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- fowler
Anyone here read them? I'm going through about nine boxes, readying them to get sold and it's remdinding me of how much of an influence they had on me as a kid.
I could say that any skill that I have in illustration is probably a direct result of looking at comics when I was like, 11 and 12.
Anyway, what's some good stuff to read now? I went to a comic book store yesterday, but I'm so lost. I have no idea what's going on with who or what's even hot right now.
- Clear0
I was freelanced some comic coloring until earlier in the year.
As to what to read.. depends. WANTED was pretty good (came out last year). Not really sure what's hot at the moment. Maybe that "World of M" that marvel doing at the moment. Kind of an alternate Marvel universe.
- canuck0
I have boxes of them too. Some I would imagine might be worth something to some comic book nerd.
- e-pill0
this past weekend i would have to say i have done the absolute most blasphemous comic book atrocity, more damaging than yyour mom's throwing away your childhood collection when you were a kid...
the story begins as my wife and i always are talking about painting our apt, but our jobs have taken 1st place over our lives and lately my wife is always at werk or in china as she is now, so knowing myself being a huge stoner and becoming all focused on one thing i was lookingat my books as i often do when the wife leaves town i read and re-read all my books over and over again, i hear in the back of my head the wife screaming at me to find a place for all the books i buy and save...that i was looking at the walls to paint and decieded to collage the books across all my walls and ceilings, i would destroy everything i have worked for the last 25 years to have and collect all my fav inks and colours on the walls at once.
so basicly i have to origins and some deaths of almost every Marvel and Detective Comics character on my walls...
the books i have destroyed range from the years of 1943 til the present. graphic novels i have spared and all work from alex ross. his work i just love in one place together.
so here it is, the image is kinda blurry, and it only shows a small area of the big mess i created.
:)
- Clear0
mother of #@$! You didn't !
- canuck0
you're insane.
- fowler0
i love it! shame that they went out as wallpaper, but at the same time, it's beautiful.
- mayo0
I read comics. Mine are of a more eclectic nature. If i try any new ones, it's usually because the art had to really wow me.
e-pill, PLEASE tell me no David Mack work was harmed in the making of that project?
- djenders0
So funny, I've been getting back into them slowly as I look back on old collections.
I would definitely recommend picking up Batman Hush...some amazing work by Jim Lee, and the story is kick ass.
Dennis.
- fowler0
Jim Lee was always one of my favorites. As I look back, some of the people who I really looked up to (Todd McFarlane for example) aren't doing it at all for me anymore. Style seems so cheesy now.
Sam Keith and Jim Lee, they never get old.
I checked out Hulk yesterday. Very nice. Really nice artwork, not crazy rendered, but the style really grabbed me.
- visualplane0
I use to read comic books back in high school, but the whole market got screwed up with all the holograms, 10 variation covers, death of everyone and their resurrections....
- QuincyArcher0
i read manga...but that's probably the kind of thing i shouldn't admit...
- e-pill0
ok for the record...at my parents house i have over 10,000 books, what i have on the wall is books i have purchased in the last 5 years at select stores and conventions.
not one david mack was touched mayo. those are att the folks place in acid free mylar inside a room for just them with humidity controled atmosphere of perfection!
im not stupid! i kept the good stuff!
:)
- visualplane0
My best comic I have now is Wolverine Mini series 1, GI Joe 2, and Spectacular Spiderman 1. Not that great.
- e-pill0
i love it! shame that they went out as wallpaper, but at the same time, it's beautiful.
fowler
(Jul 18 05, 10:58)this is exactly how i feel, i felt shamful doing the act, but the end result is more beautiful than anything else!
i really need to take better photos for you to trully understand the magnatude of seeing it at once.
:)
- fowler0
with all that shit that happened a while back about comic book pricing, i'm sure my most valuable is like, $4.00.
I have spawn 1-50, that makes me feel pretty.
- todelete__20
my brother in law just had a baby (see my site for a pic of the little bugger), he wanted to sell his comic book collection for some extra cash so i said let me take a look first.
holy shit. starting from 1979 he has everthing, and i mean everything. four boxes, three comics across 50+ deep. all in their own plastic bag with cardboard backing.
i'm thinking of buying them and keeping them only to give them back to max (my nephew) when he's like 10 or something. i don't think he should sell them and should give them to his son, but as always with a new baby you can use some extra cash.
i took a bunch from 1980 just cause i wanted to read them. heh heh.
- fowler0
I'm actually putting everything online, here are some issues of Savage Dragon that I have...
http://members.cox.net/craigfowl…
And the comics that I've indexed so far (3/4 of a box)
- visualplane0
I'm thinking spiderman:
- arinya0
Wow! I was thinking about this over the weekend. I wanted to get back into comic book reading but didn't know what to pick up. I started reading
Vagabond
http://store.viz.com/product/GNV…which is an amazing Manga Graphic Novel by the equally amazing
Takehiko Inoue.
http://www.itplanning.co.jp/It's based on the story about Miyamoto Musashi which I already know so I was looking for something new, dark to read. Both visually and story wise. Any one recommend something.
- uberdesigner0
optic nerve is cool to look at but boring to read issue to issue