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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
I was wondering that. It cant be one volume.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 29 September 2019 01:08 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
Never heard of that! Always loved Strnad tho
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 6 October 2019 20:13 (five years ago) link
Especially Dalgoda and Who’s Stronger?
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 6 October 2019 20:15 (five 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 (five years ago) link
do people not know how to read cursive anymore?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 6 October 2019 21:22 (five years ago) link
"this font"
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Sunday, 6 October 2019 21:27 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
Kids havent been taught cursive in... 20 years?
― Οὖτις, Monday, 7 October 2019 00:50 (five years ago) link
adding “part of the last cursive generation” to my resume
― mh, Monday, 7 October 2019 01:01 (five years ago) link
are kids seriously not taught cursive anymore?
― Nhex, Monday, 7 October 2019 01:55 (five years ago) link
They are not. Because it is not a useful skilll.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 7 October 2019 02:02 (five years ago) link
Hence they don’t have signatures really
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 7 October 2019 02:04 (five years ago) link
They have thumbprints and retinal scans and two-factor authentication, who needs a signature
― Οὖτις, Monday, 7 October 2019 02:05 (five years ago) link
this seems positive, if insanely priced and unnecessarily superhero focused:
The $30 monthly membership fee pays for the art materials and instruction and entitles the young subscribers to borrow one comic at a time. It costs $5 to keep one. The focus is currently on single issues, but the library will soon add graphic novels.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/nyregion/comics-brooklyn-loot.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRKUiJ58uRM
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 7 October 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
via tcjhttps://www.instagram.com/b_w_h_a_m/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
i like!
― Nhex, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link
First part of Mutant World is a real downer in parts, some really nasty stuff off-panel. Will leave a bad taste for a lot of people but I was never entirely sure what they were going for.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 11 October 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
An obsession with food pops up in the most unexpected manga. Food is a nuisance for me and I'm always suspicious of people who love it so much.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 12 October 2019 13:15 (four years ago) link
what an odd opinion
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 12 October 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
I mostly hate food these days.
So many harem manga have food as lovingly drawn as the girls bodies, and a cherishment of eating with other people at a table.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 12 October 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
really limits your choice of harem mangas huh
― adam, Saturday, 12 October 2019 21:27 (four years ago) link
Never really been a fan of that genre, so maybe it was just the few I've seen? I've heard some say that eating scenes are important in Miyazaki films but I actually don't remember any.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 12 October 2019 22:52 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od0XjF8qXos
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 12 October 2019 23:23 (four years ago) link
haha, seen this post recentlyhttps://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com/2019/10/01/manga-and-graphic-novels-about-food-and-cooking/
I also noticed this in the Muramasa videogame, how well all the food was rendered.
Don't know how to feel about all this, but these people seem happy.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 13 October 2019 00:11 (four years ago) link
I know nihilistic non-sequitur internet cartoonists are a dime a dozen these days, but I like this one
https://instagram.com/yoyorobot
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 17 October 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0NhYEqw2Ahw/Su-RTfW007I/AAAAAAAADyI/_IznrUS_7iA/s1600-h/IMG_0003.jpg
Every now and then I look back at this image to see if it's as bad as I remember it. Good example of what I don't like.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 20 October 2019 11:44 (four years ago) link
The drawing isn’t great, but the writing is completely repugnant. Is it Johns?
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Sunday, 20 October 2019 11:47 (four years ago) link
I think it is. I'm not really hating on the drawing but not a fan either.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 20 October 2019 12:05 (four years ago) link
I think I remember that episode of Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie. It was tight.
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Sunday, 20 October 2019 13:28 (four years ago) link