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Vertigo Pop: London: mister six returns.....

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15:27 / 18.11.02

The best thing about this comic was that it was exactly what I expected it to be.
When I heard that Milligan and Bond were doing a book called Vertigo POP!: London! I thought it was just going to ooze shiny pop fun and this looks like it's gonna deliver.

It's a familar wee story, but Milligan skews it just enough for it to seem fresh and funny.

Plus Philip Bond is a tiny god, and we really don't see enough comics from him. His style is just so robust and expressive and fun and YAY! basically.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

16:44 / 02.12.02

Finally got hold of it last week and really really liked it. Indeed, I liked it so much that I was almost disappointed when the magic thing came in, with writing of this quality I would have been happy for four issues of the guy walking round his mansion occasionally scratching his arse. I'd be disappointed if Milligan doesn't namecheck The Osbournes at some point.

Bond's art was the best I've seen by him, really well done. But I still hate the stuff he did for 'The Invisibles'. Funny that.

18:59 / 11.12.02

Anyone pick up issue 2? I enjoyed it. Rather than chug ahead with the bodyswap, Milligan takes a step back and further clarifies how fucked up a concept it is (as if we didn't already know) increasing the depth of the characters. And spiky haired nude Philip Bond characters, as well.

19:46 / 11.12.02

yep issue 2 just as good as issue 1 - and all those lines that a lesser writer would have just thrown out as one-liners in issue 1 are revisted in issue 2 and expanded upon.

yawn - thing's buddy

07:25 / 12.12.02

it's so good I've nothing to say

Goodness Gracious Meme

00:02 / 14.12.02

yum. yes. yum.

And I'm so proud of myself for spotting the daughter plotline.

*patting self on back.*

yawn - thing's buddy

11:57 / 09.01.03

hey! number three is in me schoolbag!

but....

need to pick up weed straight after work.
then get back to flat to cook meal for me and girlfriend.
then spend evening with above girlfriend.

Dilemma:

when to read comic?

Matthew Fluxington

12:11 / 09.01.03

Bond's art was the best I've seen by him, really well done. But I still hate the stuff he did for 'The Invisibles'. Funny that.

Maybe not so funny - those aren't pure Bond comics, he's just finishing up Warren Pleece's breakdowns, which explains why it looks like Bond, but not quite.

12:20 / 09.01.03

Um, Mr Pleece is back for issue #3. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, I guess.

18:23 / 09.01.03

Is Philip Bond actually finishing Warren Pleece's breakdowns on issue three? It looks to me as if Pleece is inking Bond's pencils.

For one thing it says "PHILIP BOND and WARREN PLEECE - Artists".
Secondly it just looks like Bond. Those Invisibles issues were full of horrible stretched bodies, like when Bond drew Doom Patrol.

Regrettable Juvenilia

22:27 / 09.01.03

A while ago I saw some footage of Ray Davies performing at the Jubilee / 'Party In The Palace' shitfest, and jesus - if that's not who Rocky Lamont was based on, it's uncanny: Davies nowadays looks *exactly* like that, same crap hair and all. It's perfect.

Haven't got #3 yet, but the cover of #2 has to be one of my favourites of 2002 - not just because it's so beautiful and sexy and BOND!, but also because it's a neat trick if you've just read issue 1 - you assume that's Rocky in there being freaked out by Zoe's attention, but in fact that could be just Sean being freaked out by her borderline psycho-ness. It works both ways. And the pink! And the Eye!

Also awesome: the Dave Stewart gag; the characterisation of Zoe, Hoxton art brat; the incredibly specific double in-joke that is the "Codling Gallery" (the Jopling Gallery & Neil Codling, ex-of Suede); that fucking terrifying hallucination Sean has - yes, these people *are* like wolves, and that is how they're looking at him; "you're a fookin' animal Lamont!"

23:04 / 09.01.03

Yeah... GREAT GREAT GREAT read!!!

yawn - thing's buddy

07:21 / 10.01.03

number three is so good it's beyond comment or interpretation!

The Natural Way

08:27 / 10.01.03

I know, I can't be bothered either - it's just great.

12:59 / 10.01.03

its so good i might have a wank with it.

yawn - thing's buddy

13:03 / 10.01.03

I know what you mean when you say, 'with it', n all.

To the tune of Honey Nut loops:

Vertigo Pop: Let's wank together!

The Natural Way

13:07 / 10.01.03

Onion, now yr here, tell yawn we're different people.

When are you coming down south, Yawn, you cock?

yawn - thing's buddy

13:46 / 10.01.03

dunno.

this year?

you'll need to get yer meat up here tho - I've just moved into a gallus flat with a lot of very powerful pychogeographic pulses running through it.

and....

it's got a spare room!

ennyway - i KNOW you and onion are different.

just like gollum and smeagol are different.

only joking!

god - isn't this comic the best thing of all time?

13:51 / 10.01.03

I keep fucking forgetting about this. *tt*

yawn - thing's buddy

13:53 / 10.01.03

and while were at it - falconi: yer welcome any time n all.

14:46 / 10.01.03

I'd love to, actually. Got a coupla friends need visitin', too.

Unfortunately, at present, I have no money and no (regular) job. Because I suck.

I may move to Glasgow to do some sort of postgrad stuff eventually (like late this year.) The city breathes comics which I like, and is generally boss.

Vertigo Pop! Glasgow by Grant 'It's like a wee jobbie' Morrison can surely be not far behind this (...desperate attempt to return to topic.)

yawn - thing's buddy

15:05 / 10.01.03

what a great idea!

that'd be so cool.

Fuck - we should do it!

15:10 / 10.01.03

You could - I don't know enough about Glasgow. But my formative plans for Vertigo Pop! Dundee (hahahahhahahhahahahh....ohhhhh. I actually really like Dundee) should be considered officially announced. Barbelith exclusive!

Hmmmmm. I wonder....

Goodness Gracious Meme

15:52 / 10.01.03

: Davies nowadays looks *exactly* like that, same crap hair and all. It's perfect.

Absolutely, he even seems to *move* like Davies.

This is so perfect its unbelievable. I *love* it so much. In my universe, all comics will be like this.

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The look on Rocky's/(in Sean's body) face when his artbrat daughter pulls her skirt up... priceless.

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In fact, the wank is beginning to seem like the only sensible response...

"I hate my Daddy. Harder."

17:19 / 10.01.03

Vertigo POP! Dundee wouldn't be a patch on Vertigo POP! East Kilbride, which I would fucking love to write.

It would be the worlds most desperately glamourless story! Glasgow may be (as sugested in Yawn's Morrison interview) a city swamped in fiction, but what about EK?

No fiction at all! Well, hardly any... it would be a fucked up little tale that would somehow take in the Jesus and Mary Chain, Ally McCoist and George Orwell (siting in Hairmyers hospital, of course). It would be brilliant I tells ya, brilliant.

Or possibly not... *sigh*
Erm... yeah. Sorry about that.

I havent had the cash to get Vertigo POP London #3, but I'll be picking it up tommorow. I canny wait!

First two issues are among the best Milligan stuff I've ever read. Bond's been on top form too. Truly a comic made in heaven, no?

20:31 / 10.01.03

I flap my arms and go Ew! Ew! No! at the thought of rteading this thread and knowing what happens, so can someone PM me with info on wether this will ever get collected into a TPB? So I can buy it?

yawn - thing's buddy

21:41 / 10.01.03

thing is, I re

yawn - thing's buddy

21:42 / 10.01.03

thing is, I really AM doing a comic about my hometown!

www.manmadememories.co.uk

if you can be arsed.

Goodness Gracious Meme

15:56 / 11.01.03

looks cool, yawn, how long you been up to this... got many submissions yet?

keep us posted...

16:34 / 12.01.03

Vertigo POP! Dundee is definitely the best of the bunch.

"Do you remember the night we stormed the Westport Bar?"

17:37 / 12.01.03

What's the next city in the lineup for vertigo then? Somewhere in southeast asia, right? Have any other specific locations/writers/artists been announced? I'd love to see 'Pop: New York' done by Paul Pope.

yawn - thing's buddy

18:02 / 12.01.03

I hear Moore's slated for VP: Northampton.

yawn.

18:26 / 12.01.03

Thread rot (well, I started it...):

The Westy? Ah, Dundee's worst boozer.

I'd just write about schemes and rabbit-stroking trance. And then contrast it with the consumerist pseudo-glamour that's taken over the town centre.

2 Malls?! Madness.

Regrettable Juvenilia

18:30 / 12.01.03

Okay, so a pint says #4 sees Victoria rediscovering her White Witch powers in order to switch them back...

Please don't be dead, Cassy.

Loved the David Grey gag.

23:38 / 12.01.03

I almost feel as if they're going to learn the whole body-swapping thing was a McGuffin and that it actually IS some kind of psychosis on their parts - completely unbeknownst to them, revealing all kinds of shit locked up in their psyches about how they truly feel about things.

We've got one issue left and a whole lot of dark shit hanging about - I'd imagine that Milligan will find a way to bring things back up - Not necessarily to Status Q, but a happy approximation of normalcy.

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