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Ellis
17:57 / 11.08.01
Just like the thread in Books.

What comics you read recently and were they any good?

Authority 25: Nice art, okayish story, crap ending, even crapper because you know that anything that happens in Peyer's run will be wrapped up nicely for when Millar returns.

Transmetropolitan 48: Bored me. And I think Spider killed The Smilers family. But this series doesn't interest me anymore and I would give up, but there is only one year left... (And how stupid is Spider for not backing up his infomation??)

Box Office Poison 19: Found this in the 10p box and it was brilliant, a nice funny charming comic about normal people, I will have to hunt down the trades now.

[ 12-08-2001: Message edited by: Ellis ]
 
 
sleazenation
09:13 / 12.08.01
Authority 25
Very lightweight to the point of pointlessness-- the ending kind of invalidates the previous 24 pages in the same way bobby ewing's infamous shower scene voided the previous season of dallas/dynasty whaterver it was.


Kane 31
Grist returns to his Adam west clone for an enteraing tale of experimental psycology . a very fun engaging read-- well worth the money
 
 
ynh
09:13 / 12.08.01
Animal Man trade: oddly the only issue I had was the Hawk/people one beforehand and it was the best of the lot.

Authority 25: better than the last two but I should not be buying this comic.
 
 
CameronStewart
09:13 / 12.08.01
>>> But this series doesn't interest me anymore and I would give up, but there is only one year left...<<<

If it doesn't interest you, why continue to buy/read it? Surely there are better things to do with the time and money...

>>>Kane 31<<<

Bah! My comic shop didn't get this! They usually do...

>>>Authority 25: better than the last two but I should not be buying this comic. <<<

Then don't. See above.
 
 
CameronStewart
09:13 / 12.08.01
Oh, right - the comic I just finished and enjoyed was the new Hellboy mini Conqueror Worm.

Hellboy quit the BPRD?!?! And in the letters page it's implied that we won't bee seeing the big red bastard for a while. Boo.

(The thread title says that there will be spoilers, so I have no sympathy for you if you read this and get pissed. You was warned, yes you was.)

[ 12-08-2001: Message edited by: CameronStewart ]
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
18:46 / 12.08.01
Comics are evil. They have taken my money.

100 Bullets #27 - Agent Graves, Joe DiMaggio, a suitcase, sepia tints... ace stuff.

Wildcats #26 - hmmm. I'm starting to get the sneaky suspicion that Joe Casey isn't a very good writer, but fluked it somehow for the last few issues of this. I think when they re-boot it without Sean Phillips I'll have serious doubts about continuing to buy.

Jim Mahfood's Grrl Scouts - haven't read yet. Looks "dope" as the young uns say.

Channel Zero - omigodomigodomigod. I'd heard the hype but this is seriously fantastic stuff. Clever, passionate, political, ziney, incredibly well-designed, sexy, dark, grimy, cut-n-paste... More on it when I get the chance... I've already photocopied the stickers... 'MAKE THEM LISTEN. MAKE THEM UNDERSTAND'. Great.
 
 
grant
14:03 / 13.08.01
Starman collection: Robinson & several artists. I can't recall the title or the numbers - it's the one with Shazam in it.
Kind of interesting in the way it keeps the ol' Marvel tradition going, but much of it read like a night-time TV drama. Not quite a soap, but much more concerned with Knight worrying about the past than actually moving towards the future. I dunno. Maybe if I'd read the ones leading up to it, I'd be into it -- the joy I got from it came almost entirely from having read Steranko's History of Comics, which has Bulletman and Captain Marvel and Nazis with rocketpacks all written up in it.
There's a nice JLA cameo, though. ("Sorry, can't spare you a spaceship. Go build your own.")

Ghostworld. A bit cynical for my current tastes, but lovely characters. It hit a little close to home - I had a brief, weird relationship with a girl in a similarly too-close relationship. (Nowadays, I'm pretty sure I dated the wrong one.) Had to read it before the movie made it down here.

Ring of the Nibelung: Gotterdammerung #2 - just as gorgeous as everything before it, only even more involving. The doom is palpable. It's rare that you can tinker with mythic types to the point where you get the same emotional response as you'd get from character-driven dramas. So good. So good.

Planetary whatever they're up to now -- #15?
Well, we're ready for a fight. Let it happen. I'm hooked. Elijah seems to be much less of a cold bastard in this one -- since when is he buddies with the drummer?

Arsenic Lullaby whatever they're up to now.
Sick humor. Never fails to elicit grim laughs, despite the rush limbaugh web page ad in the back. This one has the secret origin of Voodoo Joe in it. Plus more aborted fetus zombie slaves.

I think that's about it...
 
 
Ronald Thomas Clontle
14:54 / 13.08.01
quote:Originally posted by grant:

Ghostworld. A bit cynical for my current tastes, but lovely characters. It hit a little close to home - I had a brief, weird relationship with a girl in a similarly too-close relationship. (Nowadays, I'm pretty sure I dated the wrong one.) Had to read it before the movie made it down here..

I'm wondering what you will think of the film...I'm thinking you will like it a bit more, because the film isn't quite as upsetting and 'cynical' as the comic is. Also, the film pretty much drops the parts of the comic in which Enid and Becky wonder if they are a bit too close... in fact, most of the film just watches their relationship disintegrate completely.
 
 
RadJose
02:36 / 15.08.01
after bein' an art school snot even to the point of not wantin' to read x-men (grant or no grant i'm plain sick of those bastards) i did pick up the 117 & 118 of x-force, and loved them almost too moch, that damn allred love always wins... fuck i wonder what i woulda been like if i fell in love w/ at a young age of more mainstream artist ie lee liefeld, ect, no i pick allred as my devoted comic patron for life... i suck, but yeah x-force ROCKS (for now) and anyword on havin' more of Plantary collected?
 
 
Sandfarmer
11:14 / 15.08.01
100 Bullets #27- Joe Dimagio killed Kennedy because Kennedy killed Marylin? Who knew? Good stuff.

Peter Parker:Spider-Man #33- Paul Jenkins writes good Spidey books. This one was just about Peter's relationship with his dead Uncle Ben. Not one action scene in the whole fucker. Just simple human slice of life situations.

Authority #25- Eh. Good enough I guess. Nothing special.

Planetary (most recent issue)- Eh. Not much there really.

Punisher (most recent issue)- Its getting tired. Seems like the Punisher is just going to keep blowing up the Russian over and over and over...

I'm beginning to feel that both Ellis and Ennis need to take a year or so off. They are still good but no where near what they were 18 months ago. Its kind of sad really.

Obergiest- I really dig this comic. Tony Harris' art is great.

Daredevil #20 and 21- The new writer and artist are fine. Its a good comic but I miss David Mack and Bendis already. They were making their own mark and doing something different. The current team is telling an interesting story and its better than most of the late 90's Daredevil but its nothing Frank Miller and Ann Nocenti did not already do.

X-Force- The comic is just plain fun.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
11:36 / 15.08.01
You know, reading this thread I am so glad I decided to skip Peyer's run on Authority. Jeez. Let's just hope it recovers.

Mercury: I'll get back to your concerns with Channel Zero when I've finished and 'processed' it...
 
 
Jamieon
13:04 / 15.08.01
I'm loving FF1234 too. And I love the art. Don't you think it contributes to that moist, damp, incestuous feeling?

And Love and Rockets, which I've only just discovered. Smashing magic realism with a big nod to Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Murder Me Dead? Fab. Love it. Everyone must buy it.

Gon graphic novels. These give me the sex.

X Force. Mike Allred and Milligan also give me the sex.

Ultimate X Men. More sex.

And New X Men which completes my sex quotient.

I'm really happy at the moment, cause I'm having loads of sex.

But I've yet to be convinced by Warren Ellis......
 
 
Yotsuba & Benjamin!
14:03 / 16.08.01
Hrmmm....
I'm getting way back into manga again. Ranma 1/2 is just way too funny to be, what, nigh a decade old? "A Panda hugging a tire! What can it mean?"

Bought the Akira and Domu trades and, really, Otomu can NOT possibly be such a good writer AND artist. Yeeps.

Bought the dirty pair reissues....Adam Warren is one of my favorite writartists, and the pnecil sketchbook in the back is worth the price of admission...his stuff is so energetic and gorgeous...

100 Bullets caused me to drop, like sixty bucks in one day once I discovered how flat out awesome it is.

Scary Godmother....something about Jill's art gives ME the sex, and I spent the summer trying to show my two comic book workshops how awesome it is and met only dumfounded stares. Although at least two other teachers bought Little Endless sight unseen.

The new Planetary was very nice.....

And, well, aside from that Blank Panther seems to be getting a bit wonky (but I'm confident the next 100 pg ish will alleviate all that), Cerebus has finally got a new celebrity pastiche to milk (and it's quite a good one)...

oh right....

ULTIMATE X-MEN #8!!
Never before have I wanted a villain's ass so thoroughly kicked. Weapon X are the most vicious bunch of fuckers I have ever seen....i want them all dead and I will relish in seeing wolverine shred them to bits. this new storyline just towers above the last one. kubert's art was hardly distracting at all!

With granty's introduction of the X-Corporation, the lines are definitely being blurred betwixt ultimate and new. But, hey, they're both severely rocking.

Right now, though, all I'm reading are the three New X-Men comics that have been released...they're seriously what I'm going to show my grandkids when they ask their granddad why he still reads comics.

And Ghost World is simply the most versimilitudinous entertainment I've ever consumed in the comic book medium. In my humble opinion:

"We stopped by your apartment to fuck you but you weren't home. Therefore you are gay.
Love,
Tiffany and Amber"

is just flat out the funniest and truest shit ever...it reminds me of so many people like that whom i've hung out with and had ragingly funny and nonsensical times with. Am waiting on the movie to see with my lady friend, but i'm sure i'll weep with tears from it.

If there's more, I've forgotten it and, thus, it can't be all that good.

Benjamin.
 
 
YNH
15:51 / 17.08.01
Ultimate X-Men 8:

Nightcrawler beats Cyclops... with a frying pan!
 
 
Imaginary Mongoose Solutions
16:24 / 17.08.01
Mercury:


quote:Take a look at what's going on, government doesn't control anything! Wrong enemy, pal!

That's the part that loses me. While some of the ideas in CHANNEL ZERO do appear to be ever so 90's, I still don't see how he's got the wrong enemy. (Except perhaps in that it is Religious Right influenced government as opposed to corporate government).

Care to elucidate? I'm a big fan of C0 and it is such an underrated work. Not perfect, but underrated. And fantasticly beautiful.
 
 
Imaginary Mongoose Solutions
16:25 / 17.08.01
In point of fact, CZero conversation might make a nice new thread.
 
 
Jamieon
10:09 / 18.08.01
The ultimate Juggernaut: le skill.
 
 
Margin Walker
01:03 / 19.08.01
Jim Mahfood's Grrl Scouts - haven't read yet. Looks "dope" as the young uns say.

Channel Zero - [b]omigodomigodomigod. I'd heard the hype but this is seriously fantastic stuff. Clever, passionate, political, ziney, incredibly well-designed, sexy, dark, grimy, cut-n-paste...[/B]

Jesus, after all my time on this board, I can finally say that I agree with Zenith/Flyboy unconditionally. Both Mahfood & "Grrl Scouts" are dope as all hell. According to this article, Mahfood is gonna do the art for the mini-series "Shot Callers" written by Gary Phillips, a guy Mahfood describes as "a modernd day Iceberg Slim".

The first thing that struck me about "Channel Zero" is that it's dense. There's so much doublespeak hidden in the gutters & panels that it's almost subliminal if you don't take 2 minutes to look closely at each page.

The other things that are snapping my proverbial radish:

Garth Ennis is writing for The Punisher again and doing a damn fine job of it, too. Personally, I didn't really care for the shitloads of other stuff he does (anybody want to buy my "Just A Pilgrim" issues?), but, for me, "The Punisher" is almost as good as "The Preacher".

"Blue Monday" & "Hopeless Savages": Two really hip, very cool titles from Oni. Man, what I wouldn't give to meet cool chicks like Clover & Zero in real life....

"Bone": The 7th book "Ghost Circles" just came out in paperback. As Frank Miller once wrote: "If this is your first visit to the world of BONE, you might shake your head like I did, and say what I did my first time: 'Damn, this guy is good!'"

"Optic Nerve": Chris @ D&Q said #8 is gonna hit the stands next month. It better fuckin' be!!!
 
 
Ellis
18:55 / 31.08.01
Today I got:

X Force #119: Very good, interesting turn in the story, I am curious where it is going now, especially since Wolverine is in the next issue.

Fantastic 4- 1234 #2 Sue Storm is the Invisible Woman, because Reed ignores her! Ha! No mad ideas, but slow paced characterisation proving that Morrison is no one trick "MAAAAD" pony. The art is fantastic gothic and works well with the tone of the story and with the Fantastic Four in general as Jae Lee's art is the total opposite of what u expect from a Fantastic 4 comic.
But can Morrison produce a good story while featuring on a single character every issue?
I think so.
(next issue I assume will be The Human Torch- in the dark i bet).


I got Ghost World the other day as well, very hard to describe this one, nice art, and a good story which leaves you feeling really empty, but in a good way.
 
 
This Sunday
08:40 / 02.11.07
Brought back to life because the closest I recall us having is more "read this week" or starting a whole thread and this is better suited to talking about random older stuff. The state of current comics in general, I'm dipping into the back issues and such a bit heavier, again. So:

I'm reading the recent set of Power Pack minis. And they're working for me. Yes, the heroes (especially, in the Avengers one) are a bit flat, and the humor is incredibly childish and cutesy, but that's actually all working in the books' favor.

Also, the Colleen Coover/Jeff Parker Marvel Girl-centric shorts are making me absurdly happy, at the moment.

I may need a chainclaw spinebreaking book to make me feel like a mature adult again.
 
  
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