Rolling 2015 Reading Funnybooks Thread

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/

just read a scanlated copy of atar gull, that's a helluva piece of work there
http://siguealconejoblanco.es/comics/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Atar-Gull-011.jpg
http://www.avant-verlag.de/comic/atar_gull_oder_die_geschichte_eines_modellsklaven

I got Jojo's Bizarre Adventure part 1/book 1 and Celestial Bibendum. Kinda itching to get those Koike omnibuses but should hold back.

I feel like there's been a huge increase in hardcovers for comics over the past few years and although it looks nicer I'd prefer cheaper books.

This is a problem for me too, kind of a big one. I basically can't afford comics anymore.

How much does it typically add to the cost?

I still don't understand why hardcovers are such a big deal. The only disadvantage for me is that softcovers curl up in the winter cold.

I remember Steve Ditko Space Wars being £10 extra in hardcover. I thought that was nuts.

How much does it typically add to the cost?

...?

If a new cartoonist's debut is a US$35 hardcover rather than a $3 pamphlet, then this adds $32 to the price, plus $15-20 to postage, all before the exchange rate. This is p obviously a barrier to sampling new artists

I understand the priciness of hardcovers is not good, but on the other hand I have so many old paperback comics where the pages have started falling out because the glue tends to weaken with age, so these days I'm always buying bound/hardcover versions of comics if they're available.

But most of the comics I read I borrow from the library, I only buy the ones that I really want and/or that aren't available in local libraries.

http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/14-170/The-Dead-Rider-TPB

Surprised to see this. This series started ages ago and it was called Dead Lander but there was something else called that, so the name had to be changed. There might have even been a third name that was advertised. After all these years the series is finished in book form.
Anyway, Kevin Ferrara is very talented. He's done a lot of the best work for the Creepy revival.

Also
http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/25-034/Creepy-Presents-Alex-Toth-HC

That Toth volume looks a bargain at $20.

I was looking at that recent Howard Nostrand horror comics hardcover the other day, and thinking that was a bit of a bargain too, until I saw how lousy some of the repro was. Shame.

tons of the transformers issues, pay what u want:
https://www.humblebundle.com/books

Getting back to Shigeru Mizuki, did anyone read the Kitaro compilation? I might have passed on that and Cat Eyed Boy because I thought Oninbo was the weakest of the Hideshi Hino horror series. They all look quite similar.

http://www.paulgravett.com/articles/article/sothebys_comics_art_auction
produced almost 4 million euro in sales
http://www.paulgravett.com/articles2/article_images/TintinStatueSOthebys.jpg
^sold for 261k Euros!
http://www.paulgravett.com/articles2/article_images/TezukaSothebys.jpg
^24k euro!
http://www.paulgravett.com/articles2/article_images/StevensSothebys.jpg
^60k euro!

ah well, just go to the link.

I haven't read this new Howard the Duck, but I did just snort at this new tagline
"Trapped in a world he's grown accustomed to"

https://storify.com/debaoki/do-you-have-to-be-japanese-to-make-manga

A series of Twitter posts. It starts off about one webcomic then gets more interesting, with anecdotes about general perceptions of comics from different places, styles, cultures.

lol fucking tumblrettes

in less psychotic news: Archie Is Doing A Digital Collection Of Stories About Wrestling

Woo!

Hats off to Vic Fluro for bringing Nextwave into 616 continuity.

everyone in 616 pretends the events didn't happen.... but they did