Currently horsing through Charles Burns' Black Hole ....

Er..... :lol:

In 70s Seattle, a strange disease is laying waste to the areas teenagers.
This being a compiling of the entire run of this comic.
Twas a pound and in excellent condition ... so wasn't much of a gamble. Halfway through and I'm still unsure of the outcome.

Favourites include
Maus
PREACHER
Alan Moore
The Amazing Screw On Head
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
The Walking Dead
Sandman
Grant Morrison

I've recently been getting into them, bought a bunch of Batman ones (with The Killing Joke (original colouring), Arkham Asylum, and Batman RIP being my favourite ones) and then decided I didn't want to amass a massive collection of graphic novels since I already have no space due to films and music, so bought a 12.9" iPad Pro to read digital comics on. I highly recommend it. Randomly bought the first hundred issues of Spawn on it the other night and have been reading those, pretty good. Got Ghost in the Shell ones and The Mask ready to read on it as well for when I travel to Japan next week.

Interesting...

Pete Townshend Turns Unmade Album 'Lifehouse' Into a Graphic Novel With Heavy Metal | Bleeding Cool

"Back in 1971, prog(ish)-rock band The Who were planning a rock opera movie with Universal Studios called Lifehouse as a follow-up to Tommy.

It never happened. Abandoned as a rock opera in favour of the album Who’s Next, its songs would appear on various albums and singles by the Who, as well as Pete Townshend’s solo albums, including Behind Blue Eyes, Won’t Get Fooled Again, and Baba O’Riley.

Fifty years later, it is fully coming to fruition as a graphic novel with Heavy Metal Magazine. And may even get back on the screen as a result.

Lifehouse will be published in July 2020, as a 150-page graphic novel based on Pete Townshend’s screenplay and music, written and drawn by Little Nemo’s James Harvey, set in a dystopian world that relates to today’s themes of politics, global warming, and technological reliance."


Townshend described 'Lifehouse' as:

“...a fantasy set at a time when rock ’n’ roll didn’t exist. The world was completely collapsing and the only experience that anybody ever had was through test tubes. In a way they lived as if they were in television programmes. Everything was programmed. The enemies were people who gave us entertainment intravenously, and the heroes were savages who’d kept rock ‘n’ roll as a primitive force and had gone to live with it in the woods. The story was about these two sides coming together and having a brief battle.

“Under those circumstances, a very old guru figure emerges and says ‘I remember rock music. It was absolutely amazing—it really did something to people.’ He spoke of a kind of nirvana people reached through listening to this type of music. The old man decides that he’s going to try to set it up so that the effect can be experienced eternally. Everybody would be snapped out of their programmed environment through this rock and roll-induced liberated selflessness. The Lifehouse was where the music was played, and where the young people would collect to discover rock music as a powerful catalyst — a religion as it were.”

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Just about to start this i know nothing about it has anyone read it?

I've read them yes, very good, but Neil Gaiman is one of my favourite writers so i might be biased.

The art is also brilliant :D

Cheers ill get started on my lunch break .

I've been meaning to restart it, I bought the new 'remastered' anniversary editions which came out a few months back.

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Sadly im only reading it online i just dont have the space for comics or graphic novels at the minute barely fitting films and vinyl in.

I just have this. Never read it, owned it years, somehow the case has got a bit scuffed. The reason it was to hand is because it was in a pile to give to the local Air Ambulance shop.

After giving up on The Walking Dead TV show a long time ago i decided to get back to the comics and put Sandman on hold until ill finish them.