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Kick-off
« Thread Started on Aug 12, 2004, 12:25pm »		[Quote]
Like it says, just an excuse to talk more about comics. Despite many years and months, my habit is not yet on the wane.

Let's see.

A couple of days ago, Guppy picked up the complete run of Hopeless Savages and HS: Ground Zero from a second-hand shop in Notting Hill... I finished reading them this morning, and can only recommend them in the highest possible way. English punks take on the world around them with heartfelt values, music and the occasional dash of violence. Great artwork, a nice roster of artists, and the writer handles both series with great originality and real heart. I think they'll be out in digest-sized collections from Oni comics. Go get 'em!

I'm not exactly a Marvel zombie, although they do make up a large proportion of my weekly haul, I'm more of a Spidey-zombie. Spider-man comics are a good place to be in the mainstream at the moment. I still can't quite believe what Bendis did in Ultimate Spider-Man last week... I reserve judgment to call his decision to kill off a major character a bit of a mistake, unless he manages to undo it in a way that doesn't seem like a cop-out at the end of this arc. Geez, it took them ten years to kill her off the first time around...

Mark Millar's Marvel Knights Spider-Man is turning into a pleasant surprise, as well. After fearing it would be another 'Spectacular', it seems to have found its unique voice (and artwork) pretty damn quick. All those inky blacks and 'adult'-skewed storylines are really giving the illusion of doing something new, even if they aren't... ;D

Y: The Last Man - well, if you aren't reading this monthly or in trades by now, you should be, along with Vaughan's other 'independent' title, Ex Machina. Both are informative, challenging, witty and enjoyable in all the ways I want comics to be. Inspirational...

More comments and recommendations, please, especially independent or small press stuff I've missed or should be reading. I'm feeling like I'm drifting too much towards superheroes of late, and fancy a broader diet.

Ta!
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Re: Kick-off
« Reply #1 on Oct 11, 2004, 1:57am »		[Quote]
Well let's see here(I'm a huge fan of TPB, by the way)...

Bone: The complete collection in one book is available. I highly recommend it. Very nice artwork and a fantastic storyline.

Cerebus: Odd. Very odd. Cerebus is about Cerebus the Aardvark. I only have the first volume, which is a Conan parody, but I guess the rest of the series is phenomanal.

Most of Alan Moore's work: You've read these, right? Watchmen, V for Vendetta, many others. If you haven't read Moore or Gaiman, you deserve to be beaten. With a hardcover Robert Jordan no less.
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« Reply #2 on Oct 11, 2004, 3:25am »		[Quote]
Bone is great... I've got all the B&W trades except the last volume - got to pick that up. Have you seen they're colouring it for the Scholastic release as well? With ol' Jeff Smith's blessing? It looks quite purdy.

Cerebus... (inhales a deep breath). I like it. I like what I've read so far, and I've read up to Jaka's Story, and I'll probably read all of it one day, but I'm just glad that none of the book print Dave Sim's horribly alienating editorials and that all the misogyny is well-hidden subtext rather than text. We'll see how uncomfortable 'WOMEN' and 'GUYS' make me. I've heard it goes rather meta-textual towards the end, as well. Still, major, major kudos to the guy for sticking with it for thirty years... Unbelievable, really.

Yeah, I'm a big Alan Moore fan... Watchman kind of goes without saying, really... Top 10 and Smax are probably my favourite of his - dense, but fun, too. Haven't read V or From Hell yet, but, hey, I plan to...

All the 80s/ early 90s Vertigo classics are awesome - finished Sandman two weeks ago, started Preacher, plan on getting around to Transmet and 100 Bullets some time in the near future...

Anyway, must dash...
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« Reply #3 on Oct 19, 2004, 6:47am »		[Quote]
my comic habit is in no small aprt due to the esteemed author of this webcomic's encouragement, so i shall contribute.
Recently got given Watchmen by my sister's boyfriend as a birthday present. Best damn present I've had in ages. Really somethoing else, all the customary references of comis books seen in a different, darker, yet also more human light. Brilliant.
I must confess to being an X-men geek. I really enjoy it, although i do get frustrated by the refusal to allow change. Especially as the new batch of writers seem to be engaging in some sort of stalinist revisionism where they are destroying and wiping out most of Morrison's New X-men legacy. Joss whedon in particular had better not waste the fact he is removing the power of one of the most noble deaths in X-men history, but I'm giving him the benifit of the doubt because he clearly understands the character dynamics at the heart of the comic.
Also, I think that alot of the writers are annoyed/traumatised that morrison killed Jean Grey. I assume Claremont must think this is treadinmg on his toes. On the other hand, people have to see that the beautiful final touch of Morrison's run is that the whole future of the X-Men universe is now, in a very real sense, Jean's work, as she saves the universe in the alternate future. Weird, and only knowable for total geeks like me, but still a brilliant stroke. Anyway, enough blathering. If no one one ever wants to hear about x-men again, that's fine.
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« Reply #4 on Oct 23, 2004, 10:08am »		[Quote]
Despite a severely lacking comic education (have never read an X-men of any description, for starters...) I have read V for Vendetta and I think it's brilliant. Another random one I read is called Concrete, about a guy sort of trying to be a superhero. Actually that doesn't explain it at all. But I'd definitely recommend it...
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Re: Kick-off
« Reply #5 on Nov 29, 2004, 6:41pm »		[Quote]
Still alive, just never remeber to come back here :-/

Anyways, I recently read the first trade of Grant Morrison's run on Doom Patrol. Now that was interesting. Also read a collection of Star Wars comics from Dark Horse, the older Marvel stuff set between ESB and RotJ. The writing in it is a bit off kilter sometimes, but much better than the last two movies.

How is Preacher? I've been thinking about picking it up the next time I'm at the comic shop and I'm looking for opinions.
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« Reply #6 on Nov 30, 2004, 1:54am »		[Quote]
I haven't got round to Doom Patrol yet, though I'm expecting good stuff from it... And I used to really like that old Marvel stuff - I read 'Rebel Storm' or whatever the volume is with the sea monsters in when I was twelve and really liked it... They're up in the loft at home somewhere!

As for Preacher, it's great, so long as you aren't easily offended! Lots of comedy ultraviolence and gore and characters like failed suicide 'Arseface'. Typical Garth Ennis, really. His Authority: Kev series are pretty good, too.

I've read so many graphic novels in the last couple of months that I've expanded my knowledge of ol' comics by about a hundredfold. 100 Bullets turned out to be good, Invisibles is great, just hit Transmet 4 last night and it's coming along a storm... Vertigo is truly awesome.
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« Reply #7 on Apr 4, 2005, 1:46pm »		[Quote]

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Another random one I read is called Concrete, about a guy sort of trying to be a superhero. Actually that doesn't explain it at all. But I'd definitely recommend it...

Yah, its actually more about the existence of a guy in a world without supers who gets trapped in a Thing-like body. What is your life when you can't touch most stuff without breaking it, including the opposite sex... Phenomenal writing! There are a some sequences reminiscent of Moore's Swampthing as Concrete tries to feel connected to the world around himelf through his thick shell.

Strangehaven! That is a great comic too, about a guy that drives into a small town (and finds he can't leave), and the unusual characters he meets there.


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