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Highly recommended: 'The Manhattan Projects'. Crazy ww2 occult/sci-fi/alt history.

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My mail order comics all showed up so I've got some reading to do.

Last night, I devoured all four issues of The Airtight Garage in one sitting. Totally bonkers dreamlike nonsense and highly, highly recommended. I could read that shit all day.

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Not so much comics as , well, I'm not sure what but I took delivery of Chris Ware's magnum opus Building Stories this weekend. An A2 size box of umpteen different sections that go to make up the story of a building and its inhabitants - it is a labour of love and the pages i have read are suffuse with that same melancholy that his Corrigan had.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/sep/21/building-stories-chris-ware-review
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I noticed that today. I'm a massive Ware fan but I'm pretty sure I already have all the material collected in ther, either in Acme Novelty Library or in issues of the New Yorker. the guy at the comic store said it only has about 16 pages of actual comic strips. I decided to save my $50.

I also noticed that Neal Adams' recent Batman Odyssey just got collected in hardback. Anyone know if it's actually any good. Leafing through, it looked kinda stoopid.
 
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In this interview he says "Building Stories actually has more unpublished pages and stories than anything I've ever released"
I plan to go by the comic shop today after work and have a look.
 
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Okay yeah, it seems like their probably is a lot of stuff in there I haven't seen before. Might have to wait to see if the missus can get a review copy before I lay out the 50 bucks, though.
 
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I bought Building Stories today and so far haven't regret it. It's a really gorgeous thing, obviously I haven't read it, but just unpacking the box creates a sense of exploration and the desire to figure out how all these parts could fit together.
Can't say how much of it was published elsewhere, I don't know any of it. But it's certainly a lot more than just 16 pages of actual comic strips. It's actually a lot of material and considering how it is put together $50 doesn't seem like too much.

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Dunninger said:
I bought Building Stories today and so far haven't regret it. It's a really gorgeous thing, obviously I haven't read it, but just unpacking the box creates a sense of exploration and the desire to figure out how all these parts could fit together.
Can't say how much of it was published elsewhere, I don't know any of it. But it's certainly a lot more than just 16 pages of actual comic strips. It's actually a lot of material and considering how it is put together $50 doesn't seem like too much.
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Yeah, I decided to bite the bullet and get it yesterday.

It's not just 16 pages. I think it's actually 14 whole comic books, although some of them are very short.

I've read a couple of the books and it's remarkable stuff - heartbreaking, even by his standards but not in the least over-the-top or manipulative. And - of course - utterly beautiful.
 
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I got Building Stories as a xmas gift from my wife. It is remarkable. He went for broke. Amazing that he can get something like that published. I've been a fan of his for almost fifteen years. This feels like some kind of culmination, or apotheosis, of his study of longing, artistic frustration, despair, etc. It doesn't get any better than this, sadly.
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droid said:
FInally got round to reading MIND MGMT. Worth a look.
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That looks quite interesting, actually.

Currently reading Habibi by Craig Thompson. I can see this book offending people at every point on the political spectrum and I'm generally not into the "people in the developing world having a shit time" genre but from a purely comic-nerd perspective this is astonishingly ambitious and stunningly well realised. It's discomfiting but I like it a lot. Reminds me of the films of Nacer Khemir.

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That looks quite interesting, actually.

Currently reading Habibi by Craig Thompson. I can see this book offending people at every point on the political spectrum and I'm generally not into the "people in the developing world having a shit time" genre but from a purely comic-nerd perspective this is astonishingly ambitious and stunningly well realised. It's discomfiting but I like it a lot. Reminds me of the films of Nacer Khemir.
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got this out from the library a few months back... had never heard of it, but the packaging was so beautiful it drew me in... i liked the art, the story telling was so so... i put it down about a 1/4 of the way through and never picked it up again...

just got this for a buck at a local thrift... a repackaging from the 80's of stuff that Starlin did right after Captain Marvel in the mid 70's... i guess it was originally in B&W... looks very Warlock-esque...

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and speaking of Junji Ito...
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Currently reading this. Mind-bogglingly creepy and brilliant, full-on co(s)mic horror. It's all online here: http://read.mangashare.com/Uzumaki/

Also loved the much shorter The Enigma of Amigara Fault - reminded me of some basically identical nightmares I had a small kid. I wonder how much really effective horror is derived ultimately from bad dreams in childhood? A fuck of a lot, I bet.
 
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transmetropolitan

anyone read this?

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a friend lent my vol 1. v good, worth a read! judge dredd meets hunter s thompson?

gonna get the other volumes.
 
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I've read most of them. I thought the first volume was so so, but decided to stick with it and it definitely improves as you go along. Hunter S Thompson is bang on the money, great idea to steal him for this kind of story. His character was (still is?) also in that newspaper cartoon strip for decades, is it Doonesbury... think it's in either the Guardian or the Independent.

I'm three quarters of the way through Transmetropolitan and it's starting to go downhill just a little bit- it's got to the stage where I've been reading the thing over the last five years or so- just can't find the motivation to buy it all in one fell swoop and I'm just dragging it out. One of my problems with it is that some of the issues are more illustrated fiction books rather than straight up comic books, if you get me. No speech bubbles and that. That's not really my thing. Saying that I'll still definitely get round to buying all the volumes eventually.
 
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