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Though my big move is 6 weeks over and done with, I still haven't opened my longbox and read the last four issues of Rocketo. Cause: Laziness.

Picked up the first nu-Legion trade (probably still just the one, right) about 3 months ago, and haven't got past the first issue (even though I read the first two issues as floppies!). Cause: finding it a little text heavy and maybe even dull.

Haven't read a single issue of Winter Men since it fell off "schedule", though I continue to buy it. Should have three or four issues by now. Cause: cussedness.

Showcase Presents volumes I'm still working through:
Haunted Tank, Phantom Stranger, Challengers of the Unknown
Cause: Showcased Out maybe?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Appleseed. Why people like this guy's comics I really don't know... Okay, he has some cool ideas, but his storytelling and pacing skills suck.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

And I've owned them for ten years. It took me maybe five years to finish Ghost in the Shell too.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Showcase Challengers took me an age to read, and I'm going to read about 5 volumes of Spirit Archives before I attempt Phantom Stranger. I've also got a giant pile of Gold Key reprints (Kurtzman war books, Weird Science/Fantasy/Science-Fantasy) that I need to work my way through. And the Smithsonian book of comics.

I'd like to read them before the Krazy & Ignatz volumes I ordered the other day turn up, but I doubt I will. Hopefully Amazon won't deliver I'm with Stupid, Project X and Jess Nevins' Fantastic Victoriana book in the meantime.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

I have two volumes of Corto Maltese somewhere too.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Showcase Teen Titans. Bought it six weeks ago, read three issues that day, and haven't touched it since. In part 'cuz I got distracted by other b/w reissues (Phantom Stranger, Challengers, Essential Iron Man Volume 1, etc.), and also in part 'cuz it's maybe the most boring and idiotic comic I've ever read. Even its absolute ridiculousness can't make it interesting.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Teen Titans might be idiotic (and, lo, it is), but it's not nearly as boring as Challengers! I mean, they're not even given distinct personalities! It's just four alpha males! More like Challengers of the Unknown Sausage Factory.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

U MAD. It's probably the best Showcase outside of the Superman ones (including the Superman Family). Oh, and Jonah Hex. And Metamorpho. And maybe Batman.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

me mad?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Still got all the 5YL Legions to read (bought cheaply at a comic-con).

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Titans, that is. Challengers is a pile of old ming, although it does get a bit better after Kirby.

I mean come on, the Challs do what they do BECAUSE HAVING SURVIVED A FLIGHT THEY ASSUME THEY ARE SAFE FROM DEATH.

In other words, Chuck U NOT MAD.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Challengers had two things going for it: Jack Kirby, and, once he's gone, two stories per book. I have a hard time getting too bored by a 12-pager. The Titans are all 25 pages, or whatever the standard was back then, and somehow feel even longer.

and whaddya mean, no distinct personalities? How could it be any clearer? One of them flies a plane, while another is a wrestler! And one of them skin-dives, whatever the hell that is. And that other guy is awesome at whatever the hell they need him to be awesome at that week, like mountain-climbing, or daredeviltry, or motorcycling, woodworking, and data entry.

Still, I do love the idea that all towns should have officially sanctioned teen hang-outs and club-houses.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

I still haven't got round to reading the final issue of Promethea, looks like a bit of a snoozefest.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I loved flipping through Promethea for the purtiness, but that twelve-issue journey through ... something (circles of hell? religious iconography? Epcot Center?) just flipped my switch to OFF.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

It picked up a bit again in the final ten or so issues (the army of Painted Dolls coming out of the Hudson is one of the most exciting Moore climaxes ever) but the final issue seemed to be a return to formal experimentation and extremely detailed magical didactism over story.

The very first arc is excellent, though.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

There is a mountain of unread stuff on my computer (I don't know how it got there MR OFFICER).

Actual physical unreads - not yet finished the Jonah Hex showcase Vic F got me for Christmas, I need to be in the mood for mutilated face westerns before reading this.

Another Xmas pres - Persepolis, and along similar lines Pyongyang. "Comics aren't just for kids any more" "DON'T MAKE ME GROW UP"

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

They're both excellent, Tom! (Persepolis is better.)

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

I have a mountain of stuff unread on my computer, as regards actual physical all I can think of is recent purchases: the last Losers trade (because I'll have to go read up the previous 7 issues) and the most recent Y (ditto, annoyingly). And the first volume of Age of Bronze.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

Showcase Batman, about 1/3 of the way through out of sheer laziness and because each issue reads very long. Instead, I've been reading Vineland -- substandard Pynchon easier than Silver Age Batmang shockah!!

Tom Strong vol. 2, about 2/3 (?) through. Again, sheer laziness, but also because I'm definitely not feeling this volume.

― c('°c) (Leee), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, a bunch of Showcases. They're not going to top Superman vol 1, are they?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

The Complete Judge Dredd, vols. 3 & 4. A little at a time is just great.

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

But I Like It

I spilled cooking oil all over it two days after buying it so now it upsets me to open the book, I've only skimmed it so far

― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Lost Girls.

A bunch of newspaper strip reprint books: Little Nemo, Little Orphan Annie, Complete Peanuts.

But I Like It is excellent, especially the color story where he's driving the old blues guy around.

― robert in SLC (robert in SLC), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

I can obliterate all of you. About a year ago I returned to comics, buying all types of stuff and borrowing all types of stuff from friends. My girlfriend recently got into comics as well. I'm too busy to keep up. I mainly just try to keep up with the floppies I'm buying, while the trades just gather dust under my nightstand (and on the bookshelf since there's too many to fit under my nightstand now).

last trade of Animal Man
Invisibles books 4 and 5
Seaguy
Seven Soldiers vol.3

Alan Moore DC Stories and Shenanigans
Smax
Halo Jones
From Hell

Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall or whatever it's called
Bone
the last six or seven issues of Godland
Mike Allred Solo
Mike Allred Vault #2
Cerebus High Society
Age of Bronze vol.1
Sloth
I'm sure I'm forgetting some other things

girlfriend stuff:
bunch of Clowes stuff
Ganges
Persepolis I and II
Fun Home
Black Hole
Love and Rockets stuff
the new American Splendor series
unknown other things like Owly and whatnot

― sheep sheet (serious sheet), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

Mike Allred Vault #2

I've seen this and #1 in the LCS, but the price and the microscopic print put me off. C/D??

― c('°c) (Leee), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

It depends on how much of a Madman/Allred fan you are. That was my favorite comic growing up, so it's interesting to kind of see how it all came together.

So, CLASSIC for big Allred fans only I suppose.

― sheep sheet (serious sheet), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

from hell--just got it last month but i'm kinda saving it

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

Strangers in Paradise (see disappointments thread), since I bought the first 3 pocketbooks in one hit, then read just the first one and was very disappinted.

All the Tom Strongs by people who aren't Alan Moore.

All of 'Sleeper' (vols 1 and 2).

On the computer, almost all of 'Seven Soldiers' (started it the other day, have read first 5 or so bits)

― James Morrison (JRSM), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

Also - I have avoided Mike Allred on the simple and prejudiced basis that he is a Mormon. Is this WRONG?

― James Morrison (JRSM), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

YES IT IS WRONG. Unless you're sitting in his panel at a convention where he might go on about the Church of LDS for half of the panel. But YES, IT IS WRONG.

― c('°c) (Leee), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, his mormonism never impacts his comics in any unpleasant or squinky ways, except for his mormon comic I presume. one might read the very earnestness of his portrayals of heroism winning over doubt and the sweetness of true wub as stemming from his religion or upbringing, but if so, at least they make him write them more unusually than every other superhero comic who writes 'em just because THAT'S THE WAY IT WORKS.

― occasional mongrel (kit brash), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

I have vol 2 of Essential Thor: not putting it away until I finish all the tales of Asgard…

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

I also have this Godland trade that I borrowed months ago and haven't touched once. And for some reason even though I really love most everything I've read by Darwin Cooke I have yet to start Selena's Big Score, which I bought back in August or something.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Obviously I don't love him enough to spell his name right.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

"Showcases" aren't there to be finished, are they? Haven't read any of them all the way through, including supes.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

I've still got 100 odd pages of non-Kirby stuff to read in Essential FF 5, I can't imagine I'll ever bother.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it gets dicey once Kirby's gone. YOU WILL BELIEVE Stan Lee can screw the pooch on a Sub-Mariner / Namor story. It's still readable (JR SR hubba hubba), tho not as whiz-bang-pow as other volumes (and, really, Essential FF 5 isn't all that whiz-bang-pow to begin with).

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

The Skrull story's pretty good, other than that you're right.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

Are they ever going to Essentialise Byrne's FF? There's a lot of that 'd like to read again/for the first time.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

The worst (which is more disapppointing than bad) is some "remix" issue (right before the end of EFF Vol. 5) where Lee takes an unfinished Kirby story, chops it up, and has John Busceman fill in the art gaps. GONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG.

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I imagine they'll get to it eventually, if they keep on Essentializing FF (tho, at this rate, Byrne's run will be 6 volumes away).

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't the "remix issue" the one they're now trailing as "THE LOST LEE/KIRBY FF STORY" and are going to reissue at mega-price in a special gold leaf folio edition or something.

(see also Stephen King's TEH DARK TOWER which has now been solicited without the name "Stephen King" anywhere in the credits, EVEN as plotter!)

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

After years of owning them, I am finally working my way through the Krazy Kat collections.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

I think all of Byrne's FF run is collected in trades, though not Essential trades.

― The Yellow Kid (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:13 (nineteen years ago)

Little Nemo, the Taschen collection - in about seven years I haven't made it halfway through (but it's too big to read in bed)

The Green Lantern Showcase I got about a hundred pages in before sheer repetitiveness got the better of me - offered it to a friend, got knocked back, stuck it in a box under my bed.

Over a hundred 50c comics picked up earlier this year over several months' occasional lunchtimes - they're all taped up in paper bags, I need to get some comic boxes to dump them into to be able to sort through

Various things bought on clearance from Bud Plant - Love That Bunch, Fleener's Life Of The Party, Arnold Roth: Free Lance, a Bitchy Bitch collection.

The Essential Marvel Godzilla collection - well designed for monthly lunacy, got too wearing reading one after the other.

Pretty sure I never finished the prose bits of Slow Chocolate Autopsy, not sure if I skipped ahead and read all the comics bits irrelevantly or not.

Haven't read a single strip in Kramer's Ergot #6 yet.

Just remembered recently that I hadn't cracked the second volume from last year's Peanuts box, got it out and have made it to 1958.

And probably more I'd realise if I went and looked at shelves. I have dozens and dozens of prose books I've never read, though.

― occasional mongrel (kit brash), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

i have tried and tried and tried (at least 5 times) to read camelotwosname(3000?) by barr and bolland which i bought as a set back in fuck 88 or something but i can't. its...its...i can't.

― denim solemnity (alicereed), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

its shit i believe i'm trying to say.

― denim solemnity (alicereed), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

"Pretty sure I never finished the prose bits of Slow Chocolate Autopsy, not sure if I skipped ahead and read all the comics bits irrelevantly or not."

Only way it's worth reading, and even then it's a close call. Iain Sinclair is a pain in the hole.

― James Morrison (JRSM), Thursday, 16 November 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

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