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I too can't think of a comic for this prompt, especially since rereading comics is such a joy for me. I can't really think of any media that falls into this category except Grave of the Fireflies, a film I loved when I first saw it in 2005, but I've never watched since... but then I recently bought the blu-ray because I've begun to feel like I'll change my mind at some point.

You talked yourself out of the category. Love it.

I managed to find one copy of Elmer for sale in Europe. The good news is that I also managed to purchase it, thanks for the heads up. Tintin is my answer. Never truly dug it as a kid (I was more into Asterix) and there are way too many unread comics for me to ever go back to see if I can change my mind about Tintin. No offence to Tintin lovers! ✌️♥️

Hey man,the reason why your channel is so appealing to me, is because youfuel the comic addiction I have with stellar recommendations. Please keep it up!!!

I love how you work through what each promt is asking in each video.

I'm a little late to the party, but I'll go with When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs. This is actually one that I decided to give a go thanks to your video a while back. While the book is undeniably powerful and expertly conveys the horrors of nuclear war in such an unassuming way, I found the reading experience bordering on unpleasant thanks to its harrowing contents. It's not a book I can see myself picking up again anytime soon without a great deal of convincing!

Thanks for your insights. I pulled it off my shelf for re-read pile!

I love your passion for comics, glad to see you again, for some reason YT didnt show me your channel in a long long time

First of all great to have you back. I remember Elmer as a beautiful book. I am looking forward to rereading it after your video. Trying to be realistic: the way time flies and new books keep coming most of the books I love I will probably never get the chance to read again. On the other hand I will probably be loving a lot more books that I havent read yet. But trying to answer the question Schizo #4 is probably the book that fits the description the most my answer is probably Schizo #4. Ivan Brunetti is a true master of comics art and this book is probably his masterpiece. Amazing craftmanship, beautiful pages and impactful truths. The first three issues of the series (collected in Misery Loves Comedy) where absolutely perfect for what they were (honest, shocking, funny) and probably but this one was a huge leap to something better than what had come before. I remember page after page being mesmerized but also being personally impacted falling into some kind of "minor depression" not seeing the point to get out of bed for a week after reading it. Which is kind of contradictory, ironic and unexpected (like Brunetti's comics usually are). So much beauty. Such a wonderful inspiring achievement with so much power. back in 2006 when I read it I was in a very happy place and yet it managed to overwhelm me. Since then I am always keeping it at hand's distance and telling myself that it is probably too early for me to handle this once more.

A bit late to the party, but here is my two cents: One possible thing that could fit in this category is "a comic you remember loving, but don't remember enough about to ever be able to find it again". As a kid, I had several Dutch comics anthologies on the shelves in my bedroom. Some were from my father's childhood and passed down to me, some were ones my parents bought for me. I remember the feeling of reading those on long summer evenings or secretly under the covers in cold winter nights. I remember how some of the stories made me feel. I even remember the looks of (very few) characters. I know I loved these anthologies, but they are lost to time now and there is no chance I will ever find exactly those ones again. Perhaps if I see one, I'll know it immediately, but even that is not too probable. And even if I ever find one... it would probably be like your He-Man comics and become a "comic I used to love as a kid but can't value in the same way as an adult."

That you reread the comic makes this a video with a happy ending. When you started this 31 days project, I looked at the questions and decided there were too many i'd have a tough time answering. But you tackled this one perfectly.

Loving this!

Comic that I ❤ and can never read again ? That's easy - Moebius The Incal it's just too emotionally overwhelming and existentially sad it's the GREATEST ever written nothing is even close . But honestly sir IM OCD and the only book I've EVER read twice is Herman Melvilles Moby Dick. The Incal has philosophical and pessimism themes that are far too overwhelming but I would never read it again just because of my nature . ALSO- one of the greatest comics masterworks Chris Ware's Building Stories I experienced it in 2014 and there's NO OTHER artistic rendition that captures the brief joys and prolonged suffering of human existence as this work by Chris Ware does . Once again there's simply no debate and also if Prince Sukkarta The Buddha were somehow alive today after achieving Nirvana/ Enlightenment under a Tree of Life 2600 years ago he would shed tears at the theological and ideological mirror images of Building Stories and The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism itself . ❤😢💀🕊💔

Great video and Topic. Thank you. This one took me a little bit but finally 2 books series came to mind, both that i read last year and also involving animals. WE3, and Stray Dogs. Both great stories that i enjoyed a lot but some was hard to get through because of what happens to the animals. I would recommend both but once is enough for me

Ok i know this isnt a comic,(thats mainly because i only buy comics that i know i will reread),but the studio ghibli film "the grave of the fireflies" I feel is a perfect example of what this category represents. The film, artstyle and animation are stellar! and i do genuinely love the film,but the sheer amount of emotion that i felt during the entire time i watched it,especially at the end, was so impactful, that it left me with memories i never wanted to experience again. Truly a great movie and something that everything **has** to experience atleast once in their lives.

I'm going with From Hell by Alan Moore. Loved it and its a story that has stayed with me but i found it hard to get through it. When I feel like reading it again I usually just go watch a video essay on KZfaq. Going to me joining the Patron soon hope it goes great for you.

Second time a 31 days of comics video ends with me buying the damn book lol. Please keep making these. I love how seriously you take the subject matter, and how your mind works in doing so

I have no answer for this. If it was about novels then I probably won't reread any of my favourite books as it usually takes me a long time to get through a book and I'd rather read something new. But as comics are relatively quick to read and easy to just dip in and read a few pages here and there, there is really no comic I love that I wouldn't reread.

Great video!!

8:16- thanks for your perfect candid review of Elmer I love birds too much I can't live with any animal cruelty and commoditization of our fellow residents of this only lonely and over crowded planet we"ll ever know . 💔🐣🐥🕊😢

Definitely Maus, so heartbreaking. The art helps you distance yourself for a bit but then you realize that this happened to real people just for being born a specific ethnicity/cultural group. Honorable mention: crisis on infinite earths. Because, damn, those pages were busy. Excellent series, but I honestly had a bit of a headache throughout the whole read. I feel like they packed 18 issues of art and content into 12 issues.

So excited to see you back sir! I actually have an answer for this in line of the last major point you mentioned. It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood. While I may one day in the future revisit and love the book so much, it's too emotionally taxing and relevant to someone close to me that I can't see myself ever going through the experience again. At least not for the foreseeable future

You are brilliant!

This was easy for me. Invincible by Kirkman. Bought all three Compendiums, read them, enjoyed the ride very much and as soon as I got to finish line I was ready to sell the set knowing I wouldn't miss them. I can even throw in a bonus: Killing Joke. I really loved the story when it came out. Last year I shipped it to earlgrey(he collects Killing Jokes) so definitely not re-reading it again. There is something about superhero stories that my mind most often frames as disposable. That is why I am reluctant to buy them. I might enjoy the story but rarely feel the need to re-read. I'm glad there are things like Black Hammer to break that rule🤘

Usually if the topic is cancer, of which there are a few, I’ve read some beautiful ones but they’re so heavy. Example: Anders Nilsen’s Don’t Go Where You Can’t Follow

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My pick would be Big Questions by Anders Nilsen. I loved reading it but the whole time I kept questioning what it actually was what i was reading. On one side I couldn't put it away but on the other side it wasn't a pageturner. I was confused for most of the time but was also smiling while I was reading it. So I loved it in a really weird way but I will never read it again. Also there are some autobiographical books that tell about (child)abuse or sickness that I loved because it tells the story in a way that you can almost feel the pain and suffering. And I love that an artist is capable of doing that and is able to pull you in that rollercoster of emotions. But the story is so grim and painful that I probably will not read it again.

Monsters- Barry Winsor-Smith. Its not an old book so I may revisit it still. I loved this book. The art is incredible, the pace and lettering were all top shelf. However....this book was incredibly sad/depressing and im not sure i ever want to revist that again. Perhaps I'll revisit the art and flip through some of my more favorite drawings, but reread it cover to cover? Probably not.

What a wild premise for a story! It does sound interesting. I may have to try to find this. But the important question is: can chicken-fried steak adequately replace fried chicken? ;-)

Interesting promt and, as you said, quite tought to pin down. I tried to think about it, I looked at my bookshelf, I tried to give it a spin, to think more about it... but in the end I believe I have something of an ontological issue with the promt. In my view and experience anything you "love" is something that you go back to, or at least something that you (even subconsciously) want to return to someday. As you said, it can be even a partial return; reading a couple of pages or characters. And this is because, in my mind, something that we love is something that we have made or want to made part of aourselves, something that call to us for some reason. It can be because it shows us things that we don't know, because it reflects ourselves, because it excites us, makes us curious, fullfils some need, soothes us, stimmulates our minds (or even our bodies... and no, not necesarily in that sense ahhaha). Even the fact that we considered something as "beloved" at some point in the past maybe will probably draw us towards it at some point due to our neverending quest to know who we are, who we were, and who we will (and want) to be. Why did we love this or that? That little question will make you open that book and tempt you to read it. ... and yes, you may end up hating it; or baffled at why you felt that way towards it. But I think that any book you "love" or "loved" has always the potential of returning to it. I think it's in big part becuase love is not logical. And this is why I think the word "love" is a hard barrier to connect with the promt. If the word had been "liked" or even "liked a lot" it would work for me. You can like a work for all the same reasons you love another, but it's not the same. You can also like a work for many "logical" reasons, such as its production value, the quality of the art, the immersiveness of the writing, the characters, the prestige and influence, historical reasons, or because you really value what it is telling you about... and despite all of that, you can feel it's not a work you need or want to return to. In my case this happens a lot with biographical or autobiographical works. Some are masterworks in many senses, many of them open a door to experiences that are interesting, new, or relevant... or in the worst case, just experiences that have value because they are not your own, so they extend a brige to an "other" (a fascinating "magic" only culture can provide). But then again... I seldom feel the need to go back into those stories unless there are things aside from the lived expeince that have weight in the work (a big part of why, despite not being a hardcore fan of bio works, I love Persepolis and regularly pick it up for a couple of pages). But as said before... it is because I don't feel drawn to them that I can't bestow them with the "label" of things I love... I just liked them. It's a bit of tautological issue I guess. Then there are some works that, simmilarly to your Elmer experience (or at least to what you thought the experience was), have something in them that is too uncomfortable or dark. In my case that would be Nijigahara Holograph, by Inio Asano. It's a book that is very well written, very well planed, very well drawn... about the most horriffic dark corners of the human mind and of the human experience. I think it is precisely that it tell such horrors in such a well executet way, what makes it a book I feel no need or want to go back to. Yes, it liven in my mind and I somethimes think about it, but I wouldn't want to read it again. I like it, in the sense that it acomplishes what it sets out to do and tell very, very well; I like the art, the well written dialogue, the compositions and visual narrative... but I wouldn't go back to it. But then again... my issue is that I can't possibly say that I "loved" it. It impressed me, it grabbed me emotionally sometimes, it felt dizzying at times. I respect it... but no love. I haven't read Oyasumi Punpun, but from what people usually say about that one, I wonder if someone "loves" it and feels no need to return it, of if they "just" like it.

I suspect most people will interpret the question as pertaining to comics that deal with traumatic subjects the reader has experienced, such as sexual violence as depicted in personal memoirs like Our Little Secret. I can imagine many people would read a book like that and love it, but not want to revisit the terribly painful and intimate suffering it depicts. I don't think I read comics that way, however -- I always keep a certain critical distance. So I don't think there's a comic I would love but not want to reread. But who knows? Maybe one day I'll find one.

Interesting question. In films and books it's easier. Irreversible, for example is one of my favorite films, but likely won't see again. Monsters by Barry Windsor Smith was one of the saddest graphic novels I've ever read. Remarkable work. I didn't think I'll read it again, though, until last month when some youtubers wanted to talk about it. I read it again for the stream, but was hesitant. I read it one seating and again, it was wonderfully painful.

More toylines need insert comics in the packages. Especially since toylines are less likely to be tied to cartoons these days.

Sold. Elmer sounds fantastic and challenging in a way that I think I'll appreciate. My book would be The Tale of One Bad Rat by Bryan Talbot. Masterfully told, important, but deeply uncomfortable and devastating. It's been more than 20 years since I first read it, so I am curious if my feelings would change if I revisited it...but I'm not quite ready to find out. This was a great prompt!

Lol! I thought you were joking... But it was the next prompt for 31 days of comics! That comic sounds crazy!!! I'll have to hunt it down... I also don't have any comic I loved that I wouldn't want to read again.

- My favorite comic: Nausicaa of the valley of the wind by Hayao Miyazaki - A comic to reccomend to anyone: Peanuts by Charles Schulz - A great adaptation: 1984 by Fido Nesti - A great love story: A taste of chlorine by Bastien Vivés - My first comic pursued: Dampyr (various artists - italian comic series) - Nonfiction comic: Pyongyang by Guy Delisle. - Confort comic: Tin Tin by Hergé - Gorgeous comic: Castle in the stars by Alex Alice - A comic that blew my mind: V for vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd - The most beautiful scene: A sea of love by Wilfrid Lupano - An old comic I've loved: The Eternaut by Oesterheld - A great holiday comic: Your Wish Is My Command by Deena Mohamed - A great plot twist: The labyrinth by Simon Stålenhag - Loved it. Never reading it again: Cato Zulù by Hugo Pratt Since I love Huge Pratt I decided to take this comic set during the Zulù war against the British Empire. I enjoyed it overall but I always felt satisfied with that first read (never felt the need to check it again). Anyway it's a nice short story that I reccomend to any Hugo Pratt fans.

Tough one as you say. Closest I can get (I was going to give an answer that would appear to go to a later day given your foreshadowing!) is Giant Days. Now I know this doesn't really answer the questions as I'm already buying the Library Editions in preparation for a re-read. Just that re-read is some way off. I've read Giant Days after picking it up in a digital sale. Had it recommended to me by no lesser than Jim Campbell the letterer and knew it was about going to University in Sheffield - which I did. I still live there its such a great city. Indeed I get the sense that John Allison the creator of the series is likely to have gone to Sheffield Uni around the same time as me, even if Giant Days was set later. So this comic was perfect for me... except it wasn't, however good it was. I mean it really gets under some elements of my experience. They study in the Library I studied (and later worked) in, They went to the same places, drank in the same pubs. Literally this is so set in my city. The trouble is it was so close to my experience in so many ways, yet wasn't my experience it just felt off to me. However much I thought it was great. My problem, not the comics and I fully intend to go back to it as I say (so this doesn't answer the question I know!). I'm just not sure when that will be as those hang ups of mine still niggle when I flick through the Library Editions as they land and I spot they call The Cobden, the Cobden View Arms, NO ONE CALLED IT THAT... even if it was its full name. We all called it The Cobden.... see its a stupid hang up but its the best I got!

Loved Laika but it really made me sad, so I wouldn’t read it again. I am a vegetarian and I know Elmer would make me uncomfortable. I recently read a dystopian book where meat no longer was an option so certain humans were bred for food. That book brought out a lot of the questions/feelings you raised. I think I’ll try to find Elmer. I’m so glad your rereading brought you a more positive outlook on this work - I guess I need to reread Laika….

UZUMAKI from Junji Ito ... I think is an espectacular horror comic... I WILL NEVER READ IT AGAIN.

I first thought of something like "It's a bird", since it can be a pretty heavy read, but I would read that kind of thing again when I need it. Then I thought of something like "Garfield", since I loved those comics as a kid, but they are less meaningful to me as an adult. However, nostalgia will probably make me pick those up again too. So I guess, my answer will have to be... no, I can't imagine never wanting to read a comic again after loving it - now let me get back to watching your answer :).

Invincible. It is great but three omnies. Not sure I will have time to reread, in this lifetime.

You proved how intelligent and self-aware you are with this video

Welcome back!! Maybe it is Archie Goodwin and Scot Hamptom's Batman Night cries for me, i love that book, the art is absolutely gorgeous but i found it very eerie and uncomfortable to explore again, though i enjoy the art, but i will not read it again, atleast for the long term.

Anything by Junji Ito I can only read once. His stuff gives me nightmares haha.

Btw. which character is featured on your t-shirt? Thanks!

In the left side of the background, I can see a book with Tintin in the binding. Which book is this and what does it cover as it looks quite thick!

Maybe Watchmen. Haven't read it in a very long time. Still think it's brilliant. If I would read it again, I would exclude all the book excerpts and the whole Tales of the Black Freighter portion. I just found all of that tedious.

I remember the first time I read the Nausicaa manga it left me so unsure of how to feel at the end that it took years before I sat down to reread it again (after rereading it I think it might actually be one of my all time favourite works of fiction)

Although I can't think of any specific example at the moment, there are probably works I once loved but won't revisit because the unsavory or illegal actions of a creator has tainted the work for me. A lot of us read comics because of a creator's unique voice or artistic style, and I find it really hard to divorce the creator from the work as I'm reading.

Hey, have you read Joe Zette Jocko comics by Hergé? In Bangla, Ananda Publishers is reprinting these 5 comics again. Do you recommend them? (I haven't read much other than Tintin and Asterix)

The cultural artifacts I love but do not wish to revisit are those that are actually hurtful or traumatic yet artistically rewarding.

Elmer doesn't quite sound like Maus with Chickens, but rather the Cock Fighter manga.

It's "No Longer Human" for me.

oyasumi punnpun for me

Day 14? When was the last time you posted a video?😂 Edit: Killing Joke.

Life been busy and i didn't watch for some years lol, looks like you lost some weight! handsome tho!