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Post by Happenstance on Jan 13, 2023 19:09:50 GMT
Anyone read Locke and Key? I never really looked into it when it was coming out but was thinking about giving it a try now.
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Post by wunty on Jan 14, 2023 12:57:59 GMT
simpleThat was a serious offer by the way.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2023 21:04:09 GMT
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Post by Happenstance on Jan 24, 2023 21:42:35 GMT
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jan 24, 2023 22:16:21 GMT
Of all the stuff by Sean Murphy I've read, this one has stuck with me the most:
It's tremendous. And also worrying in the sense that sooner or later, someone, probably an American, might actually try to embark on a project like the one depicted therein.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Feb 3, 2023 1:47:52 GMT
There's been some great stuff in this thread, but does anyone have some other recent self-contained graphic novels they've enjoyed? I am trying to spruce up my library's adult graphic novel collection, and am trying to get out of my comfort zone of Grant Morrison and Junji Ito.
Self-contained, complete things are preferred, because I do not want one title to take up an entire shelf. I'm a bit hesitant to get things with a lot of volumes, because it is a pain in the arse when one goes missing and I have to find that specific volume again.
Superhero stuff is fine, as long as it's more or less a complete story that does not require too much homework.
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Post by simple on Feb 3, 2023 18:12:38 GMT
I mentioned it earlier as something I’d been recommended I think but I’m going to recommend this as a beautiful standalone story. The Many Deaths of Laila Starr, its only five or six issues so the tpb is quite short and relatively cheap. Closest thing I can compare it to that I’ve read would maybe be those mid-run Sandman stories where Morpheus takes a backseat and it follows another character or idea for a bit.
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Post by simple on Mar 4, 2023 15:14:26 GMT
Is Dan Abnett actually just the pen name of an AI?
Rearranging the shelves to fit more collections in and I’ve realised I’ve got so many by him and thats only 2000ad stuff, he’s got all the GamesWorkshop novels and other stuff too. He must be putting out an industrial level of work to cover all these bases and even though I’ve never bought anything because its him I’ve obviously enjoyed everything I have read.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Mar 4, 2023 15:18:28 GMT
Tell me about it, I've just finished reading The End And The Death, Volume 1, the penultimate book in the Siege Of Terra series and Abnett has pulled a blinder with it.
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Post by nemesis on Mar 4, 2023 20:00:12 GMT
Spoken to Abnett a few times and he's one of the nicest bloke's you'll meet.
I may have spent a bit too much on Ebay today hoovering up the annoyingly OOP volumes from 2000AD. Nemesis (hello me), Rogue Trooper, and Judge Dredd heading this way! Love their compilation stuff, wish they'd bloody re-print it!
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Post by simple on Mar 4, 2023 23:00:09 GMT
Speaking of Rebellion reprints. I see they’re doing some Essential Anderson stuff to go alongside the Essential Dredd collections.
Now if only the second volume of Lawless (another Abnett title) was available anywhere I could really start pulling together a spring of Judge based reading.
Picked up Molcher’s I Am The Law book too but got to finish what I’m reading first. After being unsure about even buying it its jumped to the top of my pile.
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Post by kal on Apr 9, 2023 10:08:30 GMT
Rachel Pollack has died She doesn’t get her due for her level of influence. Doom Patrol is one of the most important books ever and her stint in particular was revolutionary. RIP.
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Post by simple on Apr 13, 2023 19:54:57 GMT
I know there are a million different repackagings of every Judge Dredd story but I really like the big format of the Essential Dredd books they’re publishing at the moment. A new volume came out today - Judgement Day, the big handover epic from Wagner to Ennis. I’ve never read the whole thing before but had a lot of the progs that it originally ran in.
I know Ennis gets stick for being the start of 90s superhero Dredd and the satire falling away but I do enjoy the epics.
Lovely quality books for being just another run of republished old stories, big, full colour, shape artwork, decent value for money. They’re doing an Anderson book this summer too. Would love to see them do The Pit story as one of these or expand the range to do some Johnny Alpha maybe.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 14, 2023 4:49:37 GMT
Picked up one of the 2000AD Regened all ages comics recently. (number 3 I think)
It has some nice little standalone stories in it. Not read them all yet, but the Judge Anderson one was kinda fun.
I borrowed some of the Dredd and Strontium Dog Complete Files ones from a friend and they were fun, but there are A LOT of them and they aren't all great. I assume the Essential ones are just collating the best bits?
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Post by simple on Apr 14, 2023 7:22:32 GMT
All the Essential books are either complete single stories or two or three connected stories.
I like the idea of the Casefiles collections but for Dredd that’s 40+ years of weekly comics so there is a lot of filler among the fun short stories and multi-month epics.
Since there isn’t really a whole lot of character progression to keep up with I prefer just dipping in and reading complete arcs. Generally speaking if Wagner wrote it you’re onto a winner.
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Post by One_Vurfed_Gwrx on Apr 15, 2023 11:58:42 GMT
It doesn't help that certain Case Files are out of print with no immediate sign of reprints (just after I started my son with volume 1). Only one I actually own is the Cursed Earth uncensored as I bought it day one after remembering reading the abridged reprints decades ago. I do have the Nemesis books, but getting the surrounding ABC Warriors/Robusters is a logistical nightmare.
Have been tempted by Strontium Dog Ultimate digital bundle but digital... And no idea how complete it is.
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Post by simple on Apr 15, 2023 13:33:40 GMT
I’m not sure how they manage their print runs but there are some of the smaller series where the first and last collections are everywhere and nothing in between.
Not that they have many strips where every arc is a direct continuation of the previous one so you need them all. Brink would be one, maybe Lawless, but in general I find you can read most of their titles in any order.
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Post by Blue_Mike on May 16, 2023 21:24:00 GMT
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Post by Blue_Mike on Oct 24, 2023 21:29:12 GMT
DC appears to be using The Outsiders to reintroduce some form of the Planetary team from the Wildstorm universe, which sounds like a terrible idea because Planetary was one of those things that was perfect and should have been left alone forever.
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Post by n0mis on Feb 17, 2024 11:40:01 GMT
I'm looking to get properly back into reading comics again, after picking up the new Ultimate Spider-Man (2024) first issue (plus purchasing a tablet the other week). Been a while since I've read anything really and seeing if anyone has any suggestions.
Was thinking, as these are the comics I can remember from recentish I used to read: Undiscovered Country, American Vampire, Batman: White Knight, Blade Runner 2019, Doomsday Clock, Lazarus, The Old Guard, Saga. I did used to enjoy anything that Scott Snyder (with the artist) Greg Capullo, Sean Murphy and Jeff Lemire ( Sweet Tooth etc) did. Also, a few more I used to love reading, stuff by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips like Criminal, Fatale and The Fade Out. Adored all of these. Also, Matt Fraction's Hawkeye.
If that helps with the context of things and types of comics I enjoyed. Are there any must-reads, or interesting new series I should be picking up? Had a look on Comic Book Roundup and didn't reconsider much.
Been suggested W0Rldtr33 and X-Terminators, which I plan to pick up this weekend to start with.
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Post by mikeck on Feb 17, 2024 20:18:07 GMT
I will always shout about Die and The Wicked + The Divine (both by Kieron Gillen), very different premises, but both very good.
Also Southern Bastards is something I've enjoyed in the past few years for something gritty.
From a smaller independent perspective, Killtopia by Dave Cook is well worth checking out too.
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Post by kal on Feb 17, 2024 20:43:47 GMT
I need to try The Wicked and the Devine again. I was given a nice hardback set of it as a gift but I just couldn’t get into it at the time.
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Post by mikeck on Feb 17, 2024 21:25:04 GMT
It's not super easy to get into, but once it gets going it's pretty damn great.
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Post by simple on Feb 18, 2024 16:56:08 GMT
After reading the new Daniel Clowes book (Monica) I’ve got a real itch to pick up a load more Fantagraphics and Drawn & Quarterly type titles. And feeling pretty guilty about giving so much of my previous collection of indie books away during my last house move.
Sticking my head into Travelling Man and Forbidden Planet during the week it looks like the sad millennial market is being ill catered for as the takeover of manga and boardgames of every inch of non-Marvel/DC shelf space appears almost complete.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Feb 18, 2024 20:14:14 GMT
After reading the new Daniel Clowes book (Monica) I’ve got a real itch to pick up a load more Fantagraphics and Drawn & Quarterly type titles. And feeling pretty guilty about giving so much of my previous collection of indie books away during my last house move. Sticking my head into Travelling Man and Forbidden Planet during the week it looks like the sad millennial market is being ill catered for as the takeover of manga and boardgames of every inch of non-Marvel/DC shelf space appears almost complete. Yeah went into Forbidden Planet when I was here for Xmas and it was purely taken over by manga and card games/merch. The DC and Marvel stuff was incredibly small and everything else under different labels was cramped into one bookshelf. There were barely any single comic prints as well. I guess the market has changed massively due to online and how popular anime has become of late. At this point I'm just ranting at clouds now.
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Post by cubby on Feb 18, 2024 20:34:07 GMT
Daves in Brighton is pretty much the same as it's always been and has the sad sack section pretty well represented, which is good because that's me.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Mar 6, 2024 11:23:58 GMT
Bob Kane has clearly been told by higher up that Batman needs to hold a gun in the comic somewhere, so he put it in the first frame really big and then Batman *never* uses a gun in the actual story. The Planetary team visit the Wildstorm universe (as it was then) version of Gotham in pursuit of a killer, follow him into Crime Alley and the killers' out of control powers rotate them through a number of alternate universes where they encounter Batman, who changes through a number of his alternate selves before their eyes. Transforming instantly from the Adam West version to the Frank Miller version is highlight. He also at one point appears as the gun-wielding, purple gloves version.
Saw this and thought of you.
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Post by cubby on Mar 7, 2024 13:30:33 GMT
Blue_MikeJust read the first issue after you pointed it out! Really interesting what they're doing with it, it's definitely meta to some degree. They're taking little bits from all over because there's some ideas that are from after Robin was introduced, but with the aesthetics from the first few issues which I think are really cool. The red car should definitely be used more imo. I thought they might go even more meta and set it in New York, as the first few issues slip that detail in until I think Bill Finger built up the mythos more in later issues.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Mar 7, 2024 14:34:42 GMT
Blue_MikeJust read the first issue after you pointed it out! Really interesting what they're doing with it, it's definitely meta to some degree. They're taking little bits from all over because there's some ideas that are from after Robin was introduced, but with the aesthetics from the first few issues which I think are really cool. The red car should definitely be used more imo. I thought they might go even more meta and set it in New York, as the first few issues slip that detail in until I think Bill Finger built up the mythos more in later issues. I quite liked that they introduced Julie Madison this early, but didn't have her show any immediate romantic interest in Bruce. Just "Your house looks a state, get your shit together, ya mook, and other 1920's phrases." I assume that by bringing her in and all that talk of threats to the movie set, they intend to do a Basil Karlo story.
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