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DeCarlo Rules

#495
Quote from: steveinthecity on August 02, 2016, 11:04:15 PM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on August 02, 2016, 08:51:00 PMIt did make me wonder what an Archie reboot done by Chynna Clugston might have been like. They should have asked her, or maybe someone like Bryan Lee O'Malley (SCOTT PILGRIM) or even Scott McCloud (ZOT!, UNDERSTANDING COMICS).
Sounds cool. I'll add Blue Monday to my pickup list this month.  A Scott McCloud Archie is intriguing.  I enjoyed Zot! and Eclipse in general. (DNAgents and I think Crossfire were favorites.)  Also, whatever happened to Cat Y.? Did she just retire from comics after the company shut down?  I first remember her as a prolific LOC contributor.

I should perhaps make clear that the Image trade paperback is reprinting (for the first time in color) the first Blue Monday three-issue miniseries originally published by Oni Press in 2000 (and a half-dozen shorter stories that preceded it). Image plans to release the second volume trade collection in October, followed by a third in January, and a fourth in April. They then plan to serialize a previously-unfinished miniseries (the first issue of which was published by Oni Press in 2008) and complete it, followed by a hardback omnibus, "Germfree Adolescents" collecting the Blue Monday series in its entirety. They also plan to reissue Clugston's SCOOTER GIRL six-issue miniseries as a color trade collection in December.

From 1993-2007, Cat Yronwode worked in the production department for the small publisher Claypool Comics, best known for publishing a long-running series (166 issues) based on ELVIRA, MISTRESS OF THE DARK. She currently operates an online business called The Lucky Mojo Curio Shop devoted to occult and new age topics, and continues to write books on those subjects.

BettyReggie

#496
I just read my digital copy of Jughead #8, I give it an A plus but sadly No Reggie. I hope he is in the next issue.

DeCarlo Rules

#497
JUGHEAD #8 - Mrs. Weatherbee is a pretty black woman who looks 10-15 years younger than her husband, and drives a sexy-looking sports car?
CAPTAIN KID #1 - Another Mark Waid idea, a middle-aged guy who turns into a super-powered kid hero (Billy Batson/Captain Marvel in reverse). Not as interesting as I thought it would be. Probably won't continue unless #2 is a lot better than the first.
SQUADRON SUPREME #10 - I just like the way James Robinson writes.
PUNISHER #4 - Much better than the last few Punisher series Marvel published. I love Steve Dillon's artwork, and Becky Cloonan writes a pretty gritty Punisher story.
MOON KNIGHT #5 - Somewhat confused now, by the ending of this story arc...
UNCANNY X-MEN #11 - I skipped a bunch of these because they were crossover stories, now I don't know if I'll be able to pick up the thread again. I'll give it another issue or two.
TWILIGHT ZONE: THE SHADOW #4 (OF 4) - Rod Serling knows what evil lurks in the heart of The Shadow. Excellent execution of an unusual concept.
LOBSTER JOHNSON: METAL MONSTERS OF MIDTOWN #3 (OF 3) - All of these are consistently top-notch.
GUNS OF THE BLACK BAT #1 (OF 3) - This teams the Black Bat up with four other public domain pulp heroes: The Moon Man, Airboy, The Skull Killer, and the Golden Amazon, against alien invaders collaborating with the Nazis.
TANK GIRL: 2 GIRLS 1 TANK #3 (OF 4)
JONESY #5 - May be starting to lose interest in this one.
KILL OR BE KILLED #1 - The start of another new Ed Brubaker/Sean Phillips series. I get all of these, and am never disappointed.
KNIGHTS OF THE ZODIAC (SAINT SEIYA) VOL. 8, 9 (2006) - Another superhero manga, with mythological/cosmic elements, from the mid-1980s.
GODZILLA: OBLIVION #1-5 - The worst Godzilla comic IDW has done so far. Boring story, with lackluster artwork. Nice covers, though.

BettyReggie

#498
It's funny that they never mentioning Mr. Weatherbee having a wife before. He has no children. Just a niece named Wendy & a twin brother named Tony who is Wendy's father. I wonder if we even see Wendy in Jughead title or even in Archie's title? When we ever see Ethel or Trula again?

steveinthecity

Quote from: BettyReggie on August 03, 2016, 04:06:49 PM
It's funny that they never mentioning Mr. Weatherbee having a wife before. He has no children. Just a niece named Wendy & a twin brother named Tony who is Wendy's father. I wonder if we even see Wendy in Jughead title or even in Archie's title? When we ever see Ethel or Trula again?
Mr. Weatherbee has had a wife before on at least two occasions(as I recall)in classic Archie.  You'll have to give me time to dig those stories out.
Comics!

rusty

I'm catching up on Dark Horse comics this week as well as a few Marvels

today included -

Abe Sapien, Baltimore, BPRD, Hellboy, Joe Golem, Lobster Johnson, Angel & Faith from Dark Horse

Spider-Gwen, Spider-Woman, Silk, Spider-Man 2099 and Spidey from Marvel

DeCarlo Rules

Quote from: steveinthecity on August 03, 2016, 06:15:13 PM
Quote from: BettyReggie on August 03, 2016, 04:06:49 PM
It's funny that they never mentioning Mr. Weatherbee having a wife before. He has no children. Just a niece named Wendy & a twin brother named Tony who is Wendy's father. I wonder if we even see Wendy in Jughead title or even in Archie's title? When we ever see Ethel or Trula again?
Mr. Weatherbee has had a wife before on at least two occasions(as I recall)in classic Archie.  You'll have to give me time to dig those stories out.

I remember those old stories with Weatherbee's wife (but not the titles or where they appeared).

As for Ethel, and to some degree the Moose/Midge couple, I can see where those characters might need a complete overhaul for the 21st century.

BettyReggie

#502
After lunch I have to catch up & read some Betty & Veronica #1's
I read
Betty & Veronica #1-Moritat
Archie #10-Elliot

DeCarlo Rules

#503
SHADOW LADY: DANGEROUS LOVE (Vol. 1)
SHADOW LADY: THE AWAKENING (Vol. 2)
SHADOW LADY: SUDDEN DEATH (Vol. 3)

by Masakazu Katsura. Basically a magical girl series for boys, like Go Nagai's CUTIE HONEY, to which it bears some similarities. It sort of has that "making it up as I go along" quality, where the character and backstory hadn't been completely thought out to begin with, but developed as it went along. That probably has a lot to do with the nature of how stories are serialized in short installments published weekly or bi-weekly in manga anthologies in Japan, with the creators working under very tight deadlines. About halfway through the entire series, the tone shifts away from a playful adventure-themed romantic comedy to a more serious dramatic manga, and the pacing could have been a little better. The final half of the story seems a little compressed from what may have originally been intended as a longer run of chapters, and there are some inconsistencies in that latter half of the story. Some of those little inconsistencies might have been glossed over by the translators if they'd taken the time to edit a bit. For example, it's mentioned in a caption that Shadow Lady has six "expert transformation" forms, but only three of them are ever shown. Later on, Shadow Lady takes on the task of retrieving what is originally depicted as five Demon Stones, but later bits of dialogue seem to indicate six, or possibly even seven stones. However, ultimately she's only shown attempting to retrieve three of them, while the never-seen ones are simply referred to in a dialogue balloon as "the others were easy". That sort of left me wondering if there might have been a few missing chapters of the original story that Dark Horse and Studio Proteus failed to translate, perhaps in some attempt to fit the whole story into a certain number of pages for the American translation, or whether Masakazu Katsura had left them out of the original Japanese version. It was still a fun read, and I enjoyed Katsura's artwork.

DeCarlo Rules

GRIP: THE STRANGE WORLD OF MEN by Gilbert Hernandez (Dark Horse, hardcover) - By far the strangest thing by him I've ever read. Hallucinogenic, stream-of-consciousness, or just plain incoherent... your guess is as good as mine. It's hard to know exactly what to make of this one, but it's pretty out there. I've felt that before with a few of Gilberto's previous graphic novels, but never quite to this degree. I don't mind him invoking some SF or fantasy ideas, or even horror or crime fiction, so long as it's explained in a way that's convincing enough and makes some logical sense. Unfortunately, there's not much in the way of character relationships (his strong suit) to glue the rest of the pieces together.

DeCarlo Rules

#505
BLACK BLIZZARD by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (D&Q, 2010) - This 127-page graphic novel was originally published in Japan in 1956, and is a crime story about 2 fugitives chained together on the run after a landslide wrecks the train they're being transported on. While still primitive in style on a draftsmanship level, it's pretty advanced (for 1956) in terms of the maturity of the story and storytelling technique, with lots of varying angles and compositions of panels, clearly influenced by cinema. It's kind of funny that up until just a decade or two ago, Americans were debating what could be called the first true graphic novel, but the Japanese had been publishing long-form, original "story manga" (as it was called) as a matter of course since at least the late 1940s.

WONDER MOMO: BATTLE IDOL VOL 1 by Jim Zub, Omar Dogon, Eric Ko (Udon Studios/ShiftyLook, 2014) - Momoko is a 16-year old who dreams of being a pop idol, but instead she's gifted by an alien with power armor which turns her into a superhero to fight the invading Waru, and their various henchmen and game bosses. It's based on a 1987 video game by Namco (now owned by Bandai), and ShiftyLook was their website in collaboration with Udon Studios to create webcomic series to spark some new interest in old IP characters that they owned. Apparently in this case it worked, since the webcomic not only led to a print release, but also a new video game, anime (and soundtrack) based specifically on the webcomic version of the character. As with ACP's MEGA MAN comic, I knew nothing about that back history to the game before reading this -- I just liked the basic concept and the artwork here. They managed to work a decent storyline into this, but now the online ShiftyLook website has been discontinued, so it looks like I will never get to read the second half of the story (this book reprints #001-104, which represent the first 4 story arcs). The story eventually ran to #200, and had a definite conclusion, which could still be read online up until a couple of years ago. Rats.

rusty

More Dark Horse comics today - Usagi Yojimbo, Groo, Mystery Girl, Midnight Society, Mirror's Edge, The Rook, Eve: Valkyrie, Tomb Raider and a bunch of others.

rusty

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on August 02, 2016, 08:51:00 PM
BLUE MONDAY VOL. 1: THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT TP (Image, 2016) by Chynna Clugston Flores
- This was a pretty cool comic that I'd never read before, and it had a 'teen humor comic' vibe to it, but done in a modern style (even though the story is taking place in the early 1990s). There was even a reference on the last page (and in the introduction as well) to Archie Comics, although the style of art (somewhat manga-influenced) and writing here isn't particularly reminiscent of Archie Comics. It was funny and felt fresh and 'indie', though. It did make me wonder what an Archie reboot done by Chynna Clugston might have been like. They should have asked her, or maybe someone like Bryan Lee O'Malley (SCOTT PILGRIM) or even Scott McCloud (ZOT!, UNDERSTANDING COMICS).

I loved this series when it started from Oni back in 2000.  I plan to pick up this edition since it is in color now.  I think Absolute Beginners is due from Image in a couple of months.  Hopefully Chynna comes out with a new Blue Monday series soon since she never finished Thieves Like Us.   Another Scooter Girl series would be cool, too.

BettyReggie

#508
I read each of these for 12 minutes
World of Archie Jumbo Comics Digest #60
The Best Of Archie Comics 75 Years 75 Stories
Archie 1000 Page Comics Celebration
B & V Friends Jumbo Comics Digest ##250
I just read some digital comics
Jughead #7
Jughead #8
Jughead & Archie Double Digest #1
And on Sunday I read these for 12 minutes each
Archie 1000 Page Comics Celebration
Archie 1000 Page Comics Mega Digest
Archie 1000 Page Comics Gala
World Of Archie Jumbo Comics Digest #60
And I finished reading Archie's Funhouse Jumbo Comics Digest #15

BettyReggie

#509
I read these for 12 minutes each
B & V Jumbo Comics Digest #250
Betty & Veronica Comics Double Digest #239
Archie Giant Comics Collection
World Of Archie Comics Double Digest #49

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