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Thirty Days of Recs, Day 9: Comics!
Aug. 6th, 2010 10:09 pmGod, you guys. So I went out to dinner with my folks, and my godmother got me drunk, so consequently, I'm not much in the mood for reading a bunch of fanfic (though perhaps I will get this Inception porn finished, whoops, my plans are showing). But! I have an ace up my sleeve! Here are some comic books you should be reading!
Shirtlifter by Steve MacIsaac (Prism Comics)
This is one of those comics I stumbled on by accident at the Comic-Con. Somehow, I ended up at the LGBT romance comics panel last year, and I happened to hear Steve MacIsaac talk. And y'all. This comic is only on issue three (I say issues, but they're really like short compilations), and it is one of the best comics I have ever read. It really speaks to my heart, you know? It gets down into a lot of the issues that I think are common to most queer people: who to tell, how to tell, how to deal. It's really understated, slice of life type stuff, and it's really powerful.
Also it has a lot of bears fucking. Don't judge me. I have a type.
Anyway, here is a short taste of one of my favorite bits of the second issue. Other bits are scattered around online and on the author's website.
Rex Libris by James Turner (SLG)
And here is another comic I stumbled on by accident at the Comic-Con! Dude. It is about a librarian. Who battles monsters. To collect overdue library books. I suspect it is extra hilarious to me, as I used to be a librarian, but I feel like it's something we can all enjoy. And at only 12 issues so far, there's not much to catch up on.
Starman by James Robinson, Tony Harris, Peter Snejbjerg, et al. (DC)
Hear me out, okay? I know this comic is fairly popular among DC fans, but a lot of other fans overlook it because it's a superhero comic. Allow me to give you a brief anecdote that explains why Starman is great: I was once in the local comic shop, eavesdropping on a conversation the clerk was having with another customer.
"Here's why I don't buy Superman," he said. "If I woke up tomorrow morning and had laser beams coming out of my eyeballs, my first thought wouldn't be, 'Let me run out and get some spandex.' It would be, 'Well, I guess I need another black t-shirt.'"
And folks, Jack Knight is that superhero; he starts off as an antique dealer and ends up fighting crime. I love this book for its reverence of old DC but its willingness to create something new, something accessible to someone who's not necessarily familiar.
There are eighty issues, and I've never had a problem finding the trades- our local library had the first five or six. The whole series is being republished right now in omnibus editions; they run thirty bucks a pop, but they're worth every penny. They include a bunch of stuff, like letter pages, that wasn't in the original trades, and they're just really nicely put together books.
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Shirtlifter by Steve MacIsaac (Prism Comics)
This is one of those comics I stumbled on by accident at the Comic-Con. Somehow, I ended up at the LGBT romance comics panel last year, and I happened to hear Steve MacIsaac talk. And y'all. This comic is only on issue three (I say issues, but they're really like short compilations), and it is one of the best comics I have ever read. It really speaks to my heart, you know? It gets down into a lot of the issues that I think are common to most queer people: who to tell, how to tell, how to deal. It's really understated, slice of life type stuff, and it's really powerful.
Also it has a lot of bears fucking. Don't judge me. I have a type.
Anyway, here is a short taste of one of my favorite bits of the second issue. Other bits are scattered around online and on the author's website.
Rex Libris by James Turner (SLG)
And here is another comic I stumbled on by accident at the Comic-Con! Dude. It is about a librarian. Who battles monsters. To collect overdue library books. I suspect it is extra hilarious to me, as I used to be a librarian, but I feel like it's something we can all enjoy. And at only 12 issues so far, there's not much to catch up on.
Starman by James Robinson, Tony Harris, Peter Snejbjerg, et al. (DC)
Hear me out, okay? I know this comic is fairly popular among DC fans, but a lot of other fans overlook it because it's a superhero comic. Allow me to give you a brief anecdote that explains why Starman is great: I was once in the local comic shop, eavesdropping on a conversation the clerk was having with another customer.
"Here's why I don't buy Superman," he said. "If I woke up tomorrow morning and had laser beams coming out of my eyeballs, my first thought wouldn't be, 'Let me run out and get some spandex.' It would be, 'Well, I guess I need another black t-shirt.'"
And folks, Jack Knight is that superhero; he starts off as an antique dealer and ends up fighting crime. I love this book for its reverence of old DC but its willingness to create something new, something accessible to someone who's not necessarily familiar.
There are eighty issues, and I've never had a problem finding the trades- our local library had the first five or six. The whole series is being republished right now in omnibus editions; they run thirty bucks a pop, but they're worth every penny. They include a bunch of stuff, like letter pages, that wasn't in the original trades, and they're just really nicely put together books.
( Previous Lists )