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 (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
adding “part of the last cursive generation” to my resume
― mh, Monday, 7 October 2019 01:01 (four years ago) link
are kids seriously not taught cursive anymore?
― Nhex, Monday, 7 October 2019 01:55 (four years ago) link
They are not. Because it is not a useful skilll.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 7 October 2019 02:02 (four years ago) link
Hence they don’t have signatures really
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 7 October 2019 02:04 (four years ago) link
They have thumbprints and retinal scans and two-factor authentication, who needs a signature
― Οὖτις, Monday, 7 October 2019 02:05 (four 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 (four 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
https://abload.de/img/0br4kzw.jpg
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Sunday, 20 October 2019 15:50 (four years ago) link
for fuck’s sake
― expedited frictionless convergences (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 20 October 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
TBF I'm pretty sure most DC comics these days are written in the darkest hours of a blackout bender so I'm sure King (I think that's King) has no recollection of writing those words.
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Sunday, 20 October 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
Yup, it's King. I'm a big fan of his but the quality of his varies.... wildly.
― Nhex, Sunday, 20 October 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
it sure does lately, yes
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 20 October 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
I'm guessing that one page is from Heroes in Crisis?
One thing I think that is different in some of these modern comics is that editorial kind of plans the general plot on some of those big crossover stories. And I think to try to make the plot fit, there ends up being some wacky stretches to tie the story together. This scene looks pretty much par for the course in stuff like JLA: Cry for Justice or that wacky Meltzer mini-series where the Atom's wife is a murderer.
The other type of big mini-series is where you take a story that might work as your usual series arc and then try to force it into some big crossover mini-series. I'd say the old DC Genesis series is like that one and that Daredevil Shadowland crossover was a couple of those type of series.
― earlnash, Sunday, 20 October 2019 22:25 (four years ago) link
Heroes in Crisis actually is pretty bad on its own merits, but to be fair it didn't have a huge impact on the DCU and you didn't need to read the spinoffs to get it
By contrast, even though I'm reading Event Leviathan and Batman I'm totally confused about how this whole Year of the Villain thing shakes out (not even considering Doomsday Clock is finally about to end)
Every event is just ridiculous now. I mean the number of books Marvel put out for both War of the Realms and Absolute Carnage is insanely offputting, even for someone like me who alread buys 20-30 floppies a month
― Nhex, Sunday, 20 October 2019 22:57 (four years ago) link
Just read the crossover miniseries, if there is one, and the main title it spun out of. Despite it not being the explain everything every issue era, they tend to summarize or duplicate the key pointsIt’s more irritating when a title gets diverted from a main plot via editorial mandate and you can’t be sure whether the regular story is just going to touch on the crossover junk or it’s a throwaway issue. DC crossovers are maybe worse than the Marvel ones in that they feel the need to jack with every character’s status quo
― mh, Monday, 21 October 2019 02:25 (four years ago) link
in my experience, the dead giveaway is when the issue that’s part of the crossover has a different writing/art team and the regulars are back the next issue post-crossover. just leave it on the shelf!
― mh, Monday, 21 October 2019 02:26 (four years ago) link