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Post by coke & comics on Dec 27, 2015 23:59:02 GMT -5
Ha. I have some extra Christmas money so I bought Usagi and Cerebus. If it sucks, I'm going to blame some of the people in this room... Good luck. I read half of that volume once.
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Post by Spike-X on Dec 28, 2015 3:31:42 GMT -5
My first Cerebus issue was the one from Church & State II where he's climbing the tower, and there's not a word of dialogue in the whole damn thing. For somebody who grew up reading Marvel and DC superhero comics pretty much exclusively, it was something different, to say the least.
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Post by antoine on Dec 28, 2015 14:49:42 GMT -5
Is Thorgal still coming out? The series hasn't reached the numbers a monthly book can, but it's been going on for, what, almost forty years? Still going on, started in 1980 and now have 34 issues. Yves Sentes replaced Van Hamme a few years ago though. Rosinski is still the artist. It now mostly follows Jolan, Thorgal's son. It's actually still quite good! There is also 3 series of Spin-Off called Les mondes de Thorgal : One for Louve, one for Kriss de Valnor, and one for Thorgal's Youth. Haven't read them yet though.
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Post by shaxper on Dec 28, 2015 16:21:43 GMT -5
Is Thorgal still coming out? The series hasn't reached the numbers a monthly book can, but it's been going on for, what, almost forty years? Still going on, started in 1980 and now have 34 issues. Wow. Rob Liefeld could beat that publishing schedule! I know nothing about Thorgal, but it must be pretty impressive to have left such a legacy with so few issues.
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Post by antoine on Dec 28, 2015 21:20:40 GMT -5
Still going on, started in 1980 and now have 34 issues. Wow. Rob Liefeld could beat that publishing schedule! I know nothing about Thorgal, but it must be pretty impressive to have left such a legacy with so few issues. Franco-Belge creator usually work on a few series at the time. Van Hamme did during those years Largo Winch, XIII, Thorgal, Le Grand Pouvoir du Schinkel, Wayne Shelton, and more other mini-series and one shot. They also are all at least double sized issues. Grzegorz Rosinski (the artist) did Thorgal, la complainte des landes perdues, le grand Pouvoir du Schinkel, La vengeance du compte sharbek, and a few more. Plus all the covers.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 29, 2015 11:38:50 GMT -5
European audiences really are expecting a different pace, though : we'd become very suspicious if those guys suddenly turned in 4 albums a year. Most european comics aren't concieved as real serials the way US mainstream comics are, more like movies, or sagas these days. It is seldom you get a "to be continued" with a cliffhanger.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 29, 2015 17:31:41 GMT -5
Ha. I have some extra Christmas money so I bought Usagi and Cerebus. If it sucks, I'm going to blame some of the people in this room... Good luck. I read half of that volume once. Does this mean you couldn't read the other half?
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Jan 7, 2016 23:25:02 GMT -5
Wow. Rob Liefeld could beat that publishing schedule! I know nothing about Thorgal, but it must be pretty impressive to have left such a legacy with so few issues. Hey Shaxper, remember when I was analyzing Eric Canete in the worst panel ever thread? Just found this and thought about you
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 9, 2016 6:20:47 GMT -5
I never got into series that have anthropomorphic characters. Usagi is a stretch for me. Cereus looked boring to me. I never want to buy a comic that is just talking heads , which is what his book appeared to be. So... No Carl Barks, Don Rosa, TMNT, Dalgoda, Bone, Howard the Duck, Pogo and such for you?! But isn't kind of an anthropomorphic character? No. I never read those type of books before this year. No interest. I did Enjoy ( and still have) a few issues of Dalgoda. I read the Classic Howard the Duck last year and it was interesting. I never read ,nor care to, Disney related books. No interest in Donald Duck.
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Post by shaxper on Jan 9, 2016 9:21:50 GMT -5
So... No Carl Barks, Don Rosa, TMNT, Dalgoda, Bone, Howard the Duck, Pogo and such for you?! But isn't kind of an anthropomorphic character? No. I never read those type of books before this year. No interest. I did Enjoy ( and still have) a few issues of Dalgoda. I read the Classic Howard the Duck last year and it was interesting. I never read ,nor care to, Disney related books. No interest in Donald Duck. One day, we'll change some of those opinions of yours, but one 300 issue saga at a time FWIW Cerebus is not an anthropomorphic series since it does take place in a world of human beings. There are only two walking, talking aardvarks in that universe, and there is a reason for both.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 15, 2016 10:33:31 GMT -5
I am reading both Usagi Yojimbo and Cerebus since this years CCF. I am enjoying both, and I find it to be uncharted territory for me.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 15, 2016 11:31:14 GMT -5
I'm trying to track down the TPB's for Usagi. I'm a bit confused and I don't want to buy the same stories twice. I have this one After the next two ( v.2,3), Do I jump to Yojimbo Saga?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2016 12:51:13 GMT -5
I believe the first seven smaller volumes are the Fantagraphics run, then it switches over to Saga.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jan 15, 2016 13:43:28 GMT -5
Yokay, I was wondering that myself. I wasn't sure if it was an "everything is reprinted six times in different formats" situation like Love & Rockets.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2016 13:54:21 GMT -5
Love And Rockets could really use a nice sequential hardcover slipcase series like they're doing with EC and Mickey Mouse and so many others at Fantagraphics.
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