Monday, June 25, 2018 • Morning Edition • "The comic book industry's inflamed butthole."
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Either or. I usually read it all in one sitting but this time around I took breaks between volumes. If you don't want to buy it all at once, you'll be okay reading bits here and there. You don't even really have to read it in order. |
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I started getting the hardcovers, I’d have waited if I knew they were doing trades afterwards. I think Fatal Attractions is next. 
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I did pick up the second Fall of the Mutants tpb today. Waiting for them to do Inferno. I've always wanted to read that. |
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 Back when I hadn't started paying any attention to mainstream comics again, Marvel published a weird homage to the Lee & Kirby FF by a lot of different people, Erik Larsen, Eric Stephenson, Kurt Busiek, Bruce Timm, the list goes on and on. Supposedly all taking place between FF 101 and FF 102. Crazy faux-Silver Age roller coaster ride. A lot like Strange Tales in a weird way. |
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Started reading the X-Statix omnibus last night. Was really hard to get comfortable and read it. |
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Yup, we're all seeing the same cheap stuff Marvel up-ended out of some big warehouse and sold off at remainder prices. The dude at my shop took a big load of it to C2E2 but didn't really sell much of it despite the low prices because so many other vendors had the same stuff discounted too. Of course, the funny thing there is that then some of the books will start going out of print and for higher resale values and some won't--I've already flipped a couple things selling for 2x or 3x that I didn't want to hang on to. |
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I want to get some of that! |
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Orly?  Maybe if there's anything you're looking for, I can pick it up and ship it to you and you can send me some of that pickled peppers so my mom will stop bugging me about it. |
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Sounds like a perfect deal except that customs would probably consider this a suspicious trade... |
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Maybe. I doubt it though. |
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It took me forever to get around to reading this but I did it in a couple hours. I kind of saw it as quite possibly the last Morrison work I'd read before calling it quits with him. I really haven't enjoyed much since Seven Soldiers. So anyway, procrastination aside, I really went into this with expectations that were set very low. Unfortunately, those expectations weren't met until about the 4th issue/chapter. I found the story really dragged on and on and nothing significant happened. By the time Jack disappeared, I started to lose interest. While I'm usually a sucker for symbolism and this book is ripe with it, I found it kind of strange that I had no idea to really go and pull the symbols. In many ways, maybe because I felt sorry for Joe as he existed in the real world, I wanted some resolve (as in, please don't die). As a result, I sped through the richness of the fantasy world. I picked up on the major pieces and did pick up on the overarching theme of patriarchal death. The one thing I did not appreciate and thought was very stale about the story was the prototypical bullying by the bigger "punk rock" kids. It just felt like an old fashioned plot device that was cookie-cuttered into the story. Had the real life story pushed boundaries the way the fantasy story did, I might have really enjoyed this. The fantasy story is what saves it. I believe Sean Murphy is a very talented artist and he does a fantastic job with the book and we get some creative greatness from him (and Grant). However, the art felt a bit restrained. In other Morrison works where the artist is allowed to get "bizarre" (like Doom Patrol), we see some very fantastic things drawn but I didn't feel that was the case with Joe the Barbarian. The colors, while remaining in line with the darkness of the story, don't do the artwork any favors and there's something about Murphy's line work that sometimes bothers me. It just makes me uneasy. Add that to the pacing of the story, which could have used some work, I really had trouble getting into this. Maybe another read some time down the line might help. However, even with all these criticisms, I'd still give Joe the Barbarian to someone looking to get into non-superhero comics. |
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I saw Image is doing a new anthology, at least new to me. Outlaw Territory, all western! They’re up to the third volume but I preordered the first one on my last order. |
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Books starts with Batman’s captions and I thought it was weird cause it sounded like Dick and it was. I’d forgotten this took place when he was Batman. It really made me wish both Bruce and Dick were Batman, he was a really good Batman. His conversations with Red Robin were my favorite part of the book, it’s a fun relationship. Art was great! Jock’s art was just ok on the normal stuff but when he’s drawing Batman it’s super exciting. Francesca Francavilla was amazing! I’d like to see him on Daredevil or Hawkeye for an issue or two at least. |
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