge and expensive.

xpost here's the thing about Starlin: i always pictured him looking exactly like Vanth Dreadstar, and he kinda does!

http://rivista-cdn.hvmag.com//Hudson-Valley-Magazine/February-2009/Comic-Book-Heroes/Starlin_3522.jpg

Should we start a thread for that? Comic book creators who look like their (fictional) characters? I'm sure there are loads of examples, like Liefeld, Morrison, etc.

I blame Morrison and Bendis for the sudden preponderance of bald characters in the 2000s

Warren Ellis wasn't bald but Transmetropolitan.

it seems impossible for liefeld to look like any of his characters. unless he is irl covered in pouches?

whoa whoa whoa

http://scontent-b.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xpa1/t51.2885-15/925660_957389617624459_317203352_a.jpg

http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/thumb/e/ee/Rob_Liefeld.jpg/250px-Rob_Liefeld.jpg " class="noborder">

lol ew

there's a recent-ish instagram of Liefeld doing the Liefield face and it allll makes sense now

You mean this one?

http://www.comicsbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/170328333-db08f4250ab64f490ca4f8586cf12e3b.4ca4de30-scaled.jpg

I remember the first time I saw photo of Liefeld, it was pretty evident why all of his male heroes have the face they do:

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Robliefeldpic_4678.jpg

heh that may be it!!

lol

matt wagner and kevin matchstick from mage.

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/9/99019/1862439-mage1.jpg
http://www.co2comics.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/booth_2.gif
http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/14/148518/3034418-mattwagner.jpg

oh jeez that's more exact than I ever suspected

the drummer from planetary was john cassaday drawing himself:

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070311134416/marveldatabase/images/b/be/John_Cassaday_001.jpg
http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/3/38919/987024-drummer.jpg

Ha!

drummer + matthew lillard = cassaday imo

You could have a super hero team of comic artists as superheros.

I'm not sure if this is actually ture, but I've heard people say that Terry Long, the former husband of Donna Troy, is supposedly is based on Marv Wofman:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Marv_Wolfman_%281982,_cropped%29.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9Bv2nyoPDAQ/UKvBJq6QBtI/AAAAAAAAAA8/V86V15dm8Bw/s640/NTT2.jpg

If it is true, then he basically added himself to his comic so he could have sex with Wonder Girl... Lovely.

makes sense!

And Jack Knight of Starman apparently has the same tattoos as his original artist Tony Harris, though I can't find any picture of Harris online that would show them. In his foreword to one of the Starman collections James Robinson even says that the reason Jack got a new clone body during the outer space arc was because Harris had been replaced by Peter Snejbjerg, so he didn't feel like Jack should have Harris's tattoo anymore.

Here's a pic where you can see he has the same dragon and compass tattoos:

https://igcdn-photos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t51.2885-15/927181_427770554018455_1510507545_n.jpg

this should be a tumblr

Terry Long is a mashup of Wolfman, Perez and Wein.

so i'm reading all of usagi yojimbo now. i read the first 6 books last week and i'm upto gen's story.

usagi is great and highly underrated. Sakai and Aragones are amonst the most prolific and consistently strong cartoonists of their era.

Both completely amazing cartoonists and mostly taken for granted.

http://alanmooreworld.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/dylan-dog-meets-alan-moore.html

hairy-chested love god Neal Adamas and goateed swashbuckler Mike Grell, 1977
https://2warpstoneptune.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/adams-grell-1977.jpg

Just finished Yoshihiro Tatsumi's The Push Man and Other Stories. Picked it up to sort of start delving into his back catalogue, after finishing (and loving) A Drifting Life last month. This one's quite the counterpoint to the (almost) idyllic and hopeful world he creates in that memoir. Its unsettling, stark, dark and often deeply creepy. All of the stories look at down-on-their-luck people (mostly working class men) in 1960s Japan. A lot of them living what you might call dead-end lives, not really going anywhere, keeping to themselves and the small worlds they exist in, in whatever huge japanese metropolis they live.

The tone is realism, but gone a little askew. The last story is about a guy who leaves his girlfriend (who can't get pregnant), for a nasty looking momma rat that he becomes attached to once he realizes its pregnant with like five rat babies. The girlfriend moves out because the rat keeps creeping into the apartment and joining her for her tea ceremony or a shower. But the guy is down with the rat moving in because of some unfulfilled paternal desires. Other subjects include the dating life of a crossdressing (geisha?) dude, a pretty devastating story about sewage workers finding aborted fetuses floating in the currents of garbage and muck of the sewers, impotence induced suicide, murder. And much of it revolving around sexuality and domestic violence; lots of prostitution and abusive relationships between men and women. In the opening story a guy shoves his girlfriends hand into a fish tank full of piranhas, she's been sleeping around and doesn't appreciate that he purposively lost his own arm at his manufacturing job for the insurance payout to help her open a bar. Another guy puts a scorpion in his girl's purse before she sets off for a rendezvous with an older lover. Probably most unsettling was the one about a sperm donor who stalks and then attempts to rape a woman who had been trying (but failing) to become pregnant with his sperm from the sperm clinic.
Apparently Tatsumi would browse police reports for inspiration for the stories, and a lot of them feel uncomfortably authentic. Hopefully he lightens up a bit in the 70s haha, will be picking up one of those next.

that book was my first introduction to Tatsumi, really dug it

http://www.viz.com/search?search=jojo's+bizarre+adventure

I don't know why I'm finding this out so late but the first two parts of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure are getting released in omnibus editions. The whole of part 1 is already out on digital but will be coming out in hardcovers throughout the year.
Part 3 came out years ago in print and is available in digital.

No idea if they're going to re-release the third part in omnibus books or if they are planning to go beyond the third series. I've only read the first 3 parts and I want to get beyond that point.

Digital omnibuses seems ideal for this series because it's so enormous and I have doubts that they'll ever get very far in print. Sad that it taken more anime and videogames to get to this point. Seems that some fans of the franchise aren't interested in the comic, perhaps allergic to good drawings like many manganime fans are.

Amazon is missing volume 2 of part one for kindle. None of part 3 is there either.

it's one of those series that's so enormous it's intimidating to even start (as we talked about with Berzerk also)

perhaps allergic to good drawings like many manganime fans are