Seeing lots of online comic strips posted here, not a lot of discussion about actual comic BOOKS.

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

I put up a link to the comics list for last Wednesday, 6/28. If there’s interest I can do it again for next Wednesday, 7/3…

Picked up:

Action #1056 - Never thought I’d bee buying Superman stuff again, but everything since the “Dawn of DC” launch has been really good.

Batman: Brave and the Bold #2 - Oversized anthology book, Joker story from Tom King and Mitch Gerads has been really good.

Cerebus In Hell 6/2023 - Really just a pity buy at this point. It’s not particularly good, but Sim has some major health challenges and if buying it helps him keep the lights on, fine.

Cityboy #2 - Really liking the “We Are Legends” books. This, Spirit World, and The Vigil. Maybe more this and Spirit World than the Vigil.

Green Arrow #3 - See “Dawn of DC” message for Action. All of it has been solid so far.

The Oddly Pedestrial Life of Christopher Chaos #1 - Written and illustrated by people I’ve never heard of, it’s a solid read. Not sure I fully understand it yet. I guess the best way to describe it is Christopher is a Mathemagician. He does stuff with formulas you shouldn’t be able to do. Like a cross between Jenny Quick saying a super speed formula out loud crossed with Doctor Strange.

I can’t say Iiked it enough to put it on my pull list, but I’ll give it a few issues.

  • Jordan Lund@lemmy.oneOP
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    Is that “Fables and Reflections”? One of the collections of all the single issue stories?

    Yeah, I could see reading them all at once being a little disjointed. I bought all of Sandman as it came out, one issue at a time, one month at a time, so it was a different experience. :)

    I’d also suggest picking up “Sandman: The Dream Hunters”, but the trick to that is there are two editions… The original is a text piece with illustrations by a Japanese artist named Yoshitaka Amano.

    After that, they turned it into a proper comic book style story with art by P. Craig Russell.

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      it is! I am only about 20 or so pages in so far but I am feeling a bit lost. It just seems completely disjointed from what I have read so far. For a few pages I was wondering if I had somehow got the books out of order.

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        I mean, technically, yeah, Fables and Reflections is out of order. :)

        Here’s how the collections relate to the individual issues:

        Preludes and Nocturnes = Sandman #1–8
        The Doll’s House = 9-16
        Dream Country = 17-20
        Season of Mists = 21–28
        A Game of You = 32–37

        So it’s all pretty straight forward until the jump between Season of Mists and Game of You.

        Where you’re at now:
        Fables and Reflections - #29–31, 38–40, 50; The Sandman Special #1; and Vertigo Preview No. 1

        I kind of hate it when they do stuff like this. #29-31 should have been added to the end of Season of Mists. Then put 38-40 at the end of A Game of You.

        Next is Brief Lives, which is 41–49, so #50 could have been easily added there.

        The GOOD news is, after that, it’s a straight shot to the end:

        Worlds’ End - 51–56
        The Kindly Ones - 57–69 +Vertigo Jam No. 1
        The Wake - 70–75
        Sandman: Overture - 1-6.