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[ViewtifulJC]

One thing I noticed looking at Saga #1 up there and #25 is how Fiona Staples has improved over time. She was good then of course, and she's still not my favorite on backgrounds or large battle sequences, but her characters(which is the large focus of Saga) are so smooth and polished now. I'd post an example, but that issue just came out so lol.

 

[Sou Da]

Spoiler

Going to wait for his tweet to confirm it but I think Tomasi is on 4chan right now

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[BuddyJoeHooker]

Scribd is a pretty average reader app, read halfway through the first trade of The Woods by James Tynion IV and it was alright.

This Valiant library tho, is pretty much like MU, only like five months behind.

0_0

 

[fauxtrot]

Chip being Chip:

This book is going to be so gravy, baby.

 

[Zombine]

One thing I noticed looking at Saga #1 up there and #25 is how Fiona Staples has improved over time

Shit, when I got the hardcover I was reading the latest issue at the time, and just for the hell of it I held up the last page of the floppy to the first page of the first issue in the HC and I was blown away. We're getting close to Invincible levels of improvement (but never as bad.)

 

[Freezasaurus]

Shit, when I got the hardcover I was reading the latest issue at the time, and just for the hell of it I held up the last page of the floppy to the first page of the first issue in the HC and I was blown away. We're getting close to Invincible levels of improvement (but never as bad.)

That isn't even a fair comparison. Ottley is godlike at this point.

 

[Zombine]

That isn't even a fair comparison. Ottley is godlike at this point.

Mangaka status confirmed? If not He's pretty fucking close.

This dude gets how to do action on the page.

 

[frye]

A lot of my library holds came in today. I thought 1602 was very average, hope this Gaiman cape book is better.

It isn't, really. Gaiman at his most cloying and annoying imo

 

[omgkitty]

Shit, when I got the hardcover I was reading the latest issue at the time, and just for the hell of it I held up the last page of the floppy to the first page of the first issue in the HC and I was blown away. We're getting close to Invincible levels of improvement (but never as bad.)

I know he doesn't do Invincible any more, but I love Cory Walker's work now too. Every time he does a guest issue I think it looks outstanding, especially compared to his original issues. I love the Super Girl designs he did:

 

[Messi]

I know he doesn't do Invincible any more, but I love Cory Walker's work now too. Every time he does a guest issue I think it looks outstanding, especially compared to his original issues.

I stopped after the first 5 issues. The art was really bleh.

 

[omgkitty]

I stopped after the first 5 issues. The art was really bleh.

He only did the first 7 issues, so yeah I think you should have powered through haha

 

[ViewtifulJC]

It isn't, really. Gaiman at his most cloying and annoying imo

my nigga described it "a foppish porridge of constipated whimsy with perhaps the most precious ending in comics’ history"

he wasn't wrong tho...shame cuz Kubert was legit

 

[Freezasaurus]

I got dat new Scott McCloud joint from the library. Gonna sit down with it in a bit.

 

[KoruptData]

Going through the bookshelf. My wife was into graphic novels before I even met her. She actually brought a hefty collection to our shelfs before I got into them. I'm gonna name some of the books that caught my eye and see if you guys recognize any of them and if I should read them.

Black Hole by Charles Burns
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Box Office Poison by Alex Robinson
A Complete Lowlife by Ed Brubaker
Demo by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan
Epileptic by David B.
The Hive by Charles Burns
Stitches by David Small
Sloth by Gilbert Hernandez
Pixu The Mark of Evil by Gabriel Ba and Cloonan

 

[ViewtifulJC]

here ya go ElNarez

of note, future projects by Spurrier include another book with him and Stokeley from Six Gun Gorilla

Then there's a new series with BOOM! Studios, co-created with my favorite pencil-goblin Jeff Stokely. We put out "Six-Gun Gorilla" together last year which has been a huge success -- got nominated for three Harvey Awards, etc. You should definitely check it out if you haven't already, it's nothing like the title would lead you to expect -- and our new series is essentially a distillation of all the things we adore. That is: weirdness, whimsy, ass-kicking she-cops, impossible creatures and mind-bending worlds. It's looking so, so good.

Even if you don't like his books, Si Spurrier interviews are always entertaining

 

[frye]

my nigga described it "a foppish porridge of constipated whimsy with perhaps the most precious ending in comics’ history"

he wasn't wrong tho...shame cuz Kubert was legit

damn...

Spoiler

he wasn't wrong tho

 

[fauxtrot]

Going through the bookshelf. My wife was into graphic novels before I even met her. She actually brought a hefty collection to our shelfs before I got into them. I'm gonna name some of the books that caught my eye and see if you guys recognize any of them and if I should read them.

Black Hole by Charles Burns
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Box Office Poison by Alex Robinson
A Complete Lowlife by Ed Brubaker
Demo by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan
Epileptic by David B.
The Hive by Charles Burns
Stitches by David Small
Sloth by Gilbert Hernandez
Pixu The Mark of Evil by Gabriel Ba and Cloonan

Black Hole is one of my favorite comics of all time, but it's definitely not for everyone. With that said, give it a shot! Blankets, Box Office Poison, Lowlife, and Sloth a great too... I haven't read the rest. Your lady has awesome taste, man!

 

[Freezasaurus]

Going through the bookshelf. My wife was into graphic novels before I even met her. She actually brought a hefty collection to our shelfs before I got into them. I'm gonna name some of the books that caught my eye and see if you guys recognize any of them and if I should read them.

Black Hole by Charles Burns
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Box Office Poison by Alex Robinson
A Complete Lowlife by Ed Brubaker
Demo by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan
Epileptic by David B.
The Hive by Charles Burns
Stitches by David Small
Sloth by Gilbert Hernandez
Pixu The Mark of Evil by Gabriel Ba and Cloonan

Black Hole (or anything by Charles Burns), and Blankets for sure.

 

[tim1138]

Going through the bookshelf. My wife was into graphic novels before I even met her. She actually brought a hefty collection to our shelfs before I got into them. I'm gonna name some of the books that caught my eye and see if you guys recognize any of them and if I should read them.

Black Hole by Charles Burns
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Box Office Poison by Alex Robinson
A Complete Lowlife by Ed Brubaker
Demo by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan
Epileptic by David B.
The Hive by Charles Burns
Stitches by David Small
Sloth by Gilbert Hernandez
Pick The Mark of Evil by Gabriel Ba and Cloonan

Black Hole is one of the most fucked up things I've ever read, I've honestly never even finished it. Everyone should read Blankets at some point.

 

[Freezasaurus]

Black Hole is one of the most fucked up things I've ever read, I've honestly never even finished it.

Then don't read Uzumaki.

 

[slightconfuse]

I should read black hole it seems.


Demo and blankets are dope

 

[Freezasaurus]

I should read black hole it seems.

Demo and blankets are dope

I also enjoyed Craig Thompson's most recent book, Habibi.

 

[tim1138]

Then don't read Uzumaki.

I don't even know what that is, so no worries there.

 

[Zombine]

I don't even know what that is, so no worries there.

Lovcraftian manga about spirals.

 

[Filthy Slug]

I really enjoyed Black Hole, but haven't read it in years. May be time for a reread. It's the epitome of dark at points, from what I recall.

Blankets, however, is one of my top ten pieces of literature/art and is totally heartwarming and real without being grossly sentimental, I feel. The art is fucking phenomenal, and it's a great gateway book for people who have only walked by the "comics/graphic novel" section at their local barnes and nobles and farted in the general direction of the books.

 

[TheDarkKnight774]

Going through the bookshelf. My wife was into graphic novels before I even met her. She actually brought a hefty collection to our shelfs before I got into them. I'm gonna name some of the books that caught my eye and see if you guys recognize any of them and if I should read them.

Black Hole by Charles Burns
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Box Office Poison by Alex Robinson
A Complete Lowlife by Ed Brubaker
Demo by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan
Epileptic by David B.
The Hive by Charles Burns
Stitches by David Small
Sloth by Gilbert Hernandez
Pixu The Mark of Evil by Gabriel Ba and Cloonan

Blankets is a no brainer. The only other one i've read here is Demo and i thought it is worth a read.

Also made a couple IST orders to workoff my IST queue. I can't believe i bought the New frontier again!

 

[Rafa=FedKilla]

Why is Manapul wasting his talents on Detective Comics with Buccelagepetto? Wish he was on Green Lantern sans Venditti.....

 

[slightconfuse]

Manapaul should be drawing miss marvel. Or Spide-rman

 

[tim1138]

Why is Manapul wasting his talents on Detective Comics with Buccelagepetto? Wish he was on Green Lantern sans Venditti.....

Manapul could do some cool things on GL. I'm guessing we'd get some ridiculously amazing construct designs.

 

[Filthy Slug]

Why is Manapul wasting his talents on Detective Comics with Buccelagepetto? Wish he was on Green Lantern sans Venditti.....

Manapaul should be drawing miss marvel. Or Spide-rman

Manapul could do some cool things on GL. I'm guessing we'd get some ridiculously amazing construct designs.

Sadly, his sack-of-shit partner, Bouchebag, is weighing him down heavily. Their Flash and Detective runs are fucking trash and DC loves to let artists who can't write reduce big-name titles to pretty dogshit.

I'm praying to the Old/New gods that Pat Gleason can write well. I'm sure he's got Tomasi Obi-Wanning him, but I don't want to see him go down the same road so many great DC artists flop down.

Also, to counteract that negativity, Johns/Manapul's Boy of Steel is just pure great comics:

 

[Vyer]

Chip being Chip:

Feather Regions is obviously god tier

 

[BuddyJoeHooker]

Why is Manapul wasting his talents on Detective Comics with Buccelagepetto? Wish he was on Green Lantern sans Venditti.....

Manapul ain't just be wasted on Brian Buccellato, he's being wasted on DC.

Marvel would appreciate his talents.

Edit: Spurrier/Manapul New X-Men boom

 

[fertygo]

Manapul ain't just be wasted on Brian Buccellato, he's being wasted on DC.

Marvel would appreciate his talents.

Marvel would put him under Charles Soule book doe.

 

[Rhaknar]

This Infinity: Heist mini series is fun, more villain centric books pls

 

[Serpentine]

Marvel would put him under Charles Soule book doe.

It's a step up from the Booch/Manapul writing team

 

[Messi]

This Infinity: Heist mini series is fun, more villain centric books pls

Have you heard the good word about The Superior Foes of Spider-Man?

 

[slightconfuse]

Imagine a Zeb wells /manapaul spider-man book for

Spoiler

three issues cuz lol zeb wells

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Imagine a Zeb wells /manapaul spider-man book for

Spoiler

three issues cuz lol zeb wells

Remember that Elektra series he was gonna do

ongoing had no word game, but she sure was pretty

 

[Rhaknar]

Have you heard the good word about The Superior Foes of Spider-Man?

I've said many times I think it's amazing

I still don't know what happened with your meeting btw

 

[BuddyJoeHooker]

Gonna do a Rhaknar style reading of the Valiant Universe thanks to this Scribd stuff.

Is there a recommended reading order or anything like that?

 

[Dalek]

My daughter thought this was the greatest thing ever:

 

[Rhaknar]

Gonna do a Rhaknar style reading of the Valiant Universe thanks to this Scribd stuff.

Is there a recommended reading order or anything like that?

Whats a Rhaknar style reading? Lol

 

[Messi]

My daughter thought this was the greatest thing ever:

I believe it is one of the best things ever. Just perfect.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

my dude flying off in the Iron Man hand was too much

 

[Dalek]

I believe it is one of the best things ever. Just perfect.

She pointed at TippyToe in a glove and helmet and was cracking up laughing.

 

[Serpentine]

Remember that Elektra series he was gonna do

ongoing had no word game, but she sure was pretty

lmao @ this gif and this vine

 

[Messi]

She pointed at TippyToe in a glove and helmet and was cracking up laughing.

...I hadn't realized it was a glove. Holy shit.

 

[Rhaknar]

...I hadn't realized it was a glove. Holy shit.

Same. Amazing

 

[Freezasaurus]

Oh man, I'm 100 pages into The Sculptor, and this shit is good. I wish I bought my own copy instead of borrowing it from the library. :O

 

[Filthy Slug]

My daughter thought this was the greatest thing ever:

I haven't laughed that hard since I saw Ales Kot sales numbers. But that was a sad laugh...so I don't know.