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The Filth TP

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H3ct0r L1m4

18:38 / 13.04.04

from Amazon:

List Price: $19.95
Price: $13.97 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25.
You Save: $5.98 [guess you can buy SEA GUY #1 and #2 with that]

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

19:02 / 13.04.04

Suddenly Chris Weston's art doesn't bother me, so I suspect I'll have to buy this. Too fascinated by the bits I've picked up off the threads not to.

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

19:49 / 13.04.04

OMFG they did give it a new cover.

Fareaking sweet.

Krug

21:02 / 13.04.04

Wow.

I thought they were giving it the cover #1 had. I have to get this.

Haus of Mystery

21:23 / 13.04.04

S'truly a thing of wonder. I'd like to read the whole bastard in one sitting.

sleazenation

22:29 / 13.04.04

I enjoyed the filth, and it works a lot better as a whole than it does as individul issues. And Chris Weston's art is damn fine - am looking forward to Ministry of Space 3 (which will be out this month... only THREE YEARS after issue 2... not wanting to bitch, extenuating circumstances- financing the strip off the back end and alll that...)

PatrickMM

22:38 / 13.04.04

Quite the cover there. Having read the singles, I'd highly reccomend this to fans of Morrison's work. It's a great continuation of a lot of the themes from The Invisibles. And, Weston's art is dazzling.

02:00 / 14.04.04

Nice cover... "Nightside of Eden" mixed with the flower-rape of "The Wall". I like it.

H3ct0r L1m4

03:38 / 14.04.04

more like a circulatory system to me.

I'm only one issue away from the conclusion but highly recommend it not only to Morrison fans, but to everybody wanting to read a comic with strickingly creative imagery.
it's the guy's ultra-surreal mid-life crisis, crossing his own dark abbiss [with dark humour] to see in how many pieces he gets at the other side. lot of crazy ideas and some social commentary too.

not a perfectly-structured story but amazing nonetheless, one of the best comics of 2003 and a highlight in the team's career.

sleazenation

07:32 / 14.04.04

This also probably features one of Morrison's longest sustained narratives with a single artist. God that sounded awkward, but you guys see what i'm getting at right? Where as Most of his comics seem to struggle to keep the same artist for more than 4 issues straight Weston provided a consistency to the art that benefitted the series as a whole...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

08:45 / 14.04.04

And that is a truly splendid cover...

Pan Paniscus

11:15 / 14.04.04

Mmmm, very nice cover. According to amazon.co.uk, it looks like the Brit cover is different, and not as good (just spunky microscopes, really).

They've got it for £11.89 - what's the Dollar/Pound exchange rate like at the moment? Could it actually work out cheaper to get one with a nice meltybrain US cover, or would it just cost crazy postage to get it sent over (a 13 issue trade must be pretty heavy)?

Or should I wait 'til May and just buy it from an actual shop with real money?

Spatula Clarke

11:39 / 14.04.04

It's very likely that the amazon.co.uk listing shows the cover from one of the issues because they don't know what it'll actually look like when it appears. The way Titan usually go about this, though, I'd guess they're not far off the mark.

I wasn't taken by the series, so I won't be bothering with this. Even though that's a nice cover.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:55 / 14.04.04

I'm gonna be buying it even though I have all the issues (which I'll prbably find a deserving home for)- it really does work better as one long read, so that's how I'd like to own it. (Also with trades, you've either lost the fucker or you haven't... there's none of that "bollocks! I could have sworn I wasn't missing #7!" when you've just read the first six back to back.)

yawn - thing's buddy

21:54 / 14.04.04

I think I may now be ready for The Filth.

Ganesh

10:03 / 15.04.04

Hmm. That cover's some sort of circulatory/endocrine system - looks distinctly Fallopian...

akira

10:46 / 15.04.04

I'm sure I've seen it somewhere before.

Mystery Gypt

16:18 / 15.04.04

i think the cover is supposed to simultaneous reference all these things at once -- connecting the inside of the body (very base) the the material of the brain (combines material+intellect) to vegetation roots (growing from shit up to the heavens); and in a stylized way, it is a reference to the way the sephiroth is portrayed as a tree -- thus conencting the cosmic tree to the human body, as in Adam Kadmon=the tree of life.

nice.

■

18:10 / 15.04.04

Titan just seem to be overlabelling the barcode of the US DC editions for most trades these days, so I think we should get the same one. Looks rather like something glandualr to me. Breasts, anyone?

Ganesh

18:57 / 15.04.04

Not breasts, I don't think, but it is endocrine (glandular). I suspect it's actually a composite of several physiological diagrams, so possibly won't make sense in terms of human anatomy.

05:06 / 27.04.04

I got the first 12 issues of the Filth, and then got to the comic store late and missed #13, and I can't find the fucking thing anywhere. What to do? Wait until I happen to come across a copy, or shell out $40 Australian just to read those last 23 or so pages??

H3ct0r L1m4

05:44 / 29.04.04

try ebay, swap them iwth a friend, the p2p network. sell or give them away to buy the trade...

raelianautopsy

05:58 / 06.05.04

Came out today and I bought mine.

I haven't read the issues, just waited until the trade came out. I'll comment after I read it.

Triplets

09:45 / 06.05.04

I've not read any of it. Will get the trade on Sat and go through all at once.

FinderWolf

17:34 / 06.05.04

Any "extras" in the paperback?

raelianautopsy

19:11 / 06.05.04

There is a warning thing in the begining about how pregnant women should not read the Filth and warn your doctor and the active ingredients. Was that in the original issues?

But whatever happened to trades having introductions?

Our Lady Has Left the Building

20:56 / 06.05.04

Hmmm, Sounds a bit like the promo posters CW did before the Filth came out. I think they're over at the Crack Comics site but I haven't bothered to check it out in a long time, last I recall by the time the series had finished they were still telling us issue 5 or 6 would be released in a month. Why start ANOTHER comics website if you're not going to keep it up to date like your original one? I've heard GM is going to do a third one to keep us up to date with Animal Man issue by issue, do you think that one will keep to the schedule?

H3ct0r L1m4

22:24 / 06.05.04

There is a warning thing in the begining about how pregnant women should not read the Filth and warn your doctor and the active ingredients. Was that in the original issues?

no, that's probably another rerefence to medication drug boxes, as per the cover of the first singles' issues.

when #1 was released Morrison wrote an ON THE LEDGE mini-column [featured in Vertigo's checklist page to help pimp new releases] saying how tap water in Gasgow at that time was brown and that he was going to have a glass of it to help his system become immunized.

The Falcon

00:44 / 07.05.04

I've heard GM is going to do a third one to keep us up to date with Animal Man issue by issue, do you think that one will keep to the schedule?

Quoi?

Seaguy, shoorly.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

14:32 / 07.05.04

No, that was a funny. Keep up!

raelianautopsy

21:53 / 09.05.04

Wow.

When I started reading the first issue of the Filth I was planning on talking about how Grant Morrison has only been continuosly getting worse. I was not a fan of how New X-Men ended, and I was going to talk about how the Filth and Morrison could only do wierd ideas, and not do charectarization.

But then I read the rest.

The Filth is incredable! This is by far the funniest thing Grant Morrison has ever wrote. I love the president getting breast surgery, I love the I-Life, I love the drama over Ned's cat. The giant sperm and Tex Porneau. The Men In Black plot, only Morrison-style works very well. Morrison's newest version of super-heros knowing they are fiction is also extremely well written. The obvious metephor of Ned's inner conflict, all the great stuff goes on and on. I only wish their was more of it. Any lack of characterization is made up for by how damn funny it is.

I definately aprove and will be picking up Seaguy too.

Alex's Grandma

23:36 / 09.05.04

Why start ANOTHER comics website if you're not going to keep it up to date like your original one ?

Well he's hopefully too busy enjoying 'isself, or summat.

03:19 / 10.05.04

H'mm, how are you people buying this? Amazon says it's not out till June 4th and none of my local comic book stores seem to have it.

05:48 / 10.05.04

My local comic store has it. I have seen it with my own two eyes. And I live in Australia. They have to bring comics here in clipper ships, or something.

Scrubb is on a downward spiral

07:47 / 10.05.04

H'mm, how are you people buying this? Amazon says it's not out till June 4th and none of my local comic book stores seem to have it.

Amazon are lying traitorous scum - the comic store I work at has loads of the buggers.

(Loads of The Filth TP that is, not loads of traitorous scum)

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