Favorite comic experience? STRAY TOASTERS. Yes, I am style-as-content's bitch (hence my love for Dario Argento, Hitchcock, Lynch, etc.). Three issues in I still didn't know what the fuck was going on, but loving the ride. Then in book four? He actually pulls it together in a way that doesn't suck.
Most powerful? V for Vendetta. Particularly the issue when Evie (? - it's been ages since I could bring myself to read the series) is reading the stories from the person in the cell next door, and everything that follows. Moore already had me, but that broke me, just like the character in question.
However, as an ongoing series? Sandman, hands down. Pings so many things with me it's not even funny.
Bats is still my favorite superhero. John Constantaine is my second, if he counts as one.
thomash, did you read both parts of Hush? Because your question is answered in book 2.
Nope, just book one I guess. Though I didn't notice the TPB saying book 1. I guess that's why I was wondering if there was more to it.
You know, I remember reading Stray Toasters, and being totally absorbed in it, and waiting impatiently for the next issue to come out, but I can't remember anything about it. Just an image or two here and there. I did love it while I was reading it, though.
You know, I remember reading Stray Toasters, and being totally absorbed in it, and waiting impatiently for the next issue to come out, but I can't remember anything about it. Just an image or two here and there. I did love it while I was reading it, though.
It's worth digging up again. What finally surprised me was that the story turned out to be a lot more conventional than it looked like it was going to be, but there were so many lovely asides, detours and tangents that the cumulative effect was amazing. Plus, I'm a big fan of Bill S's art. He wasn't a bad writer, though.
Has he been doing ANYTHING lately? After BIG NUMBERS died prematurely, the only things I remember him doing (other than occasional single panels) were MOBY DICK for the short-lived revival of Classics Illustrated and a set of Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theory trading cards. Oh, and he did a story in the Sandman Eternals hardcover, right?
eta, Delirium, natch. The bio in there says he was working on a Batman mini-series. Anything ever come of that, or is it still in the works?
Where can I find out which Batgirl TPBs collect which issues? I had figured they'd be sequential, but I picked one up in the store which started at around 16, and skipped a couple before it got to, I think, 24.
Particularly the issue when Evie (? - it's been ages since I could bring myself to read the series) is reading the stories from the person in the cell next door, and everything that follows. Moore already had me, but that broke me, just like the character in question.
That was an amazing story. "Valerie" - I think.
Has he been doing ANYTHING lately? After BIG NUMBERS died prematurely, the only things I remember him doing (other than occasional single panels) were MOBY DICK for the short-lived revival of Classics Illustrated and a set of Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theory trading cards. Oh, and he did a story in the Sandman Eternals hardcover, right?
Bill Sienkiewicz does a hell of a lot, but a lot of it isn't comics these days. He does album covers, storyboards--tons of stuff.
And yeah, he did Delirium in Endless Nights.
He (Sienkiewicz) did a story in the The Escapist #2. (I really hate his artwork.)
Did anybody pick up Escapist #3? I flipped through it, but it didn't grab me at.
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You've probably already seen them, but I was just flipping through an article with her today.
I also bought an issue of Comic Book Artist with a cover and lots of interior illos by Darwyn Cooke (Catwoman).
I also bought an issue of Comic Book Artist with a cover and lots of interior illos by Darwyn Cooke (Catwoman).
I have this and got it signed by Darwyn. It rules!
