yours are actually brilliant and creative tho
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Cripes, that is a good eye. Now that you’ve mentioned it it’s really clear but I never would have made the leap tease it out in the first place.
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The overall vibe I got from the article was that he probably meant it in an intentionally over-the-top, hyperbolic, self-deprecating way. But yeah it’s the kind of thing that doesn’t necessarily come across easily in print without a lot of context…which I in my cruelty did not provide.
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You don’t wanna know how many issues of John Byrne’s Next Men I still own
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I like how at some point they decided to time jump the two strips 10 years apart for reasons, then magically merged the timelines back together in the last month so that they could all appear in the final “normal” strip together.
Also in the final months of Funky they introduced a time traveling janitor who was responsible for everything that happened in just so that lady character would write that given book (it apparently saves the future?) which ironically means that all the characters who died of cancer (cancer is a re-occurring star in this grim strip) were more or less intentionally left to die. Like the legit female lead who died decades back of cancer did so because she got a bad diagnosis that prevented timely treatment, she was very savable.
This was not a science fiction strip BTW, aside from the common comic strip “dead character’s ghost is seen smiling down on still living loves ones” trope it was based in our normal reality more or less.
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One thing I did not see coming in Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End is such a gripping wizard exam arc. Came for the gentle story of human connection persisting across generations, stayed for the badass wizard duels
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Reading itch.io comics again and this one’s great
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Really nice to find that after reading The Third Person the other day. I saw it on a list of ‘best comics of 2022’ and I was like, ‘Wow a 900 page autobio comic about being trans and having DID sounds like the worst thing imaginable,’ and then I goaded myself into reading it and I was right! We need to put a stop to autobio comics! The normies (by which I mean mainstream publications and book reviewers - which is to say, the only way to get any exposure) have decided autobio = art and we are continuously submitting to the most boring stories by people who don’t do anything interesting with the medium.
Fwiw, best comics of 2022 were the webcomic What Happens Next followed by CSM Part 2
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Hasn’t stopped being great, not even one bit. Hell even the exposition dumps are a lot better than the average manga.
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I actually like the old Batman/Spawn (the Roanoke one, not the Spawn/Batman Frank Miller one that came out at the same time), so I had to pick up this new one out of morbid curiosity
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I have no idea what I just read.
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God I have that comic somewhere, I’m pretty sure youths weren’t even speaking that way anymore at the time that comic was originally published.
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Snapper feels like he’s like five years out of date where as every other character is like 25 years behind the curve.
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i didn’t know this was a trend
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Back in high school, when the Internet was new and difficult to access and not anime centric, I got a French language copy of Gunnm/Battle Angel and was so confused as to where it was coming from. It looked like manga but I was aware of Moebius and weird ass European comics and thought maybe it was from that strain.
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i still have all 42 vols of dragonball in french and at one point could actually read it
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