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I lost the kick...what should i do?

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18:31 / 28.01.07

hello
i am becoming less and less interested with the production.
every month i wait for the news but i dont feel the same anymore.my problem is that there are few others medium that i like
what should i do?
i am not excited but i want to...

18:44 / 28.01.07

What sort of thing are you reading at the moment? There's plenty of superhero comics out there that are doing their own thing, steering (mostly) clear of yer Civil Wars and Infinite Crises. I'm reading and enjoying ASS Superman, The Irredeemable Ant Man, She Hulk, The Atom and Storm Watch far more than I'm enjoying any of the big event comics of the moment.

Also, you know,you could decide to checkout some non-superhero titles. Why not go and buy all the Back Issues of Stray Bullets, for example?

18:50 / 28.01.07

Invincible is consistantly a solid winner. Walking Dead (also by Kirkman) starts off well although some of the sexual politics that develop (from about #9) are a bit, well, shifty, to say the least.

ASS is fuckin' great and if you can, pick up back issues of Steve Rude's The Moth. Top carnival hero action with a bearded lady and 7ft tall, erudite assassins with secret kill arts.

Have you read Grant's New X-Men run?

19:06 / 28.01.07

But, yeah, not all comics you read have to be spandex-clad event-fites.

Is... is that something you can live with?

19:13 / 28.01.07

yes i read 300 sin city ,the fist dark knight,elektra assassin,watchmen,v for,tom strong,beginning of promethea,the first league of gentlemen,some ellis stuff,wildcats v3,a little bit of doom patrol ,half of the invisibles,new x men run,the beginning of sandman,few kabuki...

19:24 / 28.01.07

Dude, finish Invisibles. It's badass.

That seems to have become my 'catchphrase'.

19:37 / 28.01.07

I think you need to make it clearer what your problems are. Are you losing your passion for comics fullstop?

at the scarwash

20:35 / 28.01.07

you could also surrender to the bewildering majesty of Chris Ware, or perhaps lose months of your life amongst the various members of L'Association (Lewis Trondheim, Joann Sfar, and David B. are my favorites), begin to unearth the miniscule amount of translations of Osamu Tezuka's vast body of work (anyone who hasn't read Buddha is sadly ignorant of the power of the medium).

In other words, as other people on this thread have said, superheroes are not the only game in comics town. In fact, love them as I do, they're a pox on the medium.

Glenn Close But No Cigar

22:36 / 28.01.07

Deviant, dude, have you ever heard of a superhero named CABLE?

CABLE will X-Punk your ass out. He once totally shattered the Silver Surfer's board. He has two techno-organic viruses, but like Nietzsche said: 'That which does not kill you makes you stronger', and Nathan Summers uses his viruses to rock OUT. He's like some metaphor for AIDS crossed with Optimus-fucking-Prime. Not that he's a 'mo, or a drug-user, or got bitten by some fucked-up African monkey in the early '80s. CABLE has the good version of AIDS, and a red eye that can hack freaking computers.

Some guy on the 'net told me CABLE is Wolverine's CLONE. That would kick sphincter.

I urge you to check this shit out. Did I mention he's, like, Cyclops' son, and his mom is Madelyne-dicking-Pryor?!?! Guess that works out with the Wolvie thing. MP is a CLONE of Jean Grey, and she always totally wanted to toast Logan's chesnuts. I'm sooo impatient to see what Chris Ware does when he gets his hands on CABLE this fall. Then again, anyone would be better than Terry Moore. That dude should go back to writing the Blue Beetle. Ass-clown.

22:55 / 28.01.07

I haven't seen too much about the new Virgin Comics here, but I've been picking up some of them. I really like Ramayan and John Woo's Seven Brothers. After seeing the preview of Dave Stewart's Walk In (yes, that Dave Stewart... not the baseball player, the Eurythmic), that looks pretty good too.

I should add this is NOT primarily superhero type stuff, more mythological and supernatural.

01:47 / 29.01.07

There was a pretty good war comic from Vertigo that came out recently, whose name escapes me....

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02:29 / 29.01.07

Cam, Were you thinking of Sgt. Rock: The Prophecy?

Just kidding... The Other Side by our own Cam Stewart and Jason Aaron and Scalped by Jason A. are both great comics. Definitely worth a read. I'm digging Phonogram from Image as well. All-Star Superman is currently my favorite super-hero comic. Try all four of these.

02:49 / 29.01.07

I highly recommend DC Archive editions. My personal favorites are Legion of Super-Heroes, Doom Patrol, and Justice League. I can't get enough of that silver age goodness.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

05:01 / 29.01.07

Dude.

Dude.

I mean, pick up the Brendan McCarthy Solo. Lord of Nothing! Duke Hussy! Or sacrifice a small animal and find Rogan Gosh, with Rogan on the cover brandishing his sexy sitar-gun while he holds up Hanuman the Monkey-God. Rudyard Kipling as delirious evil fictionsuit. Dude!

New stuff? As stated, above, with maybe Darwyn Cooke's slow-to-pick-up-speed remake of The Spirit, or Nextwave which is big and dumb and fun beyond. Runaways?

05:58 / 29.01.07

He's like some metaphor for AIDS crossed with Optimus-fucking-Prime. Not that he's a 'mo

Dude, what and, indeed, the fuck?

Glenn Close But No Cigar

09:58 / 29.01.07

Shirley you don't think I was being serious?

10:02 / 29.01.07

Are you saying it was a joke?

Glenn Close But No Cigar

11:49 / 29.01.07

Why, does CABLE X-Punk your ass out? If so, apologies for mocking him / his fans. I'll shelve that 'Deadpool as metaphor for NSU' post too, just in case. Kiss.

13:34 / 29.01.07

i thought it was funny as far as these things go.

comics that have reawakned my faith recently have been:

supermans pal jimmy olsen by jack king kirby, which is just awesome joycore comic telling at its best, cosmic fun, huge splash pages, jimmy becomes the hulk, it has everything really.

and that excellent run of catwoman books from a few eyars ago, lovely noir stories, great art.

and phonogram (see thread on here)

17:40 / 29.01.07

as a child i was into claremont
as a teenager all the miller and moore
after i had my morrison
now i dont know
i think i am not able to enjoy superheroes since authority and all the wildstorm stuff but at the same i find most of 100bullets and others depressing,maybe i will try more mangas,thanks

18:51 / 29.01.07

Maybe it's time for a rest? I know I went off comics in my mid-teens for yonks until I picked up the first Authority trade on a lark. You might just need a comivacation.

00:42 / 30.01.07

deviant, maybe you're mistaking "superheroes" for "Comics as a whole".

so: read more manga, read more Vertigo, read more Image [google for their monthly solicitations uo at CBR], read more Ait/PlanetLar, read more webcomics [there's a thread here somewhere], hell -- read more Avatar.

try to find the old Artbomb site in the internerds. lots of cool GN recomendations. read more of Heidi's The Beat.

read PHONOGRAM, CASANOVA, FELL, BRENDAN MCARTHY'S SOLO, THE OTHER SIDE, DEMO, PLUTO, SCOTT PILGRIM, COMMERCIAL SUICIDE, SMOKE.

etcetcetc. time for diversity.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

00:58 / 30.01.07

Bone! Read Jeff Smith's Bone! It's so much fun!

01:04 / 30.01.07

A second to Bone and to Scott Pilgrim. I just read the three volumes of Scott Pilgrim over the weekend and they rocked.

10:13 / 30.01.07

thanks; i will try some of theses but i would like to feel the rush inside of me again; the excitment...i am sure you know what i am talking about...when you feel the thing like it is alive...

ONLY NICE THINGS

10:17 / 30.01.07

Have you considered getting a monkey?

14:31 / 30.01.07

I'd love a monkey!

I too am off the four coloured joy bringers - I had my sebatical from comics about 8-10 years ago, and got back, but then 8C and all those nasty nasty rape books came about and I thought those boys at Image were back again....

What puts me off books at the moment 1. cost, 2. lateness, 3. bad stories, 4. companies thinking that 80's revivals include re-hiring the same hacks to write the same stories they did before.

Ironically, what got me back on comics was the DKR II, or what ever dark knight 2 was called - although I think that a flick through a New X-Men (the silent issue) was what really got me back into them. The fact is though, that i haven't enjoyed much for a while. 52 looks like fun, and I might get a collected, but of late I've given most of my stuff to my young nephews (kept Zenith and Invisibles and Captain Britain trades, and some JLI's from way back) and haven't read anything.

14:58 / 30.01.07

Get yerself some o' them big B&W Lee and Kirby books. Or some Kirby trades in general. Some of them must have monkeys, like the early FF or Superpal Jimmy Olsen.

14:59 / 30.01.07

I grew up on the quarter bin (or dime bin, when you're really lucky) and so the whole idea of reading new stuff as it comes out it a little foreign to me, even now. Some of that old stuff, like the original 'OMAC', is even newer now than current issues of contemporary books.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

15:14 / 30.01.07

I second the OMAC. Original OMAC. Best first issue I've ever read.

And, ironically, Image is actually doing some good now. They put out Casanova, even if the releases seem a little haphazard. But joy! And happiness! And spy fun! Inspired by Barbarella!

15:21 / 30.01.07

Was the 'Barbarella' comic ever put into English? Or, better yet and sparing me importing, in an American edition? Because I'm not finding one. Ever. And you think it would be, even if it's not as good as the film, which is excellent.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

15:38 / 30.01.07

I've only ever seen reprinted bits, mostly on the Image Google Search. I had thought they'd reprinted a little bit in the backmatter of one of the Casanova comics, but this was apparently a hallucination.

I've been looking to find a copy of the movie for a while, all I have are the memories of seeing as a child with my father, because my father had odd ideas about what movies to show his kid ("Oh, you're 11? It's time for 2001!"). But, you know, Jane Fonda in the all-shag antigravity space ship.

15:57 / 30.01.07

I noticed some big chain store had the movie on DVD for like three or four dollars, during the Halloween-time. The costume changes, I think. Target, I believe. Which means its probably in somebodys (stupid apostrophe key!) bargain dump bin.

16:14 / 30.01.07

This is probably not the most helkpful reply ever but I have seen an English language translation of Barberella - but it was in a second-hand book shop in Minnesota two months ago. I would guess that it was produced around the time of the movie, but more than that I cannot say definitively...

16:19 / 30.01.07

("Oh, you're 11? It's time for 2001!")

It's somehow reassuring to know I'm not alone on this score.

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