post the sheleves where you keep your memebooks
>>77615309
more autismbux
>>77615338
need more money fo dem programs
updated autismstation, pictured for the recent statue i bought dr doom-chan
>>77615355
That's a sweet Aquaman poster
>>77615384
ya pretty cool huh? i think i got it for $17 delivered off amazon, let me know i'll dig up the link if you're interested
>>77615396
naw I don't really have room for posters, but thanks anyway
>>77615355
Jesus anon are you loaded or still living with your parents?
>>77615483
i haven't lived with my parents in 11 years mang
Fuck off CREAM
>>77615564
post your comics crybaby
>>77615355
This is my dream.
CREAM is that one rich kid at school everyone hates and is secretly envious of.
>>77615309
Just picked up JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 1 Hawkeye vol.4. Shit took forever to come out, basically ripped myself off not waiting for the omnibus.
>>77616031
i have the first two trades i kinda want to sell and grab the omnibus but its about $10 too much
Muh shit
1/3
1/2
>>77616394
>>77616406
I really fucked up those numbers
>>77616422
kek
>>77615554
What do you do for a living?
>>77615355
love that Spidey poster
also what are those huge black and white pages from >>77615309
Silver Surfer?
>>77616422
How is Sweet Tooth? I just read the Nobody and fucking loved everything about it, and Jeff Lemire did it all besides the lettering, so I am wondering if this is also the case here.
>>77616853
Sweet Tooth blows it out of the water. He doesn't color it though.
>>77615345
I have that exact figure of Zuckuss
>>77616845
artists edition silver surfer
its all original pages scanned. its about 19" tall. super big original pages
Guys help. I can't stop fucking buying omnibus editions. They just drop in price so fast and they have so many comics. But I can only read them at home because they're so big. Plus I'm basically completely out of shelf space.
Sorry for the giant shitty photo, its all I have on my phone. Plus it's about a month behind on lots of expensive purchases I haven't been able to put up yet.
Also, you know what's great? The paperback Marvel Masterworks. You can find them at like every used book store on the planet and they usually price them at six fucking bucks. It's actually BETTER than the Showcase/Essential books because they're high quality and in color.
Only downside is some are hard to find in anything but hardcover, which are as expensive and rare as Archive Editions.
>>77615338
Where the fuck did you get those Aquaman omnis
>>77616892
I'll look into it, thanks for the recommendation.
>>77615338
You bought all this with autism bucks? That's fucking disgraceful. No wonder America is a shit hole.
>>77617020
cool thanks
>>77617056
how can you read omnibuses? I hate the size and weight and all that gutter loss. Maybe I'm the worst at keeping them in good conditions cause all the spines look like size after I'm done with them
I get tpb now mostly old cheap Showcase/Essential books that way I don't feel bad once they start to fall apart lol they weren't too expensive.
Love the Marvel Masterworks by far my favorite
>tfw you keep buying books but don't red them
Feels bad.
>>77617020
>>77617216
looked in to it, it's only John Buscema's Surfer run these Artist’s Edition are pretty sweet Hellboy, Enemy Ace, Simonson, Steranko and Kirby!
need that Best of EC
>>77617452
I decided to put a limit on myself. I gotta read two of the books I bought before buying something new
>>77617299
I feel the same way about the omnibi but they just look so nice, and often have comics that are long out of print.
I try to limit it to series I've already read and like but some like Orion and Byrne FF are just too good to pass up compared to hard to find and poor quality trades.
I have to say the Alias omni I just got is a perfect compromise between content and readability.
>>77617452
same
I've stopped buying stuff for now, until I work through more of my backlog, because things are just piling up and I have barely touched any of them
If the bro with the Empowered Deluxe Volumes is in this thread, could you post pictures of them? I'm fixing to plop a chunk of change down for the first volume.
>>77617563
>but they just look so nice
I agree on that point, anon and that's why I only have them as shelf porn
>>77616994
its a cool statue. i got mine for $5 in box which was neat.
>>77616758
manufacturer sales rep for like 10 different companies
>>77617056
i made them. they are storfolios and i designed spines for them in photoshop then had them printed at kinkos on a semithick card stock. inside is peter davids run of aquaman
>>77617459
that best of EC would be fucking awesome to own. i wish i could collect more creepy, eeric, ec stuff but all the reprints are pretty expensive and because there are so many i'll get annoyed i can't have it fully collected because it just costs/takes too much space
>>77617176
no lol, i've never gotten any form of government assistance in my life.
>>77617700
you can get them on the cheap on eBay or in cons but yeah they are far too many to keep up with lol
>>77617828
ya i just have a couple of the ones that came out in 1997, the luke with wampa, boba fett, grand moff tarkin, cantina band menerguy
And now for something completely fucking different
1/5
>>77619169
2/5
>>77619244
3/5
>>77619266
4/5
>>77619283
5/5
>>77619169
post black rimmed non prescription glasses
>>77619169
>Milk & Cheese
muh nigga
>>77619333
D'hoy forgot pic >>77619345
>>77619345
My eyesight is fine, thanks. Post your mantits
5/5
>>77619375
>>77619169
can you guys rec more stuff like milk and cheese? i have most dorkin stuff but is there anyone else out there with similar stuff?
>>77619283
>>77619266
>>77619244
>>77619169
How do you buy such obscure books and know what anything is? Titles like at are often not cheap as all and small 30 page self published pamphlets can be $5 or $10 depending on what stuff is..
in chicago there is a cool comic shop that has tons of indepedent and self published or locally published stuff but i'd never know what to buy
>>77619345
>Too casual to have read classics of the industry that your favorite writers most likely rank among their favorite comics
>Y-you're a hipster
Lel
>>77619169
I can't take anyone who owns Maus seriously. Good goy.
>>77619413
...uhm...I dunno, have you tried Eltingville by Evan Dorkin? The Beppo The Clown (am I remembering that right?) strips from Deep Fried by Jason Yungbluth have that same vibe to them as M & C, I think
My maths is terrible, another shelf.
>>77619461
Uhm, a lot when they come out, just keep up w/trusted publishers and cartoonists, I suppose. E-Bay for stuff I've been trying to find for years...the usual. Sorry for such a shit answer!
Give Michael deforge a go, everyone seems to love him (I mean at yr Chicago shop...not Quimby's, is it?!)
>>77619501
I don't really care what you think. As a youth very active in far left politics I spilled plenty of neo-Nazi blood at demos, especially during the Stephen Lawrence trial era. Not trying to be an internet tough guy but we're not all nerds. And anyway I'm a pacifist, now. 'S'funny, I've never been able to take the far right seriously, either!
>>77619714
ya i've read all the eltingville stuff
thanks for the rec on Deep Fried. i don't think its quimbys... its up off of clark i believe? just north of belmont
>>77619714
UG/alternative comix longbox
>>77619812
Not sure then, Quimby's would be the highest profile US LCS I know of, don't think they even SELL capes/Big Two stuff desu. Also, no problem. If I think of anything else...I suppose Johnny Ryan's Boobs pooter and Loady Mcgee stuff has a similar (but much, MUCH more offensive vibe--a collection of his Angry Youth Comics has just been released.
>>77619413
well in terms of cartoon humor I loved Hellboy Junior, Flaming Carrot, Groo the Wanderer and Dan Slott's Ren & Stimpy
then there's Evan Dorkin's other book, Dork
some old school well written Sunday comic strip is Krazy Kat by George Herriman which influenced tons of artists but chiefly amongst them (and my next point) is Robert Crumb. By the way I'm a Crumb fan I like his Mr. Natural the best, could be a good starting point for most newcomers
all those underground comics or "comix" were awesome
>>77619937
Some recent shit (haven't posted in ages)
>>77620046
>>77620046
Ya i have dork! thanks!
tons of great recs here nad stuff for me to look into. i appreciate it friendos
>>77620054
>>77620046
Great taste. Personally I think The weirdo Years collection would be an even better starting point but, hey, apples and oranges. crumb was also influenced by Billy deBecks Barney Google, which is effin' GREAT, I rate it as much as Krazy Kat (I know it's not "better", I just prefer it).
Flaming Carrot is wicked!
>>77620178
Also this baby which is fantastic
![IMG_20151121_170623915[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/k8DfKgL.jpg "IMG_20151121_170623915[1].jpg")
(1/2)
![IMG_20151121_170531422[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/cUDVaqM.jpg "IMG_20151121_170531422[1].jpg")
>>77620362
(2/2)
>>77620083
>>77620178
shit forgot to mention Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
yeah Barney Google and all those comic strips were huge I mean stuff like Pogo were brilliant, not sure I've seen Walt Kelly listed in Crumb's influences but Pogo changed things and it's a nice read. I tend to try to sample pages online before I splash cash.
Harvey Kurtzman is worth a look to, his Mad stuff, Help! and Jungle Book graphic novel, which was listed in Top 100 English-Language Comics of the Century by The Comics Journal
yeah Weirdo Years is pretty solid
Trashman if you can find it is really leftist and trippy, I have only read a little online
>>77620522
awesome. i appreciate you taking time to give me some more recs!!
>>77616394
My current purchase
>>77620742
that looks interdasting.. might buy... metamemers hmmm
>>77620742
what site is that?
>>77620522
Yeah, I've read everyone you've mentioned, Kurtzman was a HUGE influence on the UG artists, even did a cover for jay Lynch's Bijou comics. Humbug is even MORE worth a look, but the Denis Kitchen book on him is great.
Yes Crumb has DEFINITELY listed Pogo/Kelly amongst his influences!!!
Never really liked Trashman that much. Prefer Spain's (RIP!!!) biker memoirs out of his oeuvre.
I met Tony (Knockabout publisher who put out the big omnibus) at Thought Bubble last weekend, got three BEAUTIFUL sketches from hunt Emerson, you dig his stuff? seeing him work was...damn, such a privilege!
Posting some recent mainstreamy stuff, too, then (some) of my TB haul
>>77620796
filthy casual
>>77620362
I need those Daredevil omnibus.
>>77620522
Sorry meant Freak Brothers omnibus!
New Emerson book...
>>77620922
...and amazing sketch (he also drew a BEAUTIFUL Lady Chatterley in his GN adaptation of that book, AND Casanova's dog fro Casanova's last stand. Man, he was so quick, none of 'em took more than one and a half minutes, casanova's dog took him about thirty seconds!!!
>>77621070
what is amazing about that?
>>77620922
>Emerson
got to check it out then and sweet art >>77621070
and they also got the rights to Wonder Wart-Hog another thing I got to pick up
>>77620830
sorry almighty patrician
anyways this is my next book https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/24-079/The-Best-of-Comix-Book-When-Marvel-Went-Underground-HC
Stan Lee and Denis Kitchen yes please
>>77620704
I would also recommend VEDA: Assembly Required they had a story time the other day and it was a good book and then the actual creator came on and answered some questions pretty chill dude would love the support
I don't know where you guys get yours but it's on Dark Horse's website and of course Amazon
>>77620795
kill yourself tripshitter
>>77621253
I don't like him either, but C.R.E.A.M. seems to only use his trip for these topics, as if he were an authority on physical books.
>>77621081
Whether you appreciate his style or not, you have to give props to the fact that it took him a minute, straight to pen. Most mainstream artists do an underdrawing of some kind, judging by what I have personally observed at cons.
A better question would be, "what's NOT amazing about it". Philistine, much?
Oh shortbox with all (and I mean ALL, the whole run ) of Weirdo, Arcades, some self-pubbed etc...
>>77621339
Sorry, better photo with better indication of contents
>>77621211
I have a few issues of Comix Book, I'm a fiend for Robert Armstrong, you see! Still, I NEED that hardback, definitely!
>>77621309
>as if he were an authority
top
kekkkk. this is actually a legitimate use of a trip sally
>>77621551
doesn't make you not a homo
>>77620796
instocktrades
So thrilled about all four of these.
Ordered Gotham Central volume 1 and 2 yesterday.
>>77621979
they are releasing an 800 page omnibus family
>>77621930
nice pick ups
>>77621913
thanks
>>77621468
>Robert Armstrong
>pic related
>>77621930
That Druillet stuff is supposed to be classic. I respect him as an artist, definitely, but it's not really my "thing", good for you, though, I bet those won't be around for long! Oh, he knows how to design a page, though! And Cerebus is great.
what is El Eternauta and is it as good as people say
>>77622332
Yup, every ishof MR, obviously all the bits he did for Weirdo and Arcade, Comix Book (3 issues of that, not sure if he's in every one)...Yellow Dog...I actually wore my t-shirt to Thought Bubble and Hunt emerson and Tony Knockabout complimented me on it! I'm buzzing 'caus in the poster to the new film of Phoebe Gloeckner's Diary Of a teenage Girl, she's clearly wearing a Mickey Rat t-shirt! I speak to Robt.Armstrong on FB quite a bit, he told me how he actually gave her a t-shirtwhen she was a girl (her family knew Crumb and Armstrong played with him in The Cheap suit Serenaders). Mr. emerson told me about the time he met him in France on a visit to Gilbert Shelton. Meeting Hunt was the highlight of my weekend.
trying to post the other two sketches but my computer's gone invisible to my bluetooth for some reason, sorry dude...
>>77622493
it's all good
great story though
>>77622607
Well, I thought so! and he wasn't "name droppy" about it at all.
Also, Mr.Armstrong (and Debbie Drechsler are two of the nicest, most gracious FB correspondents on my friends list, and I have about 60-odd UG/alt cartoonists on there.
>>77621551
I was defending you, ass.
>>77624296
rly m9 i just read it again maybe im just not comprehending it. sorry
have this meme as a form of an apology
>>77619169
I'm looking at some of the solicits for Jan - March '16 and I've got some questions for you since you seem much more educated than I am on independent stuff.
>Meat Cake Bible HC
This is a complete unknown quantity to me but the style looks like something I could really dig. Any insight on the series?
>Powr Mastrs
Fantagraphics is printing the first four volumes of this over Jan/Feb it looks like. Once again, this is an unknown to me but the descriptions really caught my eye.
If you have any other recommendations for material that is particularly psychedelic, disgusting or bizarre, I'd love to hear it.
Lots of great stuff ITT.
I'll participate. Here's my haul.
>>77621468
you are seriously the biggest hipsterfaggot i've ever seen in these threads
>>77625001
How much did you pay for that Biologic Show? Be honest, Now! Masterplasty is great, have you seen the big version?! It's lovely.
>>77624517
Meat Cake is done by this crazy witch lady Dame Darcy, I never really dug her stuff but there's lots of adolescent girls casting spells and making dolls and things like that....
I've never been a fan of CF, either! But, to be fair, A LOT of people do rate him--he's more or less the progenitor of the "thin, uninked pencil line watercolor" comic-making technique that so many people (hANSELLMANN, i'M LOOKING AT YOU) have ripped off. I keep reminding myself to at least pick up one volume but I've just never enjoyed his art that much. VERY influential cartoonist, though.
>>77625531
>>77619345
>>77619501
>>77625607
28$
There's beat up one on ebay for 20 now.
Big masterpasty is BIG. Bought this one, because I'm thinking to make castom anthology binding.
>>77625607
>Meat Cake - there's lots of adolescent girls casting spells and making dolls and things like that....
Yeah...that might not be for me unless it's REALLY fucking weird about it.
>CF/Powr Mastrs
This looks worth a shot at the very least, though I may just grab Prison Pit instead like I've been meaning to for a year.
>>77625877
Thanks! I guess I just outgrew capes in my late teens. Still have a soft spot for those I grew up with (I was a DC, not Marvel kid).
>>77624517
Sorry, psychedelic, bizarre or disgusting? Hhm. I guess Michael Deforge has covered all those at some point....Jesse Jacobs Safari and By This You Shall Know Him are great recent books....Glenn Head's new GN Chicago will be WELL WORTH buying if you like starving/bizarre artist stories....Johnny Ryan is pretty disgusting....
>>77625001 this guy here with the Al Columbia book The Biologic Show knows his shit, problem is he only has one GN ("Pim & Francie's Golden Bear Days") the Biologic Show goes for INSANE prices and the rerst of his stuff is scattered around anthologies (most recently Mome but his best is in Zero Zero, I posted three issues with his work in earlier, and they're rare as shit, too, I'd been after those issues for many years BECAUSE I knew they had Columbia work in 'em. You can get the Mome's cheaply, though, and maybe find a cheap copy of Pim & francie.
>>77625813
You in the US? That's damned good for that, didja bid or "buy now"? But 20 dollars plus postage to UK for a beat up copy, fuck that. I lucked out on a copy of #1 a few years back (old bookshop who didn't know what they had) and I've got about 90% of what he ever published. There is some AMAZING Columbia stuff in those Zero Zero's, you familiar with "I Was Killing Before Killing Was Cool" and "Alfred The Great" ? Real knock-out comix, just amazing.
>>77626170
I'm from Russia. That was my second auction for Biologic show, this time I won it. Thanks for the tip on Al's stuff. I'll look for them.
>>77626522
No problem man. The Zero Zero's are up here
>>77620054 , # 4, 6 and 26.
>>77619169
I read somewhere that it's bad for books to be lopsided like that, it retks the spine.
bump.
Gotta update my shelf again. Was going to go out today and buy Lemire's Underwater Welder and pick up my week's pull, but after driving with bald tires in a foot and a half of snow and drifting into an exit sign I decided tomorrow was as good a day as any for it.
>>77629026
and here I was thinking that sentence would end with "So I should really save the money and buy new tires," lol. Not that I wouldn't do the same thing as you....
>>77629217
I'm working on it, senpai
bampu
>>77629026
my shelf by the way
>>77630965
>Cryptozoic man display
what the fuck was the point behind that story anyway. By the time I read to the end of it all the plot points had been addressed but it still felt so arbitrary and like an excuse to draw apocalyptic satanic imagery and gore. I understood the explanation they gave as to what was going on and how they were trying to deal with it but I still don't understand the reason all of the ethereal conflict revolved around in the first place or why the characters were the only ones involved if this was supposed to be on a global scale
>>77631984
>AXIS: Carnage and Hobgoblin
Only bit of AXIS worth reading.
>Dial H
How is that? Is Mieville worth a damn at the "picture books"?
>>77632705
Mieville should stick to books but Dial H was very good. It was very unexpected and surrealist, and I do wish that I had the benefit of reading it an issue at a time, but it's a thoroughly entertaining read.
It's fucking weird, but in a good way
Catching up on Southern Bastards and I really want to purchase it, but that hardcover just seems so pisspoor. Should I wait and hope for some sort of omnibus like release or just go for trades?
>>77632705
Wait. Are we talking China Mieville?! Recently got into him and read the Bas-Lag trio in a coupla weeks. Great author. Where's the comic, though?
>>77625531
Hipsters are people who pretend they are into comics but doesnt know anything about comics. A person like Vollstix knows probably more about comics than anyone else on this board, including geekculture oriented stuff like capes and shit too. A hipster would probably pretend to read superhero shit cause he wouldnt know about anything else.
>>77626864
Yes, if you stack them like that. If it's only one book it doesnt cause much damage, if any.
Okay, to those of you who have big collections, how much of your stuff have you not read yet?
>>77638480
I have a stack of like 5 books I havent read yet. But that is not because I don't read. It's because I like to build up a pile, then take a day off with nothing but reading comics.
>>77638431
You fucking honour me, I'm sure that's not true but it's very kind of you to say.
>>77638450
I know, it's with lending stuff out, I often rearrange shelves so books fit nice and snugly erect
>>77638480
Hahah wow probably not as much as you'd expect...probably , like, 15?
>>77637822
I saw the second trade (I think? It COULD have been the hardcover) at a con but there was so much more I had priority for. Great comic though. Old dude kicks ass. With a STICK. A fucking STICK.
>>77638431
Hey man bought my first contemporary Marvel comics in years, the Howard The Duck I posted photos of earlier! I felt strangely...proud (?) of myself! AND it's an amazing, funny comic, lovely clean art and funny as shit.
I need to sort out my floppy storage, I have them split across a couple of small horizontal stacks atm.
>>77631984
yeah it's kinda a shit book m9 but i'm a big tell em steve dave fan so concessions must be made
>>77638480
maybe 25%
>>77625877
BTW--lotsa sex in Meatcake--scratchy art style--v.original, some long-ish arcs but mostly consists of short stories. I hope my description doesn't do Ms. Darcy's work a disservice!
She was on an episode of "Blind Date" that I'm STILL trying to find a vid of! Not that it's owt to do with her work but she's a pretty woman.
>>77622607
Yoyoyo got the bluetooth sorted, if you're still around, anon! First, Casanova's dog...
>>77622607
...and now get ready to jizz (NOT 'cause she's all nude, I mean 'cause of the quality of art...who knows ya may jizz 'cause she's naked anyway!)
Like I said (I think?!) dunno if you've read the actual "proper" book but Mr.Emerson, in a few penstrokes, PERFECTLY DISTILLED the character, the joyous re-discovery of sexuality, down to the metaphor of the dirty feet, of Lady Chatterley. Literally, a picture HAS said a thousand words! Again, Hunt Emerson took one of the canonical works of English Lit and totally, completely made it his own. He is a true master, a national treasure and a top bloke....now, here we go....
>>77625877
Actually I would say there are some VERY weird parts in Meat cake...she has a thing for vampires and lesbian sex features a lot, cooking...but probably Pwr Masters would be more "up your street", maybe? It's kind of a weird, psychedelic sci-fi epic...a genre comic told through an artcomix lens...said it before but CF has been INCREDIBLY influential. Ya wanna see a REAL comix hipster, google a pic of him!
>>77638553
Sorry to sound like the elitist snob I try NOT TO BE, but you have (some) good taste. All those contemporary capes are not up my street at all even tho' I was a batfanboy through and through. However the second shelf is great; there are some AMAZING "alternative" cartoonists in those Adventure Time Books , top marks for Miss Don't Touch Me, I almost ordered the Nobrow book when I won a $50 gift certificate in a quiz from the old tcj.com-affiliated blog The Panelists but ended up buying a lot of small stuff. And of course Hansellmann (I don't like him enough to BUY his work, but he can be VERY funny). WICKED Bats and AT figures, too, Anon!
And again, sorry if I came off a bit snobbish, /co/mrade.
>>77639662
"taste" is just an elitist word for opinion. only assholes don't seem to know the difference.
>>77639760
Well, I DID say I try hard to fight against my (slightly) elitist opinion....but farting loudly at the dinner table whilst eating (in the West, at least!) is unarguably "bad taste". Oh, cheers for the lil' ad hominem, there, too!
>>77638431
nah hipsters like underground stuff simply because they're contrarian, they may or may not actually know their shit
like saying some short indie stip is better than Watchmen simply because it's unknown to casuals
>>77640015
I would never say such an asinine statement. Watchmen WAS innovative; it WAS an utter game changer, it DID tear the rulebook into small pieces. I just feel that all the innovation (or, say 95% of it) and inventiveness is coming out of the small press/self-published scene. Capes ceased to be a force for experimentation or originality many years ago. If you look up a bit you'll see I bought the new Howard The Duck, which is GREAT, I love X-Statix, obviously Kirby, Steve Rude is my favourite "mainstream" artist, I mean, I started reading comics before I COULD read (about '81, '82?) and was collecting seriously at about 7 or 8 years of age...before the direct market you could go to any newsagent (basically what you'd call a "corner store" in the US) and see at least three LOOOOOOOONG shelves of comics, from "kids stuff" to Brit comics (and brit reprints of US stuff) and, finally, AMERICAN COMICS. It was possible to buy new US stuff every week; I'd always pick up (or, Granny or Grandad would, I mean!) about 7-10 titles a week, running the gamut of all the above genres.
Also you can't generalise "hipsters" as ALL being "contrarian"; I buy the stuff because I love it and I love THE MEDIUM. I don't care about "casuals", if someone reads comics a bit, fine, it just does not irritate me at all. Branding people with catholic taste in comics as "hipsters" certainly DOES, though.
Hey I even read that Secret Wars #1---biggest load of nonsense I've read in a long time. Utter shit. The Big Two are just getting worse and worse, that's a fact not many could credibly argue with. Like, making Jim Gordon Batman?!?! You can literally HEAR the bottom of the barrel being scraped. Oh yes, with very few exceptions, their well has run dry, dry as a BONE. Oh, and call me a "hipster", pretentious, whatever--I really could not care less.
>>77640556
are you the same lad that posts comments on TCJ regularly? been wondering where you wandered off to, these threads have sorely missed ya (or at least I have)
>>77641004
Yes, I am indeed the same lad who posts on tcj.com quite regularly. Thanks for saying such a nice thing! it really means a lot, /co/mrade.
Actually came back 'cause my mate Loady McGee who posts on here ( he did a Real Stuff storytime a few weeks back in honour of Dennis Eichorn's passing) told me there was a new comics board, aco. I thought he was exaggerating when he said it's 99% porn. Well, he wasn't! Checked the catalogue and couldn't find ONE non-porn comic....I think it's a real missed opportunity, myself, but I suppose it tells us what (most) channers want....
Just got these in from IST. I took the dust jacket off of the Sandman book because JUST LOOK AT THAT COVER ART.
>>77641351
yeah it's such a nice hardcover
>>77641351
That Safe Area Gorazde H/C looks WICKED, what a great book. Have you read Bumf! yet? I'm thinking it got a bit of a lukewarm reception, maybe? Anyway the actual design of the book looks beautiful--as usual with Fanta!--the detail, those little inlaid (or whatever the correct word is) corner parts and the embossed title, just LOVELY. In fact I prefer that to the Sandman cover, DESU! What is it? Some new spin-off or a book from the original collection? And either my eye is failing me, or that ain't no Dave McKean cover!!! Oh yeah it's definitely not, I see a sig which I can't make out......so, more info on Sandman book (and maybe a photo of the dust jacket?!, please?!?) if possible, /co/mrade?
5 pictures incoming
Might be as good a place as any to shill. I'm >>77641510 and I'm looking to trade my Uncanny X-Force Omni for Walt Simonson Thor omni.
>>77641504
The Sandman book is the collected 6-issue prequel that just wrapped up: Sandman Overture. It's still Gaiman writing, but JH Williams III is on art/covers (although for the single issues, McKean did variant covers). The dust jacket is the cover of issue #1.
I hadn't heard of Bumf before you mentioned it, but by the looks of it...I'm not sure if it would be up my alley. I prefer Sacco when he's shooting straight and reporting, but hey, I suppose he'd be pretty effective at taking jabs at people. I might check it out.
>>77621930
How is Cerberus? Does it start strong? I know next to nothing about it.
>>77641529
Very smart shelf! Is Y: The Last Man REALLY as good as it's made out to be? I read, like, volume 3 once so didn't get the full impact, obviously; I thought it was entertaining a pretty original, too. And I'm ALWAYS jelly of those Plague of Frogs and X-Statix omnibuses (omnibi?!?!)!!!!
>>77641566
Love Flex Mentallo and Swallow Me Whole. Also Rasl was DAMNED good!
>>77640015
Then you have no idea what a hipster really is. A person who actually knows his shit is not a hipster in my eyes. Hipsters are just following trends when the trends are still new, just to jump on another trend when it becomes too mainstream. Lately it has been "cool" to be geeky. And geeks like geekculture oriented kiddie shit i.e superheroes, sci-fi, fantasy etc. That's what hipsters are pretending to like. Fact is, they don't even care about comics. People who reads alternative/underground/grown up comics often know their shit, otherwise they wouldnt be into it in the first place.
>>77641673
I don't know what to tell you about Y. I really enjoyed it and got the entire collection during FCBD. X-Statix is/was a dirt-cheap omni. If you don't have it, get it.
>>77641661
Not him, but it starts as a parody of Conan/Red Sonja/Slaine/other sword and sorcery comics, so arguably, the first book is the easiest to get into. Starting with volume 2, it turns into more of a political commentary. Then it just keeps going off the rails from there.
>>77641846
Off the rails in a good way or bad way?
>>77641868
I'm only wrapping up vol 2 right now, but I'm enjoying it. Vols 3-4 are apparently satires of politics and religion, and people really seem to like those. After that, the fanbase seems split from what I've heard. But hey, that's still about 100 or so issues that most people agree are pretty great!
>>77641661
Not really but it gets DAMNED good, DAMNED quickly!
>>77641650
Ah, okay; I've seen THAT image around the 'net. I take it you recommend it? I liked a lot of the Sandman arcs....The Corinthian still gives me the shitters.....urgh. I actually BOUGHT the first ish of Sandman from my Grandparent's local newsagent, just because I'd seen the ads and new Gaiman's stuff and dug Sam Keith...unfortunately, though, it got read and re-read, the cover fell off and it eventually got thrown away by my Mum. Very soon after I got into these things called "bags" and "boards".
Re:Sacco, have you checked out Notes From A Defeatist or But I like IT? The latter is his book about music, mostly autobio of him gigging across Europe with a psych/grunge band, also him covering the Fat Possum tour (ya know who put out RL Burnside and those kind of "drone blues" guys?), that's a REALLY good, fun book (picked up my H/C for 2 QUID from my nearest proper comics shop, Notes From A Defeatist was ONE pound from my town's "toy shop that sells Big Two GN's and back issues (oh, and 2000ad and "genre independent" stuff)".
If you can get the former cheaply give it a go, in fact give 'em BOTH a go, "Notes..." has some shonky as hell drawing but more stuff in the vein of "Bumf!!!"
Thanks for the info, too, Anon!
>>77641730
Oh, okay. I have quite a good few X-Statix issues and found some more at my local "comics" shop but didn't have enough cash on me for'em and the other stuff I wanted. But, yeah, great comic.
>>77641711
You're talking pure sense tonight, man.
>>77641985
Yeah, the later volumes get a bit wappy....I genuinely think Cerebus is the Ulysses (I mean, the Joyce novel) of comics, I really do....
Recent purchases 1/3
>>77642343
Recent purchases 2/3
>>77642368
Recent purchases 3/3
>>77642212
I don't think Overture tops the original series' high points, but I think it's a worthy prequel, if only because it sets up why Dream was so weak that he could be captured by a bunch of nobodies down on earth. There are a few good cameos too - there's a brief scene with the Corinthian in the first issue that explains why he was able to run amok in the first place.
The art really steals the show, though. JH Williams packs so much into every page (it can occasionally be *too* much). The panels/layouts are busy but gorgeous. There are even two big scenes that fold out into four-page spreads. Shit is crazy.
>>77640556
Thanks for the story of your life namefag but I wasn't talking about you at all. "Catholic taste in comics" wow that gave me cancer, really thanks a lot.
>>77641711
>Then you have no idea what a hipster really is
>[...]is not a hipster in my eyes
>in my eyes
Then that's like your opinion, man. So after how many years of getting to know his shit you stop being a hipster?
>>77642343
What's up my man?! I'm back like herpes!
Okay, I want all of these especially since reading the Sciver storytime...
>>77642368
Glenn Head offered me a sketched in copy for $25, I think I'll take him up on it! "Caricature" is filled with amazingness, not a dud strip anywhere
>>77642384
I can't remember but is that Mome the one with the Eleanor Davis story about that huge Mother-thing? That was great. Also; Lint. Best thing Ware's done (that I've read, obvs).....carrying the thoughts of a dying man onto the back cover....we talked about the Gary Panter homage on FB, that just blows me away, amazing....I'm sure Black River is a total barrel of laughs! You started Clover Honey, yet?
Great to see you here mate! I checked out aco.....it was literally ALL PORN. gross, fucked up porn that would probably make Al Goldstein puke! Shit mate, ya weren't joking....oh did ya give my minicomic suggestion any thought?
>>77642781
What's wrong with "catholic taste in comics"?! You do know "catholic" is a synonym for "eclectic", right?!
"Thanks for your life story, namefag", aww, what a sweet young thing you are! Are you maybe slightly bitter that a few people have written nice things about me coming back after a long absence, whilst you sit there, griping about people who actually love THE MEDIUM and call them hipsters? I wonder.....there's only two kinds of comics. Good, and bad.
I wish more people knew about the entomology of the word "hipster", then being called it wouldn't seem like a bad thing at all, in fact quite the opposite.
>>77640556
>>77643012
dawww namefag hispter tries to defend his name yet again
>>77643043
Attention span of a gnat, LOL!
>>77643048
You're really pained about such an insignificant label, aren't you?! It was entertaining for a bit, now it's just getting a bit pitiful. Go for some fresh air, maybe have a little jog, you'll feel better--and it'll get you away from the computer for a while. Have a great night, it's genuinely been really fun(ny)!
theyre just comics nerds stop arguing lmao
>>77642833
I have not started reading Clover Honey yet but I will soon. Yeah, but there were some great non porn stuff on aco last time I checked. Chris Ware storytime, AYC storytime and stuff. But I have not been there or here in ages except for that Real Stuff storytime. Just felt obligated to post in this thread now that you're back.
>>77643287
Hey I post that image everywhere mate no need to be bootyblasted.
>>77615309
>When was the last time you guys read real books?
Just moved out of parents house so I am a little more broke than normal
>>77643287
stop responding and put on a trip so I can filter
>>77643697
Okay sorry.
>>77643840
Stop responding?! You fucking started this shit, you fucking hypocrite. But don't worry about me responding anymore.
>>77643744
Er, yesterday? Coming Up For Air, George Orwell and finished The Iron Council By China Mieville.
What, you think all comic aficionados are uncultured thickos or something?!
>>77644053
back the fuck off?!
>>77641673
>(omnibi?!?!)!!!!
You post like a 15 year old memegrill. Back to reddit or wherever the fuck you came from please.
>>77643744
i set aside 2 hours everyday to read. 1 hour for real book memes, one for childrens book memes.
>>77645253
post more memes you memer
>>77645273
>>77645286
dank af
>>77645286
That dog is cute! CUTE!
Well, there is a tripfag I hate more than C.R.E.A.M., but don't worry vollsticks, I don't hate you as much as Boco
>>77631984
did you ever read moon knight vol 3? how was it compared to the other two if so
I really like how Geoff Johns omnis are a staple of people who just started collecting
pretty funny to be honest
Any advice on how to read TPBs?
Meaning, I just got a cool rare manga that's kinda hard to get where I live, and I want the spine to remain in the best condition possible, because I intend to read this a lot.
Thanks bros.
Not pictured: daredevil essential 1.
Love me some horn head
>>77638480
Unread you say? Probably 25 percent. I guess. Hard to tell with some of the books being omnis. Why I haven't gotten as much as I wanted this year.
>>77645857
read it like a book. don't fold it back and it should hold up
1/3
Omnibus/Deluxe Shelf
>>77646773
2/3
Absolutes and Random Shelf
>>77646798
3/3
DC/Vertigo Shelf
Most of my Marvel is in storage atm due to lack of space.
>>77646845
forgot pic
>>77645217
Never been on Reddit.
That's the thing I like about /co/, it keeps your ego in check. For every "hey, good to see you back vollstix" there's been an equal number of people who obviously think I'm a cunt!
>>77645451
Never trip"fagged", but I'm not worried....I'm with Louis-Ferdinand Celine on that one...just kidding, not really,it IS nice to be popular...pretty crazy to think that posting a collection of non-mainstream comix can inspire hatred! Ah well, ya learn not to take this stuff personally!
>>77646905
No disrespect intended, you have a nice collection of capestuff but don't you think DC could do with hiring a REALLY GREAT book designer? Thse spines always look so damned ugly to me.
>>77647666
No, it's not that you posted your comics being the reason why I hate you. You're just really annoying
>>77647666
> Thse spines always look so damned ugly to me.
marvel and dc both have problems with this, so annoying.
>>77646418
we should really buy you a shelf for secret santa
>>77647816
Fair enough, I suppose. Can't please all the people all of the time, etc. The simplest thing to do would be to NOT READ MY POSTS when you see my name or are you just masochistic like that?
>>77647849
I don't think Marvel's are QUITE as unsightly, however both company's OMNIBUSES always look spot-on, 'specially the Kirby Fourth World ones. And X-Statix!
>>77648049
maybe try NOT to EMPHASIZE your words, and also, I don't know when you're going to reply or post. The post might come up before I have time to recognize that it's you
>>77648181
Okay, I think it's time to kill this, could you please vent your hatred elsewhere, it's just that it's getting REALLY BORING now, Anon.
>>77648337
Oh, don't worry, I'm already venting my hatred in the Steven Universe thread
>>77645503
Moon knight
Vol 1 > Vol 3 >>> Vol 2
Vol 3 is definitely worth picking up
>>77647666
why do you type with such over-expression of punctuation
your typing reads like a female teenager
>>77648607
That bothers me nought, Anon.
>>77648705
you type like a fag and ur shits all retarded
>>77648843
i thought CREAM was bad but you're on a whole other level of autism
>>77647666
>>77647849
Yeah, I agree that some consistency would be nice. My favourite thing about collecting New 52 stuff was the line-wide consistency on my shelf, and now they've fucked it up by changing what is classed as consistency. It's why I love Hellblazer new editions - they look great on a shelf together. And the DC Graphic Novel collection that builds the Alex Ross art along the spines.
>>77649014
I can literally feel your anger at my unwillingness to engage you in the argument you so obviously want.
>>77649237
Would love those Hellblazer's. Such a great comic. You heard the stories about Moore and Delano meeting Constantine IRL? Explainable but the stories are kind of weird. Azzarello saw him too but avoided "him" on purpose, apparently. Very weird.
>>77649325
It's a cool story. The idea that this comic character is so pervasive that he get's into his writer's minds to the point that they actually get an opportunity to meet the focal point of their creativity.
The books themselves are really nice. Working towards everything Hellblazer in chronological order, think they're up to volume 12 and no signs of stopping any time soon, which is great.
"The real secret of magic? It's that any cunt can do it."
>>77649483
Yup, that's the one!
>>77649483
>he idea that this comic character is so pervasive that he get's into his writer's minds to the point that they actually get an opportunity to meet the focal point of their creativity.
so deep
>>77619244
Is Mome an anthology of oneshots or excerpts of longer workers like Best American Comics?
>>77650697
>>77650706
>>77647950
That's hilarious.
But really, I do need a bookshelf for all my unread and unwatched. I got 8 shelves of books already and 9 shelves of movies two deep. It's horrible. I'm waiting for my dresser to collapse under the pressure.
Not pictured: All my Mignola stuff
Also that Lovecraft book has always been kinda fucked like that. No idea why
>>77651673
And here's my desk with some more comic stuff
>>77651695
>Peach wallpaper
sorry if off-topic, but I was wondering if you play Peach in Smash.
>>77652371
Yeah? Why?
>>77652417
Just 'cause I do too so I get really excited when I see someone has Peach stuff. Melee?
>>77652441
I also play Peach.
>>77652441
I've kinda moved over to Sm4sh since that's what most of my friends play.
I'm not huge into the competitive scene
desu I just like Peach
>>77652493
right word filters
Why the fuck did it change that to desu though. That's more annoying
>>77652504
:translators guide:
"desu" means desu
>>77652592
no I typed
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>>77646088
why do you have some of them in reverse order, like Walking Dead and Batman
>>77648337
>namefag things its just one person hating on them
you're an annoying pretentious cunt. get over yourself.
>>77652649i know
>>77649483
Grant Morrison and Alvin Schwartz both meet Superman
Books?
>>77654285
>/toy/ is that way
>>77654333
Your not pointing
>>77654478
>>77653122
I moved in not too long ago so i havent arranged them properly
I just bought The Pulse complete collection
My next purchase has to be a new shelf
>>77615355
Did you really enjoy the first issue of John Constantine, Hellblazer that much? It was good, but not frame on my wall good.
>>77655038
nah i mean.. it was nothing super special. i swap out whats on my wall about once every week or two weeks except for a few titles that are always up
>>77655247
Fair enough, is that Books of Magic below it?
>>77655395
yea but its the 1990 4 part series before books of magic actually started in 1994
i have the entire run of the books of magic and hunter in floppy though
i also have books of magic first printing tpbs
>>77655526
Thats what I thought it was, love that series and those covers, was going to pick them up from my LCS but one part was missing.
>>77655901
Ya, amazing covers..
>>77641529
fuck i keep kicking my self for not picking up the last HC of bprd now it shot up in price and kinda hard to find fuck
>>77638544
Shit's fun to draw pictures of, too. I just don't like the small hardcover. They should have at least done what Saga did and packed 3 trades together.
>>77653806
Grant Morrison met everyone
>>77650697
Mome was an anthology that contained both short stories and longer series. Life With Mr Dangerous was the longest running story in Mome I think. Also those Paper Rad/Problem Solvers people had a pretty long running series in it too. But there arent any excerpts like in Best American Comics.
morning bump. time to go to work and read comics
>>77659530
Grant Morrison is everyone
No new purchases to speak of, but I'm finally set up on Alaska's overpriced data-capped internet!
The most exciting thing I've discovered about this place, thus far, is that they actually still have Blockbuster stores here.
>>77663957
blockbuster?
did you find fucking time warp????
>>77663957
>they actually still have Blockbuster stores here.
whoa... badass.............
get a blockbuster card please and post waht they look like in the current year
>>77664462
Possibly, anon. These are some fairly large stores to boot. I've seen two so far, but apparently there are a few more in the Anchorage area. They sell pop culture merchandise as well, including a few POP! figures that are a bit harder to find these days. I'm planning to grab and Egon one for my friend in Texas if it's still there next time I stop by.
>>77664567
I'll post one later, since I forgot my wallet in the car when my wife went to work this morning. They're pretty much the same as the one I had back in the day in Tennessee, but the one they gave me here feels much flimsier.
>>77650697
Yeah like Loady said. Also the Oliver Schwauren book consists of all (and there were a lot) of stories he did for Mome. Either way it's worth trying to pick up, lots of Johnathan Bennett in the first few issues, a great, great non-boring autobio cartoonist who draws like a dream.
The Ben Jones (Paper Radr dude) was a collaboration written by him and drawn by Frank Santoro, it was basically just offshoot stories from their Cold Heat series.
>>77653199
No, didn't think it was just one person, I'm not stupid. I CAN be pretentious though, I agree. I'm working on it, that's all I can do...
>>77656152
Ah, it was the hardcover I saw at the recent con, then, shit was small as fuck.
>>77615309
>pirate Nightcrawler bust
>Tomb of Dracula
>Man-Thing
>Werewolf By Night
>Howard The Duck
>Kamandi
Good taste, my friend.
>>77615527
Why must you taunt me with your Morbius POP! every thread, anon?
I've really been interested in getting into EC Comics and I'm wondering if I can get any recommendations or what's a good starter book?
Much obliged!
Grabbed this beauty the other day from my LCS.
I need to go back sometime and grab the two Day of Chaos books they had
