kevinfong
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Post by kevinfong on Oct 7, 2022 0:16:47 GMT
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Post by owaddled on Feb 9, 2023 1:05:01 GMT
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Post by BubblesZine on Feb 9, 2023 13:00:24 GMT
Psychodrama Illustrated is truly one of the greatest things I have to look forward to in my life. I'm blessed I'm in this timeline.
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Post by owaddled on Feb 9, 2023 16:14:43 GMT
According to Diamond/Fantagraphics, in 2021 we got Love and Rockets #10 Blubber #6 Hypnotwist/Scarlet by Starlight Psychodrama Illustrated #4 A personal mini-Silver Age for me as a Beto fan (though I think that was the weakest Psychodrama issue so far...) I've needed to get this out for a while. I poured over the hardcover of Scarlet by Starlight to see if there was new material. To my unending delight, in addition to a one page dream sequence and lettering changes, Gilbert added 4 little lines to make sure we know that Cat Daddy is jerking off:
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Post by thebeautifulpuffin on Feb 10, 2023 16:30:45 GMT
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Post by franseen on May 18, 2023 14:30:23 GMT
Had a chance to peep some rare coloured editions of Mechanics yesterday. Alan Moore wrote an introduction to No.1 that I haven't been able to stop thinking about.
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Post by arecomicsevengood on May 21, 2023 1:13:12 GMT
Is Girl Crazy good? What are people's favorite/least favorite self-contained Gilbert books?
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Post by bayls171 on May 21, 2023 6:35:32 GMT
Is Girl Crazy good? What are people's favorite/least favorite self-contained Gilbert books? I haven’t read Girl Crazy but I’ve read a lot of his other stuff Fatima is bizarre but is probably my favourite non-L&R thing of his. Sloth, Marble Season, Bumperhead, and Speak Of The Devil are all worth reading imo The Twilight Children book that he wrote and Darwyn Cooke drew is pretty great I didn’t think Loverboys was great but it wasn’t terrible. It’s skippable for sure Yeah! (written by Bagge) is fine. It’s about a band of girls touring around the galaxy, aimed at young girls. it’s very much what it’s described as and it works fine? I wouldn’t say essential for sure Assassinistas is another one he didn’t write and it’s nothing special. It’s not terrible but certainly nothing particularly interesting I think Grip and Citizen Rex were both really shit and I struggled to finish either of them Note that a bunch of these I’ve only read once, and probably like 3-5 years ago but I’m fairly confident in my recollection but who knows if I’d feel the same way if I read them today
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Post by cameronarthur on May 21, 2023 7:44:44 GMT
Is Girl Crazy good? What are people's favorite/least favorite self-contained Gilbert books? Speak of the Devil and Love From the Shadows
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Post by manoopuesta on May 21, 2023 21:24:46 GMT
At this moment my very favourite is Psychodrama. I like a lot The Twilight Children comic too.
I also think Grip and Citizen Rex are his weakest books. I never finished Citizen Rex even though I own a copy.
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Post by owaddled on May 22, 2023 18:24:03 GMT
Is Girl Crazy good? What are people's favorite/least favorite self-contained Gilbert books? I like Girl Crazy quite a bit and think it's underrated. But I wouldn't say it's one of my favs. I took a look at my bookshelf and going by my gut these are the tiers of books with Gilbert art and story I Wish All People Would Read:Julio's Day Blubber I'd recommend to all comics readers:Birdland Children of Palomar Chance In Hell Really good:Marble Season Bumperhead Love From The Shadows Maria M (only if you follow Love and Rockets for the metatext) Hypnotwist / Scarlet By Starlight (again the metacontext for Hypnotwist nudges it into here) A good bit better than average:Speak of the Devil (this is right in-between Really Good and this section seemingly by design) Sloth Fatima Troublemakers Girl Crazy Grip Not his best but I'd still rather read these than any of the best ongoing Marvel/DC comics:Citizen Rex Garden of The Flesh Loverboys I really really like Twilight Children, though sometimes I wonder if it'd be better if Gilbert had drawn it.
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Post by eheitner on May 22, 2023 20:38:28 GMT
Personally, the mid-90s to early 2000s-era is a sweet spot for Beto's art, and I thought Girl Crazy was fun surreal pop. YMMV. As much as I appreciate him as a master cartoonist and story teller, I've still never really gotten into the visual aspect of his more recent thin-line stiffer art. But I've yet to read anything bad by him. There's always something.
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luke
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Post by luke on May 22, 2023 21:07:52 GMT
What about Beto’s stint as writer on DC’s Birds of Prey? I just bought an issue of it for fifty cents. May report back later…
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Post by owaddled on May 22, 2023 21:28:20 GMT
What about Beto’s stint as writer on DC’s Birds of Prey? I just bought an issue of it for fifty cents. May report back later… Curious what you think. I read a few illegally and they were just average fun comics.
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Post by arecomicsevengood on Jun 15, 2023 13:16:45 GMT
Personally, the mid-90s to early 2000s-era is a sweet spot for Beto's art, and I thought Girl Crazy was fun surreal pop. YMMV. As much as I appreciate him as a master cartoonist and story teller, I've still never really gotten into the visual aspect of his more recent thin-line stiffer art. But I've yet to read anything bad by him. There's always something. Just tracked down an issue of Dark Horse Presents with a Girl Crazy short in it, which post-dates the miniseries and isn't collected. It had been awhile since I'd seen drawings of Beto's in that earlier style, that are more detailed and richer in texture and not just showing the thin line! But it was also interesting and surprising to see that, even in the context of a short story, in a venue in my mind intended for more commercial work, he's still utilizing one of the things I think of one of the more abrasive elements of his formal language: Really aggressive pacing. It's a six page piece, starting off with two pages of the main characters as children, where a robot falls in love with one of them, and gets punched out. Then we have two pages showing them as adults, and the robot comes back, broken up still. Then we get a conclusion where the robot is in a new human-looking body, and gets beat up. It's like he's using the superhero language of fight scenes the same way he uses sex/pornography tropes now - employed quasi-ironically, pandering to an idea of what it's what the audience wants, while obviously still compelled by it himself, but also over-indulging in it as a formal system so it no longer functions in the same way.
(I hadn't thought this was what he was going for with all the pornographic visual language in the later stuff before, just sort of found it confusing. Anyone else have any words for it?)
I should try to track down Twilight Children.
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