October 2, 2007

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:51 am

Konichiwa Songfighters! Roll Call!

I have been immersed in podcasts (Damn you, Sausage Boy for introducing me to 7th Son) and writing my novel Septemberian. And I have my new blog about Songfight too. So I've been quite the busy bee.

QotD:
Do you enjoy comic books (or used to) and if so what is your favorite character?

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:41 am

Used to, yeah.
I used to read Conan comics - the black and white ones, not the color ones, they had better production values. That was around high school. Also some X-Men. Later on I also read some Spawn. These days I read an occasional manga, such as Akira or Battle Angel Alita or Cowboy Bebop. Not very much lately, though.
-bill

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:52 am

Never liked them.

king_arthur · Post by **king_arthur** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:42 pm

Not much of a comic book fan, although I did at one point own a couple copies of the first issue of "Cycletoons," which had an interesting character known as "the Old Poop." But that wasn't exactly a "comic book" in the classic sense.

Niv - for your songfight blog, you should be aware that links to .mp3 files on songfight just take the listener to the weekly song page, rather than playing the song directly. I think you can insert a .m3u file in the pathway and it will let you play the song...

Charles (KA)

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:56 pm

qotd: not a comic book fan.

I like Stephen King novels.

Long day here at work. Every corner there is resistance. Not sleeping well.

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:08 pm

Busy day at work. I was supposed to go play a show with a local band at Nectar's in Burlington, but they don't go on until midnight and I need to be at work in the morning, so I won't be doing that. Turns out I DO have a limit. I'm as surprised as anybody.

QotD: I liked comics. Some favorites:

The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
The Thing (I had all 43 issues of this one. It was a small series.)
Milk & Cheese
Ambush Bug

I don't have many comics now. I enjoyed Scott McCloud's Understanding/Reinventing/Making Comics, but that's as close to it as I've come in recent years. Well, that and all the online comics I read, I guess.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:45 pm

I love Viz. My brother brought me back a copy from Newcastle-upon-Tyne over 20 years ago - and I've been buying them ever since

Roger Mellie the Man on the Telly, the Fat Slags, Buster Gonad and his Unfeasibly Large Testicles, Terry Fuckwit, Bertie Blunt his Parrot's a Cunt, Finbarr Saunders and his Double Entendres...

wonderful stuff!

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:08 pm

King Arthur wrote:Niv - for your songfight blog, you should be aware that links to .mp3 files on songfight just take the listener to the weekly song page, rather than playing the song directly. I think you can insert a .m3u file in the pathway and it will let you play the song...

I didn't know that. Thanks for the heads-up.

Hoblit wrote:Not a comic book fan. I like Stephen King novels.

That's a shame. The new Dark Tower is in comic form.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:26 pm

Niveous wrote:
King Arthur wrote:Niv - for your songfight blog, you should be aware that links to .mp3 files on songfight just take the listener to the weekly song page, rather than playing the song directly. I think you can insert a .m3u file in the pathway and it will let you play the song...
I didn't know that. Thanks for the heads-up.

Hoblit wrote:Not a comic book fan. I like Stephen King novels.
That's a shame. The new Dark Tower is in comic form.

That IS a shame as I'm in the middle of the second to last book in that series.

Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 3:06 pm

I loved comics as a kid and spent my lunch money on them for several years. I had a couple hundred and my mom threw them away one day. I'm barely over that one.

Bigger to me was MAD magazine though, and I had a subscription from the early to later 70's. I'd love to have all those magazines back. Don Martin was my absolute favorite artist in MAD, and I guess Spiderman would be fave comic star.

I had a couple of the Conan mags and liked them a lot, but they weren't always around. I read many of those books too. Stephen King as well.

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:32 pm

i have always had a soft spot for comics. If anything, the production time for an issue and the quality of illustration that they produce in that time is usually impressive. I am a big Transformers fan, so anything with them in it immediately gets a giant seal of approval.

I am also a big fan of internet comics (the Penny Arcade books being the only real series of comic books i own).

j$ · Post by j$ » Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:46 pm

Howard The Duck at its height (from about issue 6 to about 24) is great reading. As a result slightly nervous about Ty Templeton tacklin' the great Gerber's vision. indeed Gerber's run on the Defenders (in volumes 2 & 3 of the 'Essential' trade paperbacks) is awesome.

Recently found Doctor 13 - that's good stuff. Anything with talking vampire nazi gorillas ...

Jack Staff is great. The only comic that I still read 'regularly' (although it has the most annoyingly inconsistent release schedule)

Oh yeah and this may make me sound really sad, or dodgy, or both, but I love the recent run of Power Pack w/marvel superhero mini-series. Cheery innocent fun with a tiny little bit of edge in the collision between this naive family and the more gruff heroes like Wolverine and The Thing.

Also, as CR says, Viz has a pretty high level of comedia, tho' I prefer the text sections more than the comics for the most part. Any magazine that brought us 'The Vibrating Bum Faced Goats' is worthy of more attention.

I could go on.

Ross · Post by **Ross** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:23 pm

Here.

In Jr. High/High school I subscribed to Amazing Spiderman and enjoyed that quite a bit. This was the era that introduced the Punisher, The Black Cat, and the Black suit that became Venom. Also, it's when Aunt May died.

In college someone handed me Animal Man #5 - amazing. So I followed animal Man through the Grant Morrison books (First 26 -great stuff) and stuck with it for awhile after, but it just wasn't the same without his writing. Friends occasionally hand me graphic novels I enjoy very much. Signal-to-noise was one, also the Watchmen, which I hear they are making a film of and that I couldn't stop thinking of during The Incredibles.

anti-m · Post by **anti-m** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:27 pm

Paco Del Stinko wrote:Bigger to me was MAD magazine though, and I had a subscription from the early to later 70's. I'd love to have all those magazines back. Don Martin was my absolute favorite artist in MAD, and I guess Spiderman would be fave comic star.

Oh, MAD was awesome! I also love Sergio Aragones, in addition to Don Martin. It was very sad when Bill Gaines died.

drë · Post by **drë** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:43 pm

Late, lingering at work, driving down to see Rilo Kelly in a couple of minutes.
Man, I hope Jenny Lewis looks good.

QOD:
Never like reading them, but I use to be fascinated with the illustrations.
I used to draw pretty decent super heroes from like childhood till the teenage years.
I probably still have some old x-Men, Batman, Spiderman comic books around.

Post by **Spud** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:58 pm

You comic fans should all check out (and buy) Octothorpe No. 1 before it is out of print...

http://www.mightyoctothorpe.com/comic.php

SPUD

Ross · Post by **Ross** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:08 pm

anti-m wrote:
Paco Del Stinko wrote:Bigger to me was MAD magazine though, and I had a subscription from the early to later 70's. I'd love to have all those magazines back. Don Martin was my absolute favorite artist in MAD, and I guess Spiderman would be fave comic star.
Oh, MAD was awesome! I also love Sergio Aragones, in addition to Don Martin. It was very sad when Bill Gaines died.

you might enjoy my song for the title "Mad City" - check the archives

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:11 pm

Spud wrote:You comic fans should all check out (and buy) Octothorpe No. 1 before it is out of print...

http://www.mightyoctothorpe.com/comic.php

SPUD

I amend my previous statement. I have all the Penny Arcade books AND all the Octothorpe comics. I can't wait for the poorly conceived Hollywood blockbuster movie based on the # comic.

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:12 pm

How could I have forgotten? I'm a proud owner of Octothorpe #1.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:16 pm

OK, MAD and Spy vs Spy. Loved those fold-for-a-weird-picture-to-emerge last pages.

And Octothorpe #1.

melvin · Post by **melvin** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:15 pm

rdurand wrote:Also, it's when Aunt May died.

My condolences to you and to Steve.

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:23 pm

Ambush Bug, and It's Science with Dr. Radium were my two favorites. Torn between Cheeks & Argh!Yle for the character favorites (both from Ambush Bug).

ION, struggling to put together a demo CD & bio for the Mabuhay Records come-on I got last week. What the hell's wrong with the world when I get approached by a label? Must be the hair.

The end times can't be far off.

And IOON, a new guy started at my work today. His name is (wait for it)...

Spider Mann

Nice thread timing, Niv!