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What comics have you been reading?

Started by irishmoxie, March 30, 2016, 10:49:35 PM

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DeCarlo Rules

Quote from: irishmoxie on February 17, 2017, 10:29:34 PM
Would I like Dead@17?

... I'm going to say probably not. It's not girlie at all, even though most of the main characters are girls. This is more like a fantasy action-movie (though looking more like a Cartoon Network action cartoon) based loosely on the biblical Book of Revelations. There's a lot of violence, but that tends to be blunted somewhat by the simple cartoon style of drawing, so I wouldn't quite call it gore. I wouldn't exactly call it horror, but if it were a live action movie it might seem that way.

Quote from: irishmoxie on February 17, 2017, 10:29:34 PM
I found some random Scooter Girl B&W issues in the 25cent bin once. Liked the art, not the story. Maybe I would like it better in color. Like Blue Monday.

That's where I first found it too, as random issues in the cheap boxes. I like Blue Monday better as well. The main thing I didn't like about it is that contrary to what you'd expect, the title character, Margaret Sheldon, isn't really the main character of the story, and we never really get to know that much about her, apart from one scene in the final chapter. That, and one other thing too complicated to get into.

Quote from: irishmoxie on February 17, 2017, 10:29:34 PMYou're back to reading Jonesy? I thought you gave up on the series.

It's borrowed. I probably wouldn't bother if there were more current comics coming out that I liked. The later issues definitely aren't as good as the earlier ones.

Quote from: irishmoxie on February 17, 2017, 10:29:34 PM
Let me know if Patsy Walker ever goes back to the girlie story it was for the first few issues of the comic. 

I don't know that it's changed all that much. The nature of this being published at Marvel means that there are always going to be a lot of appearances by other Marvel characters like She-Hulk, Jubilee, and Howard the Duck. That, and they need to get her into the costume at least once in most issues. Otherwise, it probably wouldn't continue to be published. I do kind of wish it would concentrate a little bit more on the Patsy Walker side, and less on the Hellcat side of the character, and maybe get her out of New York. I liked the earlier stuff where she was being recognized as the star of the old comic books, but they seem to have dropped that angle.

Quote from: irishmoxie on February 17, 2017, 10:29:34 PMI might try some of those Ito comics. I'm slowly getting into horror. But I like more ghost than gore.

Ito's stuff isn't ghost stories, they are "strange" stories. There's some gore, violence, and a lot of grotesque imagery, but it has this Twilight Zone/surreal weirdness quality to it. Ito rarely gives any rationale for how the paranormal elements come to exist, they're just there. There always seems to be some odd angle to the story, something that most people wouldn't imagine, yet the stories seem grounded in a fairly realistic style - but there is still some room for blackly comedic moments on occasion. He's good at drawing faces and conveying subtle expressions. He gets a lot of mileage out of the contrast between that convincing realism/normality and the more grotesque moments.


Quote from: irishmoxie on February 17, 2017, 10:29:34 PMDid you check out the Jem Annual? It has Gisele art in it.

I didn't know she was in there. There was nothing in the solicitation copy about it, and this seemed like a one-off alternate universe/fanfic take on the characters. I will check it out, though.

irishmoxie

I've been reading some romance comics. I especially like Career Girl Romances. The slang is hilarious. It's amazing to think how different the world was back then.

DeCarlo Rules

#962
Quote from: irishmoxie on February 18, 2017, 10:27:30 PM
I've been reading some romance comics. I especially like Career Girl Romances. The slang is hilarious. It's amazing to think how different the world was back then.

I like the romance reprints in IDW/YoeBooks' WEIRD LOVE. I also have a couple of trade paperback collections of romance stories where they've whited out all the dialogue balloons and captions, and completely rewritten the stories, to hilarious effect. Dan Parent's hard-to-find TP collection LOVE-O-RAMA 2000 is a modern comedic take on romance comics. The WEIRD LOVE stories are 100% genuine, unaltered, and re-presented exactly as they first appeared, but almost as bizarre. In a few instances, even more so.

irishmoxie

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on February 18, 2017, 10:38:06 PM
I also have a couple of trade paperback collections of romance stories where they've whited out all the dialogue balloons and captions, and completely rewritten the stories, to hilarious effect.


Do you remember what these are called?

DeCarlo Rules

Quote from: irishmoxie on February 18, 2017, 11:33:19 PM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on February 18, 2017, 10:38:06 PM
I also have a couple of trade paperback collections of romance stories where they've whited out all the dialogue balloons and captions, and completely rewritten the stories, to hilarious effect.


Do you remember what these are called?

TRUER THAN TRUE ROMANCE: Classic Love Stories Retold by Jeanne Martinet (Watson-Guptill, June 2001)

MARVEL ROMANCE REDUX: Another Kind of Love (by various) (Marvel, Feb. 2007)


A few other collections of (unaltered) romance comics have been published in this century, too:

ROMANCE WITHOUT TEARS: '50s Love Comics - With A Twist! by John Benson (Fantagraphics, Jan. 2003)

AGONIZING LOVE: The Golden Era of Romance Comics by Michael Barson (Harper Design, May 2011)

YOUNG ROMANCE (Jan. 2012) and YOUNG ROMANCE 2 (Mar. 2014) are two hardcover collections from Fantagraphics that reprint the Joe Simon and Jack Kirby romance stories that began the entire genre in comics. (Yes, the romance comics genre was invented by the same two men responsible for creating Captain America and ACP's Adventures of The Fly).

And of course, the aforementioned Craig Yoe's collections of WEIRD LOVE in hardcover format from IDW and YoeBooks (3 so far). The Weird Love and Young Romance collections are available in digital format as well, from Amazon and ComiXology.


The history of the genre has been chronicled in a couple of books, as well:

CONFESSIONS, ROMANCES, SECRETS, AND TEMPTATIONS: Archer St. John and the St. John Romance Comics by John Benson (Fantagraphics, May 2007) is a text history companion to Benson's earlier collection of St. John romance comics reprints, Romance Without Tears.

LOVE ON THE RACKS: A History of American Romance Comics by Michelle Nolan (McFarland, Apr. 2008) takes a broader view and encompasses the entire publishing history of the genre, from Simon & Kirby's seminal YOUNG ROMANCE in 1947, the title that started it all, to the last gasps of Marvel and DC's romance comics in the 1970s.

BettyReggie

#965
I'll read in a bit.
I read these books for 12 minutes each
Sacred Heart
My Friend Jeffrey Dahmer
Betty & Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #238
Betty & Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #242
B & V Friends Comics Annual #246
Saga #42
Invincible #132


DeCarlo Rules

#966
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on February 19, 2017, 12:41:30 AM
Quote from: irishmoxie on February 18, 2017, 11:33:19 PM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on February 18, 2017, 10:38:06 PM
I also have a couple of trade paperback collections of romance stories where they've whited out all the dialogue balloons and captions, and completely rewritten the stories, to hilarious effect.


Do you remember what these are called?

TRUER THAN TRUE ROMANCE: Classic Love Stories Retold by Jeanne Martinet (Watson-Guptill, June 2001)

MARVEL ROMANCE REDUX: Another Kind of Love (by various) (Marvel, Feb. 2007)

On a related note, I feel it's pertinent to point out that Jeanne Martinet was not the first to conceive the idea of repurposing reprints of older romance comics with newly-written, satrirical or ironic dialogue. That dubious honor belongs to John Lustig's LAST KISS.

Lustig bought the copyrights to various of the Charlton Comics Group's romance stories (among them, the comic book First Kiss) for a pittance in the 1980s, when the defunct publisher sold off its copyrights to characters and stories piecemeal. Since absolutely no market for straight romance comics reprints existed at that time, LAST KISS first began appearing as an ongoing semi-regular feature in the (also now-defunct) COMICS BUYERS' GUIDE in the late 1980s. Unlike the above trade paperbacks, LAST KISS was conceived as a humorous feature that excerpted 1-4 panels from those old Charlton romance comics with the addition of rewritten dialogue. The only time Lustig re-dialogued complete stories (and the only print appearance of LAST KISS outside of the CBG feature) was in a 4-issue series published by the obscure indy company Shanda Fantasy Arts between 2001-2003 (hard to find now, but keep an eye out as you're scouring those cheapie boxes).

You can find a complete archive of John Lustig's LAST KISS panels at http://www.lastkissinc.com/.

DeCarlo Rules

#967
POPEYE CLASSICS VOL. 9 HC (IDW) - reprints Popeye (Dell Comics) #40-44

JUGHEAD & ARCHIE JUMBO COMICS DIGEST #25

BEN 10 CLASSICS VOL. 1: BEN HERE BEFORE TP (IDW) - reprints short stories from Cartoon Network Action Pack (DC) #2-18
BEN 10 CLASSICS VOL. 2: IT'S BEN A PLEASURE TP (IDW) - reprints short stories from Cartoon Network Action Pack (DC) #19-26

BEN 10 [Alien Force] CLASSICS VOL. 3: BLAST FROM THE PAST TP (IDW) - reprints short stories from Cartoon Network Action Pack (DC) #27-46
BEN 10 ALIEN FORCE: DOOM DIMENSION VOL. 1 MMPB (Del Rey) - original graphic novel/Part 1 of 2
BEN 10 ALIEN FORCE: DOOM DIMENSION VOL. 2 MMPB (Del Rey) - original graphic novel/Part 2 of 2

BEN 10 [Ultimate Alien] CLASSICS VOL. 4: BEAUTY AND THE BEN TP (IDW) - reprints short stories from Cartoon Network Action Pack (DC) #48-56
BEN 10 [Ultimate Alien] CLASSICS VOL. 5: POWERLESS TP (IDW) - reprints short stories from Cartoon Network Action Pack (DC) #57-67

BEN 10 [Omniverse]: DEEP TROUBLE TP (IDW) - reprints Ben 10 (IDW) #1-4
BEN 10 OMNIVERSE VOL. 1: GHOST SHIP (Viz Media) - original graphic novel
BEN 10 OMNIVERSE (HCF 2013) HALLOWEEN SPECIAL (Viz Media) - minicomic
BEN 10 OMNIVERSE VOL. 2: JOYRIDES (Viz Media) - original graphic novel
BEN 10 OMNIVERSE VOL. 3: PARALLEL PARADOX (Viz Media) - original graphic novel

BettyReggie

I read these books for 12 minutes each
🎃 Archie Comics Double Digest #273
🐯 Archie 1000 Page Comics Gala
💕 Archie 1000 Page Comics 75th Anniversary Bash
🐤 Archie Giant Comics Party
⛵ Blue Is The Warmest Color
🎭 My Friend Jeffrey Dahmer
💐 Sacred Heart

irishmoxie

Quote from: BettyReggie on February 20, 2017, 06:09:35 PM
I read these books for 12 minutes each
🎃 Archie Comics Double Digest #273
🐯 Archie 1000 Page Comics Gala
💕 Archie 1000 Page Comics 75th Anniversary Bash
🐤 Archie Giant Comics Party
⛵ Blue Is The Warmest Color
🎭 My Friend Jeffrey Dahmer
💐 Sacred Heart


How is My Friend Jeffrey Dahmer? He grew up near where I'm from.

BettyReggie

#970
It's a crazy book, my brother got for me on my birthday on the 18th 2017.

BettyReggie

#971
I read each of these books for 12 minutes each
1-Blue Is The Warmest Color
2-Sacred Heart
3-My Friend Dahmer
4-Betty & Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #242
5-Archie 1000 Page Comics 75th Anniversary Bash

DeCarlo Rules

AVENGERS #4.1 (of 5)
THANOS #4
GREAT LAKES AVENGERS #5
STAR TREK/GREEN LANTERN VOL. 2 #3 (of 6)
DETECTIVE COMICS #951
WONDER WOMAN #17
JUGHEAD #13
ASTRO CITY #41
SHE-WOLF #6
TANK GIRL: GOLD #4 (of 4)
SCOOBY-DOO TEAM UP #23
BATMAN '66 MEETS WONDER WOMAN '77 #2 (of 6)
FUTURE QUEST #10 (of 12)
KAMANDI CHALLENGE #2 (of 12)
KONG OF SKULL ISLAND #8

irishmoxie

Archie #17 - Classic Cheryl shenanigans. A favorite issue that could be read as a standalone. I only wish there was a Cheryl reprint in the back instead of Riverdale character bios.

BettyReggie


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