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Post by eheitner on Jan 5, 2024 14:35:08 GMT
Hell yeah, we yettin now baby! Get that Yet!
Ok important question: is Yettin the name of this particular Gull, or is this a Gull Yettin as opposed to some other type of Yettin? Like, I dunno, a Pigeon Yettin?
Also, the cover image rhymes or alludes for me to the traditional Dance Macabre image, like "Seventh Seal," with GY's character design insistently reminding me of a medieval plague doctor....
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Post by pentimento on Jan 6, 2024 1:27:52 GMT
I'll read this from the library, but man, I fucking HATE comics that look like this, like the creator HATES comics and comics history. Even radical dudes like Panter still look like comics, satisfy all my aesthetic needs from a comic (ie LINEWORK) whereas the pages I've seen from Gull Yettin look like it's trying to burn my eyeballs, just because fuck you reader, and your parents too, old man!
Had the same reaction to the colors (not the wonderful drawing) in Mazzucchelli's Mysterious Prolapse. Christ's sake, that yellow and violet made me nauseous, even thinking of it now gives me a migraine. That's a perfect example of a strident formal idea taken to its logical extreme, with terribly simplistic and unpleasant results. FUCK YOU DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI.
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Post by eheitner on Jan 6, 2024 2:45:07 GMT
My guy, literally no-one is asking you, much less trying to force you, to read this comic.
In fact, I would regard it as a personal favor to me if you didn't. Please, Pentimento, do not read The Gull Yettin.
Enjoy Nexus.
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Post by BubblesZine on Jan 6, 2024 16:25:28 GMT
I fear to even entertain Penti, but to me this comic obviously does take from comics history, it would be hard to make a comic this good without learning the language of visual storytelling from comics. It clearly has tons of inspiration from manga like Norakuro, Hayashi, Umezz or Milt Gross's He Done Her Wrong. Yet also taking inspiration from illustration and painting because even though culture has separated comic art from "fine" art, it's all connected.
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Post by GHO on Jan 6, 2024 19:43:14 GMT
I fear to even entertain Penti, but to me this comic obviously does take from comics history, it would be hard to make a comic this good without learning the language of visual storytelling from comics. It clearly has tons of inspiration from manga like Norakuro, Hayashi, Umezz or Milt Gross's He Done Her Wrong. Yet also taking inspiration from illustration and painting because even though culture has separated comic art from "fine" art, it's all connected.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL ART IS CONNECTED !!!!!!
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Post by pentimento on Jan 8, 2024 20:48:34 GMT
I fear to even entertain Penti, but to me this comic obviously does take from comics history, it would be hard to make a comic this good without learning the language of visual storytelling from comics. It clearly has tons of inspiration from manga like Norakuro, Hayashi, Umezz or Milt Gross's He Done Her Wrong. Yet also taking inspiration from illustration and painting because even though culture has separated comic art from "fine" art, it's all connected. Note that I said nothing about the storytelling, panel rhythms, etc. as I admitted I have not yet read the thing. My comments are on the rendering, coloring, the texture of the images - which look like acid rain vomit deliberately shat in my eye by an angry god, or maybe Dan Nadel, because they're embarrassed by the way comics traditionally look. It may be an affecting, beautifully communicated story, but until I read it, yes, all I can comment on is its superficial appearance, which I loathe. And I have every right to comment thusly, with those admitted qualifications, just as I can justly disparage the look of a Michael Bay film from the cinematography in its trailer. I'm not dismissing the book AS A BOOK until I read it; I'm saying its appearance is repugnant and uninviting and does not in any way encourage me to read it. Keep it real, dawg.
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Post by GHO on Jan 9, 2024 3:25:43 GMT
I fear to even entertain Penti, but to me this comic obviously does take from comics history, it would be hard to make a comic this good without learning the language of visual storytelling from comics. It clearly has tons of inspiration from manga like Norakuro, Hayashi, Umezz or Milt Gross's He Done Her Wrong. Yet also taking inspiration from illustration and painting because even though culture has separated comic art from "fine" art, it's all connected. Note that I said nothing about the storytelling, panel rhythms, etc. as I admitted I have not yet read the thing. My comments are on the rendering, coloring, the texture of the images - which look like acid rain vomit deliberately shat in my eye by an angry god, or maybe Dan Nadel, because they're embarrassed by the way comics traditionally look. It may be an affecting, beautifully communicated story, but until I read it, yes, all I can comment on is its superficial appearance, which I loathe. And I have every right to comment thusly, with those admitted qualifications, just as I can justly disparage the look of a Michael Bay film from the cinematography in its trailer. I'm not dismissing the book AS A BOOK until I read it; I'm saying its appearance is repugnant and uninviting and does not in any way encourage me to read it. Keep it real, dawg. "wahhhh weahhhh my eyes hurt"
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Post by pentimento on Jan 9, 2024 6:06:46 GMT
Note that I said nothing about the storytelling, panel rhythms, etc. as I admitted I have not yet read the thing. My comments are on the rendering, coloring, the texture of the images - which look like acid rain vomit deliberately shat in my eye by an angry god, or maybe Dan Nadel, because they're embarrassed by the way comics traditionally look. It may be an affecting, beautifully communicated story, but until I read it, yes, all I can comment on is its superficial appearance, which I loathe. And I have every right to comment thusly, with those admitted qualifications, just as I can justly disparage the look of a Michael Bay film from the cinematography in its trailer. I'm not dismissing the book AS A BOOK until I read it; I'm saying its appearance is repugnant and uninviting and does not in any way encourage me to read it. Keep it real, dawg. "wahhhh weahhhh my eyes hurt" You're just a little punk cunt, a typical internet fuckface who responds to every criticism with a glib non sequitur or meme, rather than engaging. You give dogshit a bad name, Divine would spit you out. Meanwhile, whatever you or any of the other pantywaists around here think of my tone, at least I write a real analysis, not a posturing semaphore disguised as wit. At no point in this discussion (until now, as a necessary response) have I insulted you, only the work in question. So fuck you in the asshole, you bad-faith evasive loser.
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Post by adamszym on Jan 9, 2024 15:42:00 GMT
It is very funny for you to say "at least I write a real analysis" in this particular thread where you have said absolutely nothing analytical about the work in question, which you have not even read. As glib as GHO's reply is it is ultimately an accurate summary of your supposed "analysis."
That being said I very much enjoyed you calling Asterios Polyp "Mysterious Prolapse." A+
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Post by jporcellino on Jan 9, 2024 18:54:34 GMT
Gull Yettin was great. The writing is strong while being free enough to get weird and roundabout, and the art is a wonderful mix of loose without being sloppy, and mesmerizing in its intensity. There are many pages I looked at with a slack jaw, and though I read a library copy, this is one I'll want to put on my shelves to pull down and stare at in the future.
The whole long scene of the kid and the bird in the boat reminded me a lot of Night of the Hunter, those surreal, beautiful nature scenes with the kids in the boat passing through. A good, weird, emotionally strong, brilliantly rendered comic that leaves a lot to the reader's imagination. Capital A Art, for sure.
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