Recommend Comics for Kingfish!

Right then, I haven't regularly bought comics since leaving Michigan 5 years ago. I've only seen bits and pieces since, and I've been getting back into it. Between FCBD and Stumptown Comics Fest I've gotten exposure again, so time to get back into it.

Newer Stuff I like:

-Atomic Robo
-Hellboy
-Rasl( RASL?)
-the Flight anthologies that Image put out
-Evan Dorkin
-Scott Pilgrim
-the latest Ambush Bug that Giffen has been dragging his feet on
-Pablo's Inferno

Pretty much, I like funny/smart-assedness. If something is funny, I'll find it compelling enough to finish.

Oh yeah, and this goes for trades, too. I find that I prefer to read a full narrative than just something spooned out month by month. Anything else that has a compelling narrative or great characters or whatnot.

So, go.

Mainstream title that's funny/smartassed: Jack of Fables.

You should try the "Dungeon" books by Lewis Trondheim and Joann Sfar. They're basically a parody of high fantasy novels and comics, but with some genuinely cool and moving stuff in them too, so it's not all humour. Plus the art is wonderful, these two are really good at depicting weird and impressive fantasy creatures. I think all the books have been translated into English, and you don't necessarily have to read them in order.

Anything by Ty Templeton.
Anything by Steve Gerber.
I'll cosign on Trondheim and Sfar and also toss in Christophe Blain. Try Gus.

Has Cristophe Blain's "Isaac the Pirate" been translated to English? That's a pretty awesome comic.

It can't be that Giffen is dragging his feet on Ambush Bug; the colourist has said that he finished colouring it months ago, so it must have been lettered and inked before that. And one presumes Giffen's pencils would have been done prior to either of those, so possibly even last year.

DC seem to have just taken offense to whatever mockery Giffen & Fleming have put Final Crisis through: "Yeah guys, tease the silliness of our 2003 line-wide event that was going to fix everything but didn't! Our foibles are ripe for mocking!
"And yeah, tease the silliness of our 2004 line-wide event that was going to fix everything but didn't! Our foibles are ripe for mocking!
"Hey, go wild, tease the silliness of our 2005 line-wide event that was going to fix everything but didn't! Our foibles are ripe for mocking!
"That's great, tease the silliness of our 2006 line-wide event that was going to fix everything but didn't! Our foibles are ripe for mocking!
"Ha ha, tease the silliness of our 2007 line-wide event that was going to fix everything but didn't! Our foibles are ripe for mocking! Can you believe we really said the DCU would get its shit together after that one?
"FUCK YOU PRICKS how dare you make jokes about our 2008 linewide event? Don't you know that it's fixed everything and there are no problems with the DC Universe now?"

Tuomas, the first four books have in two larger collections.

New stuff?

At the risk of sounding like broken record: AGENTS OF ATLAS. Get the trade first.

SAM AND MAX: FREELANCE POLICE should be on your list as well.

MILK AND CHEESE pretty much own smart-assedness. HECTIC PLANET had its moments too.

Oh, I bought the Sam & Maxs and the rest of Evan Dorkin's stuff when it was first published years ago. That territory has already been well covered.

You will like the hell out of the current Muppet Show comic. Also, Mysterius the Unfathomable is loads of fun.

Best Milk and Cheese moment (at a Star Trek convention):

Man dressed as Vulcan: Live long and prosper!
Milk and Cheese: Eat shit and die! (they stab him in the eyes)