http://goldenagecomics.co.uk You gotta register and they don't really have packs so much as they have individual issues, but oh my god oh my god oh my god so much wonder.
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 2 June 2008 17:06 (seventeen years ago)
Thanks for the link/info forks, I signed up (v. interesting that it's a uk site address...different copyright rules/restrictions? was especially pleased to see all the fawcett/captain marvel stuff, which dc shoulda released in showcase-like cheapo editions years ago...)
am particularly 'into' pre-code horror shit at the moment so def. gonna binge on some of that sweet stuff...there's just something eerie/otherworldly/ultra-compelling abt a lot those strips and their necrophiliac obsession w/ skeletons and the defilement/reanimation of corpses...gasp...choke...
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 2 June 2008 17:25 (seventeen years ago)
Oh, DAMMMMMMMN, gonna dig me some Lev Gleason ultraviolence, me droogies.
― Rock Hardy, Monday, 2 June 2008 17:42 (seventeen years ago)
Yeah, the Fawcett collections (WHIZ!) are absolutely killer; they also have some nice newspaper strip compilations... especially Buster Brown, which is strangely still mostly out of print. I'd snap up an Outcault archive in a heartbeat; considering how well the McCay books seem to be doing, I don't see why there's not a market for it.
Also Ward: can I assume you already got your copy of 'I Will Destroy All Civilized Planets'? Because that shit is the pinnacle of your eerie/otherworldly/compelling zeitgeist.
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 2 June 2008 17:46 (seventeen years ago)
either this doesn't work in America or else they've been shut down in the last 47 minutes
― Garrett Martin, Monday, 2 June 2008 18:33 (seventeen years ago)
Try a U.K. proxy server...
― Deric W. Haircare, Monday, 2 June 2008 18:40 (seventeen years ago)
okay - had to add a www at the front.
anyway - thanks for the head's up.
― Garrett Martin, Monday, 2 June 2008 18:54 (seventeen years ago)
yeah, i have that terrific CIVILIZED PLANETS volume...first saw stuff by Hanks in the fifth issue of RAW - RAW also reprinted great strips by Basil Wolverton and Boody Rogers that shared a somewhat similar bizarro sensibility - tho' I do think the Hanks strips are slightly different from the Jay Disbrow/L.B. Cole etc 50s horror strips which generally have more gothicy, less sci-fiy, signifiers/tropes
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 2 June 2008 20:38 (seventeen years ago)
Yeah, Hanks' art and story are somehow... creepier. Always gonna be colored by that biocomic piece from the end of the same book, but his work is so thoroughly twisted and nightmarish.
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 2 June 2008 21:19 (seventeen years ago)
Registered. Now I need some recommendations, plz!
Is there anything good for "YOU BROKE MY BRANE"-style sci-fi twistyness?
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 03:06 (seventeen years ago)
Are registrations shut, or am I doing something RONG?
― aldo, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 20:07 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.htmlcomics.com/
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 21:47 (fifteen years ago)
okay i have some questions:1) why is the page flip at the top not working? Just for me?2) can i get a two page spread as opposed to single pages?because if i can get those two things addressed i may disappear forever.
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 23:26 (fifteen years ago)
hm, page flip click works in chrome and ie. still can't figure out how to get the two page spread.
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 23:33 (fifteen years ago)
Page flip works for me in firefox - no spread though.
This is great if completely illegal. Will now disappear up Roy Thomas' ass via All-Star Squadron.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 23:35 (fifteen years ago)
ew
― WmC, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 23:57 (fifteen years ago)
I love the "this is a library, don't u see" argument btw.
― WmC, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 23:59 (fifteen years ago)
"FREE SCREEN CLEANER"
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 11 February 2010 00:31 (fifteen years ago)
OMG Thriller!
― there's a better way to browse (Dr. Superman), Thursday, 11 February 2010 23:57 (fifteen years ago)
holy shit
― Wrinkles, I'll see you on the other side (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 February 2010 21:47 (fifteen years ago)
This is amazing but there are so many! Which issues of anything would you guys recommend? (There are about 50 Lois Lane for example)
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 12 February 2010 22:57 (fifteen years ago)
I'm mostly just looking up (generally really terrible) crap I had as a kid that has long since been purged from my collection
― Wrinkles, I'll see you on the other side (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 February 2010 23:38 (fifteen years ago)
I have no idea what even to look for, just viewed some random early 90s Zatanna mini. Any specific recs?
― Nhex, Friday, 12 February 2010 23:39 (fifteen years ago)
no American Flagg :(
― Wrinkles, I'll see you on the other side (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 February 2010 23:48 (fifteen years ago)
reading GL: Mosaic for the first time! Gerard Jones is really good.
― there's a better way to browse (Dr. Superman), Saturday, 13 February 2010 23:22 (fifteen years ago)
Flex Mentallo! But sadly no Rogan Gosh.
For some reason, I just read the Moench/Jones Batman run from the 90s (for sake of completion, I suppose). Not awful, but I'm happy I didn't spend money on it.
I've heard a lot of good things about Ostrander's Suicide Squad, so I might get started on that.
― Duane Barry, Sunday, 14 February 2010 12:56 (fifteen years ago)
The bits of Suicide Squad I've read as well as heard about are pretty awesome, though the concept reading a 65+ issue run plus crossover arcs - all through a web browser interface - is a little daunting. Give it a try though, it's quality stuff.
― Nhex, Sunday, 14 February 2010 13:40 (fifteen years ago)
Helfer & Sienkiewicz (& later Baker) Shadow!
― there's a better way to browse (Dr. Superman), Sunday, 14 February 2010 21:30 (fifteen years ago)
You guys are thinking too recent! Kubert Tor, Lou Fine Dollman and other stuff in Hit Comics, Mac Raboy Captain Marvel Jr, S&K Challengers of the Unknown...
― blow it out your bad-taste hole (WmC), Sunday, 14 February 2010 22:06 (fifteen years ago)
Right, I'm gonna have a run through Grant/Wager on Detective before it disappears...
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 15 February 2010 12:30 (fifteen years ago)
Dissapeared!
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 15 February 2010 15:23 (fifteen years ago)
Reappeared!
― blow it out your bad-taste hole (WmC), Monday, 15 February 2010 17:25 (fifteen years ago)
this seems to have gone again
― on in the b.g. while you're grouting (stevie), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 19:43 (fifteen years ago)
i can't imagine why.
― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 22:46 (fifteen years ago)
back up!
― blow it out your bad-taste hole (WmC), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 01:34 (fifteen years ago)
DCU: Decisions!
― Well, because whatever happened changed him. (Dr. Superman), Saturday, 13 March 2010 22:52 (fifteen years ago)
Oh fuck me, the Dell Comics version of Krazy Kat is on there! It's unbelievably terrible.
http://www.htmlcomics.com/Book/html.asp?Series_Name=Krazy%20Kat&Book_No=001&Page_Number=1&Alpha=|&Lookup=krazy
― Pheeel, Thursday, 18 March 2010 15:29 (fifteen years ago)
somewhat related (and very ilx-y):http://www.nycharities.org/events/EventLevels.aspx?ETID=1227
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 18 March 2010 15:52 (fifteen years ago)
is that dell comic based on the animated version of krazy?
not sure that herriman really needs "reconceptualising" (ugh) and besides this nov (which i've never read) kinda got there first:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0375713824/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 18 March 2010 15:56 (fifteen years ago)
sorry, was trying to post this:
http://www.njn.net/artsculture/starts/pressroom/2502/comicskrazykata.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 18 March 2010 15:57 (fifteen years ago)
I read the Kantor as a kid, it was kinda... um...Anyway, Monic@ is a friend of my girl and Drew from matmos is an ilx regular though mostly awol as of late.
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 18 March 2010 16:01 (fifteen years ago)
Looks like this is dead, then? It's been down two days now.
Ah well, fun while it lasted I guess.
― Pheeel, Friday, 30 April 2010 09:07 (fifteen years ago)
It's been gone for two weeks now, almost. The guy has apparently been proclaiming that it'll be back "soon" after some legal stuff is sorted out. It'll never be back.
― Duane Barry, Saturday, 1 May 2010 19:00 (fifteen years ago)
there's no legal defense for its existence whatsoever, no matter the caveats he put up on the page. still, was nice to have it around for a while.
― went ham in a bad way (stevie), Saturday, 1 May 2010 20:30 (fifteen years ago)
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2010/05/publishers-get-together-to-beat-down-pirates/
If Colleen Doran is to be believed, that guy is some piece of work!
― Duane Barry, Thursday, 6 May 2010 00:18 (fifteen years ago)
Come on, I called mental health issues as soon as I saw the "design" of that site.
― Well, because whatever happened changed him. (Dr. Superman), Thursday, 6 May 2010 04:40 (fifteen years ago)
Jesus, now the FBI are involved? Incredible.
― Pheeel, Thursday, 6 May 2010 10:43 (fifteen years ago)
"Come on, I called mental health issues as soon as I saw the "design" of that site."
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/6115/logo570x193.jpg
Has this guy made comics of his own? I bet they would be awesome, but I didn't see any linked on his site. Just some weird new age physics koans at the bottom.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 10 May 2010 17:27 (fifteen years ago)
So, uh, what about Comics Should Be Good? Over the last year and a half or so they (or one poster in particular) has been posting a rather high volume of full page scans in sequence on their blog. IE: http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/category/year-of-cool-comic-moments/ and the Legends Revealed feature. I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'. Seems a little infringe-y to me.
― Well, because whatever happened changed him. (Dr. Superman), Friday, 4 June 2010 23:22 (fifteen years ago)
Definitely skirting the line for fair use, but considering it took years before Scans Daily was shut down...
― Nhex, Friday, 4 June 2010 23:33 (fifteen years ago)
its an appallingly written website, that's for sure
― Worth waiting for the fannypunch at 4.02 (stevie), Saturday, 5 June 2010 13:55 (fifteen years ago)
Scans Daily is still around, but I believe it switched homes a couple of times already.
― Duane Barry, Saturday, 5 June 2010 18:29 (fifteen years ago)
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/
― I have been forks-style since day one (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 June 2010 17:36 (fifteen years ago)
*
― the crucible of easily debunked e-mail fwds (stevie), Friday, 23 July 2010 07:28 (fifteen years ago)