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    Cover date?

    in Hellblazer

    Posted

    It's common to all periodical publications (comics, magazines, etc) - it's for the retailers' benefit. Essentially, it tells the retailers when to take the product off the shelves.

     

    Okay, so it's like a sell-by date? I suppose that makes a certain amount of sense.

    Cover date?

    in Hellblazer

    Posted

    To be honest the dates across all the comics published by DC and also Marvel I think are out by 2 months and have been for years - decades even. I'm not entirely sure why but I think it's because they have a weekly publication schedule but publish monthly comics that an individual title's publication creeps earlier and earlier in the month over the years until after a few decades you get this anomoly.

     

    Okay, so if we wait long enough, they'll have the wrong *year* on there? Wow, that is so stupid, I'm lost for words.

    So, who here reads Finder?

    in Comics

    Posted

    The first page is online.

     

    Jaeger looks... old. Older than he has ever looked, and certainly older than in Dream Sequence, where he looked pretty much as he's always looked, only with less hair and more grandchildren...

     

    I wonder if this is deliberate - has he had a bad time, or *is* he old in this issue? Hmm.

     

    I can see this will be fun... we can speculate about stuff after each new page! *g*

    Big books of comics

    in Comics

    Posted

    Recent additions to my library - due to a number of unusual circumstances I got a lot of comics for free, or nearly for free recently:

     

    Naru Taru 1-2, 4-6, 8-10 - got all of this except for volume 1 for about 20 euros, used. Haven't read anything but the first two volumes yet. It's bizarre, but in a good way... I think. Need to read more for a final assessment, of course.

     

    Planetes 1 - another manga, and one I got absolutely for free, just like the next one:

     

    20th Century Boys 1 - I discovered this great website where you can exchange books you don't want anymore for books other people don't want anymore. Someone happened not to want Planetes 1 and 20th Century Boys 1 anymore. :-)

     

    Now, some French stuff:

     

    Les cités obscures: la fièvre d'Urbicande... and:

     

    Monsieur Mardi-Gras Descendres 2 - This series absolutely stunning. Or at least the art is. I haven't read it yet. But I nearly had a heart attack from exposure to an overdose of beauty from looking at the art. Unfortunately none of the really amazing pages is available online. :-(

     

    Got the two French comics in payment for an old phone bill from a French former roommate of mine. So, technically, I did pay them, but I paid them last year, so it doesn't hurt me now. *g*

    Always more stuff than you can buy.

    in Comics

    Posted

    I really don't have this problem, I've passed through my massive comic splurge buying phase. I have pretty much all the back issues, trades and graphic novels I'd want and very few new monthlies interest me.

     

    Well, it doesn't really help that I'm interested in manga and French comics in addition to American ones - i.e. there's a far greater range of new stuff all the time for me to choose from - and that I'm still sort of new to comics, which means I have a huge backlog of older stuff I'd like to read, as well... *g*

     

    But really, the main problem is that I'm very good at finding interesting new stuff all the time. E.g., something I just discovered the day before yesterday: http://www.ninthart.com/display.php?article=613

     

    *wants No. 5 now, arrgh*

    Always more stuff than you can buy.

    in Comics

    Posted

    Oh, don't talk to me about storage space... My bookcase is officially full now - I have no idea where to put the next load of books! And since I only have one room, and that room is already very crammed, there's no chance of putting up another bookcase somewhere. Arrgh.

     

    I suppose I can still stack stuff on top of the bookcase, though.

    Always more stuff than you can buy.

    in Comics

    Posted

    But Hmpf, of all those you want to buy, I'd reccomend V for Vendetta, perhaps one of the most inetersting comics I've ever read (plus, It wopuld be good to read it before the movie comes out), and the Books of Magic too.

     

    Oh, I've already read them. I just want to own them now, too. But that can wait. Out of all the books on my list they're among the very few that will almost certainly still be available in a year or two. There are a number of time sensitive series that are already difficult to get here now, and will only get more difficult to get as time passes.

     

    Also, I daresay there are a few other phenomenal titles on that list of mine, as well. I love Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman, but there *are* other comic writers out there who are just as good. Well, maybe not quite as *consistently* great as Moore, but certainly as good as Gaiman, and deserving of being bought ASAP. Right now, for example, Number 5 is of extremely high priority for me. That, and a variety of series that are already of limited availability here in Germany, such as 20th Century Boys (which, btw, is also quite simply an amazing comic, one of the best I have ever read).

     

    Right now, the series I'm trying to complete the soonest are

     

    20th Century Boys

    Blame (cause I'm almost done, and some volumes are already out of print)

    Naru Taru (same explanation as for Blame)

    Monsieur Mardi-Gras Descendres

    Number 5

     

    I tend to buy several volumes of these per month and will hopefully complete most of them by early 2006.

    Always more stuff than you can buy.

    in Comics

    Posted

    I'm wondering if you guys know this problem: with me, it always seems to be the case that there are far, far more comics out there at any moment in time than I can reasonably afford to buy. Series are the worst, as they usually mean you have to pick up several volumes instead of just a single one. Long manga series are the worst. No, wait, Hellblazer is the worst, because it's so hard to find in parts. *g*

     

    Anyway. Here's what I would buy *right* now if I had the space and money to buy so many comics at once:

     

    American and English:

     

    Courtney Crumrin (however many volumes are out there yet)

    Happy Town (collection)

    Hellblazer - everything I could lay my hands on

    Neil Gaiman: The Books of Magic (just the mini, that is)

    Raven's Children 2 (1 volume)

    V for Vendetta (1 volume)

    A League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2 volumes)

    Enigma (1 vol.)

    Sleeper (3 or 4 vols?)

    The Flaming Carrot (no idea how many)

    Quicken Forbidden (2 or 3 vols)

    Strangehaven (3, I think)

    Something by Paul Pope

     

    Franco-Belgian:

     

    Les Cités Obscures (around 8 vols left that I don't have)

    Monsieur Mardi-Gras Descendres (4 vols.)

    Aldébaran (5 vols.)

    Bételgeuse (5 vols.)

     

    Japanese:

     

    20th Century Boys (the 9 volumes I'm still missing)

    Naru Taru (the 4 vols. I'm still missing)

    Planetes (the 3 vols. I'm still missing)

    Number 5 (French edition, as there isn't a German one, and the American one has only just begun - 5 vols., I think.)

     

    And I'm sure I've forgotten a few.

     

    As it is, at a comics budget of around 30 euros per month, it will take me years to buy all this stuff. Not to mention that of course I'm discovering new stuff all the time...

     

    Arrgh!

    Cthulhu lives!

    in Bring the Noise

    Posted

    This may sound odd, especially in the light of previous tentacle pr0n jokes, but I've always liked octopi (is that the plural?) Used to love to see them in aquariums as a kid, and learned to draw them pretty well because I liked them so much. I once sent a friend a postcard from France covered all in drawn octopuses (what the frell *is* the correct plural?), with no text. *g* I seriously thought (and still think) they're cute.

     

    *goes away to draw some octopuses now*

     

    BTW, for squid lovers I recommend 'City of Saints and Madmen' by Jeff Vandermeer. Haven't read all of it yet, but squid seem to figure prominently. *g*

    Looking for HB issues

    in Bring the Noise

    Posted

    I'm sick and tired of watching ebay all the time, so I decided to try here...

     

    I'm looking for these issues in particular:

     

    23, 24, 28-31, 34, 36, 39-40, 50-51, 85-88, and *especially* 95 (I have the rest of Critical Mass, just this one issue is missing, grrr.)

    John Constantine's birthday?

    in Hellblazer

    Posted

    Is the Hellblazer timeline still parallel with ours, btw? I mean, the events of Carey's run took place over a comparatively short space of time in the HB universe, whereas outside the comics several years passed... it may well be still 2003 or something in John's world.

    Big books of comics

    in Comics

    Posted

     

    Here's some more totalitarian architectue to be baffled and creeped out by. Oddly enough, it was also intended as a kind of hotel. It was intended as a nazi holiday camp thingy in Prora on the island of Rügen, in the Baltic Sea. It's 8 km long:

     

    http://www.ddr-im-www.de/Berichte/MWulf/Prora/prora2.jpg

     

    http://www.ddr-im-www.de/Berichte/MWulf/Prora/prora3.jpg

     

    Another pic

     

    I've been there - it's huge, empty, and creepy.

     

    The Korean hotel pic, btw, looks like something out of my dreams/nightmares. It's weird - just yesterday night I made a list of imagery from comics, animation, movies and books that gives me a strong 'this has something to do with my subconscious' vibe, and mammoth empty buildings were one of the bits of imagery I came up with. That's what I like about comics like Blame, Les Cités Obscures, and others.

    Big books of comics

    in Comics

    Posted

    I used to have all of the Love and Rockets in graphic novel form but my brother decided to make some money one day while I was away and sold them at a local book store. They were all limited edition autographed hardcovers.

     

    ???!!!???!!!

     

    I second Mickey's question...

    Big books of comics

    in Comics

    Posted

    Define 'recent'?

     

    And, does manga count, as well?

     

    Okay, taking 'recent' to mean the last three months, this is what I picked up:

     

    Hellblazer Original Sins (thus starting my HB trade collection)

    20th Century Boys 9, 10, 11

    Blame 3, 4, 5, 6, 8

    The Red Star collected edition

    Finder: The Rescuers

     

    A few of those Blame and 20th Century Boys volumes were presents, though, so technically it wasn't me who picked them up. Being a person of very limited funds I try to keep my comics spending under 20 euros a month, i.e. one trade or several mangas per month.

     

    To see my entire comic collection, go here:

     

    http://www.allabouthmpf.com/books.htm (you have to scroll down a bit.)

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