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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 8, 2017 9:32:19 GMT -5
Bone 1-55 by Jeff Smith  Take a sweet cartoon. Mix it with a slapstick comedy. And then throw in an epic fantasy quest. Make your hero a sweet, harmless little guy who looks like a Shmoo. Make sure it's squarely aimed at all-ages. It would take a genius to pull it off. Luckily Jeff Smith had the genius to pull it off and create one of the greatest comics of all time. I actually read Bone in trades. And then I gave them to my wife who loved them. And then I read them to my boys...who loved them. Bone is what comic books should be and seldom are. It is a book that everyone can love. I'll add that Bone showed that kids read comics and that comics don't need to be consigned to the ghetto of the comic book shop. My understanding is that the Scholastic editions of the book sold like crazy through school book-order sales and it had a strong sales presence in traditional book stores.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 9, 2017 9:23:40 GMT -5
Bone 1-55 by Jeff Smith Take a sweet cartoon. Mix it with a slapstick comedy. And then throw in an epic fantasy quest. Make your hero a sweet, harmless little guy who looks like a Shmoo. Make sure it's squarely aimed at all-ages. It would take a genius to pull it off. Luckily Jeff Smith had the genius to pull it off and create one of the greatest comics of all time. I actually read Bone in trades. And then I gave them to my wife who loved them. And then I read them to my boys...who loved them. Bone is what comic books should be and seldom are. It is a book that everyone can love. I'll add that Bone showed that kids read comics and that comics don't need to be consigned to the ghetto of the comic book shop. My understanding is that the Scholastic editions of the book sold like crazy through school book-order sales and it had a strong sales presence in traditional book stores. Same here. Did you have specific voices for each of the characters? Whenever I make sandwiches for the family nowadays I speak either like Smiley or like Bartleby. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 9, 2017 9:36:19 GMT -5
Bone 1-55 by Jeff Smith Take a sweet cartoon. Mix it with a slapstick comedy. And then throw in an epic fantasy quest. Make your hero a sweet, harmless little guy who looks like a Shmoo. Make sure it's squarely aimed at all-ages. It would take a genius to pull it off. Luckily Jeff Smith had the genius to pull it off and create one of the greatest comics of all time. I actually read Bone in trades. And then I gave them to my wife who loved them. And then I read them to my boys...who loved them. Bone is what comic books should be and seldom are. It is a book that everyone can love. I'll add that Bone showed that kids read comics and that comics don't need to be consigned to the ghetto of the comic book shop. My understanding is that the Scholastic editions of the book sold like crazy through school book-order sales and it had a strong sales presence in traditional book stores. Same here. Did you have specific voices for each of the characters? Whenever I make sandwiches for the family nowadays I speak either like Smiley or like Bartleby. I don't recall. My youngest son will still frequently call people "stupid stupid rat creatures." |
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Post by shaxper on Aug 9, 2017 12:16:15 GMT -5
Did you have specific voices for each of the characters? Whenever I make sandwiches for the family nowadays I speak either like Smiley or like Bartleby.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2017 22:16:34 GMT -5
Of today's selections, I've read...
-Claremont's X-Men (again)
-Elektra Saga
-a couple of the Adventure issues and 1 Aquaman issue of the Death of A Prince saga
-Ronin
-several of the Prince Valiant strips by Foster (I have 2 or 3 of the Fantagraphics albums collecting them)
-part of Usagi Yojimbo (I have the first 2 Fantagrpahics trades and the first 2 Saga volumes)
-Top Ten
-Knightfall
-V for Vendetta (again)
-Marvels
-JLA 100-102 (again)
-Bone
so a few I haven't read here, but have at least sampled the bulk of the choices.
-M
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Post by rberman on Mar 6, 2018 21:45:12 GMT -5
6. Astro City Vol 1 #1-6 & Vol 2 #1-22 (1995-2000) by Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross, and Brent Anderson Story Overview: Anthology series covering a whole world of supers and civilians living in not-quite-New York, loaded with references to the history of comic books. My Two Cents: I already have a whole thread running on this series here, so I’ll be brief. Astro City is the optimistic panacea for those who complained that The Watchmen is too dark an analysis of the superhero genre. In the place of misanthropes like The Comedian and Rorshach, Kurt Busiek gives us a string of well-characterized normal Joes and Janes making their way in a world where super-beings are always tearing the town apart. The tragedy is always leavened with beams of hope, and the art is terrific too. 
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