Mrdukey

As a kid i read the british reprints of secret wars and fell in love with Mike Zeck's artwork. And then Bob Layton happened :(

As Jim Shooter wrote about Bob: "he had huge royalties coming from the two issues of Secret Wars he’d butchered"

Supergods really got me excited. Partly cause I first got introduced to British comics when, as a kid, I lived on a lonely Irish farm in the 80's. I was reading Secret Wars and Indiana Jones reprints and, for reasons of misplaced nationalism, I was leary of picking up this Captain Britain comic that had covers that were leaping off the shelves. Eventually I succumbed and was immediately hooked. I then found tattered back issues of Daredevils and Mighty World of Marvel. From these books Alan Moore was introduced to a fragile 10 year olds mind. The great thing about British Marvel was it didn't follow the U.S. parents policy of ignoring every other comic publisher. The letters pages and editorialswould have been more at home in fanzines and in fact they even reviewed local fanzines and independently publshed comics.

Reading Supergods reminded me of how much phenomenal talent emerged from the British scene.

Hi Hondonians. I've missed this place. Who has read Supergods? Morrison is passionate. He makes me beleve in Superheroes and magic.

I like Bone.

Dear Mr Juggalo, do you think David Lee Roth's representation of the life of a juggalo was authentic?

in particular the lyrics:

'Cause I aint got nobody

nobody nobody cares for me

I'm so sad and lonely

sad and lonely sad and lonely

Won't some sweet mama

come and take a chance with me

cause I aint so bad

Thank you in advance

I don't think you'll be disappointed.

Just finished reading the full run of Scalped.

What a book. It read like an HBO series. Compelling, multi layered. Gritty as fuck.

The artwork on this series is just beautiful.

I do have a problem with BKV in that sometimes all his characters sound like the same insecure teenage boy who is trying desperately to be politically correct - I should clarify that I've only read Y, Ex Machina and now this. I have Runaways lying around somewhere but have not read any yet.

That was a good series and I'll miss it.

Thrizzle you opened my eyes there and I think you're right, I think it was a message.

I just read some scans of Jennifer Blood and in the first issue there is an article at the back with quotes from Ennis and he kind of predicts what's going down now at DC and Marvel and the industry in general.

I can't tell you how bizarrely those images strike me after the Hellblazer binge I have been on.

Oh wow. I've been jumping on some leaky ships lately.

I finished RASL. I didn't feel it lived up to it's early promise.

It is still worth a look and I really liked the Tesla angle.

I'm nearly in tears here good job lads!

Met.....allica? Damn i'd be pissed too.

Well Metallica lyrics have been described by some as a 9th graders poetry so it's kind of apt...

Will he be back? Is the industry so cynical that his sins will be forgiven?

I actually don't know that I've read a comic with his artwork but what I read here disturbs me.

Plagiarism is a massive issue with me ever since high school when my friends would get higher marks in English than me by recycling U2 and Metallica lyrics in their creative writing essays.

I'm sure there was a time where being outed as a plagiarist in any field of artistic endeavour was enough to end your career.

That's one hell of a recommendation Thrizzle. The fact that the series can inspired you to give such a passionate, elaborate response guarantees that I will read it now.

By the way the second picture (full page) bottom left panel looks like Leon Kowalski from Bladerunner. Just saying.

Rasl is great. Sci fi noir for people with large heads.

So far it's been fun, of course I haven't yet reached the 90s so I'm anticipating a great deal of pain in the future.

What range of issues have been the best so far? I'm not that familiar with the world of Spiderman though I do remember Black Cat giving me the horn in my teens (the 80's!).

I defer to your comic reading stamina. I would need a Lance Armstrong amounts of drugs and the soundtrack to all six Rocky films to prepare me for such a task.

This is better than his usual choice of head wear

It's like 27 years worth of comic to get into!

If it's good then that would be quite a lot of world to immerse myself in.

As to the change in style - when I was looking up the name to make sure I spelt it correctly I found this:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CerebusSyndrome

I will give it a go.

In a question inspired by Thrizzle's bookshelf - is Cerebus a title worth getting into?