Random Comic Stuff

[KAD]

15 bucks apiece.





Sounds interesting, I may check it out.

Ruins was good.


I liked The last avengers story more.


If you want to read something different try someplace strange A graphic novel by marvel

 

[Anubis]

Whats it about?

 

[DBM]

Here's something random and interesting.

An interview with Joe Kubert by Clifford Meth. Good stuff.

http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/masters/

 

[KAD]

Whats it about?

Someplace strange is hard to describe.

It's about everything great in comics.


trust me if you try it and don't like it I'll compensate you somehow.

 

[Elijya]

was it a mini? was it a trade?

 

[KAD]

was it a mini? was it a trade?

No it was a graphic novel

I believe it's drawn by Steve lightle and written by Louise Simonson.

When I was an intern at Marvel, one of the editors gave it to me and assured me I would like it.

They were right.

 

[Anubis]

I think I'll give it a look. But if I don't like it, you gotta read....I don't know, X23 or something as penace.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Speaking of OGNs, I just read Thor: I, Whom the Gods Would Destroy by Shooter, Priest (under the Owlsey pseudonym), and Paul Ryan. I bought it off of Milehigh because I've gained an interest in Marvel OGNs and I'm a giant Thor nerd. It's set before Simonson's run, when Thor still had the Donald Blake ID, and it focuses completely on the conflicted duality of Blake and Thor. It's an interesting (albeit occasionally redundant) look at Thor, Odin, and to a lesser extent Sif's perspectives on the fact that Odin basically condemned Thor to a lifetime with one foot on earth and one foot in the heavens. I'd recommend it to Thor fans, but I think others who aren't too interested in Thor would be kind of bored with it. Ryan's art doesn't help much either. He reminds me of Lee Weeks if Weeks' art were totally bland and lifeless.

 

[DBM]

Speaking of OGNs, I just read Thor: I, Whom the Gods Would Destroy by Shooter, Priest (under the Owlsey pseudonym),

Just a note, James Owsley wasn't a pseudonym. It was his real name at the time. At some time, he legally changed it to Christopher Priest, but has never explained why.

Just a fun fact.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Weird. Was Owsley his birth name? Christopher Priest is much cooler.

 

[DBM]

Weird. Was Owsley his birth name? Christopher Priest is much cooler.

Owsley was his birthname. James Christopher Owsley.

 

[Elijya]

Ijeeze, I'd change my name too

 

[Anubis]

I don't know, you can either be named after a lame Daredevil Villian, or you can change it to an occupation that is comprised mostly of pedophiles. Either one sucks.

 

[DBM]

Here's something random and interesting.

An interview with Joe Kubert by Clifford Meth. Good stuff.

http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/masters/

Second half of this interview.

http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/masters/

 

[iloveclones]

I ran across a book at Barnes and Nobles the other day, and I was wondering if anybody else read it. It's called Eisner/Miller (or reversed, I don't remember), and is an extended interview/conversation between Will Eisner and Frank Miller. There was some interesting stuff in there. When I looked on my library site, surprisingly, they don't have it.(I'm so freakin' cheap) Anybody read this? Any thoughts?

 

[rex26]

yeah i agree

 

[DBM]

I ran across a book at Barnes and Nobles the other day, and I was wondering if anybody else read it. It's called Eisner/Miller (or reversed, I don't remember), and is an extended interview/conversation between Will Eisner and Frank Miller. There was some interesting stuff in there. When I looked on my library site, surprisingly, they don't have it.(I'm so freakin' cheap) Anybody read this? Any thoughts?

I haven't read it, but I heard nothing but good things about it. Here's a little thing about it I read at Broken Frontier.

http://www.brokenfrontier.com/lowdown/details.php?id=188&PHPSESSID=319d21d2356da67fdd106033060c9c8a

 

[Supergirl]

So I was bored last night, and ventured into enemy territory... the Marvel boards... (I'm a DC zombie ) This thread caught my eye and I read through it. This post caught my eye...

i dont think it was gratuitous at all, i felt that it fit the character. gratuitous would be having a conversation in a strrip club, even though it doesnt need to be taken in a strip club.

see the difference?

you have an alien not used to our customs, while it was a little much i dont think it was gratuitous.

Hows about that scene in the nudie bar from this last issue? Is THAT gratuitous enough?

 

[DBM]

So I was bored last night, and ventured into enemy territory... the Marvel boards... (I'm a DC zombie ) This thread caught my eye and I read through it. This post caught my eye...

Hows about that scene in the nudie bar from this last issue? Is THAT gratuitous enough?

I don't really think it was gratuitous. Hyperion wanted to look at naked women. Strip club was the easiest place to do that. Made sense to me.

 

[iloveclones]

I haven't read it, but I heard nothing but good things about it. Here's a little thing about it I read at Broken Frontier.

http://www.brokenfrontier.com/lowdown/details.php?id=188&PHPSESSID=319d21d2356da67fdd106033060c9c8a

I think I may break down and actually *gasp* buy this book. There was a great little story that FM told about how he was inspired while doing DD to draw all the floating pieces of paper (remember those) from seeing it in The Spirit. His editor told him to lay off all the floating paper and he said OK and drew the next issue with coffetti.

As far as the Supreme Power thing goes: I guess JMS wants to get all of the adult stuff out of his system before they move over to Marvel Knights.

 

[DBM]

I think I may break down and actually *gasp* buy this book. There was a great little story that FM told about how he was inspired while doing DD to draw all the floating pieces of paper (remember those) from seeing it in The Spirit. His editor told him to lay off all the floating paper and he said OK and drew the next issue with coffetti.

As far as the Supreme Power thing goes: I guess JMS wants to get all of the adult stuff out of his system before they move over to Marvel Knights.

Frank Miller was greatly inspired by Eisner. The creation of Elektra was in fact based, loosely, on a Spirit character called Sand Serif and her origin.

The last issue of Following Cerebus, which came out last week, was a tribute to Eisner and had a several page story about Eisner's influence on Miller.

 

[iloveclones]

Frank Miller was greatly inspired by Eisner. The creation of Elektra was in fact based, loosely, on a Spirit character called Sand Serif and her origin.

The last issue of Following Cerebus, which came out last week, was a tribute to Eisner and had a several page story about Eisner's influence on Miller.

Didn't know that. Thanks, DBM. I'll definately be getting this now. And since I'm at the library now, maybe I'll pick up some more Eisner stuff too.

 

[Anubis]

Anybody read any of Eisners Spirit Stuff? People always talk about it as such a groundbreaking piece of work, but nobody ever goes into what it was about.

 

[iloveclones]

I've read a bunch of his stuff, but I can't find any of the Spirit. It's a bummer, because I keep reading about how all these guys are influenced by it (I just ran across an article that talks about how much Ditko was influenced by the Spirit.)

 

[DBM]

I've read a bunch of his stuff, but I can't find any of the Spirit. It's a bummer, because I keep reading about how all these guys are influenced by it (I just ran across an article that talks about how much Ditko was influenced by the Spirit.)

The Spirit archives are being reproduced by DC right now. There's over a dozen volumes out already. Your local comic shop, and maybe even bookstore, probably has them. Check your library too. My local library has several of the volumes available. And if all else fails, there's Amazon

The early Spirit stuff is nothing spectacular. It's a pretty standard action comic. I'd say about half way through it's run, Eisner really started to stretch himself. Innovative art techniques, new ways to tell stories, intereting methods of getting morals across, etc.

If you try to read all the way through the Spirit Archives, don't get discouraged by the first few volumes. Make your way through and you'll be rewarded. Or just start on volume 8 or so. All the stories are self contained so it doesn't really matter where you start.