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nagarerutenshi posted a stunning likeness of Obama looking a lot like The Smiler from Transmetropolitan the other day (and McCain as...the other guy.*), which reminded me that I've never read it and I've wanted to since high school. This is rediculous, really, but my problem here is layered.
Number one on my reading issues is that there are a slew of terribly excellent works I want to read and never have. They're definitive literature for the earlier half of my generation (bleeding, I think, into the previous one). Generation Y, X, or some such nonsense. (Incidentally, I can't be figured as a Millenial, I am actually part of the crossover generation called Cold Y, classified as a group that remembers the cross from the Space Age to the Information Age as their formative memories which, sure enough...) Before I get too far off on a tangent, I've never read The Crow in comic form, never finished Sandman, only this year read Watchmen, never read Transmetropolitan, and more recently, never had anything to do with the proto-goth comic literature that ran rampant in 2002-04 like Johnny the Homicidal Manic.
I'm not convinced that Vasquez is great lit, but Invader Zim is great, so. Besides, I doubt The Crow is less bloody.
So, money was an issue, but so was exposure. I lived (and still have a mailing address, so the past-tense might be a little premature) in the midwest, where having any access to non-cable anime was kind of a big deal in the 90's before Cartoon Network started its media exposure coast-to-coast. Research was a little more spotty. Picking up what I missed now, those things arn't ever really going to be apart of my formative experiences anymore - I ended up with early webcomics.
http://www.garethhinds.com/ is one artist that I read in high school.
http://www.garethhinds.com/deus.php is the comic I was reading. He was still doing 'Bearskin' at the time.
Locke's site at http://damaged.anime.net/ pretty inappropriate for work place environments. It's defunct now, and I was just trying to look up the url, not surf it (the intro page has nothing inappropriate about it) but it was blocked. So, I hope I don't get into trouble. Not trying to make a fuss. >_>
You know, there are also a bunch of others. They don't exist anymore; they're gone. That's the nature of the internet. And then there are the typical webcomics that are strikingly still around. (In Megatokyo's case, stunningly unresolved and set in roughly the same timeframe. It's not difficult at all to read it in one sitting.)
So, whatever. Everyone's got different histories, but it's weird to still be catching up to this other stuff, and I just never had the extra cash to pony up for it. I didn't eat lunch at school in order to buy Magic cards, so clearly I was pretty light on dough. These days, I do indulge in purchasing whims a little. I look for good, moving, and evocative books, movies, and comics where I've had a little luck. At the moment, I'm wondering what other people recommend, because I really buy very little sight-unseen or unrecommended.
More writing, now.
* I'm not up on my reading. That's what this is about, actually.
nagarerutenshi posted a stunning likeness of Obama looking a lot like The Smiler from Transmetropolitan the other day (and McCain as...the other guy.*), which reminded me that I've never read it and I've wanted to since high school. This is rediculous, really, but my problem here is layered. Number one on my reading issues is that there are a slew of terribly excellent works I want to read and never have. They're definitive literature for the earlier half of my generation (bleeding, I think, into the previous one). Generation Y, X, or some such nonsense. (Incidentally, I can't be figured as a Millenial, I am actually part of the crossover generation called Cold Y, classified as a group that remembers the cross from the Space Age to the Information Age as their formative memories which, sure enough...) Before I get too far off on a tangent, I've never read The Crow in comic form, never finished Sandman, only this year read Watchmen, never read Transmetropolitan, and more recently, never had anything to do with the proto-goth comic literature that ran rampant in 2002-04 like Johnny the Homicidal Manic.
I'm not convinced that Vasquez is great lit, but Invader Zim is great, so. Besides, I doubt The Crow is less bloody.
So, money was an issue, but so was exposure. I lived (and still have a mailing address, so the past-tense might be a little premature) in the midwest, where having any access to non-cable anime was kind of a big deal in the 90's before Cartoon Network started its media exposure coast-to-coast. Research was a little more spotty. Picking up what I missed now, those things arn't ever really going to be apart of my formative experiences anymore - I ended up with early webcomics.
http://www.garethhinds.com/ is one artist that I read in high school.
http://www.garethhinds.com/deus.php is the comic I was reading. He was still doing 'Bearskin' at the time.
Locke's site at http://damaged.anime.net/ pretty inappropriate for work place environments. It's defunct now, and I was just trying to look up the url, not surf it (the intro page has nothing inappropriate about it) but it was blocked. So, I hope I don't get into trouble. Not trying to make a fuss. >_>
You know, there are also a bunch of others. They don't exist anymore; they're gone. That's the nature of the internet. And then there are the typical webcomics that are strikingly still around. (In Megatokyo's case, stunningly unresolved and set in roughly the same timeframe. It's not difficult at all to read it in one sitting.)
So, whatever. Everyone's got different histories, but it's weird to still be catching up to this other stuff, and I just never had the extra cash to pony up for it. I didn't eat lunch at school in order to buy Magic cards, so clearly I was pretty light on dough. These days, I do indulge in purchasing whims a little. I look for good, moving, and evocative books, movies, and comics where I've had a little luck. At the moment, I'm wondering what other people recommend, because I really buy very little sight-unseen or unrecommended.
More writing, now.
* I'm not up on my reading. That's what this is about, actually.
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I was a huge Crow fanboy back in the day. I still own the movies.
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Right now my favorite comic series has to be an anthology set called "Flight" (http://www.amazon.com/Flight-One-Kazu-Kibuishi/dp/0345496361/ref=pd_cp_b_1_img). It's just a bunch of one-shot comics with a fantasy edge. They're up to I think Volume 4 by now (nope, Volume 5, just checked) and they're really good.
If you're into manga, I love a series called Genshiken (http://www.amazon.com/Genshiken-Society-Modern-Visual-Culture/dp/0345481690/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225986630&sr=1-2). It's about a comics club in Japan and it follows the whole group all the way through college and getting their degrees. It's got real geek humor, but it's never done in an awkward or embarrasing way; you watch as these people grow up and learn to become adults while still maintaining their hobby.
For great webcomics, look up Minus (http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minusarchive.html) which just ended but who's protagonist is essentially God in an eight year old body. It's funny and cruel very very awesome (I love this one (http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus37.html) in particular) and Riceboy, which also ended recently (but he's picked up another story in the same universe!) but is just this great, epic tale.
That's about all I can really reccomend right now, because I haven't really been reading or watching anything new lately.
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