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Prankster
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Canada
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 Posted - 07/15/2007 : 9:01:04 PM
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So...anyone here read comics? I know I've seen some offhand comments about them here and there, and Ken does those bronze age reviews on the blog every now and then, but I thought I'd start a thread devoted specifically to them.
Let's see...if anyone hasn't read it, I really can't recommend All-Star Superman (by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely) highly enough. It's all the best bits of various Superman comics throughout the ages--the imagination of the silver age, the mythical and romantic sensibility of the movie, and the cleverness of modern comics, all combined into an ultimate new continuity. The latest issue, set on Bizarro World and featuring the Bizarro Justice League, was disappointing to some people, in the context of the rest of the series, and it was STILL a terrific comic. Hugely recommended.
I picked up The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born because I'm a huge fan of the book series by Stephen King. It's been...OK. Peter David's script is pretty good, even if he goes a little overboard with the folksiness. But I think Jae Lee's art, as objectively good as it is, hurts the series, because it's just not good continuity art. The storytelling really suffers when there are no backgrounds and the characters are constantly cloaked in shadow--I don't care how detailed it is, I want to be able to tell what's happening. I'm hoping Lee leaves after the first 7-part mini and we get an original story (this one is based on the Gunslinger's backstory as detailed in the books) with some more conventional and coherent artwork.
Did everyone read Nextwave? Everyone read Nextwave. It's out in trade now. Nextwave is love.
Ummm...the Dark Horse Conan adaptation is still chugging along, and still features that awesome Frazetta-ish artwork by Cary Nord and Dave Stewart. But they recently switched writers, from Kurt Busiek (who left to write Aquaman...seriously, dude, what the hell?) to Tim Truman. I liked Busiek's writing a lot, but from what I've seen, Truman's actually better suited to the material. It's a little hard to tell, though, until we see his first arc.
I could go on all day, but let's hear from another county...
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Ken HPoJ
Supreme Potentate
USA
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Posted - 07/16/2007 : 08:43:59 AM
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I actually fell out of comics a long time ago, because I was spending waaay too much money on them. However, a guy at work buys some and passes them on, and I've been using the Interlibrary load system to check out interesting looking trade paperbacks. Nextwave is, indeed, The Awesome, and I'm a big fan of Planetary as well.
Still a Marvel guy, mostly, and am very excited by the return of Safari Jacket Wonder Man, one of my all-time favorite characters.
PEGGY: I don't see how having a girl on the team would ruin it. Did a woman judge ruin the Supreme Court?
HANK: Yes, and that woman's name was Earl Warren.
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Greenhornet
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
1791 Posts |
Posted - 07/20/2007 : 1:57:29 PM
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DC's "crisis" killed my interest in comicbooks. 'Nuff saif.
"The Queen is testing poisons." CLEOPATRA, 1935 |
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Prankster
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Canada
727 Posts |
Posted - 07/22/2007 : 4:11:24 PM
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See, not to rag on you, Greenhornet, but I don't like the mentality that all comics should be tarred with the same brush just because some recent big event fizzled. "Mainstream" comics--which, weirdly enough, represent a very, very niche genre--are dying, but the supposedly "fringy" stuff (consisting of genres that might actually appeal to non-fanboys, and do, judging from the success of stuff like Road to Perdition, V For Vendetta, and 300) is doing very well right now, and getting more non-mainstream every day. Even if stuff like Crisis (which Crisis, by the way?) turns you off superheroes--and I can't really blame you, though again I think there are some good superhero comics on the margins of DC and Marvel--there's probably more choice in the medium right now than there has been since, oh, the 80s at least, and maybe even the 60s.
Ken, if there's a single book I'd recommend right now it's Y: The Last Man. Literally everyone I give the first trade to comes back later demanding the next one. It's hugely fun and reads like a great TV series (complete with sometimes being wildly implausible). Actually, the writer, Brian K. Vaughn, is apparently writing for Lost now, and it's a smooth fit. It's just nearing the final issue as we speak--I think it comes out in september--so if you start on the collections now you'd probably get to the end just in time.
And I know I've hyped it before, but if you're a Marvel guy, the best window into the current Marvel Universe is "She-Hulk". It's a great old-school superhero book that dances nimbly around the current continuity dreariness and actually remembers that comics are supposed to be fun. Or you could read the author, Dan Slott's, miniseries from a year or two ago, "Spiderman/Human Torch: I'm With Stupid", which is the same thing except with those two classic characters. Rumour has it Slott's taking over Spiderman, which is absolutely perfect and ALMOST enough to make me want to buy a flagship superhero title for the first time in my life.
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Greenhornet
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
1791 Posts |
Posted - 07/24/2007 : 4:23:28 PM
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Even if stuff like Crisis (which Crisis, by the way?)
Exactly. Anyway, most of the comics dealers in my town started to cater to COLLECTORS and then just sort of moved away or went out of business. The only comicbooks I get now are from the internet and those are just promos and postings about the old stuff I used to read.
"The Queen is testing poisons." CLEOPATRA, 1935 |
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Prankster
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Canada
727 Posts |
Posted - 07/25/2007 : 7:51:08 PM
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That stinks, but it just plays up what a lousy business model comics distribution is built on these days. While I think there will always be comics specialty stores, they really really have to get back to getting on drug store shelves (or, as is increasingly happening, bookstores). Or the net. Or something.
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 07/26/2007 : 11:18:34 AM
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| I used to be an avid Hellblazer reader, but there have been too many team changes on the recent years. The different takes on the comic have been either hit or miss, and I finally stopped buying it six months ago. |
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Flangepart
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
2329 Posts |
Posted - 07/27/2007 : 4:26:54 PM
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[size3] Comics are too expensive,today.
I limet myself to only a handfull.
PvP.
Knight of the Dinner Table.
Astro City.
PS 238.
G-fan.
Annnnd...thats it.
I grew up a DC kid, but lost intrest in mainstream many,many moons ago.[/size3]
Marvin the Paranoid Android to Buzz Lightyear "Too infinity and beyond-i've been there, its rubbish!"
"Hoody Hoo, i waste 'em with my cross bow!" Bob Herzog- KODT
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