got volume one of The Bugle Call: Song of War. which I’d confused with Tower Dungeon and thus was a bit disappointed with. seems fine, a young boy with special powers has to save the world by defeating the antagonist, who seeks to kill them. “I guess Jujutsu Kaisen was very popular and successful with the shonen crowd”
tibyz wrote up their impressions upthread so check that out
@SnoxBoops my art teacher and i are completely obsessed with druillet
There’s a giant Vampirella Humble Bundle, is that a comic series worth digging into I never really got a sense if there was anything there beyond comic book titillation
I dismissed it my entire life until miffy played this podcast for me. These gals seemed to get a kick out of the early stuff. I imagine everything else sucks!
a thing I learned many years ago is that women fucking love vampirella. her costume was designed by trina robbins so you can’t even say it’s for male titillation really. and the vibe of so much vampirella stuff is just like dumb b-movie bullshit. every where she goes 1950s monster movie shit follows in her wake and she just looks like that. its kind of awesome honestly. also a billion very famous comics guys have written vampirella and she’s still around so there is something there. apologies if any of this is covered in that podcast
She always seemed like a glamorous icon ripe for reclaiming, like Barb Wire.
I skipped around and they talked about the issue where vampirella gets all her blood replaced with pure cocaine and goes on a killing spree so thank you miffy for making sure bachelor got the right details.
My memory of Vampirella comics from the 1970s and 1990s is that while she ends up in positions of peril she’s always the most dangerous person in a room. She’s a danger tourist, like Alucard in Hellsing.
thats the good barbarella and black emanuelle shit i need to read more vampirella
Been hearing really positive things about DC’s Absolute line, and some of the art and vibes looked interesting, so I read through the first arc of Absolute Batman (issues 1 - 6). I’m not completely sure what I think of it.
There’s a lot I like about it. The vibe is indeed a cool take on Batman and Gotham. Gotham City feels like an absolute hell-hole warzone and I can’t logic how it functions as a city on a day-to-day basis with all the chaos the story entails. The only explicit portrayals of city life, or people being happy, are in flashbacks. Batman is portrayed as this hulking figure whose answers to problems keep growing in size to ridiculous proportions, so the story framing of “what’s with Batman, and what’s making him tick?” was a good way to start.
But by the end of this first story arc, I’m not sure I have a good grasp of where the story is trying to go with an answer. There are a lot of flashbacks to his past, and long talks with his parents on what it means to help people, and it feels like the way this is framed and interspersed with the modern-day action is meant to communicate a fairly true-to-tradition ethos for Batman.
So you have a scene where he’s fighting a dude, he gets put on the backfoot, you see flashbacks of his mom talking about fighting the good fight to save people, then you see batman stabs a dude’s eyes out in extremely graphic detail, and then the day is saved. But I can’t tell if the story wants this to be a “Batman saved the day” kind of ending but with some heightened violence as part of this “Absolute” line’s personality, or if I’m supposed to be contrasting the modern day with his flashbacks and going “Wow, Batman is a real psychopath!”
Batman’s childhood friend group being his classic nemeses is a fun idea and I’m going to be sad if/when they just turn into regular villains instead letting the story play with this dynamic.
As an aside, one of the issues had a small preview for Absolute Martian Manhunter and it had a neat existential horror vibe to it. Anyone know anything about that series? Is it good?
Martian Manhunter and Batman are the big standouts of the line. Wonder Woman isn’t bad either, but mainly carried by the art.
I am looking forward to seeing how the Catwoman and Green Arrow limited series turn out as well.
Here’s Bruce doing a one winged angel on a cop, from the annual that dropped this week.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1482187489/1983-towards-tomorrow-art-book-by-james-harvey
oh daphny is gonna be in print for the first time ever if this gets funded. I’m not saying to donate do what you want I’m being VAIN and EXCITED about the possibility of holding comics I wrote with my hands
That rules! I totally missed James Harvey blowing up and doing Doom Patrol and all that somehow.
I didn’t realize this was coming out.
and Brad Neely??
feel like dipping into some lesser known go nagai books, any reccs? the sillier and trashier the better
shortrun loot!! not shown is my new shirt wait I’ll just post it here it’s not a good Pic of me I have rob liefeld teeth for some reason but whatever here’s my shirt
I got the shirt from naked girl comics which was comics done by a trans guy covered in fake blood with mall goth makeup and hair and he was like I hope you get a compliment and I said as I was walking away I HOPE I GET IN A FIGHT and he yelled YEAH YOU’D LOOK AWESOME WITH BLOOD STAINS. I just wanna call a guy a pussy and try punched okay let me have my toxic fantasies
BACK TO WHAT MATTERS
so the ricky Vegas comics were one fucking dollar which made me lose my mind. I tried to give him more money but he made me take more comic
THERES SO MANY PAGES. each page was drawn on a paper plate and then scanned into the book and they’re all about being poor and losing your mind and feeling alienated and this man is a master of the circular form I love his style
s is for stripper is by this woman Susan Kaplan who’s in her 60s and didn’t start drawing til covid
I was thinking of posting it in the global village coffeehouse thread
so you attended the no kings march is a pamphlet for your liberal friends. it’s too funny. i really wanna slide it under one of my neighbors doors but it will cause too much chaos. also the person who made the pamphlets @ is ‘ranma_made_me_transtrender’ which we didn’t catch til after we got home otherwise veronica and I probably would have made a new best friend
we got this pamphlet for free after buying a very sad comic about how every cat reminds you of your old cat that’s not around anymore
it do be like that. but when you finish the comic folds out into a sleeping cat
they should hook up with richy Vegas and do some paper plate drawings
cyanide swamp is an anthology that is pretty good but I got it based on one artist, Christian Santiago, who usually only does fanart but they begged him to do a comic for the anthology and it’s such a joy to stare at
lastly I got pebbles because the author was hot. I would have got her FERAL MILF shirt that was basically ‘only pregnant ratfink cowgirls get the blues’ on a shirt but they only had size small and I have never fit into a size small, not even as a child
she drew me a cat. I gotta get pebbles 2 and 3 still
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