What's up comics gaf
feels good to be able to check in with you guys again. I sadly lost access to my account quite awhile back now (password reset without realising the email service i had signed up with had been discontinued without warning) and never received any responses to the email I sent to the gaf contact us link at the bottom, so I had to settle in for the loooong wait towards validation of a new account haha. Anyway, hey, hey to anyone I don't know, and interested to see what you guys are all reading these days.
My account literally got validated this morning so I have to admit, I hadn't planned anything to share my thoughts on yet, but I will say rather than any specific comic, the way things have shook out with the mignola-verse over the past year is on my mind alot. Now, to be fair, nothing has dropped in quality as of yet but with all three major writers stepping out for various reasons and Chris Roberson seemingly driving the whole franchise for the next little while, I'm kind of nervous. Don't get me wrong, Roberson has written some decent stuff in his time. I enjoyed Izombie well enough back in the day and actually it's his use of mythology or his own kind of implementation of it that stood out to me, which is literally one of the defining things about the hellboy books.
On the other hand, I've followed this series for so long and it's been so tightly curated by Mike, and it really doesn't feel that long ago where he said they had a really solid ending for the books in general in mind, it just seems crazy that Arcudi has left to basically do his own hellboy type book (Rumble is AMAZING), Scott Allie....well whatever, that's a whole minefield, and Mike stepping out to paint for a year, which he already apparently gave up on. I saw a quite from SDCC where he mentioned Roberson would effectively have 95% control over the forthcoming wave of books.ON one hand, if you're going to bring a guy in, he does need to be trusted, if he is deemed the right fit, then he should have creative freedom, but at the same time, part of me just kind of wants to see the whole thing close up shop. I basically love all the books criticism-free bar one or two side arcs, I would feel good about it ending and seeing stuff like Rumble take that place on my shelf. As it stands I have this nervous feeling that I followed all this stuff for years, I have this big invested collection and it could maybe all spin off the rails and peter out. That would be incredibly disappointing.
Anyway, just some thoughts haha, figured I should bring something to the thread after being out so long!
So this Fade Out book is pretty solid. And by solid I mean great. I decided to read that tonight instead of The Sixth Gun since I hate endings.
I figure I'll save TSG for day when I'm in a less shitty mood.
The Fade Out is incredible. I really do love Bru, I think I've loved all his stuff deeply bar Incognito, but I hadn't felt like he'd hit that bar Criminal reaches in awhile. Fatale was great but a little long and kind of whimpered a little for me at the end? And Velvet is awesome but takes so long to come out, I've kind of dialed out a little while it builds up. TFO though, to me, is a perfectly executed piece of fiction, art, a really interesting time and setting in modern history. I didn't really known much about the commie accusations in hollywood around that period, but it provides the perfect backdrop for Bru to do his thing. Managed to push some of those buttons True Detective did too, which is never a bad thing. The tight pace, three volumes and out is fantastic too, it really is just awesome. It feels like Bru finding his groove with his stuff at Image, and I wouldn't mind if Kill or be killed (is that the name?) was similar. Velvet is great as his ongoing but in general I feel his sensibilities are tied more to finite, tight, high tension stuff.
