The Cipher 10/27/10
October 27th, 2010 by david brothers | Tags: bulletproof coffin, cipher, david allison, richard corbenthe new NERD album sucks
-I am positively drowning in existential crises. Pardon my dust. Fourcast! is on a brief break.
–Corben on Hellboy is always worth a glance. More on Corben.
–Bulletproof Coffin is a great book, and this bit of analysis by David Allison is great in part because it’s something I never would’ve done. About half his thoughts/connections never even crossed my mind, and that’s a wonderful thing. This is what comics internet is good for: learning stuff.
-Related: Someone please put the most recent issues of Bulletproof Coffin up so I can buy them digital. Thanks in advance. I love you.
-What’s comics internet isn’t good for: decent interviews with crap headlines. I like Kaare Andrews, and I thought this interview was pretty swift, but that headline has got to go. The biggest thing in there was Andrews “Slutting Up Emma?” Nothing about what makes a good film vs comic? Nothing about the experience of creating a movie vs a comic? He says a lot of interesting things, and that is the least of them.
-More good: Mike Hawthrone and Nathan Fairbain collab on an Elektra Lives Again piece. The colors on this are fantastic, dead-on.
-More good: Tim O’Neil points out some screwed up priorities in Batman comics. Hey, doesn’t this make Vicki Vale an accomplice? Send old girl to jail. Make it a Crisis. “Child Slavers Crisis!” It’ll move units. (No Larry Flynt.)
-Matt Seneca is a cool dude, and I always enjoy his Monday Panels. I’m not sure how old he is, other than “probably 20s,” but I like seeing how our tastes crisscross (or don’t). I don’t know from half of what he talks about, beyond it being stuff I should’ve read before now, and I’m impressed with his depth of knowledge of that stuff. I’m just good at putting together puzzle pieces. Matt’s good people.
-I really like this bit from Peter Milligan and Giuseppe Camuncoli’s Hellblazer: India. It’s probably completely opaque, but something about it, maybe the trade of barbs or just the voices I’m hearing when I read it, clicks. Perfect Constantine to me.
what happened, son?
-Create: Some Halloween ish, some previews for Beasts of Burden/Hellboy (review soon, tl;dr is “good!”), T-bolts, and Deadpool MAX, some solicit previews, and a review of Panty & Stocking.
-Consume: I re-read Yasuhiro Nightow’s Trigun 1-2, and Trigun Maximum 1-3, but boy are those crap. Art’s okay in TM, but the translation is soft (Who says -san and oi! in the old west?) and plotting so-so. John Constantine, Hellblazer: India
Nina Simone’s The Lady Has The Blues
In Search Of… was great, though
David: Amazing Spider-Man 646, Thunderbolts 149
Esther: Action Comics 894
Gavin: Justice League Generation Lost 12, Time Masters Vanishing Point 4, Avengers 6, Avengers & Infinity Gauntlet 3, Captain America 611, Deadpool Team-Up 888, Incredible Hulks 615, Secret Avengers 6, Secret Warriors 21, Thunderbolts 149, Ultimate Comics Avengers 3 3
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[b]Thunderbolts 149[/b], [b]Action 894[/b], and [b]Hellboy/Beasts of Burden[/b] for me. I wanted to grab the Brubaler books as well ([b]Captain America[/b], [b]Secret Avengers[/b], and [b]Incognito[/b]) but I know I’ll buy those whenever they get collected so I finally convinced myself to drop the single issues.
Rock Band 3 is amazing, I’m loving the pro-keyboards. It’s not a perfect game, but it is a large step forward in the music game genre. Harmonix always says their game cycle tends to innovate in one game then perfect it in the next (as seen with [b]Frequency[/b]–>[b]Amplitude[/b], [b]Guitar Hero[/b] –>[b]Guitar Hero 2[/b], and then [b]Rock Band[/b]–>[b]Rock Band 2[/b]), so basically I can’t wait until Rock Band 4 inevitably comes.
@Neil: Guess I should’ve read how to actually bold things instead of relying on SA forum style. Whoops.
I had to deal with a momentous decision. Buying the Jill Thompson drawn cover for Hellboy/Beasts of Burden or the Mike Mignola one. Both feature Hellboy holding a pug dog. It was truly a Sophie’s Choice kind of moment. But then I saw that the Thomspon one was a $1 cheaper and so it was suddenly an easy decision. I bet that movie lady would have had an easier time picking which of her kids lived or died if one had come with a $1 off…
In Search Of… was fantastic. I remember not liking it at first, but by the second or third listen I loved it.
@DrewT: I wasn’t feeling the original version, but once the one with real instruments dropped, I was hooked.
@LurkerWithout: Both covers were the same price. Is your comic shop gouging you?
@david brothers: Never have before. Clerk must have misread the price on the Mignola cover…
Basically most of Gavin’s lsit plus Lex Luthor/Death
Hey, is this the David Allison piece you meant to link to?
http://mindlessones.com/2010/10/24/etched-headplate/
‘Cause the link in the post is not clickable. (At least for me.)