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universal peace sounds better than forever warRegistered User regular
universal peace sounds better than forever warRegistered User regular
there's an x-men thread somewhere and there's a dedicated forum apparently but this is a thread for comic books because comic books are cool now and so are you
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Like Mallard Filmore
or Family Circus
Have you read Ducks by Kate Beaton?
It's the Batfamily if everything wasn't grim dark and sucking.
Also Barbara Gordon is Oracle which objectively makes it better than some other Bat-media.
It's a free webtoon that used to update weekly but is currently on hiatus.
They're a lot of fun!
I've read:
-- The Death and Life of Superman by Roger Stern
-- Batman: Knightfall by Dennis O'Neil
-- Infinite Crisis by Greg Cox
-- 52 by Greg Cox
The next ones I want to read include:
-- Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt by Neil Kleid
-- X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga by Stuart Moore
Rob Liefeld
Ooh no and I’m a longtime fan of HaV
Probably one of my favorite books of the past year. I did cry several times while reading it, so definitely a bit more heavy then HaV.
At ease there, Duggan
(A single stoic tear welling up) Actually, sir, I can't
They ain't called the crying papers
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it’s perfect
Ooh. I read the hell out of The Death and Life of Superman as a feckless teen, but never found the fat novel of Knightfall. I had the junior paperback version that had a line-art picture gallery in the front, in the style of The Glove of Darth Vader.
The Diane Duane Spider-Man books also rule.
Edit: oh shit, Hoopla has all the Diane Duane Spider-Man books as dramatized audiobooks. That's my next week sorted.
This is from memory and I don't remember what that heffer looks like or anything about the show so they are skateboarding.
It’s interesting so far. My uncle had a bunch of very old (like teen digit) Spiderman and Xmen comics when I was a kid I have a lot of nostalgia for, but Ultimate Spiderman was the first thing I actually collected hardcovers for.
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11/10
@Jedoc, listen, ya gotta read the novelization of Knightfall.
It's WILD
Perfect no notes
To give you an idea of how old this comic is, it happens in East Germany.
I don’t know if this was on purpose but I love that you juuuuust cut off the feet.
With the Krakoan Age wrapping up (badly) my Marvel Comics list is down to G.O.D.S. and Moon Knight (and occasionally a mini or something if anything interesting comes out) and I have given up on DC Comics mostly after bad mismanagement of that company.
So I am currently mostly focusing on european comics, so I picked these three up last week (images spoilered because I don't know if the bug has been fixed yet):
Gentlemind #2 (of 2) by writers Juan Díaz Canales (Blacksad) and Teresa Valero (Contrapaso) and artist Antonio Lapone (Greenwich Village)
2 part story about a young woman who inherits a Men's Magazine from her older, rich husband and tries to revitalize it. The two issues follow the magazine Gentlemind from the early 40s to the late 70s. There is an English translation (and it has been out for a lot longer than the Dutch translation).
Murena #12 (ongoing) by writer Jean Dufaux (Laments of the Lost Moors, Niklos Koda, Raptors and many more) and artist Théo Caneschi (artist on Jordorowsky's Terrible Pope).
Long running story on the life of Roman Emperor Nero. Fictionalized in some parts (it's told through the viewpoint of a ficional character who is Nero's childhood friend), but this comic is one of the best researched comics around with footnotes and lists of references. This one has also been translated into English I believe.
Callas and Pasolini (oneshot) also by Jean Dufaux and artist Sara Briotti (who I have no other references for).
A story about the relationship between opera singer Maria Callas and director Pier Paolo Pasolini. A pretty dense read and I haven't finished with it yet. I don't think this one has been translated to English, but I expect it to be at one point.
His next series "The Power Fantasty" is coming out in August - here's the blurb for the first issue.
""Superpowered." You have certain preconceptions. They're incorrect. Here, that word has a specific technical definition. Namely, "any individual with the destructive capacity of the nuclear arsenal of the USA."
There are six such people on Earth. The planet's survival relies on them never coming into conflict."
It's explicitly inspired by his time on Immortal X-men, and wondering what he could do if not weighed down by the weight of marvel continiunity. I'm looking foward to seeing where it goes.
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Hellboy is good and had a great finish (;)).
Moomins was and remains delightful.
I think that’s the comics.
Hellboy is a masterpiece, along with Sandman.
I also really like the Ghostbusters IDW comic.
At some point I bought the trade of the old Zelda comic from Nintendo Power.
Lucifer is great (both the deity and comic).
Gillen and Ewing were still involved with the last stages, so they have a chance to do some damage control on the whole thing.
Yeah, their parts have been great. It's really just Duggan who's left a rancid shit in the pool, and even then I'm unclear how responsible be is vs Marvel saying okay time to pack it up.
How they choose to pack things up is awful, and Duggan's writing has been a big part of it being awful, but there's still some good stuff.
I'm mostly pissed because frankly they could have (should have) kept Krakoa going as a permanent thing
Mutants having their own nation, their own culture, the issues coming out of this, it was rich as hell. Instead we're back to feared and hated (again), and them split up etc, which almost sl certainly means a bunch of repetitive stories. Again.
I have some hope for McKay, his work on Moon Knight, Doctor Strange and Black Cat is fantastic, and his work on Avengers has been getting steadily stronger. But it's a real let down vs what could have been
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