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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 17, 2021 15:14:47 GMT -5
Finally got a chance to sit down and read Brubaker/Phillips latest offering in the Reckless series-Friend of the Devil...  I really dug the first volume, and I liked this one even more. Told as a flashback, the main sequence is set in southern California in 1985, and is a gripping, detective tale exploring the horrors of Hollywood's seedy underbelly and the Satanic Panic of the 80s. Superbly executed and an engrossing read. Cracked open the book and was totally absorbed until I turned the final page. -M I haven't purchased it yet. I want it, but I'm balking at the price. It's significantly more expensive than the first volume for a shorter book. |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2021 15:20:40 GMT -5
Finally got a chance to sit down and read Brubaker/Phillips latest offering in the Reckless series-Friend of the Devil... I really dug the first volume, and I liked this one even more. Told as a flashback, the main sequence is set in southern California in 1985, and is a gripping, detective tale exploring the horrors of Hollywood's seedy underbelly and the Satanic Panic of the 80s. Superbly executed and an engrossing read. Cracked open the book and was totally absorbed until I turned the final page. -M I haven't purchased it yet. I want it, but I'm balking at the price. It's significantly more expensive than the first volume for a shorter book. Both have an MSRP of $24.99 for the HC and clock in at 144 pages. -M |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 17, 2021 15:45:04 GMT -5
I haven't purchased it yet. I want it, but I'm balking at the price. It's significantly more expensive than the first volume for a shorter book. Both have an MSRP of $24.99 for the HC and clock in at 144 pages. -M I'm seeing the second one at 104 pages in a number of places. I paid $17.50 for the first book and it's now selling at $15. I'll surely end up getting it. But it may be a while. |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2021 15:49:21 GMT -5
Both have an MSRP of $24.99 for the HC and clock in at 144 pages. -M I'm seeing the second one at 104 pages in a number of places. I paid $17.50 for the first book and it's now selling at $15. I'll surely end up getting it. But it may be a while. Both had a cover price of $24.99. As to the page count, I am going by solicits as I haven't counted the pages in each and the pages aren't numbered to make it easy. -M |
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2021 22:22:10 GMT -5
Also read Sara by Garth Ennis and Steve Epting. This was one of the initial books by TKO Studios and they came out with a bang. I'm a huge fan of both creators and combining them on a war comic about female Russian snipers during World War II is big Hell Yeah for me. Our local library had a copy of the Sara trade paperback (which is slightly oversized to give Epting's art a little more room), and I picked it up this afternoon and read it this evening. Very, very good. Epting's art was amazing, especially on the slightly larger pages, and Ennis is at his best doing war comics. I think I have an affinity for his Russian WWII stuff the most, as this was the one I liked the best since I read Night Witches. -M |
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Post by Duragizer on May 23, 2021 15:44:12 GMT -5
Finished reading Invincible.
I found the gore gratuitous, and it started to get under my skin before too long. Beyond that and a few quibbles, I found it an excellent series. And the final issue was near perfect.
9/10
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 24, 2021 16:55:56 GMT -5
I finally made it through Tom King and Mitch Gerad's Mister Miracle mini from 2017-18. Third time is a charm, because I'd never made it past the first issue the last two times. So finally powering through I can say it was...okay. It was fine. But it is not this brilliant piece of work that everyone keeps wanting me to believe that it is. I probably just have to accept that King's writing just doesn't work for me.
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 29, 2021 21:36:54 GMT -5
Read the 1st trade for Rough Riders... I love me some historical figures acting like super heroes... this one was no exception.. sort felt like LoEG with 'real' people.
Definitely will pick up the other two at some point.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 17, 2021 14:15:38 GMT -5
As most here know (anyone who's been around any amount of time) I generally hate Superman. So it may come as a surprise that I've been reading 2019-2020's Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen by Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber and have been generally loving it. Really a fun homage to the Silver Age silliness of the Jimmy Olsen book with enough of a modern sensibility that it doesn't make me nuts. Also, for those who complain that you can read a modern comic in a couple of minutes it is, generally, a bit denser than the average current funnybook.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2021 13:35:37 GMT -5
Got a chance to read the first two issues of The Good Asian last night. Solid noir stuff, and I am looking forward to seeing how the rest of the series plays out.
-M
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 21, 2021 18:48:05 GMT -5
They had a copy of Godzilla- The Half-Century War at work, so I picked that up. Wouldn't really call myself a big fan of Zilla, just a mild appreciator, but I did find the art by James Stokoe rather striking enough to purchase it. It focuses on a soldier's journey to put an end to Godzilla and other various Kaiju over the span of about fourty/fifty years
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Post by EdoBosnar on Aug 14, 2021 10:29:05 GMT -5
SistersRaina Telgemeier, 2014  I've been wanting to read something by Telgemeier for quite some time now, considering the immense popularity of her comics work, so I was happy to find this recently in a public library (which doesn't have any of her other books, unfortunately). The story is autobiographical, recounting a family road-trip when Telgemeier was about 14 years old. She, her mother, younger sister and brother are traveling from San Francisco to Colorado Springs for a family reunion in the middle of summer, and - as one would expect - it has its unpleasant moments. Telgemeier uses the road-trip as sort of a framing device to mostly explore her relationship with her younger sister, Amara, so it's interspersed with flashbacks to earlier periods in their lives...  However, the story also deals with relations within her entire family at the time, and at a few points it's almost uncomfortably candid. Obviously I'm not the target audience for this, but I found this quite enjoyable, and I really like Telgemeier's art. In fact, thinking back to when I would have been the target audience, i.e., ages 12 through roughly 14/15, I probably wouldn't have liked this as much. Now, though, I have a greater appreciation for stories like this.
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Post by arfetto on Aug 18, 2021 19:16:01 GMT -5
 The latest Cankor has arrived.
 Matthew Allison continues to be one of the tip top thinkers in comics.
 All that thinking must cause headaches no doubt, but the end result is a great comic.
Excited to see what he will think of next!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 22, 2021 20:22:03 GMT -5
Monsters, by Barry Windsor-Smith.
Holy Red Nails, Batman. This is among the very best things Windsor-Smith ever did, and arguably the best. Definitely his best story, to be sure, and I say that as someone who did enjoy what he wrote in the past.
It's interesting how the man's drawing style changed over the years; you still recognize him, but this is not what we saw in Conan, Archer & Armstrong or in Storyteller. In any case, the art is drop dead gorgeous. Such attention to detail, and such powerful rendering of emotion. No wonder the book took so long to finally see the light of day, and even so I'm surprised it didn't take longer... Each page is beautifully conceived and meticulously rendered.
Previews seemed to suggest that this was an alternate take on The Hulk, maybe inspired by that story that Smith pitched to Marvel decades ago (the one that was swiped by Bill Mantlo). If so, the connection is very tenuous (although a big and misunderstood creature does feature in the story). However, the hulking creature is barely in the book, and is not really its focus despite being its linchpin.
What Monsters is is a psychological horror story, full of human tragedy but ultimately with a hope of redemption. It reminded me, in tone and inventiveness, of the early Dan Simmons novels in the genre.
Like Will Eisner before him, Windsor-Smith seems capable of producing masterpieces even after several decades in the field. As a reader, I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to see such a piece of art.
Ironically, I wasn't sure I was going to get this. Windsor-Smith's musings in Opus had done nothing for me, honestly. I'm glad I changed my mind; this was just a brilliant work.
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Post by berkley on Aug 24, 2021 13:41:48 GMT -5
Monsters, by Barry Windsor-Smith. Holy Red Nails, Batman. This is among the very best things Windsor-Smith ever did, and arguably the best. Definitely his best story, to be sure, and I say that as someone who did enjoy what he wrote in the past. It's interesting how the man's drawing style changed over the years; you still recognize him, but this is not what we saw in Conan, Archer & Armstrong or in Storyteller. In any case, the art is drop dead gorgeous. Such attention to detail, and such powerful rendering of emotion. No wonder the book took so long to finally see the light of day, and even so I'm surprised it didn't take longer... Each page is beautifully conceived and meticulously rendered. Previews seemed to suggest that this was an alternate take on The Hulk, maybe inspired by that story that Smith pitched to Marvel decades ago (the one that was swiped by Bill Mantlo). If so, the connection is very tenuous (although a big and misunderstood creature does feature in the story). However, the hulking creature is barely in the book, and is not really its focus despite being its linchpin. What Monsters is is a psychological horror story, full of human tragedy but ultimately with a hope of redemption. It reminded me, in tone and inventiveness, of the early Dan Simmons novels in the genre. Like Will Eisner before him, Windsor-Smith seems capable of producing masterpieces even after several decades in the field. As a reader, I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to see such a piece of art. Ironically, I wasn't sure I was going to get this. Windsor-Smith's musings in Opus had done nothing for me, honestly. I'm glad I changed my mind; this was just a brilliant work.
I've been sitting on the fence about Monsters but this has tipped me over into giving it a shot.
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