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Post by BubblesZine on Nov 17, 2021 3:40:35 GMT
I meant to ask this a while ago, does anyone here read any "Wednesday" comics? Shit that comes out monthly. I really love the act of going to the comic shop every week and following a story. I go every Wednesday and I always look at the weekly comics and nothing catches my eye. Had fun reading Dash Shaw's Clue month by month. Is there any good comics that I should follow? Or if a new one is coming, post it here. Y'all kinda know my taste, but I'm open minded.
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Post by thebeautifulpuffin on Nov 17, 2021 7:26:34 GMT
I like to make the weekly trek myself, but it's rare that I leave with much in the way of new flops. Not sure where any of the following fellas fall in your interest meter, but the last time I was grabbing fresh ones was when James Stokoe, Alexis Ziritt, Matt Lesniewski, Brandon Graham and Daniel Warren Johnson all had commercial miniseries coming out. Felt weird having so many monthly(ish) books to think about all at around the same time... Gave me hope for a minute, ha! Unfortunately, Ziritt's Space Riders and Stokoe's Orphan and the Five Beasts both had their single-slice runs cancelled, and Lesniewski's Crimson Flower ended up just feeling slight, overall, but Graham's Rain Like Hammers was soothing and engaging from front to back, and Johnson's Beta Ray Bill was big fun. FWC counts, right? No complaints about the Josh's All Time Comics, and I thought Ziritt and Baker's Night Hunters was superb. Oh, and I could seriously go for some monthly Landgraf reprints, how about you?
Wasn't able to hit the shops for a few years there - long story - but when I returned, back in '17, the only monthly on that particular set of racks that caught and kept my eye was Paper Girls. I've since read a number of titles from Brian K. Vaughan and his collaborators, and I'd call it a guilty pleasure if it hadn't been such a genuine pleasure running through those yarns. Although the majority of new comics that I've been into since the late '80s have been by single creators, I'm not against team books, and BKV and his friends craft a mean soap, and ones you can trust! There's a perceptible intentionality in the storytelling, but not without obvious room for improvisation, and each longer run of his/theirs that I looked into had that all-too-rare overall beginning/middle/end (they tend to stick the landings, too!), and the even more uncommon trait of delivering single issues that were satisfying on their own. Plus they all had actual factual letter columns.
I'm out of ramble for now, but there are a few more titles and folks I could go on about if you've any interest in my doing so. Sad but so, I can't think of anything current current to recommend at the moment.
Clue ruled. G'night.
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Post by tundrawizard on Nov 17, 2021 8:11:43 GMT
I pretty much only buy comics weekly if they are my friends books or an artist I've been following forever. Currently, I'm only picking up James Stokoe's Orphan & The Five Beasts. The issues have been coming out practically quarterly, with the third issue coming out this month and the final fourth issue coming out in Feb 2022. I don't mind waiting between issues as long as it means a top quality Stokoe comic.
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Post by yeahokwow on Nov 17, 2021 8:26:58 GMT
Current monthly books i've been into are Frontiersman, Echolands, Time Before Time, and Orphan and the Five Beasts. They're cool.
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Post by timbecile on Nov 17, 2021 14:44:41 GMT
I picked up two consecutive issues of the too normal for me Ninjak to see Javier Pulido's artwork, but then read he was removed from #4 for reasons unknown?: bleedingcool.com/comics/javier-pulido-art-ninjak-4-redrawn-beni-lobel/Is Craig Thompson's Ginseng Roots published regularly enough to qualify? Hmm, guess it's bimonthly. I've liked the issues of those I've seen.
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Post by disneyweirdness on Nov 17, 2021 19:58:33 GMT
I don't really keep tabs on DC-Marvel-Image anymore but I do still dig the Hellboy universe.
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Post by grubcubman on Nov 17, 2021 20:07:00 GMT
I somehow got signed up for every Black Hammer comic, and there are a ton of them. But since those are my only comics and I want a reason to keep coming back on Wednesdays -- and I pretty much like them -- I've stayed on and seen them all through.
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Post by awfulquiet on Nov 17, 2021 20:13:49 GMT
I was a Wednesday warrior all through college, and then still had a pull list for about a decade after, but I was getting stuff shipped to me instead of going to the store.
It mostly just led to me buying indiscriminately and ending up with a lot of crap books that I was lucky enough to sell most of throughout 2019.
If I go into a shop nowadays I'll pursue the new issues but I rarely pick anything up. Occasionally I'll check out newer stuff digitally on Hoopla.
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Post by mikesheawright on Nov 22, 2021 21:56:59 GMT
I don't read any but I really miss it. I remember reading stuff like 100 Bullets in college as it was coming out and just driving like 500mph to the store every week to pick them all up. There was a great message board for that book too that was full of speculation and plot theories and stuff. I love an ongoing saga with some fan momentum. Been a while since I saw something worth picking up monthly, although I get some miniseries like Rain Like Hammers or whatever.
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Post by thebeautifulpuffin on Jan 6, 2022 8:42:47 GMT
So how are your Wednesdays going, BubblesZine? Dip into anything up above or picked out a gamble or two of your own?
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Post by BubblesZine on Jan 6, 2022 23:41:06 GMT
So how are your Wednesdays going, BubblesZine? Dip into anything up above or picked out a gamble or two of your own? Haha still nothing. But I look. I haven't been this week though, we'll see what tomorrow holds!
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Post by bayls171 on Jan 6, 2022 23:52:10 GMT
So how are your Wednesdays going, BubblesZine ? Dip into anything up above or picked out a gamble or two of your own? Haha still nothing. But I look. I haven't been this week though, we'll see what tomorrow holds! Monkey Meat from Image came out this week and looks alright. idk the artist or what its about but the cover looks pretty cool & its an anthology series (one-person anthology where each issue is standalone) so its a little different from the usual monthly type comics but also i havent read it so maybe its trash hahaa
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Post by thebeautifulpuffin on Jan 9, 2022 3:43:22 GMT
Monkey Meat from Image came out this week and looks alright. idk the artist or what its about but the cover looks pretty cool & its an anthology series (one-person anthology where each issue is standalone) so its a little different from the usual monthly type comics but also i havent read it so maybe its trash hahaa I was curious, too, and gave it a flip earlier this evening. Meh? Zany iPad'ery that didn't hold me, but I didn't spend a whole lot of time with it. Definitely not trash, but also not for me. People really seem to like the author's first book, Djeliya. New Mahfood looked great on the inside, though! Asshat that I am, unfortunately, I'll be trade waiting.
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Post by BubblesZine on May 5, 2022 19:32:11 GMT
Alright guys I found one I'm enjoying! I'm all caught up on A Righteous Thirst For Vengeance, up to issue 7. Pretty fun series. It was getting a little cheesey around 6 or 7 but I'm keeping with it. The first couple issues were great.
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Post by bayls171 on Dec 12, 2022 3:44:33 GMT
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