Welcome to the Weekly Comics Hype! I'm doing these alphabetically, but occasionally skipping around a bit. Alan Moore has been in the news lately with his controversial new book Lost Girls, and so I thought we could have a look at something else of his, which, while much less controversial, is still a challenging and fun read. Promethea is a pretty interesting series from...
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It's time again for another Weekly Comics Hype. I tend to do these alphabetically, and several months back, I started talking about the phenomenally entertaining series Love & Rockets by Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez. This is effectively an anthology series, with each brother telling stories in their own, separate worlds, and occasionally adding unreated strips alongside them. Last time, I told you about Jaime's stories...
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Welcome to the Weekly Comics Hype! I'm doing these alphabetically, but occasionally skipping around a bit. Today, I wanted to recommend you stop whatever you're doing and go buy La Perdida by Jessica Abel, which is one of the very best stories to appear in the medium in some time, a simply masterful use of the sequential art format to create a tension-building and incredibly...
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blyddyn:
Just one question; how come you got into 200AD in the first place? Your average american comics fan likes DC and Marvel - and then they tend to go on about the artwork, whereas with 2000AD and The Meg, storyline is a major factor.
Welcome to the Weekly Comics Hype! I'm doing these alphabetically, but occasionally skipping around a bit. You're no doubt familiar with Charles Schulz's classic strip Peanuts, but you might not know that the good people at Fantagraphics Books have been hard at work on a comprehensive reprint program for the series which is setting new rules for archiving comics in bookshelf format, and you...
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blyddyn:
Nicoli Dante IS too cool to kill, and I'm just waiting untill the "Tsar Wars" collection is released....
blyddyn:
I was looking at your site, and couldn't find any mention of Alan Moores' "Future Shocks" - of which I consider "The Wages of Sin," to be the ultimate, I mean, "Yaargh ! Craven mongrels ! You'llnot keep AAnthrax Ghoulshadow B:A: down !" That is a classic exit line, precisely because it is so cliched....
blyddyn:
Just looking through the Dredd listings for th '80s - Gods, but there's some good stuff there, I'll have to dig out all my old progs.....
Love & Rockets for a New Generation
by Calvin Reid, PW Comics Week -- 5/30/2006
After reading early issues of the scathing news and critical publication the Comics Journal back in 1981, two Mexican-American brothers decided to send their self-published comic book to the magazine for review, figuringor so the legend goesthat if they could take criticism from TCJ, they could take it from anybody....
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by Calvin Reid, PW Comics Week -- 5/30/2006
After reading early issues of the scathing news and critical publication the Comics Journal back in 1981, two Mexican-American brothers decided to send their self-published comic book to the magazine for review, figuringor so the legend goesthat if they could take criticism from TCJ, they could take it from anybody....
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