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I picked up Seven Secrets this week and quite liked it. Nice mix of action, humour, and drama, as usual for Taylor. Looking forward to seeing where it goes! Blurb posted:For fans of Once & Future and Undiscovered Country comes an all-new original series from #1 New York Times best-selling author Tom Taylor (DCeased) and artist Daniele di Nicuolo (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) about seven powerful secrets-words, wonders, weapons, and worse-with the power to destroy the world.. Seven Secrets could destroy the world. For centuries they've been locked away and protected by The Order. When their stronghold is attacked and a secret revealed, the entire Order must go on the run. The Order's youngest member, Caspar has been trained his entire life to protect the Secrets he will never know. Now is his chance to prove his worth-to become a Holder of one of the deadliest secrets in the world. But Caspar has a secret of his own. And his secret could prove more dangerous than anything the Order protects …
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I quite enjoyed Seven Secrets and apparently it's doing really well. The second printing is sold out, even.
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Skwirl posted:Walking Dead isn't Image? Skybound is Robert Kirkman's Image imprint. Lencho fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Aug 20, 2020 |
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Aug 20, 2020 20:12
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Skwirl posted:Walking Dead isn't Image? Skybound is apparently Kirkman's company which releases comics through Image. They have a few other imprints and I've never really been sure of what the difference was.
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Aug 20, 2020 20:14
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Probably just a corporate entity for adaptation rights
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So John Allison posted a four page preview of Wicked Things issue 4 on his Patreon. From the description: John Allison posted:Lottie must prove she is more than just a highly efficient tea and coffee maker in order to thwart the genius heist plan of two twin brothers. Plus: Detective Bohle gets a new face! A rare chance to see Ben Bishop, founder of Zambian! Witness some unconscionable hipster littering! Little Claire returns! COMPUTER ENHANCE! From that description I'm guessing that Detective Bohle is the woman scene on page 3, in disguise.
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Okay, I've been putting this off for ages, largely because I'm exceptionally bad at collecting my thoughts and I will procrastinate forever on anything involving writing things down. but it's high time I did this long-post on my favorite weird indie comic I've ever found. Original Man  I want to preface all of this that I have no intent on making a laugh at the content of this beyond the art and some of the sillier things within. I respect the creators' ambitions on this and I'm suprised by the attempt to try and create civil and understandable message with the character, even if it falls short. This comic is the weirdest thing that ever made it out of it's own state of publication. Hell, i'm not even sure how it got out of Kansas City, let alone out of Kansas. The reasons for this comic's creation and partly why it's so poorly produced have alot to do with WHEN it was made: 1992, the year of the L.A. race riots. The book has alot of references to deaths and headlines during the riots, and the civil unrest the country and black community as a whole felt towards the Rodney King incident, and a certain Alonzo Washington wasn't going to take it sitting down. Enter, the cover letter:  Alonzo himself says things better than I ever could, but the important excerpt: "I declare I have nothing against the brothers at Milestone Media and I am not supporting a boycott against them personally. However, I want the whole world to know that the only reason major comic book companies like DC and Marvel are even doing African American comics is because they are trying to take over a market that was created by African American Men. Companies and characters like Big City Comics, Brother Man, Hype Comics, Captain Africa, Numadian Force, and of course Omega 7 have created a market that the major companies used to say didn't exist. However, they are in the process of trying to steal our market, and most African American publishers, writers, and artists are too arrogant and stupid to see it. Ania, Milestone, and Anthony Jappa are simply trying to make money at any cost. I was kicked out of Ania for being too Pro-Black and when this happened Anthony Jappa tried to pretend we didn't have a partnership." To some degree these things sound familiar to the industry, but this comic hasn't reached the History-Repeats-Itself levels just yet. It's time to get into our first few pages of this strange comic.     So Alonzo and whatever artist he got together for making this go straight ahead into what this character is and what he's about : beating up racists and bad people. You'll notice that the art is... frankly, bad. It's being done with some of the cheapest ink pens, markers, and CRAYONS you could ever see in a released book. You'll also notice that the pages are so thin that I got bleed-through of the opposite side when I scanned this. I honestly have no idea how this made it all the way down south without being destroyed by weathering or yellowing, much less that it's in PERFECT condition. But right out of the gate, we have two named villians, The Enslaver and Aryan Avenger. This is not brought up again in the comic, but it sets the tone: don't expect ANY subtlety. We have some idea of who Original Man is: a figure from the future, and apparently a scifi utopia? it's never really brought up again much like most things in this, but that's gonna be a running theme here. There's some improvement in pages 3 and 4, notably I THINK there's no crayons. But it gets worse, as you might imagine. Time for the ads. Because you absolutely HAVE to see these ads.    I wanted to get these out of the way, because they're the funniest things in the whole book. One is a mess with a stupid looking Tim Curry demon, one of these is absolutely traced, and one is by Palmer Talley. (who I talk about below.) The problem is, I'm not sure WHERE Mighty Ace traced from. A friend said they think they recognized the Omega7 ad from somewhere, but The Mighty Ace one i'm not sure on. Maybe an album cover? If anyone recognizes what they're from, let me know. Sweet work on placing the text in after the fact, totally seamless! We'll be skipping around, as I was told not to post the whole issue. We're going to keep in the most important pages from here on.    Again, expect no subtlety. History absolutely repeats itself, and this year is part of why I really wanted to post this comic. It's astounding to me that absolutely nothing has changed since 18 years ago, but here we are. There's this mention of Mikal, but it's never explained despite Original Man saying it multiple times. He apparently is having troubles with his powers due to time travel or because of something else, though I don't think the issue explains it EXACTLY beyond it having something to do with our next named character, Dark Force I honestly don't have anything to say about that last page that can't be seen. Just look at it. Who puts speech bubbles at an ANGLE?     "You know, like that Alien in Predator?" Dark Force has three different costume designs in this one issue. Here it's almost impossible to see because of how dark he's colored. It's like this on the page in my hand, I went back and checked to be sure the scan didn't gently caress it up. Dark Force is 100% the total opposite of Original Man in tone, and his only answer to things is violence and carnage against those he feels have wronged him and African Americans as a whole. We'll get to that in a bit though. He has some sort of egyptian theme going on, and from what I gather he's basically a living ghost, atleast from the short reverse issue on this. More socio-political commentary, this time in the form of "all cops aren't bad but we need to do something about the bad ones". I think this problem is just never going to go away, but it's hard not to feel bad that it's echoed like this. Elenor Bumbhurst though... I searched around and i'm not sure who Elenor Bumbhurst is/was. I'm including this page largely because it mentions something I've not been able to really find anything out on, beyond she might've been a police brutality victim or something around the time. If anyone knows something about this, it would be nice to have a better context. I won't spoil the rest, but I do want to make specific note of my favorite part of this comic: the reverse issue.     Dark Force issue #0 is astoundingly good, with way better art by Palmer Talley and flows way better than Original Man. it's clear that Palmer knows what he's doing, even with incredibly limited tools he has on hand. We get a very good idea of who Dark Force is, and his apparent mystical ghost-like powers, and why he's using guns. Not too keen on the egypt stuff, but it works I guess. Feels like his origin is Spawn-inspired, but I actually don't know if Spawn was out when this was released. I can't get a fix on the date for this comic's release, or maybe I'm just missing it on one of the pages. Aaaand that about covers it! I basically wrote and edited this all in one sitting, so I'm sure there's errors. I just wanted to go ahead and get this done with because I meant to do this like A YEAR AGO. I know for a fact there was atleast two other issues of this, and I would GREATLY appreciate it if anyone finds them. 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Wicked Things 4 So my theory about detective Bohle going undercover to catch the Zambian phone thieves was wrong, as the police don't take Lottie's warnings seriously until after the theft has occurred. It was neat to see Lottie conducting the investigations with the police and showing them how to effectively use social media to get info. That said no progress is made towards proving her own innocence and with only two more issues to go (unless the series gets picked up as an ongoing) I feel the conclusion to Lottie's own story might be rushed.
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This was dope! Because of watching Jim Rugg talk about and show off comics like this I’m building a decent trashy indie late 80s / early 90s collection and holy moly does Original Man fit into that. I haven’t seen it or Omega7 in the wild, but if I do that’s a guaranteed buy.
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Al Ewing has a new sci-fi series on Boom! called We Only Find Them When They're Dead which is about a spaceship crew stripping dead gods for parts. It's certainly an interesting premise and he's usually reliable.
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Jordan7hm posted:This was dope! I have a few other oddballs in my collection, but this was probably the weirdest of the whole bunch. I might do a write-up on some of the more competent comics in my collection. As for collecting them, ALOT of comic book stores and such went out of business, or have sold off their indie collections in bulk to second-hand stores. Retro game stores, video store, and second-hand toy stores are the best places to check, and maybe comic stores will still have their weird backlogs.
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It is with the utmost regret that I report that Chuck Austen is back in comics, writing the Comixology original Edgeworld: Sand with Patrick Oliffe on art. It's a strange space Western, and at first glance, it looks like Austen is really working some things out after 15-ish years in children's animation. It's not bad, but I feel like it's luring the reader into a false sense of security before crazy poo poo happens.
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Preview up for Wicked Things 5
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Seven Secrets remains pretty dope.
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Finished Billionaire Island, recommend the series to anyone who enjoyed Flintstones or Prez
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So in Wicked Things 5 Lottie is helping the police investigate a series of casino heists while ignoring her own predicament regarding the murder of Kendo Miyamoto. Lottie seems confident that Miyamoto will come out of his coma and exonerate her. Meanwhile Little Claire had been working on her own investigations, talking to both Dieter Brummer (the mystery teen from Germany, whom Claire deduces is too stupid to have framed Lottie) and Maki Yamaji (Miyamoto's translator who admits to Claire that she intentionally mistranslated Lottie's conversation to Miyamoto, claiming she wanted to protect him from Lottie). I'm surprised that Maki admitted that to Claire as I was sure Maki was involved with the frame-up and wouldn't want anything that would cast suspicions on her. I wonder how Allison is going to wrap all this up in the next (and final) issue. I feel like it would be a cop-out if Lottie was proven innocent without seeing any work on her part.
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Sep 24, 2020 22:18
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The Autumnal seeming to repeat The Plot's thematic successes. Thanks, Vault Comics!
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Been on a Dan Clowes kick lately and Patience is kicking my rear end. This a sad book!
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Is anyone actually following Ed Piskor's Red Room? I think it's only available on Patreon right now, but he has posted dozens of sample panels, and it looks really disturbing and disgusting to me. It seems to be about a secret group that tortures and kills people for fans who pay to watch it live on the Internet, and it looks graphic and gross. I loved his Hip Hop Family Tree series with all my heart, didn't love X-Men: Grand Design as much as I hoped to (I ended up selling the three volumes), but Red Room looks like something I'd absolutely hate. Is there anything redeeming about it? Piskor seems to have embraced the term "Outlaw Comix," but is that just shorthand for independent comics for mature readers that are usually horror-oriented and gory? Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Sep 25, 2020 |
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Sep 25, 2020 21:10
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Is anyone actually following Ed Piskor's Red Room? I think it's only available on Patreon right now, but he has posted dozens of sample panels, and it looks really disturbing and disgusting to me. It seems to be about a secret group that tortures and kills people for fans who pay to watch it live on the Internet, and it looks graphic and gross. I watched at least a half dozen indy torture porn movie with the same story back in the 2000s.
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Erik Larsen posted a new alt cover for Savage Dragon 253. 
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ruddiger posted:Erik Larsen posted a new alt cover for Savage Dragon 253. This brings up so many arm-related questions
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I think Biden could scratch his knees without leaning over. Shins with a little dip of the shoulder.
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Andrigaar posted:I think Biden could scratch his knees without leaning over. Shins with a little dip of the shoulder. Harris is standing like Napoleon Dynamite
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Is anyone actually following Ed Piskor's Red Room? I think it's only available on Patreon right now, but he has posted dozens of sample panels, and it looks really disturbing and disgusting to me. It seems to be about a secret group that tortures and kills people for fans who pay to watch it live on the Internet, and it looks graphic and gross. This post prompted me to read the 50 or so pages that he’s released on Patreon so far. Caveat to my post: I like Piskor’s art a lot. So... there is a lot of gore, but that’s not the entirety of the book. He’s telling a pretty interesting story about a world where live-streaming snuff films on the internet is a real thing, and he’s doing the work to build out how a world like that could exist. The story is bigger than the first dozen pages make it appear and I’m actually really curious to see where he goes with it. I think this is some of the strongest art Piskor has done. The general style of the book is absolutely on point, with the faded black and white pages and the obsessive line work. He’s done some interesting stuff with the lettering, and his panel layouts are really strong - basically every page is free form, but still very readable. When he talked about this book when he was starting it Ed said he wanted to do an outlaw comic with good storytelling, and I think that’s what he’s done so far.
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Jordan7hm posted:This post prompted me to read the 50 or so pages that he’s released on Patreon so far. Caveat to my post: I like Piskor’s art a lot. He's an incredible storyteller, I love his layouts, and he's a cool dude in general. I just don't think I could enjoy it. I'm not a horror guy. I enjoyed the Scream series because they're more like whodunnit mysteries and they're so meta and deconstructive, and I liked Cabin in the Woods for the same reason, but I don't dig sadism and gore. I'm glad I introduced you to something you like, though!
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I’m the same way, but I think the format (and honestly his art style which is far from realistic) makes it pretty easy for me to just slide right past the panels that don’t appeal to me. I think this is one that will need to be assessed when it’s done.
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I want to dive into that Patreon but I also want to wait until the physical issues are out. I love his work and Cartoonist Kayfabe is one of the best things on the internet these days
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Savage Dragon 252, which was Larsen’s tribute to comic strip funnies, sold out and is heading back to press with a new cover.  The original cover was a tribute to Blondie, and each double page spread dedicated to different styles and different strips.    
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I really appreciate that Larsen went so far as to parody not just "Doonesbury," but specifically the pre-hiatus late '70s, super-dry era of the strip before Trudeau decided to start varying up his panel structure.
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Think this is the proper thread to post about the Humble Bundle Karen Giellon and Jame McKelvie Showcase Bundle Featuring The Wicked + The Divine up to Volume 9, Phonogram up to Volume 3, and Die up to Volume 2, among others.
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Artelier posted:Featuring The Wicked + The Divine up to Volume 9 For whoever doesn't know, volume 9 is the final volume, so this is the full story.
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Anyone check out Department of Truth this week? It's James Tynion's new Image book and I liked the first issue. quote:Cole Turner has studied conspiracy theories all his life, but he isn’t prepared for what happens when he discovers that all of them are true, from the JFK assassination to flat Earth theory and reptilian shapeshifters. One organization has been covering them up for generations. What is the deep, dark secret behind the Department of Truth?Bestselling writer JAMES TYNION IV (Batman, Something is Killing the Children) debuts his first Image ONGOING SERIES alongside breakout artist MARTIN SIMMONDS (Dying is Easy)!
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I thought story wise it was an alright setup but ngl I found the art to be intentionally messy in a bad way
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Yeah, I didn't like the art at all at first but I got used to it later on.
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John Allison posted a preview of Wicked Things #6 on his patreonJohn Allison posted:Some previews are sneakier than others. With 25 days until the final issue of Wicked Things comes out, this one qualifies as "upper-medium sneaky".
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Not happy John Allison does a 45 issue series and then two limited series that aren't labelled that. His last one didn't even have a proper ending.
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Skwirl posted:Not happy John Allison does a 45 issue series and then two limited series that aren't labelled that. To be fair, I think he was hoping they were both going to become ongoings like Giant Days did. I think he's been pretty clear that it was a 6-issue series unless something happened. I think Wicked Things, starring Lottie being most directly tied to Giant Days and the rest of his work was his best hope - By Night & Steeple, while still in the Bobbinsverse, are so far removed they might as well not be - but then 2020 happened.
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