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Everyone I have ever given a Hernandez Bros book to has loved it, if you are on select button chances are you will love them too
Become a psycho like me c’mon do it
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Oh wow, I’ve always wanted to read these.
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You can easily skip around them, there’s no real need to read in order, the early books are still good but Jaime’s stuff vastly improves once he drops all the scifi and just focuses on stories about queer punks, there are a bunch of Beto stand-alone stories in there, some of them are really fucking sleazy (meant as a compliment), others are really funny and charming kid comics, I cannot do a CW for those books, they are my favorite things, all I really want out of life is more people who know what I’m talking about when I say IN THE TRADITION OF CARTOONISTS WHO DRAW THEMSELVES
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ymer borrowed some comics from the local library for me and i’ve read through them all
Azumanga Daioh - never read before. watched it ages ago. i don’t know that i needed to get the comics version this time even though i tend to prefer the comics to the anime so many other times. the music just does a lot. these characters are still great.
Otherworld Barbara vol. 1 - somehow missed the 1 and thought it was self-contained until i hit the cliffhanger final page. also thought this was my first moto hagio until reading the author summary and remembering i read A, A’ some years ago. should reread that. also, this is really cool. dreamworld scifi drama with a lot of different threads going on and connecting to each other.
The Strange Tale of Panorama Island - this is the first Suehiro Maruo comic i’ve read. somehow expected it to be more of a gut twister, from what i know of his other works? beautifully drawn for sure. large, beautiful scenes, especially of the insane sex island in the title. that’s the panorama island. there’s also some massive optical illusions but it looks like people mostly go there to do the one thing and it’s each other. there’s also murder and desecration of corpses. classic art references that go over my head. i’m underselling and misrepresenting it for sure, and not really conveying how the art makes it all feel, but if you’ve seen Maruo’s art at any point i’m sure you’ve got some idea. it’s good.
next up i’m reading all of genshiken cause we found it at a second-hand store and so i must
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i think a decade or more ago i saw this described as a “very honest” depiction of the otaku culture of the time. that’s either a warning or an invitation.
anyway,
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Panorama Island is an outlier in Maruo’s work because it has a comprehensible plot (althought you can thank/unthank Rampo for that)
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Been reading a bunch of Heavy Metal magazines that are uploaded to Internet Archive. I say “reading” in loose quotes because I’m not stopping to read any of the dialog and just kind of glancing over panels.
Moebius shows up a lot, although it kind of sucks to read a story 4 pages at a time, sometimes less.
There is also this serial about…this naked dude in some fantasy world with his girlfriend. Most of the stories are a naked dude in a fantasy world finding a girlfriend.
There’s another one called 1996, and it took me a while to realize that was the title and not the year it was made, since it had a kind of 90’s alt comic look to it. It’s one of the very few without any nudity in it.
Oh hey a foldout, that kind of rules
etc
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den has one of my favourite funniest panels in comics ever, really early on. might be very inappropriate to share here tho as it has his dick flailing around (as most panels do)
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Den is rendered so weirdly, I kind of want to keep reading it. But yeah, pretty much every panel has boobs, butts, or dong in it.
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I just ordered 4 comics at once. Before I was a teacher and just after I was a student…when I was a Wegmans cashier, I used to buy a comic with every paycheck. It made a lot of sense then because Picturebox just announced that they would stop printing and I didn’t want to lose my chance while they still had things in storage. It was a very smart investment.
Comics are some of my favorite objects to have and look through. I love feeling the pages and imagining a hand putting all of these marks on a page. I’ve made it a habit to buy whatever manga Ryan Holmberg has had a hand in translating and editing for Western release. He has incredible taste! So three of the books I ordered are from him: F, Bat Kid, and Talk to My Back. The fourth book, Secret Life, I got just because Drawn & Quarterly is having a sale.
Oh my god! Moomin is also half off?? Maybe I should’ve ordered one of those massive tomes. I suppose I have until Sunday…
Oh, Volume One is sold out. I see 
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F is soooo good. Also strongly recommend children of mu-town if you’re getting small print manga
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I may or may not have ordered four more comics. Retrofit is right by me! And it looks like they aren’t publishing anymore 
This is on my radar for further purchases. I peeked at it while I was ordering F.
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Following this thread, Hi bought the digital version of Children of Mu.
Unfortunately I cannot do the same with F, and the purchase of a physical version from Italy becomes too expensive. Is there a way around it?
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I think finding a book store that has it in stock would be your best bet since it’s expensive to ship from the publisher. I did some searching and dug some things up that may be helpful for acquiring F or other small press releases.
This book store is in the UK, so it might have more favorable shipping costs.
This Portuguese store offers free shipping to anywhere in the EU. Unfortunately, they are sold out of F, but you might be able to get similar works at cheaper rates than buying from the US.
This Dutch store has copies, but it looks a little more expensive than other places.
I hope you can get a copy one day without spending too much!
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I have no idea how easy this would be for you, but interlibrary loans are a really useful tool for me when I want to see a movie, read a book, or look at a comic that I can’t buy otherwise. Unfortunately with this book, it looks like no libraries outside of the US hold it. Still, WorldCat + interlibrary loans are a helpful resource for me if I ever want to track something down. Maybe they could be useful for you in the future!
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Thanks for both pieces of advice!!
I have a friend in the Netherlands, so I will ask him if I can have F sent to him 
Yeah it’s basically a case of finding some tiny store that stocks it. Hopefully there’s one in Italy somewhere. For australia, I’ve found
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Could also always ask your local comic book store to stock the smaller publishers, if you have one
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