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Li'l Jay
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Post subject: Graphic Novel reviews in NY TImes -- Batman, Cooke's Parker, and Asterios Polyp  Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:48 am |
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Funny books are respectable and we don't have to be ashamed anymore and wear bad clothes. Three graphic novels reviewed in one article in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/books ... ss&emc=rssIt's the Gaiman/Kubert "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?" Darwyn Cooke's adaptation of The Hunter by Robert Parker, and the long awaited artsy thing by Dave Mazzuchelli, Asterois Polyp.
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Post subject: Graphic Novel reviews in NY TImes -- Batman, Cooke's Parker, and Asterios Polyp Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:49 am |
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I am not Taupe
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I read that this weekend. I felt like a fan boy staring into the warmth of the sun.
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Hanzo the Razor
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Post subject: Graphic Novel reviews in NY TImes -- Batman, Cooke's Parker, and Asterios Polyp Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:50 am |
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Warning to those of us planning on reading the graphic novel Parker, there seems to be big spoilers in that review.“The Hunter” is about a hijacking caper that ends poorly for Parker: not only is he double-crossed, but his wife, Lynn, is a coerced accomplice in his downfall. He’s shot and left for dead in a building set ablaze. He survives, of course, and tracks his enemies to New York City, bent on revenge. Except for omitting a scene or two involving an Upper West Side bodega, the adaptation is faithful to the novel, down to the opening and closing lines.
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That meddlin kid
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Post subject: Graphic Novel reviews in NY TImes -- Batman, Cooke's Parker, and Asterios Polyp Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 1:35 pm |
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Biker Librarian
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"Asterios Polyp" also got a whole article in the "NY Times Book Review."
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Rick Lundeen
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Post subject: Graphic Novel reviews in NY TImes -- Batman, Cooke's Parker, and Asterios Polyp Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:27 pm |
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I could only get through the first issue of that Gaiman Batman story. I found it extremely lame like most of Gaiman's stuff---yeah, I know I'm in the vast majority but he puts me to sleep. Lucky he wrote Sandman.  Cooke's Hunter was top notch excellent. I look forward to the next 3 books! Haven't had a chance to read Asterios yet but it's on the bedside table and ready to go.
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Ross
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Post subject: Graphic Novel reviews in NY TImes -- Batman, Cooke's Parker, and Asterios Polyp Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:29 pm |
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I'm with Rick, I've never seen what the big deal was about Gaiman. Even with Sandman, I like a few individual issues (Tale of a 1,000 Cats stood out) but on the whole I found it to be kind of boring. And his superhero stuff, none of it has done much for me at all.
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Ross
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Post subject: Graphic Novel reviews in NY TImes -- Batman, Cooke's Parker, and Asterios Polyp Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:31 pm |
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I read his entire Sandman run in TPB form in about a week so maybe that wasn't the way to do it.
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Li'l Jay
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Post subject: Graphic Novel reviews in NY TImes -- Batman, Cooke's Parker, and Asterios Polyp Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:38 pm |
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You're doing it wrong.
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Post subject: Graphic Novel reviews in NY TImes -- Batman, Cooke's Parker, and Asterios Polyp Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:55 pm |
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I am an earthling.
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The Times Magazine on Sunday also ran a nice big profile feature on the great science fiction author Jack Vance.
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Rick Lundeen
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Post subject: Graphic Novel reviews in NY TImes -- Batman, Cooke's Parker, and Asterios Polyp Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 6:58 pm |
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>>I read his entire Sandman run in TPB form in about a week so maybe that wasn't the way to do it.<<
I remember picking up the first trade of Sandman and the first of Preacher to see if I'd continue with either. Sandman bored the crap out of me and I dropped it. Loved Preacher and went on to collect all of it. That's one emperor that has no clothes (save for the ever present black leather jacket).
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Stephen Strange
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Post subject: Graphic Novel reviews in NY TImes -- Batman, Cooke's Parker, and Asterios Polyp Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:02 pm |
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Rick Lundeen wrote: >>I read his entire Sandman run in TPB form in about a week so maybe that wasn't the way to do it.<<
I remember picking up the first trade of Sandman and the first of Preacher to see if I'd continue with either. Sandman bored the crap out of me and I dropped it. Loved Preacher and went on to collect all of it. That's one emperor that has no clothes (save for the ever present black leather jacket). The first time I read Sandman Vol. 1, I was underwhelmed too, and I moved on to other things. A couple years later, I said "What the hell," and read Vol. 2. And then said, "...oh." And then read the rest of the series like a mad fiend and became both a better storyteller and a better person for having done so. YMMV.
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Post subject: Graphic Novel reviews in NY TImes -- Batman, Cooke's Parker, and Asterios Polyp Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:03 pm |
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I've only ever read the first Sandman trade, though I have the second from the library right here. I heard the first story arc sucked compared to the rest.
Fables is like that - the first trade kind of blows. But by the second, you're totally hooked.
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Li'l Jay
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Post subject: Graphic Novel reviews in NY TImes -- Batman, Cooke's Parker, and Asterios Polyp Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:18 pm |
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Gaiman is awesome.
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Post subject: Graphic Novel reviews in NY TImes -- Batman, Cooke's Parker, and Asterios Polyp Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:19 pm |
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Rick Lundeen wrote: >>I read his entire Sandman run in TPB form in about a week so maybe that wasn't the way to do it.<<
I remember picking up the first trade of Sandman and the first of Preacher to see if I'd continue with either. Sandman bored the crap out of me and I dropped it. Loved Preacher and went on to collect all of it. That's one emperor that has no clothes (save for the ever present black leather jacket). I had the complete opposite experience. Read the first volumes of Sandman and Preacher in a Borders, got hooked on Sandman immediately, and didn't get the appeal of Preacher at all.
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Rick Lundeen
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Post subject: Graphic Novel reviews in NY TImes -- Batman, Cooke's Parker, and Asterios Polyp Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:21 pm |
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Read Asterios Polyp today. Wonderful story and he really tied it together in a touching ending. And the dude is very well read.
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Monk
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Post subject: Graphic Novel reviews in NY TImes -- Batman, Cooke's Parker, and Asterios Polyp Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 3:28 am |
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