From: 4224_5201@uwovax.uwo.ca (John LaRocque)
Subject: Re: What Do I Read???? 
Organization: University of Western Ont, London
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:27:47 GMT

In article <92349.135050SXM101@psuvm.psu.edu>, Steve Murray <SXM101@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
> My weekly trips down to the comic shop used to be my favorite time
> of the week - pick up everything by Marvel on the shelf, go home,
> lock myself in my room, and read for hours.  Now, there are a
> grand total of two books that I actually wait for with baited
> breath - Cerebus and Sandman.  Oh, I also read Hellblazer (which
> varies SO much from issue to issue and storyline to storyline that
> I never know if buying it is a good idea or not), X-Factor and
> the Incredible Hulk (ok, I'm a PAD junkie - sue me) - but that
> just about covers all of my regular subscriptions.  I mean, I used
> to get all of the X-titles, all of the Spiderman titles, both
> Avengers, Daredevil, Moon Knight, Ghost Rider, all of the JL* books...
> but now reading more than a page of any of the above books makes
> me want to spew.  My entire purchase this week was for Gregory II -
> and I bought that as a Christmas present for a friend (after reading
> it myself, of course :-).

My God, there ARE Marvel junkies in this group. Back in the late 70's
I collected a whole load of Marvel's. Yeah, I even had Crystar and US 1
(yechh), plus Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Captain America  and lots of the
toy comics: Micronauts (!), Rom, Starriors (great Bill Sienkiewicz covers
on all four), Shogun Warriors, plus Movie/TV greats like Godzilla, Star
Wars, Battlestar Galactica (!). Moon Knight is the greatest (Bill
Sienkiewicz). BTW, I haven't bought a new Marvel comics in two years
(Epic aside), and also spew chunks when I see the new stuff. Did you
know that they brought down the Kingpin in Daredevil? Damn these guys.

Anyways.... I read lots of good stuff. Cerebus and Sandman aside, check
out Heavy Metal for that neat Eurostuff (and also Peter Kuper), anything
by Carl Barks (the Disney ducks) and Will Eisner (the Spirit), DC stuff
by Peter Milligan (Shade, and coming soon Enigma) and other great British
guys like Grant Morrison (RIP Doom Patrol). There are many great Dark Horse
non-movie related products like Frank Miller's Sin City, Flaming Carrot
or the odd Rick Geary one-shot. Oh... and they have something called
Dark Horse Classics now, featuring great comic versions of great books
(b&w). Oh, and I heartily recommend, if you loved Star Wars as a kid,
to pick up the TPB of Star Wars: Dark Empire (coming soon). That book
gave me goosebumps. Bone is good too (Cartoon Books) and almost anything
from Kitchen Sink (Charles Burns' Curse of the Molemen was GREAT!!!!
and there WILL be a sequel). Tundra is a great company and they put
out Taboo, which REGULARLY features  Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and has
published Dave Sim. 

If you don't have these in you back issue bins get them now:
Alan Moore stuff: Watchmen, V For Vendetta, Swamp Thing and some obscure
   graphic novel called Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament. 
Frank Miller: Marvel's greatest prodigee went on leaps and bounds in the 80's
    After Daredevil, he did Ronin and Batman for DC. Sin City is a MUST for
    any Miller collection and the main character Marv (!) is meaner than
    Lobo and Marshall Law combined. He mourns the loss of Goldie (the Golden
    Age) as we all do     :-), and goes on the greatest killing and maiming
    rampage ever... great stuff.
Sim one-shots and specials: check out his StarReach work in the 70's, his
   appearances in Epic Magazine and and a Howard the Duck magazine illo
   in issue #8. Also: get the great Swords of Cerebus reprints. There are
   awesome backups in these guys, from Barry Windsor Smith and Gene Day.
   Oh, yeah.... Marvel Fanfare #24 (I think) features FIVE pinups of 
   Dave Sim of great Marvel heroes like Moon Knight and Master of Kung Fu
   and Iron Man (damn Marvel for "killing" Stark....)

   I have a Dave Sim bibliography. If anybody is interested in me putting
this PUBLICLY in this newgroup (yes, Comics.Misc) please send me e-mail.
Kitchener Ontario is ONLY an hour from where I live, so it should be fun
finding out about stuff you NEVER thought existed. (Oh yeah, there is something
from Caliber now called Ali Baba, an old comic with layouts by Sim. Dale
Keown inked Sim's cover for this issue from the "lean mean" years... more
to come)

> Thanks...

You're Welcome!

> --
> Steve Murray  |  SXM101@psuvm.psu.edu  |  murr@dev-null.phys.psu.edu
> Heaven's just a rumor she'll dispel / As she walks me thru
> the nicest parts of hell / I still dream of lips I never should have kissed
> Well she knows exactly what I can't resist - NIN
-- 

John P. LaRocque
vader@uwo.ca
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario


"Urk..urk..."
"Apology accepted, Captain Needa", Darth Vader
-- 

John P. LaRocque
vader@uwo.ca
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario


"Urk..urk..."
"Apology accepted, Captain Needa", Darth Vader
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