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Eightball #23

 
  

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Spaniel
11:38 / 22.07.04
Love the way Clowes makes such good use of the medium. He manages to flood the comic with ideas and novel techniques which only ever *add* to the story.
 
 
The Natural Way
13:18 / 22.07.04
I felt the same way about my spliff, Gambot.

He does something very nasty to the old nicotine high, doesn't he? As I said: sickening. Parts of the book made me feel all woozy.
 
 
Haus of Mystery
17:10 / 22.07.04
Yes. That barman's mashed up face, despite being in Clowes' resolutely 'cartoon' style was really unpleasant. The general flat presentation of super-action was extremely unsettling.

So many annoying heads! Clowes is the master of annoying heads.
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
20:29 / 23.07.04
Feets don't fail me now!
 
 
FinderWolf
17:31 / 26.07.04
for Clowes fans:

from Superherohype.com:

UPDATE: 'Mal' sent in this update on the project...

Regards Sophia Myles appearing in an upcoming comic book movie. I think you'll find it's ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL. It IS listed on IMDB. Directed by Terry (Ghost World) Zwigoff, it is another collaboration with Daniel Clowes, and is based on a strip from his Eightball comics. The film is also set to star John Malkovich and Anjelica Huston.

Wow!
 
 
Sax
09:14 / 27.07.04
I just got this yesterday. It's quite possibly the finest, most moving, most "grittily realistic" [(c) the 1980s] super-hero story I've ever read in my life/
 
 
matsya
01:59 / 05.08.04
unabashed plug:

I've got a review of The Death Ray up on PopImage at the moment. Thought youse guys might be innarasted.

m.
 
 
Michelle Gale
14:45 / 08.09.04
While no-where near as complicated and multilayed as the "Ice Haven" issue, its a damb fine peice of work, even if it smells a tad of publisher putting pressure on him to put something out,.

Am I the only person who thought Andy didn't have any powers or anything and was just a complete emotionally stunted sociopath, even the "deathray" wasn't qualitively different to a normal gun,

He has an utterly barren life then meets a kind of cool interesting person who tries to broaden his horizens, then he has a cigarette and loses contact with reality and created his own fiction suit where he has these special abilities. He just went around killing folk or just beating the fuck out of them with his "super powers".

There also seem to be a few parrells with Ghost World in my opinion, the relationship between Andy and Louie seemed kind of similar to that of Enid and Rebbeca, Louie and Enid especially are really similar (incidently did you know Enid Colslaw is an anagram of Daniel Clowes!).
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
18:13 / 29.12.05
bingo, Miss Gale got the prize... more than a year ago. I'm late to this, one of the greatest comics of late. which filled me nerd joy, but also had me reaching for my own death ray gun and point it right into my head.

ZAP.
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
16:33 / 24.07.06
oh, shit!

from today's COMIC REEL column at CBR:

According to Variety (subscription required), "Oscar-nominated scribe Daniel Clowes is adapting his Eisner-winning story 'Death Ray' for Jack Black's Black and White shingle. Black will produce and take a small role. Black will produce and take a small role"
 
 
LDones
01:31 / 25.07.06
I just want them to re-issue the story in stores, like Ice Haven. I haven't been able to track it down.
 
  

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