Quote from: PsychoGoatee on 02 May, 2024, 08:32:20 PMYep, that 2 volume special edition covers the 7 slim paperback Fantagraphics trades, which are the beginning of Usagi, prior to the Mirage/Dark Horse stuff in Saga.
Spot on. Thanks.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: PsychoGoatee on 02 May, 2024, 08:32:20 PMYep, that 2 volume special edition covers the 7 slim paperback Fantagraphics trades, which are the beginning of Usagi, prior to the Mirage/Dark Horse stuff in Saga.
Quote from: Blue Cactus on 02 May, 2024, 09:56:12 AMYour thoughts reminded me of some literary theory - I think Mikhail Bakhtin's but building on Roland Barthes' Death of the Author stuff. Basically the idea that the text is created by the reader in the act of reading.
Quote from: Vector14 on 02 May, 2024, 10:25:40 AMWhile it's true that whatever a person takes from a work of art is valid, its still hard not to feel annoyed when people misinterpret the intention of the authors in some cases.
The obvious one is how some people interpret Dredd as a template for how policing should be done rather than a satire.
Quote from: Blue Cactus on 02 May, 2024, 09:56:12 AMI hadn't really thought about Spider-Man while reading KOBK but now you point it out it's definitely apparent! This was probably my favourite Brubaker-Phillips series, this or The Fade Out I think. Recommended!
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 02 May, 2024, 11:14:39 AMKill Or Be Killed: I thought that was great and it was the series that really got be into the whole Brubaker/Phillips thing. I'm now... probably a bit obsessive. Note quite a completist, but I've bought Pulp and the entire run of Reckless. Some other one-shots. All of Criminal (which I assume from "in which I bemoaned them only appearing once more" isn't in this list?), Fatale and Velvet. The Fade Out is missing, mostly because it's so bloody expensive on the second-hand market.
QuoteHe describes the story as Death Wish meets Breaking Bad with the adventure of The Amazing Spider-Man comics from the 1970s.
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 01 May, 2024, 04:08:19 PMZenith owes Paul Auater a debt, and so, now I think about it, does Grant's Animal Man.
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 01 May, 2024, 10:07:36 AMQuote from: Colin YNWA on 21 April, 2024, 04:48:25 PMLet's see how a nights sleep does for it all...
So, will we be seeing you there Colin?
Quote from: BadlyDrawnKano on 29 April, 2024, 06:29:49 PMOut of all of them I'd recommend Unbeatable Squirrel Girl the most, I read it during the pandemic and credit it for helping me stay sane(ish) as it has such a wholesome, warm, funny and considerate central sentiment, where Squirrel Girl only ever resorts to violence if she has absolutely no other choice.
Quote from: AlexF on 30 April, 2024, 09:56:35 AMEric Powell is an astonishingly good artist. I've not heard of Hillbilly before, seems worth a shot! I was a bit put off The Goon not because any of it wasn't great, but jsut becuase even after like 3 issues I felt I wasn't getting much new out of it. I'd love it if it was five page doses like in 2000AD, but 20+ pages each time of fairly similar stuff wears me down - something to enjoy in small doses!
But spunds as if Hillbilly has more of an overall story to get into?