Our new Indie Games subforum is now open for business in G&T. Go and check it out, you might land a code for a free game. If you're developing an indie game and want to post about it,
follow these directions. If you don't, he'll break your legs! Hahaha! Seriously though.
Our rules have been updated and given
their own forum. Go and look at them! They are nice, and there may be new ones that you didn't know about! Hooray for rules! Hooray for The System! Hooray for Conforming!
Posts
GV leans pretty heavily to the superhero side of things. I mean, good comics are good comics, regardless of genre, but I am just not interested in a lot of stuff.
Tumblr Twitter
Lucifer
The Unwritten
DMZ
Incredible Hercules
Planetary (I know is started in the '90s, but we all waited a decade for it to be completed)
All-Star Superman
Justice Society of America (Geoff Johns)
Secret Six
Sinestro Corps War
52
Y: The Last Man
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born
The Five Fists of Science
All-Star Superman - the best Superman story ever told. It puts to shame all the idiotic efforts to make Superman "relevant," or extreeem, or any of that horseshit by showing us how the first and greatest superhero is revolutionary and life-affirming just the way he is, as the ultimate role model for compassion and justice. I feel like a better person for having read it.
Ex Machina - I really admire the book's unique premise - it's hard to find those in the superhero aisles sometimes - and the way it's presented as a rollicking adventure that deals with relevant issues in a very fun, deft way. It's so fun, in fact, that I sometimes overlook the incredible level of craftsmanship and artistry that must have gone into it.
Gødland - for my money the best book Joe Casey's ever done, it's a heartfelt tribute to a great era of comics but avoids the trap of simply being an "homage" or feeling like a cover band: it pays tribute to the reckless inventive spirit of the Kirby era not merely by repackaging the same ideas but by being reckless and inventive in its own way, combining the best of the 60s and the modern approach into something new.
Punisher MAX - One of the best and most grown-up things Garth Ennis has ever done, taking a one-note character and using him to tell a series of the most bleakly nihilistic crime epics ever committed to the comics page. There's a bit of silliness here - Barracuda, Nick Fury - but also stories like The Slavers that are as serious and harrowing as anything you could find in the novel section at your bookstore.
Seven Soldiers - A contender for my favorite comic book ever, taking seven mostly-new characters, creating entire worlds and sagas for them in the course of four issues apiece, and then crashing it all together in one of the most gleefully unhinged, artistically daring, and emotionally moving finales ever, and in the process revealing no less than the secret origin of the entire DC Universe itself. Seven Soldiers is, to me, proof that there is still plenty of life and energy in the superhero genre, that there are still new approaches and new ideas to try instead of endless rehashes of better days.
Y: The Last Man - I feel like Y is the 21st-century counterpart to Preacher - it has the same clear, instantly accessible art, likable protagonists, and meandering, picaresque story, but replacing some of the troublesome machismo and adolescent rebellion with a more West Coast, liberal sensibility. It's like Preacher graduated high school and went to Berkeley. I thought Y's story was sometimes kind of slight and glib - everything goes down smooth and then you realize later it was basically pure sugar - but I can't deny both the craftsmanship of the writing (it's no wonder he moved on to TV) and the sheer entertainment value.
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
Whenever I start to wonder if I'm capable of truly hating anything, I reread the Slavers. And every time I do I want to burn people from this earth.
Grant Morrison's Batman run
We3
Seaguy
Seven Soldiers
I Kill Giants
Hellboy
Justice League: New Frontier
A lot of Grant, but.... I mean, Grant has been doing some damn fine work.
It was a bit alternative but that really worked, and along with All-Star Superman it shows the different ways you can protray the character and the world he lives in.
Also I would suggest that Fred Van Lente's Incredible Hercules is one of the best series of the last ten years, because it effortlessly combined ancient mythology and a modern setting and was just so much fun to read. The overarching plot-line was really compelling but the individual, smaller arcs were just as much fun.
X-Men: First Class, the Atlas stuff, hell his Exiles run washes the bad taste of Claremont out of your mouth
Shame that Marvel seems to shitcan half his books, though I guess that should be a shame on comic book dudes for not reading his books in the first place
It really came down to a lack of demand
Steaaaaaaam
And everyone forgot Mini Marvels, we should all be ashamed. I will without hesitation swap out Mini Marvels with Tomasi's GLC run on my list. I'm so sorry Chris G., it's the best please forgive me.
It just seems that nobody gives a shit about the Agents of Atlas. I have to say I never felt any desire to pick them up despite some other people on this forum saying how good they were.
The whole point of the agents of atlas was that they were a team that ~unless you were a comic book historian~ you weren't supposed to be familiar with. They were for all intents and purposes going for "a man out of time" feel by reconstituting a team that hadn't been in print for more then 40 years.
I - after reading the first trade - found it pretty refreshing. It was pretty cool to see a group of characters that were on the one hand blank slates (since they haven' been in comics for a long time, and - as I understand it - were reinvented somewhat for Agents of Atlas), but on the other felt like they had decades of history together.
Bob's a Uranian.
He comes from the gas giant known as Uranus.
Tumblr Twitter
*Backwood Folk *Eve of the Ozarks *Tumblr
Shit. Shit.
BRB committing ritual suicide.
Uranus
1) All Star Superman
2) Y the Last Man
3) Immortal Iron-Fist
PS2
FF X replay
PS3
God of War 1&2 HD
Rachet and Clank Future
MGS 4
Prince of Persia
360
Bayonetta
Fable 3
DS
FF: 4 heroes of light
Yessssss.
just so, so good
Let's not forget the work of Duane Swierczynski to close out the book. There was no noticeable change in the quality of the writing when he took over.
Hey, wikipedia tells me that Bizarro Comics came out in 2002, so I'm gonna include that as well, I love that book. Short works by a variety of authors along with an overarching plot starring Bizarro and Mr. Mxyzptlk.
edit:: Oh crap, I forgot ULTIMATE ADVENTURES! Which I think I and like one other person like, but I'm including it anyway. It's friggin great.
steam profile
steam profile
The whole thing is basically a rip off of Batman from Robin's point of view, which I personally enjoyed but could see someone not liking because it's mostly lacking in originality.
Steaaaaaaam