heavyliquid

April 1, 2010 2:20 pm What the frack?

November 12, 2009 10:04 am I love Frank Quitely, but the bike and pose is directly lifted from the cover of Prince's Purple Rain.

September 30, 2009 1:30 pm

I've watched a lot of "motion comics" now.  Batman Black & White, Batman Mad Love, Watchmen, Spider-Woman, Dead Space and Invincible.  I actually like them, and the idea of them.  But the trend lately seems to be to animate them even more, to the point where it's more animation than static panels and drawings.  It's not much different than the low budget Marvel cartoons of the '60's where they took Jack Kirby's illustrations and crudely animated them. 

I'd rather just have good voice acting and decent shots and pans of the drawings, because some of the attempted animation has a tendency to make it hard to follow.  I don't need to see peoples mouths move and arms waive.

September 29, 2009 11:50 am "Epic Fail" was the title of the House episode that aired last night at the same time.  Your DVR must have been confused as to which channel it was watching.

August 5, 2009 8:20 am

@JonSamuelson - The price of Old Man Logan HC is only "effing stupid" if you pay full price for it.  Pre-order it at a discount Amazon (or another place of your preference) who has it for $23.09.  That works out to $2.89 per issue.   

So not only does that work out to LESS than the cost of the individual issues, but I'll get a bunch of extras like pencils and scripts (that you may or may not care about) in a nice hardcover oversized book that will look good on the shelf.  That's all there is to it.

August 4, 2009 4:03 pm

I almost exclusively buy the bigger hardcovers and omnis, with the exception of a few issues and trades here and there.  I collected each and every week for about 10 years in the 80's and 90's, but between a full time job, wife and kid, I don't have the time that I used to for collecting and reading singles.  They also have a tendency to get scattered throughout the house, although I was pretty meticulous about keeping them in boxes. And I find that it's much easier for me to sit down with a big book and read when I have the time. I've only recently gotten back into comics over the past 5 or 6 years, and I've had fun catching up on a ton of stuff with the big hardcovers that usually collect a years worth of books at a time.

I also like that the hardcovers are much nicer looking when displayed on my bookshelf and I can find something quickly if I'm looking for it, but they also work out to be much cheaper than if the issues were purchased individually.   For instance, I bought the Ennis Punisher Omnibus $63 at Amazon, which works out to about $1.29/issue!  Because of this I don't mind buying books that I haven't read.

 

Oh, and I actually did buy all of the singles of All-Star Superman at my LCBS when they came out!  I like Morrison and I'm a big fan of Quitely.  I'm also buying the singles of Batman & Robin and Wednesday Comics, so I'm not opposed to buying a few singles.  And if they come out with a big harcover collection, I'll probably buy it. :)