Luís
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i.e. How young Map or Clarice got introduced into the occult.
Hm, probably the way most characters are introduced into the occult in comics... without any originality, and relating to some generic traumatic incident envolving demons and/or exorcism? Occult origin stories always disappoint me. But under a really good writer, it could work.
Now I wouldn't mind a one-shot about young Gemma, whose mother's brother is a magician who's a bit crazy and is locked up in a hospital. I wouldn't mind Gemma's view of Grandpa Thomas either. Hey, I like family drama and fucked up childhood stories :happy:
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When did war stop being a genre? :wink:
I think Vertigo's idea of slice-of-life comics will mean for a while 'reaction to contemporary events', followed by the corollary, 'let's use the past [Vietnam] to criticise the present [Middle East]'. Personally, I'm far more interested in the fact that Harvey Pekar has finally been published by Vertigo, and that Gilbert Hernandez is about to be too.
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My application to join a Cthulhu cult was rejected. I proceeded to sulk in my parent's basements for several months.
I would recommend everything Alberto Breccia and Héctor Osterheld collaborated on: Mort Cinder, El Eternauta and Che, which was so good Osterheld was politically assassinated for it
François Bourgeon and Hugo Pratt have also written comics I'd consider literary: all Corto Maltese is a must, Corto is possibly one of the most developed characters in comics history. Bourgeon's The Twilight Companions trilogy, which I've read recently, has impressed me with the way it brings the Middle Ages to life.
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Obviously, Ab has spent more hours studying french that me
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I've read Don Delillo's White Noise, which left me disappointed. The dialogue seemed unrealistic, and none of the child characters sounded like any child I've ever known. And of course the narrative goes nowhere after being clumsy pieced together from a handful of smart, if unrealistic ideas. It's supposed to be a satire on modern America, but shouldn't satire have some basis on reality to be effective? I don't know, other than the usual complaining about consummerism and how technology is evil and is strangling us, blah-blah-blah, I couldn't find anything worth satirising in the book. Oh, and there wasn't enough Hitler Studies! I enjoyed Delillo's Libra a lot more.
I'm reading mostly non-fiction now: Hegemony or survival, great book about America's foreign policy; Guns, Germs and Steel, a nice book about why different cultures developed differently in different places around the globe for the past 13000 years; What Is History?, the title says everything.
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If God didn't want parents to beat their kids, he wouldn't have made children small, fragile and defenseless. Let's face it, kids are physically predisposed to be beaten.
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Now out of curiosity, how do you say 'from' in French?
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Well, so far we've had recommendations for books published more than twelve months ago and Manga. I might as well suggest that any serious thesis on mature comics should include European and South American comics, especially Argentina, where their maturity hasn't been questioned in decades.
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Mind you, I don't know presume to know a lot of French, but could it be the verb magasiner? Now I know that's not the the ver 'to shop'.
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Well, I mean some people might find the narrator/POV stuff OK (like me), and still feel disappointed by the lack of an actual resolution (again, me).
But, hey, I don't know: Christian was a bit vague about what pissed him off about the ending.
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Dogpoet, I don't think Christian is complaining about the unreliable narrator or the change of POV. Enigma ends in an unconclusive way that might not be satisfying for some, especially after Milligan has put so much effort into making the reader care about the characters.
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I don't know whether Akira Goldscum really loves comics, because he keeps making so many movies out of them, or just fucking hates them with a twisted passion rooted in some childhood trauma, because he keep making so many fucking bad movies out of them.
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The US with all its military prowess couldn't beat Vietnam. It can't even control Afghanistan and Iraq today.
Israel, with support from the US, will invade Palestine and Lebanon, cause a lot of damage, kill thousands, and afterwards will leave without a victory. In the end it will have accomplished nothing other than devastating two countries back to the stone age and antagonising the entire Middle East. I fear extremists welcome these actions, it must make them feel much more righteous.
I really wish the US, Germany and the international community would stop supporting Israel so much. The sooner this country is left without aid, the sooner it'll realise it must deal with Palestine peacefully. Until then, it'll keep on bullying the area.
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I second The Sandman #50 and Animal Man #26.
Swamp Thing #21, of course.
Doom Patrol #30, Cliff Steel enters Crazy Jane's mind and meets her multiple personalities. Daddy was a pretty disgusting villain!
Human Target #17, Chris Chance changes (ah, alliteration!) a client to look like his wife, very Vertigo-esque. I loved #18 too. This series ended too soon!
I don't know the number, but the Preacher issue when Jesse got his revenge on Jody felt deeply satisfying!
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Animal Man
in Comics
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Gosh darn it! And I was so ready to feel special for owning a copy... alas, it was not meant to be... I'm a mere dork, after all
Speaking of (il)legal ways, I could swear I once saw a site containing every Miracleman issue, page by page; this really stuck in my mind because the first one I clicked on was the uber-famous birth-giving scene
And I believe I got the link from one of us, back in the old forum days.
It would be ironic if Marvel published MM, after they forced the change from Marvel to Miracle in the first place. Even more ironic considering Moore has always refused to work for the House of Ideas because of this case.
Fuck it, I just want to see it back in print!
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I think the tpb's have been out of print for quite some time now.
Now I'm curious: is Apocrypha one of those ultra-rare, ultra-expensive MM comics too? Did I get lucky getting it for just $8, or are there heaps of copies lying around in comic shops costing less than a quarter?
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I bought the new Vertigo reprint of this the other week, it certainly didn't strike me as the kind of thing Cronenberg would make a film of but then again, neither did M. Butterfly.
I like to think Cronenberg did M. Butterfly just so he could do that fucked up ending with Irons becoming his own fantasy. Those last 5 minutes really validated the whole movie for me.
I have to get the tpb - it isn't even very expensive.
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You're right that they do worship other things besides technology, but come on! How serious would you take a book where there were evil Tom Cruises running around trying to make people worship them! :lol:
I think Matt Stone and Trey Parker could make gold out of that idea :D
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Alas, simply a mere dork
I need emotional guiding - what do you think Spock would do in this situation?
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What else do people worship today besides objects?
The same thing they started worshipping 2000 years ago.... hm, plus Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson (
), Britney Spears, sports... I just don't see technology though. It just seems too random. -
Yeah, but I preferred the Gaiman bits above everyone else's. Typical Gaiman, of course, with his fetish for libraries
It seems like everyone who was someone back then (or was going to be) contributed for the comic: it made my day to see some pre-Marvels art by Alex Ross...
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For the point about the war being fought earlier, I thought it was fine that the war was waging at the time because the Old Gods' enemies were technology.
But why technology? Why now? Why just these gods?
I just think Gaiman didn't think a lot of things through that to me seem essential to the book's internal logic. People forgot these gods a long time before technology. And technology hasn't eradicated the two main religious figures of our time from peoples' minds. Why just the old 'pagan' gods? Why the 21st century, and not the 18th to try and stop the Enlightenment and the advent of Reason, a major bitch to fight with when you're a creature imagined by people? Why not the 19th century when fantasy and the unconscious were on the rise again? Why not the '80's, when every New Ager was into neo-paganism? No sense of timing for these guys.
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Black Orchid
Miracleman: Apocrypha
Two lovely Gaiman books.
The War on Terror
in Bring the Noise
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Infidel!
I'm launching a Jihad on you.
In the countries where support for the USA comes only from a government that doesn't really reflect the peoples' will, ie The New Europe (That Didn't Last Long), the media tend to be balanced. In countries where governments seem to have more power than they should over all aspects of life, like Turkey and Israel, I fear the media reflect the voice of the empire. Then there are countries a bit removed from US foreign policy but also find it useful to keep the public paranoid about omnipresent terrorists plots, like Russia, because it gives them the power to deal with their own terrorists problems with extreme prejudice too.