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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeOct 13th 2009
     
    I've just changed our OK Comics Top Ten from the Top Ten Recommended Books to Top Ten Halloween Horror Books.
    Anybody want to guess what made it into the Top Ten?
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    It looks like this:

    1) Saga of The Swamp Thing by Alan "Mouldering" Moore, John "Teeming" Totleben etc.
    2) Roots Of The Swamp Thing by Len "Withered" Wein and Bernie "Wolfman" wrightson
    3) Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft "Screaming" Shelley and Bernie "Wendigo" Wrightson
    4) Alien The Movie adaptation by Walter "Slithering" Simonson
    5) An EC Comics horror reprint volume(Tales From The Crypt, Vault of Horror, Teacup of Unease etc.)
    6) A Warren creepy/Eerie reprint volume
    7) Haunt of Horror by Richard "Corpse" Corben
    8) From Hell by Alan "Man-Thing" Moore and Eddie "Crucifix" Campbell
    9) Black Kiss by Howard Victor "Cannibal" Chaykin
    10) An Essential Tomb of Dracula volume by Gene "Carrion" Colan etc.

    It does, doesn't it?

    Nineteen days to Halloween...Halloween...Halloween...Silver Shaaaaaamrock!
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeOct 13th 2009
     
    Gah! Lamont, there is no justification at all for slipping in references to the execrable Hallowe'en 3: Season of the Witch! Please never, ever do such a thing again.
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    Wow! Good catch!
    I LOVE Halloween III: Season Of The Witch ("The Night No-one Came Home"). I can't explain it, I certainly can't justify it..I...I...I want to watch it right now! This is my curse. Pity me.
    Anyway shouldn't you should be packing...
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeOct 13th 2009
     
    It's really, really bad. But, since I first saw it (in about '87) I have often found myself singing the Silver Shamrock song. Catchy. But even Stacey Nelkin can't save the film, and she was almost in Blade Runner!
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeOct 13th 2009
     
    And yes, yes I should be packing. I'll do it now!
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    Hey Lee don't diss HIII: Season Of the Witch. It's a cracking good film that doesn't belong in the dross known as the Halloween franchise. It received pretty negative reviews at the time (and only made $14m on a budget of $2.5m) but since then it has gained a pretty respectable cult following, and something of a critical re-appraisal. Much of the viewing public at the time were expecting another hack n' slash offering, not something a bit more cerebral.
    It also suffered from the glut that the genre was going through at the time.

    A bit like Blade Runner on it's original release.

    And Hey LC ~ what!! No Essential Tales Of The Zombie? Or the Walking Dead? Or Treehouse Of Horror? Or Carl Bark's "Trick Or Treat"?
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    Have people started to critically re-evaluate Lifeforce yet?

    That first Halloween is awesome. People are right to go on about the directing, soundtrack and acting (Donald Pleasance is Colossal! in it) but I don't think people go on about the script enough. That script is tight as a nut fellow frightfans. I just wanted to mention that. Terrifyingly I can't watch Halloween on Halloween because mine is R1 and my player won't play it - is the remake any good? I could rent that if it is. Or if it isn't I won't.

    You need another six by my count to be in with a chance to win, Mr.Nimbus!
    Zombie and Treehouse are okay by me, but Walking Dead? I read that for about 18 issues but could never shake the suspicion that what I was reading was really a pitch for a TV series. Also it seemed that the real horror was that after The Dead Walk only the most boring and uninteresting people will survive. It just seemed like a really dull and unending episode of Eastenders Roadshow and every now and again someone would cut a small child's head off or throw offal over the cast when it all got a bit too soporific. It's quite popular though and is probably on The OKComics List.

    Disgustingly I have never read any Carl Bark's stuff, I think I should amend that.

    Does OKComics have any Carl Barks stuff in stock?

    Where's everyone else's list?!
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    Thankfully no.

    No it isn't.

    The Long Halloween, Marvel Monsterworks, Vampire Tales, Army Of Darkness (John Bolton), any Scary Godmother, the 30 Days Of Night collection. And yes you're probably right.

    Yes, you should.

    Probably.

    They are ruminating on the awesome choices already made.
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeOct 17th 2009
     
    Long Halloween's on there, so's 30 Days of Night.
    Also 28 Days Later: The Aftermath, Zombie Survival Guide Recorded Attacks, Shaun of the Dead, Zombies (Medical Journal), Walking Dead, Arkham Asylum, Chronicles of Wormwood and Locke and Key.
    Locke and Key is a pretty awesome modern haunted house story. Anybody who hasn't read it should totally check it out.
    • CommentAuthorsmiggy3000
    • CommentTimeOct 17th 2009
     
    non of Barack Obama's zombie stuff then, and he seems to have done alot... does he know something we don't?
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    Is that why Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize? For getting rid of the Zombies? Fair play really, haven't seen any Zombies lately after all.

    So, I got none right. Mind you I am I kind of hobbled by the fact that if I did a list of the Top ten Jeph Loeb Comics there still wouldn't be any Jeph Loeb comics on it. No Marvel Zombies? I was certain you'd have Marvel Zombies on there.

    If everybody who hasn't already read Locke And Key reads Locke And Key does it not then follow that everyone will have then read Locke And Key? Everyone...in...the...world? It's no wonder you win retail awards. If you don't think Big you don't win Big!

    So the Halloween remake is no good? I could always rent The Mist, that sounds appealing. Maybe Creepshow will be on. I haven't seen that for about 15 years. Joe Hill (of Locke And Key writing fame) played the small kid in it, the one who reads the Creepshow comic, the comic that turns out to be the film we are watching. Creepshow was great, I bet it's cheap on DVD, I'll probably get that if it is. Creepshow 2, however, is tat. Hey now, Stephen King is in Creepshow and he wrote it too. I wonder if he knows Joe Hill? Wouldn't that be an amazing twist?!?
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    Be even weirder if they were father & son. What's that? They are?

    Creepshow isn't bad but it's not aged particularly well, but (other than the TFTC tv series) it's as close to Tales From The Crypt territory as you'll get.

    The Mist, another case of so-so soup.

    Saw "A Man Called Bruce" recently, and while not strictly horror it's an enjoyable way to brainlessly pass the time. Wilderness with Sean Pertwee isn't bad either.
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    O! You try and fool my withered brain! Stephen King and Joe Hill have different surnames.

    I have just been informed that I will not be watching Creepshow because it is "rubbish". I think she is confusing it with Creepshow 2, but we old men have to ration our energy and know when to pick our battles so I'll let this one go.

    I like those portmanteau(*) films a lot. Particularly the '70s ones from Amicus and Hammer etc. I think some of them adapted actual EC tales as well. In fact just this last month I allowed my eyes the treat of perusing Doctor Terror's House of Horrors. For pleasure, yet! In a modern film would you have Kenny Lynch and Roy Castle risking the ire of Voodoo gods by nicking their banging beats in hope of a top ten hit? Would any film today feature a scientist grimly clenching a pipe between his teeth while intoning: "My God, a plant like that...could take over the world?" Do art critics today get taken down a peg by a chimp in a stripy top (and a possessed severed hand)? Has there ever been a better analysis of The Tarot than Peter Cushing just emitting a stream of scary words in a mock-slavic accent ("The Tarot..is..horrifying....terrifying...etc.") Eat your heart out Alan Moore!
    Yes, they are laughable and camp but somewhere in them is a dense heart of pitch black nasty that peeks out when you are busy laughing at Tom Baker's pants. That one with Peter Cushing as the antique shop owner ("naughty, naughty, shunt ave dun that!") does actually creep me out me on quite a fundamental level.

    (*) portmanteau is French for: "I can't be bothered to type out "a series of (usually) interconnected tales bookended by a framing sequence" as it isn't that strict a definition but it will do for now. It gets the idea across n'est pas?"

    I watched "A Man Called Bruce" too. Bruce was good in it.

    How bad is "so-so soup". As should be obvious my standards aren't the highest when it comes to horror (no torture-p0rn though). Maybe The Mist would be a goer? I'll look into Wilderness with Sean Pertwee, though.
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    I just cannot get past the lump of recycled cardboard cut-out known as the actor Thomas Jane.

    As to portmanteau films, I've always had a soft spot for the mildly derided "The Illustrated Man" from 1969.
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    Zombieland isn't too bad either.
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    Oh yes, Zombieland looks great fun. Both I and The Significant One are looking forward to that chunky monkey. Sadly though, that will have to wait as the chances of our being able to get to a Picture Palace are slim to none. And Slim just left town. Last time we were in a Moving Picture show was probably when Dawn of The Dead (Remake) came out. I liked that a lot. You didn't, did you? Let's fight with knives!

    I don't think I have actually ever seen The Illustrated Man. I'll keep an eye on the 50 bajillion channels of Quality Entertainment for it. Ray Bradbury is/was great isn't/wasn't he? Do people still rate him? They should.
    There's a new portmanteau film that's just come out in The States - Trick'r'Treat. I hear it's well nice although I haven't read too much as Spoilers can spoil stuff. Brian "Classing up the joint" Cox is in it so - allright!

    Had a look at Wilderness with Sean Pertwee, it had a bl00dy great spoiler picture on the back! Sounded good though. It doesn't explain everything in great detail at the end does it? I was greatly enjoying Dead End with Ray "Laura Palmer's Dad" t'other night, really enjoying it and then at the end it just totally spoiled the magic by trying to explain everything at great length. Hey, Horror film people- ambiguity - it's good stuff! Use it a bit!

    Police Academy 3 is on now! Ha! Ha! It's funny because...oh, it isn't is it. Turning...over!
    • CommentAuthorCaptain Si
    • CommentTimeOct 26th 2009
     
    on the lowest rung of the horror ladder is zombie strippers. its utter guff, badly acted with rubbish special effects, but i found it hugely enjoyable nonetheless.
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeNov 3rd 2009
     
    The current Top Ten is Fabulous First Issues. 10 of the best issue 1's of current series, all of which have started in the last few months.
    1. Batman & Robin
    2. Wednesday Comics
    3. Underground
    4. Criminal: Sinners
    5. Sweet Tooth
    6. Blackest Night
    7. Ultimate Comics Avengers
    8. Deadpool 900
    9. Red Herring
    10. Absolution

    Any questions?
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    Blackest Night? Really?

    Criminal just keeps on being brilliant.
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeNov 3rd 2009
     
    Criminal is great. Was Deadpool 900 a first issue? Is there really a 901 on the way?
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeNov 3rd 2009
     
    The next issue will be 899. It's numbering reverswise...
    If you love Geoff Johns, DC Comics, superpowered zombies and company wide crossovers then there's only one thing on the list for you...
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    ...psychiatric help? I can't see "psychiatric help" on your list anywhere, did you leave it off?

    Here's my list:

    LOEG: 1910 #1
    Dominic Fortune MAX #1
    Strange Tales #1
    Sweet Tooth #1
    Jason Aaron's Wolverine:The List #1
    Jason Aaron Presents: Ghost Riders: Heaven's On Fire

    No. it isn't "ten" but they are "fabulous". Well The top two are. The rest were good enough.

    Upcoming is Punishermax#1 Whichlooksreallygood itsbyJasonAaron anddespitethe stupidtitlemightbefun.

    I watched Halloween in the end. It was as great as ever. Although I now tend to view it as a moving portrayal of how the system failed poor little Michael Myers. Having a bellowing dingbat like Donald Pleasence as your shrink isn't going to do you any favours, is it now? I wonder what his patients recovery rate is? I bet they all get mysteriously shot to death by him under"occult" circumstances. That wouldn't happen on the NHS. Checks and balance, see. Anyway, great film.

    Hey Lee, I asked them to put Halloween III: Season Of The Witch on for you special like. Hope you SKY+ed it! I did!
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeNov 4th 2009
     
    Curses! I missed it. Was it actually on on Hallowe'en? I was at Mike's, hilariously gesturing at carpets, so it is his fault!
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    "gesturing at carpets" ?
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2009
     
    I need help compiling next months top ten list.
    Top Ten Graphic Novels of 2009.
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    I think we need to define "graphic novel" first.

    Ho!

    Parker By Darwyn Cooke should fit every bill. Nine to go...

    PS Cap'n Si - It's Lee's joke! The carpets! You remember!
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    Scott Pilgrim vs The Universe. Awesome.
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeNov 11th 2009
     
    Next months Top Ten is shaping up. So far we've got....
    Johnny Cash, Asterios Polyp, Essex County, 1910, Scott Pilgrim 5, Parker and Far Arden.

    Though if we sell out of anything and we can't get it back in stock it automatically gets bumped from the list. The purpose of our Top Ten's is to hook people up with comics they hadn't considered before...
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeNov 23rd 2009
     
    There is one space left in the Top Ten best Graphic Novels of 2009.
    What is the best book you've read this year?
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    Rob Liefeld's Armageddon Now: WWIII
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    "250 Billion Years of The Diirrrrrrrrrrty (And Yes I Was Sensuously Stroking My Beard When I wrote The Book And Yes It Was Your Face I Pictured In My Mind As The Movements of My Exotically Ringed Fingers Over The Rough Yet Giving Hairs Became More Urgent, More Demanding Until Our Souls Joined As One In A Purely Natural And Joyous Union Only A Society Bleached Of All Joy Could Condemn.)"
    Actually that might not be the title (*)(I had to put it in the garage next to Black Kiss as soon as The Lady saw it (true life irony!)) but I did notice it was by Alan Moore. So it is probably awesome and Ideal for libraries everywhere!

    I haven't actually read that many comics in book form this year. But I won't let that stop me.
    I liked Essex County Vol1: Tales From The Farm, it was sad and gentle and moving and stuff but it came out in 2007.
    I liked The Best of Simon And Kirby a great deal and it did come out this year but it contains comics from the '40s and '50s.
    Showcase Presents: Bat Lash was a quirky little oddity I never thought I'd get to read, but again the contents are from the '70s.
    Can we count Hypnotwist in Love And Rockets New Stories Vol.2? It's complete unto itself although not being in a discrete package and if you've read anything else like it I'd sure like to know what.

    I think I just have enough trouble affording the comic periodicals never mind the other stuff. Nah, I'm lying, I just hate modern comics. Hates 'em, I say! Hates 'em!

    Anyway I'm off to me garage. I may be some time...

    (* The book is really called Alan Moore's 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom.)
    • CommentAuthorCaptain Si
    • CommentTimeNov 23rd 2009
     
    is that how old Alan Moore is?
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    No, that's just how long he has been erotically free.
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    Bryan Talbot's Grandville. Simply excellent.
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeDec 29th 2009
     
    We've changed our Top Ten. Again.
    It's now a list of all our favorite Marvel Crossover comics leading up to The Siege.

    What's your favorite Marvel Crossover comic?
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    X-Cutioner's Song. Inferno. Blood Ties. Operation: Galactic Storm. Maximum Carnage (really!)

    NOT, I repeat NOT, Secret Invasion.
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeDec 29th 2009
     
    Marvel crossovers! Great! Erm...

    X-Cutioner's Song, Age of Apocalypse, X-Tinction Agenda, Civil War (bits of), Secret Wars (if it counts?), Secret Wars II (not really), Onslaught (if I forget about Heroes Reborn)...

    House of M and Secret Invasion had good ideas, but they became lost amidst a plethora of tie-in mini-series.

    I'm a sucker for big crossovers as I really like the sense of a unified Marvel universe, but of late they do get swamped with pointless books. What I've enjoyed more is something like Dark Reign which hasn't had a central series, but has permeated pretty much every other book, with things like Thor and Iron Man being viable standalone reads, but also gelling really well with everything else going on in the MU.
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    Definitely Age of Apocalypse.
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    I liked that X-Statix/Avengers Crossover by Milligan and Allred. It was barmy.
    I particularly enjoyed the bit where Mr. Sensitive and Tony Stark rolled around starkers in the grass brushing each other with flowers, each sensation charged caress bringing our over exerted heroes closer to release. The release of death, obviously, not the other kind.
    If you think I'm joking go and ask that OKComicsman for a copy of X-Statix Vol.4. Aye, see that, told ya.
    One day everyone will acknowledge the genius of Milligan & Allred's X-Force/X-Statix. I like that stuff.
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeFeb 2nd 2010
     
    It's time to change the in store Top 10 graphic novel display.
    This month it's the "Top Ten Graphic Novels Recommended By Members of the OK Comics Forum". So, please recommend stuff that's current and that you think people are missing out on and will respond well to...

    I recommend Walking Dead Vol. 1.
    It's a great first book, good story and art, and is absolutely addictive.
    • CommentAuthorsmiggy3000
    • CommentTimeFeb 2nd 2010 edited
     
    I'd suggest Buffy: The Long Way Home, also known as Buffy Season 8 Volume 1. I havn't read any of them but as theres only 8 issues left of run to go and theres been alot of new and interviews recently after they reveled her arch nemisis.
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    Asterios Polyp.

    Is there a Greek Street trade out? If so, that. Ditto with Batman & Robin.
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    I'm going to recommend Zenoscope's Beyond Wonderland, which is a horror spin on Alice In Wonderland. I think this is the third or fourth book in their run, but works well stand alone. Its about Lewis Carroll's descendants (er, living in America, natch) trying to fend off Wonderland's attempts to break through into our world. It has some genuinely unsettling moments, not least the closing few pages. Worth a look!
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeFeb 2nd 2010
     
    I've previously dismissed it as T&A, but you've got me interested...
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeFeb 2nd 2010
     
    Not being a 'traitor' I'm not sure what graphic novels/trades are out, but I'd recommend any/all the following if they exist:

    Recent (well, last 50-odd issues) Peter David X-Factor trades.
    Any Scalped.
    Any The Boys.
    Any Criminal (or Incognito).
    Any Powers.
    If there is one, a trade of the current Power Girl series.
    Any and all trades from Invincible Iron Man.
    Finally, any trades from Marvel's assortment of galactic stuff of recent years by Abnett and Lanning.
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    or it would be funny if you just put what ever trades and novels you have left at the end of the sale and stuck them up but higher the price...
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    ...a retailer is born!

    American Flagg! Vol. 1 by Howard Victor Chaykin

    ...because that's the way it IS!
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeFeb 3rd 2010
     
    Yeah, that is actually a very good idea Smiggs!
    I hate to say it, but I think that everybody who is ever going to buy American Flagg has bought it already...
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    Vol. 2 then! Haw! My choice has been dismissed! Woe unto all my heirs! I suppose I'll have a re-think, then.

    Say now, how come you don't tell us what these lists are on The Forum? Since I am unable to physically manifest within your shop it's the only way I can check it doesn't just consist of 5 different volumes of Powers and 5 of The Walking Dead every month. Also I would find the lists interesting.
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeFeb 3rd 2010
     
    OK.
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    Allright, I've had a thinky-poo.

    What about:

    Garth Ennis' Battlefields: Dear Billy by Garth Ennis and Peter Snejbjerg (Dynamite Comics)
    It's current, people are missing out on it and they will certainly respond to it (Although "well" might not be an apt descriptor).
    OR
    Young Liars Volume 1: Daydream Believer By David Lapham (DC\Vertigo)
    It's not current, people missed out on it and they certainly didn't respond well to it but it will not die! Even fire cannot purge it! It will find you in the night and replace all the doors in your house with meat dollies! Scream and it only laughs louder in a voice that sounds like The Repeal of The Corn Laws! Run and it will trip you with the eyes of diseased angels!
    I liked it.

    Am I close?
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    Beyond Wonderland isn't really T&A. The covers are very misleading (whats that you say? sex sells? no, surely not...) I can't speak for the early volumes, but the one I picked up suprised me.
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    might as well put a copy of The Losers up too...
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeFeb 4th 2010
     
    So far we've got...
    1. Buffy
    2. Asterios Polyp
    3. WonderLand
    4. Scalped
    5. Boys
    6. Criminal
    7. Powers
    8. Battlefields

    I would put Losers and Young Liars on the list but they're already in prominent places in the shop, and we don't have many left...
    Any last minute thoughts?
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    There's no Alan Moore on there. That's not right.
    What about A Small Killing By Alan Moore and Oscar Zarate?
    It's one of my favourites of the Hirsute One's works although seemingly seldom mentioned, and I think Avatar reprinted it recently.
    Good on you for hawking Young Liars! Good on you, sir! You do that fine thing!
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    I bought Young Liars today. Lamont, your recommendations are sticking in my brain like, uh, sticky stuff...umm ... anyway, moving on, what is A Small Killing about (apart from the obvious signpost of the title)?
    • CommentAuthorsmiggy3000
    • CommentTimeFeb 4th 2010 edited
     
    I can't think of anything, maybe something else from Diggle and Jock... or something Iron Man ish...
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeFeb 4th 2010
     
    Wow, half my suggestions made it! I usually talk at least 95% rubbish!
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeFeb 5th 2010
     
    1. Buffy
    2. Asterios Polyp
    3. WonderLand
    4. Scalped
    5. Boys
    6. Criminal
    7. Powers
    8. Battlefields
    9. Oliver says Strontium Dog
    10. I say Luna Park...

    ...and we have our ten.

    Oscar Zarate will be a tough sell, also, we don't actually stock it.
    Iron Man has a whole shelf to himself opposite the till.
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    No Alan Moore? Bad Ju-Ju coming your way, pally.

    I've read Oliver says Strontium Dog. It's 540 pages and on each page is just a picture of OKOliver in OKComics with a customer. The Customer says stuff like "Who is Johnny Alpha?","Name an alkaline Earth metal which has four naturally occurring isotopes, dawg!" And every time OKOliver says...
    I've seen Iron Man's shelf opposite the till, it's just got bottles of Malibu and Thunderbird on it.
    What? It's late! Stop throwing stuff!

    Anyway, Strontium Dog - class stuff.

    A Small Killing - Pretty tough to sell something not in stock, I guess. Ricky Roma could sell it, pal! Anyway, Captain Si, since you asked, A Small Killing is like a Dennis Potter Play For Today but by Alan Moore! It's about the human experience! There's a bit of a supernatural element too (or is there?)
    Alan Moore said:
    "A Small Killing, of all of the works that I have done over the course of my career, is the one I think of as the one that almost got away. I've always thought it was a wonderful work, one of the best things I've ever done."
    I guess he'd know.

    Thanks for taking a chance on Young Liars, Captain Si! I hope you like it. I hated it for about three issues, but when it kicked in it took my head with it. Vaya con dios!
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    I like how my suggestion is number 1, i'm gonna come in and admire it, maybe madly pointing it out to customers whilst shouting, "Buffy Was My Idea"...
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    I've read the first three parts of Young Liars. Its great! I can see why it generates a lot of 'hate', but there's something in there that reminds me of growing up and being in some horrible and bizarre situations! and Sadie...my god, I've known girls like that... that just jump right in and drag you along for the ride...whatever that might be.
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeFeb 8th 2010
     
    "Pretty tough to sell something not in stock". Stocking Small Killing only barely increases the chances of selling a copy. In the last 15 years I bet I've sold about 5 copies in total...
    That are quite a few totally awesome books that are, unfortunately, a wast of valuable shelf space.

    As good as Young Liars is... BRING BACK STRAY BULLETS!!!!!!!
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    "Pretty tough to sell something not in stock". I might buy another copy of A Small Killing by Alan Moore and Oscar Zarate (Avatar Press) as they did a h/b edition with Moore's own real words about the book. That sounds interesting. A Small Killing by Alan Moore and Oscar Zarate - one copy just ain't enough! I'll only buy it from OKComics though, it's what Knuckles O'Shaugnessey would do! If he was real, obviously.

    Stray Bullets won't come back until David Lapham can afford to do it. Imagine the hideous travesty of a World O'Comics where Stray Bullets is unprofitable. Oh. You don't need to imagine it...

    Captain Si, I'm glad Young Liars reflects the lives of you youngsters. I have heard this said many times. Sadly it does not reflect any aspect of my life yet lived. My sedate and untroubled life makes Jimmy Corrigan look like Final Crisis. Actually...when the spiders arrive Young Liars does ring a few bells. But I'm not supposed to talk about that.
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeFeb 8th 2010
     
    Maybe Stray Bullets was lost in a sea of Superhero comics a few years ago, but now, as Criminal, Scalped, Stumptown and all the Vertigo crime/mystery books sell so well I think the time's right to bring back Lapham's Stray Bullets.
    Somebody go tell him!
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeFeb 26th 2010
     
    Time to click refresh on the old Top Ten list again...
    Oliver has put this months list together, with a couple of additions from me. So I guess it's a list of mainly recently released staff recommendations.
    1. Hellblazer: Pandemonium
    2. Meanwhile by Jason Shiga
    3. Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks
    4. Nextwave by Warren Ellis (complete collection)
    5. Chimpanzee Complex Vol 2 Sons of Ares, but you also need volume one.
    6. Losers (volumes one and two)
    7. Old Man Logan (back in stock for the first time in ages!)
    8. Civil War
    9. Luna Park
    10. Mesmo Delivery Service

    If we weren't about to sell out of them, Kick Ass and Logicomix would both probably be on the list too...
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    Top top top 10. Some real good stuff there.

    I lent my original copy of Mesmo to someone who has now moved to Nottingham and has probably binned it. Apparently they're going for £150 on Ebay. Great. I could have flogged it and bought this whole Top 10!

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