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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

A Comic Book Scavenger Hunt, A-Z: I Feel Sick

Title: I Feel Sick
Issue: #1
Release: November 2011
Writer: Jhonen Vasquez
Artists: Rosearik Rikki Simons and Jhonen Vasquez
Store: Earth Prime Comics (Burlington, Vermont)
Image via Comic Vine

Okay, I'll admit upfront that this comic's pretty gross at times.  Also, the language is definitely PG-13.  And yet...

The undead, namely zombies and vampires, are a very big theme in pop culture these days, especially in comics.  I Feel Sick simultaneously embraces and pokes merciless fun at that fad.  Devi is an artist working in, you guessed it, the comic book industry.  She has weird friends and disastrous dates.  She struggles with the same creative blocks we all do.  The narrative is dark but definitely funny.

Any interest in joining a bloggers' book club?  Please visit my link here.

My scavenger hunt was pretty straight-forward: find single-issue comic books off the rack with titles starting from A-Z.  Go check out the rest of the participants in this year's A-Z challenge.  The official site is here. 
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27 comments:

  1. Mark KApril 10, 2013 at 6:21 AM

    I'm loving these covers you are posting - I so wish I'd kept all the 'Planet of the Apes' comics from my childhood. I had those from issue #1 and had a pile that stood, when stacked, about 12 inches tall, but sold them all a couple of years after collecting them. Stupid boy.

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    1. The Armchair SquidApril 10, 2013 at 10:11 AM

      Thank you, Mark!

      Would you believe I've never even seen the original "Planet of the Apes" movie? One Saturday in elementary school, friends and I watched some of the truly terrible sequels on DC's old channel 20 but never the first one.

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  2. CygnusApril 10, 2013 at 8:42 AM

    Looks very "underground." :-) The nice touch on the cover is that those are paintbrushes in the background...

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  3. TrishaApril 10, 2013 at 9:14 AM

    The cover is cute, but it does tell me I might be in for a slightly "gross" time ;)

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    1. The Armchair SquidApril 10, 2013 at 10:16 AM

      Cute? Well, okay. This book is surprisingly nuanced - a lot of tongue-in-cheek.

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  4. Tony LaplumeApril 10, 2013 at 10:41 AM

    I recognized Jhonen Vasquez immediately.

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  5. StephanieApril 10, 2013 at 10:43 AM

    I love that cover. It reminds me Coraline, which is probably my favorite animated movie ever.

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    1. The Armchair SquidApril 10, 2013 at 10:56 AM

      Yes, I can see that. It reminds me of the buttons on the eyes.

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  6. CherylApril 10, 2013 at 11:12 AM

    It must be a comic book day for me. The last blog I visited has a comic book theme running for the challenge. This cover does creep me out a bit, but it sounds funny.

    http://www.thebusymomsdaily.com/2013/04/blogging-from-to-z-april-challenge_10.html

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    1. The Armchair SquidApril 10, 2013 at 11:43 AM

      Oooo, who else is doing comic books?

      Thank you for stopping by.

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    2. SuzeApril 10, 2013 at 11:54 AM

      I forgot to tell you, Mark Means of Left and Write is doing comic books. He commented on my post today so you can pop over to his place through that link if you're not already following him. I let him know about your A-Z a couple of times in the comments on his posts and said I'd let you know about him. So this is me letting you know about him.

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    3. The Armchair SquidApril 10, 2013 at 11:55 AM

      Thank you! I'll have to go see.

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  7. Matthew MacNishApril 10, 2013 at 12:18 PM

    That cover is pretty awesome too!

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    1. The Armchair SquidApril 10, 2013 at 2:55 PM

      Yes. I love that Cygnus caught the paintbrushes in the background.

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  8. AnonymousApril 10, 2013 at 2:51 PM

    And the title is a brilliant meld of the innocent and the chilling

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    1. The Armchair SquidApril 10, 2013 at 2:56 PM

      Agreed! Thanks for stopping by, Bridget! Happy I Day!

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  9. Susan KaneApril 10, 2013 at 3:15 PM

    Agreeing with Bridgetwhelan!

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  10. millvallison: mary allison tierneyApril 10, 2013 at 5:21 PM

    OK, as long as it's poking fun at the zombie genre. I do like the empty eyes.

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  11. J.L. CampbellApril 10, 2013 at 10:46 PM

    Haven't come across this comic book, but then I don't read a lot of them.

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    1. The Armchair SquidApril 10, 2013 at 11:11 PM

      I think there were only 2 issues in total so it would have been easy to miss.

      Thanks for stopping by, J.L.! Happy I Day.

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  12. BethieApril 12, 2013 at 10:24 PM

    What a clever comic --story and art. Finding an interesting new reading list to pursue.

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