PG2.3 Out On Earth
Oh, it wasn’t as if I wasn’t going to blog this here.
New issue of Phonogram out today in the UK (And yesterday in the US). Just got my comp copies, and it’s probably the densest yet. The David McNamee Knife interview packs over 2000 words in a couple of pages alone. Should be available from any good comic shop. If you would like a preview, look here. I’m compiling all the reviews here. Yet another really impressive bunch. I was a little worried that because Emily is a lot - er - spikier as a lead than either Penny or Marc, people may be turned off by that. Except it seems that Phonogram’s readership likes total bastards as much as phonogram’s creative teams.
(I’ve linked to the earlier reviews a lot elsewhere, so let’s call out a couple of new ones. Ron Ifanboy made it his pick of the week and Against Acedia did some actual detailed reading how how Jamie works a panel. It’s good to see people grapple with this kind of stuff, as it’s such an important part of the comics form.
In other news, we’ll be having some Phonogram drinks in the Ben Crouch off Oxford Street from 7:30 or so. Pop along if you’re in the area.
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“Against Acedia did some actual detailed reading how how Jamie works a panel”
I think that’s a braino (typo isn’t appropriate when it’s because you were thinking ahead in the sentence as opposed to missed the key you wanted
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By frymaster on 06.18.09 7:17 pm
Frymaster: Good phrase. That’s really what most of my grammatical fucks ups are. I’m writing a different sentence in my head and my fingers are trying to keep up. Same with me speaking actually.
KG
By Kieron Gillen on 06.19.09 12:33 pm
A neologistical infarction!
In other news: YES. YES I DID BUY THIS COMIC. AND MANY SPIDER-MAN COMICS. I AM READING SPIDER-MAN COMICS AGAIN. NO I WILL NOT UNLOCK GET YOUR HANDS OFF M-
Ahem. Of course I mean, “woo-ha.”
Backs-up ace: Leigh Gallagher’s supoib KwK tale needs to be included with the Singles Club trade, as a preface/sumamry/Previously In Phonogram. And poor Indie Dave. Poor, doomed-to-die-at-the-foot-of-a-bomb-labelled-ZUTONS Indie Dave.
Hrm. Something different about the faces…good-different…Hmf.
In other news, I feel condifent that if I knew Emily Aster, Spider-Sense waves of wriggling tadpole hate would describe a halo about my head every time she came within a hundred feet of me.
Hate. AND THE HORN.
Thu-wipp.
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By Matthew Craig on 06.19.09 5:39 pm
HATE AND THE HORN should be a superhero duo book.
KG
By Kieron Gillen on 06.19.09 5:43 pm
Let’s see…17.51 as I read your reply…hang on
(plugs in tablet
GiMP already open
new page
blue pencil sketch
inks
inks
short break for wristache
colours!
bg
more colours!
lippy
shading
cup of tea and two hours chat with best pal
LEGEND!
LOGO!
URL!
JAY-TO-THE-PIZZEG!
cross fingers internet holds
uploads, and…)
They Are Now!
That really wasn’t supposed to take four hours. I an’t ‘ad me tea, yet!
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By Matthew Craig on 06.19.09 9:42 pm
I LOLd at the Metaphor Metaphor Metaphor bit. That whole backup was excellent.
Also, Jamie McKelvie has made cigarette smoke in a comic not look a little bit lame. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that achieved before, and I read pretty much everything Warren Ellis writes.
By Jody Macgregor on 06.20.09 3:59 am
I think this might be the best yet.
(And I found Emily Aster really boring up to now.)
This was probably the least music-y issue you’ve done too, strangely…
(At least straight up. The metaphor is too big to really allow the music in over one issue. Which what I suppose series 3 is for.)
By Alex on 06.20.09 12:23 pm
Well, finally got round to this, and I’d have to agree with Alex above, this is my favourite yet, both in terms of the A and the two B sides.
The glimpse behind the cooler-than-thou bitchiness persona Emily has constructed for herself was wonderful. Kid-with-knife’s version of Rue Britannia was hilarious, and yes, what on earth possessed whoever-it-was to inflict *that* cover version on us.
By Simon on 07.22.09 9:41 pm
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