Rolling 2015 Reading Funnybooks Thread

Black River is about the ugliest and most dispiriting comic i've ever read, think Johnny Ryan with a straight face
http://www.tcj.com/reviews/colville-and-black-river/
panel clips don't really do it justice, it's the sheer accumulation that does it.

anybody gonna read a-force

i read it. it's cute. i think we discussed it briefly over on the secret wars thread?

Xpost forks you could have just said "josh Simmons"

He obviously has his thing, idgi but there it is.

A-Force is in my ever-increasing to-read stack.

Black River was my first exposure to Josh Simmons. A bit of internet reading suggests this is his milieu, eh? It's dark as fuck; a grimmer and messier Chris Ware in spirit.

yeah it does nothing for me whatsoever. facile.

in other news, I can report that Avengers #50 (1968) has both a full page ad for The Mothers' We're Only In It For The Money LP and an in-story reference to Wonder Warthog...

*frantically pulls up the issue*

I've gathered most of the Secret Wars comics from the last couple of weeks but haven't started them, I don't think I can do the whole mess Aldo-like justice.

Sales are crazy but I think people might burn out quickly with so many miniseries and wrap-up series and the main one.

Haven't read this week's stuff but last week's crossovery stuff was pretty fun. Nothing exceptional but I think there's something to be said for "fun and forgettable". So far they really seem to be getting the portentous-to-goofiness ratio just right.

Simmons shifted into that blacker-none-blacker mode in the last ten years; his earlier stuff was played more goofy and jaunty, even when dark at the core. In, for eg, House it added up to less than the sum of its parts for me, but Cockbone was a masterpiece for that accumulative effect.

Is Priest's Black Panther run supposed to be making me nauseous? I'm 15 issues in, does this get better?

Just read Superman: Earth One Volume Three, I'm sorry to say. It's basically the same as Morrison's Action Comics. He even gets armour at the end. I can't imagine who DC thinks the audience for this is, aside from grumpy old jerks who hate-read library copies.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvw1iENsPgc

Akira the Don and a mate, innit. Old Shell-Head isn't actually involved beyond doing wizard hands in the video.

He does look old, but then he is - Zenith was 28 years ago.

i have a Fauves single he was involved in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0WS6nn7L7g

i just read Fumimura and Ikegama's "Sanctuary" from front to back, it's as misogynistic and well drawn and lengthy as Cerebus.... it's an amazing piece of work and compulsively readable but potential readers should be aware that one of the lead characters is a guy who rapes women in bathroom stalls as a kind of wacky character flaw

I ended up with a fair amount of down time while traveling and ended up binge-buying and reading much of the Judge Dredd stories of recent years via amazon/kindle. I need more Dirty Frank, now.

I've never read many of those Fumimura and Koike comics but I've always found them interesting to read about. Some of them are so politically incorrect that it's hard to imagine them getting officially translated now but it's fascinating how they delve into all these feelings seemingly without trying to rationalize anything too much. I suppose that could make them tedious too but I'd like to read more of the stuff.

they're pretty fetishistic but undeniably well executed in terms of long form story and flawless draftsmanship
http://www.dtaweb.com/ryoichi_ikegami/images/content/sanctuary_vol3_1.jpg

I like Ikegami's art. To anyone who's read Crying Freeman: maybe my memory is faulty but wasn't there a scene in which the hero tries to subdue a woman by punching into her vagina?

I always knew Sho Fumimura better as Buronson. I didn't discover until last year that he named himself after Charles Bronson, just like the guy that got that Refn film based on his life.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/house-of-1000-manga/2015-05-07/poverty-princesses-and-zombies/.87920

Three books about people working in Japanese industry.

I adored the online sampler version of Manga Zombie, it's probably my favourite book about comics, very inspiring, even if I finally got to read those comics and they were all disappointing, the book feels almost like an exciting manifesto or rallying cry for more fucked up comics.

omg SO GOOD

http://www.comicbookresources.com/imgsrv/preview/0/0/1/TF-GIJ-07-pr-5-0bbfe.jpg

what is that??

xp I remember reading a few pages of Sanctuary in the '90s as a teenager and being pretty shocked. the artwork was pretty captivating

Just read Swallow Me Whole by Nate Powell (2008), pretty good- loved the mood and brush work

I'm sure that image is from the Scioli Transformers/GI Joe thing.

Any Richard Sala fans? I've never read a single thing by him but his work looks quite interesting.

i love sala but he's very one note. Try anything!

yeah I haven't read him in a decade bcz I felt I'd read both of his stories enough times by then, but none of the versions of them are bad

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/481/18555949782_0ae893be87_z.jpg

Wow, this Joker 75 variant cover with him as St Sebastian for GA by Billy The Sink might just be the best thing DC's published in years.

damn

i like Bill S's cover for Detective Comics: Convergence #2

http://www.dccomics.com/comics/convergence-2015/convergence-detective-comics-2

and this recent catwoman sleeve was striking:

http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2014/11/24/preview-monday-catwoman-36-and-dead-boy-detectives-11

guys you are trying to point to "the best thing DC's published in years" and the best you can do is single images specifically designed to destabilise the marketplace and damage their customers very ability to sell actual good comics to potential readers

lol yes

Neat single pieces of art are nice, but publishing garbage between the covers that's only for people who would read super pajamas people regardless of writer and putting gimmicks on top is... well, the exact thing the editorial staff did in the 90s when they worked elsewhere

or maybe koogs' aren't variant-associated, zing browser won't show me

but you still can't think of actual comics

that detective comics was written by len wein? mildly interested now...

scabbing for Before Watchmen pays big dividends

When was the last time Len Wein wrote a good comic - 1973?

See what I had to say about the Detective in the Convergence thread.

I take sic's point entirely, but the sad thing is it's closer to being true and not just hyperbole than it should be. That's the depressing truth about DC these days (that said, I enjoyed both Bat-Mite and Bizarro this week). I probably write on here about DC enough, but by and large since the DiDio/Johns age really took hold they have been singularly joyless with very few exceptions. This is a company who basically gave Rob Liefeld a whole line, remember. IN THE LAST FEW YEARS.

Mind you, Marvel have fucked up royally at the moment:

Secret Wars #4 two weeks late to 1st July

Secret Wars #5 six weeks late to 13th August

Secret Wars #6 three weeks late to 2nd September

Not even the promo items (above) are immune.

Secret Wars Battle Standee One Sheets two weeks late to 1st July

And the crossover issues follow suit…

1602 Witchhunter Angela #1 one week to 10th June

1872 #1 five weeks to 8th July

1872 #2 three weeks late to 12th August

A-Force #2 one weeks late to 8th July

A-Force #3 three weeks late to 12th August

A-Force #4 weeks late to 9th September

Age of Apocalypse #2 one week late to 5th August

Age of Apocalypse #3 one week late to 19th August

Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #2 three weeks to 8th August

Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #3 four weeks to 5th August

Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #4 two weeks to 19th August

Black Widow #20 one week to 29th July

Bucky Barnes: Winter Soldier #10 and #11 both four weeks to 5th Augusrt

Civil War #2 two weeks to 5th August

Civil War #3 one week to 19th August

Future Imperfect #2 two weeks to 1st July

Future Imperfect #3 three weeks to 22nd July

Guardians of Knowhere #1 four weeks late to 15th July

Guardians of Knowhere #2 three weeks late to 5th August

Hail Hydra #1 one week late to 8th July

Hail Hydra #2 two weeks late to 12th August

Infinity Gauntlet #2 one week late to 24th June

Infinity Gauntlet #3 three weeks late to 5th August

Inhumans: Attilan Rising #3 two weeks late to 15th July

Magneto #20 one week late to 22nd July

Marvel Zombies #2 two weeks late to 22nd July

Master of Kung Fu #3 one week late to 8th July

Ms. Marvel #17 four weeks late to 5th August

Old Man Logan #2 one week late to 17th June

Old Man Logan #3 two weeks late to 22nd July

Punisher #20 one week late to 29th July

Siege #1 one week late to 15th July

Siege #2 one week late to 5th August

Spider-Island #2 one week late to 5th August

Spider-Island #3 one week late to 19th August

Squadron Sinister #1 one week late, to 17th June

Star-Lord and Kitty Pryde #1 four weeks late to 22nd July

Star-Lord and Kitty Pryde #2 three weeks late to 12th August

Thors #1 one week late to 17th June

Thors #2 two weeks late to 29th July

Weirdworld #2 four weeks late to 22nd July

Weirdworld #3 three weeks late to 12th August

Years of Future Past #2 two weeks late to 1st July

Years of Future Past #3 two weeks late to 15th July

It’s not just the Secret Wars but the Star Wars that are suffering, with Lando issues slipping and Darth Vader seeing three issues now scheduled for one month.

Darth Vader #8 three weeks to 5th August

Darth Vader #9 four weeks to 19th August

Darth Vader #10 one week to 26th August

Star Wars: Lando #3 slips two weeks to 26th August

Star Wars: Lando #4 slips three weeks to 16th September.

Other late shipping books from Marvel include Silver Surfer #15 three weeks late to 2nd September, Howard the Duck #5 one week late to 5th August, George Romero’s Empire of Dead Act Three #4 two weeks to 5th August and #5 two weeks to 9th September, Silk #6 slips two weeks to 5th August and #7 two weeks late to 19th August and Amazing Spider-Man #20.1 two weeks to 12th August

Also, has All New Hawkeye #4 got old Hawkeye fever? Three weeks late, to 22nd July…

While the final issue of Fraction and Aja‘s Hawkeye is currently scheduled for the 15th of July.

That's apples and oranges though?

I'm not using one as an excuse for the other, sorry if it came over that way. I meant them as completely different stories.

By Seven Soldiers / Final Crisis standards, that doesn't seem so bad.

Personally I never bother keeping track of what's coming out 'till the Wednesday of release, so delays don't really bother me. Isn't there an ILCer who runs a comic store? Maybe they could speak to a specific delay that's caused sales to drop off.

There's a new weirdworld series....?

1602 Witchhunter Angela #1

finally, a title that telegraphs the premise

It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the old Weirdworld, Jon. It looks like it features Arkon and Man-Thing.

hey guys a new Pope Hats came out, like actually through Diamond, so you can get it in your own country by just going to a comic shop

there's no need to buy 27 terrible comics and talk about how they're terrible

Yes, sometimes I feel like most of the comic threads are in the "defend the indefensible" or "why are (x) so shit?" type of threads.

I feel like I've been drifting away from comics a bit but I've still got a pile of seemingly good stuff to read.
Looked on amazon and there are three French language (which I can't read) Carlos Nine books on kindle. I'm a little tempted because he's such a good artist.

i tried to read eightball again and remembered how depressing velvet glove is.

does anyone have any favorite 80s Judge Dredd arcs I should seek out? :)

oh god velvet glove ;_;