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Post by pentimento on Jan 29, 2024 18:36:04 GMT
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Post by crapmasterzac on Jan 29, 2024 20:17:12 GMT
x'ed out is a better story than black hole imo
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Post by franlopez on Jan 29, 2024 21:35:39 GMT
I'd be curious to understand the reasoning behind it coming out in 3 (more frequent) volumes in French and Spanish (and maybe other languages?), but waiting years for the whole big volume to be done for it to come out in English.
Kinda have a similar questions about Rusty Brown (since it also seems to imply a very long wait for high-page-count books).
In whole, "bookstore adult comics" in English seem to be betting very hard on very-long-books, right? I'm sure the publishers have their reasons for it, but can't help but wonder if "bookstore adult comics" wouldn't be better off with more frequent releases (even if somewhat shorter) by high profile authors like Ware, Clowes, Burns (and I guess Drnaso has joined that short list?).
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Post by bayls171 on Jan 29, 2024 22:07:33 GMT
I'd be curious to understand the reasoning behind it coming out in 3 (more frequent) volumes in French and Spanish (and maybe other languages?), but waiting years for the whole big volume to be done for it to come out in English. Kinda have a similar questions about Rusty Brown (since it also seems to imply a very long wait for high-page-count books). In whole, "bookstore adult comics" in English seem to be betting very hard on very-long-books, right? I'm sure the publishers have their reasons for it, but can't help but wonder if "bookstore adult comics" wouldn't be better off with more frequent releases (even if somewhat shorter) by high profile authors like Ware, Clowes, Burns (and I guess Drnaso has joined that short list?). The simple answer for Burns is that they did 3 short volumes for his last book but they apparently didn’t sell very well. The audience clearly isn’t there for an English language audience As for the book market being geared towards long work - it’s kinda fucked tbh? It’s hard to blame book publishers because the audience really doesn’t feel there at all, but at the end of the day it seems pretty important to have a way to serially release comics
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Post by pentimento on Jan 30, 2024 5:01:56 GMT
x'ed out is a better story than black hole imo That's just crazy talk, man. X'ed Out was like Clowes's Velvet Glove - well crafted, but nothing more than an indulgent catalog of the creator's pop culture interests. Comparatively, Black Hole was like Goya's black paintings, or Rothko's chapel - complete submergence in existential, cosmic terror, total focus
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Post by crapmasterzac on Jan 30, 2024 16:30:49 GMT
x'ed out is a better story than black hole imo That's just crazy talk, man. X'ed Out was like Clowes's Velvet Glove - well crafted, but nothing more than an indulgent catalog of the creator's pop culture interests. Comparatively, Black Hole was like Goya's black paintings, or Rothko's chapel - complete submergence in existential, cosmic terror, total focus dude black hole is a masterpiece but the drama is based on this dread that this dude might have aids or some shit and then all the dream like art is beautiful but the plot and story is pretty straight forward. X'ed out's structure is way more thought out and works way better as 3 books that really rip pacing wise. Black hole kinda drags on at points and all the weird shit feels weird for the sake of being weird. I leave x'ed out wanting to get into that world way more and all the supplemental books that have been put out with the covers and comics just add way more to that world. I find the turns that x'ed takes makes the characters have a lot more depth than the characters in black hole had too. I was way more invested in what was happening. I think illustration wise black hole is more interesting and visceral but as a story x'ed out works way more bc it has a lot more going on in it than black hole does.
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Post by crapmasterzac on Jan 30, 2024 16:38:32 GMT
sorry you're stuck in 1998 still
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Post by pentimento on Jan 30, 2024 16:56:08 GMT
sorry you're stuck in 1998 still The only thing I'm stuck in is your mom's stale pussy
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Post by crapmasterzac on Jan 30, 2024 17:28:24 GMT
sorry you're stuck in 1998 still The only thing I'm stuck in is your mom's stale pussy Makes sense. You've probably never gotten a woman wet in your life. Nice comeback did you get that when you were 5?
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Post by suntory on Jan 30, 2024 18:22:48 GMT
Wonder if the US version will also be color? It 100% will be in color. It was conceived as a full color comic.
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Post by suntory on Jan 31, 2024 16:34:25 GMT
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Post by pentimento on Feb 2, 2024 1:15:38 GMT
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Post by suntory on Feb 2, 2024 5:12:31 GMT
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Post by arecomicsevengood on Feb 10, 2024 1:43:45 GMT
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Post by robindh on Feb 10, 2024 13:21:07 GMT
For those on here into Euro comics: - Eric Lambé of Frémok has been posting pages from his upcoming book written by David B, Antipodes. It's a bit of an unexpected collaboration but I suppose one might have forseen a shift to more mainstream avenues after his last book Paysage après la bataille won the Fauve d'or at Angoulême in 2017. It's a pretty big departure stylistically, he appears to have been looking at a lot of Schrauwen and the storytelling is more compressed. Coming September this year from Casterman, no cover as of yet.
- Frémok have confirmed on Instagram that they'll be publishing the follow-up to Dominique Goblet and Kai Pfeiffer's Plus si Entente: Le Jardin des Candidats. The pages posted look closer to that wrestling book Goblet did than Plus si Entente, but still gorgeous.
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