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Abhay
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Yeah-- I guess the press release for that just went out a little while ago. That's a thing. I'm actually a little nervous about it since I haven't written anything on purpose for a while now-- and it's going to take me weeks just to get my critical faculties back to where I can discriminate between "Eh" and "Okay" sufficiently savagely, but... but everyone else should be worth reading, so...?
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dave press
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I just got Douglas Wolk's book which came recommended to me by Laura Hudson of Comic Foundry who just did a 24 Hour Review A Thon. Which was a really fun read and I like her opinions quite a bit myself.
Congrats to Abhay and everyone else on this website which should be a great read week in and week out. |
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Abhay
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| dave press wrote: | | recommended to me by Laura Hudson of Comic Foundry who just did a 24 Hour Review A Thon. Which was a really fun read and I like her opinions quite a bit myself. |
...? nice reviews-- nice Casanova and Doom Patrol reviews-- but my gosh, that just doesn't seem terribly healthy. i don't-- i wasn't planning on working in any physical challenges into what I was going to do but maybe that's what the fans demand now. oh no...
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dave press
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| Abhay wrote: | | dave press wrote: | | recommended to me by Laura Hudson of Comic Foundry who just did a 24 Hour Review A Thon. Which was a really fun read and I like her opinions quite a bit myself. |
...? nice reviews-- nice Casanova and Doom Patrol reviews-- but my gosh, that just doesn't seem terribly healthy. i don't-- i wasn't planning on working in any physical challenges into what I was going to do but maybe that's what the fans demand now. oh no...
-abhay |
She does an especially good one with Criminal as well, and a pretty funny one of Thor. Yeah, when she said she was going to do that I said, "We're not in college anymore, subjecting yourself to all nighters is no longer fashionable." Yikes to the idea of it, but props for doing it as it's something I would never do. |
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Ian Brill
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| I was at CE when Brian, Jeff and Graeme were coming up with this list. They listed all these names and while I thought Abhay would be a good addition I told them you'd always be wary of starting a blog. Didn't you say you were resistant to the idea of your posts being archived? I understand that, there's a lot of shit I wish I could delete. I'm glad to see you'll be writing for the sight. I still love your review of Countdown (or should say demolishing of Countdown?). |
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Abhay
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| Ian Brill wrote: | | I was at CE when Brian, Jeff and Graeme were coming up with this list. They listed all these names and while I thought Abhay would be a good addition I told them you'd always be wary of starting a blog. Didn't you say you were resistant to the idea of your posts being archived? |
Yeah, blogs... But the horse is out of the stable with re: the archive-problem; there's no way of turning back the clock there, so-- I'm sure somewhere on the internet, you can find me talking about how "let's go crazy" is the greatest song ever written, and I have to live with that. which I can cause "let's go crazy" really is the greatest song ever written. it's about how prince isn't going to let an elevator break him down. the elevator symbolizes Satan, and in order to defeat the elevator (i.e. Satan), he's telling his lady to ignore the warnings of her psychiatrist and have sex with him (or "Look 4 the purple banana" with him, as he puts it). and then it ends with him telling children not to use psychiatric pharmaceuticals, and that Jesus's second coming is soon (thereby completing the religious sermon the song starts with)... it's a really a good one.
also, the song was banned in South Korea.
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John-Paul McCarthy
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| Ivan Brandon wrote: | | start on akira. they go fast, and those first 3 volumes will knock you on your ass. |
Thanks Ivan; for the reassurance that my choice to read Akira is worth the
time (and money.. as it's not the cheapest compilation to purchase). Though,
TFAW.com has a decent sale on them that nearly makes it worth the freight
charges getting them to NZ. (I shall ponder this)
Also read the Ultimate FF (the current arc with the Silver Surfer),
Faker, Criminal & the latest Daredevil.
Mike Carey seems to be writing a hell of a lot of books these days -- all of
them decent reads too.
and... as far as Criminal & Daredevil are concerned; they're on my
must-read list. Brubaker's pulpy nods to the past and crime-noir are
simply getting better and better.
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Looking forward to PulpHope and a copy of Project: Telstar
should be arriving in my postbox any day now.
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r_sail
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Faker and Green Arrow Year One were both great. Though, with Jock doing the art they could both be shit and I'd love em the same. They aren't though.
Ashley Wood's 48 Nude Girls is... well, just what it says. I like the extra loose quality of the art. The bits of white out add something to the normal sketchy Ash style. I really enjoyed this, as cheescakse as it is.
Picked up a back issues of that Silver Surfer book Esad Ribic is doing, because Esad is the man. Haven't read it though. I just stare at the purdy pictures.
Waiting for Casanova, 24seven, and D'AIRAIN #3 (no idea when) to come out. I don't buy much these days. |
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John-Paul McCarthy
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oh yeah... completely forgot about the Green Arrow book!
48 nudes is nice too... was flipping through that over the weekend.
Ash has some crazy bot toys on the horizon.. prelim pics from the blog look
great! May be available at SDDC? (or sometime soon at the very least)
(apologies for the slight thread derail into the realm of robot toys)
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Swallow 4 is in the works too... c/w a pullout Paul Pope poster.. very nice
indeed! Potential November release.
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| John-Paul McCarthy wrote: | Ash has some crazy bot toys on the horizon.. prelim pics from the blog look
great! May be available at SDDC? (or sometime soon at the very least) |
He's going to unvail them there, but I don't know about being available. Certainly soon there after. I'm stoked, he's been trying to do these for a while. There were a few at one point, but I was never able to get one.
| John-Paul McCarthy wrote: | Swallow 4 is in the works too... c/w a pullout Paul Pope poster.. very nice
indeed! Potential November release. |
Swallow is always money, but a Paul Pope pullout poster is awesome! |
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Ivan Brandon
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| John-Paul McCarthy wrote: | | Thanks Ivan; for the reassurance that my choice to read Akira is worth the time |
don't get me wrong, lone wolf is phenomenal... but it's also very long. akira looks daunting but it moves very very quickly and is some of the best sequential storytelling you're likely to find... he's just a master of the comics page. it goes by very fast, without sacrificing communication.
i read it again recently, and those dark horse phone books are really an exceptional format for it.
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Ian Brill
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| Abhay wrote: | it's about how prince isn't going to let an elevator break him down. the elevator symbolizes Satan, and in order to defeat the elevator (i.e. Satan), he's telling his lady to ignore the warnings of her psychiatrist and have sex with him (or "Look 4 the purple banana" with him, as he puts it). and then it ends with him telling children not to use psychiatric pharmaceuticals, and that Jesus's second coming is soon (thereby completing the religious sermon the song starts with)... it's a really a good one.
also, the song was banned in South Korea.
-abhay |
I can think of no better way to celebrate this thing called life. |
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Drew Bell
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| Abhay wrote: | | I'm sure somewhere on the internet, you can find me talking about how "let's go crazy" is the greatest song ever written, and I have to live with that. |
This was on the car radio minutes ago on the way home from Trader Joe's. Ashley didn't believe me when I told her he was saying "look for the purple banana." She'll understand in the afterworld. |
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Abhay
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| droob wrote: | | This was on the car radio minutes ago on the way home from Trader Joe's. Ashley didn't believe me when I told her he was saying "look for the purple banana." She'll understand in the afterworld. |
Here's the track, if anyone needs to confirm the purple banana (plus a Whigs track and some other stuff).
I've actually got Sonic Youth's Teenage Riot right now on repeat-- I'd read a review of this comic book Cold Heat last night-- i finally got around to reading the first issue of that-- anyway, the review compared the art in it to Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine, which actually seems like kinda an apt comparison-- Cold Heat's a bad girl ninja comic, only from the Picturebox crew so it's, like, pink...? it's better than that sounds maybe, depending on what you like-- but anyway, Sonic Youth-- they're apparently touring doing just the Daydream Nation album because its the anniversary...? i'd liked that album a lot when i was however old, and yeah-- boy, I sure like that Teenage Riot...
-abhay
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