 Hi, this is Chih-choh. Welcome to my channel. Now I thought what we'd do is do a little comic book update because what I'm about to do is continue on with reading set number four and it's long, long overdue that we get to that, right? We've sort of already did two readings. We did Will Eisner's A Life Force and Donald and Math Magic Land but it was a huge pause until I got sort of set up in this new space where we could sit down and do the readings, right? And I've put all the books together, the 30 books that we're going to read but there's one missing from that collection and that's Daredevil number one. And that's the book that you see here. We sort of put out videos, I think the first set of videos where we started making comic book videos. I showed you how I was framing some of these books. One of them was Daredevil number one so I need to reframe this. Take this out and put another book in there, right? So, since I'm about to do that I thought I'd do a full rotation of the art on my walls with these frames and another one here. I'm not going to reframe, if you've seen some of the comic book videos there's one frame I have, large frame with the EC Comics from 1952 so I'm not going to reframe those. I still want to keep those on the wall but at some point when I do reframe them for sure we're going to read all those six books, right? But right now what I'd like to do is show you what I'm going to replace these guys with and we're going to free up Daredevil number one so we can continue on with reading set number four. And while we're doing this little update I thought I'd show you a couple other things and do a little comic book review of Monstress. So let's start off with... Actually I do have one other thing I want to show you. I'm going to show you a comic book haul that I just recently got. There's only three books that I bought and these three books just became three of my favorite books in my collection. So let's start off with that. Let me show you these books that I bought and then what I'll do is I'll show you the books that are going to go into the frames. And these are books that I bought and they're amazing books. I don't have these full collection. I've read some of the stuff before and I got them in an amazing deal, right? I have no idea why I got them. It's such a great deal, especially when you hear the second part of why these books just became extremely special to me. So let me show you the books first and I'll give you the price as well on the grade. So the grade on this one is graded to 6, that's fine. And I paid 9.65 US for it and it's Mobius Collection or I'm trying to pronounce names better now. Mobius, I wrote it down. Mobius. Number one, Upon a Star. So this is a book that I bought. This is one of the three. The second one is the In-Cal, number two. And it's, I can't even pronounce this, Jurovsky and Moibius. And this is graded at Very Good. And I bought this for $1.78. And Moibius is a French Belgian artist that is absolutely amazing. And I've never, I haven't read this whole set. I've read excerpts of this and this is number one and I believe, I can't remember how deep this goes. And at some point I do plan on grabbing this whole thing and doing a marathon read on this read as well as a marathon read on this as well. So I got number two for $1.78 and I got number three for $1.78 as well. And this is graded at Very Good. And the writer for this and for number two and number three is Judovsky. Judovsky, Judovsky. And he is one of the greatest visionaries from multiple genres like ever, right? If you're into sort of obscure I don't know if it's that obscure now or ever was that obscure but something that's very unique. He's directed some movies and he was actually supposed to be directing Dune as well. But there's a documentary of what happened and what they had proposed to direct Dune with Judovsky but he's directed if you've ever seen Holy Mountain or El Topo. They're two of the great masterpieces of the 20th century in regards to film and they're absolutely brilliant. If you're able to handle like it's not for all ages 100% not for all ages there's a lot of violence and there's a lot of gore there's nudity in there and stuff like that but it's just overwhelming movies, right? And I've seen both those movies a couple of times at least and he's the writer for the incal I don't even know if I'm pronouncing that right. Number two, number three this whole set and I believe this goes to number I think there's four in the set I could be wrong, I don't have them and I'm going to hold off on reading these until I get the whole set. So these three just became three of the most favorite books in my collection not because or just because it's Mobius writing, it's Mobius doing the art and for this one and all three of them and Judovsky writing you know the incal two and three the reason that these three books became three of my favorite books in my collection is let me read you the ebay description for these books and they're basically it's the same story for all three books and this is the description on the ebay auction. Hi there, this item is sold and this item is solid and lovely fine condition copy of Mobius graphic novel number one from Epic Comics 1987 so this one number one was a fine grade the other two are very good this is Harvey Kurtzman own copy and I am selling a selection of things from his studio to help his widow out. This is Harvey Kurtzman's file copies and I came late to this auction the person that was selling these and I know how to percent this is fact, I know this is from Kurtzman's own file copies and these were the last three that he was auctioning off, he actually auctioned off the whole set for these and I didn't catch them they didn't hit my radar but I was able to get my hands on these and if I knew about the other three I would have bit whatever it took to get a full set of Kurtzman's file copies of the Mobius collection and the incal collection three of my favorite books in my entire comic book collection these things are fantastic and if you don't know who Harvey Kurtzman is one of the on the same level as Will Eisner and Jack Kirby he's he's he was the creator, sort of the pioneer for Mad Magazine and he did a lot of work for Playboy Fanny Annie he was instrumental, I didn't know this he was instrumental of bringing Monty Python together so he had a role to play in bringing Monty Python together and these three books are from his file copy from his collection from his bookshelves, he read these fantastic and I can't believe the price that I got those books for eBay is very weird hot books sell for ridiculous prices and books that are one of a kind that are rare that any collector would be proud to have it in their collection go for $1.78 that's my comic book haul let me show you what I'm going to replace these frames by what comics are going to go in here let me show you one of them right now that I have here it's from on another wall it sits with my ec comics the frame with the ec comics and I think these two books will go amazingly sitting next to the ec books so this is the one I'm going to replace this is amazing spider-man 194 and 195 the first and second appearance of black cat right and I'm going to replace these with couple of independent comics from 1982 they both came out in 1982 from pacific comics twisted tales number one alien worlds number one and alien worlds number one is Al Williamson who did the artwork for it and he did a lot of work for ec comics as well and he's a legend and Bruce Jones is I think he was the editor he's a writer for this as well as well as this one pacific comics so Bruce Jones was sort of instrumental of putting these guys together this series together and it's brilliant and I love the covers especially for the twisted tales the covers for twisted tales if you've seen them you can do a little search online they're fantastic very unique and brilliant in the comics from 1982 right from the 1980s were some fantastic in the comics that came out in the 1980s right as well as alien worlds fantastic sci-fi fantastic covers Bruce Jones and who's one of the other writers on this I looked this up Richard Corbin and he did a lot of work for heavy metal and he was working with not alien worlds for the twisted tales I believe for the twisted tales he did the artwork for it ok so I'm going to replace black cat first and second appearance of black cat with these two I don't know if I can hold them up then you can see them I don't want to drop anything but it's basically going to go like this and I think it'll look great and I don't have the I got pretty close to the whole set for twisted tales I have a few issues of alien worlds as well ok so that's two of the things that we're going to replace things by let me put these guys here let me show you a couple of the other books let me start off with these ones because I'm going to give you a little review of something as well ok the top two here ok this one I'm going to replace with sort of a theme with this one this one let me show it to you this one bozo the clown this is number two but it's sort of number one because it was four color that came up bozo the clown number one and this is number two by by dal ok so the numbering for dal start off with this one ok so bozo the clown up here can we even do perspective why it's here I don't know this is going to work let's check it out for daredevil number one let me bring well I'm not going to bring it out we're going to see it when we do the reading right daredevil number one and I've mentioned this before I bought this and I've been meaning to put this up and rutikazuti we're going to replace daredevil number one with this and I believe this is rutikazuti number six so basically we're going to have these two like this let me show you what I'm going to replace these guys with and we did the reading for mystic number six right with the eye of doom with actually we looked at we looked at a few of these things right right fantastic but we did the reading for this actually this book is the first book we did we started comic book readings with it was sort of we wanted to share some six anthologies that I had and this was the first book that started off this whole series I guess comic book readings and I'm very glad that we started off this whole thing it's been a pleasure sharing these books with you guys so I'm going to take these two out we have a red punch comics and I'm going to replace them with also Green Lantern 59 the first appearance of Guy Gardner right and the grade on this is pretty good it's not bad it's a mid grade comic this one but I'm happy with it I love it actually so we're going to replace one of them with this and the other one we're going to replace with the first appearance of John Stuart Green Lantern number 87 and this is Neil Adams and I forget who the artist where the other one is so basically we're going to do am I switching over like this I'm not sure if I think it's going to be like this personally fantastic the first two appearances I had the first appearance of Hal Jordan I would have put it up as a single as well up here but I don't one day we'll get it and let me show you what I'm going to replace these two books by and these two books we've done readings for both of these books this is primer number 2 the black one is primer number 2 and this is the first appearance of Grendel and this is primer number 5 the first appearance of Max and I believe these two and the mystic these three were three of the first books we read in our comic book reading set that might be mistaken about these two guys these might have been second reading set but basically these were three of the first books we did the readings for and what I want to do is I'm going to replace these two with something that I've talked about before right when I hit the sort of stands I mentioned that this was a pretty almost I think was second second issue or third issue in I'm going to replace them with monstrous number 1 and monstrous number 2 okay fantastic monstrous number 1 and monstrous number 2 they're going to go here and this series if if you haven't read it it is absolutely magnificent now I was going to bring that trade paper I'm getting the trade paper backs as well and I just last week I re-read all the issues for the I basically start off from the beginning and re-read the whole thing the first trade and second trade together which is basically issue number 1 all the way to issue number 11 I think okay I can't I don't remember exactly which issue it goes into like it caught up with monstrous now but basically monstrous I might give spoilers here just a heads up if you're following these videos okay you don't want any spoilers so I was reading monstrous right off the right off the bat right picking it up and reading it on a monthly basis up to the point where you know they took a month break because the way image is working they print a certain number of issues and then there's a month break where they put together some of the singles no matter how many issues there are they put together a trade and they skip a month of singles and they release a trade putting everything together from the previous month and then they start off with the singles again right so I kept on reading monstrous up to the point where they were releasing the trade for the first trade paper back and it was a two month gap and I forgot the story it's a very intricate story it's epic right so I didn't get a chance to read the singles all the singles are represented in the second trade okay so I sort of forgot the intricacy of the book and while you're reading this I was reading the singles I was getting lost in the story right because it was there's a lot of characters involved right and rereading it right if you read monstrous it's well worth to reread really you I would almost say it's a must to do a reread for monstrous right and that's rare I don't there are certain series that I've reread and you get a lot more out of it like Sandman and Hellblazer and Bone and Epic Stories right and monstrous is on that level 100% right and rereading it it's you pick up the little intricacies and you understand who the players are in this grand universe grand world that Marjorie and Lou and Sana Takada have created right and the story is sort of it's very it's epic right it's very it goes into sort of plays into Greek mythology as well where there's you know humans involved and gods involved and monsters involved and magic and technology right and there's different races sort of and there's sort of and this this goes into comic book universe as well but it's presented in such a way that it's very unique where sort of you know gods have decided to interact on a personal level with humans and have given birth to a new species right and how war and conflict and racism different perspectives and power struggles between between the different races and between the different factions and how certain mythologies come into play and how certain religious institutions are brought about and they they manipulate the masses and to waging war and you know fearing what they don't understand and dehumanizing or do you it's brilliant really I sat there and read you know and it took me I think three days three four days to read through the first and second trade okay that's how intricate it was because I was just savoring every page because the artwork is brilliant where I started looking in the background of some of the art and you would see little foreshadowing of things coming right and if you're going to give this a reread or a first read it's very important to read the full pages of where the species that are the cats and I can't even pronounce the names right so I'm not even going to try but there the cats are one of the oldest sentient beings in this world that's been created and they're the keepers of history to a certain degree so very important if you want to understand the world the universe that's being created to read the one page summaries at the end of each of the issues in the first chapter and I believe in the first trade and the first set of comics and I believe it continues on into the second trade and the next issues as well but the one pages where the cat is giving a lesson to the little kittens of how the world has unfolded right brilliant series and one of the I'll mention one other thing with this as well there's a huge push in the industry with the big two and some of the other publishers and stuff like this to introduce more dominant female characters into their universes and have female characters be the leading roles and the world events unfolding around the female characters and Monstrous is one of them where the majority of the characters that you're reading about are female and they're powerful and they play you know roles from all classes of this society of this universe that has been created right so if you want to read a comic book series this isn't for everyone this is violent there's a lot of violence here there's a lot of gore if you want to call it so I wouldn't recommend this for a younger audience but if you're old enough I'm not going to give an age because you know I've met youth that can handle more mature subjects than you know sometimes you meet older people that can't handle certain mature subjects right so I wouldn't give an age consideration for this but this is for the more mature reader that can look beyond the gore and the violence and appreciate the story being told now on that note just talking about female characters there's another independent creator that the main characters in his work are female characters and that's Terry Moore with Rachel Rising Strangers in Paradise and Echo I've read I recently read Rachel's Rising Omnibus and Echo Omnibus and Fantastic and the series that he's working on right now is Mortar Grown that's a fantastic series as well right so that's another independent or comic book series if you want female characters is a central central characters at the universe the stories unfolding about but monstrous brilliant if you really want to have an amazing comic book experience that you can immerse yourself in and you can reread the comics almost a must to reread the comics for these is monstrous okay so monstrous number one and number two are going to go here Neath Bozo the clown number two from 19 I believe that's from 1952 okay and I believe Rudy Cazuti 1950s anyway okay it's from the golden age of comics now the last thing I want to show you is some posters that I sort of put together in the mid 1990s and it's from a comic book that we're going to read in set number four that's coming up that we haven't done a read for okay so let me show you the comic book that we're going to read I'm not sure because we're not going to read the whole thing it's a trilogy it's a three setter and I've mentioned this before that as far as I'm concerned this is one of the greatest comics ever put together okay and it's from the mid 1990s this you know collection anyway I don't know when the first appearance the story was put together I believe it was in 2000 the British comic magazine 2000 AD that this was first put together by Pat Mills and Simon Bisley and as soon as I say those names I think you know what I'm talking about which is slain the horn god right and I've read this set it's only three issues and I have a double set this is I got one copy of number one and two copies of number two and number three and I do have another copy of number one somewhere I don't know where it is in a book somewhere and I've read this set these three issues this is number one this is number two this is number three and this story arc trilogy by Pat Mills and Simon Bisley is epic just like monstrous but it's shorter okay monstrous is going to be I don't know how many issues we're going to run for but it's going to be long I believe I hope I hope I hope it's going to be a long long story arc but slain has appeared in multiple other reads as well but this is I haven't read all of slain all the slain stories I've read some but as far as I'm concerned what I've read this is brilliant and as far as I'm concerned this is one most brilliant comic book stories that were told and it's sort of a Celtic gods involved in magic and sort of Conan the barbarian feel right but a little darker a little more Celtic to it instead of a barbarian sword and sorcery to it right so if you like that type of story this is must read must read right and I you know we're going to read a segment of this just like we did with Will Eisner the life force which is going to read a few pages but what I need to do is reread this whole set before we can get to that reading because I know I know I'm pretty sure I know the segment that I want to read from from that and I don't know if it appears in the first issue second issue third issue right and I do want to reread the whole thing and I spent a few years since I read it so I can you know when we're reading the little segment we can I can sort of give you the build up for it I guess spoilers so be careful I will be spoilers but let me show you something that I put together for space that I was living in back in the 90s because I had really had a lot of walls to fill in and I'm a posters person I love posters I've had posters on my walls forever that's one of the reasons I love comic books I love art I love science fiction I love fantasy and what I try to do is surround myself with some of the things I love which is comic book posters and what not when I first read Slain the Horn God in mid-1990s I believe that's when these sets came out the reprints of the originals from 2008 I believe but I fell in love with these and what I ended up doing is scanning in some of the panels and at the time and you have to appreciate technology at the time of the early 1990s and mid-1990s it wasn't as easily to create things scan things in edit them and print them as it is now so at the time I had like just to give you an idea the first laser printer that I bought was in early 1990s and the first scanner that I bought was in early 1990s the first laser printer I bought cost me $2,000 and the first scanner that I bought cost me like $1,700 stuff that you can pick up right now for like $60 so that's how hard it was to have access to more high end technology so at the time I was working at a geophysicist at a large company and I had access to a few different things one of them was a very large HP I think I don't know if it was an inkjet or I believe it was a bubble jet printer so I had access to this thing so what I decided to do was scan some of the panels from slain the horn god and print them off so I want to show you these posters and these were on my walls for a very long time and the reason I'm showing you this is just to give you a feel of how much I love slain the horn god I think it's absolutely brilliant right and let me show you these posters there's some small ones there's some big ones there's some doubles as well ok and some of these had text in them and I had to sort of take out the text some of them I took out the text some of them I left the text in there because the reads were awesome here's the same one that's a little bit bigger a lot of work and Simon Bisley and this is just a small panel on other pages right so that's one of the panels I printed off that's a poster I'm going to show you this one and just to let you know I think the little section that we're going to read is going to be the build up or it's going to end with this panel ok king of kings look at this and if you're vetted I'm thinking that I want to read the section where slain goes berserk right and Simon Bisley's artwork is absolutely amazing for that right and that was so epic I actually have another version of that I'm going to show you another version that's a little bit bigger but I have another version of this one same thing but bigger and this one had around it where well you'll see people are yelling slain slain slain right and there's another version of this that I have that family friend has and I changed the name in that poster to the name of someone that we both care very much about right and he's kept that one he asked me if I could keep it for sure for sure right and here's that one so I believe we're going to read the section that goes with that the story art that goes with that let me show you some of the other panels I'll show you this for a little while let me show you something a little bit less provocative I guess oh my god I have another one of these here's a bigger version of the other one I got three different versions of this beautiful just beautiful since we're on that here's one more and there's text with this that goes here and it sort of took out the text the beautiful artwork absolutely beautiful painted painted pages that as well that part and this guy, where is he? this guy is standing over here there's a bubble text here and he's about the culture and of something and what beautiful stuff the door amazing and the whole comic is that style of art all three issues this one has a little bit of violence in it this is classic business I'm not sure if this is part of it or not okay that section that we're going to read because there's a lot of battle scenes here's the let me show you this one so it goes with the other one here's another section and the story is sort of the dwarf telling the history sort of documenting what took place with slain and this story arc right so these sort of panels go through it this is I play this is from one of the early pages I sort of scan through this almost not so there's great humor in that book as well so those are the posters I ended up scanning and printing on a bubble dread printer and then I took all those all the printed stuff these guys and I took them to a place where I could get them laminated and I got them all laminated I was a little nervous because the person was saying sometimes the laminating doesn't work so I believe one of them they mucked up I had to go back and reprint it and bring it back and laminate it again so I was very happy to have a job at a company that had access to, that gave me access to a gigantic bubble printer where I could print off the stuff and get posters made because otherwise this would have cost me arm and a leg at the time in the 1990's to get this done because I believe they still charge per square foot but back then the price per square foot was a lot more than it is now and let me show you one other thing that I found that it's sort of along the same thing, sort of busy artwork it's not slain but it's busy artwork and a lot of people have asked me what my favorite comic book cover of all time is and at the time I made this poster I did the same thing I scanned this in printed them off and wouldn't got them laminated at the time and even right now this is one of my favorite covers of all time but I have multiple favorite covers but I like this cover so much that I scanned it and printed it off in large format and it was on my wall for a very long time this is again and DC Comics demon number 12 right, Lobo and some people have said that's the most metal comic they've ever seen and possibly the most metal comic Lobo fan this cover is it now I'm not going to put these posters up in this place not yet anyway there's a place that they might go up but I'm just going to fold these up again and store them again for a while until I get a little bit more organized and see where these guys may go up in a corner somewhere okay but I just thought I'd show you that and sort of give you a little teaser a little taste of what we're going to read and slay the horn God in terms of storytelling what's going to unfold that's about it we will do some readings we're basically going to jump into reading set number 4 for the next few videos and we're going to overlay some ASMR math with that again but for sure we're going to try to get reading set number 4 done this year hopefully in the next few months right I was talking with someone who was commenting they said the pace that I'm going at we might get reading set number 4 done by about 2033 so I'm going to try to get it done in 2017 for this year okay and apologies again for the long wait I hope it'll be well worth it and you'll enjoy the readings coming up okay that's about it a little update I'll see you guys in the next video bye for now