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The All New Comics Thread 2017+ Edition

Started by Small Man Big Horse, October 13, 2017, 05:58:40 PM

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kidsick5000

Quote from: gout_pony on April 08, 2018, 12:46:25 PM

Anyway, if you like horror and 1920s-1930s animation it is recommended in the strongest possible terms...
https://www.comixology.co.uk/Pim-Francie-The-Golden-Bear-Days/digital-comic/413605


Thanks for the recommendation. Looks really good.

kidsick5000

I'd forgotten that Al Colombia started out as Bill Sienkiwicz's understudy and was embroiled in the Big Numbers controversy. ( this was backwhen Bill S had a Kubrick level of mystery)
Interesting to see this style from Colombia. It also reminds me of the Dudley Watkins' Desperate Dan art. Quite considered and intricate. Really lovely to see that mix of different media and the pencil work.

But dear lord, I wouldn't be surprised if they hid all sharp objects when Al visits the office. Or if they thanked him kindly before putting him on a watch list. That work is a dark experience.


AliasTheCat

Ooh yes! I can't recommend Golden Bear Days enough, one of my favourites.
It's also worth picking up old copies of Blab! and Zero Zero if you can find them, as he published some wonderful (and complete!) short strips in some of those that have never been reprinted, such as Amnesia and The Trumpets They Play!

I'd kill for a publication of all his existing work.

Small Man Big Horse

Moon Knight - Thought I'd check out Warren Ellis' run on the series as I'm a fan of his, and it was pretty strong, but only lasted six issues for some reason. Brian Wood then took over and it was still fairly interesting stuff, but then Cullen Bunn became the next writer and it became incredibly tedious stuff and the series was cancelled. Albeit only for a short while, as then Jeff Lemire rebooted it, and whilst I've only read the first five issues of his run it's been the series at it's best and I'm enjoying it a lot.

Trees - Another Ellis effort, which has a great premise (weird alien space ships land on earth, seemingly ignoring all of humanity, but they are up to something mysterious) but annoyed me slightly by killing off 90% of the characters half way through, and it became a lot less interesting due to that. The second volume ended a while back and a third is coming, but I can't say I'm that excited by the prospect considering how much it went off the boil.

Ellis has form on short runs then dropping it. I don't know if he is too in demand or just looses intrest, or just likes do one arc stories. So many chances to make historic runs, Iron Man: Extremis is one example, 6 issues then gone. Thunderbolts 11 issues, secret avengers 5 issues. Don't think hes ever gonna have that Peter David style run on a title.

Small Man Big Horse

Quote from: Delete Delete Delete on May 26, 2018, 10:09:20 PM
Ellis has form on short runs then dropping it. I don't know if he is too in demand or just looses intrest, or just likes do one arc stories. So many chances to make historic runs, Iron Man: Extremis is one example, 6 issues then gone. Thunderbolts 11 issues, secret avengers 5 issues. Don't think hes ever gonna have that Peter David style run on a title.

Yeah, I've become increasingly frustrated by the fact that he does that, and it normally makes me a bit weary about reading his new stuff, I've tried to discover why but bar this article about how he was bored by the industry back in 2012 I haven't found anything - http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/05/20/warren-ellis-bored-by-the-comic-business

hermitical

Is anyone reading his Injection series?

Small Man Big Horse

I've read the first ten issues, and liked it a fair deal, but haven't read the final five yet.

bgmnts

Isn't Warren Ellis meant to be a bit of a pompous bellend?

BeardFaceMan

Not sure if I've asked this before but are there any good places online for selling large collections of comics? Not so much single issues, more trades and lots of hardbacks, special editions etc. Tried my local comic shop but theyre not buying, I've got stuff listed on ebay but thats taking an age to sell anything and I have a hundred or so books I'm looking to sell as quickly as possible. Any ideas?

Small Man Big Horse

Quote from: bgmnts on May 27, 2018, 11:15:29 AM
Isn't Warren Ellis meant to be a bit of a pompous bellend?

From the interviews I've (recently) read he seems a decent enough guy, and reasonably self deprecating. But I don't know a lot about him, at least compared to other writers.

Quote from: BeardFaceMan on May 27, 2018, 11:22:16 AM
Not sure if I've asked this before but are there any good places online for selling large collections of comics? Not so much single issues, more trades and lots of hardbacks, special editions etc. Tried my local comic shop but theyre not buying, I've got stuff listed on ebay but thats taking an age to sell anything and I have a hundred or so books I'm looking to sell as quickly as possible. Any ideas?

I'm afraid not. I sold a lot of my collection on ebay and did pretty well out of it, but that was over ten years ago when the site was more popular. It might be worth joining a couple of comics forums / facebook groups and posting links to what you're selling though, as long as the rules allow such a thing.

Faith issues 1 and 2 - The adventures of an overweight female superhero, I liked this an awful lot. It's got a great sense of humour and the art is damn lovely.

bgmnts

Has anyone read any of Alan  Moore's Swamp Thing run?

Bhazor

Just got into porn with a plot comic Alfie. Fantasy bumming adventure with some of the absolute best artwork I've seen in any graphic novel let alone in a daily web comic. Light, silly and sexy with surprisingly likeable and funny characters.

garbed_attic

The new Love and Rocket single issue really clarified for me the thematics of Volume IV w/r both Gilbert's and Jaime's respective long-form stories (the Hoppers punk reunion with accompanying flashbacks; Fritz's twin daughters moving in together with their mother).

Jaime currently seems like he is working through the difficulties of Gen X mapping Millennial politics onto their past experiences - lots of tricky questioning of what accountability means; the difference between experiencing being a teenager and looking back onto your teen years in retrospect; questioning whether people really change and what change even means when it comes to identity and behaviour.

Gilbert seems to still be interested in the complex intersections between pornography and art, but this is increasingly infused by his navigation of being a father to a teenage girl. I really hope this leads to a return of Venus as a character (esp. as she is the only L&R character almost exactly the same age as myself in real time).

Up till today, I'd felt like Vol. 4 was a real step down after the remarkable heights of (esp. Jaime's work in) New Stories/ Vol. 3, but this one really hit it out of the park for me. Los Hernandos forever!

Phil_A

Finished the first volume of the newly reprinted Charley's War last night. Fucking extraordinary. Page after page of painstakingly detailed WW1 carnage, with a simmering resentment of the British class system and the army's mistreatment of it's own men bubbling all the way through.



bgmnts

Quote from: Bhazor on May 28, 2018, 12:47:40 PM
Just got into porn with a plot comic Alfie. Fantasy bumming adventure with some of the absolute best artwork I've seen in any graphic novel let alone in a daily web comic. Light, silly and sexy with surprisingly likeable and funny characters.

There is a title called Cherry if you are interested in silly porn comic books.

samadriel

Speaking of porn webcomics, OGLAF.com is frequently a good laugh.

Gulftastic

Quote from: bgmnts on May 27, 2018, 11:09:15 PM
Has anyone read any of Alan  Moore's Swamp Thing run?

Yes. It's prime Moore. One of my favourite things he's ever done.

BeardFaceMan

You know when you see a comic book on Amazon and its listed for a couple of hundred quid, is that some kind of automated listing error or do books really go for those prices?

Phil_A

Quote from: BeardFaceMan on May 30, 2018, 01:07:44 PM
You know when you see a comic book on Amazon and its listed for a couple of hundred quid, is that some kind of automated listing error or do books really go for those prices?

I'm fairly sure those prices are automatically generated based on perceived scarcity. Like when you see some random OOP title going for 10,000 quid it doesn't necessarily reflect any kind of real world value.


BeardFaceMan

Quote from: Phil_A on May 30, 2018, 01:51:22 PM
I'm fairly sure those prices are automatically generated based on perceived scarcity. Like when you see some random OOP title going for 10,000 quid it doesn't necessarily reflect any kind of real world value.

Yeah thats what I thought. I had a look at listing some stuff on Amazon instead of ebay and one of the books I have is listed at 1200 quid,  I know theres no chance of getting anything like that for it, just wondered if they really do sell at anything like that. Its going for around 100 quid on ebay and at least you can check on there how much things have sold for in the past, I'm not aware of being able to do that on Amazon.

bgmnts

Quote from: Gulftastic on May 30, 2018, 12:12:41 PM
Yes. It's prime Moore. One of my favourite things he's ever done.

I have only read Watchmen, League and V which are relatively short series if I am correct.

Does it read like those or a more traditional ongoing comic book series?

Mister Six

#112
Quote from: Small Man Big Horse on May 26, 2018, 09:49:30 PM
Moon Knight - Thought I'd check out Warren Ellis' run on the series as I'm a fan of his, and it was pretty strong, but only lasted six issues for some reason.

Quote from: Small Man Big Horse on May 26, 2018, 09:49:30 PM
for some reason

Quote from: Small Man Big Horse on May 26, 2018, 09:49:30 PM
Warren Ellis

Mister Six

Quote from: bgmnts on May 30, 2018, 09:28:04 PM
I have only read Watchmen, League and V which are relatively short series if I am correct.

Does it read like those or a more traditional ongoing comic book series?

It develops from a monster-of-the-month thing into something a wee bit more philosophical, but it's mostly a very accessible comic. Certainly moreso than the other stuff of Moore's that you read.

If you want something even more accessible, check out his two volumes of Top 10. TV cop show tropes in a city where everyone from the mayor down to the bums are superheroes. Really, hugely enjoyable and quite affecting in places. It was followed by a miniseries - Smax - and a graphic novel - The 49ers - which are less successful, but still good.

All of the non-Moore Top 10 stuff I've read has been atrocious so a pod like the plague.

magval

Quote from: BeardFaceMan on May 30, 2018, 01:07:44 PM
You know when you see a comic book on Amazon and its listed for a couple of hundred quid, is that some kind of automated listing error or do books really go for those prices?

Sometimes they do, yeah. I've both bought and sold books on Amazon in excess of £200. Mostly it is a listing error though. I've emailed about a few and it turns out the stores don't have them in stock.

studpuppet

Quote from: BeardFaceMan on May 30, 2018, 01:07:44 PM
You know when you see a comic book on Amazon and its listed for a couple of hundred quid, is that some kind of automated listing error or do books really go for those prices?

Listen to this on book pricing algorithms:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05w5d72

bgmnts

Quote from: Mister Six on May 31, 2018, 04:25:09 AM
It develops from a monster-of-the-month thing into something a wee bit more philosophical, but it's mostly a very accessible comic. Certainly moreso than the other stuff of Moore's that you read.

If you want something even more accessible, check out his two volumes of Top 10. TV cop show tropes in a city where everyone from the mayor down to the bums are superheroes. Really, hugely enjoyable and quite affecting in places. It was followed by a miniseries - Smax - and a graphic novel - The 49ers - which are less successful, but still good.

All of the non-Moore Top 10 stuff I've read has been atrocious so a pod like the plague.

Ooohh okay! Ta!

Custard

Anyone read Wytches by Scott Snyder?

Just finished it, and loved every inch of it. A genuinely scary and disturbing horror story. Lovely art, too

Verrrr gut

magval

Aye, it was fucking good actually. I don't like Snyder generally though, but this was definitely enjoyable.

BeardFaceMan

Was it just the six issues with Wytches? I was always expecting it to come back for more. Isn't it being made into a film now?