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Post by hondobrode on Jul 27, 2016 13:30:52 GMT -5
 Tales Designed To Thrizzle Vol. 1 Fans and comedy cognoscenti alike have made Thrizzle the smash hit humor comic of the decade. And now the first four issues of Michael Kupperman's revered series are finally collected into one deluxe hardcover. Even better, Kupperman has taken the original two-color printing and made the entire book full color, and added new pages! These tales are more thrizzling than ever! What are tales designed to thrizzle? Tales designed to thrizzle are about evil girls and their owls. They are about Jesus' half-brother Pagus, Dick Crazy, scary snakes, delicious bacon, Private Eye Johnny Silhouette, Murder She Didn't Write, the Mannister, portraits where the eyes move, Pablo Picasso, sex blimps (and their logical inverse, sex holes), the hot boy band Boybank, soccer joust, Underpants-On-His-Head Man, Hercules the Public Domain Superhero, Cousin Granpa, Mister Bossman, Mark Twain, and more. The stories in Tales Designed to Thrizzle made their debut in 2009 on the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim program as Snake 'N' Bacon. The show, a mix of live-action, puppetry and animation, stars David Rakoff (This American Life), Bill Hader (Saturday Night Live), Kristen Schaal (Flight of the Conchords), James Urbaniak (The Venture Brothers), and Dan Bakkedahl (The Daily Show), and is produced by Kupperman, Robert Smigel (SNL, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog), Scott Jacobson (The Daily Show) and Rich Bloomquist (The Daily Show). "A comic masterpiece." -- Peter Serafinowicz (Look Around You, The Peter Serafinowicz Show) "The second funniest cartoonist worldwide, after me." -- Tony Millionaire "It has become cliche to say I laughed until I cried, but when I'm done reading one of these underground comics my shirt is literally soaking wet. This guy may have one of the best comedy brains on the planet right now." -- Conan O'Brien, Entertainment Weekly "Must List" "Seriously, go to your local comics shop and buy this. In fact, buy everything Michael Kupperman's ever done. Not only is he hysterical, he's a major influence on my comedy." -- Graham Linehan, creator of Father Ted and The IT Crowd  Michael Kupperman is a comic genius. I LOL'd at least a dozen times, hard. That alone is worth getting this. I can probably count on one hand the number of comics or graphic novels that have made me laugh like that. Rated 5 out of 5 stars on Comixology. |
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Post by Dizzy D on Jul 30, 2016 5:59:01 GMT -5
Got Ultimates (the 2016 version) Volume 1 and Dragon Age: Magekiller. Loved one, didn't like the other.
Ultimates is right up my wheelhouse: cosmic superheroes investigating and exploring this new universe. Haven't read anything with Blue Marvel in it before (don't think there really has been much with him, has there), but I liked the rest of the cast and Al Ewing's work (if only New Avengers had a different artist) so I picked this up and enjoyed it a lot, especially Chris Ward's art on issue 6.
Dragon Age: Magekiller: I like the games, but its adaptions (like Mass Effect and many other licensed comics) always felt flat, so I only read one or two. I picked this up because Greg Rucka was writing, but was disappointed. The main characters drift through many of the events of Dragon Age 3, but I never get the feeling that there is a story here, just 2 characters that things happen around. It had a nice setup in the first issue with the main characters being forced to act as assassins for the leader of the Tevinter Empire to assassinate four powerful mages, but three assassinations happen within the next page and they skip town when they discover who the fourth is. None of the events get a chance to breath.
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Post by Spike-X on Jul 30, 2016 6:20:43 GMT -5
Yeah, the current series of Ultimates has been pretty great so far. Loved the way they dealt with the Galactus problem in the first couple issues.
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Post by urrutiap on Jul 30, 2016 11:44:50 GMT -5
I like the new Snotgirl comic that's been in comic shops fir a week or so.
Reminds me of Strangers in Paradise with the odd humor
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 30, 2016 20:55:35 GMT -5
I really liked the Redhood rebirth issue, while it didn't give us a good feel about what the ongoing series may feel like it was a great Jason Todd story.
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 31, 2016 14:26:41 GMT -5
Read Sabrina the Teenage Witch's # 1-3 and loved them.  This was a genuinely creepy read. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa shows an excellent grasp of the character while putting a fresh coat of paint on it very Robert Hack's pitch perfect visuals.  Sabrina doesn't have her parents and that's part of the story of course. Chilling and an integral part of the character.  I loved the integration of Betty & Veronica into the storyline as well.  Archie is also including some Gold & Silver Age reprints, which are great as well. I love Madam Satan too ! She has one of the greatest visuals ever.   Definitely getting more Sabrina. Haven't read Afterlife With Archie yet, but that looks great too. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 31, 2016 15:01:47 GMT -5
Afterlife with Archie started out great, I love Francesco Francavilla's art but it dragged on a little too much for my tastes so I dropped it after four issues or so.
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Post by berkley on Jul 31, 2016 23:46:42 GMT -5
The artwork looks really good in that Sabrina comic. I might have to check out the first volume when it's collected.
Last newish thing I read was Manhattan Projects 1: Science. Bad., by Hickman & Pitarra. Hickman still isn't doing it for me. I have the next volume of this series and I think the first of his Avengers collections, so I'll probably give those a try eventually, but I have to say that at this point my expectations are low and seem to get lower with everything I read of his. It all feels to me like the work of someone who was very impressed with the first few Warren Ellis or Grant Morrison books he read and was gung ho to produce something similar, but had neither the writing skills nor the conceptual vision to pull it off - so it ends up coming across as a kind of unsatisfying, lightweight imitation.
That's a bit harsh, because I do see more than a little ability in Hickman's stuff - which is why I've kept on reading even though I haven't really liked anything yet. Some of his dialogue is noticeably better than most American comics writers - not all of it, but more than would be the case if it was just a fluke; and you can see that he is at least interested in some philosophical and scientific ideas beyond the usual narrow focus of superhero comics, even if, to my mind, he hasn't yet found a way to deal with them in an interesting way. Of course what I mean is interesting to me, so perhaps it's just a lack of chemistry between this particular reader and this particular writer.
So I'll try the next couple books I mentioned at some point but that'll probably be it for me as far as Hickman's concerned unless something changes drastically. I was so disappointed with Manhattan Projects 1 - for which I entertained perhaps unrealistic expectations as it was presumably a more mature work than the two earlier things I had read, Nightly News and Pax Romana - that I really don't feel like looking at the 2nd volume yet. maybe I'll try the Avengers thing instead.
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Post by Spike-X on Aug 1, 2016 1:50:43 GMT -5
Haven't read Afterlife With Archie yet, but that looks great too. I loved it a whole lot. Hopefully we'll get a 2nd tpb some time this decade. |
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Post by Batflunkie on Aug 3, 2016 8:40:59 GMT -5
4001 AD: War Mother
Very, very interesting title. Combines elements of Defiant's Warriors Of Plasm and the feel of golden era 2000AD. Really hope this gets it's own ongoing and not just some mini-series like Divinity did
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2016 18:09:34 GMT -5
The 25th Anniversary Bone Coda Special by Jeff Smith with a new chapter of Bone was delightfully exquisite.
-M
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Post by Trevor on Aug 3, 2016 19:49:45 GMT -5
The 25th Anniversary Bone Coda Special by Jeff Smith with a new chapter of Bone was delightfully exquisite. -M What?! How'd I miss this? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2016 20:00:38 GMT -5
Just came out last week.. $14.99 trade...  back cover...  signed copies available at Boneville.com too. sample page...  about 1/3 of the book is the new story, the other 2/3 are the Bone Companion and interviews about the creation and history of Bone for it's 25th anniversary. -M |
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Post by Batflunkie on Aug 3, 2016 20:57:35 GMT -5
Tokyo Ghost #1-#5, an utterly amazing read from beginning to end. The philosphical metaphors of "disconnecting" from technology in order to re-commune with nature really spoke to me
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Post by dupersuper on Aug 3, 2016 21:46:48 GMT -5
The 25th Anniversary Bone Coda Special by Jeff Smith with a new chapter of Bone was delightfully exquisite. -M That was sold out at my LCS: I've got to remember to back-order it... |
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