'Shindig'
Discussion of Buffy and Angel comics, books, and more. Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release.
Yep! And he figured you out after a second or so, unless he faked it very well....
You could have referred to me by any S name, and it probably would have worked. (I think I was Sylvie, Sally, and Susie. I called him Jonathan for the rest of the class. [His name is Ed.])
Anybody in here knowledgable of where in IRCville to go for comic info and trading?
Anybody in here knowledgable of where in IRCville to go for comic info and trading?
Where in bittorrentland, I could tell you (namely, [link] but I don't do IRC, myself.
This is a really long article about the status of comic books as literature, and I'm only on the second page, but it's interesting so far.
Now see, the article struck me as a bit foolish. I suppose there may just be no way to clue in the innocent to a subculture/subgenre without coming across as foolish, but it's repetitively tiresome.
Okay, re: Powers...have not read the white-font. I have another question.
Having read all the way through Supergroup...am I up to date? If I pick up the new #1 will I be jumping in right where I just left off?
Terminology question: graphic novel ... trade paperback.
What's the diff? Are they mutually exclusive? Synonyms? Overlapping? Unrelated, and can modify each other?
What do you call the work that's a collected run of issues published in book form? Is it different if it's a miniseries?
Does it have to be published just the once, in book form, to be a graphic novel?
If I pick up the new #1 will I be jumping in right where I just left off?
No. The new #1 picks up following the events of The Sellouts. After that was a storyline about Christian's history which isn't essential to the current plot. The Previously in #1 will get you up to speed without really giving away the specifics of The Sellouts, (though I have an inkling Deena might spoil it somewhere in the issue, and the ultimate effect the storyline had will of course be obvious).
Granted, you will get the most out of The Sellouts if you don't read #1 now, but you won't get less from #1 by not having read The Sellouts.
If it was published just the once, in book form, is it a graphic novel?
I believe so.
IIRC, the difference is that a trade is a collected run, and a graphic novel started out in that form.
I also feel like I should use air quotes around difference there for some reason.
I also feel like I should use air quotes around difference there for some reason.
Because it's a vague distinction at best. It's pretty standard that a GN started out that way, but since TPB is also just a name for a publishing format, it's a lot less clear -- if you're talking to a comics collector, they're most likely referring to a collected run of a serial title; if you're talking to a bookseller, it could be that, or the paperback edition of the GN....