h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've heard of Yakitate Ja-pan before. Looked it up today- 23 volumes and counting! I'd better find a bigger bookcase before I start on that one, but it sounds really good.

I've never heard of Cooking Master Boy... will try to find it, thank you!

Oh, and while I prefer to patronize local businesses when I can, Amazon trumps everyone in terms of pricing- no sales tax when ordering from Amazon, and just shy of 12% sales tax in Chicago.

But, if I find what I'm looking for locally, I'll typically buy it, and just use Amazon for what I don't see in the local shops.

Hmmm, are foodie webcomics of any interest to you, PC?

I'd definitely be interested in looking at webcomics, yes. With a webcomic I wouldn't need to worry about finding, buying or making room for dozens of volumes.

I'll have a look in my bookmarks, then

Aahhh comics! A new stand alone comic shop has recently opened up in Bristol and I am pleased to say they are very helpful when I need random things that arnt on the shelves.

My first comics were The Books of Magic and Sandman. I would follow Gaiman to the pits of hell and back to get some more of that.

Then I moved to Preacher and Bone, both fantastic. As was V for Vendetta and Watchmen.

My favourite comic series was called Flinch. Each issue had 3 stories in it and they were very twisted, but they stopped making it I think, cos I cant find them anymore. I really want to get the whole series. Fantastic stuff!

I am a regular visitor to Brizzle and I normally end up going to forbidden Profit.

Where is this new place?

FB

Stand infront of the new monstrocity and turn slightly left, head to McDonalds and go behind it, then turn left and head towards the greasy spoon cafe, its next door to that.

And by new monstrocity, I mean Cabot Circus...

Ooh how exciting! I didn't know Alan Moore had done a Lovecraft interpretation comic...

Just ordered "The Courtyard" and volume one of his new "Neonomicon" is available in a TPB later this summer.

Excellent

FB

Now reading vol. 7 of Mike Carey's Lucifer. It is at its best when the title character is present, but I just love the writing in general.

Is that the one that is kinda a spin off from Gaimans "Sandman"?

Been meaning to read that for a while, but grevious financial injuries have restricted my comic buying of late.

FB

That's the one. It doesn't quite get going in the first volume (much like Sandman itself) but gets very awesome later.

Ooh, I didn't know about "The Courtyard" or "Neonomicon" either. Just ordered "The Courtyard" now.

Comic strip from the '50s, where Mickey Mouse and Goofy become salesmen for the great new product Peppo. Or speed, to you or I.

http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/mickey_mouse_medicine_man/mickey_mouse_medicine_man.shtml

I have (or at least had) a carton full of the old little Disney comic books that I found at a garage sale when I was a kid. Even then I found some of the drug references, and inherent racism, a bit OTT at times. Good, wholesome family entertainment.

(I really hope my dad still has these in his garage, and didn't chuck them. They'd probably be worth a fortune now.)

Talking about comics on the dr Who thread has made me dash over here.

I am getting seriously into "100 Bullets", currently reading volume 5 "The Counterfifth Detective" which is the most awesomely noir-ish bit yet.

Totally fantastic and I highly recommend if people have not checked it out.

FB

Yeah, about characters dying. There is one quote I remember hearing, which can be summarised as follows: "Comic book characters never die permanently, they can always be revived. The only exceptions are X, Y and Z."
Problem is, I don't remember who X, Y and Z are. I'm pretty sure one of them was Bucky, and others may have been Captain Marvel and Uncle Ben, but I don't think they both were. I got the impression that it was something often said, and it was repeated to em on the occasion I remember hearing it because all three either _had_ recently been revived or were about to.
Google is being no help, so it's going to bug me now...

Early 90s crap Cain/Hatcher TV series aside it is pretty much set in Stone that Jonathan Kent is irredeemably dead no?

FB

Well, according to Wiki...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_book_death

Bucky, Jason Todd and Uncle Ben. 2 of which didn't die permanently after all, it turns out.

That's exactly it! Cheers, DA.