I don't know how Frederic Wertham managed to read any homosexual undertones into comic books at all...

>>2740
Pity it's not a particularly funny or sustainable one.

I used to read Viz all the time, recently I picked up a copy again and had a quick flick through.

Now... I thought I'd only stopped reading Viz for a short time, it's only just now that I've realised I had given up reading Viz for about seven fucking years, and when I started reading it again it was exactly the same, nothing had changed.

No clue. Sounds rather similar to Red Meat.

This is from a small fan comic, according to Forbidden Planet, it might be being reprinted in a new issue of Dodgem Logic.

Here's the guy's webpage: http://ryusukeworks.blogspot.com/

looking back, I really should have started a thread telling everyone how good Dodgem Logic is.

>>2711
Dodgem Logic does indeed look good. I admire Moore's faith in the British appetite for more comics magazines. In fact the first issue was mostly articles rather than comics. I suppose it's more of an "underground zine" than a comics magazine. The hippy zine "Oz" (which Moore refers to in an article in Dodgem Logic) used to run quite a few comic strips and strange arty things in the 60s/70s. I look forward to reading the next issues.

Weird, I just came to this board to post about this comic and this is the top thread.

Yep, it's recently just been released as a TPB English translation.

...a bit fucking late though since it's been around what, five years or more?

I'm getting quite overexited about volume 9 of Requiem, which is due out at the end of this month. Some previews of the artwork here: http://theevilsnest.com

Has anyone found number 8 in English?

>>2708
Coincidentally it has just been published in the current March 2010 issue of Heavy Metal (http://www.heavymetal.com/shm/product_info.php?products_id=5432) . Doesn't look like anyone has scanned it yet, but anyway Heavy Metal is well worth supporting if you can get a copy.

>>2698
Which file hosting thingamy do you prefer, out of interest? Since I always just use my rapidshare premium account I have no idea which free service is the best. Tell me which is the best. _{(and if you say "meh, anything but fucking rapidshare" I will reach through the screen and strangle your moody teenage neck)}

>>2699
mediafire's usually pretty good, but there are so many others that work equally well as their servers aren't constantly unusable from high traffic.

>>2700
http://massmirror.com/

upload to all at once, stop every cunt complaining.

I'm the one who posted the link, I'm not the one who uploaded it however. I can't be fucked to upload it to another site. If you're not willing to wait around for Rapidshare, don't expect other people to do it for you, and then take the extra time to upload it somewhere else.

Calm down dear, it's only a comic.

>>2680
Here's a Panel Borders interview with Tomine: http://panelborders.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/panel-borders-the-work-of-adrian-tomine/

I find it quite difficult to get into these straight slice-of-life type comics. Especially Tomine's, which seem so lifeless and emotionally detached.

Yeah, I enjoy quite a few of them, but I can imagine they're quite difficult to get into.

I managed to pick up an American Splendor book in Forbidden Planet for only £2, it was quite fantastic.

>>2687
Well Ross has got 220 on the first page and 240 on the second. It's similar numbers on the third and fourth so it just feels like a slow beginning.

Perhaps Ross' sense of pace is overly influenced by Steve Ditko's text-heavy pages. The difference of course is that Ditko is an evil genius - and even given that I still find some of his speech bubbles mini essays hard going.

>>2688
err I just realised Dr Strange was written by Stan Lee. BUT THE POINT STANDS.

In fact the 235 words on >>2688 don't feel like a drag at all because there is immediately some action and some jeopardy. It's a great opening.

A quick look at google said that Alan Moore tries to keep under 210 per page, with a maximum of 35 per word balloon.

http://www.resilientpress.com/blog/?p=188
http://www.enginecomics.co.uk/interviews/jan05/alanmoore.htm

I haven't read through the whole thing yet, so he might turn around at the end of the interview and say that's a whole bunch of cock.

I think Alan Moore should get little kids to sit on his knee, and give them presents at the winter solstice.

>>2691
I could see that. Exactly the same as a shopping centre Santa except with a load of twigs in his hair to give it that pagan touch.

I love Cowboy Henk, and I love you for introducing me to him.

>>2650

I like how, instead of just threading it through the hole, he karate chops his table in half.

>>2657

Of course. You can't expect a hungry man to take the food out of his mouth.

I've just noticed the blank speech bubble on the last frame of the OP

>>2666
Oh, exploitable!

>Described by Andrew Harrison as "the greatest British comic strip ever created", Charley's War tells the story of an underage British soldier called Charley Bourne. Charley joins the British Army during World War I at the age of 16 (having lied about his age and told the recruiting officers that he was 18; they conveniently overlook the fact that Charley gives his date of birth on his application form as 1900), and is quickly thrust into the Battle of the Somme.

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I loved Charlie's war, and although it is fantastic, it really lost a lot of it's edge once he y'know, got sent home from the war.

>>2662
Yeah, I only bothered with the WW1 ones really (of which the vast majority deal with), once Pat Mills left they drove it into the ground. Still, worth getting for Blue's story alone imo.

>>2660 fuck yeah zenith.

he was like a superhero rick.

>>2661
Oh God Charley's War... What a great comic. I love it. I just love it.

I have derived enjoyment from reading the items recommended in this thread.

>>2605

...because nobody ever calls bycycles "bikes". Nooooooooo

>>2636

Maybe you have, you underclass prole, but real humans call them Bicycles.

>>2637

Motorcycles.

Tsk.

>>2643 Not in all my 21 years on this earth, have I heard them before referred to as Bicycles.

>>2694
What are you referring to as not being referred to as bicycles? Your post refers to the one above so I can only infer that your "them" refers to motorcycles and that your whole post refers to a use of language yet unseen in the entire thread - namely, using "bicycle" to refer to a motorcycle.

For my own part I would like to raise a flag and shout hoorah for the compound word "push-bike".

>>2602 Wow, I might actually have to take a look at this.

This is fucking brilliant.

>blood of the lamb, motherfucker.

also, ernest hemingway killing Hitler