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Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006

Vincent posted:

I'm cautious. So far it seems Moon was the one good movie he made.

I really enjoyed Source Code, too. The end set it up perfectly for a sequel or TV series, so I was disappointed we never got another story.

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Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006

Madkal posted:

Hey guys, there is this place called your local library and they carry graphic novels (and sometimes comics too) and the people that work there are generally very nice and the books there are free. So if you have kids who want to read some comics that is where I would recommend going.

Thanks for this. I'm a librarian, and I am still a regular public library user as well. Probably 85% of what I check out is graphic novels and TPBs, both in print and e-book format through the free HooplaDigital service they offer.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006
Has anyone ever been to HeroesCon in Charlotte, North Carolina? I live in Florida and usually go to Orlando MegaCon (less than a month away), but the guest list is a little sparse this year. I often think about traveling to a bigger, better con with more creators I love, to get books signed.

HeroesCon is in mid-June when work is slow, and I'll have plenty of PTO hours I will lose at the end of June. For the first time ever, I checked out the HUGE guest list, and it has lots of my favorite people, most of whom I've never met before:
https://www.heroesonline.com/heroescon/guests/

J.M. DeMatteis!
Matt Fraction!
Rob Guillory!
Kevin Maguire! (I've met him twice over the years, but still have plenty more books for him to sign.)
Ed Piskor!
Mark Waid!

And Bob Hall, who I have just one comic for: Marvel Team-Up #74, where Spider-Man meets the Saturday Night Live Not Ready For Prime Time Players. It came out the year I was born, and it was the one comic I brought Chris Claremont (the writer) to sign a few years ago. Everyone else was wheeling in boxes of X-Men comics, ready to pay $5 per signature, so I blew his mind presenting him with that one book. He got a real kick out of it. Hall was the penciller, and I think it would be so cool to get both of their signatures on it.

I can get a flight for around $155, round trip, nonstop both ways, to arrive early on the Friday OR Saturday morning and to leave the same evening, whichever day I choose. I wouldn't even need a room, and I'd have one carry-on rolling bag, absolutely stuffed with books for those guys. It will be an exhausting day, but it might be totally worth it.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Apr 24, 2019

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006

Endless Mike posted:

I haven't been, HeroesCon is generally regarded as one of the best cons for fans.

You could also consider DragonCon in Atlanta if you're into cosplay.

Definitely NOT into cosplay. I just like meeting creators, getting my comics signed, and finding the occasional bargain. I am so impressed HeroesCon is still all about comics, as opposed to pretty much every other "nerd pop culture con" now.

Argh, so tempted!

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006
Well, I bought my plane ticket to Charlotte, NC, for Heroes Con! I'm just going on the Friday -- arriving around 10 AM so I'll hopefully get to the convention center around 11 when it opens, and flying home that night. They don't sell single-day tickets advance, but I called the comic shop that runs the con, and they said there's absolutely no danger of it selling out.

All the books I wanted to bring don't fit in my roll-aboard bag, and it was about 80 pounds when I weighed it -- too heavy to bring as a carry-on. So I'm going to have to make some tough choices and also bring a backpack as my additional "personal item." My priorities are meeting DeMatteis (already met Giffen and Maguire), Fraction, Waid, Piskor, and Guillory, in that order.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006
Several months ago, I mentioned that I had written a scholarly article about what lessons Daredevil comics can teach about legal ethics and the legal system in general, especially to an audience of non-lawyers. It was finally published online today, in the Capital University Law Review. I'm a tenure-track law librarian, and getting scholarly articles written and published is one of the necessary requirements for tenure, which means you either get more job security and stability, or you get fired.

Based on getting the article accepted for publication (and the other stuff I do, like teaching classes and chairing committees), our faculty voted to award me tenure earlier this year. And now, after months of editing (both from me and the law review staff), it's finally out. I don't know if anyone here would be interested in reading it, but I promise you the source material is much more exciting than my article. I cited Frank Miller, Brian Michael Bendis, David Hine, Mark Waid, and especially Charles Soule's Daredevil comics extensively, so the article does contain some spoilers from all of their runs.

Best of all, I am planning to meet Charles Soule at MegaCon this weekend, both to get him to sign all my Daredevil and She-Hulk TPBs, and to give him a copy of this article (in a nice red folder) and thank him. He's an attorney himself, so hopefully he'll get it. His DD comics in particular inspired me to write this, so I feel like I owe him and all those other creators my job.

Here it is, all 56 whopping pages: https://www.capitallawreview.org/ar...-legal-practice

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006
Thanks, but if they decide they want to get rid of me, nothing can really stop them.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006

CapnAndy posted:

Thus making you the first person in recorded history to have their life improved by working with Daredevil. Congrats!

Rhyno posted:

Oh snap.

Big congrats to Lou, we're FB friends so I've been following his progress on this and his achievement here is just fantastic.

JordanKai posted:

I'm gonna read it!!

Hey, thanks to all of you, seriously. It can't possibly live up to all the hype I'm giving it, but I'm pretty proud and extremely relieved right now. And I can't tell you how much I appreciate BSS as a place to talk about comics online with smart and good people.

I met Charles Soule at MegaCon today and gave him a copy, which he asked ME to sign, as he signed all my Daredevil and She-Hulk TPBs. We took a couple of pictures together and chatted for a few minutes, which meant so much to me.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 05:28 on May 18, 2019

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006
I'm packed for my crazy, quick-turnaround trip to HeroesCon in Charlotte tomorrow. My flight should arrive around 10:15 AM, hopefully I can get to the convention center by 11, and my flight home boards at 7:45 PM. Just within the last week, they announced Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis are doing a Justice League International panel at 5 PM, so I should be able to go to that and then grab a cab or a Lyft straight to the airport with time to spare.

So far, Mark Waid, Kevin Maguire, and Chip Zdarsky have canceled from the list of creators I wanted to meet, but at least I've met Maguire before. I'm still planning to meet DeMatteis (the main reason I'm attending), Giffen (I've met him before, and he already patiently signed all my JLI-related books), Matt Fraction, Ed Piskor, Rob Guillory, Bart Sears, Tommy Lee Edwards, and Bob Hall. It should be an exhausting day, but I'm really looking forward to it.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006
Back home from a whirlwind day at HeroesCon in Charlotte, NC, and it was so much better than our local Orlando MegaCon. This one was smaller and much less crowded (at least on a Friday), but it was all about comics and comic creators. Minimal cosplay, hardly any anime, very few Funko Pops, no C-list celebrities, and our latest MegaCon last month even had a special area for Youtube personalities! Plus, only a few dealers had any comics at all at MegaCon, but there were plenty to be found at HeroesCon. Even the staff and volunteers were so much better at HeroesCon. It's all organized by one well-regarded Charlotte comic shop, rather than a big corporate affair.

I met Keith Giffen (again), J.M. DeMatteis, Matt Fraction, Rob Guillory, Ed Piskor, Michel Fiffe, and Bob Hall, and attended Giffen and DeMatteis' hilarious and curmudgeonly Justice League panel. It was an exhausting day, but I'm so glad I went.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006
Are there any can't-miss comic shops in Washington D.C., especially with good selections of older action figures?

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006

Endless Mike posted:

Nope. There's exactly two shops inside the District (Fantom Comics on P St. in Dupont and Big Planet Comics on U St.) and they're both quite small. Friendly, good shops, but not really what you're looking for, I don't think. If you have a car, Victory Comics in Falls Church, VA might be more what you want, but I wouldn't make a special trip for it.

Thank you very much! I'll be there for a work conference from Friday until Tuesday, but I won't have a car, and my free time to play tourist will be very limited. That settles that!

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006
Does anyone's comic shop have the Mister Miracle hardcover? It came out in May, but I called ten local shops, and none of them ever got it. I've even been to two conventions this summer, and nobody was selling it.

It would be an August birthday gift for my best friend. I have the TPB and loved it (and got Tom King and Mitch Gerads to sign it while he stood by), but he only collects hardcovers, so he still hasn't even read it. If anyone could hook me up, I'd be grateful, and I'll pay you immediately via Paypal.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006

Open Marriage Night posted:

poo poo, man. I wanted to get it for my own birthday in August, but shops can’t even order it anymore. I’ll let you know if I ever hear of a way to get one. It has a really cool cover.

Thank you, and good luck to you too!

Zachack posted:

We're talking about the black "Darksied Is" cover with MM pushing up a corner?

Yeah, that's it. A homage to the classic Chuck Jones "Duck Amuck" cartoon.

It looks like a gorgeous book, but even though I preordered one in April, NOBODY got it in.

Yeah, I saw a few copies on eBay (not very many) for scalper prices already.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006

Archyduchess posted:

This is really apropos of nothing but the details of it are pedantic enough that I feel like I'd be better off posting it here than anywhere else.

A friend of mine died early this week, really suddenly. He was a disability studies scholar who'd dealt with chronic illness his whole life, but this seemed to have come out of nowhere. He was two weeks shy of his 51st birthday, and had been a hardcore comics guy since childhood. We'd get lunch on campus and talk about stuff like Peter Gillis' career just because we knew nobody else was, and it was fun to turn over neglected stumps in comics history and see what was wriggling around underneath. He was the one committed Garth Ennis apologist I'd willingly break bread with, and for his part he patiently humored me whenever I felt like haranguing him about the queer genius of late-period Claremont. In an infamously contentious and paranoid department, he was beloved by everyone-- students, faculty, staff, everyone. I barely see the point of taking the elevator down from my office anymore, knowing it'll never again open up on him singing Brecht to nobody in particular.

In an era in academia when "eccentric" is too often a dog whistle for "abusive and unreliable but tenured" he was a true, classic, old-school eccentric-- someone whose passion for learning overflowed constantly into weird, joyful exuberance, someone whose curiosity and wit didn't obey doctrinal lines or the narrow lanes of professionalization.

Anyway, last night my wife and I went over to his home to keep his widow company, cook dinner, and do whatever she needed. We wound up sorting through the massive piles of paper in his office for most of the night remembering what a weird, charming guy he was, separating out all the relics decade-old pull lists mingled in with old student papers, abandoned drafts of letters to his family, receipts for kombucha, print-outs of old listserv arguments, a magnificently cranky mid-80s argument with Sondheim, etc.. But I kept glancing up at this Alan Davis Excalibur poster hanging up in his office, nicely framed with all the odd-ball 90s Excalibur characters on it-- Cerise, Kylun, Widget, Micromax, just a weird snapshot of the time. It made me feel weirdly peaceful to think of him sitting at his desk, writing about crip theory and crime fiction and glancing up at Nightcrawler and co. once in awhile.

If anybody has any information about this particular poster, I'd love to be able to track it down further. The one site I found listing it (but not selling it) said it was included in Excalibur #124, which doesn't make sense because I think that was the very end of the Ben Raab run. I feel like leveraging my grief into a nerdy hunt for decades-old minutia is something he would have appreciated.

Here are Davis' pencils for it. If nothing else, I think it's a beautiful showcase of his talents.


Archyduchess, I'm so sorry for your loss. That was beautifully-written, as usual.

Would you mind dropping me an e-mail when and if you have a moment? I'm saxman2 AT hotmail DOT com.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006
So at some point this evening, my free month-long Marvel Unlimited subscription ended. But I made the most of it, and I appreciated the recommendations I got over in the Recommendations thread.

Over the last month (while not reading anything else for pleasure), I read:

Daredevil by Ann Nocenti and John Romita Jr. #236, 238-291
Mystery Men by David Liss and Patrick Zircher #1-4
Multiple Man by Matthew Rosenberg #1-5 (one of the only things that left me cold)
Uncanny X-Men by Chris Claremont and Marc Silvestri, Jim Lee, etc. #235-280
New Mutants #87-88, 95-97 (X-Tinction Agenda crossovers)
X-Factor #60-62 (X-Tinction Agenda crossovers), 67-71
Spider-Woman by Dennis "Hopeless" Hallum and Javier Rodriguez #1, 5-10 (the good stuff starts with #5), #1-17
The Twelve by J. Michael Straczynski and Chris Weston #1-12
All-New Hawkeye by Jeff Lemire and Ramon Perez #1-5, #1-6
Hawkeye by Kelly Thompson and Leonardo Romero #1-16
Generations: Hawkeye & Hawkeye #1 by Kelly Thompson
Amazing Spider-Man by David Michelinie and Todd McFarlane #298-325, 328

I had hoped to read the Nocenti Daredevil run, the post-Fraction Hawkeye material, and the modern Spider-Woman stuff, and I really enjoyed all of it.

I liked Mystery Men and The Twelve a lot, after reading the first TPB of The Twelve probably over a decade ago and not remembering anything.

The Uncanny X-Men was a deep dive into the past, in order to prepare me for the final volume of Ed Piskor's X-Men: Grand Design (I should be getting mine on Tuesday), and because I jumped into Uncanny with #272 as a middle schooler and wasn't able to afford many back issues prior to that. Almost all of this was new to me, and I think it aged pretty well, for the most part. I figured I'd start during the Australian Outback era with the introduction of Genosha, since I knew X-Tinction Agenda was all about that. Claremont really was a master of juggling a huge cast and setting up plot threads that would pay off years down the line. And Jim Lee's art was glorious from the very beginning. I know he put an end to that look of hers, but Psylocke's pink and purple armor/cape/hood/mask costume is still an all-time favorite.

I also jumped on the McFarlane bandwagon with Spider-Man #1 back then, and his Amazing back issues were out of my price range. I only ever had two of those issues back in the day, that I got from some really lucky trading. I realize now that even though he revolutionized drawing Spider-Man, co-created Venom and drew him better than anyone since, and drew the gently caress out of the Prowler (completely ripping off his look for Spawn), his human faces and bodies were pretty exaggerated to the point of looking grotesque.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006

Skwirl posted:

She created Typhoid Mary, didn't she?

Yup!

Archyduchess posted:

Nocenti's Daredevil is so weird and so beautiful, it really meanders and gets lost but it isn't really like anything else, and I think for whatever with JRjr her super lurid and lyrical scripting style lands a lot better and feels a lot more bespoke than with roughly contemporaneous stuff like the incomprehensible Longshot mini.

It felt like an early '90s Vertigo book to me, with all the surreal and supernatural elements and the general sleazy, seamy, atmosphere of a Hell's Kitchen that felt like Hell on Earth.

There were a lot of metaphysical musings amid the Frank Miller-esque urban noir "misery porn." Blackheart and Mephisto kept showing back up to test and torture Matt, and the "Inferno" crossover had the dangerous, hopeless city literally come alive to brutally murder innocent inhabitants, with Daredevil unable to help much there. There were lots of other Miller-esque touches -- Typhoid Mary most of all, the "virgin/whore" dichotomy rolled into one character, and her obvious sexual relationship with Wilson Fisk while she tried to seduce Matt away from Karen Page. Nocenti even threw in a genetically-modified Barbie-like bimbo created in a lab and an angry feminist/activist character to play off her. And to make things weirder, Nocenti took Matt out of New York and sent him on the road to rediscover himself after "Born Again," where he sometimes seemed like a side character in whatever bizarre psychodramas she wanted to tell.

It was all new to me, and it must have been groundbreaking, discomforting material back in the late '80s, especially following "Born Again," arguably the greatest Daredevil story of all time. Other than that, I don't know enough about Nocenti as a writer to recognize her distinct stylistic traits, like how I always recognize Miller, Claremont, Ellis, Bendis, Brubaker, etc. But as a big Daredevil fan, I was really surprised by how much I liked this run, and how it aged pretty well.

I read her Longshot miniseries a few years ago because I'm a giant Arthur Adams fan, and I had never gotten around to reading it. I found it frustrating and disappointing. "Incomprehensible" is the perfect word, especially since I liked Longshot in Claremont's Uncanny X-Men and later in David's X-Factor, and always thought Mojo was an interesting, creepy, gross X-Men villain. Even Adams' art (his first published job) was pretty disappointing, but he would be amazing shortly after that, in the New Mutants Special and Uncanny X-Men Annual where they all go to Asgard. I loved those comics so much when I was a kid.

I forgot that I also binge-read a short J.M. DeMatteis Daredevil story arc (#344-350), about Matt having another mental break and dealing with a really gross serial killer called "Sir," who happened to be a strong and violent woman who was so obsessed with masculinity that she identified as a man and forgot she was a woman. It was extremely problematic, on top of being a bad story with some particularly ugly art. And I usually love DeMatteis' work.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 07:20 on Aug 25, 2019

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006
Wow.

And I thought I was a Daredevil scholar!

That was awesome.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006

CPL593H posted:

Do ebay buyers lose their loving minds if you bag without boarding or is this a case by case basis?

Just be really specific about what you're including (bags, boards, both, or neither) so nobody can throw a tantrum or claim they were disappointed or ripped off.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006

CPL593H posted:

When I sell poo poo I make sure to describe in autistic detail everything that must be known about the item so no one whines. So far it's worked. Basically it's much less of a hassle to not board all issues because it can't fit into a flat rate box with the boards. I'm selling the complete series of the Boys by Garth Ennis so it's about 90 books with the miniseries. I'm boarding the first six issues because they're the most valuable.

I've felt for a while that I had outgrown Preacher (and Ennis in general), so I just sold my nine Preacher TPBs to an old college dorm friend for a reasonable $60. I enjoyed it back around 2001 when I binge-read the series, but I felt only relief having them gone.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006
Heeeey, I just noticed I have a Donald Duck avatar with some non-sequitur text. What did I do to deserve that, and how long have I had it? I usually set it so I can't see the avatars.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006

pastis posted:

I found out today that I’m getting my books back. A detective called and left a voicemail that he’s processing my books through evidence and I should be able to come get them shortly. The moving man is now in jail with felony theft and the comic shop that resold my books was able to (or compelled to) track down the buyers of my stolen books.

Take pics of your valuables, folks. You never know when you’ll need to provide some sort of evidence that you actually owned something for a decade.

I'm so happy for you! That's incredible. I was rooting for you, but wasn't expecting such a positive outcome.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006
I am desperately trying to track down the out-of-print Marvel Premiere Classic hardcover called X-Force: A Force to be Reckoned With (for a gift). It collects New Mutants #98-100 and X-Force #1-4, so you can guess why it is proving difficult to find for a fair price.

Does anyone have a good copy they would sell, or a local shop that still has it at cover price?

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006

Random Stranger posted:

The dividing line between stylized and poo poo is "Does the artist take advantage of their style?" Quitely falls on the "yes" side of that. His lumpy faces are expressive lumpy faces. You'll also note that Quitely is good at staging a scene, framing his panels, and a lot of the other subtle things that weak comic book artists have trouble with.

I am not a Quitely fan because of those aforementioned lumpy faces, but I agree he is fantastic with backgrounds and other details. His overall sense of storytelling is top-tier, but I can't get over the way he draws his people.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006

Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:

I am desperately trying to track down the out-of-print Marvel Premiere Classic hardcover called X-Force: A Force to be Reckoned With (for a gift). It collects New Mutants #98-100 and X-Force #1-4, so you can guess why it is proving difficult to find for a fair price.

Does anyone have a good copy they would sell, or a local shop that still has it at cover price?

Just bumping this, in case anyone has one or has seen out out in the wild recently.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006
Today I answered a reference question for Kelly Thompson on Twitter. She had been agonizing since 3 AM, trying to think of an actor, but she had only the vaguest clues -- she couldn't think of a single thing he had been in. She had hundreds of followers trying to name every possible person, but she knew who they weren't. I showed up and nailed it, and she was pretty happy with me.

"Who's that guy from that thing?" is one of my favorite reference questions to answer as a librarian. Years ago, I figured out some Goon here on the SomethingAwful dot com forums was trying to think of William Fichtner, and today it was Craig Bierko.

She promised to send me signed comics!

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006

Gripweed posted:

Yeah, they were there just long enough to establish that they had no loving idea how to deal with something like that

And then the JLI stayed in the Doom Patrol's trippy, surreal headquarters briefly during "Breakdowns," late in the Giffen/DeMatteis era.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006

Gavok posted:

Thunderbolts and maybe Stormwatch.

Agreed, except I would have said Stormwatch and maybe Thunderbolts.

Congrats again, Gavok! We just celebrated our tenth anniversary. Sounds like you had an awesome wedding, and now the key is to try to make every day just as pleasant. Obviously it won't always happen, but you both keep trying no matter what.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006

Gripweed posted:

It's funny that when the comic collector market really took off in the 90s people were grabbing up copies of copies of Spider-Man or Superman that were produced in such numbers for the collector's market they would never appreciate in value, when the wise collector would've been investing in comics that would actually become rare and valuable in the future.



And somehow the most disturbing thing about that cover is that nobody, at any step along the way, realized that apostrophe doesn't belong in "101st."

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006

drrockso20 posted:

I had an idea for an Avengers run that would involve a sizable chunk of the team being former villains, among them would be finally fixing that bullshit about Sandman getting turned into a villain again

There's a history of that, what with "Cap's Kooky Quartet" (Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, and Quicksilver), plus Songbird. I'm a real sucker for villains reforming and seeking redemption. Still hoping the MCU does something cool with Zemo, Ghost, and even Vulture to redeem them.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006
Is it controversial to say that except for a brief Roger Stern run in the mid-'80s, I never liked any Avengers comics until Bendis started New Avengers in 2004?

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006

Archyduchess posted:

I'd argue that Simonson's run was super promising and just never had a chance to really come into its own.

Now that I haven't read, but if you liked it, it must have been worthwhile. I don't think I've ever gotten around to reading Simonson, including his famous Thor run.

One of the biggest slogs I've ever read was Kurt Busiek's Avengers Forever, which was clearly steeped in such continuity porn that I'm sure most of the significance flew over my head. It was worse than Crisis on Infinite Earths, worse even than Roy Thomas comics.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006

Zachack posted:

Not even the old Lee stuff?

Fully admit I haven't read those, but my public library's Hoopla digital service has Avengers Masterworks Vol. 1-5, so that means at some point I can read #1-50 (which covers Lee and at least part of Thomas). Maybe that's how I'll spend my Winter Break.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006
Has anyone ever read Wasteland? It was a mature readers horror anthology comic published by DC from 1987 to 1989, and it was co-written by Suicide Squad scribe John Ostrander and the late improv comedy legend Del Close. I've always been fascinated by the idea of it, because I liked Suicide Squad so much, but especially because I'm a comedy nerd. Before he passed away in 1999, Close taught so many influential figures who came up from the Chicago comedy scene between the '70s and the '90s -- Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, John Candy, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, all the way up to Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Bob Odenkirk.

Wasteland ran for 18 issues, but was never collected, and it's something I never see in my local shops' ever-shrinking back issue bins. Horror is one of my least-favorite genres in general, but I'm wondering if this was more of a Twilight Zoney or satirical horror series, given Close's comedy credentials and Ostrander being a drat underrated writer for most of his career. (His Suicide Squad had a lot of much-needed comic relief in it too). I read A LOT of DC books during that era, which was late elementary school for me -- especially my beloved Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League titles. I remember a creepy, Vertigo-esque house ad for Wasteland, featuring a live fish swimming inside an hourglass, with its water slowly dripping away to the compartment below.

As a lifelong comic and toy collector, I always enjoy the feeling of having things out there I'm looking to collect that are hard to find, just out of my grasp, things I'd happily purchase if I could find them for the right deal, but I'm not fiending to track them down ASAP or pay inflated prices for them. Maybe in the next decade, Wasteland can give me that feeling again -- but only if it's worth the wait and the hunt!

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006

Rhyno posted:

I wish there was a market for collected editions of that kind of stuff. I'd love to have it on my bookshelf.

DC barely collects its critically-acclaimed material like JLI/A/E, Starman, and Sandman Mystery Theatre. That's why I bound my complete runs of those series into custom hardcovers, because I never had faith in them to collect everything in nice enough, complete enough editions. One of these days I'll get my complete Suicide Squad run bound too.

Jordan7hm posted:

I didn’t realize piranha press was DC. I think I’ve got some decent stuff from that imprint, but for the life of me I can’t remember what it had.

I went through a huge Kyle Baker phase about 15 years ago, and found an early oversized printing of his Why I Hate Saturn graphic novel from Piranha Press. I also had The Cowboy Wally Show (earlier and lesser-known, but hilarious) and You Are Here, both in the same oversized format, and a regular comic-sized graphic novel of I Die At Midnight. I really enjoyed all four of those and wish I still had them. He's one hell of a cartoonist.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Dec 30, 2019

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006

Jordan7hm posted:

Yeah the stuff I have from that imprint is Kyle Baker.

He’s so drat good. I just grabbed a bunch of Shadow books with the pairings of Hester & Baker and Hester & Sienkiewicz. That late 80s period is my favorite in terms of cool old poo poo you can find in the cheap bins.

I used to have those Shadow issues too! Man, they must have all gone in the same collection purge. Now the only Shadow issues I still have are the Howard Chaykin miniseries that predated the Andy Helfer series you mentioned, and I got Chaykin to sign them.

You and I have very similar tastes. I'm guessing we must be around the same age.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006
Compiled from https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-award-recipients-2010-present:

quote:


Past Eisner Award recipients for Best Educational/Academic/Scholarly Work:

2012 Eisner Awards (for works published in 2011)
Best Educational/Academic Work (tie): Cartooning: Philosophy & Practice, by Ivan Brunetti (Yale University Press) and Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby, by Charles Hatfield (University Press of Mississippi)

2013 Eisner Awards (for works published in 2012)
Best Educational/Academic Work: Lynda Barry: Girlhood Through the Looking Glass, by Susan E. Kirtley (University Press of Mississippi)

2014 Eisner Awards (for work published in 2013)
Best Scholarly/Academic Work: Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation, edited by Sheena C. Howard and Ronald L. Jackson II (Bloomsbury)

2015 Eisner Awards (for work published in 2014)
Best Scholarly/Academic Work: Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews, edited by Sarah Lightman (McFarland)

2016 Eisner Awards (for works published in 2015)
Best Academic/Scholarly Work: The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art, edited by Frances Gateward and John Jennings (Rutgers)

2017 Eisner Awards (for works published in 2016)
Best Academic/Scholarly Work: Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation, by Carolyn Cocca (Bloomsbury)

2018 Eisner Awards (for works published in 2017)
Best Academic/Scholarly Work: Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics, by Frederick Luis Aldama (University of Arizona Press)

2019 Eisner Awards (for works published in 2018)
Best Academic/Scholarly Work: Sweet Little C*nt: The Graphic Work of Julie Doucet, by Anne Elizabeth Moore (Uncivilized Books)



Notice anything? All the past winners have been monographs, or in other words, books.

Last year, my 56-page scholarly article about Daredevil was published in a periodical law review. That means this is probably the only year in my life I'll ever have created something that is eligible for an Eisner Award, so I'm going to submit it for consideration in the Best Academic/Scholarly Work category. If I'm lucky, the Eisner Awards Nominating Committee will take a publication from a periodical seriously alongside all these monographs.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Jan 11, 2020

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Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006
Thanks for your interest and support, folks. I was up late composing the perfect(?) cover letter, and I mailed it out today!

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