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This is where we talk about cool stuff like this:
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Looks like it hurts
Only comic book/graphic novel that I've read recently was Bone (complete series) I want somethign else, but dont know what. And recommendations?
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There's a graphic novel called Joker, which is very good!
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Watchmen is amazing.
Neil Gaiman's Sandman series is amazing.
That's the entirety of my GN experience so far, but I'd like to broaden it at some point!
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My list of cool things I've read are all mentioned already:
Watchmen, Sandman and Bone. :P We have a few more series in the shelf that I'm going to read though, like Priest...
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As far as thick graphic novel stuff, I've read Bone, Blankets, Watchmen, the entire The Sandman series, and I've dipped into Marvel and DC superhero comics at times. I need to read Lucifer, Hellblazer, Transmetropolitian, and Preacher, I've heard they're awesome.
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If I had to pick my favorite graphic novel nowadays, It would have to be "Batman: The Long Halloween." Made Two-Face my favorite Batman villain, and Batman's villains are the best. Others I enjoy include Watchmen, Sin City, Other Batman comics, classic X-Men/Spider-Man, and V For Vendetta. When I come across large amounts of disposable income, I plan on buying The Sandman.
Are we allowed to talk about Manga here too? If so I'll gladly talk about Death Note and FMA.
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I've only read Watchmen and one Batman Novel (Killing Joke). If this category includes manga, I'm presently reading Elfen Lied. I also keep up with the Buffy, Angel, and Firefly graphic novels.
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Read:
Watchmen (Alan Moore)
V for Vendetta (Alan Moore)
Ex Machina
The Eternals (Neil Gaiman)
I picked up the first Bone comic instead of opting for the full one volume edition because I hear the color is much better.
The Moore books were very well written though I found V for Vendetta hard to get used to due to it being illustrated very black with thick lines. Ex Machine wasn't bad and it was drawn fairly well. I gotta say I wasn't a huge fan of Eternals. I found the writing fairly cheesy and juvenile though the illustrations were very well done. I feel like I don't do well with cape/superhero comics but from what I hear many of them are very bad.
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Well, I'm a comics/graphic novel junkie. I'd recommend:
Preacher
Hellblazer
Swamp Thing (Alan Moore series)
Daredevil (any of the Frank Miller series)
Hellboy
100 Bullets
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Read:
Watchmen (Alan Moore)
V for Vendetta (Alan Moore)
Ex Machina
The Eternals (Neil Gaiman)
I picked up the first Bone comic instead of opting for the full one volume edition because I hear the color is much better.
The Moore books were very well written though I found V for Vendetta hard to get used to due to it being illustrated very black with thick lines. Ex Machine wasn't bad and it was drawn fairly well. I gotta say I wasn't a huge fan of Eternals. I found the writing fairly cheesy and juvenile though the illustrations were very well done. I feel like I don't do well with cape/superhero comics but from what I hear many of them are very bad.
I liked Eternals a lot. Best part is when they humiliate Tony Stark and the whole point of the Civil War when they say they won't get registered.
Also, if you need your opinion on superhero comics changed, buy some good quality Batman books. I have so much fun with those.
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Dunno if you guys have noticed, but quite a few 'regular' novelists and writers of TV shows have crossed over to write for comics/graphic novels, helping to give the 'superhero' genre a bit more weight.
For instance:
Joss Whedon (Firefly and Buffy TV series) has 4 X-Men graphic novels out which are highly regarded
Michael J. Strazcynski (Babylon 5 TV series) has written many stories for Thor, Spider-Man and Fantastic Four
Brad Meltzer (bestselling novelist) has done Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Justice League stories
Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game novels) has done a couple of Iron Man graphic novels
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Read:
Watchmen (Alan Moore)
V for Vendetta (Alan Moore)
Ex Machina
The Eternals (Neil Gaiman)
I picked up the first Bone comic instead of opting for the full one volume edition because I hear the color is much better.
The Moore books were very well written though I found V for Vendetta hard to get used to due to it being illustrated very black with thick lines. Ex Machine wasn't bad and it was drawn fairly well. I gotta say I wasn't a huge fan of Eternals. I found the writing fairly cheesy and juvenile though the illustrations were very well done. I feel like I don't do well with cape/superhero comics but from what I hear many of them are very bad.
I liked Eternals a lot. Best part is when they humiliate Tony Stark and the whole point of the Civil War when they say they won't get registered.
Also, if you need your opinion on superhero comics changed, buy some good quality Batman books. I have so much fun with those.
I plan on reading the essentials (Killing Joke, Dark Knight Returns) at some point. The other thing that really bothered me about Eternals was the lack of any kind of ending but I assume it's part of a series.
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Well, I'm a comics/graphic novel junkie. I'd recommend:
Preacher
Hellblazer
Swamp Thing (Alan Moore series)
Daredevil (any of the Frank Miller series)
All of this, especially Preacher. Holy crap, that's some awesome stuff.
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I have not read many graphic novels, but I am a huge fan of From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, but I am a bit of a Jack the Ripper junkie. I know people tend to think of Watchmen as Moore's best or most defining work, but I think the effort and research and creativity he put in to From Hell makes it his best work.
https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Alan-Moore/dp/0958578346/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1249879120&sr=8-1
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Joss Whedon (Firefly and Buffy TV series) has 4 X-Men graphic novels out which are highly regarded
Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game novels) has done a couple of Iron Man graphic novels
I've never heard about these before now, but I need them!
I completely forgot to mention 300. Going to read Ronin, Preacher, Digger and 30 days of night (have at least one volume of all of those in the shelf). V for Vendetta as well!
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Ex Machine wasn't bad and it was drawn fairly well.
Ex Machina is pretty good, but if you want something a lot better from Brian K. Vaughan then check out Y: The Last Man. Best comic series I've ever read. (I'm only 2 into Sandman though.)
For the Buffy fans, BKV's run on the Season 8 comics is really great too. It's book 2, "No Future For You."
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I have not read many graphic novels, but I am a huge fan of From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, but I am a bit of a Jack the Ripper junkie. I know people tend to think of Watchmen as Moore's best or most defining work, but I think the effort and research and creativity he put in to From Hell makes it his best work.
https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Alan-Moore/dp/0958578346/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1249879120&sr=8-1
Yeah, it was good. Too bad the film wasn't very good.
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I would suggest Kingdom Come for any fan of DC Comic book heroes. The story is great and art work is awesome. The link below gives a very short plot summary and a picture of the New Edition Cover.
https://www.dccomics.com/dcu/graphic_novels/?gn=9978 (https://www.dccomics.com/dcu/graphic_novels/?gn=9978)
I am glad to see a comic book thread here as I did a search a little while back and got no hits.
Now if anyone if interested in the current DC comics story arcs I would suggest picking up Blackest Night. It is 8 issue series just just started last month. There is a little bit of reading to truly understand the scope of what was being setup in the previously released issues building up the Story in Green Lantern V4 and Green Lantern Corps V2. The first Issue was great and I cannot wait for the release of the second issue soon. The link below is for Blackest Night #1
https://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Blackest_Night_Vol_1 (https://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Blackest_Night_Vol_1)
If you want to check out what is going on the current Superman World. The run is about half way through but has been a great read so far Superman: World of New Krypton. I have a link below to the first issue.
https://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Superman:_World_of_New_Krypton_Vol_1_1 (https://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Superman:_World_of_New_Krypton_Vol_1_1)
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I would suggest Kingdom Come for any fan of DC Comic book heroes. The story is great and art work is awesome.
No question. One of my favorite books ever.
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I highly recomend the graphic novel or "trades" version of Marvell's The Secret Wars I and II. They've condensed both into a trades considering the hundreds of dollars it would take you to acquire them in comic form. Some excellent side stories involving DOOM, the Beyonder and most notable the "actual" story of where SpiderMan got his black/symbiot suit.
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I would suggest Kingdom Come for any fan of DC Comic book heroes. The story is great and art work is awesome.
No question. One of my favorite books ever.
It's more than worth reading for the art, but I didn't think it was that interesting a story. Maybe I'm just not well-versed enough in DC canon.
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Personal favourite is Sam & Max: Freelance Police (as you can tell from my avatar). I just wish that he spent less time earning money at a day job in Pixar and carried on making them. :lol
-"It was the stern guiding voice of the Commissioner with just the right kind of hair-raising case we can wrap our overactive adrenal glands around."
-"Are you talking dirty?"
Also just ordered Dethklok vs The Goon, so looking forward to reading that one. :D
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I would suggest Kingdom Come for any fan of DC Comic book heroes. The story is great and art work is awesome.
No question. One of my favorite books ever.
It's more than worth reading for the art, but I didn't think it was that interesting a story. Maybe I'm just not well-versed enough in DC canon.
Perhaps so. I thought the story was fantastic, but I was extremely well-versed in DC canon at the time.
Although, with all of the Crisises they've had, is there any DC canon left?
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A final Brian K Vaughan recommendation: Pride of Baghdad. Amazing one-off book about a pride of lions that escape from the Baghdad Zoo during the bombings. Some of the best art I've seen in a comic. Not as big a fan of BKV's writing in this as I normally am, but I feel like the third act is going for some allegory that I'm not political enough to understand.
Another favourite series of mine is Scott Pilgrim. Very quirky comedy/action/romance book. Art is good and really adds a lot to the gags, but it is manga-style which might turn some people off. These are simply some of the funnest books I've ever read. It wouldn't be hef's style, but I recommend it to anyone under 25, regardless of if you read comics or not.
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ZOMG I just started reading The Exterminators. Check out this book NAO
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The Killing Joke
The Man Who Laughs
Batman: Year One
The Dark Knight Returns
Batman: The Long Halloween
Batman: Hush
My personal favorites :)
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The Killing Joke
Amazing graphic novel!
I've been reading the first few comics of Iron Man (Tales of Suspense 39-99).
Comics in the 60s were very innocent.
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V for Vendetta :hat
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Never really liked Watchmen, and don't particularly care for all the books you're supposed to like if you like Watchmen.
Right now I'm reading The Walking Dead, Absolution, Green Lantern: Blackest Night, Chew (which a friend of mine got signed for me when he went to the SDCC) and anything with Deadpool.
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I finished Preacher. So. Freaking. Awesome. :metal :metal :metal
I've also read some issues of Star Wars Legacy, and it's pretty good.
I"m only two issues in, but Lucifer doesn't seem that great so far.
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Got Dethklok vs The Goon. Really not that great. Just a string of references for half-arsed fanboys to cream themselves over. And Dethklok are drawn really badly. The Goon side of the art though is great.
Gone back to reading Spawn from #1 straight through. :metal:
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Gone back to reading Spawn from #1 straight through. :metal:
I have the first 30 issues, but I don't remember the last time I read them.
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From Hell, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Sandman are all incredible, especially if you like your graphic novels on the more literary side.
Jason Lutes' Berlin books are pretty damn good as well.
Bryan Talbot's Alice in Sunderland is cool, and defies description. Gemma Bovary is an interesting rewriting of Madame Bovary, but I can't remember who did that book, and I'm too lazy to get up and find it on the shelf.
As I have a pretty strong interest in WWI, I'm partial to the Charley's War books. I actually teach the first two in my WWI literature class.
What else? Transmet was pretty good. As far as superheroes go, I agree with the OP, you can't go wrong with Marvel Civil War, and did anyone mention Grant Morrison and Dave McKean's Arkham Asylum: Serious House on Serious Earth (or some subtitle like that)? That book is awesome, one of the best Batman books I've read.
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On a side note, Disney just bought Marvel Comics for $4 billion. :eek
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On a side note, Disney just bought Marvel Comics for $4 billion. :eek
I was just gonna say this.
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Resurrection
Been reading Transmetropolitan, which is incredible. Almost done with the third volume and I'm pumped there is seven more. Also started on Planetary though I've only read the first volume. Read the first deluxe volume of Y: The Last Man and I have the second one waiting. Can't wait to see where the story is going.
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Read the first deluxe volume of Y: The Last Man and I have the second one waiting. Can't wait to see where the story is going.
Awesome. It's going awesome.
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Resurrection
Been reading Transmetropolitan, which is incredible. Almost done with the third volume and I'm pumped there is seven more. Also started on Planetary though I've only read the first volume. Read the first deluxe volume of Y: The Last Man and I have the second one waiting. Can't wait to see where the story is going.
I love Warren Ellis... Planetary is great stuff. The only problem is that the characters have a ton of history and back-story attached to them, it gets confusing sometimes.
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Yeah I had to get filled in slightly after reading the first volume. I understand who the people showing up in the story are based on and it makes the story kind of hilarious.
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I was thinking about resurrecting this thread since Iīm getting into comics and I bought many of the books recommended in this thread. I usually buy a lot of stuff at once and then start reading it. Iīve got:
The Sandman (5 volumes so far. Havenīt started with it)
V for Vendetta (I'm halfway through it, watched the movie before so I donīt feel I have a fresh reading of it)
300 (hs, I love the movie though)
The Dark Knight Returns (hs)
The Complete Persepolis (Iīve read only about 75 pages but itīs very good, definitely recommended for those who want a more candid story)
Kingdom come (havenīt started)
Scott Pilgrim (hs)
Death Note (the anime has become one of my favorites, the writing is consistently excellent)
Blankets (very good but maybe too sad for my taste)
Bone (only a few pages into it but looks good)
Ronin (hs)
A very popular comic that hasnīt been mentioned here is the Love & Rockets series. Iīve got the first 2 volumes of the compilation. Some of the stories are kinda tame and the writting is not always stellar, but itīs good, entertaining reading most of the time, especially if you want something with a Latin American feeling. Additionally, Iīm planning to get the leage of extraordinary gentlemen, Batman: Year 100, some Daredevil novels that everybody recommends and maybe a couple of good comedy-oriented books.
Also, if anyone can recommend a compilation featuring Iron Man, I would greatly appreciate it. Heīs become my favorite super hero lately, but since Iīve never been into comics before I havenīt read anything with him.
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Also, if anyone can recommend a compilation featuring Iron Man, I would greatly appreciate it. Heīs become my favorite super hero lately, but since Iīve never been into comics before I havenīt read anything with him.
Warren Ellis did a run of Iron Man, collected in one book called Extremis. :tup
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Also, if anyone can recommend a compilation featuring Iron Man, I would greatly appreciate it. Heīs become my favorite super hero lately, but since Iīve never been into comics before I havenīt read anything with him.
Warren Ellis did a run of Iron Man, collected in one book called Extremis. :tup
Thank you for the recommendation. Iīm waiting for it to be released as 1 volume on April this year.
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I have been reading alot of manga recently
ai kora
No-bra
nana
skipbeat
mysterious girlfriendx
xxxholic
fruits basket
and then my usual online ones updated weekly
annyseed
lackadaisy
xylia
ggguys
dreamland chronicles
emergency exit
yosh!
las lindas
knighthood
running wild
prelude
carribean blu
wrongside
pheonix requiem
two kinds
gunnerkrigg court
blip
parallel dementia
white noise
YU+ME: dream
requiemMask
Curvy
Familyman
DAR
Cardboard Angel
Devils cake
patches at GankiGirl
Strays
Red string
Penny And Aggie
as we were
sorcery101
sore thumbs
school bites
eerie cuties
girls with slingshots
the meek
DMFA
and more... heh. i guess u can say i like the art? >.<
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i looked into acquiring my graphic novel version of Secret Wars...........114$ EEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeek hard cover version. I might be waiting a while for that one.
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yikes!!
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I have all of the amory wars comics cept for Volume 1 issue 2, and volume 2 issue 1. Although, I have read the latter because I have a book that includes them all in it.
I much prefer Wes Abbott's work.
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Big bump to an old thread. Does anybody know any good graphic novels about war, or mafia and gangsters? I would be interested in those.
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I have volume 1 of Pretty, Baby, Machine which is about a conspiracy to kill Al Capone. It was pretty cool but I can't find volume 2 or 3 anywhere. It's more in comic book format but that's because it's short I think.
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Still working my way through all of the Deadpool's comics.
Deadpool's awesome!
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Big bump to an old thread. Does anybody know any good graphic novels about war, or mafia and gangsters? I would be interested in those.
Iron and the Maiden is really good, albeit only 6 issues(#0-#4, +1 specail). It was written by the same guy that created the Jak and Dexter video game series. It follows Iron, a man essentially built by a ridiculous steroids regime, as he tries to survive being a pawn in the various crime/political/religious syndicates' games. The Maiden is a woman with a mysterious connection to his plot.
...and yes, Iron Maiden sued. The series was renamed The Iron Saint for the collected edition that is coming out soon. Stupid as Hell that a band that named itself after such a notorious device can sue people who also reference it.
Really hoping more comes from this series. Aspen Comics did the first run and Top Cow has it right now. It could bounce around like this between the various places that take creator owned series, but it did sell really well from what I know so I expect more from it if the owner has time for it outside of the video game industry.
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Thank you very much orcus and yorost, and very interesting story. Iīll try to check those out.
Iīm almost finished with the Justice series (made Green Lantern my favorite character from the DC Universe, I have to get more stuff from him) and Kingdom Come is next. Iīm also on the second part of the Civil War series and itīs awesome, only a couple of weak stories but the plots with Ironman, Spiderman, Captain America and Fantastic Four are excellent. Hope Thor makes an appearance soon.
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The Green Lanterns are the greatest part of the DC universe. :) I personally like John, Guy, and Kyle much more than Hal, though. Well, I like Guy when the writers focus on him as a more serious character instead of just being some idiotic goofball. The recent Corps. teams have been fantastic with his character.
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The Green Lanterns are the greatest part of the DC universe. :) I personally like John, Guy, and Kyle much more than Hal, though. Well, I like Guy when the writers focus on him as a more serious character instead of just being some idiotic goofball. The recent Corps. teams have been fantastic with his character.
Well I donīt really know much about what your talking about :lol only that Hal Jordan is the Green Lantern I know. I have two fairly new TPB (Secret Origin and Rebirth), and I plan to get the recent Corps series. There is one scene at the Justice volumes where Hal is lost in the most distant part of the universe that blew my mind.
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Kingdom Come is next.
This is easily one of my favorite stories ever, comic or otherwise.
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Kingdom Come is next.
This is easily one of my favorite stories ever, comic or otherwise.
Is that a pastor receiving prophecies at the beginning with tons of references to the Scriptures? I can't wait to see where this story is going.
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Kingdom Come is next.
This is easily one of my favorite stories ever, comic or otherwise.
Is that a pastor receiving prophecies at the beginning with tons of references to the Scriptures? I can't wait to see where this story is going.
Yes it is.
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I'm reading the Sandman by Neil Gaiman at the moment, amazing stuff.
I have a massive list of webcomics I read, but most of you should know most of them already.
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Big bump to an old thread. Does anybody know any good graphic novels about war, or mafia and gangsters? I would be interested in those.
The Punisher run written by Garth Ennis (same guy wrote Preacher) has a lot of mafia/gangster-related goodies. Even some action involving the IRA, in a book called Kitchen Irish. And being that Frank Castle was a Vietnam vet, there's one Punisher graphic novel featuring his days in 'nam, called Born.
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I'm reading the Sandman by Neil Gaiman at the moment, amazing stuff.
:tup
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Finished Justice, the story was good and of course the art is stunning:
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Iīm on the Sandman volume 2 now, Iīm very curious about where the story is going.
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So it has been awhile since this thread got any attention. Currently I have been getting monthly subscriptions to several DC comics titles as well I am subbed to future issues that has not come out yet (Listed below). But for the first time in a long time in April I decided to pickup a few marvel titles I have not had the time to read them yet but I am excited to go through them. As well there are a few Marvel titles that are starting in the summer that I plan on picking up. My personal opinion is that comics have been awesome the past few years (DC Comics for me) and hopefully this success continues.
Any titles that are rocking your world right now?
The Green Lantern Titles have been awesome with the current Story Arc of "War of the Green Lanterns" running across all three titles. Brightest Day has been really good and has just finished it 24 issue run. I still have not read the final issue as I get my comics mailed to me. And I cannot wait to read Action Comics 900 Superman makes his way back to the title after a few years.
DC Comics
Ongoing Titles
Action Comics
Batman
Batman Incorporated
Batman The Dark Knight
The Flash (Cancelled as of May :( )
Green Arrow
Green Lantern
Green Lantern Corps
Green Lantern Emerald Warriors
Superboy
Superman
Superman Batman
Limited Series
Aftermath: War of the Green Lanterns
Batman Arkham City
Batman Gates Of Gotham
Brightest Day
Brightest Day Aftermath The Search
DC Universe Online Legends
Flashpoint
Flashpoint Abin Sur The Green Lantern
Flashpoint Batman Knight Of Vengeance
Flashpoint Emperor Aquaman
Flashpoint Green Arrow Industries
Flashpoint Hal Jordan
Flashpoint Project Superman
Flashpoint The World Of Flashpoint
Flashpoint Wonder Woman And The Furies
New DC Comics Titles Summer/Fall
Aquaman
Red Lantern Corps
New Flash Series (Untitled)
Marvel
Ongoing Titles
Thor/Journey Into Mystery
Mighty Thor
Limited Series
Fear Itself Book of the Skull
Fear Itself
New Marvel Titles Summer/Fall
Captain America
The Punisher
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Er, the only comics and graphic novels I buy are typically small press indie comics and stuff.
But I have some batman as well. Hush is beautiful.
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I'm resurrecting this ancient thread because I recently was introduced to/fell in love with Preacher and wanted to know who else has read it. Also, because I want to turn you all on with my new avatar :eyebrows:
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I read the first 10 issues or so of Preacher when it was originally published. I thought it was great, but that was right around the time I just stopped collecting comics.
But yeah, fantastic stuff.
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The Flash has always been my favorite superhero, and I thought these two pages from JLA #88 were pretty cool:
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click to make em a little larger.
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That is cool!
I read the first 10 issues or so of Preacher when it was originally published. I thought it was great, but that was right around the time I just stopped collecting comics.
But yeah, fantastic stuff.
Cool... I'm actually a total comic novice and have pretty much only read stuff that's been given to me and/or highly recommended. Preacher was one of those things and I fell in love with it/tore through all of it in a very short period of time. I'd actually be curious to hear more about a Christian's perspective on it, since mine is sort of the opposite.
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I grew up on comic books in the 90s. For many years, comic books and action figures were the central, most important aspect of my life (later, they were replaced by video games and then by music and girls - I'm still not through that phase, thank god). Spider-Man was my all time favorite and I got into it right in the middle of the symbiote phase. Venom, Carnage, all that good stuff. I read comics all day and then picked up my action figures in a highly inspired state and made my own epic stories in bullet time and with gross sound effects. Then came Spawn. It was dark, violent, gory, edgy, mature and I was 8 years old. "This is serious business, this is some heavy shit" I remember thinking. A score and a half later, I still think of them with deep fondness and nostalgia and sometimes I even fish out an old comic or two, smell the pages, vivify the memories (I can still hear my inner child reading voice in my head and all the different voices I gave the characters). I regard Spawn and 90s Spider-Man as classics...
...years later, it was a real culture shock to stumble upon the internet and see that most people regard them as utter shit. :lol
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Jackie, from a Christian's perspective, I thought Preacher was hilarious. It's fiction, so I don't get hung up on the "theology," I just care if it's a good story.
Read the Sandman books if you haven't yet.
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Yeah, that makes sense. Hilarious it is!
I have not read Sandman, but I've heard good things so if you recommend it I will go for it :D
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I have not read Sandman, but I've heard good things so if you recommend it I will go for it :D
I cannot recommend it highly enough. Possibly the best comic/graphic novel series ever.
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There have been some quality graphic novels mentioned in this thread so far. I'll post my list of favorites in a day or two, but I wanted to list off some of my favorite single issues:
G.I. Joe #21 - Silent Interlude, aka the "Silent Issue" - Snake Eyes goes on a one man mission to rescue Scarlett from Destro's mountain fortress. He fights a horde of troopers and ninjas to infiltrate the castle while Scarlett is doing her thing to escape. Wires get crossed and Scarlett ends up rescuing Snake Eyes, but as that is happening he saves her life with an awesome catch of a thrown sword. High action, awesome story, and we get to see Storm Shadow discover that he has a special connection with Snake Eyes. And not a word is spoken the entire issue. No speech bubbles, no sound effects, not even a narrator or thought caption.
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The Flash (vol 2) #54 - Nobody Dies - Wally West is flying in a passenger jet to escort some criminals cross country and befriends a flight attendant. The bad guys cause some havoc and a hole is ripped in the plane sucking out the attendant. His mind races for a solution, and what does he do? He jumps out after her. No, he cannot fly.
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Saga of the Swamp Thing #21 - The Anatomy Lesson - Freaking. Awesome. In this issue Alan Moore completely reworks who, or more accurately what, the Swamp Thing is and isn't. The consequences are beyond awesome. I don't want to spoil it. Go find it and read it. NOW!
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I agree with that GI Joe and Swamp Thing, they are classic individual issues.
Not familiar with that issue of Flash.
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Not familiar with that issue of Flash.
yeah, it was in the middle of a pretty nondescript run of stories that appeared in between the Vandal Savage storyline that led up to the big #50 issue and the beginning of Mark Waid's run on the series, starting with the Year One arc. Kind of gets lost in the shuffle since it wasn't part of a big story arc and will likely never be reprinted or collected in a trade paperback.
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I love this next panel
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ok a few more single issues I love:
Planetary #3 - Dead Gunfighters - This one reads like an awesome Japanese action/crime film. I'll talk more about Planetary when I do my graphic novel/trade paperback list.
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The Flash (vol 2) #182 - Absolute Zero - Brilliantly told origin of Captain Cold.
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Action Comics #775 - What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way? - Post Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns, the proliferation of anti-heroes in comics seemed to leave no room for the classic do-gooders like Superman. In this story we get to see just how far Superman will go to remain relevant in this new climate.
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I don't know any of those.
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I've been trying to get into comic books lately. I read watchmen which I enjoyed. Next I'm getting Batman: The long Halloween, I heard it's a pretty good place to start.
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I still have a copy signed by McFarlane in mylar. Kinda wish I would have bought multiple copies of #4 as well.
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I've been trying to get into comic books lately. I read watchmen which I enjoyed. Next I'm getting Batman: The long Halloween, I heard it's a pretty good place to start.
More Batman goodness: The Dark Knight Returns, The Killing Joke.
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Also, Year One.
Also, the two-part Batman/Grendel crossover was some of the best superhero storytelling I've ever read. But if you don't know Grendel, it may not work for you. Also, good luck trying to find it now.
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The Locke & Key series by Joe Hill is amazing
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I've been trying to get into comic books lately. I read watchmen which I enjoyed. Next I'm getting Batman: The long Halloween, I heard it's a pretty good place to start.
More Batman goodness: The Dark Knight Returns, The Killing Joke.
I just recently read both of these. Oh man!
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THEY'RE SO FUCKING GOOD!!
I especially love how TKJ ends.
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Well I loved the long halloween, I read it in a day. Maybe it's because I'm more familiar with the batman universe but I think I liked it more than watchmen.
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One of my favorite graphic novels of all time was a story of Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom called Triumph & Torment. Fantastic characterization and storytelling of Doctor Doom acquiring Doctor Strange's aid in rescuing his mother's soul from the clutches of Mephisto. Probably hard to find now, but just a great, great story.
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so Frank Miller is writing the dark knight returns 3 https://www.avclub.com/article/frank-miller-return-gotham-dark-knight-iii-master--218546 (https://www.avclub.com/article/frank-miller-return-gotham-dark-knight-iii-master--218546)
After the atrocities that were All star Batman and Robin and Holy Terror(originallly meant to be a batman comic) I'm surprised that they even let him into the building let alone him write for batman again.
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I'm surprised they let him do it after DK 2.
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The Locke & Key series by Joe Hill is amazing
Absolutely this. It got me wondering "who is this Joe Hill guy"? When I found out he's Stephen King's son, I'm like "yeap ...uh huh, figures".
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About that Flash issue: it did help that the girl that was sucked out of the plane was pretty hot! :angel:
I loved Batman Year One, and definitely loved reading The Dark Knight Returns. I stopped reading at Killing Joke, though. Thought that was over the top. Curious what Miller comes up with next.
(yes I used to read comics).
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I read Batman Year One last night, pretty good! Enough to keep me up past my bedtime.
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You guys should check into a book called 'Saga' by Brian K. Vaughn. So much goodness.
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I have not read Sandman, but I've heard good things so if you recommend it I will go for it :D
I cannot recommend it highly enough. Possibly the best comic/graphic novel series ever.
Whoa, it was exactly six months ago that you said this. Anyway, I read the first book on a plane Sunday, then I had to wait a day (impatiently!) for the library to get me the second. I read that one last night, and again I'm waiting for the library to get the third (they already have the fourth and fifth on hold for me, but I guess the third is coming from a further branch). Damn, I'm loving it!
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:tup
My favorite is Season of Mists, which I believe is the fourth collection.
BTW, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is working on a film adaptation. I can't envision it, but I wish him luck.
Seems like it would be better suited to longer format, like a series on HBO or Netflix. But whatever.
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:tup
My favorite is Season of Mists, which I believe is the fourth collection.
Probably my favourite too. The series as a whole is just so great though.
BTW, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is working on a film adaptation. I can't envision it, but I wish him luck.
Seems like it would be better suited to longer format, like a series on HBO or Netflix. But whatever.
Yeah, I think a series would be much more suitable too for the storytelling, though visually it would probably need a pretty huge budget.
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Yeah, definitely would be better as a series but as long as they don't try to fit EVERYTHING into one movie it could be super cool... and maybe lead to multiple movies? Who knows.
Anyway, either I screwed up or the library did because my hold was not on the list when I logged into my account this morning. I want to make sure I have the next several books for my upcoming road trip, so I went to another library and got the third book. I may dive into it tonight rather than save it for the weekend though :caffeine:
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My main reading material is comics these days. Prose gets a look-in pretty much for just non-fiction.
Image is by far my publisher of choice and makes up 95% of what I read. I don't read superhero stuff, typically, but I'm not snobby about it.
Currently reading The Sheriff Of Babylon vol 2.
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Come on. I can't believe a board full of prog nerds doesn't have a massive boner for comics as well... ;D :heart
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Marvel and DC are halting digital releases since physical releases were halted due to
Diamond Distributing stopping right now. Lame. I buy 5-15 marvel comics a week.
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Come on. I can't believe a board full of prog nerds doesn't have a massive boner for comics as well... ;D :heart
I'm quite a big fan of a few webcomics, but to be honest the entire style of print comics has never appealed to me. I picked up Neil Gaiman's Death because it seemed pretty highly regarded, and I still had the same issues with it that I have with any other comic.
Then again, maybe that's just because of Neil Gaiman? There's no doubt the man's talented, but 90% of American Gods bored the shit out of me.
This is now a thread where I review various authors, I guess.
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I buy 5-15 marvel comics a week.
5-15 a week??
where do you find the time to actually read them? :o
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Excellent. You came! ;D
Marvel and DC are halting digital releases since physical releases were halted due to
Diamond Distributing stopping right now. Lame. I buy 5-15 marvel comics a week.
Yeah, it's annoying. I just started ordering single issues of a few series from my local comic shop again, picked up one issue then it's stopped.
Trades vs floppies is interesting to me. There are pros and cons to each, I think. I usually buy trades as it's good value and I can sell them on to a book reseller to get them out of my house if I'm done with them (I keep the things I really like and/or may re-read but get rid of everything else). But it results in annoying gaps of time between volumes unless you wait until a series is over. And then you can have a pretty massive chunk of content at once.
I was curious about single issues, though, so ordered Brubaker/Philips' Kill Or Be Killed in that form when that came out and I absolutely love the regular, perfectly-sized portion of story you get, the easily open-able spine, the extra shit at the back. But I don't like how they don't neatly bookshelf, nor that I can't resell them so easily.
I'm quite a big fan of a few webcomics, but to be honest the entire style of print comics has never appealed to me.
Comics in general are a fascinatingly different form from anything else, in my eyes. Is it just that you don't like them on paper? I've only ever read a few comics digitally (some Dredd, some Walking Dead) and it was ok, surprisingly. I like them on paper a whole lot more. Not read any webcomics, I don't think.
Some random comic thoughts:
- I love Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips the most. Noir perfection. Everything is golden.
- Dredd is my all-time favourite character, but it's the city that is the real character against his unwavering consistency.
- Jeff Lemire's Black Hammer world is the business.
- Mark Millar is not a favourite creator of mine.
- I'm about to start reading Tom King's Vision series for Marvel.
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I only buy "paper" comics of selected authors (Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Alex Ross, some Frank Miller), with a few exceptions.
Other than that, I read a lot on the tablet. IMHO, tablet reading has one big plus and one big minus:
plus: brightness and possibility to zoom in
minus: it's much more difficult to go back and find a section to reread or review
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I have a nostalgic love for comics, as I actively read and collected when I was younger, but I am not a current reader.
However, I still have a love for many of my former favorite characters, or certain writers or artists, so I occasionally will buy a collected edition of newer stories, or older ones that escaped me.
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I only buy "paper" comics of selected authors (Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Alex Ross, some Frank Miller), with a few exceptions.
Other than that, I read a lot on the tablet. IMHO, tablet reading has one big plus and one big minus:
plus: brightness and possibility to zoom in
minus: it's much more difficult to go back and find a section to reread or review
I read most of my prose on Kindle now and that has taken time to get used. I do now prefer it, though. I don't have a tablet but can imagine it being pretty good for comics. Might be something to consider...
I have a nostalgic love for comics, as I actively read and collected when I was younger, but I am not a current reader.
However, I still have a love for many of my former favorite characters, or certain writers or artists, so I occasionally will buy a collected edition of newer stories, or older ones that escaped me.
Cool. :-)
In general, I'm blown away by the variety of the comics market. From the classic superhero cast that people automatically think of when you say "comics", to horror, thrillers, crime, sci-fi,real-life, LGBT, romance, war, history, politics, stories about lives spent with health issues.... all shades from complete escapism to dead-eye seriousness. It's wonderful.
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I'm quite a big fan of a few webcomics, but to be honest the entire style of print comics has never appealed to me.
Comics in general are a fascinatingly different form from anything else, in my eyes. Is it just that you don't like them on paper? I've only ever read a few comics digitally (some Dredd, some Walking Dead) and it was ok, surprisingly. I like them on paper a whole lot more. Not read any webcomics, I don't think.
Some random comic thoughts:
- I love Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips the most. Noir perfection. Everything is golden.
- Dredd is my all-time favourite character, but it's the city that is the real character against his unwavering consistency.
- Jeff Lemire's Black Hammer world is the business.
- Mark Millar is not a favourite creator of mine.
- I'm about to start reading Tom King's Vision series for Marvel.
No, I'd say my issue is with the style of storytelling itself that comes with regular print comics. Even though they're both nominally 'comics,' webcomics and print comics seem like they're complete worlds apart in most respects. The highly episodic, have-to-fit-an-entire-story-into-five-minutes-of-read-time kind of thing that most print comics seem to adhere to seems to me to result in an inability on my part to get invested either in the story of the comic (because it's too short to be developed), or in the main character (because too much real estate is spent on the story).
That's just my impression, having purchased and read through a few fairly well-regarded comic series. I'm sure there's a world of different stuff out there, but that's been my takeaway thus far.
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The 30 page episodic thing. Not bothered me thus far but I see what you mean. I might search out some webcomics.
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Wanted to resurrect this thread, as I have taken the plunge back into comics for about the past year. I was really into comics when I was younger, but stopped reading at some point in high school. I was really into X-Men, and some of it's offshoots like X-Force and Excalibur, and also Batman. I dug out my boxes of comics from my closet at my parents' house and started reading again. I started reading X-Men Classic. The Claremont era is so good. Then, of course, I started getting into some other stuff. I started picking up issues of the Punisher. I got into a lot of Garth Ennis' run with the Punisher (as it was highly recommended) and loved it. Lately, I've been reading through Excalibur (1st series) and filling in gaps of issues I didn't have when I was younger. Nightcrawler has always been my favorite X-man, and it was such an interesting series in the X-men world.
I just read Batman Hush and really enjoyed that as well. I started buying the new Batman '89 miniseries, as I always loved the Michael Keaton Batman movies, and have enjoyed that so far. Going to the comic store by my house to grab a new issue every month has been a nostalgia trip!
Looking back in this thread, has given me some recommendations of other stuff to read next. I think I am going to give Preacher a go next, as I already am into what Ennis has done on the Punisher. I'll check out Sandman and The Walking Dead in the near future too. It really has been fun to get back into comics. My wife had no idea I was and am a comic book nerd ;D
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On a side note, Disney just bought Marvel Comics for $4 billion. :eek
Given what they've done with the franchise since, I'd say that was one of the best deals of the century :lol
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Looking back in this thread, has given me some recommendations of other stuff to read next. I think I am going to give Preacher a go next, as I already am into what Ennis has done on the Punisher. I'll check out Sandman and The Walking Dead in the near future too. It really has been fun to get back into comics. My wife has no idea I was and am a comic book nerd ;D
Sandman is the high point of English language comics, IMO.
Preacher ain't bad either. :tup
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Wanted to resurrect this thread, as I have taken the plunge back into comics for about the past year. I was really into comics when I was younger, but stopped reading at some point in high school. I was really into X-Men, and some of it's offshoots like X-Force and Excalibur, and also Batman. I dug out my boxes of comics from my closet at my parents' house and started reading again. I started reading X-Men Classic. The Claremont era is so good. Then, of course, I started getting into some other stuff. I started picking up issues of the Punisher. I got into a lot of Garth Ennis' run with the Punisher (as it was highly recommended) and loved it. Lately, I've been reading through Excalibur (1st series) and filling in gaps of issues I didn't have when I was younger. Nightcrawler has always been my favorite X-man, and it was such an interesting series in the X-men world.
I just read Batman Hush and really enjoyed that as well. I started buying the new Batman '89 miniseries, as I always loved the Michael Keaton Batman movies, and have enjoyed that so far. Going to the comic store by my house to grab a new issue every month has been a nostalgia trip!
Looking back in this thread, has given me some recommendations of other stuff to read next. I think I am going to give Preacher a go next, as I already am into what Ennis has done on the Punisher. I'll check out Sandman and The Walking Dead in the near future too. It really has been fun to get back into comics. My wife had no idea I was and am a comic book nerd ;D
Awesome. Preacher is great, and is responsible for getting me into comics again in my early 20s. Ennis also wrote The Boys but I've not read much of it. There are a few other Ennis things I'd like to read (Sara published by TKO).
I've decided I'm only buying trades as a rule now. I've bought a few runs in single issue form since last posting and have really enjoyed some but the context switch between issues and the pausing was too much for my average brain and distinctly-under-average memory.
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I'm going to start looking for a couple anthologies: going to start with Dr. Strange and Fantastic Four.
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Awesome. Preacher is great, and is responsible for getting me into comics again in my early 20s. Ennis also wrote The Boys but I've not read much of it. There are a few other Ennis things I'd like to read (Sara published by TKO).
Ennis' run on Hellblazer was fantastic, especially once Dillon joined as the artist.
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Bump for Stadler.
In other news (that is coincidentally related to the list post in this thread) I just read a Garth Ennis WW2 comic called Sara published by TKO:
4 out of 5 stars
I've not read a war comic since the 70s when my Dad bought me those little, square Commando ones. I used to love the covers but get bored but the contents. I was nearly 10 then, nearly 50 now and this war comic has been on my to-buy list for a while.
I don't know their big publisher works but loved Epting & Breitweiser on Brubaker's Velvet, and the art here is also fantastic.
The plot was excellent and pulled in a bunch of interesting surrounding angles to the setting. I'm no WW2 buff so was fascinated by it.
Could have been a 5 but there were a few occasions where I struggled to understand either the wording or the panels, but this is a recommended read, nonetheless.
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I'm going to check out Sara. I just read Batman Reptilian (from Ennis), and that was a pretty interesting take on Batman. I thought it was pretty decent overall. The art from Liam Sharp was really dark and interesting in that one as well. Steve Dillon was to do the art, but he passed away before it happened.
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Ah, ok. Interesting. I'd read more Ennis. The Boys was just a bit too crass for me. Love the TV show, though. I'm tempted to get more of his war comics. Oddly, I tend to read comics in genres I wouldn't normally watch TV/film of. Eg: crime drama, horror. War comics might be another one of those.
There's a new original comic art gallery near me that is about to show a Steve Dillon exhibition. I'll definitely be heading over there to take a look when it starts.
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ANy input or feedback on the various Marvel anthologies/omnibuses out there? I'm interested in reading the complete Dr. Strange, from the early Ditko works to the present, but without collecting all the books. I know he had his own title for a while, but also appeared in some collections. Anyone have any ideas (even if just "where to start?" in looking further).
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Ah, ok. Interesting. I'd read more Ennis. The Boys was just a bit too crass for me. Love the TV show, though. I'm tempted to get more of his war comics. Oddly, I tend to read comics in genres I wouldn't normally watch TV/film of. Eg: crime drama, horror. War comics might be another one of those.
There's a new original comic art gallery near me that is about to show a Steve Dillon exhibition. I'll definitely be heading over there to take a look when it starts.
The Ennis Hellblazer run is rather restrained compared to his later work.
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ANy input or feedback on the various Marvel anthologies/omnibuses out there? I'm interested in reading the complete Dr. Strange, from the early Ditko works to the present, but without collecting all the books. I know he had his own title for a while, but also appeared in some collections. Anyone have any ideas (even if just "where to start?" in looking further).
By the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth!!
I am not completely sure how possible it is to read the complete Strange, but this should be a start and might lead to the rest.
https://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Strange-Omnibus-Vol-1/dp/130293287X
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The Ennis Hellblazer run is rather restrained compared to his later work.
Good thought. I read the first volume years and years ago. Ta.
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Anyone else have a Marvel Unlimited subscription? I got one - geez, maybe 7-8 years ago - as a father's day gift from jingle.kids, and have renewed it every year. Totally worth it. I just finished up the 2018 Infinity Wars extended series/event, and am now debating whether to hit House of M (47 comics), or Secret Invasion (100+ comics).
Stads... this allows you to search by character, and get all the series' related to anyone you want. You can get a 7-day free trial.
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Anyone else have a Marvel Unlimited subscription? I got one - geez, maybe 7-8 years ago - as a father's day gift from jingle.kids, and have renewed it every year. Totally worth it. I just finished up the 2018 Infinity Wars extended series/event, and am now debating whether to hit House of M (47 comics), or Secret Invasion (100+ comics).
Stads... this allows you to search by character, and get all the series' related to anyone you want. You can get a 7-day free trial.
BOOM! You're the man! I'll be checking that out this weekend (or Friday, when we get our snow).
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Anyone else have a Marvel Unlimited subscription? I got one - geez, maybe 7-8 years ago - as a father's day gift from jingle.kids, and have renewed it every year. Totally worth it. I just finished up the 2018 Infinity Wars extended series/event, and am now debating whether to hit House of M (47 comics), or Secret Invasion (100+ comics).
Stads... this allows you to search by character, and get all the series' related to anyone you want. You can get a 7-day free trial.
BOOM! You're the man! I'll be checking that out this weekend (or Friday, when we get our snow).
I've got the app on my iPad. The web interface is a little clunky. Reading on a tablet is the best way to go.
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Any fans of manga around here? I've been reading lots of series lately, and I'm having a blast :metal . My favorites so far are BLAME!, Pluto, Uzumaki, and Goodnight Punpun. And I'm currently reading:
- 20th Century Boys
- Akira
- Berserk
- Blood on the Tracks
- Chainsaw Man
- Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- Homunculus
- Knights of Sidonia
- Land of the Lustrous
- Nana
- No Longer Human (Junji Ito's version)
- Old Boy
- Solanin
- Vinland Saga
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Any fans of manga around here? I've been reading lots of series lately, and I'm having a blast :metal . My favorites so far are BLAME!, Pluto, Uzumaki, and Goodnight Punpun. And I'm currently reading:
- 20th Century Boys
- Akira
- Berserk
- Blood on the Tracks
- Chainsaw Man
- Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- Homunculus
- Knights of Sidonia
- Land of the Lustrous
- Nana
- No Longer Human (Junji Ito's version)
- Old Boy
- Solanin
- Vinland Saga
I got gifted volume 1 of 20th century boys perfect edition. Recently got reprinted I guess because they are affordable now. I loved it as a teen,. but the dutch translation never got finished. Ordered some volumes and look forward to reading it.
I have watched some anime shows in the past (Death Note, Samurai Champloo, Full Metal Alchemist) and am open to reading manga stories.
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20th Century Boys is great so far (I'm halfway through volume 8), maybe a tad too long here and there, but very good.
About recommendations, it really depends on what you're into these days, I can recommend some Shonen (manga geared towards teens and young adults), or Seinen (mostly adult audience), and then based on what genres you dig.
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20th Century Boys is great so far (I'm halfway through volume 8), maybe a tad too long here and there, but very good.
About recommendations, it really depends on what you're into these days, I can recommend some Shonen (manga geared towards teens and young adults), or Seinen (mostly adult audience), and then based on what genres you dig.
Thanks, totally forgot to recheck this thread, sorry!
I am now focusing on completing 20th Century Boys. I have 9 volumes. I also got the complete set of Death Note, which was on a massive sale (50 bucks). Looking at prices here, some box sets are surprisingly affordable.
I had to jog my memory, but I do have some Shonen experience, but it is mostly from my childhood / early teens (I watched a looooot of stuff back then instead of doing homework). I liked Dragon Ball (Z) and One Piece when I was like 13 years old or younger (now 33). I actually just watched a bit out of nostalgia and I still enjoy it. Naruto and Bleach I did not really like all that much back then.
Most of my Japanese media experience comes from games. The Yakuza games in particular I am a huge fan of (super serious/dramatic plots but also a lot of weirdness and humor to be had).
I am definitely interested in other works by the man behind 20th Century Boys. Monster I am going to check out (I did watch a bit of the anime back in the day). And I want to check out Attack on Titan in anime form.