THAT COMIC SMELL: This Year's Intention Fails, Favourite Reads & Christmas Gift Show Off

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From the website:

"On this episode we get together to discuss our “Intention Fails” and whether we managed to get through our 3 for this year and what we chose for the year ahead.

For those who weren’t there for the first time ‘Intention Fails’ are comics that we bought with every intention of reading but have then sat on the shelf for some time, unread. So we take this time to pick 3 particular titles and attempt to read them in the year. We have done it for roughly 3-4 years now.

Nando, on the other hand, reads his comics as soon as he gets them. SO for him, he was sharing his top reads of 2022. The rest of the gang did this also.

Just as an added extra, we all brought along some comics that we got as gifts over the Christmas period. This was just a chance to show off. They say that “No one likes a show off” Well we love one in this case.

This and all the usual comics chat on…

That Comic Smell!

The Incredible Hulk (Stan Lee, Jack Kirby)

Millar & Pinchin (Leopold Maurer)

Autobiographix (Various Dark Horse Creators)

Day of the Triffids (John Wyndham)

Middlewest (Skottie Young, Jorge Corona)

Now (Fantagraphics)

Mome (Fantagraphics)

The Work of Lewis Trondheim

We Told You So: Comics as Art (Tom Spurgeon, Michael Dean)

Minimum Wage (Bob Fingerman)

London's Dark (James Robinson, Paul Johnson)

Alec (Eddie Campbell)

Lobo (Alan Grant, Simon Bisley)

Pogo (Walt Kelly)

Manga Theatre (Akira Toriyama)

Donald Duck: Lost in the Andes (Carl Barks)

Deathlock (Rich Buckler, Doug Moench)

Karl the Viking (Don Lawrence, Ted Cowan)

Garfield (Jim Davis)

Captain Harlock (Levi Matsumoto)

Fists of the North Star (Buronson, Tetsuo Hara)

Blacksad (Juanjo Guarnido, Juan Díaz Canales)

Fantastic Four: Full Circle (Alex Ross)

Emotional World Tour (Paco Roca, Miguel Gallardo)

Xenozoic (Mark Schultz)

Lobo: Convention Special (Alan Grant, Kevin O'neil, Keith Giffen)

Mort Cinder (Alberto Breccia, Héctor Germán Oesterheld)

Weird Western Tales: Jonah Hex (Michael Fleisher, JOhn Albano, Jose Garcia Lopez)

Pocket Thoughts (Anthology)

Liget (Anthology)

Dejects (Jay Stephens)

Crashpad (Gary Panter)

Mechaboys (James Kochalka)

Star Trek: Death Before Dishonour (Peter David, James W. Fry)

Marvel Masters of Suspense (Steve Ditko, Stan Lee)

One More Year (Simon Hanselmann)

Megahex (Simon Hanselmann)

Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam (Simon Hanselmann)

Bad Gateway (Simon Hanselmann)

Seeds and Stems (Simon Hanselmann)

Below Ambition (Simon Hanselmann)

Maison Ikkoku (Ruiko Takahashi)

All The Marvels (Douglas Wolk)

Eightball (Daniel Clowes)

Creepy Creations (Ken Reid)

Dynamite Diva: One Eyed Wild Ride (Jasper Jubenville)

Cosmic Slop #1 (Jordan Barry-Browne)

Blammo #9 (Noah Van Sciver)

Jungleland (Adam Falp)

Calvin and Hobbes: Tenth Anniversary Book (Bill Watterson)"

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