Comments on: Me gusta los libros cómicos

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:20:00 +0000

The Cowboy Wally Show was out of print for a long stretch there, but it’s available again and pretty easy to find now.

I just finished the most recent Fables collection last night, and I want to say again that I’m thoroughly impressed with it.

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:53:15 +0000

Lots of Kyle Baker references, and I love all his stuff (his art is so loose and expressive), but I can’t believe nobody mentioned The Cowboy Wally Show. I’ve had trouble finding it in the past, but I have never laughed so hard in my life at a comic book.

By: Cory

Cory — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:13:47 +0000

Check out ‘Invincible’

Its fun as shit.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:56:18 +0000

“Astonishing X-Men” is pretty cool, but it takes them forever to come out with compilations. I waited so long that I just stopped thinking about it. I picked up the most recent one but haven’t read it yet.

I’ve heard about that Daredevil story, but it sounds like it’s exactly what I don’t like about Frank Miller: it’s all pointlessly “grim ‘n’ gritty” for its own sake. It only works for me when it’s told in enough style to make up for the shallow material (like with the Sin City movie), or when the basic story and characters are so well-established, he can’t screw them up (like with Batman Year One).

By: Seppolopolis

Seppolopolis — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:06:44 +0000

A friend of mine recently loaned me The Astonishing X-Men, which is written by Joss Whedon, and illustrated by John Cassaday - it’s *AWESOME*. Really harkens back to the X-Men of the late ’80’s/early ’90’s, and it just “pops” in the right way. Great stuff.

If you liked Year One, have you read Born Again? It’s a Daredevil arc that was done by Miller/Mazzucchelli - for a good long while, it was my favorite comic story ever.

Season of Mists is also my favorite Sandman arc, so… yeah. Good call!

By: DRP

DRP — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:24:49 +0000

Ok, I’ll go get “The Shadow”. I thougth I had all Kyle’s stuff to date, but looks like I’m horribly wrong.

I heard Cooke was doing “Spirit”, but I haven’t up any yet. In an interview months before his involvment in “Spirit” he said he was working on some giant one-shot hard cover story of his own creation. It was about giant robots. I want him to work on that.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:09:45 +0000

Check out Cooke’s “Spirit” series, if you’re not already. And I’ll say this for New Frontier: I’ve always liked the characters of Green Lantern and the Flash, but never read a story that lived up to their potential. New Frontier actually makes them cool.

I do have “You Are Here,” and it didn’t do a lot for me. I just wish he could write better stories; “Why I Hate Saturn” has kind of a lousy plot but wins because of the dialogue.

I don’t know if you’ve seen the Andy Helfer/Kyle Baker run on “The Shadow,” but it’s one of the best artist/writer combinations in comics ever. Baker could draw these single panels where just the expressions on the characters’ faces could make you laugh out loud.

By: DRP

DRP — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:27:11 +0000

For a superhero story with the same old characters, Cooke did a superb job with the story in New Frontier. I’d really, really love to see him come up with his own characters in a brand new story. It would rock my faces’ ass.

I don’t know if you read You Are Here by Baker, but I will go to my grave saying it was way better than Saturn. Maybe because it’s a bit more light hearted, and has artwork that makes me insanely jealous. His drawings alone are hilarious.