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Post by mikesheawright on Jul 28, 2023 18:13:42 GMT
what are your dark secrets? unpopular likes and dislikes? gaping holes in your readings? other??
me: - i have never read anything by any of the Hernandez bros, Seth, Peter Bagge, Joe Matt, or Carl Barks - never read any Tintin
- first jack kirby comic i read was in 2022 - have never been able to really enjoy Krazy Kat
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Post by arecomicsevengood on Jul 28, 2023 20:03:12 GMT
Someone was pretty appalled I've never read any Yoshihiro Tatsumi last night.
Also have never read Tintin (or Asterix, for that matter). I'm pretty sure not reading any Joe Matt is actually a badge of honor, but yeah I've only read the few pages that were in McSweeney's 13.
Undergrounds are sort of a blindspot, have read very little Crumb, never read any Justin Green.
My big contribution to this thread, however: Never read any of the EC stuff. Including Mad!
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Post by junkflower on Jul 28, 2023 21:41:39 GMT
I'm not really into Charles Burns. I just bounce off his stuff.
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Post by cmautner on Jul 28, 2023 22:31:16 GMT
I've never read Contract With God. Or a lot of post-Spirit Will Eisner. And what little I have read I haven't cared for.
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Post by BubblesZine on Jul 28, 2023 22:44:56 GMT
I haven't read much Moebius, Ditko, Eisner (Maybe a comic or two of each. But I'm open to it... just only so many hours in the day). Never read any Sandman (Not sure I care).
I felt stupid I slept on Junko Mizuno until like 2 months ago. I wasn't sure it looked good, but I was wrong.
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Post by owaddled on Jul 29, 2023 7:36:31 GMT
Oh this is fun
- I still get Savage Dargon whenever it comes out. I pull Christopher Priest's Vampirella comics but have read maybe 2 - Unapologetically love Rob Liefeld X-Force and early Youngblood - Have never read any Crumb outside of what's in the Smithsonian book and I have almost no interest in reading more - Never read Julie Doucet, Alison Bechdel, Harvey Pekar, Charles Burns, Seth, Joe Matt, Chester Brown, Jules Feiffer, or non-Spirit Eisner. - Only Moebius I have is the Incal in Japanese and it's been too daunting to try - Never finished reading Maus - I don't get the appeal of a lot of Kyle Baker's work. Special Forces is my favorite thing of his. (I kinda revisited Cowboy Wally and liked it better than the first time). Eddie Campbell's Alec stories too - I don't think Calvin and Hobbes is THAT good. Same with Daredevil: Born Again
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Post by eheitner on Jul 29, 2023 12:04:55 GMT
Lol.
I still occasionally browse various wikis to get plot and character updates on Big Two superhero comics (mostly X-Men) that I haven't read in almost 20 years.
I still like Warren Ellis and Neil Gaiman comics.
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Post by robindh on Jul 29, 2023 12:37:53 GMT
I like Liefeld, I don't care very much for Moebius, Frank Miller is one of the best to ever do it, never read any Ito (I have a book of his from the library I have no desire to read), Doucet, Los Bros or Crumb
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Post by disneyweirdness on Jul 29, 2023 13:25:50 GMT
- There have been many times when I thought about reading an acclaimed autobio or non-fiction comic and passed on it because the subject matter sounded like a downer.
- Most of the time when I start a manga series I lose interest by the second or third book (same thing with anime series, if it's more than 15 episodes in a season then forget it).
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Post by owaddled on Jul 29, 2023 13:49:07 GMT
- There have been many times when I thought about reading an acclaimed autobio or non-fiction comic and passed on it because the subject matter sounded like a downer. - Most of the time when I start a manga series I lose interest by the second or third book (same thing with anime series, if it's more than 15 episodes in a season then forget it). During the COVID pandemic I couldn't bring myself to read "serious" comics that might challenge my brain. And I also won't give an anime a chance if it's over 20 episodes. I remembered another for myself: i love Little Lulu comics but I find most of Carl Barks duck comics to be boring. I think Archie comics are underappreciated. The ending of an Archie comic is less predictable than the average super hero comic. I also enjoyed the Harry Lucey hardcovers more than most Carl Barks I've read.
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Post by junkflower on Jul 29, 2023 15:03:47 GMT
I'm not much of a Barks fan. I grew up with Tintin, and I feel like that series' presence in my web of taste has taken up all the room in my heart for any classic clean adventure series' (Caniffy stuff aside).
This isn't so un-cred, broadly, but I have and treasure big runs of Byrne's Fantastic Four (EXTREMELY unpopular opinion: Byrne actually underrated), Simonson's Thor and FF, Cowan/O'Neil's Question (and Cowan/McDuffie Deathlok), Giffen's LoSH (5YL bay-bee), tons of Batman, etc etc. I feel like I have a couple months every year where all I read is this kind of stuff.
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Post by robindh on Jul 29, 2023 19:04:49 GMT
Oh yeah, here's another one: comics should be compared more to other mediums, it's good for the art-form. Not a fan of that Ben Towle article, I understand the sentiment but Austin English has argued it much better. It's the kinda conservatism that holds the medium and writing on it back imo.
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Post by cameronarthur on Jul 29, 2023 21:36:57 GMT
I haven't read much Moebius, Ditko, Eisner (Maybe a comic or two of each. But I'm open to it... just only so many hours in the day). Never read any Sandman (Not sure I care). I felt stupid I slept on Junko Mizuno until like 2 months ago. I wasn't sure it looked good, but I was wrong. For Ditko. Dr Strange, The Question, Shade the Changing Man, Old Horror Shorts, Spiderman. Dynamic shapes, unique characters, formally interesting For Moebius. Edena Cycle, Airtight Garage, Arzach (should be somewhere online). Clear line and hatching are both good. Also great character and setting design. Great mix of cartoon and realism. In the lineage of Caniff and Raymond but also of Crumb Eisner just The Spirit. Just like it for what it is and for itโs influence on comics. Great title pages and moody atmosphere. Some stories are better than others
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Post by bakertoons on Jul 30, 2023 13:06:09 GMT
- I prefer humor comics over "serious" comics. That includes manga, too - Most autobio comics are boring and dull and I skip over them (one of the few exceptions is Keith Knight. Huge fan of his strip) - I could never get into superhero comics at all. - I don't consider it the greatest comic ever, but I think "Garfield" gets too much hate.
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Post by eheitner on Jul 30, 2023 14:58:26 GMT
Honestly looking at these replies maybe the biggest thing I can say to wreck whatever cred I may have is that I like basically I think almost every single name mentioned which just maybe goes to show I will read almost anything if you stick it in front of me and have no real critical judgement when it comes to comics ๐
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