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Tron: Betrayal. OK, so I can't enough Tron lately.
Shockrockets: Alien invasion, WWII hero type pilots...win win.
Ocean: By Warren Ellis...I love his oddball style.
And been still catching up on all "The Dark Tower" series, made up to Jericho Hill...Next up starts where the Books did with the Gunslinger. Can't wait.
Otherwise, I'm done with current comic books for now. DC and Marvel have both given up on anything except generic superhero action, and both companies have given too much control over their product lines to a single writer (Geoff Johns or Brian Michael Bendis). Even at $2.99, the price is too high and the audience is shrinking. I still post regularly at a certain comicbook discussion forum, so I keep looking for signs that things will get better. And the well-stocked local library lets me keep tabs on the industry, at least in trade format.
75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking
I'd review it for F:At, but it's a little hard to read in bed:
www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/popcu...odern_mythmaking.htm
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You know comics have truly become a legitimate atrform when Taschen publishes a tome about them.I got a copy of
75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking
I'd review it for F:At, but it's a little hard to read in bed:
www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/popcu...odern_mythmaking.htm
When does Marvel get their due?
Juniper wrote:
You know comics have truly become a legitimate atrform when Taschen publishes a tome about them.I got a copy of
75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking
I'd review it for F:At, but it's a little hard to read in bed:
www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/popcu...odern_mythmaking.htm
When does Marvel get their due?
When they stop turning their art into incredibly bad movies.
In more serious "get-off-my-lawnery", Xmas presents in the Not Sure household included the first volume of the hardcover Bloom County reprint (bedtime reading now), and the 1916-1918 Krazy Kat reprint. (two more to goooo....)
Man, I forgot how damn funny Bloom County was, and the new reprints bring back a lot of cartoons I'd never seen because they were cut from the earlier collections.
"Death to War Monkeys!" "Mongers."
About to start the second collections of Okko and The Killer. Both are pretty good (I'm liking Okko more for the art than the story, we'll see if the story improves with the second hc).
Also finally got the 4th Jack Staff tpb (probably my favourite super hero comic out right now).
I also got the complete Bone for Christmas and I'm about half way through so far. Really good series that does pretty much exactly what it sets out to do. Worth it.
I picked up 4 and 5 of Fear Agent. The best sci-fi comic since Flash Gordon and two new Invincibles.. the series is really picking up to something earth shattering and epic but I feel like I've been waiting for the last 5 tpb's for it to happen. Still, I love that series.
I'd never heard of Fear Agent. Just looked it up, looks totally awesome. I'll have to track it down.
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Also, I highly recommend "City of Glass", the comic version of Paul Auster's goofed up re-imagining of a hardboiled detective novel. Dave Mazuchelli illustrated it and it's beautiful to look at!
01 Robert Bloch: Hell on Earth
02 Robert Silverberg: Nightwings
03 Ray Bradbury: Frost and Fire
04 Frederick Pohl: The Merchants of Venus
05 Harlan Ellison: Demon with a Glass Hand
06 Larry Niven: The Magic Goes Away
07 George R. R. Martin: The Sandkings
So I've been hunting this series down.
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Those are both great. City of Glass is a fantastic adaptation, though I may be biased (Paul Karasik is a friend). The Mazzuchelli art is indeed beautiful, second only in my mind to the stuff he did in Rubber Blanket.I just read Charles Burns' new one, "X'ed Out". I got into him through the excellent "Black Hole", which is damn weird, but Xed Out makes Black Hole look like Peanuts.
Also, I highly recommend "City of Glass", the comic version of Paul Auster's goofed up re-imagining of a hardboiled detective novel. Dave Mazuchelli illustrated it and it's beautiful to look at!
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Justin Hankins wrote:
Those are both great. City of Glass is a fantastic adaptation, though I may be biased (Paul Karasik is a friend). The Mazzuchelli art is indeed beautiful, second only in my mind to the stuff he did in Rubber Blanket.I just read Charles Burns' new one, "X'ed Out". I got into him through the excellent "Black Hole", which is damn weird, but Xed Out makes Black Hole look like Peanuts.
Also, I highly recommend "City of Glass", the comic version of Paul Auster's goofed up re-imagining of a hardboiled detective novel. Dave Mazuchelli illustrated it and it's beautiful to look at!
I haven't read Rubber Blanket, thanks for the recommendation.
Did you like Asterios Polyp?
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Did you like Asterios Polyp?
I did. It's pretty much perfect, but that's kind of a drawback, because it means it all feels very, very tidy. Hermetic, even. But still a great book.