Rolling comic book thread 2018

https://68.media.tumblr.com/5afba127e66c0488f44a6e350178e3a0/tumblr_ml04vvZH2R1qlps06o1_540.jpg

i haven't heard of most of those either!

uh that last one i don't know if i'll seek that one out

it's sold out

the only online example of an interior seems to be this original page for sale though

http://dpegb9ebondhq.cloudfront.net/product_photos/3776323/IMG_4548_original.JPG

i love box brown but i am gonna have some feelings about buying a book called Chubby Chasers lol

Steven Weissmann had a comic called that way back in the day iirc

I'm guessing your memory is rolling the Yikes! collection Chocolate Cheeks up with this one-pager I've never seen before:

http://www.theimaginaryworld.com/ribs5.jpg

I don't "get it"...

Yep that’s the one!

being as I feel like I never have enough time for all my cultural pursuits, it's less time demanding than having a trade or graphic novel waiting for me.

― Daniel_Rf, Monday, March 19, 2018 10:37 AM

Wont buying individual issues ultimately take more time from you? (not to mention money)

Ultimately yes I guess but reading a buncha issues of different stuff gives me a feeling closer to going through my RSS and it's a good Wednesday ritual. It's all very shallow I admit.

I kind of thought that I was inured to a lot of things by this point in 2018, but "(Frank) Miller will write his first YA graphic novel" got by me there.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/76386-dc-inks-frank-miller-to-exclusive-deal-aimed-at-book-market.html

Also notable: "In a phone interview, DC copublishers Dan Didio and Jim Lee (who is also one of DC’s most popular artists), emphasized that the new deal with Miller is one part of several ongoing initiatives (which include several new imprints) to focus its publishing on the book trade and to better position DC Entertainment in an evolving North American comics marketplace. Long dominated by sales of monthly superhero periodicals via comics shops, the American comics industry is beginning to acknowledge a future that will be defined by new readers looking for book format graphic novels."

Hahahaha yeah I read that and shook my head sadly.

Guess the current climate means there's more of an audience for Miller's fascism than the last time he tried to peddle it, tho. :(

The kids aren’t asking the right questions!

I recorded and finally watched 'Thunderbolt and Lightfoot' for the first time since I was a kid. I was really surprised how much the opening sequence really reminded me of Preacher. If you squint enough you could imagine a 70s take with Clint Eastwood as Jesse Custer.

I probably should've posted this on ILC to begin with, but the new Nancy artist is great. Not a strip I've paid much attention to, beyond browsing the Fantagraphics Bushmiller collection and thinking "...this is much, much better than I would've expected."

Anyway: http://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/04/17

I wasn't that familiar with the Nancy comic because my local paper didn't carry it when I was a kid, religiously scanning the comics page every day. I wish they'd had it.

At least Rex Morgan, MD was there to console you.

Nancy newbies will find this v. useful:

http://www.fantagraphics.com/howtoreadnancy/

they did carry rex morgan! and whyyyy

it'll be interesting to see what Olivia Jaimes does with Nancy's aunt because the Gilchrists seemed a little too into doing a cheesecake thing

AGES ago Blount posted a Gilchrist-era Nancy strip to ILM where it was Nancy confused because her cheesecake had taken her to a Rock concert but there was an orchestra and turns out it's because it's THE MOODY BLUES.

Also really into respecting our troops/hating the kids these days.

Oh man, now I really want to create a comic strip about kids from the perspective of someone who makes almost no effort to hide their obvious disdain for children.

Got the X-Men: Grand Design trade by Ed Piskor. As much as I loved Hip-hop Family Tree, this one is a bit of a disappointment. The art and presentation are amazing, but the story is summarized to such an extreme degree that it is nearly incomprehensible.

Thesis: there is something wrong with Erik Larsen's head.

https://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/SavageDragon-233.jpg

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

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

the art is a lot of fun, though!

agreed! but his art style clearly suits the material of HHFT better

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).

He’s got to improve on Onslaught

there are four more issues / two more volumes planned afaik

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.

As a Comics Journal article pointed out recently, Hal Jordan is the ultimate narc: a cop AND a soldier.

Wasn't that effectively the basis for GL's frenemy-style conflict with radical/revolutionary dude Green Arrow, back in the '70s?

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

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.)

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.

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.

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.

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".

For the first time in about 30 years, I have a pull list at my local comic book store. God help me.

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

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

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/

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.

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

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.

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.