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I always loved the French name, "les bandes dessinees", aka drawn books. simple and to the point.
Isn't that technically 'drawn strips'? I thought that 'bande' meant something like 'strip' (hence also the term 'bande annonce' for a movie trailer).
I so need to reactivate my French. I used to know it pretty well, but you forget so much in ten years... I've actually recently delurked at a French comics forum, mainly to practise my French, and to find out more about French comics, as only a small fraction of them are translated to German.
Anyway... this eternal 'GN vs. comics' debate reminds me a lot of another eternal comics debate, the 'manga vs. comics' debate.
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Of those, I follow Girl Genius, Zebra Girl and Roomies (which is still going). I"ll have to post some more of my favorite webcomics when I have more time.
Uhm... Roomies was finished in 2000 and was replaced by It's Walky, which ended in autumn 2004. Maybe you mean Shortpacked? Or Joyce and Walky, yet another comic by the insanely prolific David Willis. They're set in the same universe, yes, but they're distinctly different from the previous two (at least IMO).
Or maybe you mean College Roomies from Hell?
I think there's another webcomic or two with the title 'Roomies' out there, in fact, but no high-profile stuff.
Hey, cool... another Zebra Girl reader. Zebra Girl rocks.
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Okay. Webcomics. Which do you recommend? I read a whole lot, but I wouldn't recommend all of them - some of them are more of a guilty pleasure, or an acquired taste. But here's a list of the ones I wholeheartedly recommend. Just a list for now, as I don't have time to describe each. But feel free to ask. Oh, and there's a slight bias for two things here:
1.) Comics that actually tell a story, and
2.) SF/Fantasy-themed comics.
(A '*' in front of the comic's title denotes particular favourites.)
Short, finished series:
"Alice" by Lem:
http://www.frozenreality.co.uk/
"Fleep" by Jason Shiga:
http://www.shigabooks.com/shigabooks/csfolder/fleep.html
* "Irrational Fears" by Ursula Vernon:
http://www.webcomicsnation.com/uvernon/irr...ears/series.php
Moderately long, finished series:
* "Paper Eleven" by Dan Kim:
http://manga.clone-army.org/pxi.php
Long, finished series:
"Demonology 101" by Faith Erin Hicks:
* "It's Walky!" (and "Roomies!") by David Willis:
Running series:
* "Dicebox" by Jenn Manley Lee:
* "Finder" by Carla Speed McNeil:
http://www.lightspeedpress.com/
"Girl Genius" by Phil and Kaja Foglio:
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/index.php
"girly" by Josh Lesnick:
"No Rest for the Wicked" by Andrea L. Peterson:
"Peter Pan" by Bill Mudron:
"Scary Go Round" by John Allison:
* "Zebra Girl" by Joe England:
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Ah, kinki. You're not alone. I'm another recent convert. Not even two years into comics, at the age of 29. Okay, I read Sandman a few years earlier (2001? 2002?), but until early 2004 that was the *only* comic I had read (apart from the typical children's fare that I forgot about as I grew older).
Carla Speed McNeil's Finder is what ultimately won me over. That's a series of weird, convoluted, thoroughly idiosyncratic independent comics about a man from a nomadic culture who lives in a high-tech future full of genetically uniform clans, speaking giant feathered lizards who teach at university, virtually indestructible weeds that sprout television screens that go on talking even when smashed, and people who plug into other people's dreamscapes. It's mind-blowing stuff - highly recommended. Recently turned into a webcomic: http://www.lightspeedpress.com. (You can buy the trades there, too.)
Other favourites: Watchmen and V for Vendetta by Alan Moore; Sandman, of course; and if you don't mind giving the far eastern variety of comics a try, there's 20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa (although you'll have to read that in scanlations as official publication in the English-speaking world will only begin in 2007 - it's worth it, though.) And, speaking of comics you can't officially buy in the U.S. (or Britain, for that matter), Shade the Changing Man, another Vertigo title only partially available in trades, is also worth checking out. There are ways... ;-)
Of course, if, as an artist, you want visual beauty, you should give European comics a try, too. The French and the Belgians know how to draw... of course, very little of that stuff is translated into English. (I'm lucky, I can read it in French.) I recently nearly overdosed on dark beauty from looking at Monsieur Mardi-Gras Descendres by Eric Liberge... Enki Bilal also has a very interesting style, and the Cities of the Fantastic series by Schuiten and Peeters is great if you like architecture - it's like an architect's dreams and nightmares turned into a comic. (So is Blame! by Tsutomu Nihei, by the way, but that's Japanese again, and really only recommendable for the art, as the story is very, very thin.)
Oh, there's so much great stuff out there. And it's such fun to explore!
And I haven't even begun talking about webcomics...
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I also want to know where and when does he do his laundry or if he does it at all.
This must surely be the absolute winner when it comes to absurd geek fanboy questions! (Not to mention the fact that Mark had a ready answer within a minute) :lol:
You know, it just occurred to me that the increasingly rumpled and uncared-for look of John's clothes in later issues may be due to his having gained an aversion to landrettes thanks to that one weird laundrette experience... ;-)
(Yay for fanboyism... fangirlism... whatever...!)
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He's also good at mind-tricks, getting through passport checks and security without having papers or tickets etc.
Or making random people get strange urges to give him money.
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Don't believe in the occult because my experience in life so far hasn't given me any reason to. I'll reconsider if I experience something that qualifies as 'occult'.
I am sort of curious about occult belief systems etc., though. Not in a 'I want to believe' kind of way, but more in a 'I'd like to understand where those beliefs come from' kind of way.
And some part of me *would* find it pretty cool if this world proved to be a little more incomprehensible than we're taught in school.
Another part of me would be scared as hell, though.
Anyway, in the context of Hellblazer et al., the occult makes for great entertainment, and that's why I'm here. :-)
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Oh, I dunno... Ahmet's kind of a normal name, although not Western. Anyway, I don't think it's *that* strange.
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Frank Zappa's kids still win. (Dweezil and Moon Unit Zappa)
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(she comes in late and is the ONLY PERSON TO FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS !)
What do you expect - we're Hellblazer fans! And when does John ever follow instructions? ;-)
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The website's still there: http://www.fortunecity.com/boozers/angel/321/index2.html
If that was the website you meant. But I don't think there ever was more than one Shade website on the net.
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God... viral marketing is going to destroy genuine history and launch us into a new Dark Age.
Presumably this is marketing for some trashy film, novel or RPG?
Doesn't seem like it. It seems to have been going on for quite a while and seems fairly complex.
Actually, a theory I found on another forum seems the most likely to me: it could be a weird kind of art project.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurocam
Follow a few links, surf the blogs...
This, in particular, is interesting: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/12/...2787276356.html
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In Germany comics are called comics. I'm not too bothered about it - after all, many words have a slightly 'wrong' etymology. It's not so important what a word comes from but what it means in the present. In the present 'comic' means 'sequential drawn stories', and that's good enough for me.
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You can also try ebay. Recent issues sell pretty cheaply there, usually. It's the older stuff that's expensive.
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Economic Left/Right: -8.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.38
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To keep this matter of body odor in perspective: I doubt JC smells worse than a superhero who's been fighting crime all day or night in a tight latex or spandex costume. *g*
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56 percent gay. Of course, most of the questions didn't make any sense at all to me, and recent online personality tests have claimed I was 'Apocalypse Now' and 'Albert Einstein', as well...
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Depending on who is writing/drawing him, John seems like he's not a regular shower and shave kind of guy. With all those heavy clothes and constant cigerette smoking, you just know he stinks. I'm surprised no one in the book has ever made a comment about it.
Well, maybe between girlfriends, and certainly when he's having a particularly bad time (like, for example, during recent events *g*). But I can't imagine Kit or Dany or Angie going out with a guy who literally stinks on a *regular* basis.
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I love the fact that he probably smells like stale body odor and tobacco and when he farts I'm sure he blames it on the ghosts haunting him.
But we know that he knows how to use a laundromat...
The permanently rumpled look doesn't have to mean he doesn't wash his clothes, you know. ;-) It just means he doesn't bother with ironing.
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Rare Cuts, All His Engines, Dangerous Habits, Original Sins - that's my HB starters' kit.
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I agree - (I tend to wear the same shit all the time) - a slightly less 'worthy' reason for liking Hellblazer but what the hell.
It's so refreshing to hear this kind of thing from another woman for a change... I hate shopping for clothes. I also hate having to think a lot about what to wear. So, when I've found something that works I tend to keep it until it's completely worn out. I don't just throw it out because it's out of fashion.
I'm wearing a ten-year-old sweater as I write this. If you buy good quality stuff and take a little bit of care you can actually wear the same clothes for many years. People tend to forget this nowadays, when fashion dictates you need to change your entire wardrobe every year.
I really need to go and shop for clothes pretty soon, though. The state of my wardrobe has reached a level of out-of-fashionness and wornness (is that even a word?) that even I am beginning to notice, and that means the rest of the world probably started to notice about five years ago.
As for the topic of the thread... um... I have an answer, but I'm afraid it'll be long. I'll come back later, 'kay? ;-)
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There's really no way around reading all of it, sometime... ;-)
Even if that means hunting for old issues on ebay.
Or in less legal virtual places.
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Ha! Which proves that comic readers are ahead of their time! *g*
Another of kinki's random daft thoughts
in Hellblazer
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But that's *exactly* his appeal. He's so human you can't help but wonder about these things.