LXG: The Black Dossier

[wrly_bird]

Bought this last month (from London's Gosh Comics). Am half-way through and finding it monumentally dull. Anyone else having the same experience...

[Proudhuff]

try this thread...

Link: http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=fan&page=messagethread&choice=21034" target="_blank">its black and its...

[Goaty]

here is link to video journel No1...
it of builing/painting the stages... oh they do everythings in the book!

even that kidnapping scene and prison riot...

Nice to see start of filming for The Comedian scene at 2.16. :)

Link: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=43692" target="_blank">Who Watches the Watchmen

[TordelBack]

Anyone else having the same experience...

Not I.

[JOE SOAP]

It's really just an LOEG history/guide book unlike the other narrative driven volumes.

[Dark Jimbo]

I think you'll find it's LOEG round these here parts, my good fellow. LXG brings back too many memories of that film...

[TordelBack]

It's really just an LOEG history/guide book unlike the other narrative driven volumes.

I confess I initially thought this too, but IMHO it really isn't - it has a good central thread running through the various vignettes, many of which are quite brilliant in themselves.  If it has a problem, it's the enormous density which is quite unexpected in a comic, particularly after the rather decompressed Book 2 - it might have worked slightly better as 6 or 7 separate issues.  But it's far more than a history.

[johnnystress]

I started this, found it really hard going and put it down, promising myself Id get into when I had more time

I glance at it every night and think...not yet

[JOE SOAP]

***I confess I initially thought this too, but IMHO it really isn't - it has a good central thread running through the various vignettes, many of which are quite brilliant in themselves.***


Yes it has a narrative, which I never denied, but the narrative is latent and in the background unlike the other volumes where the narrative is to the fore and drives them. It's the reverse in the case of the Black Dossier. The saturation of FACTions is what compels the Black Dossier parseing out little narrative connections in each section. The sheer amount of fictional info far outweighs the narrative therefore cannot be judged the same way as the other books.

[wrly_bird]

Maybe it's just me. I've got a Dredd collection I'm dying to read after this and am finding the pace of 'LOEG': The Black Dossier just a little too slow - oh, great, another four pages of dense single-space type full of undramatised backstory that seems to have little or no bearing on the story in hand. Patience, my young padowan...

[SamuelAWilkinson]

Maybe it's just me. I've got a Dredd collection I'm dying to read after this and am finding the pace of 'LOEG': The Black Dossier just a little too slow

Round these parts, you may also wish to rethink those inverted commas.

[LARF]

Mrs Larf thought I was reading porn, and gave me her look, it was difficult to explain.

I liked it though, and I'm going back for a more thorough read - what did everyone think of the 3D effect?

[wrly_bird]

What's with all the 'round these parts'? Is Brian Dennehy about to escort me to the edge of town...?

[LARF]

Meaning: are you the type that, when describing something, often places both hands, palm forwards, retains index and middle figure in the air whilst tucking the other two behind you thumb(s) and then proceed to wiggle the index and middle fingers?

Cos we don't stand for any of that type of psychobabble shite round here, we're down to earth - in fact we roll in the stuff, we're slavish pigs to comics, we don't wear square glasses and write poetry about how fed up we are with the fact the girl next door does not recognise me and I'm sick of monkey spanky over pictures of EMO erotic skater ladies who ignore me. We are HARD, we ARE British Comics. So no more of that pansy apostrophie nonsense, we are black and white line art to your scribbly light love pencils!*

* we are also sarcastic

[TordelBack]

What's this "we" business, paleface?