Graphic Novels

I think this is where I should post this....

So I've recently started reading graphic novels again that I get from the library.  I started out buy picking up old ones I've already read back in the day..  i.e. Sandman and Hellblazer..  But I've recently branched out to new ones I haven't read yet.



This was pretty good. I thought I should read up more on her because of the new Batman vs. Superman movie.



I'm halfway through this one and I'm quite impressed so far. One of the librarians recommended it to me.



This is is up next, sitting on my table. I picked it up because i think I heard something about it somewhere... but I really don't know where.

Your thoughts or recommendations cuz you are the master Hobb.

Too much praise for a guy who hasn't been to Comics North in far too long - but I still love them.

The last series I actually collected where Finder, Castle Waiting, Age of Bronze, spiced up with some mainstreamer stuff like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Hellboy, Usagi Yojimbo, Ghost in the Shell, and most of Grant Morrrison's early 2000s work (except for his Batman stuff) like Invisibles, Filth, We3, Seaguy, Ramayana, Flex Mentallo.

I occasionally re-read manga classics like Akira (all dozen volumes), Nausicaa, Appleseed. Peanuts is surprisingly good (yep, Charlie Brown). Anything of Joe Sacco's warzone reporting is worth picking up. Anything up Mobeius for the art.

A few years ago I had a great time going through late 70s/1980s Marvel comics. I finally got to finish the dozens of story-lines I had read as a kid but could never find all the issues. The X-Men really was a great comic and it wasn't just my youthful eyes. I really love the 'What If' series where they imagine different realities for the superheroes (DC's Elseworlds is the same thing). The whole comic thing exploded with the Marvel/DC movies, and I haven't seen any of them, but I cannot blame them for mining that awesome pop-culture vein. Sandman had a new chapter recently but I don't know much about it. Students used to recommend Marvel's Civil War to me...

Reading early TMNT and Grimjack was also a blast. And all the old underground comixs and Heavy Metal magazines - wild stuff I thought I'd never get a chance to see.

I'm realizing that I don't actually know what is available in graphic novel format - the internet has blurred everything... and the average 14-year old knowing far more about obscure manga than I ever will.

I heard that Silver Snail closed down is that true?

Yup... Silver Snail closed here in ottawa... I'm sure that it's still open in Toronto tho.. I couldn't see them closing that one down. But there is still a few places still open where nerds can go to buy nerd stuff. Not my cup o' tea. I'm just borrowing them from the library. I'm gonna plug what you just said into their website and see what hits and I can get delivered to my location.

I LOVE THE OTTAWA PUBLIC LIBRARY. Anything I find on their website they will deliver to my library for me. Granted it could take a while but most of the time it's quite fast. Right at this moment I have 11 DVD's (including Jurrasic World and Pan), 3 Graphic Novels, and 1 PS3 game checked out. The movie Splash is waiting for me to go pick it up. I've been waiting for that one for a bit. I'm excited to see if it still holds up. I think it might. John Candy is timeless I think.

John Candy is timeless. I was watching some SCTV recently because I was looking for the pancake scene he does for Horror Theater "Would you like some more pancakes" 3D. I use that line far to often.

However I was watching SCTV's Mr. Science with Johnny LaRue and I couldn't believe they started some segments with a pedophile joke.

Silver Snail had just enough unsorted piles of books to be cool, if you cannot get lost in stacks of books it isn't a proper bookstore. I admired a HR Giger Tarot deck the front glass case for years. One of the workers was named 'Kin' (I'm guessing the Asian guy) and so there was a wall full of cut-out newspaper headlines like KIN QUESTIONED IN MURDER or FATAL ACCIDENT ON ICY ROAD, KIN INFORMED.

The Toronto Silver Snail is like half-Starbucks or something, with a table for reading and drinking. Very cramped, clean and modern. Across the street is the Hairy Tarantula where the floors are sagging dangerously and there are cat litter boxes buried under pile of old RPG books. I found an old post-Apocalyptic RPG box set there that had been stolen from me at Lockerby.

As for John Candy I refer you to the posting where I suggest that a giant chrome John Candy be mounted on the CN Tower like KIng Kong (to swat away American planes) because that would be right and good and CAnadian:
https://roadtonowhere.forumotion.org/t93-mother-canada

I love getting the Laurentian Library to track down some obscure book for me -- so Inter-Library-Loans for the Win!

Hobb: Any idea who stole it and how did you know it was yours?

I just watched Splash (well half of it.. I fell asleep) and it doesn't hold up too well. Kinda weird 80's guy problems I don't understand were actual problems. Tom Hanks's biggest problem is that he couldn't figure out why he couldn't love... really? But John Candy was Hilarious! He held up just fine! I laughed my ass off at him. The look on his face when he was about to drop his change just so he could look up girls skirts was awesome.

Getting back to my original post, I'm a couple issues into Ten Grand (i guess I would call them issues... comics maybe.. you know how graphic novels are like 7 regular issues) and it looks like Hellblazer. Like exactly. But a little different. i.e. he used a computer and entered in angelic letters to search stuff... I don't remember Constantine using a computer ever.

It's not bad or better than Hellblazer... just the same. So far....


And as for big ass Canadian statues... I've wracked my brain trying to think of something but come up with nothing I think would be awesome. But putting Bob and Doug Mackenzie's face somewhere in the rockies Mt. Rushmore style would be cool.