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[philippos42]

I don't think I'm going to get any new followers here, but I saw Squids do something like this, so here goes.

Name: Philippos, or Philip, or Flip, whatever.
Age: Old enough to have "distinguished" white streaks in my beard that I don't want.
What I'm doing on Dreamwidth: Not very much, really. I've been here for a while, but I don't write, really. I read a couple of communities.
Do I want followers? Sure, why not, what do I even care?
Do I check on my LiveJournal friends? Rarely. I should do that now.
Did I delete my Tumblr? Nah.
Fandoms: In an AO3 fanworks sense? Not really, not anymore. I was very briefly in Narnia fandom.
In a looser sense? I like comic books.
I used to watch television.
I was at one time pretty familiar with BtVS and Star Trek up through ENT.
My favorite Doctor is Jon Pertwee.
I like music but I don't understand it.
Wait, what comic books? What've you got?
I reflexively want to defend Chris Claremont against people who think he's all horror and les yay.
My favorite Hernandez Brother is Xaime.
I know a little bit about Carla Speed McNeil, Matt Howarth, and Joe Linsner.
I know a lot about Wonder Woman, apparently.
I like Yotsuba&!
I read a few webcomics, too. I might read yours, if you ask.

What else?
I don't ship anybody. Why be disappointed?
I have been accused of "negging" a friend of mine's work. I was having a hard time saying nice things about work which was not my kind of thing. Seriously! I'm still sore about this.

Comments

[esteefee]

Love and Rockets kind of passed me by. Where should I start?

I don't say nice things if I don't mean them but I do know how to fake compliment. "I can tell you put a lot of work into it." :D :D :D

I was way into pre-Simpsons Groening (I grew up in SoCal) and read Lynda Barry and Life in Hell obsessively and followed stickerdude around trying to grab his creations up before they dried so I could stick them on my walls at home (you have to believe my mom adored me).

Someday we'll get into the same comics. rn I'm trying to backtrace Daredevil. Don't know how far back I want to go. He's such a smartass, though.

[philippos42]

I'm not even sure where to say you should start with Los Bros. I think Beto has had the weirdest and most diverse career. Xaime's mostly known for the Maggie stories, I guess. I've read much less of Mario.

If you can find the collections of the original series through your library, that's as good a place to start as any. Probably.

The Mario stories I've read are pretty good little shorts. There is a verisimilitude to them, and they may be actual childhood memories.

Beto's work, under various titles, is all over the map in terms of content and theme, but a shocking amount of it is interconnected. I haven't gotten through all the old stuff. Some of his later work seems to go back to his absurdist roots and is just surreal. He may be the least concerned with visual realism as such, but he also became the one with the characters that age the most. He's weird.

I think Xaime's the one who really committed to a few characters. He had a cast of pretty distinct and pretty attractive (if flawed) female characters. A lot of his work is strongly rooted in realism and the feeling of lived experience, which means actual rockets are much less in frame pretty quickly. But then, some of the Penny Century stories are deliberately unreal.

I dunno. I'm not an expert. I got a bunch of Penny Century comics a long time ago, read some old L&R somewhere, and kept seeing weird Beto projects around. But I haven't kept up.

[esteefee]

Cool, thanks for the run-down. I'm thinking it's time to head to the library.