Rolling comic book thread 2018

and because maybe, people tend to like 'em? even Wanted

Presumably, but not really germane wrt the point I was trying to make. I mean, people like lots of comics by other creators which don't get turned into movies.

if you go by number of filmed hours and we’re assuming non-superhero comics, The Walking Dead is probably the longest contemporary adaptation? or at least it’s up there

One Piece has over 800 episodes and 13 feature films

I have been sufficiently chastised for having a myopic western outlook

On a completely different tact, going by the local shops around here, it seems that one thing that seems to be catching on is back issues. I think for the first time in a long time, some shops seem to be moving lots of stuff in dollar bins. They are the cheap way into comics, especially with the cover prices so high.

It was almost to the point the big store was phasing them out, but then the flipped it around and started doing more dollar boxes and they have kinda taken off. And it's all sorts of stuff that are selling out of them.

I mean, if something starts out at $3-$4 and is now a buck or you can buy a bundle of issues at or even below the TPB price, why not?

Just read Sexcastle - dumb fun, if you want a comic book version of Roadhouse/Escape from NY.

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/02/05/comicspro-2018-shadowman-doughnut/
"Retailers at ComicsPRO 2018 to Receive Preview of Shadowman #1 in Doughnut Form"
http://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/dd-600x254.jpg

I swear that at some point I cancelled Comixology Unlimited but apparently not

Now this is appearing below new digital releases:
"Includes 15% Unlimited discount"

One Piece has over 800 episodes and 13 feature films
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, February 5, 2018 5:25 AM

I have been sufficiently chastised for having a myopic western outlook
― mh, Monday, February 5, 2018 1:42 PM

I wouldn't count anime, a bewildering array of manga that people would never imagine being adapted into anything get an anime version.

do they all get 800 episodes, 13 feature films and nigh-annual TV specials though

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sazae-san#Anime_series

They might want to consider renaming it Greater Than One Piece.

You know what has nearly 500 episodes, five feature films (and one animated one) and had multiple live action tours that I didn't think of? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, of all things.

Probably just about the longest-running (WESTERN) non-Big Two title at this point, too, if you count its varied incarnations as a single run.

(checks watch, awaits hardsonning by sic)

Wasn't there a really long running anime of that kid who gets his ass out all the time?

Trying to think of other contemporaneous indie titles that are still being produced in one form or another... Love and Rockets, Groo, Usagi Yojimbo, Elfquest...what else?

for some reason Robert's post just struck me as the funniest thing in the world

robert, you gotta be thinking of shin chan?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyDAj9q9mkw

Yes, 940 episodes.

yeah, you can't count TMNT as a single run, if the metric is "currently longest running"

L&R tank that by the five or nine or w/e years they spent not being called L&R, but they'd beat Elfquest either way. Usagi just renumbered afaik? Would have to look at its breaks vs the Bros, but it's probably in with a chance

aragones, los bros and sakai are total monsters; we don't deserve creators this prolific

Groo also takes years and years between series, and still has the bulk of its run as Big Two

honestly when I said "contemporary" earlier I meant "comics adapted in the last 10 - 15 years" but we're old so I guess my entire life is contemporary

Oh man, the Aragones reference makes me think of MAD magazine. I wish I still had, and wonder where they went, a couple paperback collections of MAD comics that were sitting at my grandparents' house when I was a kid.

I kind of always figured they were from some later time and as a kid wondered how MAD, which I had gotten into, would have had paperbacks that my dad or uncle would have bought because I was a kid and didn't conceive as something still so relevant as long-running

"Son of MAD" apparently was published in 1959!

longest-running (WESTERN) non-Big Two title at this point, too

2000AD started in 1977 and has run uninterrupted.

The Australian edition of The Phantom started in 1948 and has published continuously, although is almost entirely US or Danish reprints.

The Beano started in 1938 and has run uninterrupted.

I think Mad is down to a bi-monthly book, but it is still going, no?

yep. it's actually got lots of good artists on board! also, DC owned these days.

these days

Mad was indie for less than ten years and has had the same owner as DC for five decades

The longetivity of TMNT as a “property” is kind of astounding to me; it’s one of those things that you never could have predicted or expected, or believed if someone had told you it would happen (back in the early Eastman & Laird days).

Yeah, I should've specified that I was thinking of 'properties' rather than titles per se. Like, even when there weren't technically TMNT or L+R titles being published, the characters never really went away.

But yeah, there are a number of 2000AD characters that count.

Not sure this is real
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz3m_7ozhNo

But yeah, there are a number of 2000AD characters that count.

Are there other characters in comics (indie or otherwise) who have aged in "real time" over the decades, like the L&R crew?

has had the same owner as DC for five decades

Savage Dragon happens in real time.

Just saw that recent covers have featured Trump and neo-nazis.

If you extend to newspaper strips — something like “Doonesbury” must be the longest-running continuous graphic narrative in which time passes normally...

Think Gasoline Alley beats it - started in 1918 (!), still running in a few newspapers today, and always w/ real-time continuity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_Alley

Wow, didn’t realize it was real time...

A century-long continuous narrative is a Big Freakin’ Deal(!)

Just read Satania by Vehlmann and Kerascoët, the same team who did Beautiful Darkness. Beautiful stuff, thankfully not quite as stomach churning but still quite horrific.

Discussing Beautiful Darkness w/ a comic reading group tomorrow. Not too sure what to say about art that is very effective at making me feel emotions I don't particularly want to feel.

One essence of horror, isn't it? Though I could see some of the criticism that they're taking the form typically used for children's stories in a thin subversion, it worked all too well for me.

Yeah, I don't like horror! Or rather, I don't like horror that actually succeeds in frightening me - though I think I was more grossed out by Beautiful Darkness than scared by it.

That's all on me tho, not the comic.

I think Mad is down to a bi-monthly book, but it is still going, no?

― earlnash, Friday, February 9, 2018 10:10 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Uh, just saw this on the newsstand:

https://i2.wp.com/www.tomrichmond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/MAD550.png

(Apparently, it's being relaunched with a #1 issue.)

from the All-New Gang Of Idiots in Burbank

I don't mind if I do!
https://us.macmillan.com/series/devilmantheclassiccollection

It has been said that previous attempts to get Devilman (after the disastrous Verotik version) in English were stopped because the publisher would have to publish a chronological Nagai library with things like Shameless School long before Devilman comes. I guess the terms have changed.

I guess Shin-Chan is perhaps the most popular comic that is least likely to get a live action version. I find it amazing how successful around the world the cartoons are considering all the bare ass antics.

Seems especially sucky to have that band at the top of characters/titles that Stan did not co-create.

^ they're doing this again this week as well btw

Rereading Gail Simone's Atom, which I first got into due to this very forum. Representation in comics having come a long way since it was released (on the page at least) some parts now feel very clunky and outside-looking-in; a bigger problem for me this time around is John Byrne's art is absolutley garish, and the colours do it no favours. But I'm getting to the part where tiny aliens fight Cthulhu worshipping pilgrims, and that's still jolly good fun.

there's a 2019 thread