THAT COMIC SMELL: Intention Fails Revisited (Plus Xmas Swag)

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"Come back with us to the start of the year. Christmas had not long been, Santa had not long visited the TCS HQ and all of us were bestowed with comics goodies and ready to show them off and talk about them.
Now cast your mind back to the start of 2020. The Folks here at the pod went through their “Intention Fails” the comics in which they bought with reading being the number one priority, then it never happened. Well, we revisit those top 3 intention fails of ours and see how we got on. Did we manage to read them? Do we have more for the comic year? What are stuff do we waffle on about?
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The Dumbest Idea Ever (Jimmy Gownley)
Last Gig in Shnagrlig (Gilbert Shelton)
Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? (Brian Fies)
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage (Sydney Padua)
King (Ho Che Anderson)
Flesh: The Dino Files (Various 2000AD)
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)
Atomic Hercules: Goes Commando (Tony Esmond, Adam Falp)
DC Through the 80's: The End of Eras (Various DC Creators)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection Volume 1 (Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird)
Maus (Art Spiegelman)
Marney the Fox (Scott Goodall, John Stokes)
Judge Dredd Volume 1: The Complete Case Files (Various)
What we Don't Talk About (Charlot Kristensen)
The Story of Sex (Philippe Brenot, Laetitia Coryn, Will McMorran)
Daredevil: Born Again [ARTIST EDITION] (David Mazzucchelli)
The Celts (Hugo Pratt)
Daltokyo (Gary Panter)
CABBIE (Marti)
Batman: Strange Apparitions (Marshall Rogers, Steve Englehart, Dennis O'Neil)
Laika (Nick Abadzis)
Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World (Penelope Bagieu)
New York Drawings (Adrian Tomine)
Challengers of the Unknown (Jack Kirby)
Superboy and the Legion of Superheroes (Paul Levitts & Various)
Wonder Woman 75 Years (Various)
Regreso al Edén (Paco Roca)
Universo! (Albert Monteys)
On a Sunbeam (Tillie Walden)
Box Office Poison (Alex Robinson)
An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons & True Stories Vol.2 (Various: Edited by Ivan Brunetti)"

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)

MEDIA SCANS

Some comics related articles from the December press...


















Starting off with a bumper review of the year section from The Times 05/12/09. This covers Joe Daly's The Monkey Double Happiness Book, Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadmitirion's Logicomix, Paul Hornschemeier's All and Sundry, Jason's Low Moon, Bruce Paley and Carol Swain's Giraffes in my Hair: A Rock 'n' Roll Life, Harvey Pekar's Working, Nate Powell's Swallow Me Whole and Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia.


















From The Telegraph 12/12/09, an interview with Alan Moore regarding his Dodgem Logic magazine.
















The Guardian 12/12/09 also reviews Logicomix, along with Joe Sacco's Footnotes in Gaza and Gilbert Shelton's Fat Freddy's Cat.


















A more lengthy Footnotes in Gaza review from the Scotsman 19/12/09.