I really appreciate that; thank you. :-)

RABBITS!
Like, no I was thinking to break the pics up with some commentary, which I quite like.

Sorry folks.
I’m truly in the middle of two critical deadlines, hopefully something makes sense upon all that…?

No, wait-- here we go: (my olde review)

FREAKANGELS (Ellis, Duffield) [British] - Set in and around London, these books are based on a classic SF story in which a group of paranormally-gifted chlldren are born at the same time, in the same area. This version explores the idea of what would happen if they were allowed to grow to adulthood. The result is, well… the collapse of England!

This series is raw, intense, and features excellent dialogue, even as the characters are more or less constantly fussing & fighting, even as they’re meanwhile growing in ability. I also thought the female leads were especially well-written and convincing. My main quibble with this series is that the day-to-day depiction of the setting, internal logistics and minor characters are so underdeveloped as to be almost nonexistent. This really is all about the relationships between the main characters and how their special abilities impact them. Still, this was otherwise an excellently-developed work… overall the best post-apocalyptic story of paranormal variety I’ve ever read. Note: this was originally an online comic, later issued in GN form. The full run is also archived. --Johnny

Okay, trying to preserve this one (via Archiva.Org), but having some difficulties, let’s see…

Another great one. oO
Thank you so much for finding and posting these!

So, matey, do you know how many of these pieces he did for Cameron, and more relevantly, how much of Moeby’s ideas ultimately got used in the film?

I’m not much of a theatre-goer myself, but I remember a buddy back East wanting to see the film in theatre, and so we did! I recall it having a lot of CGI, with such being pretty ground-breaking (edit) art at the time, I believe.

Not a ‘perfect’ film let’s say, but something that had never been seen before… I think! 😅

For sure. I’d argue what makes it even more brutal is the friendly, artificial face it puts on the system. You can especially see it on commercials and mainstream tv. It makes it even more repulsive when the conditions of capitalism are given some utopia, Fisher Price look.

Yeah, exactly. Well said.

The only kind of means I can countenance when it comes to such media, games, etc are those in which the art of the medium heavily mocks all that nonsense and false-cheeriness about modern capitalism.

Kinda inconvenient sometimes, in that I love phone and webgames for when I’m stuck in bed; unfortunately a lot of them totally buy in to the ‘capitalism = happiness’ model, rendering otherwise good games pretty much… “shite” in my book, lol. :/

Agreed.

Late-stage capitalism in all its unglory is pretty plainly brutal, as I observe it. Except for Finland, haha.

Interesting, thank you!
Maybe-kinda makes sense, given the situation…?

Haha, that’s what I was hoping for!

Some of that byproduct they used for broth, and some, they solidified in to ‘hog cakes,’ chopped up right in front of the consumers, who kept saying “Wow, this is really good pork!”

😉

Do you reckon that in the animation, the sweat of the bathing / sparring / aerobic hogs went directly in to the broth? XD

That would have been HILARIOUS, and maybe even no animals would have needed to be slaughtered. <3

Wow, that’s great! Cute, amusing, clever, nice storytelling, nice art, nice mastery of overall cartooning.

I’ll be adding this series to the list unless there’s any objections.

Thanks!

Found a little more info via “pickelhaubes” and Google AI, combining them below:

Sergeant Josef Mambo, born in 1885 in Tanga, East Africa (modern “Tanzania?”), came to Germany as a child in 1897 and later served as a kettle drummer in the 3rd Prussian Horse Grenadiers, eventually being promoted to Sergeant during World War I.

Sgt. Mambo was wounded twice - once in Russia and once at Verdun in France. He was one of many Africans who fought for the Kaiser during the war.

Emphasis mine, above. I’d not known about all this and would like to hear some of their stories.

Wow, I hadn’t heard about that before, but somehow it fits.

Unfortunately, along with their ‘high work ethic,’ I understand Japanese corporations and office workers have some traditions going on that are in turn killing the economy, and even the quality of their own lives. A big one of course is the idea that it’s the height of gauche to leave work before your superior does, leading the average salaryman to stay at the office many more hours than he needs to, spending much of that time shuffling papers, napping, and mainly just wasting their time in order to save face. This leads to the person in question being able to spend much less time with their family. That’s just a classic, super-well known problem, tho. The difficulties run much deeper, I’m afraid, part of why I’m somewhat morbidly curious reading r/japan and r/japanlife on the regular.

Ooh, I remember that! oO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW3sqB7RTIc

Ernst Haeckel

Ah, cool! I don’t think I’ve seen a plate like that from him before. I thought at first these were something like diatoms, but it looks like they’re mainly… Radiolaria.

Funny, I think I still have my old microscope in my ‘science box’ of stuff. Around 13yo I used to like looking at pond water and prepared slides, fascinated by those little worlds.

In Japan, I understand there to be a saying “wabi-sabi” that in some interpretations means something like “nothing is finished, nothing is perfect, and nothing lasts.”

Since their national perfectionism can get out of hand at times (my interpretation), I think one can see how useful such a balancing phrase can be.

one of the radio stations I can get out here is exclusively in French, there’s some great sounding music on there too.

Feel free to name it if you can, as maybe they have an online presence I can stream. I’ve kind of run out of French music to listen to at the moment.

especially Fantagraphics Comics.

Aye, they’ve also helped me get more in to BD. Before I started seeing Euro titles come up through Fanta, I’d pretty much only read Tintin, Asterix and Lucky Luke. I guess that shift first happened ~17yrs ago, and at time all I was reading was indie/alt, like you I guess.

In the next week or so I am going to find some sites that cover BD exclusively

If it helps, I’ve done roundups of such news/review/discussion sites that can be found on the sidebar. They’re mostly in French (turn on translate), but Pipeline Comics happens to be an American who mainly covers Euro comics. Titus is real good, too!

I made a note of them for that fact alone since it hadn’t occured to me to look at the BD output outside of the mainstream publishers.

At some point I should really try to make a master list of all the publishers I can. Unfortunately, apart from current events, I’m slowed way down by having CFS/ME, and on top of that I get pretty discouraged sometimes by the seemingly endless image-posting issues both here and at Imgur, which I try not to use, anymore.

Ah yes, that’s exactly something I chased for years, particularly in the arts. Trying to always retain the child’s sense of wonder, and so forth.

Dang, what an extensive, fun article(!) So good to see Quebec represented there, as I tend to think of Canadian comics as being closer to Euro comics than the USA’s output. But still there are many outliers, so that’s probably too simplistic of an overall assumption.

For me, Guy Delisle is perhaps the Canadian whose many works I appreciate best, but François Vigneault also did the incredible sci-fi political thriller in Titan. Would love to see more from him. Michel Rabagliati of course with his great Paul series.

I’m still quite new to the BD scene

Wow, I’m a bit surprised to hear that. In any case, I appreciate it very much, you’re helping out here.

I also discovered some new publishers to check out such as Le Monte-en-l’air, La Pasteque and Les Requins Marteaux.

Interesting. I’m unfamiliar with them.

Hmm, I just wish TCJ would add the tag "Bande dessinée” or “BD” to articles like these, such that I could click once and then binge-read for hours…

Wow. Just as you said once before, every time I think I’ve seen all of Moeby’s styles, he’ll blow me away like this. oO

Well, unless you’re an absolute genius, which I am personally NOT, I’d say say that “watercolor” is kinda like wrestling with reality… i.e., it’s so EASY to get in to, yet… … … like chasing an ever-elusive goal, is that right?