Tonight...

[winneganfake]

The short list of stuff to take care of.

Laundry
Run over to the Dreaming to grab the small mountain of comics that's been building up
Once I get home, time for strong coffee and working on the next journal entry for VISION. (Riiiight, There's a fresh pile of comics in the house, and I think I'm going to be working? Heh.)

Comments

[chuckiebear.livejournal.com]

aurafish?

[winneganfake.livejournal.com]

Not tonight, sorry. Too much crap to take care of- that and the weather ain't exactly scooter-friendly.

comics?

[templar46-2.livejournal.com]

what'cha readin' these days?

Re: comics?

[winneganfake.livejournal.com]

Y'know it's been about three months since the last tiem I cleaned out the box, so, um, I'm not entirely certiain any longer. What titles i can remember though:


Planetary
Authority (Why I still hang on with this title, i'm not entirely certain)
Global Frequency (well, collecting the back issues at any rate)
Stormwatch: Team Achilles
Priest (Great Korean manga)
30 days of dark (hm. The new series in this line should be out by now- I may have to pick up extras....)
Robotech (the wildstorm "in between" story arcs they've been doing lately)
Battle Angel Alita: Last Order
Gloomcookie
how Loathsome
The Courtney Crumrin series (all of 'em. hell, pretty much anything Naifeh does.)
Ministry of Space
Battle Chasers (It's still on the list, just in case they ever come out with another one)

That's about it- most of my cash is going towards collecting some older sutuff in TPB. Case in point- I may start on collecting hellboy or Watchmen tonight, finances willing.

Re: comics?

[templar46-2.livejournal.com]

interesting... that Robotech title, is that the current "Invasion" storyline?... i've been kinda curious about that one for a while now, and managed to pick up issue one at Emerald City, but never got around to reading it... the sales on the book are looking utterly dismal though

(149) ROBOTECH: INVASION
01/ 2004: Robotech: Invasion #1 (of 5) -- 16,109
02/ 2004: Robotech: Invasion #2 (of 5) -- 14,058 (-12.7%)
03/ 2004: Robotech: Invasion #3 (of 5) -- 12,756 (- 9.3%)
04/ 2004: Robotech: Invasion #4 (of 5) -- 11,951 (- 6.3%)

with just shy of 12k books being sold... this kinda appears to doom Robotech (yet again, i swear the license is CURSED!) to being dropped from DC/Wildstorm's publishing lines, and they'll likely let the license go...

what do you think of it so far? any good, or a total waste of time?

Re: comics?

[winneganfake.livejournal.com]

More collecting them for the nostalgia value so far. there's been two previouc arcs they did before Invasion, only one of which was halfway decent. Yeah the license is pretty much a goner. Personally, I've always wondered what would happen if they quit trying to release the stuff as robotech, and simply did manga-styled editions for the original series (serii?) the robotech was based off of. (Namely MACROSS, SOUTHERN CROSS, and GENESIS CLIMBER:MOSPEADA.)

Re: comics?

[templar46-2.livejournal.com]

bah... Macross is crap. Anime sucks, if it wasn't for Macek coming along and spinning garbage into gold, i wouldn't even like Robotech... fortunately, he made it coherent, and... rid it of the vast majority of stuff that nearly every damn Anime i've ever seen seems to have... (heh)

I actually really enjoy the "subplot" stuff on Robotech... when Antarctic Press was still publishing the license... those "other worlds" books were great (set on the weird alien planets from the Sentinels series)... and even Rikki's "Clone" series was pretty good (Rikki = Johnny:THM, squee, Invader Zim, etc..)... i even liked Academy's "global civil war" books focusing on Edwards and Folker's rivalry...

but man... there's just somethin' about having the logo of ROBOTECH stamped across a comic... that drives comic-book readers away... even if it's a direct retelling of the cartoons/books... it seems there's nothing that can save it. I guess Protoculture addicts are too few and far between. :(

Re: comics?

[winneganfake.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Pretty much in general across that entire list- with the exception of the "Anime sucks" part, but that's a brawl for a later date.

man... it's all DragonBall to me ;)

[templar46-2.livejournal.com]

muahahaaa... but you see, and now... so do i, that i have achieved all new levels of undreamed of power! you shall never defeat me for i am the ULTIMATE!... and in my village, i was alone, and never knew what love meant... and still... i fight to achieve more power and to prove that i am the best! and now i know, and now you see, that everything changes and the spirit of the earth is love itself and now WE FIGHT!

*spins around with flashing lights that cause all clothing to fall off!*


0_o

Re: man... it's all DragonBall to me ;)

[winneganfake.livejournal.com]

shielding eyes

Look, I could argue with you on that, but I'll agree there's a lot of crap out there- there's also good stuff too though:Ghost in The Shell and Voices of a Distant Star to name a couple of 'em.

Now marvel comics on the other hand: there's a load of cookie-cutter scrap paper that's barely evolved beyond an antiquated comic code.

Re: man... it's all DragonBall to me ;)

[templar46-2.livejournal.com]

oh i know... lol

and actually, for as much as i really loath anime on principle... i do in fact own and enjoy a few films (akira, ghost in the shell, etc..) but man... the crap to decent ratio seems pretty skewed IMO ;)

now marvel... yeah, i fully admit that they publish a whole lot of garbage... and my distaste for anything with a goddamn X in the title is well documented... but on the same note, i feel they publish some of the best stuff in comics ever (Captain Marvel, Thor, AVENGERS! \m/, Daredevil, etc...) But, yeah... it's mainly a matter of taste. Personally the "antiquated comic code" is something i relish and think on fondly in my nostalgia... the silverage of superhero comics is, IMO, where it's freakn' AT! yo... and the more modern "edgy" shit... like the punisher, and pint-sized-canadians-with-anger-issues make me want to fucking vomit. (that being said, i still hold that when done properly, the "dark/gritty" style can be insanely moving... a'la: Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Brian m. Bendis, etc...)

This is a big part of why i've been gravitating toward DC comics a lot lately as well... DC is definitely more of a surreal hero-fantasy style than marvel on the whole (Avengers being the exception, and still the greatest thing in comics EVER... despite how much i'd like to personally skull fuck the current writer with a 5lb. hammer).

Re: man... it's all DragonBall to me ;)

[winneganfake.livejournal.com]

Oh trust me, we're pretty much in agreement about comics as well, then- though I hold more with the even earlier stuff- the old pulp fiction styles of comics and writing.