Talossan Pannapictagraphist Society

[Iason Taiwos]

Going to start another quickly inactive Talossan organization because I doubt few of you collect comic books, but we're a real nation and should do what other nations do, so, I hereby establish the Talossan Pannapictagraphist Society. (The Cjovani Comics Library is well over 6000 volumes, with more coming in all the time.)

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

Adequate place to go on our conversation on comics & graphic novels ?

[Iason Taiwos]

Adequate place to go on our conversation on comics & graphic novels ?

Yep!

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

Do you know of the One-Stripe Album called « Phallaina » from Marietta Ren ?
Brand new graphic novel experience.. there's a version in english
https://www.francetvlab.fr/en/posts/phallaina-a-new-kind-of-graphic-novel
On ios and android

[Iason Taiwos]

Do you know of the One-Stripe Album called « Phallaina » from Marietta Ren ?
Brand new graphic novel experience.. there's a version in english
https://www.francetvlab.fr/en/posts/phallaina-a-new-kind-of-graphic-novel
On ios and android

I was unfamiliar with it...downloaded it, currently reading it. Absolutely fantastic!!! Is this the only thing like this?

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

Unfortunately I've never found anything as good as this..
I did a bit of googling yesterday, these are interesting :
https://www.matthuynh.com/theboat
http://www.mediaentity.net/mobile/en/  (only the 4 first chapters are for free)
Do you recommend any online graphic stories ?

[Iason Taiwos]

To be honest, I've not really looked into web comics that much. (I know, I'm really behind the times. It would certainly save me space...instead of having boxes of print comics stacked everywhere!) The most reading of comics I've done online have just been old public domain comics that people have scanned and uploaded to various websites.

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

The comics shelves of my local library.. wish I had more spare time !

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

Has the following album now been published in english ?
For me one of the best mainstream album those latter years
https://www.tcj.com/a-picture-isnt-always-worth-a-thousand-words/

Which album would you advise ?

One day we will be more than 2 in the club, and we'll organise the Talossan Comics Tournament ;-)

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

Interesting subject but boring story

[Iason Taiwos]

Has the following album now been published in english ?
For me one of the best mainstream album those latter years
https://www.tcj.com/a-picture-isnt-always-worth-a-thousand-words/

Which album would you advise ?

One day we will be more than 2 in the club, and we'll organise the Talossan Comics Tournament ;-)

As far as I can tell, it has not yet been published in English. Looks interesting, tho.
The American comics industry still seems to be largely dominated by the Big Two (Marvel and DC), and that's pretty much all you can find at our local comics stores. Indie books and imports are hard to find unless I go to one of the bigger stores, say, in Pittsburgh. (Well...manga is pretty popular everywhere.) So, most of the stuff I have access to is superhero comics. (Occasionally I'll find some offbeat stuff in the bargain bins.)
Recommending stuff is hard, because I'm not sure what all you like. If you like superheroes, I've been enjoying Dan Jurgens' run on Action Comics lately (Superman), which came out a few years ago. I'm not sure if they've been reprinted in trade paperback (or album) format yet. (I mainly collect single issues.) I've recently begun a re-read of Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which I think is great (I have the whole series.) I also really like Nemesis the Warlock...it's a British comic that came out in the eighties that I've recently discovered. The whole series has been reprinted in three volumes.
We actually have another member of the Society, Vitxalmour Conductour, who probably has over 10,000 comics by now. But he seldom gets on Witt.

[Tric’hard Lenxheir]

The only comic I have that might be mildly valuable is the issue of Superman when he returns from the dead and the plastic sleeve is autographed by the artist. I also have the first ever appearance in marvel comics of The Punisher but it is in horrible condition.

[Iason Taiwos]

The only comic I have that might be mildly valuable is the issue of Superman when he returns from the dead and the plastic sleeve is autographed by the artist. I also have the first ever appearance in marvel comics of The Punisher but it is in horrible condition.

Amazing Spider-Man #129? Yeah, it ain't worth anything. I'll gladly take it off your hands. 😆
Superman has died and resurrected in so many issues, I'll need more to go on. Issue number, title, and who signed it?

[Tric’hard Lenxheir]

I'm a truck driver and I won't be home until next weekend. I will see if I can find it

[Iason Taiwos]

I believe the issue Tric'hard is talking about may possibly be Superman #500. This run of Superman (from his death to resurrection) was fairly popular at the time, so they printed a whole bunch of every issue...I'm still finding them in dollar bins. However, #500 is a major key, and having it signed would make it slightly more valuable than an unsigned copy.

[Tric’hard Lenxheir]

I believe the issue Tric'hard is talking about may possibly be Superman #500. This run of Superman (from his death to resurrection) was fairly popular at the time, so they printed a whole bunch of every issue...I'm still finding them in dollar bins. However, #500 is a major key, and having it signed would make it slightly more valuable than an unsigned copy.

So probably worth $1.23

[Iason Taiwos]

https://comicbookplus.com/
This is a great source for extremely hard to find (public domain) comics.

[Iason Taiwos]

An American company, Papercutz (headed by former Marvel Comics editor Jim Salicrup) has begun releasing new editions of the Asterix books (three of the original albums per volume), and I've picked up the first four. I believe these editions cover books originally published from 1961-67. I read a few of the Asterix books when I was maybe 10 or 11, and loved them then. Re-reading them now as a fifty year old, they're still great, and I found myself laughing out loud quite a bit. Superb art and storytelling. Highly recommended. (No wonder they have an Asterix theme park in France.) (Asterix is apparently one of the most popular comics series in history, but sadly remains relatively unknown in the US.)
Other recent purchase was the premier issue of the revived "Savage Sword of Conan", by Titan Comics. The original Savage Sword was a black and white, magazine sized book published by Marvel, which ran from 1973 until sometime in the mid nineties. I was a big fan back in my teenage years. Glad to say, the first issue of the new series is great. Like the original, it's printed on newsprint (ahhh...inhale those pages, you can smell the ink!), and features a fine Conan story by Arcudi and Fafner. The back up story features Solomon Kane, story and art by Patch Zircher (may be actually better than the Conan story.) Well worth acquiring (the $6.99 cover price is nice.)

[Ián Tamorán S.H.]

I love Asterix! The English translations are wonderful - and all the better when you read the (original) French, which contains just as many puns and wordplays as the English. I giggle at both versions - excellent.
Come on, US - read Asterix!  :)

[Iason Taiwos]

I love Asterix! The English translations are wonderful - and all the better when you read the (original) French, which contains just as many puns and wordplays as the English. I giggle at both versions - excellent.
Come on, US - read Asterix!  :)

These books I got contain brand new English translations... in Volume One, it says "The previous excellent English translations by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge were wonderful, but our goal is to help make Asterix as accessible as possible to new generations here in the USA, while maintaining everything that made Asterix great in the first place."
I no longer possess my copies of those Bell/Hockridge editions, so I can't compare them to the new, "Americanized" translation. I do notice that they've changed Getafix back to Panoramix (which I understand was his name in the original French version), and there are footnotes supplying translations for all the Latin phrases used throughout the series. (Because they don't teach Latin as a required course in American schools.)
I'm trying to do a minuscule part in spreading the glory of Asterix, I've got my wife reading volume one, and hope to introduce them to the grandkids sometime soon.
Oddly enough, I discovered Asterix in England! I went on a school trip to England and Scotland as a kid. I was already a comic book fanatic by then. It was in the gift shop of the British Museum that I saw these interesting looking books on the shelf. I bought four or five of them, and absolutely loved them. I'm glad they are more easily available in the USA now. (Typical me behavior, I go on a trip overseas, and instead of buying more normal souvenirs, I come home with a bunch of comics!)