[brydeemer]

Talk.

Bry

[superhornet34]

Damn. i should have downloaded this before I left. I love BOP, Tricked and Too Cool to be Forgotten.

[Jer]

wow. what a get! can't wait to listen.

[Wood]

Looking forward to the listen as usual. Hopefully it will give me a sense of his works because the only thing I've read from him to date was Too Cool To Be Forgotten and, being perfectly candid, it did nothing for me. But I've been told by quite a few people whose opinions I respect that some of his other stuff is definitely worth a try.

[brydeemer]

the only thing I've read from him to date was Too Cool To Be Forgotten and, being perfectly candid, it did nothing for me.

Did you lose your soul with your stock portfolio?

Bry

[Marty Devine]

Did you lose your soul with your stock portfolio?
Bry

The man has a wooden heart . . . hence the name.

Heh.

[superhornet34]

Looking forward to the listen as usual. Hopefully it will give me a sense of his works because the only thing I've read from him to date was Too Cool To Be Forgotten and, being perfectly candid, it did nothing for me. But I've been told by quite a few people whose opinions I respect that some of his other stuff is definitely worth a try.

That does nothing for you? You got to read Box Office Poison.

[Wood]

Did you lose your soul with your stock portfolio?

Bry

I don't want to be negative in this thread, but I think I fell victim to lofty expectations. Hearing you, in particular, rave about this I felt like it would resonate with me in the same way Lemire or Terry Moore did, but at the end of the day, the story just didn't grab me. I couldn't identify with it. I'm not a smoker, I don't have daddy issues and, while a bona fide comic geek, I didn't have socialization issues in high school.

[Darth Kramer]

Looking forward to the listen as usual. Hopefully it will give me a sense of his works because the only thing I've read from him to date was Too Cool To Be Forgotten and, being perfectly candid, it did nothing for me. But I've been told by quite a few people whose opinions I respect that some of his other stuff is definitely worth a try.

I don't think that Too Cool to be Forgotten was his best work. My favorite work of his is Tricked.

[Jer]

I don't think that Too Cool to be Forgotten was his best work. My favorite work of his is Tricked.

BOP for me. But Lower Regions fulfilled a certain D&D-loving part of me that I hadn't paid much attention to in a while.

[Wood]

I don't think that Too Cool to be Forgotten was his best work. My favorite work of his is Tricked.

BOP for me. But Lower Regions fulfilled a certain D&D-loving part of me that I hadn't paid much attention to in a while.

Thanks guys.

Box Office Poison has long been on my "To Read" list and were it not for the immediacy of TCTBF, I probably would've read BOP already. I'll look at picking up a copy of Tricked at Wild Pig this weekend, thanks Kramer.

[Jer]

Thanks guys.

Box Office Poison has long been on my "To Read" list and were it not for the immediacy of TCTBF, I probably would've read BOP already. I'll look at picking up a copy of Tricked at Wild Pig this weekend, thanks Kramer.

Oh, don't get me wrong, man, I thought TCTBF was great. But BOP takes the cake.

But, TCTBF, to my thinking, is a decent barometer of AR's work. So BOP may well not be your cup of tea, Wood. Good on you for giving it a try.

[BillDoughty]

Box Office Poison has long been on my "To Read" list and were it not for the immediacy of TCTBF, I probably would've read BOP already. I'll look at picking up a copy of Tricked at Wild Pig this weekend, thanks Kramer.

I think you may end up liking Tricked a little better. It reads a little more... I don't know, I wanna say coherently, but that's not really the right word, but Tricked was always intended to be a full-on graphic novel, whereas BOP was originally a serially floppy, with a shift in focus midstream that is super noticeable when you read it as a whole product. But Tricked is what it was always meant to be, so it feels less Work In Progress-y, I guess?

But they're both excellent and very worth your time. And if you ever get the chance to talk to him at a con, do so. He and his wife are both amazingly cool and friendly people.

[Melville's Fist]

Alex is awesome! What a great guy!

Here is a video from CBR of Alex
http://comicbookresources.com/?page=video&show_id=28412

Here's a sketch I got from Alex at Baltimore this year. It's Mr. Flavor as Captain Cold, baby!
http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.a...at=0&UCat=0

[Peter]

I don't see a need to identity with the work. I just take Alex's work for what it is: good solid storytelling that uses the comic medium in an artistic sometimes fun, sometimes straight forward way. Art should have a big sign on its front door: "No expectations allowed". lol

[Richard Holland]

Box office poison is a great great read. I met him at Wizard World Chicago, and he did a sketch in his new book, we chatted for a few minutes. He was an very very nice guy.

Can't wait to listen to the interview.

[Hugh Jarse]

I went to my 60th High School reunion a few years ago. I could not believe how fat and bald everyone was. I was also surprised that I wasn't the only one in an iron lung.

[kfreeman]

I did a nice interview with Alex that will appear in Comics Now! #4, too, in case anyone is interested.

[Chris Pitzer]

I like Alfred Rogerson. He's funny.

[Jer]

Did not disappoint. Thanks again.

If you want to see Alex doing Space Opera, check out parts of BOP. I think Alex Robinson can do whichever genre he pleases successfully, so long as he approaches it with his own sensibilities.