Thanks for the Umbrella Academy recommendation! I picked up Issue #1 and really enjoyed it. (I put the other two issues on hold.)
Oh, wow. This place looks great. Oh, I feel like a witch in a magic shop.
Willow ,'Help'
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Discussion of comics, graphic novels, and more. Except for capes. No capes!
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sumi - Nov 30, 2007 7:45:01 pm PST #1055 of 5059
Art Crawl!!!
Kate P. - Dec 01, 2007 12:31:27 pm PST #1056 of 5059
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Welcome, isis!
Thirding or fourthing the Umbrella Academy recommendation. It's smart and funny and twisted and stylish and so far I have no idea where the story is going. Really fun.
Jars - Dec 01, 2007 12:54:58 pm PST #1057 of 5059
Have people read Angel yet?
Gunn! Noooooooooooooooooooo!
And that's all I have to say about that.
Jon B. - Dec 01, 2007 3:14:42 pm PST #1058 of 5059
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
My local comics shop told me they were severely shorted on Angels, and that the distributor was (hopefully temporarily) out of stock on them. Anyone know anything about that?
§ ita § - Dec 01, 2007 5:32:30 pm PST #1059 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DXMachina - Dec 01, 2007 7:10:01 pm PST #1060 of 5059
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Kinda?
Wow, that's some kind of awful. I don't remember ever seeing any of his work before. Although that might be because I had the good fortune to never have read those particular titles while he was drawing them, it could just as well be that I removed the grey matter where the memories of any earlier viewings were stored with a drill press. That's certainly what I'm contemplating doing now.
§ ita § - Dec 01, 2007 8:06:28 pm PST #1061 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I read a lot of his work. And then I backed off the X books. He stunk up the X suburbs something awful. And those examples? Hardly isolated. He's chronically crap.
DavidS - Dec 01, 2007 8:27:14 pm PST #1062 of 5059
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
"He still cannot draw a foot."
Or a hand.
Or, calves or thighs.
But pouches? Yes, lots of little meaningless pouches and BigASS guns.
Tom Scola - Dec 02, 2007 2:04:04 am PST #1063 of 5059
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
I was reading another discussion of this, where it was pointed out that the worst Liefeld drawing didn't actually make the list.
Theodosia - Dec 02, 2007 2:08:31 am PST #1064 of 5059
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Liefeld is one reason I fled the world of superhero comics screaming. It really seems that somebody tried to explain perspective to him once, and he never bothered to actually investigate it any further.