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Post by cameronarthur on Jan 22, 2023 18:09:28 GMT
There are tons. Two that come to mind right now are DeForge’s Open Country and Kid Mafia. Those were great.
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Post by suntory on Jan 22, 2023 22:36:32 GMT
I think Big Numbers is the clear winner.
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Post by arecomicsevengood on Jan 23, 2023 1:15:45 GMT
Powr Mastrs leaps immediately to mind. 1963. Igort's Baobab. Angus McKie's The Blue Lily is pretty interesting. Dunja Jankovic's Department Of Art series. Drew Lerman's Rascal House Blues.
Something I wonder about is how much it matters if a comic doesn't have an ending, for the reader, or why it might matter less in comics than it does in other media. Like a comic strip is a unit of information unto itself, you don't need a full run of it, and that's the building block of comics. Part of what makes these incomplete comics "good" is that they're open-ended in their approach, open to interpretation - more like a painting or a poem than a narrative with a conclusion. Not to say "I wish more comics didn't have endings," but more that being able to operate without a concrete ending should probably be a part of how a comic is approached. Although obviously things that do work as open-ended serials can then double down on their power if something is approached as a possible ending, like Jaime's The Love Bunglers.
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Post by cameronarthur on Jan 23, 2023 3:56:25 GMT
I forgot all about Powr Mastrs for some reason. And that’s my favorite comic.
I agree I don’t think it necessarily matters if a work is complete or not. Not just in comics. Ralph Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings is awesome and he never got to do the next movie for that.
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Post by BubblesZine on Jan 24, 2023 0:10:06 GMT
Tezuka's Phoenix of course.
Chester Brown's Underwater.
Chuck Forsman's Luv Suckers or Teen Creeps.
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Post by whitecomics on Jan 24, 2023 1:46:31 GMT
There's also work that benefits from being incomplete, in that you know or suspect it wouldn't deliver on the premise or the questions presented in the completed portions. I'd put Underwater in this category (as a big fan, I've really enjoyed collecting it over the past several years). To arecomicsevengood 's point about poetic narratives without conclusion, it seems like the story as originally conceived would have eventually become much more plot-heavy, while I much prefer the mysterious, even obtuse nature of the issues as they stand. |
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Post by maxhuffman on Jan 24, 2023 16:10:11 GMT
Treasure Island
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Post by luke on Jan 26, 2023 15:48:42 GMT
The last issues of both Rick Altergott's Raisin Pie and Mary Fleener's Slutburger have to-be-continued stories (or concluded, in the case of Raisin) whose unfinished states drive me crazy.
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Post by arecomicsevengood on Jan 27, 2023 23:14:24 GMT
The last issues of both Rick Altergott's Raisin Pie and Mary Fleener's Slutburger have to-be-continued stories (or concluded, in the case of Raisin) whose unfinished states drive me crazy. I just received a copy of issue 3 of Mary Fleener's followup series to Slutburger, Fleener, published by Zongo comics, and it also ends on a cliffhanger that I don't think ever resolved anywhere. (Although I know Mary has done pieces for Mineshaft and Hotwire I've never seen.) Also I forgot to mention earlier: Paul Pope's THB. |
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Post by junkflower on Jan 28, 2023 0:27:32 GMT
Also I forgot to mention earlier: Paul Pope's THB. His instagram said there'd be big news in 2023! Maybe it's finally coming out (haha...) |
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