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Amazing Joy Buzzards
DouglasDanger
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So I ordered Amazing Joy Buzzards, volume 1 Here Come the Spiders.
It is the work of Mark Smith, who posts here from time to time to talk about his new books, and Dan Hipp, who has also done Gyakushu. I think it first came out in 2005. I remember Whippy and some other guys raving about it.
There have been some questions about this volume 1, when there already was a volume 1 a few years ago.
Um... kind of. I guess it is a re-do, kind of.
Mark Smith said:
Everything is in the right order and things have been changed around. Make sure you order the right one, because I guess the original volume 1 is still available, and it is easy to get confused, especially if you order trades on Amazon or some place similar.
You can preview it at Hipp's website, under the AJB tab, or here; read reviews with preview art (like this one; or just read a review. Much like Scott Pilgrim and Sharknife, the band also has a Myspace.
The world's greatest rock 'n roll adventure band makes their original graphic novel debut With girl-magnet Biff on guitar and vocals, tough guy Stevo on bass, and four-eyed genius Gabe on drums - not to mention their mythical Mexican wrestler genie, El Campeon - the Amazing Joy Buzzards hop from one fast-paced adventure to the next, living life to the fullest! As their world tour commences, their battle with the nefarious Spider Syndicate gets into full swing with the fate of the world in the balance!
It is the work of Mark Smith, who posts here from time to time to talk about his new books, and Dan Hipp, who has also done Gyakushu. I think it first came out in 2005. I remember Whippy and some other guys raving about it.
There have been some questions about this volume 1, when there already was a volume 1 a few years ago.
is that a reprint of the first vol of amazing joy buzzards?
Um... kind of. I guess it is a re-do, kind of.
Mark Smith said:
Also being reprinted are The Amazing Joy Buzzards Volumes 1 & 2 in one Volume titled: HERE COME THE SPIDERS. This volume is only the continuity issues of Amazing Joy Buzzards with none of the guest material, so the story reads straight through all the way, and leads into the next volume MONSTER LOVE. This is the Joy Buzzards remastered edition which will be out in May at 300 pages. The new volume is printed in the Sin City Digest format.
Everything is in the right order and things have been changed around. Make sure you order the right one, because I guess the original volume 1 is still available, and it is easy to get confused, especially if you order trades on Amazon or some place similar.
You can preview it at Hipp's website, under the AJB tab, or here; read reviews with preview art (like this one; or just read a review. Much like Scott Pilgrim and Sharknife, the band also has a Myspace.
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my store did not receive any copies from diamond.
i have both vol 1 and 2 trades, but i love the AJB so much i want this as well
plus my vol 1 had some issues being printed and pages fell out, so its an excuse for me to buy it
One minor complaint though.
Also on the first volume at shows the book would fall apart sometimes as soon as someone cracked it open, much to the embarrassment of Dan and I. The printer on the first volume did such a terrible job! So we wanted a good version in a digest like what Dan was doing with Gyakushu but also with really good binding, and something that has some endurance.
I think the comment with the Gila Monster is true and the first book is such a slow build of reveals and a bit all over the place. If I could go back there is a lot that I would have done with that first volume differently.
Part of the fun with the book is that it is all over the place and random, but for this next one there will be a lot less random as we get into the main story and we will ground it a lot more and the new volume Monsterlove will be much more cinematic like an Amazing Joy Buzzards film. It's still going to be good with a lot of cool characterization. The villains are my favorite and there's plenty of those ahead.
amazing joy buzzards was one of the first series i picked up when i got back into comics, and it was a nice change of pace from everything else out there. when you have the other two big companies putting out big series (at the time i think it was House of M and leading up to Infinite Crisis) it is really daunting for someone to jump into some books and try and figure out whats going on. AJB was just 100% fun to read, and i really love dan's art.
i know it sounds cliche and everything, but if it wasn't for AJB i don't know if i would have gotten back into comics, so thanks.
Here Come the Spiders just really came together for me at the end and I started to care for the characters.
And I can't stress my love for Stevo.
Volume 3 is number 2 now and it's called Monsterlove, so it's confusing because there was already a number 2 volume. It's going to be an OGN this time out at around 200 pages.
Yeah Stevo's one of my favorites and I don't use him enough, it was really Dan's idea to go so nuts with him and further him a lot so he wasn't such a background character. The new volume is going to be more along the lines a direct continuation of the second part of Here Come the Spiders but paced a little more where it's less compacted and condensed storytelling. So less zany like the first half of Here Come the Spiders and more cinematic like the second half of it but more moody and cool.
And will we find out how Gabe got the amulet?
The story about how he got the amulet is in the original volume 2 called the Devil's Zappatos but it's guest material so it's not in the reprint. I should try to get all of the guest stories online and collect them pretty soon. It's a really early story about when Gabe first meets up with El Campeon in Costa Rica.
awesome stuff
I have to ask though, is there going to be any AMJ content in popgun 2?
I think we're going to try to come up with something for Popgun 3. I edit Popgun and I got in a bit of trouble for having so much stuff in the first one. Dan Hipp is doing the interior covers and those have Biff on them, but they're a few illustrations and it's not the same as a story. Popgun did get us a lot of new readers from having the Fearless Vampire Hunters short in there so it does make sense to try to get more color shorts in there.
I think just because you suggested it here I'm going to write it down and start going to work on one.