even if they're any good, it has been Didio policy to starve them of internal or external support
very few post-Gaiman instances of such
this was bcz Gaiman made his further work for the company contingent on the restriction of that one character
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 15 July 2019 16:25 (five years ago) link
the harder hit will come when AT&T close down the publishing division altogether, and every other publisher collapses bcz every english-language comic shop in the world goes under
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 15 July 2019 16:26 (five years ago) link
I think I've read maybe a couple issues of Lucifer and none of the others?
I must be the notional reader that only shows up for material when it's a title called Sandman that ostensibly stars that character
― untuned mass damper (mh), Monday, 15 July 2019 17:06 (five years ago) link
I'm not a con person but it is perhaps interesting to note that DC will not have a discrete booth at this year's SDCC but will rather be folded into a broader WB experience. I will not be surprised at all when that entire division is rebranded WB Comics.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Monday, 15 July 2019 17:19 (five years ago) link
they'd probably brand it in some way
branding is how you do your market segmentation, after all
― untuned mass damper (mh), Monday, 15 July 2019 17:35 (five years ago) link
I read a few things by writers whose work I'd liked previously on non-work-for-hire stuff that they drew themselves, eg Terry LaBan, Bryan Talbot, Ed Brubaker, Jill Thompson, Bill Willingham, Al Davison (who did get to draw his issues). The Jeff Nicholson issue Andrew points out was essentially a colour riff on Through The Habitrails.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 15 July 2019 17:38 (five years ago) link
I wasn't meaning Sandman spinoffs, but really I didn't know if anyone else had continued the character right after in a reboot.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 15 July 2019 19:15 (five years ago) link
But I did know they didn't just get John Byrne or Bill Mantlo to keep the title running.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 15 July 2019 19:16 (five years ago) link
They really tried to get Mantlo - in the end, solidarity with Bob Budiansky was the sole reason that he declined.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 15 July 2019 19:27 (five years ago) link
in case you didn't know, 22 issues in and the dark horse adaptation of gaiman's American Gods with P Craig Russell and Scott Hampton remains one of the best comics on the mainstream racks
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 22 July 2019 06:04 (five years ago) link
via tcj: https://files.constantcontact.com/7c08b62b401/857e5ff9-cc24-4b82-93bd-4687ce4f2a1a.pdf
Dave Lapham put out a 24 page pdf of an unpublished Batman comic he did with Bill Sienkiewicz. “DC had long ago dumped the files off of their server, and Bill had sold the art and later had a hard drive meltdown. The art to this was effectively gone. All I have (and what you’ll see here) are a set of smaller-than-comic-sized printouts from low-res scans.”
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 4 August 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link
Oh, so frustrating! I didn’t know that. What a great run though - with or without Sienkiewicz.
That said, the double page spread with the trail of bats is awesome in a way I can’t remember a Batman panel being in a very long time
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 4 August 2019 23:40 (five years ago) link
very cool! I'm a huge fan of City of Crime, seeing that Sienkiewicz issue #1 take is fascinating
― Nhex, Monday, 5 August 2019 00:42 (five years ago) link
Maybe they don't know or don't like each other, but it always seemed like a no-brainer that Billy the Sink should have been paired with Grant Morrison on a project at some point.
Imagine if the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh segments in Morrison's run when he is trippin' balls were done by Sienkiewicz to show Batman's state of mind.
Lapham's Daredevil/Punisher mini-series is also a pretty good read.
― earlnash, Monday, 5 August 2019 23:52 (five years ago) link
i made a very important threadOutrageous images from Classics Illustrated Junior
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
I finally read Otomo’s Domu, which has been on my shelf for years … and did not really enjoy it! Oh well.
I know the paper copy is quite difficult to find (I have the UK collected edition published in 1994ish) So if anyone in the UK wants my copy, I’ll be happy to send it out for Whatever the copy of post is
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 11 August 2019 12:32 (five years ago) link
*the cost of post is
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 11 August 2019 12:33 (five years ago) link
Traded out 10 1/2 long boxes today.
― earlnash, Saturday, 17 August 2019 18:56 (five years ago) link
Anyone reading DIE?
It's doing well with the General Public, I've heard, but I'm not sure... it kinda feels like the boring dream sequence episode of a TV show stretched into eternity.
It's on the pull list so I'll give it another couple issues
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:07 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I was surprised by that, I assumed it would be "Writer assumes all of his interests are equally interesting, when one is pop music and another is boardgames"
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 21:51 (five years ago) link
At the moment it's kind of like bad Gaiman with better jokes. I sorta hate the art too; it's from the Frazer Irving school of pretty-but-unfollowable painted comics.
I dunno, something about it feels a bit "here is my tragic backstory" in a hacky storytelling 101 way that feels unusually lazy for Gillen. Although, to be more generous, I suppose that conceptually fits with a book about player-generated characters.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 22:21 (five years ago) link
I dig it. D&D Teen goth angst to the max + mid-life crisis, somehow a winning combination
― Nhex, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 05:10 (five years ago) link
Anyone reading the 4th arc of Jojo? I don't think I can commit to it again but I'm interested to know what people think. I remember an old fan site saying that everything after the 3rd arc feels forced, but it looks like there's a lot of novelty with the different settings. The woman's prison and the big horse race sounds great but I just cant.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 25 August 2019 15:38 (five years ago) link
I've only read a few issues of Jojo's but I thought forced was the whole shtick?
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 26 August 2019 10:08 (five years ago) link
Got my kids into Gogor, it is good
― Οὖτις, Monday, 26 August 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
it's good fantasy!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 26 August 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
It’s not an insane idea to want to b
The English language edition of Maggy Garrisson from SelfMadeHero is the best hunk of comics I've read in quite some time, and the best European homage to Engerland since Jacobs' The Yellow M:https://www.selfmadehero.com/books/maggy-garrisson🕸
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:02 (five years ago) link
Beehive Press just sent out kickstarter digital edition promos of their lavish new Harrison Cady book and woooooo boy, it looks gorgeous. can't wait for the physical copy.i've always been head over heels for Cady, but i was not aware he was responsible for so much explicitly racist and anti-semetic work. kinda wish it wasn't so beautifully rendered! Sign of the (turn of the twentieth century) times i guess.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 2 September 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link
We've barely talked about Gillen's WicDiv since it started, which I guess means there's been a general lack of interest - which is fair! I'm not sure it was very good - but curious for thoughts now it's all over
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 8 September 2019 13:09 (four years ago) link
I thought it was fantastic, I surprised myself by considering getting a (first!) tattoo based on it. I'm aware this is a ridiculous thing for a 44-year-old straight white male to consider about a series largely devoted to early-twenties kids of various colours and sexualities, which I take as a sign of how much I liked it.
But tbh the demographics that it's meant the most to don't really overlap much with ILX, so I'm not surprised by the quiet.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 8 September 2019 13:21 (four years ago) link
I surprised myself by considering getting a (first!) tattoo
oh wow! ok, sorry to snark. that's amazing.
i did enjoy it - can see the appeal of a lil' loki tattoo, even
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 8 September 2019 13:24 (four years ago) link
I've read Wicked + Divine aside from the last arc. I mostly haven't cared much for the story, but I stuck with it because they do some interesting things with the art and comics as a format.
I have wondered if I didn't get on with this comic because I'm just not the target demographic. Wicked + Divine has come up in discussions at a comic book group I go to and someone younger than me said they (and implied that younger people generally) would identify with the characters, or at least be sympathetic to them. The failing for me with this book is that I didn't care about most of the cast (and then most of the characters I connected to were the first to die).
I managed to enjoy parts of later issues once the pre-godhood backstories were revealed a bit more and the creators filled in some of the story gaps (like, why would a bunch of global gods reincarnate in London? ah, I see, because they've reincarnated in different places all over the world throughout the centuries, not just one place). I'll read it through to the end. And I wouldn't discourage other people from reading it, it just didn't land/hasn't landed with me overall.
― salsa shark, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 08:55 (four years ago) link
can strongly recommend the wordless comic TRAP, new on Europe Comics; if the cover appeals to you, the internal art and cleverly executed story is even better.http://i.imgur.com/iKJIoSN.png
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 14 September 2019 19:48 (four years ago) link
https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2019/03/17-1/viz-releases-hardcover-the-drifting-classroom-manga-in-fall-of-2019
If you passed up or didn't know about the 11 volumes of paperback years ago. I really hope this is just the start of more. I have complained about the needless expense of hardcovers but somehow manga getting this treatment gives me hope for a bigger reprints project.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 29 September 2019 00:41 (four years ago) link
How many of these are there gonna be? I started one of these manga reprints (20th Century Boys), bought like four volumes, gave up trying to keep up with the reading and buying. Maybe I'll try again with this, Fourteen fucked me up for life.
― Nhex, Sunday, 29 September 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
I was wondering that. It cant be one volume.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 29 September 2019 01:08 (four years ago) link
Kate Lacour is great and i am super glad fanta is pushing her now.https://www.comicsbeat.com/kate-lacour-interview/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 01:55 (four years ago) link
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/janstrnad/mutant-world-and-son-of-mutant-world/descriptionhttps://stuartngbooks.com/mutant-world-and-son-of-mutant-world.html
Wasn't aware of this until today. Those early issues of the second series really needed fixing, so this is very welcome. Don't know how many shops it will go to.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 6 October 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
nice piece from Strnad here about the history of Mutant Worldhttps://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/08/18/riding-coattails-to-success/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 6 October 2019 20:09 (four years ago) link
Never heard of that! Always loved Strnad tho
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 6 October 2019 20:13 (four years ago) link
Especially Dalgoda and Who’s Stronger?
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 6 October 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
We did. Back then everyone could read joined-up writing so it wasn't anything we worried about. https://t.co/eZ3hYhZW1w— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) October 6, 2019
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 6 October 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
do people not know how to read cursive anymore?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 6 October 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
"this font"
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Sunday, 6 October 2019 21:27 (four years ago) link
eh it's kind of messy, could have used a second pass. 'remarked' looks like 'resharfeed'.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Sunday, 6 October 2019 22:05 (four years ago) link
it's meant to be messy ffs, Klein is communicating story information
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Sunday, 6 October 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link
the drawings would probably be clearer in autocad, eh DC should redo it
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Sunday, 6 October 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
there are so many overwrought bits in Sandman that smudgy cursive is something I just kind of let go of caring about
years later, I still have a few of the more egregious lines stuck in my head. like the entire dialogue about the necropolis guy’s sex life
― mh, Sunday, 6 October 2019 22:52 (four years ago) link
$45 is a lot to drop on Mutant World for me, but glad it did get funded
― Nhex, Sunday, 6 October 2019 23:37 (four years ago) link
Kids havent been taught cursive in... 20 years?
― Οὖτις, Monday, 7 October 2019 00:50 (four years ago) link