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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #500 on: June 24, 2009, 06:22:13 AM »

Invincible spoilarz:

[spoiler]Atom Eve dies in like five minutes of fight and it's really bleh[/spoiler]

LOL [spoiler]WiR, what?[/spoiler]
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #501 on: June 26, 2009, 08:03:52 AM »

Sure didn't take them long to bring back Steve Rogers.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #502 on: July 04, 2009, 04:07:45 AM »

The Goon: Those That Is Damned came out a full MONTH early, but hey, no complaints. This volume suffers for being both very short (half the book is a reprint of a so-so all-Goon Dark Horse Presents) and the middle of a three-volume story arc, but is still pretty decent.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #503 on: July 13, 2009, 03:23:21 PM »

Man, this reminded me of how badly I wish I had a way to share some of my rarer comics with you guys.

They're too big to scan (even if I had time to scan hundreds of pages and didn't care about wrecking the spines) and too rare and valuable to just get extra copies to mail around or give away.

There's some really great stuff that's pretty important to the development of comics that a lot of people have never seen just because it's reprinted so infrequently (and is very pricey when it is reprinted), not to mention some fantastic stories and beautiful artwork.

Even just little things... To cite Moebius again, there's his short story "The Long Tomorrow", which pioneered the sci-fi gumshoe genre and was almost certainly the first ever instance of the vertical city dug into a shaft in the ground. It's a lean, tight story, full of action, fun, and great damn writing. Or, the aforementioned "Airtight Garage" and "The Man From the Ciguri", which basically started out as a bizarre experiment* but became something that has yet to be duplicated. Or "Arzach", which was a seminal event in both art quality and in textless comics.

It's not just Moebius, there's other European stuff, lots of little one-offs by names you've probably never heard of like Gipi, Cyril Pederosa, Alain Guibert, Chris Blain, Jason... (all in Engish by the way). I mean there's a perception that independent comics often means "biographical or self-referential navel-gazing", but it's not all like that.

There's an INCREDIBLE noir mystery set in nazi-occupied France called 'The Bloody Streets Of Paris', that I have here by Jaques Tardi (also in English), and it just blows me away every time. The only person I know who's read it is my damned roommate and even that took three years to get him to try it. When he finally read it he pronounced it amazing.

There's NIL by Toronto artist James Turner, the book that convinced me Satire wasn't dead after all (I actually spoke to James recently and tried to convince him to put the book up online as a promotional thing for his much newer work... the jury's still out on that one).

I mean, at least some of you have access to the Manga stuff, but the European stuff kills me. It's all here on my shelf and once in a while I re-read a volume, but that's about it. No-one I know knows about this stuff, let alone reads or collects it.

It's frustrating is all. I really could give two shits about being some elitist asshole with a monstrous collection of amazing comics no one has ever read.

*Basically, Moebius started writing a new multidimensional sci-fi story. He did three pages and then misplaced them. Unable to find the first three pages, he then started all over again from a totally different angle. When he found the first three pages, he set himself a challenge: write three more pages that linked the first two groups. From that point, he basically made it into a crazy exercise. Each three-page bundle had to unify the previous bundles, while ALSO completely destroying any continuity he had carefully constructed so far in the story. The resulting story is a hell of a mindfuck, but is still entertaining and well worth a look at the very least.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #504 on: July 15, 2009, 06:46:11 PM »

Apparently Warren Ellis is going to be writing four movies for various Marvel characters.  They're going to be animated by Japanese animation studio Madhouse, to merge "he beloved Marvel Super Heroes of western culture with the bold animation tradition of Japan".

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #505 on: July 15, 2009, 07:33:19 PM »

I am happy about that news.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #506 on: July 20, 2009, 05:42:54 PM »

Jesus Christ, Yorick can't go two fucking issues without unmasking in front of some random chick, can he?
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #507 on: July 20, 2009, 05:49:53 PM »

Yorick is a schmuck.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #508 on: July 20, 2009, 06:08:12 PM »

Yeah, but he's the Last Schmuck on Earth.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #509 on: July 20, 2009, 06:26:10 PM »

If you just started, it kind of explains why he keeps revealing it.  If later on, he kind of just ceases to care about keeping his identity that much of a secret.

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #510 on: July 20, 2009, 07:18:34 PM »

Oh right. New RASL.

[spoiler]Okay Jeff, we get it. Rob gets laid. A lot. He'll fuck anything that moves, probably a few things that don't, and hell, maybe even the lizard guy, if it turns out he has boobs.[/spoiler]

WOW I'M GLAD I WAITED THREE MONTHS FOR THAT.

EDIT:

On further consideration, I guess I can understand what Smith is trying to do. [spoiler]He's trying to present one of those fabled 'scumbag' main characters.[/spoiler] The problem is that I'm not buying it. [spoiler]Instead of a rogue (likeable or unlikeable), or a brilliant man with a hard-drinking, womanizing streak, Rob just comes across as near-totally unconsious other than his willingness to stick his dick into anything with a hole in it. He's not so much Han Solo as he is Ron Jeremy.[/spoiler]
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #511 on: July 20, 2009, 07:56:32 PM »

The Onion AVClub has a list of what they consider the 21 most influential (mainstream) comic artists.

It's not a surprising list, really, beginning with Kirby and ending with Bill Sienkiewicz.  Inclusions of artists like Greg Land and Rob Liefield are probably to spark controversy and debate, but I personally am more incensed by who's excluded, namely Wally Wood, Mike Allred , Dave Gibbons, Eddie Campbell and Jeff Smith.  Not to mention Romita and John Byrne.

I also find it odd that sense it's a better or worse article, it seems to exclude Frank Cho, Michael Turner and Marc Silverstri.  I'm personally not a big fan of their work, but each of them has had a large impact since joining the field.

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #512 on: July 22, 2009, 07:13:59 PM »

All the silly nonsense elsewhere reminded me of the one comic I ever went to the trouble of scanning page by page for a friend. One of my all-time favourite comics, without a doubt. Mise well share.

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #513 on: July 28, 2009, 05:54:39 PM »

Behind on comics and everything else; finally gave Blackest Night #1 a read.

My reaction is basically that the thing seems to be at odds with itself.  The first half is a clever deconstruction of superhero death -- not as good as Dead Girl, but the best I've seen since -- with "boy, the DC Universe has sure been fucking evil for the past 20 years" thrown in on top.  (Hal not knowing where to begin to respond when Barry asked him how Sue Dibny died was a good bit.)

The problem is that, when a couple of well-known characters die on the last page, I just don't give a fuck.  I mean, I wouldn't have anyway, but it's just EXTRA hollow after a good chunk of the issue is devoted to pointing out how senseless, trivial, arbitrary, and reversible the whole thing is.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #514 on: July 28, 2009, 05:58:49 PM »

MEANWHILE (separate post in case I want to split later!): Loving Wednesday Comics.  Kamandi may be my favorite right now, though it's tough to pick one from such a great crop.

But Superman...jeez.  For their big promo, the thing that's getting reproduced in the The USA Today...they're doing a story that demonstrates why the fuck people don't give a crap about Superman.  Nobody wants to see Superman whining about how he doesn't fit in.  It's where Superman Returns failed, and where Smallville continues to fail week after week.  Except, for fuck's sake, this one had Christian Bale Batman show up in the second week just to demonstrate how much cooler he is.

There are great fucking Superman stories out there.  All-Star Superman is a fucking high bar, but this strip could have been at least HALF that good.

Course, it's still early yet.  Maybe it'll get better.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #515 on: August 05, 2009, 10:28:15 PM »

I picked up blackest night. I dig it so far.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #516 on: August 06, 2009, 09:20:45 AM »

Blackest Night sounds like the name of some blaxploitation movie.

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #517 on: August 06, 2009, 11:20:15 AM »

Either that or the Occidental equivalent of Ghost Dog.

I guess that would be "Blackest Knight" then yes I know that homophones don't really work in text just work with me here okay?
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #518 on: August 06, 2009, 01:19:00 PM »

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #519 on: August 06, 2009, 06:22:01 PM »



When leaching images, make sure to clear your cache to ensure that others will be able to see what you see!  :mahboi:
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