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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2017 19:16:43 GMT -5
So until I get the upstairs comic room and studio room remodel done, I am somewhat limited to what I can get to of my comics. I can get to most of my trades and of course whatever I have digital access to, I just really can't get to most of my single issues (except for the newer stuff I just got). So some of my choices are limited here, but I do want to get to some classic stuff by theme if I can.
For October, I want to touch on some classic horror stuff for Halloween, what I'd like to get to includes
-Marvel's The Monster of Frankenstein-I picked up the trade in a $5 trade box earlier this year and haven't gotten to it
-BPRD-most of what I don't own for this is available on Hoopla, and I intend to at least get to the Plague of Frogs collections
-I am long overdue for a reread of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing
-Essential Marvel Horror Vol. 1 & 2
and for prose, I want to revisit some Lovecraft, explore some of Fritz Leiber's horror works and perhaps if I have time to get to some more of the Tsathoggua cycle by Clark Ashton Smith and others (I have a Chaosium collection of all CAS's Tsathoggua stuff plus some pastiche stuff). I have some lingering sci-fi I want to finish up too, Neuromancer is top of the list, and Dune Messiah is beckoning.
For November, in honor of Thanksgiving, I want to explore or revisit some of the cornerstones of the comic book oeuvre...
-reread Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns, I haven't visited either for nearly a decade
-read Akira Vol. 1
-Moebius' World of Edena & finish my reread of the Incal
-read the volumes of Love & Rockets I picked up earlier this year but haven't gotten to yet
-revisit Neil Gaiman's Sandman, I revisited the first volume a year or so ago, but I want to push past that to revisit more of it
-pick up where I left off on the Lee/Kirby FF (I had left off in the mid-50s and was reading the rest of Marvel's silver Age stuff to catch up to that point in '66, but I burned outon some of it, but want to get back to some Lee-Kirby FF).
-Cerebus Vol. 1 if I can get to it.
and for prose, I may try to revisit some Tolkien for the first time in a loooooong time, or some other cornerstone stuff, maybe Dune Messiah if I don't get to it in October, or Asimov's Foundation series.
No thoughts on December yet, we'll see. Hopefully I will have the room done upstairs and have access to more stuff. I'm not sure how much of this I will get to, I may get distracted by other stuff I discover or come across, but for now, that's what I am planning on trying to get to.
-M
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Post by berkley on Sept 29, 2017 22:44:03 GMT -5
I don't think I have any classic horror comics lined up for October: can anyone suggest something suitable from the early 80s (besides Swamp Thing, which I don't want to re-read just yet)?
I do have some more recent horror or supernatural comics I might read, including Garth Ennis's Caliban, Greg Rucka's Black Magick, and Richard Corben's current anthology series Shadows on the Grave.
For prose, I'm in the early 1890s right now so I will be reading some Ambrose Bierce short stories, F. Marion Crawford The Witch of Prague, and probably a few other things depending on how fast I go. I might re-read Huysmans's Down There (La-bas) and Wilde's Dorian Gray, though neither is an out and out horror story really.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2017 1:45:00 GMT -5
Started on the October reads today. Read the first issue of Frankenstein from the collection and all of Plague of Frogs Vol. 2 (comprised of 3 arcs, The Dead, The Black Flame, and the War on Frogs). Got to experience art by Ploog. Herb Trimpe, Guy Davis, Peter Snejberg, John Severin and Karl Moline. All great stuff. We'll see what day two brings.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2017 20:46:10 GMT -5
Continuing the march through October. Revisited Lovecraft by picking up the Black Seas of Infinity collection and read the 1st two stories (Call of Cthulhu & Dagon), continued through more of the Marvel Frankenstein series and am currently making my way through the first volume of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina via Hoopla.
-M
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Post by richardwrite on Oct 8, 2017 21:10:56 GMT -5
For October, I want to touch on some classic horror stuff for Halloween, what I'd like to get to includes -Marvel's The Monster of Frankenstein-I picked up the trade in a $5 trade box earlier this year and haven't gotten to it -BPRD-most of what I don't own for this is available on Hoopla, and I intend to at least get to the Plague of Frogs collections -I am long overdue for a reread of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing -Essential Marvel Horror Vol. 1 & 2 Great idea! You've inspired me to read the entire first volume of Tomb of Dracula on Marvel Unlimited. |
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Post by james on Oct 8, 2017 21:12:23 GMT -5
No theme to my reading over the next few months but it looks like this:
essential spiderman vol6-9
Grells green arrow vol 3 and up
Black Science volumes 5-6
Hellboy/Bprd which ive never ever read.
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 9, 2017 6:00:55 GMT -5
I have been reading FF from around the 160's and will probably continue. I'm also reading those delicious Bronze Age Superman's. I love the done in one stories where he solves puzzles to defeat the opponent.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2017 19:39:49 GMT -5
Got through Marvel's Frankenstein #7-12 between coats of paint today. A Dracula story, a descendant of Frankenstein story and a transitional issue. Big John Buscema too over for Ploog on art for 4 issues, and it was decent, but a step down from Ploog. Not Buscema's strongest effort. The first 3 issues with John Verpoorten inks looked better than his last one with Giacoia and company on inks, and that last issue of his look rushed, lots of big panels for no reason meaning fewer panels per page and lots of empty background panels. The book was bi-monthly and had a back up so the leads were shorter than normal, but it still looked rushed. Of course rushed Buscema still looked better than Bob Brown's art on #11, egads. I forgot how pedestrian Brown's stuff was, and this looked worse than I remember his Avengers stuff being. Val Mayerik and Doug Moench took over with #12, and it was basically a fill in issue to jump the series form the 19th century to the 20th and incorporate the Frankenstein issues from the b&w horror mags into the ongoing story. Friedrich really overwrote his issues, like he was trying to write a Gothic horror prose story squashed into lots of panels cluttering up the art which he largely ignored in his storytelling trying to do all the work with the prose. He also had a knack for filling up the panels Buscema did backgrounds in, obscuring them, and leaving panels with no background almost textless (assuming he was writing Marvel style and scripting after the art was done) making their sparseness and lack of detail stand out even more amidst the otherwise cluttered panels on the page. The first six issues were far more enjoyable, but there was still stuff to enjoy in the Dracula story, the Frankenstein descendant story, not so much. Next up in the trade is all the b&w stories form the mags before it returns to #13 of the ongoing regular series.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2017 22:06:48 GMT -5
I just discovered that Hoopla has all the Creepy and Eerie archive volumes...hot damn! I got the Wrightson collection for some Halloween reading, but I am going to have to dig into those volumes in the months to come. Hoopla has been a treasure trove of stuff...trades from Image, DC, Vertigo, Dark Horse, individual issues from BOOM! and Valiant, a mixture of both from IDW, stuff from Dynamite. The only limitation is 10 borrows a month, so it will take me some time to get through everything I want to read there. The only major publisher not represented was Marvel, but I have a subscription to Marvel Unlimited, so all good there. For free and legal, I can get used to reading digital editions of this stuff, and then pick and choose what I want to have in my library for posterity's sake and buy those.
-M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 13, 2017 9:34:13 GMT -5
I just discovered that Hoopla has all the Creepy and Eerie archive volumes...hot damn! I got the Wrightson collection for some Halloween reading, but I am going to have to dig into those volumes in the months to come. Hoopla has been a treasure trove of stuff...trades from Image, DC, Vertigo, Dark Horse, individual issues from BOOM! and Valiant, a mixture of both from IDW, stuff from Dynamite. The only limitation is 10 borrows a month, so it will take me some time to get through everything I want to read there. The only major publisher not represented was Marvel, but I have a subscription to Marvel Unlimited, so all good there. For free and legal, I can get used to reading digital editions of this stuff, and then pick and choose what I want to have in my library for posterity's sake and buy those. -M On the plus side those Creepy & Eerie volumes are pretty good size and fairly dense reading. So you can nurse each volume for a while. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2017 18:43:17 GMT -5
Read the first handful of Franenstein stories from Monsters Unleashed. John Buscema on art inked by Syd Shores and Win Mortimer, then Val Mayerik on the last issue. Buscema's art here is much better then the color monthly run he did, except he as some very counter-intuitive panel flows on some pages and his Monster here harkens much more the the Universal Karloff look in terms of facial features and head shape than the Ploog design that guided the color book's look.
The story though was rather silly, brain swapping stuff with a magic brain transporter that is a secret in one issue but the person it was kept secret from knows all about it and uses it in his plans in the next (probably due to switching writers mid-story, assembly line comics at their finest) and revolving around the idea of a mouse having it's brain accidentally transferred into the body of the Monster. Um, ok, sure, not Friedrich or Moench at their best.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2017 21:46:50 GMT -5
Finished up the Frankenstein stories from Monsters Unleashed. This time the creative team of Moench and Mayerik stayed insistent throughout and the results were a much better caliber of stories, though Moench's characterization of the Monster is wildly different that that portrayed throughout the Friedrich/Ploog adaptation or the Friedrich/Buscema stories that followed before jumping to contemporary times. It almost felt like this was the the Monster from the Shelly stories who had experienced all those events, but almost the blank slate noble savage archetype that Moench grafted onto it to tell stories about the people around the Monster instead of focusing on the Monster itself.
-M
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