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So I just finished the final issue of Steeple. Kinda liked it even though it felt rushed and ends on a cliffhanger (although Allison posted a four page epilogue on his bobbins.horse site). Here is what Allison posted: John Allison posted:Today (Jan 15th) sees the release (in comic shops and on Comixology) of the final issue of Steeple from Dark Horse Comics, written and drawn by me, coloured by Sarah Stern, and lettered by Jim Campbell. A trade paperback collection is due in May.
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# ? Jan 15, 2020 22:02 |
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# ? May 13, 2024 08:38 |
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Giant Days just won an Eisner and is a perennial best seller in trades, its insane to me that Dark Horse doesn't want to publish more John Allison.
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# ? Jan 15, 2020 22:15 |
Skwirl posted:Giant Days just won an Eisner and is a perennial best seller in trades, its insane to me that Dark Horse doesn't want to publish more John Allison. I'm still waiting for more hardcovers. It seems weirdly slow to release?
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# ? Jan 16, 2020 01:51 |
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GrandpaPants posted:I'm still waiting for more hardcovers. It seems weirdly slow to release? If you mean the "Not on the Test Editions", I think they stopped making those, according to Wikipedia the last one came out October 2018. As for the regular trades, volume 12 is coming out this January or February, while 13 is due out in June. I'm guessing a final volume will come out in fall of 2020.
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# ? Jan 16, 2020 22:15 |
The_Other posted:If you mean the "Not on the Test Editions", I think they stopped making those, according to Wikipedia the last one came out October 2018. As for the regular trades, volume 12 is coming out this January or February, while 13 is due out in June. I'm guessing a final volume will come out in fall of 2020. But... I can't have half HCs and half TPBs. That's just wrong.
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# ? Jan 16, 2020 23:25 |
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https://twitter.com/badmachinery/status/1215360509186363393?s=19 He doesn't quite say "no more hardbacks" but it doesn't sound promising.
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# ? Jan 16, 2020 23:50 |
Were the HCs not selling well or something?
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# ? Jan 17, 2020 00:00 |
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Sex Criminals is back this Wednesday! ...For the start of its final arc
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# ? Jan 27, 2020 16:04 |
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Chairman Capone posted:Sex Criminals will be in trade in six months! Trade waiting is hard.
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# ? Jan 27, 2020 16:35 |
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Sex Criminals is back and wow I think I need to go back and read the last few issues because I was totally lost! The most shocking part was finding out what Rhyno's high-paying night job is in the letters section!
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 15:52 |
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Protector got off to a pretty good start, though I found myself more interested in the backmatter than the body of the comic. It's a post-apocalyptic tale in which much of North America has been re-taken by various Indigenous tribes. I also wish Simon Roy was doing the art as well as writing but I understand that he actually wants to get the book out on time. I've been reading Zdarsky's "Afterlift" because apparently I get some Comixology Originals for free on Amazon Prime, and I'd recommend it. Especially if you can also get it for free!
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# ? Jan 31, 2020 23:33 |
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Oh, yeah, second Afterlift. It's also free if you have a Comixology Unlimited. Definitely worth a read.
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# ? Jan 31, 2020 23:49 |
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Been enjoying Outer Darkness and apparently a new issue of Monstress is out, but otherwise my indie reading list is a little barren these days.
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# ? Feb 1, 2020 06:28 |
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Mine is: Copra Gideon Falls Usagi Savage Dragon Space Riders: Vortex of Darkness Once and Future Pink Lemonde (this book rules, plz buy it) And whatever comes out from black hammer’s universe. Just did a bit of a cull and stopped ordering stuff like Reaver and Birthright.
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# ? Feb 1, 2020 13:22 |
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You did a full and yet Savage Dragon is still there??
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# ? Feb 1, 2020 22:27 |
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Savage Dragon is one of those comics that I do not enjoy, but is a singular enough project with a huge enough force of conviction behind it that I absolutely get why it has such committed fans.
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# ? Feb 1, 2020 23:54 |
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Erik Larsen is one of the most talented cartoonists of all time. I don’t love the stories necessarily, but I want to see his work.
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# ? Feb 2, 2020 03:26 |
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I can't find many other free comics through Prime Reading but the Breaklands is a pretty decent mashup of Mad Max and the X-Men and the Stone King is a fun little fantasy romp with great art by Tyler Crook. I'd definitely read more of the latter and probably more of the former.
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# ? Feb 4, 2020 03:33 |
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Some former Valiant folks have put together a new company.The Article posted:– Bad Idea will only publish single issues. There will be no collected editions, at least initially. I'm into a lot of those creators but I'm outside the US and in a fairly small city so I guess I'm not part of the target market.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 20:22 |
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considering how much creators complain about low readership and sales, deliberately choosing to make your books have a small market seems counter-intuitive
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 20:28 |
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Some former Valiant folks have put together a new company. Bad Idea will be revealed a year later as a performance art piece on how not to run a company in the modern day.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 20:50 |
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What was that company a few years ago that was so bad, people were accusing them of putting out product just to cover up some kind of racketeering? I recall there was a comic that seemed to revolve around a little girl cursing a lot.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 21:03 |
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Endless Mike posted:Sex Criminals is back and wow I think I need to go back and read the last few issues because I was totally lost! I wish the letters pages would bring back the porn in the woods stories. As for other Image stuff, Low is coming back soon, but for its last storyline. Also there's supposed to be more Prism Stalker later this year. Halloween Jack posted:What was that company a few years ago that was so bad, people were accusing them of putting out product just to cover up some kind of racketeering? I recall there was a comic that seemed to revolve around a little girl cursing a lot. Double Take.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 21:25 |
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Oh God, it was Jemas! Marville is still one of the weirdest, pettiest bits of awfulness I've ever seen in any artistic medium.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 21:36 |
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Covok posted:Bad Idea will be revealed a year later as a performance art piece on how not to run a company in the modern day. It's literally in the name, all they have to do is edit the Simpsons sign tapping bus driver image to answer every question.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 21:50 |
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No digital? That does sound like the company name
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 23:44 |
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They'll release the greatest indie comic stories no one cares about, and socialites in Manhattan high rise luxury apartments and condos will have the few existing issues framed alongside pop art icons like Warhol. Unless these show up in a library system, this thread is going to be the only exposure I ever have to the books.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 22:19 |
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site posted:considering how much creators complain about low readership and sales, deliberately choosing to make your books have a small market seems counter-intuitive Considering how people become much less likely to buy #2 if they haven't bought #1, telling people up front that they won't ever be able to buy #1 is the act of total morons.
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 10:41 |
So I just finished WicDiv and I feel like I need to reread whatever issue explained what Ananke's deal is because that just sloughed off of me. The last issue was fantastic, though.
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# ? Feb 18, 2020 07:48 |
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ananke's a bad person thats her deal
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# ? Feb 18, 2020 22:58 |
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GrandpaPants posted:So I just finished WicDiv and I feel like I need to reread whatever issue explained what Ananke's deal is because that just sloughed off of me. The last issue was fantastic, though. It was in several issues, mainly throughout the Mothering Invention arc. *draws deep breath* 6000 years ago Ananke and her sister learned they had miraculous powers fed by the power of stories, and found ten others with the same power. Then Ananke's sister discovered that they could massively increase their abilities if they believed that they were gods, but that they would burn out within two years if they tried. The alternative was to use their limited powers and work for a lifetime until the next generation of twelve miracle workers came. Ananke decided that she wanted to live forever and be like a god, and so devised a new story where each generation would be accompanied by an embodiment of the storyteller - her, in other words - and turned into a Pantheon through deceit. Her sister opposed this, and at the last tricked Ananke into rewriting her story to always put the two of them into the Pantheon. This rendered Ananke vulnerable, as with Persephone always present there was always someone around who could convince the Pantheon that they weren't really gods. When that finally happened, Ananke's story ended. Like the others she lost her godlike powers, and she had forgotten how to use the ones she was born with. Presumably a new set of miracle workers would be born in the early 22nd century, but with nobody there to tell them they were gods and with Laura's book to tell them they weren't they wouldn't restart the cycle. Jedit fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Feb 19, 2020 |
# ? Feb 19, 2020 02:36 |
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Matt Fraction has another Image series on the way: ADVENTUREMAN. Blurb posted:A CATACLYSMIC ADVENTURE DECADES IN THE MAKING!In this WILDLY AFFORDABLE TRIPLE-LENGTH FIRST ISSUE, revisit how the legend of the greatest pulp hero of them all, ADVENTUREMAN, ended in a heartbreaking CLIFFHANGER with our hero facing execution at the vile hand of his ultra-nemesis BARON BIZARRE on the eve of the MACABRAPOCALYPSE...or did it?!? Eighty years after his apparent demise, single mother Claire and her Adventurefan son Tommy seem to be the only two people alive that remember the thrilling ADVENTUREMAN sagas...but from that memory burns THE SPARK OF RESURRECTION! WHERE HIS STORY ENDED...HER STORY BEGINS! This sense-obliterating, earth-shaking, imagination-quaking adventure that spans generations comes to you from MATT FRACTION (SEX CRIMINALS, Hawkeye) and TERRY & RACHEL DODSON (RED ONE, X-Men/Fantastic Four)!!!
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# ? Feb 20, 2020 21:51 |
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Speaking of indie spies, did anyone else pick up BANG! this week? It's an interesting take on the James Bond-style superspy from noted weirdo Matt Kindt. I thought the first issue was a promising start and I look forward to seeing where it goes.
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# ? Feb 21, 2020 23:25 |
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Permission is officially granted to WTF.
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# ? Feb 23, 2020 10:39 |
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I read Die. Ostensibly self-aware edgy juvenile stuff is still edgy and juvenile. Is it trying to be funny? Is it meant to evoke nostalgia? Western comics jumping on the "trapped in an rpg" subgenre was inevitable, though I do support the somewhat Michael Moorcock take on it. Minus points for releasing tie-in rpg rules.
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# ? Mar 3, 2020 12:54 |
I just finished Hellboy/BPRD/etc. and that ending seemed kinda underwhelming? Like the big showdown between Hellboy and the antagonist was just super anticlimactic, and then the epilogue issue didn't really allow the consequences to have any weight of emotion. The death of the Ogdru Jahad was similarly anticlimactic and happened offscreen for chrissakes. Like I dunno, given just how long that series was winding up to that conclusion, it just sorta farted it out.
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# ? Mar 5, 2020 06:00 |
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GrandpaPants posted:I just finished Hellboy/BPRD/etc. and that ending seemed kinda underwhelming? Like the big showdown between Hellboy and the antagonist was just super anticlimactic, and then the epilogue issue didn't really allow the consequences to have any weight of emotion. The death of the Ogdru Jahad was similarly anticlimactic and happened offscreen for chrissakes. I mean, I think it's hard to end anything that goes on that long with a satisfactory ending. I'm trying to think of a long run that ended satisfactorily. Sandman and Lucifer are the longest ones I can think of at 75 issues each, Hellboy/BPRD has to be a lot more issues than that.
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# ? Mar 5, 2020 06:22 |
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Skwirl posted:I mean, I think it's hard to end anything that goes on that long with a satisfactory ending. Starman had a perfect ending at #80.
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# ? Mar 5, 2020 07:01 |
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Bone was only 55 issues but all of them were good!
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# ? Mar 5, 2020 08:01 |
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# ? May 13, 2024 08:38 |
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How Wonderful! posted:Bone was only 55 issues but all of them were good! There's absolutely other comics with longish runs that stuck the landing, just nothing as long as Hellboy. Y: The Last Man is loving excellent the whole way through and that's 60 issues. I need to finish Starman. How many issues is the whole Hellboy/BPRD saga if anyone knows? I know there's a bunch of 8 page stories in other books and probably some free comic book day comics so an exact count is pretty hard.
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# ? Mar 5, 2020 08:32 |