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Finished Garth Ennis' new Punisher MAX story Soviet. A good chunk of it is about a Russian Punisher and his backstory. It's a six-issue mini-series that in terms of content and style could probably be slotted in between an arc in Ennis' old P-MAX run and fit just fine. It's not one of his best but if you've liked his Punisher stuff then it's definitely worth a read. It's got all the usual gore and humor of Ennis' work.

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In recent re-reads, from the 1980s , published by Comico, it's Mike Baron and Mitch O'Connell's The World of Ginger Fox, a brash blast of a graphic novel stylized to look ultra-modern & hip by 1986 standards, it is even more jarring today as a fever dream of Patrick Nagel & Memphis design aesthetics in a story of Hollywood chicanery and violence.

Peppertree Studios was once a major Hollywood player until they produced several box office bombs and fell on hard times. Desperate, the old boys' club making up the studio's board of directors hires outsider Ginger Fox to either save or destroy Peppertree.

Her strategies have some people on the inside at the studio scheming to ruin her, including a crazed director who doesn't care for her plans. Plus, as Pepppertree's new action film featuring Hong Kong martial arts star Jason Wu is readied for release, a secret martial arts society threatens to kill people connected to the project as it unintentionally features elements of their techniques not meant for outsiders and certainly not for audiences. It's a Hollywood potboiler story but with more strippers, hit men and ninjas.

There was a sequel with art by the Pander Brothers that was also pretty spectacular, I thought, wherein Ms. Fox has to face off once more with people inside the studio trying to derail her just as Peppertree's new big horror film is being readied for release, as well as the machinations of a devious gossip columnist and even her own ex-husband, a has-been actor bitter that his stock has fallen while she has become a rising star, and he isn't above manipulating their own son to do some snooping around the studio.

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Funky Winkerbean seems like my kind of comic. From the 70s to the mid-90’s, it seemed like it was on a good run. I know that when it came to the mid-2000’s to today, the creator wanted to change up the styles to make it more realistic and slightly turn it into a graphic novel when it came to dealing with young adult like themes.
 
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Funky Winkerbean seems like my kind of comic. From the 70s to the mid-90’s, it seemed like it was a on good run. I know that when it came to the mid-2000’s to today, the creator wanted to change up the styles to make it more realistic and slightly turn it into a graphic novel when it came to dealing with young adult like themes.
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It's ironic that Tom Batiuk (the creator) has a bigger hatedom than fandom; people just love ripping appart his work. Not that it isn't unearned given how he won't shut-up about dead Lisa (his response to this was poorly done), tries to tackle serious subjects with failure, gives his characters endless bummers and calls it "realistic", and the less said about the gay prom arc, the better.
 
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Old Deadpool from the 90's had those traits mixed with occasional darkness, like putting his roomate(hostage) in "the box", a small space filled with blades, glass, barbed wire... and she's old and blind.

A couple of panels from one issue. It's the first time, iirc, it's ever seen but it had been mentioned occasionally in the comic. It reminds you that the funny and wacky side of Deadpool truly comes from being an actual insane person. He's not a good guy.
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Old-school, late-90s, Joe Kelly (AKA one of basically two people who actually understand the character) Deadpool knows he's not a good guy, and is desperately trying to remedy that situation in pretty much the only way he knows how, i.e. by brutalizing and/or killing people, but now trying to focus his lethal abilities solely on the deserving, rather than simply anyone whom he's paid to go after. However, after decades of existing inside of a black hole of nihilism and mindless violence, it's difficult not to sometimes relapse, particularly when old associates like Bullseye and Typhoid Mary aren't thrilled at the idea of Deadpool going straight, and try to engineer situations to bring out the worst in him.
 
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Old-school, late-90s, Joe Kelly (AKA one of basically two people who actually understand the character) Deadpool knows he's not a good guy, and is desperately trying to remedy that situation in pretty much the only way he knows how, i.e. by brutalizing and/or killing people, but now trying to focus his lethal abilities solely on the deserving, rather than simply anyone whom he's paid to go after. However, after decades of existing inside of a black hole of nihilism and mindless violence, it's difficult not to sometimes relapse, particularly when old associates like Bullseye and Typhoid Mary aren't thrilled at the idea of Deadpool going straight, and try to engineer situations to bring out the worst in him.
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There's also the fourth wall breaking where Deadpool controls the presentation of the story and what the reader is allowed to see. When Deadpool isn't around, like when Weasel and Blind Al is stuck in the box, then the reality of things look remarkably different. The box had been mentioned before but as long as Deadpool was around it would never be seen, the story wouldn't be allowed to go that way.
 
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There's also the fourth wall breaking where Deadpool controls the presentation of the story and what the reader is allowed to see. When Deadpool isn't around, like when Weasel and Blind Al is stuck in the box, then the reality of things look remarkably different. The box had been mentioned before but as long as Deadpool was around it would never be seen, the story wouldn't be allowed to go that way.
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I don't think Kelly's text supports Deadpool-as-unreliable-narrator except in the matter of relating his pre-Deadpool backstory. 😉
 
Reading the Clarissa comics yesterday by DeepFried Comics Creator Jason Yungbluth had me sweating bullets yesterday. I’m not sure why.
 
Isn't that the wacky and whimsical comic about a daughter constantly being raped by her father?
 
So I recently got a bunch of marvel comics from a lot off eBay a blind box of 100 mostly X-men Spiderman and the mainstays live avengers and fantastic four. Some licensed stuff like 90s star trek too.


I'm currently on issues 24 and 25 of the sensational Spiderman which are parts 2 and 3 of a story called feral. I like what I see so far and I am legit curios about tracking down issue 23 and the remaining parts. The art work has the beautifully ugly look to it like its hard to describe exactly but it has a very Erik Larsen feel to it. If I have anything to complain about it feels like its trying to be a remake of the story Kravens last hunt. What with it being set in NY during a never ending storm and it even has vermin in it playing an essential part. However the similarities end there as the story's less about a billion facing his final hurrah and more about Kurt Connors aka the lizard going feral and full lizard.. And turning everyone he can into feral lizards and animal people too (John Jameson aka man wolf is in it and Felicia hardy aka black cat and spidey himself are all becoming violent and blood thirsty)

A good read definitely gonna track down the remaining issues
 
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So I recently got a bunch of marvel comics from a lot off eBay a blind box of 100 mostly X-men Spiderman and the mainstays live avengers and fantastic four. Some licensed stuff like 90s star trek too.


I'm currently on issues 24 and 25 of the sensational Spiderman which are parts 2 and 3 of a story called feral. I like what I see so far and I am legit curios about tracking down issue 23 and the remaining parts. The art work has the beautifully ugly look to it like its hard to describe exactly but it has a very Erik Larsen feel to it. If I have anything to complain about it feels like its trying to be a remake of the story Kravens last hunt. What with it being set in NY during a never ending storm and it even has vermin in it playing an essential part. However the similarities end there as the story's less about a billion facing his final hurrah and more about Kurt Connors aka the lizard going feral and full lizard.. And turning everyone he can into feral lizards and animal people too (John Jameson aka man wolf is in it and Felicia hardy aka black cat and spidey himself are all becoming violent and blood thirsty)

A good read definitely gonna track down the remaining issues
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From what I remember of it, Feral starts well but ends poorly because Civil War was happening at the time, forcing writers to tie into it or otherwise mess with their stories so as to not fuck up the new direction.

I don't think Marvel ever really recovered from Civil War. It marked the beginning of an endless series of mega events that forced every book to tie into them and allowed the entire universe to be dictated by mediocre talent like Mark Millar and Bendis, backed by the even worse Joe Quesada.
 
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From what I remember of it, Feral starts well but ends poorly because Civil War was happening at the time, forcing writers to tie into it or otherwise mess with their stories so as to not fuck up the new direction.

I don't think Marvel ever really recovered from Civil War. It marked the beginning of an endless series of mega events that forced every book to tie into them and allowed the entire universe to be dictated by mediocre talent like Mark Millar and Bendis, backed by the even worse Joe Quesada.
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Yeah I'm seeing countdowns to civil war on the covers. Not to mention this is spidey in the last days of the pre one more day era so a lot of what you see from aunt may living comfortably in stark tower can be... Awkward to read in hindsight. Still it's a decent story so far thanks for the heads up that it has to end tied in to civil war
 
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Reading the Clarissa comics yesterday by DeepFried Comics Creator Jason Yungbluth had me sweating bullets yesterday. I’m not sure why.
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I went and read Clarissa from reading about it here. It's pretty good, nice art. I love depictions of fucked up 1940s families like the Sugarman family from BoJack, but the comic on his site only had like, 12 pages, you got any source for the rest? My comic sites don't have it.

Edit: Actually it looks like there just isn't that much of it. When I saw the comic was made in like, 2002. I was expecting at least 100 pages. Looks like there's barely 25. Think I read everything on his site except for the last issue of Take Me to Work which I can't seem to access, which is annoying.
 
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Was thinking about Gil Kane's abbreviated attempt at launching a comic in the magazine format back in 1968, His Name Is...Savage! , a forty-page story about a hard-boiled espionage operative. Kane wrote a treatment, Archie Goodwin wrote the script based on a treatment, and the result is a sort of illustrated novel. So 200,000 copies of the first issue were printed but alas, Kane estimated only 20,000 copies were distributed. Local distributors chose for unknown reasons not to carry the magazine, and returned their copies for credit, and the low sales led to Kane giving up on an issue #2. Fantagraphics reprinted it back in 1982 and even that can be hard to find, or rather hard to find at a reasonable price.
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I saw some time ago that Steven Grant had written a modern day follow up that was released in January, and from the samples I saw, the artwork was rather...generic. Certainly not a patch on Kane's work.

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Kane returned to the character for a brief four-page short that opened the first issue of Fantagraphics' 1986 anthology series Anything Goes! , as well as appearing on the cover.
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Daredevil once fought a troon.

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In a story arc by J.M. DeMatteis there's a killer going around randomly murdering females. The killer ends up being a large 'guy' who goes by the name of 'Sir' (no, really). Sir worships 'maleness', as he believes its strength, and hates everything related to femininity, which he believes to be weak. An extremely vague backstory is given that Sir -- whose real name is Martha Paterson -- transitioned after being assaulted.

If this story were written and published today everyone involved would be eviscerated on twitter and reddit. It even kinda does the whole "you're never really the gender you transition into" via Daredevil being able to figure it due to Sir's voice.
 
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