Thesis: there is something wrong with Erik Larsen's head.
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― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Saturday, 21 April 2018 00:37 (six years ago) link
going to have to agree with Moodles, there’s just some element of joy missing from it. the minor changes and summaries somehow make it less good, where much of the history of the x-men has been in retelling or reflecting anyway
― mh, Saturday, 21 April 2018 01:34 (six years ago) link
not as fun as HHFT, but the history of X-Men itself is so crazy that I admire what he did with it in condensing it and making his own revisions
― Nhex, Saturday, 21 April 2018 02:09 (six years ago) link
the art is a lot of fun, though!
― mh, Saturday, 21 April 2018 02:12 (six years ago) link
agreed! but his art style clearly suits the material of HHFT better
― Nhex, Saturday, 21 April 2018 04:58 (six years ago) link
The next volume is coming in July. I'd love to see him continue to plug through the entire increasingly-convoluted mess (a mess which I dearly love).
― Across the You Never Her (Old Lunch), Saturday, 21 April 2018 12:13 (six years ago) link
He’s got to improve on Onslaught
― mh, Saturday, 21 April 2018 13:01 (six years ago) link
there are four more issues / two more volumes planned afaik
― Nhex, Saturday, 21 April 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link
he said it takes him six months per issue, so hopefully by mid 2019 it'll all be out
Just read Green Lantern, Earth One, Vol. One. Pretty good! Co-written and drawn by the guy who does Invisible Republic (which I'm guessing I should also read now). Actually made me give a shit about HAROLD JORDAN for the first time in decades, though he's still kind of generic at his core.
― Nhex, Monday, 23 April 2018 05:12 (six years ago) link
As a Comics Journal article pointed out recently, Hal Jordan is the ultimate narc: a cop AND a soldier.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 23 April 2018 09:32 (six years ago) link
Wasn't that effectively the basis for GL's frenemy-style conflict with radical/revolutionary dude Green Arrow, back in the '70s?
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link
So this Spider-Man podcast just described someone as “what’s his name, that crazy bald guy with the magic,” and I thought “Mysterio.”And then he went, “Grant Morrison.”Now I have a whole new take on Mysterio.— Kurt Busiek Resists (@KurtBusiek) April 23, 2018
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 26 April 2018 01:08 (six years ago) link
To tie that together, I believe there's a rumour that GM's the new ongoing writer for Green Lantern. Which could work! I've disliked most of his work since Batman ended, but he's never had a bad ongoing run, as far as I can remember. (Authority doesn't count.)
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 26 April 2018 09:37 (six years ago) link
Is it just a rumor? I thought I saw a news item about it the other day. Which, if true, goddamn you for dragging me back into the DC books, Morrison.
― .38 Special K - 'Hold On Muesli' (Old Lunch), Thursday, 26 April 2018 12:47 (six years ago) link
The photo of Bendis in the back of this month's issues has been bugging me what it reminded me of and I've finally got it - it's Harry Shearer in For Your Consideration once he hits the publicity circuit before the Oscars.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Friday, 27 April 2018 18:26 (six years ago) link
I don't know how big a 'get' Bendis is for DC, really. Even if you generally dig the thing he does (which I mostly do, when he's on), he's been phoning it in for the past couple of years. I mean, maybe he's been bored with Marvel, I dunno.
― a REAL SCARIE robot!!!! (Old Lunch), Friday, 27 April 2018 18:35 (six years ago) link
I know that "angelpaws" in a Marvel comic was months ago but... the only piece of ILX lore I really want to see out in the world is "thassa noice Vageen".
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 5 May 2018 14:36 (six years ago) link
For the first time in about 30 years, I have a pull list at my local comic book store. God help me.
― Nhex, Thursday, 10 May 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
thanks to FCBD and a lift, I learnt that a shop that's moved an hour and a half away is really good now
the one half an hour's walk basically sells Marvel & Image and roleplaying stuff, but is clean
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Thursday, 10 May 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
This sounds good for any London ILC-ers
http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/asterix
I didn't know Goscinny was Jewish! Both my Asterix and my Jewish nerdery have failed me
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 11 May 2018 09:23 (five years ago) link
TCJ to the rescue yet again! I learned like thirty things about Goscinny reading this, starting with his Jewish heritage:
http://www.tcj.com/french-and-frisky-the-man-behind-asterix/
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 11 May 2018 10:20 (five years ago) link
Thanks for that, really good piece. Although arguably Asterix had already peaked at the time of Goscinny's death, his passing at just 51 still feels like one of comics' greatest losses.
Hoping to get to that Asterix exhibition when I'm down in London in July - have never been to the Jewish Museum either, so that will be interesting.
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 11 May 2018 10:55 (five years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asterix_volumes
In the UK, the back covers didn't list the books in the correct order, so I've never thought about Asterix books having a set running order like Tintin.
But still - Goscinny's run of ten books in six years (!) is a pretty spectacular imperial phase:
1965 Asterix and Cleopatra 1966 Asterix and the Big Fight 1966 Asterix in Britain 1966 Asterix and the Normans 1967 Asterix the Legionary 1968 Asterix and the Chieftain's Shield 1968 Asterix at the Olympic Games 1969 Asterix and the Cauldron 1969 Asterix in Spain 1970 Asterix and the Roman Agent
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 11 May 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
When I was a kid I fooled myself that Uderzo's later stuff is just as good as the Goscinny volumes, despite my father's grumblings. But looking at the stuff coming out now - admitidely more from a leafing through volumes pov than actually sitting down and reading - it does seem so inferior.
I watched a few eps of Goscinny's tv series. It's on YT, though w/o any English subtitles. Really enjoyed the one about a group of businessmen going to lunch to "discuss business" and just getting progressively more drunk and stuffing their faces in food.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 11 May 2018 14:27 (five years ago) link
Oh, I've never heard of that - you got a link?
Of the Uderzo stories, I think The Great Divide is on par with the Goscinny books (perhaps the English translation helps), Black Gold and Magic Carpet are fun but dumb, and the rest are disasters.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 11 May 2018 14:41 (five years ago) link
I've not read any of the new ones, but they seem to follow on from the Uderzo "more is more!" template, and the art seems grotesque in a way the classic books never did.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 11 May 2018 14:43 (five years ago) link
Yeah, don't they have aliens in them at some point? smh
First episode: http://youtu.be/pWarqUINgNk
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 11 May 2018 14:44 (five years ago) link
I have read the new ones - agree that the art isn't quite 'right', but the scripts are generally better than the Uderzo-written ones, and the second one in particular - The Missing Scroll - actually quite effectively nudges the series out of its narrative comfort zone.
That list of Goscinny's 'imperial phase' really is remarkable - especially when you consider he was also writing some superb, and quite different, Lucky Luke volumes at the same time (I like Iznogoud too, but it's not in the same league as the other two series).
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 11 May 2018 14:51 (five years ago) link
I'm fighting the horrible impulse to start contributing to the Hellboy comics wiki
― mh, Friday, 11 May 2018 16:04 (five years ago) link
Chuck OTM re the Uderzo volumes
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Friday, 11 May 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/nyregion/the-sistine-chapel-of-comic-strip-art.html
my mind is kind of blown
― (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (mh), Thursday, 17 May 2018 15:07 (five years ago) link
Mr. Jaffee, who couldn’t precisely recall what he drew in ’76, addressed the wall’s value wryly. “The scribblings on the caves in France also became more important in recent times than they were in their own times,” he said.
Al is still insanely in character at a ripe old age
― (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (mh), Thursday, 17 May 2018 15:08 (five years ago) link
Been quiet lately. Aside from Superman: The Final Last Stand, Power Pack: Retribution and Squirrel Girl: The Requiemening, anything interesting lately?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 25 May 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
i think i know what the first one is, but what the other two
― Nhex, Friday, 25 May 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
They're all fake. I was just trying to imagine the daftest titles I could. Angel And The Ape: Revelations, Paste Pot Pete: Evolution, Woozy Winks: Redemption, Snapper Carr: Exodus, Gay Ghost: Dark Awakening, Bouncing Boy: Rising, Devil Dinosaur: Defiance, Willie Lumpkin: Devastation, Newsboy Legion: Absolution etc...
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 25 May 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
but who doesn't want to see the Dark Awakening of a Gay Ghost?
― Nhex, Friday, 25 May 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
They renamed him Grim Ghost. No joke.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 25 May 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
oh fuck yeah, Non is storming, Hanselmann has a new mini, I went to FCBD for the second time ever* and picked up several giveaways were actually fun & interesting, plus (in sales) a MariNaomi on Retrofit that I didn't know, and a Bob Levin prose novel. No Better Words by Carolyn Nowak on Silver Sprocket is the best new single issue I've seen this year. Found it in a comic shop, but Blocked is the first kickstarter-funded themed anthology I've read that isn't 72% trash (and unlike, say Spike's, doesn't consistently suffer gutter loss). The new Daygloayhole #1 turned out to be mostly a reprint of the old Daygloayhole #1, but Passmore's profile has risen a lot since then and what the heck, my copies are on another continent. I haven't even re-read Pope Hats #5 since I picked it up last year, but the Young Frances collection is out there and is unlikely to have turned shit by getting between hardcovers. Jen Wang's The Prince And The Dressmaker is a surprising delight for :01 YA. The material in Mudbite is slight (appearing to be two dream comics), but FFS the first Dave Cooper comics in...fifteen years? can't be sneezed at. I wish there was more drawing-qua-drawing in Bizarre Romance, but it's worth checking the range of approaches used. Picked up the first offset trade and two riso minis of Band Vs Band at VanCAF on the weekend, and the story is... not there yet, but the design and colour pallettes are g--o-r-g-e-o-u-s. Was also thrilling to see that Colin Upton is still out there doing real actual $1 minis (lotsa ppl's minis were $5-10) - picked up three 2018 newies.
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Friday, 25 May 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link
*the other time was to get the issue of Langridge's Thor romance that hadn't been printed in the cancelled run.
ooh and there's a new L&R out this week, and the new Karl Stevens GN
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Friday, 25 May 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
http://www.comicsreporter.com/images/uploads/lnr05bottom_thumb.jpg
I might get Mudbite. Could swear I seen Cooper say he didn't think he could still do lengthy comics anymore, but that was maybe 5 years ago.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 25 May 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
Last thing I got was one of those Bastien Vives adult comics which will probably never get translated to English.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 25 May 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
https://www.blackgate.com/2018/06/13/two-count-em-two-nazi-robot-t-rexes/
More funny golden age silliness.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 23 June 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
Some poor bastard bought $18k wholesale in Batman #50 (~10k copies) because of the promised wedding that's not happening.
― louise ck (milo z), Monday, 2 July 2018 20:54 (five years ago) link
is there anything in the world that could happen that could make a single store move that many copies of a single comic? that seems incredibly weird
― mh, Monday, 2 July 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link
If they do a lot of conventions, maybe and most of the time it's multi-store chains. Those numbers usually mean they got a custom cover for their shop(s), which is a minimum of 5k copies give or take.
I'd go bankrupt.
― louise ck (milo z), Monday, 2 July 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link
it'd be much funnier if it was that X-Men wedding issue that I doubt anyone cared about
"this is going to be huge! I'm betting it all on... whoever the heck gets married in this issue"
― mh, Monday, 2 July 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
This is old but i only just found it: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/how-one-mash-up-artist-got-legal-permission-to-pair-calvin-hobbes-with-dune/https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2016/02/c1.png
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 02:20 (five years ago) link