THAT COMIC SMELL: Holy Grails and Intention Fails

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“If at first you don’t succeed, wait a couple years and come back to it I guess ”
Hello! Hello! Welcome to another edition of That Comic Smell. This time we are discussing the books that we have sought after. The ones that have sat on the shelves with a proverbial halo around them and angel chorus. We are talking about our absolute holiest of “Holy Grails” but in the same breath we are also discussing the ones that have sat on our shelves dormant and unused, waiting for us just to pick them up one day and actually flick through without putting them straight back and declaring them “Intention Fails”

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Mike: Holy Grails
• De Cape et de Crocs (Cloak and Fangs) (Alain Ayroles, Jean-Luc Masbou)
• Marvel Heroes Annual
• Secret Wars #1
• Captain America #308

Nando: Holy Grails
• Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salted Sea by Hugo Pratt
• Kamandi omnibus by Jack Kirby
• The Contract with God trilogy by Will Eisner
• From Thorgal by Van Hamme and Rosinski : Arachnea, The Blue Plague, The Kingdom beneath the Sun, The barbarian, Kriss of Valnor, The Sacrifice, Los tres ancianos del pais de Aran, La galera negra.
• From Blueberry by Charlier and Giraud: Sombras sobre Tombstone, OK Corral, Los montes de la supersticion, Dust, Geronimo el apache.
• Master of Kung-Fu issues: 59,60,64,66,68,71,72,74-76,79-82,97-101

David: Holy Grails
• Black Hole [La Trou Noir] (Jack Kirby) (GOT!)
• Incredible Hulk #1 (Stan Lee/Jack Kirby)
• Star Wars Contemporary Motivators (Linda A.Cadrain/Charles Nicholas)
• Original art: Kirby page from Hulk.

Giuseppe: Holy Grails
• belt up - thelwell's motoring manual
• Valiant or vulcan annual
• Groo the Wanderer, 1 to 3, 5 to 8, 10 and a few more...
• other Aragones stuff i'm missing such as a few Louder Than Words and a few Actions Speak
• Some master of kung fu from Gulacy period
• Missing Vigilantes 19, 25 and 50 of this series www.comics.org/series/2728/
• Sandman 1 to 4, 6, 74 and 75. issue 1 cheapest on ebay just now £35 i think, then it's up to 90 and up
• some shade the changing man

Tom: Holy Grails

• All Calvin and Hobbes! (GOT!!)
• An original Calvin and Hobbes page
• The Complete works of Paco Roca
• The Fourth World Series
• Eightball (Dan Clowes)
• Omega Men #3

All of our Intention Fails:

Potugal (Cyril Pedrosa)
Blankets (Craig Thomson) [COMPLETED! YAS GIUSEPPE! ;) )
Killing and Dying (Adrian Tomine)
Secret History Omnibus Vol.1 (Jean-Pierre Pécau, Igor Kordey, Carole Beau, Marshall Dillon)
Joe Kubert Presents (Various DC + Joe Kubert)
The Dumbest Idea Ever (Jimmy Gownley)
Last Gig in Shnagrlig (Gilbert Shelton)
Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? (Brian Fies)
Black Hole [La Trou Noir] (Jack Kirby)
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage (Sydney Padua)
King (Ho Che Anderson)
Flesh: The Dino Files (Various 2000AD)
Marvel Super-Heroes Omnibus (Various Marvel)
JLA: Year One (Mark Waid, Brian Augustyn, Barry Kitson)
Robin: Year One (Chuck Dixon, Scott Beatty, Javier Pulido, Marcos Martin)
Batman: Black and White (Various DC)

THAT COMIC SMELL 45: Slice of Life

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"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get”
It’s time for That Comic Smell to take a massive Slice of Life. Indeed, it is time for us to take a look at diary comics, a moment cut out of time, fiction that very much mimics life stories and so much more. We go from absolute belly laughs to comics that leave you heartbroken. All with an added deviation, where the folks here get into the real “Geek” of it all and talk shelf organisation. GET IN!
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Modern Slorance (Neil Slorance)
Asleep in the Back (Time Bird)
Bi the Way (MJ Wallace)
Various Hourly Comics (Alex Assan, Ell J Walker, Sammy Borras & mnay more)
Trashed (Derf)
Face down in the Mud (David B Cooper)
Scenes from an Impending Marriage (Adrian Tomine)
Strangers in Paradise (Terry Moore)
Kids are Weird (Jeffery Brown)
Our Super Adventure & American Adventure (Sarah Graley)
Momorias de un Hombre Pijama (Paco Roca)
Un Hombre en Pijama (Pacoa Roca)
Little Nothings (Lewis Trondhiem)
Astronauts of the Future (Lewis Trondhiem)
A Quiet Disaster (Alex Potts)
Peep Show (Joe Matt)
Spent (Joe Matt)
Graffiti Kitchen (Eddie Campbell)
American Splendor (Harvey Pekar)
The Black Hole (Whitman Comics)
Jimmy Corrigan (Chris Ware)
Dilbert (Scott Adams)
Hate! (Peter Bagge)
Monsieur Jean (Dupuy, Berberian)
Fungus the Bogeyman (Raymond Briggs)
Laptop Guy (Sha Nazir, Jack Lothian)
Superhero Therapy (Janina Scarlet, Wellinton Alves)"

THAT COMIC SMELL 28: The Seeds (Ann Nocenti & David Aja)

The new episode of That Comic Smell is now online. We discuss Ann Nocenti, David Aja, and their new comic The Seeds.

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"*SPOILERS AHEAD*
“They buried us but they didn’t know we were SEEDS”
The exact statement that is on the back of the book for this incredible book and the folks here take a deep dive into what makes it a great first issue.
Welcome to That Comic Smell Podcast. David, Nando, Giuseppe, Mike and Tom get into “The Seeds” by Ann Nocenti and David Aja. They also explore briefly what creations are behind this team and how they came to be on a comics on the great Karen Berger’s line at Dark horse “Berger Books”
We also get a look into how extensive Nando’s research head can go when faced with something he loves.
This and all the usual comics chat on the only comics podcast to have actually been grown in a garden…
That Comic Smell!"