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justJeffery Junior Member

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Posted: Dec 07, 2003 8:02 pm Post subject: Kabuki |
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Someone PLEASE explain to me why I've been reading comics for over a decade now and I am JUST getting to reading Kabuki...
So I recently set out to fix that glitch in my comic reading mainframe. Picked up Circle of Blood from David in Texas... read the first 2 issues and knew there was no way I was gonna make it the rest of the weekend without reading more. Next day I went to pick up volumes 2 & 3, but he suggested Skin Deep and Metamorphosis... so I grabed those instead.
Having just finished Metamorphosis I'm so pissed at myself for letting these slip by all this time... Thish has got to be one of the most fantastic ongoing comic stories available today. It's gorgeous, inventive and accessable to just about anyone. Hell, the girls I work with want to read it now, and they dont know the first thing about comics...
So the point of this long, sappy post? Thanks Mr Mack! Thanks for the wonderful birthday present, thanks for all the sigs, thanks for all the kind words, thanks for the free books, thanks for the pics, thanks for your time but most of all, Thanks for Kabuki!!! It's nothing short of a gift that you've given every single person who's picked it up.
Jeffery _________________ Visit Pre Jinx World!
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(formerly known as ryanH) Addict

Joined: 11 Aug 2003 Posts: 5244 Location: Here, there and everywhere.
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Posted: Dec 07, 2003 8:10 pm Post subject: Re: Kabuki |
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Hey...sometimes the great books that slip under your radar make you appreciate the art form that much more when you get around to it...
Kabuki IS a fantastic book... _________________ ___Ryan Hoffman___
Shadowland's Master of the Supercool
I don't need no instructions to know how to ROCK!
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edq13 Senior Member

Joined: 13 Aug 2003 Posts: 1059 Location: learning kung-fu... whoa.
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Posted: Dec 07, 2003 8:22 pm Post subject: Re: Kabuki |
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here's a kabuki question: can i pick up any of the series and start reading or should i start at the begining? |
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justJeffery Junior Member

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Posted: Dec 07, 2003 8:28 pm Post subject: Re: Kabuki |
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edq13 wrote: | here's a kabuki question: can i pick up any of the series and start reading or should i start at the begining? |
I would start with Circle of Blood, which is the first trade... but Mack himself suggested reading the 4th and 5th ones after the first and said that you could go back and pick up 2 and 3 after those are finished...
Circle of Blood is the first Kabuki mini, Skin Deep (#4) picks up the story immediatly after Circle of Blood. Metamoprhosis (#5) is a lot of the same story from Skin Deep, but fleshed out a lot more and it continues the story from where Skin Deep left off.
When I tell you it is freaking amazing... man... Especially when you think about the state that comics as a whole was in when this was published, it just makes it that much more stunning.
Jeffery _________________ Visit Pre Jinx World!
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edq13 Senior Member

Joined: 13 Aug 2003 Posts: 1059 Location: learning kung-fu... whoa.
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Posted: Dec 07, 2003 8:29 pm Post subject: Re: Kabuki |
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thanks. i've been drooling to give this book a try, i just didn't know where to start. |
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justJeffery Junior Member

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Posted: Dec 07, 2003 8:31 pm Post subject: Re: Kabuki |
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Oh, another thing that amazed me about Circle of Blood.
This is a story that was written and drawn 10 years ago.. I dont think I've found one single item in it that dates the story at all. Not one bit of dialogue, not one piece of art... not one story element. If you didnt know the first thing about Davids work and you picked it up today, there is NO WAY to tell that it was put out 10 years ago...
Jeffery _________________ Visit Pre Jinx World!
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comicskerouac Veteran

Joined: 11 Aug 2003 Posts: 4033 Location: Chicago Suburbs
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Posted: Dec 07, 2003 8:41 pm Post subject: Re: Kabuki |
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To be fair, books two and three do take place in between Circle of Blood and Skin Deep - it's just that there is less focus on the plot surrounding Kabuki. Though it's certainly true that Skin Deep and Metamorphosis (I'd pay money to have them collected in a single hardcover!) form one of the best stories in comics.
Dreams is an epilogue to Circle of Blood involving Kabuki's thoughts and dreams after the end of that first book.
Masks of the Noh focuses on the other agents, and the rush to find Kabuki.
And we musn't forget Scarab, vol 6, which aside from being a rollicking, separate read, also fills in some of the "gaps" and answers questions left over from Metamorphosis. _________________ Michael Peterson
"Phil, would you please shoot Michael in the face before he kills us all?" -Jade Dodge
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sdfain Senior Member

Joined: 26 Sep 2003 Posts: 1208 Location: Jackson, Ohio
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Posted: Dec 07, 2003 8:43 pm Post subject: Re: Kabuki |
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yea it is an amazing series...for the new to Kabuki ...Alchemy starting in Jan is supposed to be a good jumping on point
but i would advise getting and reading them all...wonderful stuff _________________
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Posted: Dec 07, 2003 8:53 pm Post subject: Re: Kabuki |
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I still think that there's something screwy about Tigerlilly's behavior on the mission in "Scarab."
And I still think that Akemi used to be the dancer from "Metamorphosis." _________________ Michael Peterson
"Phil, would you please shoot Michael in the face before he kills us all?" -Jade Dodge
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Asbel Junior Member
Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Posts: 154
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Posted: Dec 07, 2003 9:43 pm Post subject: Re: Kabuki |
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I'm right there with you, JJ.
I read Kabuki for the first time about two years ago, there's no comics experience that I can compare it to, whole worlds open in your brain wholly based on the images that play across the page, layers of meaning and conjecture are imparted through the words and the picturesa and the way they are put together.
Incredible book
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(formerly known as ryanH) Addict

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Posted: Dec 07, 2003 9:59 pm Post subject: Re: Kabuki |
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justJeffery wrote: | Oh, another thing that amazed me about Circle of Blood.
This is a story that was written and drawn 10 years ago.. I dont think I've found one single item in it that dates the story at all. Not one bit of dialogue, not one piece of art... not one story element. If you didnt know the first thing about Davids work and you picked it up today, there is NO WAY to tell that it was put out 10 years ago...
Jeffery |
Man, I remember I was a Junior or Senior in Highschool when I picked up the Circle of Blood trade...I took it to school with me to read it and I think I was finished with it by the end of the school day...  _________________ ___Ryan Hoffman___
Shadowland's Master of the Supercool
I don't need no instructions to know how to ROCK!

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Trillian Enthusiast

Joined: 11 Aug 2003 Posts: 532 Location: Maryland
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Posted: Dec 07, 2003 11:18 pm Post subject: Re: Kabuki |
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I just picked up Kabuki: Circle of Blood the other day and I can't wait to get some time to read it. _________________
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MACK! New Kid on the Block
Joined: 27 Sep 2003 Posts: 84
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Posted: Dec 08, 2003 9:45 pm Post subject: Re: Kabuki |
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Hey JJ,
Thanks for the great post response to my work. I appreciate the feedback.
I'm looking forward to you other posters to let me know what you think of the Kabuki books when you get to reading them.
Best,
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Twocool4u1 Enthusiast
Joined: 11 Aug 2003 Posts: 532 Location: oregon
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Posted: Dec 08, 2003 10:34 pm Post subject: Re: Kabuki |
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Mack move to Portland. You know you want to... |
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MACK! New Kid on the Block
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Posted: Dec 11, 2003 9:02 am Post subject: Re: Kabuki |
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I just might!
Bendis, Andy Lee, and I have just confimed a signing in Portland for the Portland convention on October 10 2004. Hope to see all our Portland fans there. |
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