86) Saga of the Swamp Thing Vol 1. - Alan Moore, Stephen Bissett, John Totleben. 1984. Comic. Enjoyed the fuck out of this, with Moore's typically deep, rich prose which luxuriates in its own vocabulary married to a brilliant, old fashioned colour style from old horror comics and occasionally in-the-character's head artwork. The themes of nature and symbiosis, growth and humanity are gone into in just the right amount of detail and what you're left with is great, pulp spookiness elevated by having been thought carefully about. Small criticism: Moore writing people's accents out, some of the Adult Themes are put in with a distracting self consciousness.
It's all great until his departure after book 6. I have a couple of the books from afterward but I haven't had time to read them yet.
Make sure you don't wind up reading one of the recolored ones, they change the tone immensely.
86) Saga of the Swamp Thing Vol 1. - Alan Moore, Stephen Bissett, John Totleben. 1984. Comic. Enjoyed the fuck out of this, with Moore's typically deep, rich prose which luxuriates in its own vocabulary married to a brilliant, old fashioned colour style from old horror comics and occasionally in-the-character's head artwork. The themes of nature and symbiosis, growth and humanity are gone into in just the right amount of detail and what you're left with is great, pulp spookiness elevated by having been thought carefully about. Small criticism: Moore writing people's accents out, some of the Adult Themes are put in with a distracting self consciousness.
It's all great until his departure after book 6. I have a couple of the books from afterward but I haven't had time to read them yet.
Make sure you don't wind up reading one of the recolored ones, they change the tone immensely.
I’m generally of the opinion that the only changers to color in pre-digital comics reprints should be remastering/fixing plates, and of necessary, a slight adjustment of tone to account for different paper stock.
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86) Saga of the Swamp Thing Vol 1. - Alan Moore, Stephen Bissett, John Totleben. 1984. Comic. Enjoyed the fuck out of this, with Moore's typically deep, rich prose which luxuriates in its own vocabulary married to a brilliant, old fashioned colour style from old horror comics and occasionally in-the-character's head artwork. The themes of nature and symbiosis, growth and humanity are gone into in just the right amount of detail and what you're left with is great, pulp spookiness elevated by having been thought carefully about. Small criticism: Moore writing people's accents out, some of the Adult Themes are put in with a distracting self consciousness.
It's all great until his departure after book 6. I have a couple of the books from afterward but I haven't had time to read them yet.
Make sure you don't wind up reading one of the recolored ones, they change the tone immensely.
I’m generally of the opinion that the only changers to color in pre-digital comics reprints should be remastering/fixing plates, and of necessary, a slight adjustment of tone to account for different paper stock.
Same here, this is where I think Marvel does an excellent job with their Masterworks series. The Swamp Thing recoloring makes it look like a totally different comic, and I'm not sure who they hope to entice with something like that.
86) Saga of the Swamp Thing Vol 1. - Alan Moore, Stephen Bissett, John Totleben. 1984. Comic. Enjoyed the fuck out of this, with Moore's typically deep, rich prose which luxuriates in its own vocabulary married to a brilliant, old fashioned colour style from old horror comics and occasionally in-the-character's head artwork. The themes of nature and symbiosis, growth and humanity are gone into in just the right amount of detail and what you're left with is great, pulp spookiness elevated by having been thought carefully about. Small criticism: Moore writing people's accents out, some of the Adult Themes are put in with a distracting self consciousness.
It's all great until his departure after book 6. I have a couple of the books from afterward but I haven't had time to read them yet.
Make sure you don't wind up reading one of the recolored ones, they change the tone immensely.
Thanks, I'll make sure I keep em to the original colours. My next comic is gonna be Grant Morrison's Invisibles.
a lifetime serving one machine
Is ten times worse than prison
86) Saga of the Swamp Thing Vol 1. - Alan Moore, Stephen Bissett, John Totleben. 1984. Comic. Enjoyed the fuck out of this, with Moore's typically deep, rich prose which luxuriates in its own vocabulary married to a brilliant, old fashioned colour style from old horror comics and occasionally in-the-character's head artwork. The themes of nature and symbiosis, growth and humanity are gone into in just the right amount of detail and what you're left with is great, pulp spookiness elevated by having been thought carefully about. Small criticism: Moore writing people's accents out, some of the Adult Themes are put in with a distracting self consciousness.
It's all great until his departure after book 6. I have a couple of the books from afterward but I haven't had time to read them yet.
Make sure you don't wind up reading one of the recolored ones, they change the tone immensely.
Thanks, I'll make sure I keep em to the original colours. My next comic is gonna be Grant Morrison's Invisibles.
Let us know what you think of it, I've always had a hard time getting into Morrison.
86) Saga of the Swamp Thing Vol 1. - Alan Moore, Stephen Bissett, John Totleben. 1984. Comic. Enjoyed the fuck out of this, with Moore's typically deep, rich prose which luxuriates in its own vocabulary married to a brilliant, old fashioned colour style from old horror comics and occasionally in-the-character's head artwork. The themes of nature and symbiosis, growth and humanity are gone into in just the right amount of detail and what you're left with is great, pulp spookiness elevated by having been thought carefully about. Small criticism: Moore writing people's accents out, some of the Adult Themes are put in with a distracting self consciousness.
It's all great until his departure after book 6. I have a couple of the books from afterward but I haven't had time to read them yet.
Make sure you don't wind up reading one of the recolored ones, they change the tone immensely.
Thanks, I'll make sure I keep em to the original colours. My next comic is gonna be Grant Morrison's Invisibles.
Let us know what you think of it, I've always had a hard time getting into Morrison.
I really liked All Star Superman, found Arkham Asylum a bit too precious.
a lifetime serving one machine
Is ten times worse than prison
86) Saga of the Swamp Thing Vol 1. - Alan Moore, Stephen Bissett, John Totleben. 1984. Comic. Enjoyed the fuck out of this, with Moore's typically deep, rich prose which luxuriates in its own vocabulary married to a brilliant, old fashioned colour style from old horror comics and occasionally in-the-character's head artwork. The themes of nature and symbiosis, growth and humanity are gone into in just the right amount of detail and what you're left with is great, pulp spookiness elevated by having been thought carefully about. Small criticism: Moore writing people's accents out, some of the Adult Themes are put in with a distracting self consciousness.
It's all great until his departure after book 6. I have a couple of the books from afterward but I haven't had time to read them yet.
Make sure you don't wind up reading one of the recolored ones, they change the tone immensely.
Thanks, I'll make sure I keep em to the original colours. My next comic is gonna be Grant Morrison's Invisibles.
Let us know what you think of it, I've always had a hard time getting into Morrison.
I really liked All Star Superman, found Arkham Asylum a bit too precious.
I quite liked Morrison's book Supergods. It's a shame that most of his comics—All-Star Superman notwithstanding—leave me meh.
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
87) Nation - Terry Pratchett. 2008. Paperback. Pratchett's own favourite of his novels. It's the story of a Pacific island in the nineteenth century that has the whole native population wiped out by a catastrophic tidal wave, save for one young man, who has the bulk of the novel's perspective written from. There's a shipwrecked Victorian girl and the two learn about each other's perspective. Loved the book, loved being told a new story by a master for the first time in a while. I've only very few of his books left which are new to me.
a lifetime serving one machine
Is ten times worse than prison
Anyone like Frank Herbert? I’m about to start re-reading The White Plague (1982). I enjoyed it the first time, about 10-15 years ago. Figured it would make some good pandemic reading. Set largely in Ireland, the main character is a biochemist whose wife and kids are killed by IRA terrorists. Out of revenge he releases a plague that kills only women, and the world scrambles to contain it.
The chair is against the wall. The chair is against the wall. John has a long mustache. John has a long mustache.
Anyone like Frank Herbert? I’m about to start re-reading The White Plague (1982). I enjoyed it the first time, about 10-15 years ago. Figured it would make some good pandemic reading. Set largely in Ireland, the main character is a biochemist whose wife and kids are killed by IRA terrorists. Out of revenge he releases a plague that kills only women, and the world scrambles to contain it.
I've just started Dune for the first time. At about 50 pages in it's a bit of a slog, but I've been told it gets better so I'm going to stick with it a little longer.
Anyone like Frank Herbert? I’m about to start re-reading The White Plague (1982). I enjoyed it the first time, about 10-15 years ago. Figured it would make some good pandemic reading. Set largely in Ireland, the main character is a biochemist whose wife and kids are killed by IRA terrorists. Out of revenge he releases a plague that kills only women, and the world scrambles to contain it.
I've just started Dune for the first time. At about 50 pages in it's a bit of a slog, but I've been told it gets better so I'm going to stick with it a little longer.
Oh yeah I love Dune and have read all 6 books. It definitely got me started on Herbert. It starts slow but gets much better. Hope you stick with it. Dune Messiah and Children of Dune (books 2 and 3 in the saga) are also great.There's supposed to be a new Dune movie, slated for Oct 2021 release, but it's been attempted and abandoned so many times I'll believe it when I see it. Hopefully modern cgi technology will finally make it possible. Lynch's 1984 version was a valiant attempt but so much got cut by the producers to make it shorter that the movie leaves out a lot of the story and left viewers a bit confused. Funny thing about Dune is that it was originally rejected by all the major publishers and was finally published in 1965 by Chilton, who pretty much just did car repair manuals. I think it's brilliant.
The chair is against the wall. The chair is against the wall. John has a long mustache. John has a long mustache.
