The Funnybook Babylon Podcast is back at full power and looking at a trio of books written by a trio of homophonic dudes!
Yes, This is Being Published: Brightest Day #1 (DC) by Geoff Johns, Peter Tomasi and a Big Bag of Artists
Underground (Image Comics) by Jeff Parker & Steve Lieber (collected edition out this week)
Sweet Tooth Volume 1: Out of the Woods (DC/Vertigo) by Jeff Lemire (collected edition also out this week)
This was a happy accident, the Trio of [Geo/J]effs, and one we may follow up on in the future. What show would you guys like to see? The Briancast? The Petercast? The Sarahcast? The Bongcast? Let us know!
Sweet Tooth is Jeff Lemire’s first comic that’s being written in single issues. Also, I agree with Jamaal in that there’s so many other works in existence that it’s hard to recommend most comics. Podfading.
Comment by Mike (from Columbus) — May 16, 2010 @ 5:46 pm
I’m pretty sure Jamaal has read issue six, and agrees with how amazing it was.
Comment by Pedro Tejeda — May 16, 2010 @ 9:16 pm
Mike,
I thought the first five issues were fine, and the sixth issue was great. I just don’t think that readers will (or should) wait this long for a book to find its legs. The problem’s not that its ‘hard to recommend most comics’, but that there is a lot of amazing work that’s continually being released or republished or waiting to be discovered. In a cluttered marketplace, no one has six months.
Comment by Jamaal Thomas — May 18, 2010 @ 3:32 pm
I’m now going to buy issues 4-6 of Sweet Tooth. I gave up after issue 3 for precisely the reasons Jamaal outlined.
Thematic randomness is yet another problem I have with the man Johns’ comics.
Comment by Zom — May 20, 2010 @ 8:49 am
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