Reply With QuoteI'd love to get into L&R, but when even the *publisher* is telling you to read books that are out of print....
I'd love to get into L&R, but when even the *publisher* is telling you to read books that are out of print....
madkevin is completely right about Love & Rockets. That issue brought a tear to my eye.Originally Posted by madkevin
It's only the big-ass Locas and Palomar books that are out of print. The smaller ones that precede the big collections are still in print, and in both cases the first volume will give you a good taste of what Jaime and Gilbert are like. (Although Jaime's art gets better and better as he goes along.)
A must read:
When I was a kid my school had huge boxes of comic books you could read if it was rainy during recess or whatever. The boxes contained three comic book series: Richie Rich and his two lame off-brand buddies, Jackie Joker and Hot Stuff!If you like Archie, you'll love this.
Can you imagine waking up everyday and having to write that stuff? Jesus, that had to be depressing.
I have to agree with this. I'd read most of these before, but this thread got me to pull down the hardcover Locas down from the shelf and start reading again. Just got to "100 Rooms." Fantastic stuff.
There's a dialog balloon in one of the earlier stories in which 'asylum' gets written as "as- ylum" which started me thinking of Baron/Rude's Nexus. Which probably belongs in another thread.
If you want something recent, Sweet Tooth is fantastic.
I'm really liking Saga. It's by the writer of Y the Last Man. Only 6 issues are out right now so it's not a major commitment.
Yeah, Saga's probably my favourite ongoing comic at the moment, closely followed by Atomic Robo and TWD. And there's clearly a wealth of world-building for him to dip into - I know BKV likes to wrap things up relatively quickly (has he ever done a 100 issue comic?), but I could happily see him spinning stories out of the Saga universe for a long time.
I liked Crossgen too. I was sad when they went belly up.
Can I tell you how sad Belgian, French and Spanish comics don't make it to NA (other than Montreal)? I wander into comic shops there and never want to leave. It's like sifting through fine art, bound 30 pages at a time, nary a superhero to be found amongst all the spy stories, historical fiction, scifi and human interest drama pieces.
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I picked up the first couple volumes of Chew on Comixology, and it's really pretty good. The art isn't at all what I was expecting based on the description, and it's a pretty distinctive style that I think a lot of people might hate, a very deliberate ugliness. I don't mind it though.
It isn't really a superhero book, although I could see the argument. It's a very slight departure urban fantasy world: basically Dead Zone, but with food. It appears to get weirder as it goes on though.
Based on this thread, and the fact that Locas: The Maggie and Hopey Stories was available at the library, I dived into Love and Rockets. Color me impressed. Not for the faint of heart: plenty of sex, booze, crazy wrestler women, occasional gang war, overall insanity. If you'd described any of the story to me I'd have said it sounds silly, but once I started, I had a hard time putting it down. Thought the ending (of this book) was perfect. Don't know if I'll ever find any of the other books as it appears they're pretty rare these days, but I can recommend at least this one.
Sweet Tooth: A charming story about a half human / half deer 9 year old boy and his adventures in post apocalyptic Nebraska.
The Chronicles of Wormwood. Lead Characters: the unwilling Son of Satan, a talking rabit he made up, and his best friend Jesus who is mildly retarded due to head trauma.
Yes, yes it does. I realised quite how weird about the time that they introduced a minor character who's power is to make fully functional chocolate sculptures of weapons.It appears to get weirder as it goes on though.
Chew is an interesting comic; gross to the extreme because one must imagine how gross the taste must really be.
:>)
Jim Woodring's Frank is wonderful.
Huh. I guess I must be desensitised as I don't consider Chew particularly gross, so much as over-the-top, once you accept the initial premise. Certainly I've felt more grossed out by other comics and plenty of films. But I guess it can be quite gross if you think about it.Chew is an interesting comic; gross to the extreme because one must imagine how gross the taste must really be.
Sgt. Rock was the comic I read outside of either Batman or Fantastic Four as a kid.
It isn't especially gross to me either, compared to something from somebody like Jhonen Vasquez, for example (I actually think of Vasquez a lot while I'm reading it). I'd actually describe it more as "grotesque" than "gross". Especially when you get to things like the anatomy, which is sometimes weird for little discernible reason and in ways that don't necessarily seem consistent with the overall aesthetic (like the USDA agents, for example).
Yeah, grotesque is fair, I'd say. I love the art-style, myself. It's very, well, cartoonish, which suits the silliness of the story.
It's HP Lovecraft's Birthday! Are there any good Lovecraft-inspired comic series that any of you recommend?
Do certain story arcs in Hellboy count?
I hadn't thought of that. I would say yes, Hellboy/BPRD clearly has HP Lovecraft overtones. Alas, I'm already up on both story arcs. Any other ideas?
I have to second Mr. DX's Frank recommendation. Vastly underappreciated/underrated comic in the comic appreciation crowds, I think, although I think I can understand and respect why that is.
While on vacation last week I read Morrison's The Invisibles and loved it up until the third volume which, near the end I think, is when I started to fatigue. I'm still not yet sure why I started to lose my enthusiasm at that point, and I'll probably end up having to re-read the series again with a closer eye to detail to figure that out. I'd read his The Filth about ten years ago and had loved that as well, at the time.
This week I started Y: The Last Man and, a dozen issues in, I'm still having a blast. Great writing, good art and great pacing, so far. I'm sure I'm not the first person to draw comparisons between Yorick Brown and Sterling Archer? Their relationships with women and their mothers and the way they deliver their lines are pretty similar, at least.
A Lovecraftian beast and Lovecraft himself make an appearance in Atomic Robo, in the third collected volume.
On the overall thread topic: I heartily endorse the earlier recommendations of Scalped. I'm not a huge fan of crime fiction, but Scalped is amazing.
Hmmm...picked up the first Atomic Robo collection, and while it's cute, I guess, I wasn't all that impressed. It feels a little like a less clever Screw-On Head (which sadly only got a single issue), and the writing is a little glib for my tastes (although it's neat that Clevinger moved from webcomics to his own book).
Is there anything I'm missing? I've heard some really good things about it, but I don't see what the fuss is all about.
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