is chobits really set in the same universe as angelic layer?
blame the fans on this one. We’re not even allowed to re-arrange paragraphs in light novels because fans think that’s a betrayal of the original intent and not just a fact that two languages convey information differently.
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make it happen already, fuck
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The progress bar will forever be stuck at 44%
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I went through the New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln. That was a fun romp that really talks about how BS artists have taken over American Politics and the book is dated now.
It has a fake Abe and a real Abe debating and fighting each other and just goes way off the rails, but in a way that only an Indy comic could pull off. It’s short and sweet and I’d recommend it. For being digestible and fun it did have me thinking of some larger issues as well.
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yeah, they mention angelic layer. the angelic layers and the humanoid computers have the same creator
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Is an Angelic Layer a heavenly stratum or one that lays things angelically
R.I.P. Alan Grant
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Oh no!
I always thought his War Devil with the Roanoke/Gotham thing was the better of the two Batman/Spawn books, and his work on Lobo was super formative for me.
Massive illustrated online Jack Kirby biography by Stan Taylor: Looking For The Awesome – Contents | The Kirby Effect
Kirby inked by McFarlane:
Scott Free / Mr. Miracle inspired by the young Jim Steranko’s career as an escape artist
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Six From Sirius - writing Doug Moench, art Paul Gulacy
Gulacy: “The coloring is the result of an arcane and complex process of experimentation utilizing a variety of mediums, including acrylics, markers, colored inks and pencils.”
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so, many years ago, i read scans of it’s a good life if you don’t weaken, on recommendation of someone here (possibly @Tulpa ?). now, i have a real physical copy of it! it feels nice to read such an introspective story in an actual book. it’s also an ex-library copy, with those thick clear dust covers, and that kind of softness on the edge of the pages that books that have been read many many times have.
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I purchased a blind bag of comics labeled “Anthro” for $10 because I was like “why the hell not”. These seemed to be loose floppy comics they had that were preordered but never picked up due to the comic industry’s insane fucking ordering and issue system. Because of this I have like 2 or 3 issues out of greater issue runs, which means I’m getting fractions of these stories without prior context.
It never feels normal, as a grown ass adult, to read floppy comic issues regardless of contents. The art of these is always kind of weird to me. Regardless, after reading all of them, I feel like I got my money’s worth.
Unnatural by Mirka Andolfo
This is an itialian comic published by Image. It takes place in one of those dimentions where everyone is a talking animal. The main protagonist, a pig, has a wolf…entity?..living inside them that takes control and kills people. The world also has a weird set of laws around people from other species dating and fucking each other, so it’s one of those comics that does that. Lots of stuff about childhood trauma. Unfortunately I only got 2 issues so I am unable to see where the story begins and ends but I might check out more.
Ruff And Reddy - DC
“What if Ruff and Reddy were washed up actors in hollywood that had to work together to overcome their issues and baggage to claw back relevance?” is the premise behind this comic. My major complaint is the character designs are very much “non furry tries to draw furries” and also the plot is mainly around what goes on in hollywood. Over three issues I had, the one thing that happened was Ruff and Reddy fired their old agent after finding a new one at Alcoholics Anonymous. There’s 6 issues in the run and I read 3, and there just isn’t any arc to it. On the back of one issue was an ad for Mercedes Benz with a bunch of DC property logos on it. I guess???
Black Cloud - Image
Honestly uh, there’s this lady with superpowers who can talk to cats. And they live in this city where there is a Kiju sized guy who just stomps on buildings and throws planes around that they kind of ignore. I was not sure what was going on, half the comic was two characters talking about something. I think this is a “Everyone has weird super powers and are Dealing With It comic”
Stabbity Bunny - Scout comics
Huhhh this is another one of the “everyone has weird super powers” but in this case, there is a stuffed animal rabbit that has them that’s the caretaker of a family, going back to 1918. Anyone who tries to harm the family dies horribly. In this issue, the girl who has the rabbit tries to go to a food truck, and the proprietor is some kind of weird demon guy. He then swallows the rabbit whole but then Stabbity mutilates and destroys his body from within. Anyway, kind of weird.
Battlecats
Sometimes you’re a movie buff and never get around to watching The Godfather and sometimes you’re a furry and never get around to reading Battlecats. I have no idea who any of these characters are, but they sure do fight a lot. I think they pissed off the King which is why they’re stuck in gladiatorial combat against some monsters. I am nonplussed about this mainly because high fantasy does nothing for me. It’s why I’ve never played an elder scrolls game.
Animosity
Talking animals, except this time they’re not anthropomorphic and nobody has magical powers to talk to the animals, they just all talk. Supposedly there was a huge event that made all the animals on earth suddenly sentient and able to talk with humans. Would be a huge boon to the Vegan food industry. In the three issues I read a lemur gets kidnapped and everyone goes to Texas to try and rescue them. Unpredictably, the characters all get transported to a huge gladiator battle (is this a running theme in floppy comics?)
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Those panels in Ruff and Ready actually look kind of cool. Having not read a lot of stuff that leans into the digital art—without the black holding lines and with Photoshop effects like the out of focus blur on that foreground hand—it reminds me of those old books where being made on a computer was the gimmick. Batman: Digital Justice and Iron Man: Crash were the big ones, and everything looked like a Sega CD cinematic with Microsoft WordArt peppered throughout. This newer one looks like it’s bringing in that smooth flash animation vibe, but it also looks very photo referenced (complete with the same camera set up for two adjacent panels unfortunately), which is kind of a wild combo.
yeah, one thing that was neat about reading comics done by “pros” is how generally competent everyone is. maybe I could write a better Ruff and Reddy script but I don’t think I’d be able to have everyone consistently on-model with this kind of pacing and panel framing, on time, and under budget.
also, these were much more engaging than “I’m a sad white guy who can’t get a date” fanagraphics/drawn and quarterly published comic
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On model and on time is over rated anyway!
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Only way anyone gets better is by doing it.
= boring ; )
fix your schedule ^ _^
You have a budget??? = ooo
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Yeah well having done a webcomic on and off for nearly a decade I can appreciate how hard it is to consistently put out high quality work. These comics have a lot of assistants doing coloring/inking/etc, wheras I’m doing all of it. They’re also, presumably, getting paid enough (hopefully) that they have significant time to put into the thing, wheras mine is a strictly weekends project because that’s when my energy levels are higher.
if I could do puppy space pirates full time, we’re talking 3 pages a week instead of 1-2 a month. If it were published I’d have someone doing the coloring and someone else doing background art. on one page in the Black Cloud comic there is an entire panel taken up by a huge city with detailed buildings, which takes FOREVER to do, so having someone who’s whole job is backgrounds would speed things up.
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Yeah.
This is pretty much how I’ve been feeling lately. Standards have really risen in the last few years. I think that comics illustration and animation have become so intertwined that there is sort of a solid-drawing homogeneity emerging. Not in the art-styles — there are lots of art styles even here. I mean in the production values, if that makes any sense. Very slick and filmic. Makes me want to make comics out of play-dough or paper dolls or something as a change of pace.
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