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Title: Zombo makes Time Magazine's Top 10 Comics of 2014
Post by: Ancient Otter on 04 December, 2013, 08:09:32 PM
Check it out: Time's Top 10 Comics and Graphic Novels of 2014. (http://entertainment.time.com/2013/12/04/arts-and-entertainment/slide/top-10-comics-and-graphic-novels/)
Title: Re: Zombo makes Time Magazine's Top 10 Comics of 2014
Post by: IronGraham on 04 December, 2013, 08:24:17 PM
That is fantastic can of oil to both Droid chaps
Title: Re: Zombo makes Time Magazine's Top 10 Comics of 2014
Post by: TordelBack on 04 December, 2013, 08:34:41 PM
And rightly so.

Good list too.
Title: Re: Zombo makes Time Magazine's Top 10 Comics of 2014
Post by: Colin YNWA on 04 December, 2013, 09:17:14 PM
Well hats off to all concerned. That's a great feather in the cap. Interesting list... well except for continuing the illusion that Saga is any more than just a good comic. IT'S NOT VONNEGUT. Not. In. A. Million. Years.

...and relax Taylor this is meant to be all about well done Al and Henry.
Title: Re: Zombo makes Time Magazine's Top 10 Comics of 2014
Post by: Steve Green on 04 December, 2013, 09:31:36 PM
Nice one droids!
Title: Re: Zombo makes Time Magazine's Top 10 Comics of 2014
Post by: DrJomster on 04 December, 2013, 10:15:46 PM
Great news!

Glad to see The Phoenix do well too. Proper comics for kids! Not that stuff with a toy on the front, where they only want it for the toy, barely read the comic then get bored with the toy... Or is that just me?
Title: Re: Zombo makes Time Magazine's Top 10 Comics of 2014
Post by: SuperSurfer on 05 December, 2013, 01:10:14 AM
And to think I call myself a comic fan. Other than Zombo I've only heard of Pheonix in that list.

Then again in the last years I think I've been slowly coming to the realisation that I am actually a 2000AD fan rather than a comic fan. Nothing else seems to interest me much these days.
Title: Re: Zombo makes Time Magazine's Top 10 Comics of 2014
Post by: JOE SOAP on 05 December, 2013, 01:23:08 AM



Douglas Wolk is really pimping it.


Title: Re: Zombo makes Time Magazine's Top 10 Comics of 2014
Post by: The Adventurer on 05 December, 2013, 05:26:52 AM
Wow that's great news!


I really gotta get my hands on Bad Houses. Clara Speed McNeil! Albeit only in an artist capacity here, her Finder series is PHENOMENAL.
Title: Re: Zombo makes Time Magazine's Top 10 Comics of 2014
Post by: The Adventurer on 05 December, 2013, 05:28:32 AM
QuoteAnd to think I call myself a comic fan. Other than Zombo I've only heard of Pheonix in that list.

Then again in the last years I think I've been slowly coming to the realisation that I am actually a 2000AD fan rather than a comic fan. Nothing else seems to interest me much these days.

Man, as a 2000AD fan you really owe it to yourself to give SAGA a try. Sci-fi weirdness to the extreme!
Title: Re: Zombo makes Time Magazine's Top 10 Comics of 2014
Post by: PsychoGoatee on 06 December, 2013, 02:37:26 AM
Very cool to see Zombo on there. In general I think it's a poor list though, I dig Saga but for a "comics and GNs" list it feels very heavy on GNs and not big on lengthy ongoing runs.

It also has a certain vibe where great stuff like say Savage Dragon wouldn't be on there just because of the genre or perceived credibility, where they feel like they have to pick "arty-ish" seeming stuff to some degree. Also Sex Criminals is an odd choice for #1, especially so early in it's run.

All personal taste naturally, ha but hey these lists do come across often a bit pretentiously, for lack of a better word. Which is why it is refreshing to see Zombo on there.
Title: Re: Zombo makes Time Magazine's Top 10 Comics of 2014
Post by: The Adventurer on 06 December, 2013, 03:11:27 AM
I don't think this list seems pretentious at all. In fact as I read down it I was quite surprised with how balanced it came across. For a magazine website rattling off a list of funny books it's one of the better ones I've seen.
Title: Re: Zombo makes Time Magazine's Top 10 Comics of 2014
Post by: PsychoGoatee on 06 December, 2013, 03:31:24 AM
Fair enough, it is tough to explain some of these ineffable things, bit pretentious just one way to try describing it. Kind of like the Oscars, a get a vibe of this list that it's only really considering a fairly narrow scope of what's out there.

But then again, I'm probably putting too much analysis into this. Just personal taste, and I don't really dig the taste of this Wolk guy I guess.
Title: Re: Zombo makes Time Magazine's Top 10 Comics of 2014
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 06 December, 2013, 11:27:15 AM
I LOVE that the Phoenix is in there :D