His Mister Miracle was really good, too. Or at least it started out really good before kind of falling apart at the end. I bought a bunch of the Strange Adventure issues but haven’t read them yet.
Recently I’ve really enjoyed Curse Words by Charles Soule & Ryan Browne. That was a real rip, with a very satisfying ending.
What else recently?
all the Black Hammer books by Jeff Lemire et al. (postmodern superhero stuff in the Moore/Morrison vein) Rumble by John Arcudi & James Harren (ancient gods awake and fight it out in a small upper midwest city, ridiculously cool art) Hidden Systems by Dan Nott (nonfiction/popular science in comic form) Dead Air by Whit Taylor (memoir about working at a college radio station) Ephemera by Briana Loewinsohn (memoir about family)
I feel off reading comics a lot during the pandemic and still haven’t really gotten back to visiting the shop every week, so a lot of this stuff is like 5 years old by this point.
Tintin! Still know all of them inside out because I read them so many times when I was a kid. Plus there are a lot of inside jokes between my siblings and me originating from Tintin albums.
I haven’t actively collected for years, but I’ve definitely kept an eye out. So many great mentions by everyone so far. Here’s my chronological list of impactful titles starting around 1980:
CARtoons
Conan
ROM
X-men: God Loves, Man Kills 1982
Elf Quest
Daredevil #249 (vs. Wolverine) 1987
Alien Legion
Creepshow
Watchmen
Amazing Spider-Man #298-300
Akira
Anything by Moebius
Sin City
Eightball
Black Hole
Boiled Angel
Fukitor
This is far from a complete list. However, these are some of the ones that have continually flowed through my consciousness for more than 40+ years. It’s amazing how deeply comics can shape and affect you. I love just strolling through a comic store.
It’s been pretty average for me. Pacing and writing (particularly dialogue) isn’t great and I find the link to the previous show unnecessary as it doesn’t really feel or look the same in a lot of ways. At times it feels very bland and unexciting despite the subject matter, something I found with the ‘what if’ show.
I will still give it a chance but I think it’s best viewed as its own thing vs the older cartoon and find that it lacks a ‘charm’ that I get from animation that I like. The animation itself isn’t very slick at times.
I hear you. I think I have too much childhood love for the original, so I can’t tell if I actually enjoy the new one or the nostalgia is swaying my brain. Either way it’s enjoyable.
Two Chrimbo presents I got:
I’m really enjoying the Monstress series, dense and gory.
Starting Ducks today. Don’t know anything aboot it but I have a soft spot for anything Canada eh!
An excellent introduction to Larcenet’s deep comics.
I discovered him through his “marginal” drawings in “Fluide Glacial” and since then, I have always been impressed by his talent.
Seriously, his elephants…
Once I stood in front of this lemon and thought that it looked like a hedgehog drawn by Larcenet, it was obviously more similar in real life and in volume than in this photo.
I’ve always loved comics but the point of no return was Sandman: Season of mists by Neil Gaiman. The mystery and multiple artists in the same album, the mythological references and the weird characters… Dark but I loved it.
