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Title: The Manhattan Projects Publisher: Image Brief description: What if the atomic bomb was just a small part of the Manhattan Project? What if they were making all kinds of creepy poo poo? Why I like it: It's just weird as hell. The art reminds me of Rugrats and the characters are pretty hosed up. They're just laying the groundwork now, but it has some definite promise. Also they keep Einstein locked up in a vault for some reason. Issue that is a good jumping on point: Issue 2 just came out this week, so the first one shouldn't be too hard to find. Preview: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=10710 I'm going to go ahead and pimp one that I haven't read yet, because I'm pretty psyched for it.  Title: Popeye Publisher: IDW Brief description: Welp, it's a new Popeye comic done replicating the old art quite beautifully. Why I like it: I am a sucker for Popeye. Plus, look at that cover. Look at it. Issue that is a good jumping on point: Issue 1 comes out next week, it's going to be a four part series.
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Flynn Taggart posted:Why I like it: It's just weird as hell. The art reminds me of Rugrats and the characters are pretty hosed up. They're just laying the groundwork now, but it has some definite promise. Also they keep Einstein locked up in a vault for some reason. I think mentioning that Oppenheimer's brother loving ate him might be a better example of the weirdness going on. This comic is already pretty awesome. Hickman owns. In addition to the weirdness I also got a good laugh out of Richard Feynman's narcissism.
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Apr 26, 2012 14:30
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I picked up that Popeye comic having loved the cartoons but never actually reading any of E.C. Segar's stuff. Holy poo poo, Popeye and crew are douchebags. Olive Oyl does nothing but bitch and nag, her brother is a greedy jerk, Wimpy is just as lazy and useless as he is in the show, and Popeye is apparently invulnerable (he gets beat up in the show before winning but here he's Superman). The entire cast are dysfunctional assholes who are at each others throats the entire time. There's one scene where Popeye basically leaves Wimpy to die in the middle of the ocean for abandoning his useless watch post to have lunch. I thought it was pretty good comic but for someone raised on the cartoons it's a kick in the nuts. I'm going to continue reading because I want to see how low these characters can go.
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Mr Wind Up Bird posted:Inspired by me seeing Chronicle here's something probably not a lot of people have read. I just read this and I'm not sure I can give it a ringing endorsement. The core concept is fine, I guess, although a little worn. What I find irritating is that the motivations of Eric just seem inscrutable. It seems like he receives the powers and then there's a part missing where we see what leads him to snap, and then suddenly he's crippling his brother, raping his sister-in-law and murdering little girls; basically taking out all of his petty urges all of a sudden. And yes, I did notice the disconnection he'd been feeling for years but even so becoming a mass murderer is a big jump to make. He certainly doesn't seemed to have gained any transcendent knowledge, but instead he just seems like an average (or maybe below-average) intelligence person who gets powers and has a brittle mind. It wasn't bad, and I don't feel like I wasted my time reading it, but I don't believe it's one of the better examples of Superman-gone-wrong. Yeah, I know the side-characters are as much of a focus as Eric, but even so it felt a bit lacking. Irredeemable I actually thought had a more interesting and nuanced take on the crazy God-king thing, but then it got bogged down and really bad.
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 Title:: Hilda and the Midnight Giant Publisher: Nobrow Brief description: Hilda and her mother live in their ancestral home in the hills alongside magical creatures. After receiving an eviction notice because their house is an obnoxious eyesore planted in the middle of a country ruled by one-millimeter-tall invisible elves, Hilda has to convince the elf king for a truce before her mother decides to move to the city. At the same time she befriends a skulking giant who waits by her house every night whose life story is connected to Hilda's own plight. Why I like it: It's a funny, cute, all-ages book. Unlike the typical wide-eyed protagonist you normally see in these types of stories, Hilda is rather aggressive and resorts to brute force before switching to her soft side which results in humorous moments with the more passive magical creatures she encounters. It's also a very beautiful hardcover book printed in full color on high quality paper in large A4 album format. Issue that is a good jumping on point: Amazon gets a few in stock every month then sells out instantly until the next month. Hildafolk came out first but Midnight Giant is a "reboot" to the series although each story is a complete adventure that doesn't carry over. Preview the book here. Check out a Hilda comic here. al-azad fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Apr 28, 2012 |
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Apr 27, 2012 18:36
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al-azad posted:I picked up that Popeye comic having loved the cartoons but never actually reading any of E.C. Segar's stuff. Holy poo poo, Popeye and crew are douchebags.
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al-azad posted:Title:: Hilda and the Midnight Giant This sounds pretty amazing, though they are a tad expensive for how short they are. Would they be appropriate for a 7 year old girl? I love finding stuff to read with my daughter.
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choobs posted:This sounds pretty amazing, though they are a tad expensive for how short they are. Would they be appropriate for a 7 year old girl? I love finding stuff to read with my daughter. I think she could enjoy them. Here's a standalone Hilda comic to give you an idea of the style. Here's a preview from Midnight Giant and a preview from Hildafolk which is an older collection of stories. According to Pearson, Midnight Giant is his attempt at rebooting the character into a full fledged series so Midnight Giant is the first in the "canon" if you can call it that. If your daughter likes comics, check out Amelia Rules. Fun stories for kids but the characters sometimes deal with heavy stuff like divorces and deaths in the family so it's crazy without being throwaway and uninteresting. Gownley is also one of the best hand letterers I've seen in recent years and he turns his words into pictures themselves. Urban Space Cowboy posted:I haven't seen this comic yet, but that all sounds pretty close to Segar's comic strips! Who are the artist(s)/writer(s) in this venture? I hope they can keep up the good work -- of the current comic strips, the Sundays are utterly dire and the (recycled) dailies are pretty tired. Roger Langridge (W) and Bruce Ozella (A). Langridge is best known for The Straightjacket Fits, a story published in Judge Dredd Megazine, and his webcomic Fred the Clown which earned him a poo poo ton of critical acclaim including two Eisner nominations. Ozella is a veteran graphic artist but this is his first comic and everyone has said nothing but praise for his spot on style. The comic has been well received so far and I must say that it's pretty good. Keeping with tradition of old comics there's a lot of dialog but it's interspersed with good visual humor and the characters are such dickheads. al-azad fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Apr 28, 2012 |
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al-azad posted:Langridge is best known for The Straightjacket Fits, a story published in Judge Dredd Megazine, and his webcomic Fred the Clown which earned him a poo poo ton of critical acclaim including two Eisner nominations. Also a lengthy run writing and drawing The Muppets for Boom Studios, his new comic there called Snarked, and a number of writing assignments at Marvel, including most significantly Thor: The Mighty Avenger.
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Dickeye posted:Exception: Spawn. Is it really that terrible? The impression I got was that, for a comic that basically singlehandedly caused the Dark Age, it's pretty readable.
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WickedIcon posted:Is it really that terrible? The impression I got was that, for a comic that basically singlehandedly caused the Dark Age, it's pretty readable. It's physically readable in that your eyes can look at it and take in the information and so on and so forth. Is it actually readable? gently caress no. I was going to read Spawn and mock it and I gave up after three issues. It's like concentrated 90s.
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Dickeye posted:It's physically readable in that your eyes can look at it and take in the information and so on and so forth. Is there some Spawn omnibus that collects large phonebook sized portions of the series? I know Witchblade has one, but I figured that Witchblade was considered worse than Spawn. I've always wanted a large Spawn omnibus, not to read however. It would be along the lines of owning a Ncronomicon. You own it not to read it, but to show people something so vile they cannot even begin to fathom it's existance.
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Vaerai Archon posted:Is there some Spawn omnibus that collects large phonebook sized portions of the series? I know Witchblade has one, but I figured that Witchblade was considered worse than Spawn.
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Wasn't there some enormous hardcover released awhile back, also?
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Endless Mike posted:Wasn't there some enormous hardcover released awhile back, also? Yeah, and I'm pretty sure it went out of print, considering that I don't think he had the approval from Gaiman, Moore, et. al. for the reprint... edit: though I don't really get how this would make sense with the compendium hitting, so I should probably be ignored? Still, I remember this being talked about a lot... bairfanx fucked around with this message at 15:48 on May 1, 2012 |
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May 1, 2012 15:28
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I really wonder how they got Alan Moore of all people to write for Spawn.
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Alhazred posted:I really wonder how they got Alan Moore of all people to write for Spawn. Well they also got Dave Sim, so. It was like a year into the series and both guys were very into independent publishing.
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Alhazred posted:I really wonder how they got Alan Moore of all people to write for Spawn.
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Alhazred posted:I really wonder how they got Alan Moore of all people to write for Spawn.
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Alhazred posted:I really wonder how they got Alan Moore of all people to write for Spawn.
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So Brian K Vaughn's Saga pretty much blew my tits off. What a fantastic start to something pretty different. TV heads having sex all over the place.
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Anyone else reading Bulletproof Coffin have a "reading order" for the last issue? After looking at everything there's surely a few loose narratives amongst the panels, but I'm not smart enough to piece them together.
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petewhitley posted:Anyone else reading Bulletproof Coffin have a "reading order" for the last issue? After looking at everything there's surely a few loose narratives amongst the panels, but I'm not smart enough to piece them together. Uh, maybe there isn't one? There is the through-line with Steve, and something about a meteorite landing among monkey-men that stalk his dreams or something, but I just enjoyed it as a discombobulated dream like narrative. Everything is cool and interesting in only one panel bytes. Really fun read. Okay, when I went overboard about Saga, I think I spoke too soon. Seigfried, drawn and written by Alex Alice (IIRC), is the best thing I've read in ages. It is just the start of the story and I already feel in the hands of a capable storyteller about to get into an incredible story. Get it.
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Vaerai Archon posted:I've always wanted a large Spawn omnibus, not to read however. It would be along the lines of owning a Ncronomicon. You own it not to read it, but to show people something so vile they cannot even begin to fathom it's existance. So basically the fact that the HBO series is actually pretty good was nothing short of a small (more like very large, but eh) miracle.
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Shageletic posted:Uh, maybe there isn't one? There is the through-line with Steve, and something about a meteorite landing among monkey-men that stalk his dreams or something, but I just enjoyed it as a discombobulated dream like narrative. Everything is cool and interesting in only one panel bytes. Really fun read. Yeah I enjoyed it as laid-out, but looking through it again it seems as though most of the panels are actually from a handful of scenes that have been reordered so as to disrupt any sense of narrative. That coupled with the pedigree of this book and it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if there was more to it.
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petewhitley posted:Yeah I enjoyed it as laid-out, but looking through it again it seems as though most of the panels are actually from a handful of scenes that have been reordered so as to disrupt any sense of narrative. That coupled with the pedigree of this book and it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if there was more to it. The issue was done using the cut-up technique (as popularised by William S. Burroughs). Some info here: http://www.waitingfortrade.com/2012/04/bulletproof-coffin-disinterred-4.html
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Shameless posted:The issue was done using the cut-up technique (as popularised by William S. Burroughs). Great, now you've activated the horrible comic-book collector in me by making me realize that I was temporally horrified by the fact an old comic was cut up.
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LashLightning posted:Great, now you've activated the horrible comic-book collector in me by making me realize that I was temporally horrified by the fact an old comic was cut up. Yeah, people flipped out about it and then were told that it was probably worth a few hundred dollars, not thousands or tens of thousands. Some were probably still angry, but whatever, Bulletproof Coffin is awesome.
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So did anybody check out Frankenstein Alive, Alive this week? I think I'm gonna pick it up tomorrow, it looks pretty sweet.
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Flynn Taggart posted:So did anybody check out Frankenstein Alive, Alive this week? I think I'm gonna pick it up tomorrow, it looks pretty sweet. I liked it. Great art, good writing, and I've always liked the original story for its humanization of this newly born monster in a world that fears him.
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Wow. I am halfway through it right now, and I had to put it down just to post how loving incredible it is. The art is all black and white and just looks..gorgeous. It doesn't look like comic book art at all, it feels like a combination of old wood etchings and those pictures from scary stories to tell in the dark. Was the original run from the 80's this good? I might have to pick it up.
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I'm really looking forward to the Valiant relaunch. I used to read my older cousin's Valiant books when I was a kid; I especially liked Bloodshot and Eternal Warrior for the historical fiction and the proto samurai jack respectively. At the risk of sounding like a weaboo, I'm especially looking forward to Bloodshot 
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al-azad posted:Title:: Hilda and the Midnight Giant Is this anything like Moomin? The art seems pretty similar to Tove Jansson's style.
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WickedIcon posted:Is this anything like Moomin? The art seems pretty similar to Tove Jansson's style. Hilda does have Mymble's nose but other than being a story about oddball magic creatures, they're not really similar. Then again, nothing is quite like Moomin.
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Benny the Snake posted:I'm really looking forward to the Valiant relaunch. I used to read my older cousin's Valiant books when I was a kid; I especially liked Bloodshot and Eternal Warrior for the historical fiction and the proto samurai jack respectively. I hope they keep the no-FTL rule. Greatly anticipating spider aliens.
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Saga is drat well the best new series of 2012. Brian K. Vaughn is like a much better Joss Wheadon in how he can create a setting spanning worlds with so much detail and yet maintain focus on a handful of characters. I love how the character designs are just so creative like that race of TV headed aliens. And Staple's art just feels so natural for Vaughn's writing.
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Have you guys seen this kickstarter? I've never read anything by Mark Andrew Smith but Stokoe's doing the art so it could be blank speech bubbles for all I care.
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Starks posted:Have you guys seen this kickstarter? I've never read anything by Mark Andrew Smith but Stokoe's doing the art so it could be blank speech bubbles for all I care. You know, I saw it get tweeted about a few times and somehow ignored that Stokoe was on it. Hardcopy, here I come.
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I wonder if Kickstarter and the inevitable websites like it might finally be something that gives us the push into a surge of new creator owned content. It's obvious that you can raise obscene amounts of money is a short time if you're even halfway decent at social networking.
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Mr Wind Up Bird posted:I wonder if Kickstarter and the inevitable websites like it might finally be something that gives us the push into a surge of new creator owned content. It's obvious that you can raise obscene amounts of money is a short time if you're even halfway decent at social networking. You mean something like this?
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