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[Victorian Squid]

Why are you selling everything ?

Turns out with a lot of things, after I've read them a few times--like Keb's own example of The Invisibles--there are diminishing returns. Not with everything, there are many things I can't see myself parting with, at least now that is. And selling books to people around the world is most of what I do anyway, and I'm always buying things too.

Plus, I was going to post in the "show your bookshelves" thread Nietoperz started today, but after about pics of a dozen or so floor to ceiling bookshelves I got frustrated by some that were hard to photograph well because of the angle in the hallway and gave up, and I hadn't even yet gotten to the pics of the shelves in the storage unit or shop itself.

I'll be happy to be a few comics lighter, believe me. I wouldn't sell GM's Kid Eternity or Doom Patrol though, and I actually own I think three complete sets of his DP run and wouldn't sell any of them.

[Keb]

If you sold Doom Patrol, I would beat you up.

I traded in Kid Eternity. I didn't know what the fuck was happening half the time. I hated the art. I don't like that Duncan Fegrado or whatever his name is. Hated his Hellboy stuff too.

I think all the Morrison I have left is:
Animal Man
Doom Patrol
WE3
All-Star Superman
New X-Men
Vimanarama
Seaguy

I've probably got rid of 1/3 of my collection over the last year.

[sirbluenose]

Currently starting of Doctor Who classics omnibus volume 2
Just finished Fall of the New Mutants

[Keb]

Came in the mail today:

[covalesky]

I liked it a lot.
Not going to say that all of a sudden Brian Wood is my new favorite writer, but I enjoyed this very much.
Gonna get me some more of Wood's work to read, just don't know what.

[Keb]

I liked it a lot.
Not going to say that all of a sudden Brian Wood is my new favorite writer, but I enjoyed this very much.
Gonna get me some more of Wood's work to read, just don't know what.

Demo, Local and DMZ. Northlanders too if you want.

[covalesky]

Demo, Local and DMZ. Northlanders too if you want.

Northlanders seems interesting. Tks for the tips.

[Punchy]

[nietoperz]

I just read the second American Vampire trade (and shit, but what a book AV is). About to start on Amazing Spider-Man Essentials vol 11.

[Arion]

If you sold Doom Patrol, I would beat you up.

I traded in Kid Eternity. I didn't know what the fuck was happening half the time. I hated the art. I don't like that Duncan Fegrado or whatever his name is. Hated his Hellboy stuff too.

I think all the Morrison I have left is:
Animal Man
Doom Patrol
WE3
All-Star Superman
New X-Men
Vimanarama
Seaguy

I've probably got rid of 1/3 of my collection over the last year.

If you want to know what was going on in Morrison's Kid Eternity read my blog post about it: http://artbyarion.blogspot.com/2011/01/ ... rnity.html

[David Bird]

[Keb]

If you want to know what was going on in Morrison's Kid Eternity read my blog post about it: http://artbyarion.blogspot.com/2011/01/ ... rnity.html

Good read. Thanks.

I think it pretty much summed up why I didn't like the book though. It really is a complex piece of work and in a lot of cases with Morrison, he likes to make his comics so complex and over the casual reader's head that you get lost in it. A lot of his work requires "extra" reading, where you have to go and seek out some of his source work. When I read the Invisibles the first time, I had to to definitely go and read Valis (glad I did), and even stuff like Doom Patrol there's a bunch of stuff you have to go look up and read up on.

After I finished my degree, I think I just wanted more simplistic stories. I like the stuff I read now because I don't need to jump on the Barbelith board or an annotations site to figure out what's going on. I think that's the huge difference between him and Alan Moore. With Moore, all the rich sub-layers of complexity are there but you don't need an extra book to enjoy it, although it certainly helps. With Morrison, if you don't have the annotations guide, you'll be completely lost.

I owe a lot to Grant though. Without his New X-Men, I would have never gotten into comics. Without the Invisibles, I would not have been the person I am today. However, I think as part of a growth process, I might have outgrown my Morrison sweater. When I was younger, in university, and enjoyed doing all the literary stuff it was good. Now that I'm a regular working stiff, it's not really my thing.

[LobsterJ]

just got lucifer 1-3 from the library, this shit any good?

[Arion]

Good read. Thanks.

I think it pretty much summed up why I didn't like the book though. It really is a complex piece of work and in a lot of cases with Morrison, he likes to make his comics so complex and over the casual reader's head that you get lost in it. A lot of his work requires "extra" reading, where you have to go and seek out some of his source work. When I read the Invisibles the first time, I had to to definitely go and read Valis (glad I did), and even stuff like Doom Patrol there's a bunch of stuff you have to go look up and read up on.

After I finished my degree, I think I just wanted more simplistic stories. I like the stuff I read now because I don't need to jump on the Barbelith board or an annotations site to figure out what's going on. I think that's the huge difference between him and Alan Moore. With Moore, all the rich sub-layers of complexity are there but you don't need an extra book to enjoy it, although it certainly helps. With Morrison, if you don't have the annotations guide, you'll be completely lost.

I owe a lot to Grant though. Without his New X-Men, I would have never gotten into comics. Without the Invisibles, I would not have been the person I am today. However, I think as part of a growth process, I might have outgrown my Morrison sweater. When I was younger, in university, and enjoyed doing all the literary stuff it was good. Now that I'm a regular working stiff, it's not really my thing.

Glad to hear you enjoyed reading my review.
You found Valis and that was good, but yes, I understand that not everyone will have the time or the money to buy and read the writers or philosophers that inspire the work of any given author. It's quite interesting the observation you make about Moore and Morrison, I never thought of it that way but you certainly make a point.
Now, I understand what you said about Morrison but I seriously recommend you to read his Zenith for 2000AD, great stuff that requires no intellectual research, I think in a way it's even easier to get into than his Animal Man.

[Keb]

Glad to hear you enjoyed reading my review.
You found Valis and that was good, but yes, I understand that not everyone will have the time or the money to buy and read the writers or philosophers that inspire the work of any given author. It's quite interesting the observation you make about Moore and Morrison, I never thought of it that way but you certainly make a point.
Now, I understand what you said about Morrison but I seriously recommend you to read his Zenith for 2000AD, great stuff that requires no intellectual research, I think in a way it's even easier to get into than his Animal Man.

I might try Zenith later. Animal Man inspired me to start focusing my writing on meta-fiction. I caught a lot of shit from people for that but I still love the meta-fiction because of Animal Man. Shit blew my mind.

Seven Soldiers of Victory/All Star Superman is pretty much where I stopped with Morrison. I love both those series but after that I had enough.

I loved Valis. Need to hit up some more PKD.