Jordan7hm posted:

Some books came in the mail last week, and one of those books was bought because of this thread.

The Temple of Silence, an oversized collection of Herbert Crowley's art and comics. It's a research passion project put out by Beehive Books. I was browsing their site based on the mention here, and thought this looked absolutely stunning.



I love old and oversized comics.



I also happened to pick up two Roy Thomas collections (Barbarian Life) , which go through the first hundred issues of Conan the Barbarian issue by issue. I love Conan, he's one of my favorite characters and probably the most consistent licensed IP to ever make its way to comics. He's also an actually good use of Roy Thomas' talents (Roy's Marvel comics from the 60s and 70s were bad, except for what he did on Conan and the Conan mags).

This book also has a really weird publishing history. Apparently it's based on articles Roy wrote in English, which were then translated for a Spanish publisher. When it came time to collect the books nobody had the English versions of the essays, so they re-translated them back to English and Roy went over and cleaned them up afterwards. I kind of wonder how that plays out in some of the writing.



And lastly I got a Junji Ito book, but I think I'll wait to share that until I collect a bunch of his stuff into one post.

On a totally different note - How Wonderful!, I removed the second sentence from my earlier quote. I assume the edit was done for doxxing reasons or something. Are you ok with me leaving the rest, or would you prefer I remove it entirely?