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Absolutely beautiful floppies, Hercules. VBodē is amazing. I continue to see his characters and lettering integrated in the graffiti on the trains behind our yard. If you’re curious, see 1266 for an example and 1269 for my collection and thoughts on father and son

More incredible artwork and colors. I see a bunch of Wrightson. Thanks Hercules

Yes, the interior Phoenix art was definitely reminiscent of Gold Key comics such as Dagar (which I very much liked as a little kid); technically quite nice but rather static and with overly stylized faces and slightly garish coloring, but it definitely was distinctive. Like many of the Atlas comics, the first issue was pretty good, if somewhat underdeveloped, but it held promise...but clearly the art and story got more rushed in the following two issues, likely because (from what I've read) the artists and writers very quickly found out they were getting paid late or getting shorted, so they were not giving their best efforts. Then the whole final issue radical flip to essentially second-or third-rate Marvel books, and then cancellation. But man, thanks for the respect shown to the artwork and inking on the Dark Avenger, which was just absolutely beautiful for its era.

Myron Moose is meh, but Good Jive is mostly Grass Green and really really sleazy stuff. I mean Cormac McCarthy bad, if you dig. Great stuff if you dig Green, which I do. Actually, I take that back about Myron Moose, I forgot about the glossy Playboy style foldout of a lady moose. They also published L.A. Comics #2, don't think there was a #1. Its great, art by Icelandic Codpiece Comic Studios, any idea who they were/are?

What else is there to say, this comic is pretty much perfect. The Cuti strip was a revelation to me, seriously weird and kind of creepily sexy. Love the Burroughs allusion too. Chesney is just my sort of wonky, straight Golden Age ghoulishness. I read Laugh in the Dark a while back, it too is perfect in that particularly wonderful underground way that most anthology books will never be.

Wasn't "The Dark Avenger at Home" the title of Dan Clowes ill-fated attempt to revive the character? This actually kind of reminds me of All-Time Comics from Ben Marra and Josh Bayer, mostly just the Gonzo tone.

Spot-on with the Gold Key comparison, I'm having intense memories of the stack of cheap Star Trek and Outer Limits comics in my closet as a child. It's like Amendola (sp?) looked at Woody's 22 panels that always work and did the opposite. Anti-storytelling works for Luis Bunuel, but sadly this is not a surrealist comic. A well-designed overgrown Oompa-Loompa would go on the list with spider eggs in my brain and weasels tearing my flesh, even creepier than the friggin' Lollipop Guild.

Hercules have you seen that Mego has released dolls of all of Atlas titles? Pretty amazing. Grim Ghost is my favorite

The existence of this comic is definitive proof that Americans are weird.

Tiger Man looks so awesome! I like the way he fights criminals too! I like his enhance condition; strength! Not only that, but I am glad Tiger Man is no push over! Awesome comic books, Guy!

Funny, just last week, I purchased three of Haven’s books - including this one - from Abebooks. I’ll return to this video once I’ve received and read my copy.

The Highway is a stunner, those pinups are sweet

Sentences like "and here Eric Haven has just buried Dan Clowes in an unmarked grave" help me get through the day. I love the way Afterlife Clowes looks straight out of Velvet Glove. And I'm damned if the panel of the tv when he sits down to eat in Mammology isn't the Gorn. Great clean cartooning, some of the inks remind me of Burns, especially the cover of the issue you showed. Which I would keep for those covers alone. I long ago lost my struggle against the comics, and truthfully I didn't fight very hard. I'm wearing a tie is like a really dark Kids in the Hall sketch.

I have his Gag Reflex from '94, a self-published collection on one pagers and gag strips, gotta look for this. His figures just get wonkier and funnier. Not enough yeggs in modern comics, or gunsels either.

Interesting that sending all the dreamers and malcontents off world results in general serenity. It sounds like fascism to me, and not a world I'd want to live in. Miller wrote Canticle for Liebowitz, right? It's been a long time since I read that, but if I recall the discovery of old knowledge causes the complete upheaval of the existing order. Interesting parallels. Nice art too. The McIntyre inside cover reminds me of Sergio Toppi, great inking.

I love Skip Williamson‘a style. Wasn’t aware of Pighead. I’ll seek this out. Thanks, Hercules.

I like a little bit more Beatty’s inking than Jones on his own, just a little bit- it’s crispier and the faces are better defined.

Gilbert is becoming a favourite at my house, this guy's got dozens of styles, all of them appealing. I would've liked to see some Warren work from him, his goony horror-ish stuff is great.

What a big beautiful slab of comics. The Krigstein strip is fascinating, it's loose and kind of less-than in the same way Munoz' later Alack Sinner stuff is, but still great pages. Tardi used a lot of tones early in his career, and pretty much none post-2000. This is based on nothing more than my own observations of course. I miss them a bit in his later work, they set off his cartoony figures very well.

Yeah, pretty weak issue, love that cover though, reminds me of an old Lovecraft paperback. Bpnichol was (and maybe still is) a pretty good poet in the ee cummings school of minimalist modernist verse, which may explain that abrupt ending.

Love this man’s art. All of these should be reprinted in large european comics format. That’s when this really shines…

Whut even is this?!? Looks amazing. I just picked up the hardcover collection. So Troy directed the 2010 remake of Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark ( I was sure it was Del Torro, but he’s the producer. ) loved the original television movie version from 1973, so I will need to see Troy’s version now. Thanks as always, Hercules.

My friend! Hollywood broke up with me in 2016. I've created lots of comics since then and just started an ongoing series. :D

I belong to the blank generation. 0:04

More of the best, I think the Satan strip is reprinted in a Kramer's Ergot or one of Brunetti's anthologies. Is/was Kaz one of the last great strip cartoonists? Underworld cracked me pretty consistently up, moreso even than Life in Hell. Kaz + every drug ever ingested for pleasure = Henriette Valium. Sidetrack City is wild shit, and you hit it on the head with Max Fleischer, some of his cartoons are just as wild and creepy. Makes me think also of Ellsworth The Understanding Monster.

Just beautiful, I love Nixey's ornate worlds and bizarrely expressive faces. What an ink-slinger, this makes me think of Tardi's weird dada strips like Farewell, Brindavoine or Hans Rickheit's Squirrel Machine, not to mention the general Ray Bradbury dark carnival vibe. I can recommend Vinegar Teeth from dark horse, great sf-noir pastiche. He says he's drawing new comics, so coming soon I guess.

Got this one! Unfortunately long out of print and Fantagraphics doesn’t give a damn

Hell yeah foo

This is the real stuff. Keep up the good work.

I hear u but i love the cover, it is simplistic

Never have seen this Mammoth installment. I just picked up a copy on eBay for $10. Looks amazing. Thanks, Hercules.

Wow what a tour de force anthology - almost all great authors and artists. Too bad it’s not exclusive material and some of the art suffer from the reduced format. Still, this kind of objects should really be printed more often.

8:17 I'm pretty sure those tribesmen were lifted straight from Little Nemo.

I too will look as long as it takes to find this now that I know it exists. Great stuff all around, but the writing is a bit of a letdown. Thompson was a very fine political writer, a great sportswriter too. Some of his funniest stuff is about Nixon, so I was expecting some political stuff. Sadly as in real life the legendary drug-taker and noted gun nut image overtook the substance of his writing. His run for sherrif of Woody Creek, Colorado would've made a great strip, in fact I'm shocked it hasn't been done yet (Fred Schrier would be my choice, or Mavrides).

i just got some Dens that i had lost in my collection, a true master!

A few years ago I picked up a stack of early Heavy Metals, a bunch of which had been amongst the stack I kept under my bed when I was 13. More than one page had the same effect on me as that Marshall page did on you. Mostly drawings of Valentina, but I stared at a lot of Corben too, wink wink, nudge nudge.

So after shitting on airbrush in the last issue I must admit that Rivoche strip is pretty sexy. Nothing beats that inside front cover, though, looks like one of Wrightson's 70's DC covers, minus the hedgerows of course.

I’ve only read this on the collected trade. Good to see the individual issues. Thanks, Hercules

I see some Moonshadow era Muth in there too. This to me is beautiful and terrifying in equal measure, McKean's art here chills me more than anything in Black Dog. The musical chairs sequence is Toth level brilliance, and more evidence that McKean should stop messing about with multi-media and take up the brush again.

This just looks like the late 70's, especially the Motter strip. My mileage on airbrushed stuff varies wildly, just gotta have that line work.

In light of the truly atrocious and disgusting and dehumanizing accusations convincingly leveled at Gaiman, no one, of any level of actual decency, would direct a single cent his way. The man deserves to be rotting behind bars along with P. Diddy.

Miss him so much.

looks good! i love his style. in some of the panels you were calling crude it almost looks like calvin and hobbes type rendering. surprising and amusing!

Great story and art but I rather read it in hardcover format. I wonder this and others will be reprinted in the new Corben collection?

Spain always shows up for his political strips, so lovely.

Yet another reason we're lucky to have Fantagraphics. I've been reading a lot of undergrounds lately, my revolutionary spirit had a rough week, so thanks for this one.

HEY HERCULEZIf New York City was the world then everyone would use the word "FUCK" as a term of endearment. I know. I've been there a few times❤LOVE NEW YORK CITY🍎

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HOWDY HERCULEZI watched that animated film ROCK AND RULE I think Lou Reed was in it. This comic definitely looks like that film

Yeah, we know what happened to Gaiman: he became a celebrity who does celebrity stuff! 😅 I like Violent Cases and Signal to Noise a lot - the rough edges both in story and art allow to grasp a sense of Gaiman and Mckean’s processes.