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(No, I'm not posting about midwifes or the Battle of Puebla – I know nothing about them.)
After posting my Online Comics Day flyer, I went ahead and printed five copies and brought them down to my local comic shop off-campus – the guy (owner?) was fine with my putting them on the counter for people to see. (I don't know if five was absurdly optimistic or absurdly pessimistic, but ink ain't cheap, so I figure it makes no difference.) While I was there, I asked about the first volume of Thieves & Kings – he though it was out of print, however, so I'm going to need to get it online. So I went ahead and got three (the limit) free comics for Free Comic Book Day and went home.
The first of the three was Tokyopop®'s CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON SAMPLER.
In a word? Illegible. Could be it was reprinted too small, but the pages were ridiculously hard to parse. Worse, the plots (it was a collection of story samples) were ... clichéd, as far as I could make out, the pacing was jerky, and there was only one piece of the four that varied from Standard Manga Style #1, so to speak – "Gyakushu!", which was Standard Manga Style #3.
I might be being entirely unfair, of course. But nothing struck me as new, and I haven't read that much manga (or watched that much anime).
The second was the free comic book from the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, a 'flipover' book with two covers. I bought it for the second cover.
Pretty interesting. I think it's probably going to be very successful for its intended purpose – the samples are very short, but they give good impressions of what's there. There's quite a few webcomickers in the lineup, including a few I'd seen before. I'll probably be looking at The Makeshift Miracle again, for example. Also, John Martz's gag on page 7 was pretty good.
Last (well, first in order of reading, but I saved it for last here) was "Whiteout", by Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber for Oni Press.
It's a murder mystery set in Antarctica. Dark, daring, intense, well drawn (and I mean both 'looks good' and 'reads well'), set in a real place with an actual sense of place, characterization ... I want it, and want it bad.
Yeah, this was a good day.
After posting my Online Comics Day flyer, I went ahead and printed five copies and brought them down to my local comic shop off-campus – the guy (owner?) was fine with my putting them on the counter for people to see. (I don't know if five was absurdly optimistic or absurdly pessimistic, but ink ain't cheap, so I figure it makes no difference.) While I was there, I asked about the first volume of Thieves & Kings – he though it was out of print, however, so I'm going to need to get it online. So I went ahead and got three (the limit) free comics for Free Comic Book Day and went home.
The first of the three was Tokyopop®'s CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON SAMPLER.
In a word? Illegible. Could be it was reprinted too small, but the pages were ridiculously hard to parse. Worse, the plots (it was a collection of story samples) were ... clichéd, as far as I could make out, the pacing was jerky, and there was only one piece of the four that varied from Standard Manga Style #1, so to speak – "Gyakushu!", which was Standard Manga Style #3.
I might be being entirely unfair, of course. But nothing struck me as new, and I haven't read that much manga (or watched that much anime).
The second was the free comic book from the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, a 'flipover' book with two covers. I bought it for the second cover.
Pretty interesting. I think it's probably going to be very successful for its intended purpose – the samples are very short, but they give good impressions of what's there. There's quite a few webcomickers in the lineup, including a few I'd seen before. I'll probably be looking at The Makeshift Miracle again, for example. Also, John Martz's gag on page 7 was pretty good.
Last (well, first in order of reading, but I saved it for last here) was "Whiteout", by Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber for Oni Press.
It's a murder mystery set in Antarctica. Dark, daring, intense, well drawn (and I mean both 'looks good' and 'reads well'), set in a real place with an actual sense of place, characterization ... I want it, and want it bad.
Yeah, this was a good day.
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