I just want to hear some rhythm
11:02 am Friday, 31 August, 2007
Sometimes I really love XKCD: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language
(Make with the clicky if you can’t read ‘em).
Archive for the 'comics' Category
11:26 pm Friday, 17 August, 2007
I have arrived home to find PulpHope: The Art of Paul Pope waiting for me.
This excites me tremendously and I’m very much looking forward to getting into it.
Mike Wieringo
4:19 pm Monday, 13 August, 2007
Dead at 44. Fuck.
He was never someone I thought of as one of the greats but damn if he didn’t deliver on every single page.
DC Aug 07
11:19 pm Monday, 21 May, 2007
THE ABSOLUTE SANDMAN VOL. 2 HC
Written by Neil Gaiman
Art by Shawn McManus, Kelley Jones, Mike Dringenberg, Bryan Talbot, John Watkiss, Matt Wagner, Stan Woch, Colleen Doran, Duncan Eagleson, John Bolton, Malcolm Jones III, George Pratt, Dick Giordano, P. Craig Russell and Vince Locke
Cover by Dave McKean
DC Comics is proud to present the second volume of the comics classic THE SANDMAN in Absolute format! The second of four beautifully designed slipcased volumes, THE ABSOLUTE SANDMAN VOL. 2 collects issues 21-39 of THE SANDMAN and features remastered coloring on all 19 issues as well as brand-new inks on THE SANDMAN #34 by the issue’s original penciller, Colleen Doran, and a host of bonus material, including two never-before-reprinted stories by Gaiman (one prose and one illustrated), a complete reproduction of the never-before-reprinted one-shot THE SANDMAN: A GALLERY OF DREAMS, and the complete script and pencils by Gaiman and Kelley Jones for Chapter Two of “Season of Mists” from THE SANDMAN #23.
Advance-solicited; on sale October 31 • 616 pg, FC, $99.00 US
MATURE READERS
I’ll be having me some of that then please. Volume 1 is an absolute beauty. (Comics are still shit, but I’m so having that). I wonder why it’s take a year between volumes. I know its a bit on the pricy side but I would have thought they could go a little quicker.
Things I have read recently:
12:04 pm Monday, 19 March, 2007
Lets see, last time I mentioned I had read Titan, book 1 of John Varley’s Gaea Trilogy. Well since then I’ve gone one and read the rest.
I really enjoyed both Wizard and Demon despite not really feeling the need for them to exist. Finished them and thinking about it, there are two different stories here. The first book is more of the sci-fi man (though in this case I suppose I really should say woman) goes into space and discovers something out there. The second and third are almost pure fantasy. It’s all about questing and the sci-fi bits are just trappings around. The characters are much more fleshed out, well the new ones at least and to a degree the carry overs. I found myself enjoying the characters a good deal, still some of the time it was written in showing through and at times too much going on about alien sex. To the point of including a chart with shows all of the possible combinations that the alien species can use to reproduce…not quite positions but close enough. In fairness though some of it does tie into the story. So while I still think that Titan stands well on it’s own, I did enjoy the next two and will pick up more Varley as I go along.
Comic wise, a few things lately. I finally read the last two trades of Lucifer and while it has not returned or ended with the glory that was the first 30 issues or so, it’s solid and I enjoyed it. I do want to go back and read it all from start to finish when I get back to London and get all my trades out of storage. I never thought it got as bad as others (deCampi!) did but it certainly dipped a bit. Certainly works better in trades, I gave up on singles in the late 30s after enjoying the first 3 trades enough to move into singles. No singles at all now for me though.
Next up was American Born Chinese. This was one of those “indie” books that had a small groundswell of support around the V. Lots of people mentioned it and despite not being grabbed by what I had read online about it, the V is usually right about things like this and they were this time too. Not too much to say about the art, it’s pretty, it’s effective and the colours work very well. The writing is excellent, it really does hit on the sense of self-identity, in places it hits pretty damn close. Highly enjoyable.
A couple of days ago after a recommendation from Del, I read Ross Campbell’s Wet Moon and it was pretty much the greatest load of goth wank I have ever read in my life. However! it’s pretty as fuck. The art is gorgeous. By the end of the book I wasn’t bothering with the words, I was just enjoying the artwork. I’m not sure it’s enough to pick up more in this series but I’ll give The Abandoned a try and see how pretty that is.
Finally last night I read the second DMZ trade. As usual I find Brian Wood’s work to be alright. It’s not great. I actually find myself quite ambivalent about it. I didn’t think the first collection was all that great but it got so hyped, I figured I’d check out the second one and see if there was something I’m missing. Well, if there is then I still don’t see it. I don’t think I’m onboard for more.