Hicksville
Writer/Artist: Dylan Horrocks
(Chris)
Revenge Of The Fillerbunny
Writer/Artist: Jhonen Vasquez
(Ross and Chris)
(Note: There is no information about this comic anywhere online. Grrr.)
Top Ten #11
Writer: Alan Moore
Penciller: Gene Ha
(Chris)
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Writer: Warren Ellis
Penciller: Darick Robertson
(Chris)
Vox #1
Writer/Artist: Leland Purvis
(Chris and Ross)
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Saturday, March 17, 2001
Don't Put That Stuff In Your Ear! TIME.comix looks at Paul Pope's HEAVY LIQUID.
Related links: Paul Pope's website / TIME.com / Mars Import: HEAVY LIQUID / Savant: HEAVY LIQUID Essential Review
posted by Chris at 6:50 PM EST
SPIDER-GIRL gets the axe. Was it an approachable book for kids, or one more worthless superhero book? Many voices are raised in clamor... I never read an issue myself.
posted by Chris at 6:28 PM EST
It's got nothing to do with comics, really (near as I can tell, it's about his band), but anything written by Grant Morrison is worth attention. We present you with The Beastocracy Manifesto. Reason #33,666 to want to give this man full custody of your soul.
posted by Chris at 1:31 AM EST
Friday, March 16, 2001
Is it Friday already? DARK KNIGHT STRIKES BACK #1 will be 76 pages long. Mark Millar won't be writing for the new PUNISHER series. Alan Moore and Jim Lee's COMET RANGERS moving vvveeeerrrryyyy sssslllloooowwwwlllyyyy. Newsarama Weekly teaches you all these things and more.
posted by Chris at 9:09 PM EST
Comics Newsarama asks: Are Conventions Dying? Not if Steve Lieber has anything to say about it! (I just had to jump on the bandwagon...)
posted by Chris at 6:53 PM EST
If you're ever stuck for a topic of discussion with a group of comics fans (yeah, right), there's always one stand-by: Bitch about MIRACLEMAN / MARVELMAN being out of print. A web-search about Alan Moore's disagreements with Marvel turned up this detailed history of the dispute over the character. Read up, be informed. Read carefully, too; it's easy to lose the thread here (and the single-paragraph formatting doesn't help much).
posted by Chris at 4:58 PM EST
Holy Mother of God... DAREDEVIL will actually publish regularly again. Wow. Then I saw in heaven another great and astonishing sign: seven angels with seven plagues, the last plagues of all, for with them the wrath of God was completed.
No, that is *not* a quote from the article, you illiterate scum.
posted by Chris at 4:30 PM EST
HICKSVILLE
w/a: Dylan Horrocks
...It's going to be very hard for me to write a "review" of this comic. I only finished reading it about thirty or forty minutes ago. So what follows will probably be more stream-of-consciousness than anything else (Just what we need, more unfocused writing on the Internet. I apologize).
All I can really say is that this comic book might have just changed my life.
It's unspeakably brilliant. I'm a bit late in getting to the party on that note, obviously -- people have been talking about HICKSVILLE for years now. But honestly, I don't quite understand why it's not mentioned in the same breath as some of the classics of the medium -- MAUS, WATCHMEN, JIMMY CORRIGAN. Call me a fool, but I found this to be much more moving, varied, and crafted than CORRIGAN. Don't get me wrong, that's a seriously great comic, but HICKSVILLE... damn.
The tragedy of HICKSVILLE is that it can never be read by anybody who has not eaten, lived, and breathed comic books for most of their life, because it is about them so intimately. It's about the experience of making them, of loving them, of leaving them and coming back to them and just of being in them, for lack of a less pretentious and sentimental term. Everybody in Dylan Horrocks' fictional town, you see, loves comic books. They've read them all. The book tosses random industry in-jokes into the text as though everyone is on the joke. You are, of course, but how many other people are?
This is a true tragedy. Because this book is just so great. Horrocks uses amazing conventions of storytelling -- comics within comics, for example, tell a sizeable portion of the story. He makes it look so effortless. He seems to think his time on HICKSVILLE was a training period, where he learned how to do comics, but to quote a character in the book: "If I'd been doing comics like these when I was your age, I reckon I'd be the William Shakespeare of comic books by now."
I am not saying what I mean to say (of course, what I mean to say could fill a doctoral dissertation). The only thing I think I've managed to put across here is how much I loved reading this comic. You must see it for yourself. It is the comic for people who love comic books. If you have ever cared about the medium, you will see something to love in this book. I guarantee it.
Some HICKSVILLE links: Dylan Horrocks' website / INDY Magazine's excellent interview with Horrocks / SAVANT's "Essential" Review
posted by Chris at 12:13 AM EST
Thursday, March 15, 2001
Savant is going for some kind of streak here -- this week's Essay provides some excellent information about the magazine industry that I, at least, never knew. Go learn something.
posted by Chris at 10:24 PM EST
Oh my. Newsarama reports that Top Cow is reportedly in negotiations with the rock band Poison to tell the band's life story in comic book form. Yipes. Just... yipes.
posted by Chris at 7:03 PM EST
Wednesday, March 14, 2001
Hmmm. Diamond lists JINX: THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION on its shipping list for March 21. Who wants to bet me a dollar that it'll get yanked again? Anyone? Yeah, I know, it's a crap bet. ;-)
And speaking of shipping lists: Because you don't care, the items I'm preordering for the month of May. Thanks to Brian at Khepri, who's filing my order as we speak (and if you get yours in by the 15th, you'll get 30% off...). These are items that I (a.) don't think I can get in Florida, when I go home for the summer, or (b.) want to send a message with by pre-ordering.
- ANIMAL MAN TPB (Grant Morrison et al., DC Comics)
- CRUSADES #3 (Steven T. Seagle & Kelley Jones, DC Comics)
- TRANSMETROPOLITAN: FILTH OF THE CITY TPB (Warren Ellis and A Cast Of Thousands, DC/Vertigo)
- OBERGEIST #2 (Tony Harris & Dan Jolley, Image/Minotaur)
- MARVEL BOY TPB (Grant Morrison & J.G. Jones)
- COMPLETE PALESTINE TPB (Joe Sacco, Fantagraphics Books)
- COMPLETE LOWLIFE TPB (Ed Brubaker, Top Shelf Comix)
And before you ask -- yes, I'll be picking some other things up on the stands of the stores back home, including the new X-Men books. It's a Morrison kind of month (DC and Marvel clearly intend to capitalize; see the TPBs I'm ordering?).
posted by Chris at 2:13 AM EST
Tuesday, March 13, 2001
Who was next in the solicitations sweepstakes? Viz, that's who. New EAGLE TPB, amongst other goodies...
posted by Chris at 6:07 PM EST
Comics2Film is reporting that Brian (100 BULLETS) Azzarello is at work on a treatment for the BLOODSHOT movie. It would star wrestler Triple-H. Ummmm. OK then...
posted by Chris at 5:40 PM EST
Just when you'd finished placing your May preorders (right?), along come the June solicitations. So far: DC Comics and Dark Horse... who's next?
(thanks to Comics Continuum)
posted by Chris at 3:33 PM EST
Today's You'll All Be Sorry! rules the world. Note: adult content.
CHERRY: ...And over there is Sweet Chastity, and there's Sally Forth, nice girls, both of them. You'd like 'em, really. And there's some of the girls from Robert Crumb's agency...they don't get much work anymore, frankly. That one in the other corner with the bat is Vampirella...she mainly does softcore, I hear.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: help.
HORNY BIKER SLUTS: Don't forget us!
posted by Chris at 3:15 PM EST
Apparently, it's news that Alan Moore won't work for Marvel. Ummm... no shit? The article does provide this fascinating tidbit, though:
"As much as I love Karen Berger, I was never that fond of the original version of Vertigo. It seemed to be something that was spinning out of a few stylistic quirks that I had fifteen years ago that was then turned into a whole genre. It seemed to me that a lot of the books had a kind of a �hip pessimism� hanging over them that was basically a bad mood that I was in fifteen years ago. I`ve no wish to return to that at all."
posted by Chris at 2:48 PM EST
Monday, March 12, 2001
Dylan Horrocks, of HICKSVILLE and THE NAMES OF MAGIC quasi-fame, has put preview material of his new book, ATLAS, up on his website. Looks like a good one, and I swear to God above that I will go out and buy HICKSVILLE tomorrow, now that I know where to get a copy...
(via Bugpowder)
P.S. Note from Your Hosts' First Meeting: Ross looks like a young Tom Waits. Sort of. But not quite. And I look like a heroin addict.
posted by Chris at 7:13 PM EST
Sunday, March 11, 2001
It just might be meaningless -- but then, it just might not be. Vote for the Goddess of Comics Funny, Gail Simone of You'll All Be Sorry! fame, to write DEADPOOL, at X-Fan. You never know, Marvel just might be watching.
posted by Chris at 9:30 PM EST
WELL now. Rich Johnston has outdone himself this time. If you thought Spider-Man was being dicked around by Straczynski, you ain't seen nothing yet. Maybe. This is a rumor column, after all.
What's not a rumor is David Choe's... colorful... response to Joe Quesada on the subject of NYX. I'd reprint a section of it, but Geocities has language restrictions, and well, there's no five-word string in there that wouldn't violate them. So.
posted by Chris at 2:24 PM EST
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