senso-ji wrote:Yeah I would echo that. I need to upgrade from my original b+w copies. Alan Moore, anyone read Providence? Nice hardback version out and I love a bit of HP Lovecraft. Just not convinced of his godly status nowadays, definitely an apostle though. In the shop yesterday I also spotted Bacchus by Eddie Campbell ( the illustrator on From Hell). 1000 page epic in two parts that seems right up my street. Would have jumped as part 2 is out in July, but I just didn't feel like spending 30quid on a comic right then. |
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Registered 13 years agoDr & quinch were great. Anyone see that doc about 2000 a.d.? Going to force my boy to read it in a few yars time for sure! -
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Registered 20 years agoVortex808 wrote:
Watched it last night, excellent. It was great to see all the people behind the names. Most of them seemed like decent people. I like Grant Morrison, seemed very down to earth.
Dr & quinch were great. Anyone see that doc about 2000 a.d.? Going to force my boy to read it in a few yars time for sure!
I've taken out a month's subscription, and will leave them lying about, see if my boys will pick it up. I don't want to force it, as obviously I'm not very cool.
Wonder where all my progs are.... I was trying to figure out when and why I stopped buying it. Maybe when I went to Uni, 89ish.
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Registered 13 years agoI saw it in an arty cinema at xmas time. I'm sure I saw it is on netflix etc though.
I think it was called Future Shock- story of 2000ad. DaM can correct me as to where he found it and what it's called if i'm way off I'm sure!
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Registered 20 years agoTrafford wrote:
Futureshock on All4 (Channel 4 catchup). Available for 4 days, so get cracking!
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Yeah, I wouldn't spill his pint without immediately getting him another.
Pat Mills is very camp and angry, still very emotional about it. It was good to see how invested they all were in it, they loved it as much as we did. -
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Registered 17 years agogood shout on Future Shock! I'll be watching that this evening.
I've finally almost finished Sandman, that is a lot of material to get through and it's amazing how dark it gets towards the end.
Still recommend Locke & Key to everyone I meet remotely interested in comics, not ashamed to admit it made me cry.
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Registered 14 years agoCool, I'll watch that tonight. I stopped reading it in the late 80s, I can imagine I've missed allsorts of epic Dredd stories, and Carlos Esquerra kicked ass.
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Just discussing a niche. I enjoyed your list thanks.
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Registered 13 years agoLatest humble book bundle has a bunch of Kodansha titles for $17 for those that want to see why titles such as Attack on Titan, Vinland Saga or Parasyte are so popular.
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Registered 14 years agoTrafford wrote:I have a signed picture of the Joker by Brian Bolland. My sister did some work for him and blagged it along with a copy of Chamelot 3000 for myself.
One of my best memories is going around Brian Bolland's flat with my uncle when I was veeery young - he worked for Games Workshop and they were doing the Dredd board game (with cover art by Bolland). He had loads of cheques stuffed behind a clock on the mantelpiece.
That 2000AD doc is brilliant, btw. Also, if anyone thinks Grant Morrison is down to earth, trying reading (or watching) anything he did for Disinfo. He's a NUTTER. ALIENS AND MAGICK.
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Registered 15 years agoGlad I peeped into this thread to spot the Future Shocks documentary info. Got it watched and it was a nice little documentary. I have to admit though that as a kid I read more 80's Eagle (and whoever it was merged with at the time) than 2000AD but I read some of that too, and in the 90's inherited a friend's (Retroid) remnants of his 80's run (seem to recall over a thousand issues) so got caught up (before dutifully passing it on to my younger brother).
I haven't bought a lot of comics recently, although I have picked up the odd Hibernia Press reprints (mostly late 70's and early 80's comics printed by a very indie outfit), some of which I was familiar with and a few that just caught my eye. Sadly I keep missing their 13th floor reprints as that was a series I have fond memories of as a kid (originally in Scream but I encountered it in Eagle). Survival was another story I remembered that I don't think has been reprinted but it can be 'found' if you look around online. -
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Registered 17 years agoanephric wrote:
Haha, I agree.
That 2000AD doc is brilliant, btw. Also, if anyone thinks Grant Morrison is down to earth, trying reading (or watching) anything he did for Disinfo. He's a NUTTER. ALIENS AND MAGICK.
Remember how The Invisible was a 'hyper sigil' (if I recall correctly) that he used to cure himself of a serious infection that dumped him in hospital?
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I bought Puma Blues but had to stop reading halfway through as I found it pretty much incomprehensible.
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Yes, those scenes in his Animal Man run did seem to have been written by someone who has actually experienced a proper trip.
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Registered 14 years agoI used to like Morrison when I was a Moody Goth® but when I go back now and reread Arkham Asylum, it really is pretentious balls. I suppose I still like the ending. I rebought all of The Invisibles recently as well as I kinda liked it at the time but not really and thought I might appreciate it more now.
Nope, it's ballbags of the lowest dangling order.
Zenith, on the other hand, is still fucking brilliant. Rebellion recently republished it all, including the legally troublesome and horribly elusive last phase.
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Registered 16 years agoanephric wrote:
One of the things that the collected editions of The Invisibles really misses is his editors column in the individual issues. The shit he went through when writing that is absolutely incredible.
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The 2000AD documentary is indeed very good. Killed a hour and a half at work today watching it. Interesting to hear their (unsurprisingly) negative thoughts on Sly's Dredd film. Is the newest Dredd film any good?
Back on topic; probably mentioned before but hey ho.
Zero.
Velvet.
Lazarus.
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