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Post by disneyweirdness on Sept 20, 2021 0:46:02 GMT
According to Twitter Swamp Thing is a comic for dude bros, that discourse threw me for a loop.
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Post by kevinh on Sept 20, 2021 13:07:15 GMT
Brian yes we should grapple with what it means re Dave Sim sometime.
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Post by junkflower on Sept 20, 2021 20:17:07 GMT
According to Twitter Swamp Thing is a comic for dude bros, that discourse threw me for a loop. Twitter comics discussion is like Facebook, which is to say, inflammatory stupid opinions loom large because they stimulate the most discourse. Nobody should be embarrassed for thinking Swamp Thing is cool!!
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Post by BubblesZine on Sept 20, 2021 20:38:27 GMT
According to Twitter Swamp Thing is a comic for dude bros, that discourse threw me for a loop. Twitter comics discussion is like Facebook, which is to say, inflammatory stupid opinions loom large because they stimulate the most discourse. Nobody should be embarrassed for thinking Swamp Thing is cool!! facts and facts
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Post by idiotsummer on Sept 20, 2021 23:26:27 GMT
The summer I started buying DC & Marvel weekly was the summer of Flashpoint and Fear Itself. Not having gone through an event series before, I thought I was experiencing history. Turns out Flashpoint was just used as an excuse for a reboot to pick up some sales and Fear Itself has been forgotten alongside pretty much everything else from that era.
I'd also want to say I regret buying that Johnny the Homicidal Maniac trade, but the art still holds up in places and it's almost funny a couple of times too. Ah, to be young and angsty...
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Post by pumpduncan on Sept 20, 2021 23:27:32 GMT
I started with Jason Lutes "Jar of Fools" and Ron Rege's "Skibber Bee-bye" when I got back into comics in '04. I drifted back to Marvel for a while after that. I don't think I could hang with it now but I loved Bendis' Daredevil when it was coming out which lead to reading New Avengers and some whack crossovers. Jeffery Brown's "cuddle porn" from the early 00's is sort of hard to swallow now but was real important to me then. I would grab the Fanta anthology "Blood Orange" and seek out the Brown sections first.
I think Hanselmann has hit a real stride in his work. Reading interviews with him you can see his books are a therapeutic practice. I'm interested to see what fatherhood brings to his comics, Noah Van Sciver too. Both are new dads.
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Post by disneyweirdness on Sept 20, 2021 23:32:26 GMT
I'd also want to say I regret buying that Johnny the Homicidal Maniac trade, but the art still holds up in places and it's almost funny a couple of times too. Ah, to be young and angsty... I know it doesn't hold up great but I can never say a bad word about JTHM. That book was so important to my discovery of "indy comics" when I was a kid. Same thing with those Jim Mahfood/ Kevin Smith Clerks comics.
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Post by BubblesZine on Sept 21, 2021 12:07:18 GMT
Brian yes we should grapple with what it means re Dave Sim sometime. haha yes, let's get some takeout food and discuss
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Post by junkflower on Sept 21, 2021 13:55:23 GMT
I'd also want to say I regret buying that Johnny the Homicidal Maniac trade, but the art still holds up in places and it's almost funny a couple of times too. Ah, to be young and angsty... I know it doesn't hold up great but I can never say a bad word about JTHM. That book was so important to my discovery of "indy comics" when I was a kid. Same thing with those Jim Mahfood/ Kevin Smith Clerks comics. On a similar tip, I read and loved the Bongo Simpsons comics as a kid, and found out about Gary Panter and Jimbo through those
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Post by haz on Sept 24, 2021 13:05:59 GMT
I loved Sandman as a post-teenager, but now I find it mostly cheesy and embarrassing...
"Incal"...uf, as much as I love and admire Moebius, thw two times I re-read it, I was repelled by all the "new age" stuff atmosphere.
But no regrets... I really enjoyed reading those comics, and what's more, "Sandman" took me to Alan Moore and "Incal" to "Le Garage Hermétique" and all the amazing Metal Hurlant/Humanoïdes Associés stuff!
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Post by daisyjaberi on Mar 10, 2022 2:39:41 GMT
I never went through a phase reading comics about gender very much, but even as a trans woman I find them to be very not cool. I've written some panels myself about it, but once I transitioned and dealt with it, I dont want to hear about it anymore.
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Post by lew on Mar 11, 2022 0:44:17 GMT
Going through my floppies one of the things that just hasn't appealed to me on the revisit has been Darwyn Cooke's The Spirit and I had the same reaction to his Parker books in my shelf. I think I know what I saw in it, but I just don't know why it was that interesting. It feels pretty boring to me now. All the new Tank Girl has been pathetic. Bad books. I'd buy them every time they came out til I caught onto the fact it didn't share a single quality with the originals. But for a brief window their I thought Ashley Wood's work was pretty slick!
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