The LOVE AND ROCKETS Livestream! Deep Dive SUNDAY!
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- We continue our Love and Rockets celebration with a live look at fifty magazines, (not quite) fifteen trades, a mass market library, and a five volume box set? Something this massive needs a luxuriant livestream, so bring your snacks and drinks!
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Love & Rockets has amazed and surprised me for decades and I very much appreciate your comments on it. My best wishes to you.
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video and my very best wishes to you as well!
I had a bad flu about 15 years away and whilst I was recovering a friend brought over their complete Vol 1 collection that I read over th course of 2-3 days. It was revelotory! I finally got what the hype was about. When Love Bunglers was released it was a culmination of decades of stores. I wept in joy. Whilst Jaime is the assured classicist Gilbert’s work grow on me more and more. Both all time greats. More L+R please.
So much comics reading has taken place at times of sickness, for all of us, all over! Thanks for sharing and so glad to have your comments! Cheers!
Hey, I'm from South Carolina in the US. I love the range and variety of Love & Rockets, but it also has such a profound legacy. These characters grow over time, and it's amazing to see how organically that happened. I wish this series had stuck in the cultural zeitgeist more, but I will say, it is incredibly of it's time in the best of ways. Every volume feels like it is of the time it takes place. It's the guy on the streets perspective of culture and history.
Legacy is a wonderful word for it! I also read someone saying that time is a central character in this comic, and I heartily agree!
Great show. Thanks for doing the leg work to explain the reading order, different collections and just being a great channel. wish you all the health and happiness to you and yours.
Thank you so much, so glad you enjoyed the video, and all the very best to you and yours as well!
Thanks for the valuable work you're doing. I'm a seasoned reader of both Jaime's and Gilbert's work--and even own some original Jaime pages!--and thought there was a lot of important context in your discussion/deep dive, even for readers already familiar with the series. Will definitely listen to future livestreams.
Wow, this means a lot coming from a seasoned reader, thank you so much!
While I'm trying to be as accessible to new or unknowing readers in talking about the series, I was nervous about how my presentation may be seen by other fans - if they think I'm misrepresenting something, for example.
And original Jaime art pages? That's a dream! ♥️
I'm just reading The Girl From Hoppers now based on your recommendation and really enjoying it. I think I'll carry on with Jamie's books for now then try Gilbert's at a later date. I don't have the funds for both at once!
Oh, I'm thrilled to hear that! And I think you'll really enjoy watching Jaime evolve his characters and stories, so don't worry about the approach. Fund management is a necessary skill in this game 😁!
@@ftloc I picked this up on a visit to London earlier this month. Finally made it to Gosh. For the sake of fund management its probably a good thing there are no comic shops in my town 😂!
Couldn't make the livestream but I have been anticipating this video! I'm hoping to finally take the plunge into Love and Rockets
OK I like the idea of an ongoing commentary, also watching from Canada
I hope you enjoyed the ramble that the municipality had to step in and stop with a power outage! My reputation grows! 😁
@@ftloc finally got around to finishing the video, I forgot to add comments along the way, I'll say I'm still torn on the re-readability of the library editions vs the extras of the box set. As for the power going out, you should have known better than to bring attention to the Love and Rockets logo and trade dress of older editions, we all know what happens wh-
Fun fun video! You did a great job tackling a giant octopus of a subject!! :)
I stepped away for a bit and missed the poweroutage issue. I hope all is okay.
@@sleepyreader666 this feels like a direct comment by the city municipality on my rambling livestream...
@@ftloc lol
You were onto something that was supposed to stay a mystery: How to collect L&R. So they cut your power. I'm sure if you check only your house went dark. This might sound like a conspiracy theory but only because it is.
I enjoyed your live stream so much that I watched it live from the beginning. This was good. It all makes more sense now and I'm(quite) sure how I collect if/when I decide to step in.
Very kind of you to say - I thought this was predictably chaotic and scattered, and feel I need to make a more boiled down, concise video.
But that was maybe one of the points of this - to demonstrate how crazy things can look but how they all have some sort of system behind them... 😁
Watched and listened in 5 sessions where the video ran from start to finish each. I hope this boils down in your numbers.
It`s on par with a Rogan podcast, I`ll have you know.
I'm deeply touched, and thrilled you enjoyed it so much! Thank you!
Just on the superhero vs indie criticism point, one of the things I heard a lot from mainstream comics fans was, nevermind that the books were always called “weird” but that black and white comics weren’t even considered “real” comics from the superhero crowd. So from my perspective the harsh criticism of the superhero fans comes as a backlash to some degree. It’s a bigger conversation as to what I agree or disagree with in those kinds of takes but that’s my memory of that time period.
Makes perfect sense and I love getting that on-the-ground at-the-time insight! As a relative latecomer who discovered these works - and their reputations - later, I have the luxury of mainly hearing from the 'we knew they were great' gang! 😁
There is something I find fascinating in what you call "superhero crowd". I keep being perplexed by how gargantuan the superhero world is. Just by focusing on them you can fill many rooms with comics(I think Batman stories alone would do it). They're like Las Vegas casinos that are built so that customer doesn't find a way out and keeps playing as long as they have money. It'd be easy to criticize superhero fans for "traveling the same circle" all the time but there really isn't any ecosystem like that in Manga or Franco-Belgian comics.
This didn't really have much to do with the content of your comment. Just a random thought it sparked. I just sometimes get these moments of awe in front of superheros that I don't even read a lot.
@analogcomics You're absolutely right, but "after all, it's corporations buying and sweatshopping IP" I think in my most cynical times. It's good that they employ so many artists (here I lump all creators) but there's also plenty of evidence on how exploitative and greedy a system it is.
Dominance in the numbers/ the mazelike ubiquity is then a result of this giant, for-scale machinery, and I am not a fan of the business culture it creates, one that relies on licensing and derivatives and work for hire/ no creator rights to make its profits.
@@ftloc You put in words many of my own thoughts about the industry behind the superhero behemoth. It still gives me the awe just because of its size and dominance. It's just something that could never happen in my local small market. It's like skyscrapers. They will never happen in Finland, I wouldn't want to live in one but still they make my jaw drop every time I see one.
But here I am looking at it more from the angle of a fan. If you get committed it is a maze unlike anything. But this may also contribute to the discontent(sometimes even anger) I now see/hear from many channels focusing on superheros. If your hobby of comics is built on that one thing it leaves you marooned if the owners of those IPs decide to change the content too much for your liking.
They pointed fingers @comicKkrakK for having a multiple roads to walk in the world of comics. This reminds me to keep my own eyes open for new things too. Honestly, I don't know what I'm trying to say here. Just making noise and using oxygen😅
Hello brother, are you read ' ponniyen selvan ' comics.?