Topic: Funnybooks (Read 170026 times)

Thad · « **Reply #1820 on:** April 02, 2012, 06:53:57 AM »

Welp, iZombie is canceled. Was fun while it lasted.

Niku · « **Reply #1821 on:** April 02, 2012, 09:51:48 AM »

That was always a book that I looked at with vague interest but never picked up. I'm glad to know they're going to get an actual ending because (day late and a dollar short) that actually encourages me to look into the trades.

Zaratustra · « **Reply #1822 on:** April 02, 2012, 11:42:57 AM »

I love you Mike Allred, but ENOUGH WITH THE FUCKING ZOMBIES ALREADY.

Thad · « **Reply #1823 on:** April 03, 2012, 08:23:11 AM »

Eh, I think he does a pretty good job of just sticking one zombie in an eclectic ensemble cast.

Speaking of him (and Laura), Bleeding Cool has an interview up.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1824 on:** April 05, 2012, 08:44:15 AM »

So you might recall I was trying to get someone to send me some rare Moebius books that were only available from a US Amazon seller with domestic-only shipping. What happened was a friend from another board who sells on Amazon agreed to do it. As a bonus for him, he had tons of accrued Amazon dollars, so because I'm paying him back via PayPal, he gets to turn his Amazon credit into real cash munnies at face value.

Anyway, the funny thing is that I get this message today that he hasn't sent them out yet... because he got too caught up in reading them himself.

_{(It's someone I've known for like ten years, so I'm not worried he's not going to send... besides which I haven't even paid for anything yet).}

Thad · « **Reply #1825 on:** April 06, 2012, 07:30:28 AM »

So apparently there is no Best New Series nominee for this year's Eisners, because the judges "didn't find enough contenders that reached the level of quality they were looking for."

CA has a list of all the books that were submitted:

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Angel & Faith, by Christos Gage & Rebekah Isaacs
Animal Man
Aquaman
Batwing
Batwoman
The Bionic Man
Blue Estate
Blue Exorcist
Breakneck (215 Ink)
Butcher Baker The Righteous Maker, by Joe Casey & Mike Huddleston (Image)
Charismagic, by Hernandez, Randolph, & Lopez (Aspen)
Daredevil
Dream War, by Andrea Grant (Copious Press)
FF
A Game of Thrones
Green Wake
I, Vampire, by Joshua Hale Fialkov and Andrea Sorrentino
Jennifer Blood
John Carter Princess of Mars (Marvel)
Kirby: Genesis
La Mano Del Destino, by J. Gonzo (self-published)
Lady Mechanika, by Joe Benitez (Aspen)
Legend of Oz: The Wicked West, by Tom Hutchison & others (Big Dog Ink)
Mameshiba: On the Loose!
Memorial
Monocyte
Mudman, by Paul Grist (Image)
Near Death (Image)
Orchid, by Tom Morello & Scott Hepburn
Pilot & Huxley, by DanMcGuiness (Scholastic)
Planet of the Apes, by Darl Gregory & Carlos Magno
Punisher
Rachel Rising, by Terry Moore
Sergio Aragonés Funnies
Shame: Conception, by Lovern Kindzierski & John Bolton
Skullkickers (Image)
Snarked, by Roger Langridge
Spongebob Comics
Starborn, by Chris Robertson & Khary Randolph (BOOM!)
The Strain, by David Lapham, Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan, & Mike Huddleston
Swamp Thing
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Ultimate 7, by Robert Wawrzyniak, Shawn Surface, & Scot Shoemaker
Ultimate Spider-Man, by Bendis and Pichelli
Vic Boone (215 Ink)
Voltron
Wolverine & the X-Men

I can see why the Eisner judges would pass on most of those since they are in fact mostly relaunches of existing books (though Uzumeri notes that didn't stop them from giving the award to Invincible Iron Man in '09), but...Funnies, Snarked, and Rachel Rising are all very good original books, and three nominees seem like plenty to me.

Phil Hester says,

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Eisner committee: You could throw a rock through artists’ alley at SDCC and hit a full slate of worthy Best New Series nominees. In fact, I’m willing to turn the entire comics awards process over to throwing rocks through artists’ alleys.

Robot 6 has a thread for people to list their favorite new series. I'm going with the aforementioned Funnies. Frankenstein is probably the best non-relaunch book of DC's New 52. I also think Dark Horse Presents is awesome though I'm not entirely sure it counts given that it's both a relaunch and an anthology.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1826 on:** April 06, 2012, 09:09:13 AM »

Wow... that's a hell of a troll/slap-in-the-face/challenge.

Imagine the Oscars deciding not to award any best supporting actor awards one year because "the collective quality of the supporting actors was just not up to our minimum standards".

EDIT: I had to laugh at this reply:

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People have been throwing rocks at me for years — I had no idea I could get an award out of it.

Thad · « **Reply #1827 on:** April 06, 2012, 09:40:17 AM »

Quote from: Mongrel on April 06, 2012, 09:09:13 AM

Imagine the Oscars deciding not to award any best supporting actor awards one year because "the collective quality of the supporting actors was just not up to our minimum standards".

Well, they DID only nominate two songs this year.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1828 on:** April 06, 2012, 10:25:03 AM »

So the new trend for awards shows will be to cease giving out awards and instead mock their respective fields with merciless condescension?

That actually sounds kind of funny.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1829 on:** April 06, 2012, 11:08:43 AM »

Quote from: Mongrel on April 06, 2012, 10:25:03 AM

So the new trend for awards shows will be to cease giving out awards and instead mock their respective fields with merciless condescension?

Yeah, pretty much.

Thad · « **Reply #1830 on:** April 10, 2012, 10:23:16 AM »

Another Crumb interview. Most interesting is that he's currently doing some serious research on the financial crisis and trying to figure out how to make a comic out of it.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #1831 on:** April 15, 2012, 08:52:35 PM »

I read Amanda Conner's run on Power Girl and the Terra mini series.

All I have to say is that DC should feel deep, profound shame in negating Atlee's existence with the reboot.

Niku · « **Reply #1832 on:** April 16, 2012, 02:28:52 AM »

they negated her existence as soon as the dream team wasn't working on her book anymore, really

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #1833 on:** April 16, 2012, 07:51:37 AM »

Yeah. And knowing DC is only a matter of time before the Giant Alien Corpse her family lives in would been blown to bits by DEATHSTROKE THE TERMINATOR (Oh gosh, that child fucking mass-murderer is SO COOL) and then she'd join the Titans and get violently torn in half.

Thad · « **Reply #1834 on:** April 16, 2012, 08:05:37 AM »

Waid's new book: Insufferable.

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"It's about what happens when you have a kid sidekick who grows up to be a douchebag," he said, describing the basis of the series. "It's about what happens when you have a sidekick who grows up to be a completely ungrateful, self-aggrandizing, Kanye West of a man who will not shut up about how much of a genius he is and how the world is a better place now that you guys are broken up because now he can do it all the way he wanted to do it. Then the story is, what is the one case that comes up where they have to put their heads together even though they have been broken apart for years and they hate each other? What is the one case that could bring them back together again?"

Well, I never got around to reading past the first issue each of Irredeemable and Incorruptible, but I think I'm onboard with this.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #1835 on:** April 16, 2012, 05:09:41 PM »

So, I've been reading me some back issues... via pirate bay. Anyway! I decided to read some X-Men, of which there are plenty of options, including Uncanny X-men drawn by Greg Land.

Now, I knew this guy traced photos, but having never actually read anything he's drawn, I was never really able to appreciate just how fucking awful he is about it. It's actually distracting how inappropriate it is at times, the faces characters make when they talk. It's like he can't comprehend a woman making a face other than a coy smile or a screaming orgasm. Psylocke at one point calls Magneto a monster, and instead of having her sneer with contempt at him like it should read, she screams at him like a child.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1836 on:** April 16, 2012, 05:56:50 PM »

That's because he doesn't just trace photos, he traces porn.

Zaratustra · « **Reply #1837 on:** April 17, 2012, 04:00:35 AM »

Also, for a fun drinking game, take a drink whenever a female character's hair switches between straight and curly.

Thad · « **Reply #1838 on:** April 17, 2012, 11:02:48 AM »

We got a great show for you tonight, with our special guest, Roger Langridge's last four issues of The Muppet Show! YAAAAAAAAY!!!

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1839 on:** April 17, 2012, 04:53:43 PM »

THIS NEEDS TO BE A REAL COMIC

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