Rolling 2015 Reading Funnybooks Thread

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

reading Shizeru Mizuki's series of Japanese history books 'Showa' and its pretty fantastic. any other recommendations for him?

I don't think it's the queerness of Jojo that puts people off. That stuff is fairly normal in Japanese comics, games and cartoons. I mean Prince, Bowie and Motley Crue are more homoerotic than Jojo, but Jojo is weirder overall.
The old PS1/Dreamcast game is fantastic and hilarious.

Berserk is indeed a commitment (which is a shame because if if was shorter and missing several crucial flaws it would be the best comic I'd ever read) but the different phases of Jojo can be read individually without losing out on too much.

Shigeru Mizuki's Nonnonba is very good.

This user made a good series of video overviews of each part of Jojo.

This one is top 10 strangest stands (stands are supernatural assistants)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=d0uj_mkj6OM

Dig the music references, which often are sadly changed on English translation for copyright reasons.
Names like King Crimson, Tarkus, Purple Haze, Devo, Killer Queen, Sticky Fingers and Vanilla Ice have to get changed but Speedwagon stays I think.

http://jojo.wikia.com/wiki/JoJo_Wiki:Name_Variants

Really sad to miss out on stuff like "White Album Gently Weeps!!!"

Haha, there's even characters called Born This Way and Tubular Bells!

Brremaud and Bertolucci's "Love v. 1: The Tiger" is GORGEOUS and worth a look

Does Dark Horse have some digital sale going on in conjunction with Amazon? It looks like pretty much all of their Kindle editions are $3/each right now, even the lengthy ones. If nothing's been announced, I am thinking there was a serious fuckup.

Ah, it looks like maybe it is just the first volume of different series

Yeah, I saw that Love: The Tiger book today, I was impressed.

Two comics I didn't get because I didn't have enough money and I bought pricey ukiyo-e books instead:

A quite big impressive looking complete edition of Celestial Bibendum by Nicolas De Crecy. There's a bigger Humanoids edition of it that is way more expensive. Dunno if they'll do a smaller for poor people. Maybe they don't do it when a British publisher does the smaller version? I don't like that Humanoids caters to collectors so much, are they trying to keep this stuff obscure?

Part of the reason I didn't buy the Jojo hardcover is that it's less than half the page count I had seen listed. I was worried they were going to string the thing out in more volumes in some crazy last minute change but for some reason it's just much shorter than the forthcoming volumes. Seems that the second series will be in 5 volumes.
I was thinking I couldn't be arsed getting this because I'm not going to reread it but I'd feel guilty for reading and enjoying it many years ago online but not paying for it. It's nice to see the color reproduced.

Think I'll get both these in two weeks.

I asked about Dungeon and the guys said they'd never heard of it. I was quite surprised because they tend to know what's what. I swear I don't think I've ever seen them in physical shops.

heard good things about the recent IDW dungeons & dragons series and apparently comixology is selling them all really cheap now

Gosh has some Dungeons, but Amazon is the best option, unfortunately.

Opinions on Lone Wolf & Cub? I was looking at some today and it has a nice earthy look about it.

LW&C is great. it drags a bit in the middle, imo (the poisoner). but the middle is 4000 pages away...

i keep meaning to pick up one of the newer edition to see how it compares (i have the 28 dark horse volumes which were reversed. new one is apparently larger and japanese style).

or do you mean the NEW ones? (which i didn't know existed until just then)

http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/Previews/25-153?page=0

the newer dark horse omnibus editions retain the reversed pages.

I was looking at the old and new stuff and it all looks nice. The new artist Hideki Mori is very talented.

I think it remains flipped because the demographic isn't overwhelmingly a manga fan one. A shame because I tend to refuse to read flipped art.

i guess they didn't want to have to reletter 8000 pages.

lol

weak! ah well, i got about 11 volumes (the small DH books from 15 years ago mentioned) before I forgot to keep up. maybe when it's all done this time around I'll purchase them all in a manic binge

I don't know if Lone Wolf & Cub is included but some of the older DH manga wasn't mirror flipped but instead rearranged all the panels instead. I think this was partly because the Japanese considered which hand the sword was held in too important to be mirror flipped.

I've just checked and the 28 volume version is flipped

Cover of #28 is also a massive spoiler

http://www.darkhorse.com/Search/Browse/%22Kazuo+Koike%22/PpwNwkt8
That's a lot of Koike.

Just a few volumes until the Lone Wolf & Cub omnibus series is finished (12 books should do it), currently at omnibus 7 with the next two following soon.

Samurai Executioner has been completed in 4 omnibus volumes.

I read first two newer print Lone Wolf & Cub omnibuses and read quite a few of the First comics printings back in the 80s. It is a pretty amazing comic and has some beautiful nature artwork throughout the bloody series. I'm hooked and will eventually read the whole thing.

I'm reading Onslaught for the first time and I remember why I skipped the 90s. Story is a mess, and the Joe Mad art is horrifying (why did/do people like him? He sucks so bad). However, I missed the era of Wolverine with a do-rag mask and bike gloves and being drawn like a poor man's MAXX in full faux-Sam Kieth style. I hope he comes back after whatever the super-sized secret wars thing ends up being.

POWERS this month had another Bendis crack in a police station scene, rando shouting at cops

"how can a war be SECRET if EVERYONE KNOWS about it??"

I missed the era of Wolverine with a do-rag mask and bike gloves and being drawn like a poor man's MAXX in full faux-Sam Kieth style.

I only found about Wolverine's "caveman era" when Comics Should Be Good wrote about it last year, and I was like, wtf, could the 90s have been any more 90s?! Seriously, look at this shit!

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11111/111111327/3025438-110-1997-bennett-feral+001.jpg

And apparently Wolverine going feral means he will also lose his nose, because why not?

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wolverineferaldisplay.jpg

'take a ride on the meat wagon' is such a baller pick-up line, good job wolvie

finished the last run of Stumptown - kind of... eh? I don't know that a five-issue run is enough for crime stories to develop any feeling.
current chapter of Walking Dead is the best it's been in dozens of issues
a few issues behind on Deadly Class but it's bordering on too nihilistic at this point
Trees #1 was a pretty good sci-fi setup but the problem with owning stores is that I notice and pull first issues for myself but most Tuesdays I'm too stressed with counting and sorting to remember to keep pulling them

read through the first three issues of Dave Cooper's Weasel right before bed; not recommended timing anymore than you would read Chris Ware before trying to sleep. disturbing.

It's odd that a lot of that Weasel stuff has never been collected. I think Cooper might have lost interest in drawing comics.

Ivan Brunetti appears to have gotten tired of writing them. That super depressing stuff must take a lot outta you.

gdmn wolvie swole

I've been on a Kieron Gillen binge and decide I like him a lot more than I thought I did. The first Phonogram is still rubbish and irritating. But everything after I've enjoyed A LOT, even the Phonogram sequel. (X-Men and Iron Man, I haven't read, and the Nazi/3 stuff looks awful and might skip).

S.W.O.R.D. wasn't bad iirc

Reading Transmetropolitan - thought it was very lol80s and then realized it started in the late '90s.

It's very lol in any decade

I've made it through a single Ellis comic, but never a whole story.

Tried Trees but finding it a little nihilistic and dull. It's like a 70s Doctor Who story made up of bland character actors and no Doctor.

I think I am contractually obligated at this point to mention Delano's 2020 Visions yet again http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Visions

Deltrono's 3030 Visions

grady's 8080 visions

a+

It's odd that a lot of that Weasel stuff has never been collected. I think Cooper might have lost interest in drawing comics.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, February 27, 2015 7:19 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he went the julie doucet route and became a painter.

The last two issues of Weasel were just hardcover art collections.

Yeah I got 3 of his art books, they're good but I'm just not into his pure cartoon style. I prefer it when he keeps some level of organic realism and caricature.

upto book 16 of usagi and still not tired of it. so great. glad i gave it a chance (despite its overwhelming quantity)

I've been on a Kieron Gillen binge and decide I like him a lot more than I thought I did. The first Phonogram is still rubbish and irritating. But everything after I've enjoyed A LOT, even the Phonogram sequel. (X-Men and Iron Man, I haven't read, and the Nazi/3 stuff looks awful and might skip).

― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, March 1, 2015 9:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i can't put my finger on what i dislike about the first phonogram except that i know it gave me a headache

have you done young avengers yet? its ace

also the new WicDiv takes place in part at a rave and i adored how they handled it

i have mixed feelings about this http://comicsalliance.com/joe-casey-jim-mahfood-miami-vice/