Comments on: Jason Aaron on "The Vietnam War in Comics: The Good, the Bad and THE OTHER SIDE." http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-jason-aaron/ Comic Book Resources Presents... Comics Should Be Good! Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:57:48 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Trackback - Free Internation Call >> How to make free international call http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-jason-aaron/comment-page-1/#comment-752831 Trackback - Free Internation Call >> How to make free international call Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:02:56 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-eye-on-comics-2/#comment-752831 ,[...] goodcomics.comicbookresources.com is one another interesting source of tips on this topic,[...] ,[...] goodcomics.comicbookresources.com is one another interesting source of tips on this topic,[...]

]]> By: jethro http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-jason-aaron/comment-page-1/#comment-739974 jethro Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:00:35 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-eye-on-comics-2/#comment-739974 are there any more war comics based around the vietnamese war? plz reply asap are there any more war comics based around the vietnamese war?

plz reply asap

]]> By: Don Lomax http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-jason-aaron/comment-page-1/#comment-702698 Don Lomax Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:55:22 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-eye-on-comics-2/#comment-702698 Thank you so much for your kind words, David, they are hardly deserved. An update on my website, it is up and running at www.lomaxcomics.com . I have continued where VALLEY OF DEATH #1 left off. The pages are free and I hope you will all visit my site and enjoy them. Don Lomax Thank you so much for your kind words, David, they are hardly deserved. An update on my website, it is up and running at http://www.lomaxcomics.com . I have continued where VALLEY OF DEATH #1 left off. The pages are free and I hope you will all visit my site and enjoy them.

Don Lomax

]]> By: Don Lomax http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-jason-aaron/comment-page-1/#comment-702689 Don Lomax Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:20:03 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-eye-on-comics-2/#comment-702689 Thanks David your kind words are hardly deserved. An update on my web site. It is up and running, I hope you will all visit it at www.lomaxcomics.com I have 5 new pages posted that pick up where VALLEY OF DEATH #1 left off. I will continue to post new pages in 5 page increments for the duration. I can't say hoe often since I want to wait a little while for the word to get out and the pages can't be archived due to space restrictions. So please check in periodically. I hope you all enjoy the new additions. Don Thanks David your kind words are hardly deserved. An update on my web site. It is up and running, I hope you will all visit it at http://www.lomaxcomics.com I have 5 new pages posted that pick up where VALLEY OF DEATH #1 left off. I will continue to post new pages in 5 page increments for the duration. I can't say hoe often since I want to wait a little while for the word to get out and the pages can't be archived due to space restrictions. So please check in periodically. I hope you all enjoy the new additions.

Don

]]> By: David Turbeville http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-jason-aaron/comment-page-1/#comment-700460 David Turbeville Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:02:31 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-eye-on-comics-2/#comment-700460 Hi Don,I would like to say that the vietnam journal series was a great comic book,also the High Shinning Brass(1-4)was just as spectacular.I started the tet68 series but the shop buy my house stopped carring them,thats how I found this page.I'm trying to find a set.I wish you would find another comic co. publish your work,you are the best war comics man ever!!!!!!!!THANKS FOR YOUR WORK Dave T. Hi Don,I would like to say that the vietnam journal series was a great comic book,also the High Shinning Brass(1-4)was just as spectacular.I started the tet68 series but the shop buy my house stopped carring them,thats how I found this page.I'm trying to find a set.I wish you would find another comic co. publish your work,you are the best war comics man ever!!!!!!!!THANKS FOR YOUR WORK Dave T.

]]> By: Don Lomax http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-jason-aaron/comment-page-1/#comment-696524 Don Lomax Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:47:40 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-eye-on-comics-2/#comment-696524 Peter I appologize in not sending my best wishes to your son and his eminent deployment. One of my sons got back from Afghanistan after his 2nd tour last year and I know the anquish. I have always said that it is harder on the families at home than the heros who go in harm's way. He is Special Forces so he was in the nasty stuff daily. But he is home and safe now...of course, until his next deployment and then we can go through it all again. As for my web site. As I said before, I hope to make the new material available for free and exist on sales of my prepublished work. Whether that is viable or not remains to be seen. I (like most artists) was never accused of having great business sense. Witness my trying to start a new web store in the worst financial downturn since the Great Depression. We shall see. Peter

I appologize in not sending my best wishes to your son and his eminent deployment. One of my sons got back from Afghanistan after his 2nd tour last year and I know the anquish. I have always said that it is harder on the families at home than the heros who go in harm's way. He is Special Forces so he was in the nasty stuff daily. But he is home and safe now...of course, until his next deployment and then we can go through it all again.

As for my web site. As I said before, I hope to make the new material available for free and exist on sales of my prepublished work. Whether that is viable or not remains to be seen. I (like most artists) was never accused of having great business sense. Witness my trying to start a new web store in the worst financial downturn since the Great Depression. We shall see.

]]> By: Peter A Colwill http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-jason-aaron/comment-page-1/#comment-696513 Peter A Colwill Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:14:22 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-eye-on-comics-2/#comment-696513 Great idea Don. I look forward to the publication of new material. What you say is so true about this money orientated society. The best artists become famous for their work a long time after they have kicked the bucket. I would like you to cover costs though and would hope that a registration fee to download material should cover that....what do you think?? Great idea Don. I look forward to the publication of new material. What you say is so true about this money orientated society. The best artists become famous for their work a long time after they have kicked the bucket. I would like you to cover costs though and would hope that a registration fee to download material should cover that....what do you think??

]]> By: Nick http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-jason-aaron/comment-page-1/#comment-696488 Nick Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:27:01 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-eye-on-comics-2/#comment-696488 Sounds like a fantastic idea Don. I can't wait! Best of luck in your endeavours. Sounds like a fantastic idea Don. I can't wait! Best of luck in your endeavours.

]]> By: Don Lomax http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-jason-aaron/comment-page-1/#comment-696411 Don Lomax Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:29:30 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-eye-on-comics-2/#comment-696411 I have been exploring various websites of other comic providers such as the members only sites and other platforms for delivery of archival info as well as new releases and I am interested in your imput. It seems that most sites are simply money generating turds with their only function to get as deep into your pocket as possible without you realizing it until it is too late. The monthly member fees, and the "no access beyond this point without paying an arm and a leg.'' I understand that they have staffs and mouths to feed but it all seems grubby to me. I hope that I can make my site free and supplement the cost and time involved by selling CD collections of my work. Hopefully this will allow me to provide, free of charge, the continuation of VIETNAM JOURNAL as a web comic adding pages, hopefully (Yes, I use that word alot.), weekly as I complete them. And fans won't have to wait until I finish 100 or so pages to get the continuing story...Just come back to the site periodically and view or download the free pages at your leasure. When I have completed enough pages I will then collect them in CD form for sale with the other archival material. I maybe naive but I think there are more important things on this planet than money. As ol' Jack Burton always says; "What the hell." Let me know what you think. Don I have been exploring various websites of other comic providers such as the members only sites and other platforms for delivery of archival info as well as new releases and I am interested in your imput. It seems that most sites are simply money generating turds with their only function to get as deep into your pocket as possible without you realizing it until it is too late. The monthly member fees, and the "no access beyond this point without paying an arm and a leg.'' I understand that they have staffs and mouths to feed but it all seems grubby to me.

I hope that I can make my site free and supplement the cost and time involved by selling CD collections of my work. Hopefully this will allow me to provide, free of charge, the continuation of VIETNAM JOURNAL as a web comic adding pages, hopefully (Yes, I use that word alot.), weekly as I complete them. And fans won't have to wait until I finish 100 or so pages to get the continuing story...Just come back to the site periodically and view or download the free pages at your leasure. When I have completed enough pages I will then collect them in CD form for sale with the other archival material. I maybe naive but I think there are more important things on this planet than money. As ol' Jack Burton always says; "What the hell."

Let me know what you think.

Don

]]> By: Peter A Colwill http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-jason-aaron/comment-page-1/#comment-696362 Peter A Colwill Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:34:42 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-eye-on-comics-2/#comment-696362 Don Can't wait for the rest of the story. Perhaps if you put the whole story together as a comic book we could read valley of death 1-6 as a feature. Perhaps this would lead to a revival to create some work for Iraq and Afghanistan. I'm sure there are plenty of soldiers just waiting to tell a story or two. I have already read some superb accounts of the conflicts from both sides of the pond. My son is a Royal Engineer and has just turned 18yrs. We know his deployment is imminent. Thanks once again for your work on vietnam journal by far the best. The Nam became featureless and poor very early on and never regained the necessary talent to create the truth and horror of vietnam. Many thanks to Jason for this website 5*****!!!! Don
Can't wait for the rest of the story. Perhaps if you put the whole story together as a comic book we could read valley of death 1-6 as a feature. Perhaps this would lead to a revival to create some work for Iraq and Afghanistan. I'm sure there are plenty of soldiers just waiting to tell a story or two. I have already read some superb accounts of the conflicts from both sides of the pond. My son is a Royal Engineer and has just turned 18yrs. We know his deployment is imminent. Thanks once again for your work on vietnam journal by far the best. The Nam became featureless and poor very early on and never regained the necessary talent to create the truth and horror of vietnam.
Many thanks to Jason for this website 5*****!!!!

]]> By: Dan Felty http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-jason-aaron/comment-page-1/#comment-696117 Dan Felty Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:29:06 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-eye-on-comics-2/#comment-696117 Don, I'll be checking in on that website; Vietnam Journal sounds like some powerful stuff! Blazing Combat is set to be reprinted in its entirety in a Fantagraphics hardcover this December. Amazon has it available for preorder, but it's not showing up on the FG website. Hopefully it will still be coming out. Don, I'll be checking in on that website; Vietnam Journal sounds like some powerful stuff!

Blazing Combat is set to be reprinted in its entirety in a Fantagraphics hardcover this December. Amazon has it available for preorder, but it's not showing up on the FG website. Hopefully it will still be coming out.

]]> By: Don Lomax http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-jason-aaron/comment-page-1/#comment-696102 Don Lomax Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:38:53 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-eye-on-comics-2/#comment-696102 Peter, As memory serves VALLEY OF DEATH #2 was written and penciled but the script has since been lost. I will have to rewrite it if the project is to continue but I don't see a problem. This will all work itself out in the future. I am looking forward to continuing the series, if the interest is there. Thank you so much for you kind words and I hope to get the ball rolling soon. I am recently retired in pretty good health (not like many of my friends and men I served with. PTSD, Agent Orange, and suicide have taken their toll on my little group) so I have the time to devote to my first love , Vietnam Journal. With the support of fans like you maybe it will happen. Thanks again. Don Peter,

As memory serves VALLEY OF DEATH #2 was written and penciled but the script has since been lost. I will have to rewrite it if the project is to continue but I don't see a problem. This will all work itself out in the future. I am looking forward to continuing the series, if the interest is there.
Thank you so much for you kind words and I hope to get the ball rolling soon. I am recently retired in pretty good health (not like many of my friends and men I served with. PTSD, Agent Orange, and suicide have taken their toll on my little group) so I have the time to devote to my first love , Vietnam Journal.
With the support of fans like you maybe it will happen.
Thanks again.

Don

]]> By: Peter A Colwill http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-jason-aaron/comment-page-1/#comment-696098 Peter A Colwill Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:52:00 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-eye-on-comics-2/#comment-696098 Wow!!! As an avid fan of your work here on the small island I am over the moon that eventually we can continue the vietnam saga in valley of death. I have only just found out courtesy of this website that only the first issue was made. I have been trawling every website available to find the 2nd copy. Please tell me though, were there any proof copies made? Had you actually written and drawn the strips for part 2-6? Great to hear Don that you will carry this series on. I for one cannot wait as this war has a special addiction to me as does the apollo missions to the moon....all happening whilst I was 10-12 yrs old and when we had got our first television. It has become a lifelong vigil for me to know everything about these two subject matters. Wow!!! As an avid fan of your work here on the small island I am over the moon that eventually we can continue the vietnam saga in valley of death. I have only just found out courtesy of this website that only the first issue was made. I have been trawling every website available to find the 2nd copy. Please tell me though, were there any proof copies made? Had you actually written and drawn the strips for part 2-6? Great to hear Don that you will carry this series on. I for one cannot wait as this war has a special addiction to me as does the apollo missions to the moon....all happening whilst I was 10-12 yrs old and when we had got our first television. It has become a lifelong vigil for me to know everything about these two subject matters.

]]> By: Don Lomax http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-jason-aaron/comment-page-1/#comment-696031 Don Lomax Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:38:12 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-eye-on-comics-2/#comment-696031 VALLEY OF DEATH #1 was the last issue created for APPLE COMICS before the company went out of business. Since the story was put on pause in the summer of 1969 there is a hell of a lot of story left to tell. If the interest is there when I get my web site up and running I would like nothing better than to continue the series as a web comic for members. I want it to be as affordable as possible so my wife and I are trying to do it all ourself. Wish us luck. Don VALLEY OF DEATH #1 was the last issue created for APPLE COMICS before the company went out of business. Since the story was put on pause in the summer of 1969 there is a hell of a lot of story left
to tell. If the interest is there when I get my web site up and running I would like nothing better than to continue the series as a web comic for members. I want it to be as affordable as possible so my wife and I are trying to do it all ourself. Wish us luck.

Don

]]> By: Nick http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-jason-aaron/comment-page-1/#comment-696027 Nick Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:03:31 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-eye-on-comics-2/#comment-696027 That would be fantastic Don! It would be great to have a digital copy of your work as well! Would the CD include the rest of "Valley of Death", which was never published? To those interested, I forgot to mention as part of the Vietnam Journal series, you could also include High Shining Brass (1-4), also by Mr Lomax. Cheers! That would be fantastic Don! It would be great to have a digital copy of your work as well! Would the CD include the rest of "Valley of Death", which was never published?

To those interested, I forgot to mention as part of the Vietnam Journal series, you could also include High Shining Brass (1-4), also by Mr Lomax.

Cheers!

]]> By: Don Lomax http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-jason-aaron/comment-page-1/#comment-695951 Don Lomax Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:27:56 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-eye-on-comics-2/#comment-695951 I have for some time been contemplating releasing the entire VIETNAM JOURNAL series plus the full color series which appeared in Gallery Magazine (now out of business) in CD form after I have my web site up and running later next year. With any luck it will happen but I will be doing it on a shoestring. Let's cross our fingers. Don Lomax I have for some time been contemplating releasing the entire VIETNAM JOURNAL series plus the full color series which appeared in Gallery Magazine (now out of business) in CD form after I have my web site up and running later next year. With any luck it will happen but I will be doing it on a shoestring. Let's cross our fingers.

Don Lomax

]]> By: Nick http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-jason-aaron/comment-page-1/#comment-689087 Nick Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:51:03 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-eye-on-comics-2/#comment-689087 It should be noted is that there are 4 different series of Vietnam Journal, they are: Vietnam Journal (1-16) Vietnam Journal: Bloodbath at Khe Sanh (1-4) Vietnam Journal: Tet '68 (1-6) Vietnam Journal: Valley Of Death (1) This was suposed to be a 6 part series, but only the first issue was ever printed. Also there is Marvel's "Semper Fi", a 9 part series about the Marines in Vietnam, comparable to "The 'Nam". It should be noted is that there are 4 different series of Vietnam Journal, they are:

Vietnam Journal (1-16)

Vietnam Journal: Bloodbath at Khe Sanh (1-4)

Vietnam Journal: Tet '68 (1-6)

Vietnam Journal: Valley Of Death (1) This was suposed to be a 6 part series, but only the first issue was ever printed.

Also there is Marvel's "Semper Fi", a 9 part series about the Marines in Vietnam, comparable to "The 'Nam".

]]> By: dr pete http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-jason-aaron/comment-page-1/#comment-318761 dr pete Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:21:31 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-eye-on-comics-2/#comment-318761 I have the entire set of the NAM. I was intrigued by the war as a kid (watching 8 men on my block deploy and return) 1 in a body bag and another 2 suicides (later on). So I wanted to learn about the war. Good series. I have the 3 trade books and the 10 NAM Magazines. dr pete I have the entire set of the NAM. I was intrigued by the war as a kid (watching 8 men on my block deploy and return) 1 in a body bag and another 2 suicides (later on). So I wanted to learn about the war. Good series. I have the 3 trade books and the 10 NAM Magazines.

dr pete

]]> By: matt levin http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-jason-aaron/comment-page-1/#comment-9986 matt levin Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:13:59 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-eye-on-comics-2/#comment-9986 there are at least two volumes of Vietman Journal in trade collections, and, I believe, another collection, a kind of follow-up series, Desert Storm Journal, which likewise pulls no punches.... Vietnam Journal is very highly recommended by a very picky reader (heh--me, that is). Matt there are at least two volumes of Vietman Journal in trade collections, and, I believe, another collection, a kind of follow-up series, Desert Storm Journal, which likewise pulls no punches.... Vietnam Journal is very highly recommended by a very picky reader (heh--me, that is).

Matt

]]> By: Annoyed Grunt http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-jason-aaron/comment-page-1/#comment-9473 Annoyed Grunt Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:44:11 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/04/comic-blogs-should-be-good-eye-on-comics-2/#comment-9473 Vietnam Journal sounds like something worth picking up. Is there a trade by any chance? Vietnam Journal sounds like something worth picking up. Is there a trade by any chance?

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