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  • #1852
    CastorTroy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,284 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    Fysh wrote: »
    Sex Criminals Volume 1 - hilarious, silly and a lot of fun. Especially because it reminds me of this :D

    This and Rat Queens have been the recent surprises for me. Just fun reads.


  • #1853
    DoctorEdgeWild
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,007 ✭✭✭DoctorEdgeWild


    Read this over the weekend:

    http://www.amazon.com/Making-Graphic-Novel-Resonator/dp/0823030539

    The Resonator by Prentis Rollins.

    Superb artwork and a really compelling story, read it in two sittings as it really does draw you in to an interesting world which has loads of potential for expansion.

    The interesting about this particular book is that it's a flip book - One side is the graphic novel itself, the other side is the making of the graphic novel - Full of original artwork, how the ideas were formed and some of the problems involved in getting a book from idea to printed page. Much more in depth that the usual 'a few sketches and scrapped ideas' that they sometimes throw in at the back of TPBs. A really good way to learn more about the process of putting together a book.

    The story itself has some interesting ideas and concepts, most of which are slipped in quietly alongside the main narrative. It is enjoyable as a story and as a moral tale. Artwork in particular is outstanding, exactly my sort of thing. I would have liked it to be a good big longer though, which is the mark of a good story perhaps.

    I picked it up for £2 over here so an absolute bargain for me.


  • #1854
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Any recommendations for getting into the new 52? got batman and superman been catching up on some "must read" books but looking for more current stuff, like in the last few years. Never really read much DC, need some stuff I should get into. Marvel too I havent read comics properly in donkeys years just the odd graphic novel and few things like Punisher MAX, dunno where to even start tbh.


  • #1855
    Fysh
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    I re-read the Bonerest: A World's End miniseries from a few years back over the weekend. I seem to remember really enjoying it, and it's mostly held up. I noticed some details and little jokes in the background that I think passed me by previously. Unfortunately, I was also reminded that it finished on what amounts to a cliffhanger that was never resolved, and at this point it's something like 8 or 9 years later so I doubt we're going to see any more of it :(


  • #1856
    Nervous Wreck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,115 ✭✭✭✭Nervous Wreck


    krudler wrote: »
    Any recommendations for getting into the new 52? got batman and superman been catching up on some "must read" books but looking for more current stuff, like in the last few years. Never really read much DC, need some stuff I should get into. Marvel too I havent read comics properly in donkeys years just the odd graphic novel and few things like Punisher MAX, dunno where to even start tbh.

    I haven't enjoyed any of New 52 but as far as Marvel goes, I highly recommend all of the following:

    Daredevil
    Hawkeye
    Silver Surfer
    Guardians of the Galaxy
    Thor: God of Thunder

    All great titles in their own ways!


  • #1857
    Thwip!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Thwip!


    krudler wrote: »
    Any recommendations for getting into the new 52? got batman and superman been catching up on some "must read" books but looking for more current stuff, like in the last few years. Never really read much DC, need some stuff I should get into. Marvel too I havent read comics properly in donkeys years just the odd graphic novel and few things like Punisher MAX, dunno where to even start tbh.

    Cool, so you're looking for some recent Marvel and DC stuff to get into.

    Personal DC Picks

    Batman It's great, just great
    Flash (up until the point that Buccellato and Manapul leave, the artwork alone will make you want it)
    Adventures of Superman (Kind of like a collection of generally done in one Superman stories by a bunch of different creators...also the only New 52 Superman book I would recommend as for the most part Superman has been woefully written in his own titles)
    Green Lantern is good up until Johns leaves as he kind of doesn't reboot it for the New 52 which for the most part is the smart move
    Wonder Woman Fantastic artwork and a very different origin for the character

    Personal Marvel Picks
    Daredevil - the run that just gets better and better as it goes. Fantastic art team also
    Superior Foes of Spider-Man - the sleeper hit of Marvel Now! Deals with some of Spidey's less successful villains and is freaking hilarious
    Nova - fun run with an all new Nova, gets even better once Duggan takes over writing it
    Thor, God of Thunder - Arguably the best run on Thor in about a decade, verily a fine book this be.
    Young Avengers - Incredibly fun, if brief, run with Noh-Var, Wiccan, Hulking etc
    Superior Spider-Man - The run that Dan Slott will be remembered for. Doc Ock is the Superior Spider-Man!
    Silver Surfer - Dan Slott and the Allreds, you just can't go wrong
    Black Widow - Gorgeous book...GORGEOUS
    Moon Knight- Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey, Jordie Bellaire....HOW COULD YOU NOT WANT THIS?

    Though you shouldn't limit yourself to just those companies. Image have a fantastic policy where the first trades of their series are only €9.99 (it's a recent enough thing so some of the older trades are like €14.99). They have a fantastic line of books like Saga, Revival, Sex Criminals, Zero etc. But you should also check out BOOM!, Dark Horse, IDW etc


  • #1858
    Morag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,427 ✭✭✭Morag


    Also reading Moonknight and really enjoying it, as well as Borderlands


  • #1859
    James Howlett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,599 ✭✭✭James Howlett


    Nervous Wreck wrote: »
    I haven't enjoyed any of New 52 but as far as Marvel goes, I highly recommend all of the following:

    Daredevil
    Hawkeye
    Silver Surfer
    Guardians of the Galaxy
    Thor: God of Thunder

    All great titles in their own ways!

    On a somewhat related note I had a look at those Marvel compilation comics that you can get in Eason's today. There's a new book out now that's starting with the first three issues of Bendis' Guardians of the Galaxy, issue one of Avengers Arena and something from the Waid Daredevil series. The book is only a 5iver and any kid looking to try out Comics would do well well a starter book like that at a really great price.

    It's a far cry from the chaos we had when trying to get into comics at a younger age.


  • #1860
    Ridley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,184 ✭✭✭Ridley


    Fear Itself: Avengers
    Avengers     (vol 4) 3
    New Avengers     (vol 2)3 - Not sure if I feel the Avengers tie-in to Fear Itself is a cop-out or not since it's a bunch of talking heads set after the fact being interviewed about Fear Itself. Then again, I've got no intention of reading Fear Itself itself so it's not like I'm being made to read the story twice. The subsequent volumes of Adjectiveless Avengers and New Avengers were pretty clunky though. They don't really work apart from each other and NA should have been read before AA. Still, Squirrel Girl is always a plus.

    X-Men: Battle of the Atom

    Indestructible Hulk 1: Agent of SHIELD
    Indestructible Hulk 2: Gods and Monster     - Banner doesn't want to just be known as a walking nuke and doesn't like his brain being wasted so he offers the Hulk to SHIELD in exchange for the equipment to do some science.

    Superior Spider-Man HC 1
    Superior Spider-Man HC 2 - Great change of pace. Never met a Slott or Waid book that I didn't like. wink.png

    Age of Bronze: A Thousand Ships - Wanted to read an adaptation of the Trojan War and that's what I got. Not sure how to give it a yay or nay.

    Darwin's Diaries 1: The Eye of the Celts - Apart from a passing mention of Druids, the title doesn't seem to have any relevance yet. Unspecified creature is running about northern England killing stuff so Charles Darwin is sent to identify it.

    Blake & Mortimer: The Yellow "M" - Classic or not, I wasn't feeling it. Got to mentally re-edit every Daily Mail article as "Hurrah for the Blackshirts", however, so that was fun.

    IR$ 1: Taxing Trails (w/ The Hagen Strategy) - Tax collecting James Bond. Okay then. First time in a while that I've been angry at a character after it's
    revealed that the antagonist is a Nazi who did good for himself off the back of stealing the identity of a Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz with whom he shared a similar face and murdered
    . It wasn't specifically that which got to me but that the guy
    he killed would have survived the gas chambers and his killer lived as him for in the concentraion camp till the end of the war
    rather than it being a last minute act of self-preservation.

    The Unwritten 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity
    The Unwritten 2: Inside Man     - Yep, this can stay.

    Hellblazer 1: Original Sins - Struggled with it. Had to restart three times but it picked up with When Johnny Comes Marching Home. Might skip ahead to the Ennis run and go back if I feel like it.

    Aliens: Inhuman Condition - Far superior to the last "graphic novella" Fast Track to Heaven which just felt like a by-the-numbers humans encounter xenomorph and get wiped out scenario. Inhuman Condition has something to say and plays with the universe which is what a tie-in should be. While I do think androids are a little played out in the franchise, they're not just set dressing here. But call them xenomorphs rather than aliens demmit. Curious word choice with "
    In fact, Jeremy Harris was engaged to an off-worlder. Not even a female.
    " Reads like they mean
    Harris is teh ghey
    , right? So why not just say "
    Not even a woman
    " (or even something more direct)? The way it's said there reads like the character's into poodles or sutin.

    Star Wars: Legacy vol II, book 1 Aston Villa nil - Prisoner of the Floating World
    Star Wars: Legacy vol II, book 2 - Outcasts of the Broken Ring     - Quite like that they're more or less self-contained stories against the backdrop of a
    Sith insurgency
    . Darth Wredd as a name sucks though. Beyond that my petty niggles are the issues carried on from the first Legacy series with the Sith surviving post-Return of the Jedi and prequel era Jedi being around. I like K'Kruhk but he should neither be in government nor a representative of the Jedi after Luke Skywalker.

    Star Wars: Agent of the Empire 2: Hard Targets - 'Twas fine. Disappointed with the
    nu Count Dooku death fakeout
    when I thought the opposite was a handy reminder that Cross works for the bad guys. Still, nice farewell to Fabbri's Star Wars art for Dark Horse. Hated the way his lightsabers looked in the prequel era but his stuff worked well for stories set around the classic trilogy.

    So... about thirty books to get in five months before the Star Wars licence shifts back from Dark Horse to Marvel.

    ----

    At this point, I've got Nazi fatigue (not Nazi fatigues, they're something else). Thanks to Marvel's cartoon Nazis, The Unwritten dealing with Nazi propaganda, IR$ covering Auschwitz and Hellblazer featuring neo-Nazis, I need a break from them. Star Wars space Nazis I can handle but getting that many popping up in relatively quick succession is draining as heck.


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  • #1861
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    James Howlett wrote: »
    On a somewhat related note I had a look at those Marvel compilation comics that you can get in Eason's today. There's a new book out now that's starting with the first three issues of Bendis' Guardians of the Galaxy, issue one of Avengers Arena and something from the Waid Daredevil series. The book is only a 5iver and any kid looking to try out Comics would do well well a starter book like that at a really great price.

    It's a far cry from the chaos we had when trying to get into comics at a younger age.

    They're promoting the hell out of GOTG over here, there's a Silver Snail comic store down the road from me and they have a good load of stuff for it including newer comics. I had a flick through the Star Lord one, I dunno jack about GOTG aside from snippets of info from the movie side of it but it looks like it's gonna be great fun.

    Thanks all for the recommendations, been on a Batman binge the past week re-read The Long Halloween, Hush and Year One and watched Under The Red Hood and Dark Knight Returns.


  • #1862
    Perkinstock
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭Perkinstock


    The Walking Dead :)


  • #1863
    Fysh
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    Ridley wrote: »
    Hellblazer 1: Original Sins - Struggled with it. Had to restart three times but it picked up with When Johnny Comes Marching Home. Might skip ahead to the Ennis run and go back if I feel like it.

    Yeah, I re-read most of the early Hellblazer stuff recently and it's quite hard going - I do like a fair amount of Delano's stuff but the early days often feel a bit overwrought. I think it's a bit compounded by the art being in need of remastering - I found a lot of the pages were a bit muddy in a way that would probably benefit from increased contrast to bring out the blacks and sharpen up the outlines.

    Of course, the writing is also the issue at times. I found the end of Delano's run to be the worst for this - the last issue or two with
    The Golden Child
    managed to go from interesting to waaaaaaaay-up-its-own-arse pretentious guff that didn't even particularly make sense.

    At the other end of the spectrum, his longer-form storylines like The Fear Machine or The Family Man are pretty damn good. And there are some nice one- and two-parters with guest teams on that mix things up pretty well - Grant Morrison's 2-parter with David Lloyd is probably the best of the bunch, but there's also a short by Neil Gaiman in there and a couple of others, I think.

    The most recent reissues have finally properly collected Ennis' run in chronological order, including one or two fill-ins - I remember the first time I read it thinking that it felt a bit hollow, like a dry run for Preacher. Re-reading it in the new collections made me realise that this is because they skipped something like 15 issues of material between Dangerous Habits and whatever issue it was that brought Steve Dillon on as the main artist, and thus a bunch of stuff didn't really make sense (The Lord of the Dance and the King of the Vampires for one, but also a lot of the development of John's relationship with Kit).


  • #1864
    CastorTroy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,284 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    Started to read Avengers Undercover after finding out it had Nico and Chase from The Runaways and was a continuation of Avengers Arena.


  • #1865
    ren0bscure
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭ren0bscure


    Hello! I'm new here, so I'm just going to jump into the conversation and feel awkward about it.

    I am about to start reading some Grant Morrison work. I might start with The Invisibles.


  • #1866
    Mal-Adjusted
    Registered Users Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭Mal-Adjusted


    ren0bscure wrote: »
    I am about to start reading some Grant Morrison work. I might start with The Invisibles.

    I've never read the Invisibles. it's something i always meant to get around to. I quite like his work though, especially his earlier stuff.

    I'd suggest off the top of my head...

    Doom Patrol,
    Animal Man,
    WE3,
    The Filth *strong constitution required


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  • #1867
    Thwip!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Thwip!


    Mal-Adjusted wrote: »
    I've never read the Invisibles. it's something i always meant to get around to. I quite like his work though, especially his earlier stuff.

    I'd suggest off the top of my head...

    Doom Patrol,
    Animal Man,
    WE3,
    The Filth *strong constitution required

    The entire omnibus of which is out next week


  • #1868
    Nervous Wreck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,115 ✭✭✭✭Nervous Wreck


    Big Bang has 20% off all Batman books today. Haven't read any New52 Batman... anyone tell me if the first book (think it's Court of Owls?) is any decent? Pretty sure the only thing I've read by Snyder is The Wake but that's pretty fantastic...


  • #1869
    Nervous Wreck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,115 ✭✭✭✭Nervous Wreck


    Nervous Wreck wrote: »
    Big Bang has 20% off all Batman books today. Haven't read any New52 Batman... anyone tell me if the first book (think it's Court of Owls?) is any decent? Pretty sure the only thing I've read by Snyder is The Wake but that's pretty fantastic...

    No one answered before I left so I got the first 2 books!


  • #1870
    Fysh
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    ren0bscure wrote: »
    Hello! I'm new here, so I'm just going to jump into the conversation and feel awkward about it.

    I am about to start reading some Grant Morrison work. I might start with The Invisibles.

    I think it's probably better to start with some of his shorter stuff, the longform stuff like The Invisibles can be a bit inaccessible at first. I personally dont muchmrate The Invisibles, it had lots of notions and ideas in it but as an actual story I thought it descended into an incoherent mess at the end.

    We3 is very good, and Flex Mentallo is a decent introduction to how he tends to approach superheroes. I really liked most of his Seven Soldiers of Victory series, but he once again flubs the ending. The Filth is also a lot of deranged fun, and manages not to collapse into incoherence unlike The Invisibles. His All Star Superman is also great, though that's partly because of awesome Frank Quitely artwork. And I still have a soft spot for St Swithins Day, though I don't know how easy that would be to get hold of these days...I haven't read his Doom Patrol so can't comment on it.


  • #1871
    MarkHall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭MarkHall


    Mostly rereading.

    Currently unboxing most of my collection after nearly a year and a half in storage.
    Have been giving Floppies away to mates. Most recently a large chunk of X- Books.

    But I kept The Excalibur Run.
    May that was a fun and silly book at times.
    Love the fight between Cap. Britain and Juggernaut.
    punch1.jpg


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  • #1872
    Jenda
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭Jenda


    I'm all caught up on Saga now - really enjoying it. The narrative device takes a BIT of the tension out of the cat-and-mouse chases but it's still so much fun it doesn't matter.

    Also loving Wicked & The Divine, Southern Bastards, and re-reading a lot of the Claremont X-Men run from the start.


  • #1873
    CastorTroy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,284 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    I'm reading Saga via the trades so only have the first 3 read. And they're great


  • #1874
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Reading Batman Cacophony the last couple of nights, was pretty strange but a good read. Kevin Smith is weird.


  • #1875
    Fysh
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    I've been reading The Spread, Trees and The Wicked + The Divine as singles recently, as well as doing a re-read of a load of Hellblazer (from Azzarello's run to the end of Mina's story).

    The Spread is decent enough, but I think after 3 issues I'm happy to drop it and tradewait. Trees I'll finish up because there are only 3 issues left in the current series and I like that the issues are entirely story - no ads or backmatter. WicDiv I'm not sure on - I like it a lot (I'm a sucker for Gillen+McKelvie, at least when they're doing their own thing) but it's going to be longform according to the backmatter in the most recent issue, somewhere between 30 and 60 issues, and I loathe the idea of reading a series that long in singles rather than trades...but, on the other hand,there's the Phonogram problem i.e. if everyone tradewaits it instead of picking up the singles it'll die an early death. (I really wish the DM had some sort of Kickstarter/Patreon type setup where you can bung creators the cost of the trade up front, so that they can create it as singles if they want but without having to depend exclusively on the singles to cover the production costs...)

    Hellblazer - it's been a while but I still really like both Azzarello and Carey's storylines. Azzarello's feels somehow shorter than I remember it being, but that's preferable to having it outstay its welcome. I think my favourite parts of it were the flashbacks to John's punk days illustrated by Guy Davis. Carey's run is good too (though it feels a tiny bit over-structured in a way - given the length of it, I think it would have benefitted from being punctuates by a couple more individual stories that didn't have to tie into the bigger overall story) and actually ends in a way that feels like it could have been a fitting conclusion to the series. If I had to fault it at all, I would say that I've gone off Leonardo Manco's artwork due to its heavy reliance on photomanipulation; it doesn't hold up too well in comparison to either Marcelo Frusin or Giuseppe Camuncoli's art, IMO.

    I'm really looking forward to DC finally releasing trades of the Jenkins run. I've read the stories and thought they were great, not least because
    it's one of the few times John gets a win that doesn't involve him having to throw his friends into the woodchipper along the way, which makes subsequent reversions to his usual bastardry hit him all the harder.
    I hope they'll also rerelease the out-of-print trades from the Diggle and Milligan runs - I stopped buying the trades when Diggle took over (I wasn't impressed with his Swamp Thing) but have since read them and want to pick them up, and will probably want to try out the Milligan run as well.


  • #1876
    chrislad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,324 ✭✭✭chrislad


    I'm re-reading Fables. This is really such a great book. Utterly captivating.


  • #1877
    Mal-Adjusted
    Registered Users Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭Mal-Adjusted


    chrislad wrote: »
    I'm re-reading Fables. This is really such a great book. Utterly captivating.

    I'm working my way through the deluxe editions of it at the moment. Totally agree.


  • #1878
    Ridley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,184 ✭✭✭Ridley


    Fables: The Deluxe Edition 6
    Fables: The Deluxe Edition 7
    Fables: The Deluxe Edition 8
    The Israel Analogy is worth a side-eye but this thread and elsewhere on the interwebs had given me prior warning that I might find Willingham's views an uncomfortable fit. That my reading of it happened during the more recent Israel-Gaza conflict was... interesting.

    Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love

    The Unwritten 3: Dead Man's Knock

    Waid Daredevil 3 oversized hardcover

    Doctor Strange: Season One - I would quite like to see a Marvel line where the books move at the pace of TV seasons.

    Season One does its own thing as opposed to Fantastic Four: Season One more or less following the stories as they were told by Lee 'n' Kirby. It's fine I suppose. Don't really get on with Doctor Strange anyway so I'm waiting for a take on the character that'll click with me beyond a general interest in the concept.

    The reprint of the Defenders issue in the back is far from Fraction's best work as well. And according to Wikipedia the series was undone by time travel shenanigans anyway.

    Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four 1: Family of Heroes
    Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four 2: Fantastic Voyages - Series of four one-shots per book makes for a nice change of pace although some of them feel like the ending was rushed because the issue ran out of pages. Read the second volume first and it had an almost perfect sequence of Marvel Universe elements that I don't like:
    1/ Savage Land
    2/ Mole Man
    3/ Sub-Mariner
    Lockjaw ruins it in the final issue by not bringing the Inhumans with him. Still, it had Reed Richards in it so I suffer enough just to follow stories with the Human Torch in them. tongue.png Did think the depiction of Sue Storm was a bit rubbish. Not that she can't have a sense of humour or anything but her quippage felt like she was channeling her brother and Ben Grimm.

    Fantastic Four 1: The Fall of the Fantastic Four

    Lone Wolf and Cub Omnibus 1

    The Star Wars     - Surreal reading with R2-D2 speaking C-3PO lines and The Hidden Fortress influence on A New Hope being much more apparent. I'd love for the
    simultaneous screaming of Artoo and Threepio when they fall upon the dead body
    to make it into the films some day.

    Star Wars: Dark Times 5 - Fire Carrier
    Star Wars: Dark Times 6 - A Spark Remains     - Fine chapter in the story of Dass Jennir, lousy ending for a series. Can't be helped, I know.

    Asterix and the Picts - Well, it's better than Asterix and the Falling Sky. Thought the Roman census taker was a wasted idea that deserved expanding. Would have been more suited to one of the Gaul based stories eye em oh. As far as bagpipes-are-awful jokes go, I did like
    Obelix slapping the bagpiper for making his disrespectful Cacofonix-like sounds during a meal
    . Not particularly keen on
    the Loch Ness Monster existing
    in Asterix's world. As with
    Atlantis and especially the manga-hating Mickey Mouse alien
    , it's beyond what fits into that series for my tastes.

    Donald Duck: A Christmas For Shacktown - I love "Gladstone's Usual Good Year". Even though it doesn't have the best ever panel in comics, the story's similar in the way the absurdity builds and I'm totally fine with that.

    I love that Donald Duck would rather spend what little he has on a near-guaranteed win in a raffle for a turkey while already on his way to buy a turkey then still lose.

    I love that in the other stories, Scrooge McDuck can lose his fortune down a massive hole from the additional weight of one extra dime.

    I love that Donald Duck can sell a song he's written, go on holiday and find it on the jukebox in a day.

    The Carl Barks collection is pretty rewarding for me. Plus it has Donald Duck dressed up as a little girl, what more could you want?


  • #1879
    Fysh
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    I re-read Lost At Sea and found it to be as enjoyable as the first time around. Thematically it's a great complement to Scott Pilgrim, to the extent that I think if you've read Scott Pilgrim without having also read Lost At Sea you don't get quite as much out of it.

    Also read Kot's Zero volume 2, which had some lovely art but somehow felt more meandering and unfocused than the firsr volume. Horse Collector was a great story, though.

    Next up: Prophet - Empire.


  • #1880
    Mr.Saturn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭Mr.Saturn


    Just binged Avatar: The Last Airbender's 'The Promise' and 'The Search'. For what essentially amount to interquels between The Legend of Aang and The Legend of Korra, they do manage a steady dose of consequence.

    Definitely one for those who were into the animation, don't stand alone at all. I mean, they could, but you'd be shooting the bollock out of a decent series in that case.


  • #1881
    Ridley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,184 ✭✭✭Ridley


    Mr.Saturn wrote: »
    Just binged Avatar: The Last Airbender's 'The Promise' and 'The Search'. For what essentially amount to interquels between The Legend of Aang and The Legend of Korra, they do manage a steady dose of consequence.

    Definitely one for those who were into the animation, don't stand alone at all. I mean, they could, but you'd be shooting the bollock out of a decent series in that case.

    As Nickelodeon looks to be ridding themselves of the Avatar franchise as soon as possible, I'm hoping Dark Horse does a continuation Korra series.

    Or anything with that world, really.

    Except Aliens vs. Korra.


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  • #1882
    Mal-Adjusted
    Registered Users Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭Mal-Adjusted


    Ridley wrote: »

    Except Aliens vs. Korra.

    Alien Vs. Korra Vs. Ash?


  • #1883
    Mr.Saturn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭Mr.Saturn


    Ridley wrote: »
    As Nickelodeon looks to be ridding themselves of the Avatar franchise as soon as possible, I'm hoping Dark Horse does a continuation Korra series.

    Or anything with that world, really.

    Except Aliens vs. Korra.

    They've set themselves up handy with the whole Avatar concept, it could run on forever, dipping into Avatars post-Wan/pre-Aang/post-Korra, a la the craic they pull with the litany of 'Lost Adventures of The Doctor' in the Whoniverse. Granted, there'd be a greater looseness there in terms of character, fate and whatnot.


  • #1884
    Ridley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,184 ✭✭✭Ridley


    Mal-Adjusted wrote: »
    Alien Vs. Korra Vs. Ash?

    I thought the Archie Meets Predator news was unpleasant. ;)

    Though IDW's Star Trek/Planet of the Apes crossover has to be the one that throws out the setting of both franchises.


  • #1885
    MarkHall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭MarkHall


    Just finished off the last X-Factor Run. With a Bing reading of the last 6 trades I nabbed at DICE.

    X-Factor: Together Again for the First Time
    X-Factor: The Road to Redemption
    X-Factor: Breaking Points
    X-Factor: Short Stories X-Factor
    X-Factor: Hell On Earth War
    X-Factor: The End of X-Factor.

    Really enjoyed the wined up on the series. PAD does his best to give all his characters an ending that suits as well as will please the reader.
    Even if he fails to answer any number of lingering questions and leaves many plot-related matters hanging, Which I'll forgive as he succeeds in offering a satisfying emotional conclusion to most.
    X-factor really has been one of Marvels best character driven books of the last few years. And for the most part managing to tell its story inspite of all the Marvel events. I do love Maddrox and have enjoy his growth throughout the book. And The ending does make me hope I shan't see him in the pages of an X-Book for a long time.


  • #1886
    Morag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,427 ✭✭✭Morag


    The Justice league Dark run and Nikolai Dante The Romanov Dynasty


  • #1887
    Nervous Wreck
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    Southern Bastards - vol.1: Here Was A Man by Jason Aaron. Fantastic book about an oul' lad who returns to his hometown after 40 years and finds the place is being run by the high school football coach who orders murders on a whim and has the law in his pocket. Great read, though the first volume only contains issues 1-4 (I think issue 5 came out this week). Will defo continue reading this.

    American Vampire vol. 1 by Scott Snyder & Stephen King. If you haven't read it, it's about a new breed of vampire in the late 1800s. Each issue is written in two parts; one by each writer. Great read, I'll be getting the next book this weekend, I reckon.

    Saga - Just finished the 3rd tpb and have to wait til December for #4, which is heartbreaking. So good.

    Next on the list is Thief of Thieves by Robert Kirkman. Will start tonight!


  • #1888
    Fysh
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    I've recently read Dan Clowes' Wilson, which I found strangely unsatisfying (it had some interesting experimentation with different styles, but felt hampered by the stylistic choice to make each page fit a "gag a day" format - usually with the punchline "Boy, isn't that Wilson a jerk?!" - to the detriment of the overall story) alongside Zero volume 2 (good, but not as good as the first volume, though "Horse Collectors" was a great story) and Fatale volume 5 (a good conclusion, but the series could have been a good bit shorter without losing much of importance, IMO).

    I'm finally making a start on Moore's Swamp Thing now (I'm 2 issues in so far and it's very good), with the 3rd Prophet trade to follow. I've also got Chris Ware's Building Stories and Jason Aaron's Southern Bastards on the way to me.


  • #1889
    CastorTroy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,284 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    Runaways Vol 3. - Think I said before but I started Runaways when Joss Whedon started writing it. Loved it so have gone back and started on the trades. Alternating between buying the these trades and Chew, while waiting for Saga Vol 4


  • #1890
    [Deleted User]
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    Looking at my too read pile and its getting a little ridiculous. There's at least 40 trades stacked up and I added book one of C.O.W.L. to it today.


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  • #1891
    Thwip!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Thwip!


    Fysh wrote: »
    I've recently read Dan Clowes' Wilson, which I found strangely unsatisfying (it had some interesting experimentation with different styles, but felt hampered by the stylistic choice to make each page fit a "gag a day" format - usually with the punchline "Boy, isn't that Wilson a jerk?!" - to the detriment of the overall story) alongside Zero volume 2 (good, but not as good as the first volume, though "Horse Collectors" was a great story) and Fatale volume 5 (a good conclusion, but the series could have been a good bit shorter without losing much of importance, IMO).

    I'm finally making a start on Moore's Swamp Thing now (I'm 2 issues in so far and it's very good), with the 3rd Prophet trade to follow. I've also got Chris Ware's Building Stories and Jason Aaron's Southern Bastards on the way to me.

    Southern Bastards is one of the best books I've read this year


  • #1892
    Ridley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,184 ✭✭✭Ridley


    Been reading a lot of meh, really.

    Fables: The Deluxe Edition 9 - Thought the
    end of the war
    was something of an anticlimax. O' course, story wasn't helped by my being aware of it ahead of time and knowledge that
    #75 was supposed to be the end
    but I just didn't get much of a sense that the
    protagonists could lose
    .

    Donald Duck: Christmas On Bear Mountain
    Uncle Scrooge: The Seven Cities of Gold     - Finally got to read the issue that influenced the boulder sequence from Raiders of the Lost Ark which was one of the things that pointed me towards picking up the Carl Barks series in the first place. While the stories aren't always great, there's usually something in there to impress at the wealth of ideas coming, as far as I know, from one brain for about twenty-five years.

    Tomb Raider 1: Season of the Witch - 'Tis alright. Kind of want more from a media tie-in though.
    Killing off Jonah would have been ballsy rather than his survival stretching believability
    and villains being
    a cult worshipping the bad guys of the game
    just raises the question of where they were supposed to be during the game itself.

    Plus there's a cover of Lara Croft hanging off the side of a London bus so it would have been nice if that had, y'know, been in the story itself.

    Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Rift Part 1

    Star Wars: Jedi-The Dark Side - Nice to get a Qui-Gon Jinn story but it seemed too tied up in the continuity of the Jedi Apprentice young adult novel series. It being labeled volume one was rather optimistic.

    Star Wars: Purge - Collection the Purge issues released at various. The best one was already collected in the Clone Wars: Endgame volume.

    Star Wars: Darth Maul - Son of Dathomir - Closure to Maul's arc from the cancelled Clone Wars TV series. Not one reason good enough to justify bringing the guy back from the dead.

    Star Wars: Darth Maul - Death Sentence

    Darth Vader and the Ninth Assassin     -
    The reveal of the antagonist having traded his eyes to get the hit on Vader
    is neat. However, I would actually have preferred a story about Vader systematically fending off nine assassins.

    Darth Vader and the Cry of Shadows - Easily the second best of the Vader and the series for me (first is Ghost Prison which, in my opinion, is one of the best Star Wars books anyway). Silly title as its not really about Vader
    but a Jedi hating clone trooper left for dead
    and shadows even crying metaphorically is a bit of a stretch. wink.png

    Star Wars 2: From the Ruins of Alderaan
    Star Wars 3: Rebel Girl
    Star Wars 4: A Shattered Hope     - The whole Brian Wood series was a bit flat. Enjoyed the "Five Days of Sith" arc while that business with Leia being married off to find the Rebel Alliance a planet pre-Hoth went about a predictable as possible.
    The evil advisor being a couple of skin tones darker than every one else on his planet gets the side eye
    .

    Star Wars: Blood Ties - Boba Fett is Dead - Book which knows how to handle a character whose fate is known on screen.
    I mean, Fett gets out of the sarlacc in the Expanded Universe/Legends/whatever continuity anyway but the book is set prior to Return of the Jedi and doesn't dwell too much on the Boba Fett is Dead thang
    . And yet the title is still relevant. Pay attention Cry of Shadows.

    Star Wars: Rebel Heist - Four issue heist with a perspective from four movie Rebels. Nothing amazing but for something with a quick turn around to get a book out in time for the Star Wars licence going back to Marvel, it's a good example of the kind of approach Dark Horse took with it.

    Star Wars: Legacy II vol. 3: Wanted: Ania Solo
    Star Wars: Legacy II vol. 4: Empire of One     Liverpool 3

    Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi 3: Force Storm

    Both series suffered from having to conclude during the licence change but they handle it well enough I guess. Not convinced in Empire of One that
    the Sith in hiding would throw dozens of guys after one man even if he was killing them off one by one thereby conveniently allowing the Sith to be wiped out for good. Again. Even though leader Darh Nihl wasn't present...
    Ah well.

    Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace - As someone who doesn't mind the movie too much it's... worse than the movie. Gungan spake near impenetrable and do we really near a panel dedicated to "Yippee!"? The Episode III comic with the awesome art gets fewer pages demmit (although you're better off with Stover's novelisation).

    Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones - Does the job. Kinda funny the way it just tries to skip on over the Senate scenes and Yoda's saber skillz are pretty much. Imagine the latter is due to the script just having *Yoda fights* or something. Oh and Padmé Amidala just sort of falls of the transport. The imagery of Kenobi catching Skywalker's lightsaber is neat.

    ----

    If you like reading underdeveloped opinions on Star Wars comics, boy, do I have the post for you! pacman.gif


  • #1893
    Bistoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 275 ✭✭Bistoman


    Anyone else reading "Rachel Rising" ?
    I picked up the 1st edition reprint on Halloween Free comic book day and am hooked ever since.
    It has a walking dead vibe about it, With a little bit of "Preacher" thrown in.
    The only problem is the infrequent releases of the editions, It might be out this month and then not seen for another 3 months.

    Written by Terry Moore and published by Abstract Studio, It tells the story of a girl who finds herself in a ditch after being murdered ( But Not quite dead) I cant recommend enough that You go out and get Your hands on this.

    https://www.comixology.eu/Rachel-Rising/comics-series/6348


  • #1894
    Ste_JDM
    Registered Users Posts: 207 ✭✭Ste_JDM


    Currently reading Fables. Really enjoyed The Wolf Among Us, it led me to keep going.


  • #1895
    Mal-Adjusted
    Registered Users Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭Mal-Adjusted


    Ste_JDM wrote: »
    Currently reading Fables. Really enjoyed The Wolf Among Us, it led me to keep going.

    Fables is really good. What's The Wolf Among Us like? Iv'e always meant to give it a go but never got around to it.


  • #1896
    Ste_JDM
    Registered Users Posts: 207 ✭✭Ste_JDM


    Mal-Adjusted wrote: »
    Fables is really good. What's The Wolf Among Us like? Iv'e always meant to give it a go but never got around to it.

    It's what got me into it. It's a prequel to the Fables comics, based in 1980s Fabletown. It surprised me, I didn't know what it was about at all. I only bought it because Telltale, the developers, make The Walking Dead games and now they also have released a Game of Thrones series.

    If you are looking for a taste, the first episode of it is free on Android/iOS but I'd recommend playing it on PC or Console.


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  • #1897
    Brief_Lives
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,178 ✭✭✭Brief_Lives


    I am just about to buy an online version of (Omnibus editions) X-Men: The Age of Apocalypse ....and.... Infinity Wars...


  • #1898
    TotallyEpic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 554 ✭✭✭TotallyEpic


    Ste_JDM wrote: »
    It's what got me into it. It's a prequel to the Fables comics, based in 1980s Fabletown. It surprised me, I didn't know what it was about at all. I only bought it because Telltale, the developers, make The Walking Dead games and now they also have released a Game of Thrones series.

    If you are looking for a taste, the first episode of it is free on Android/iOS but I'd recommend playing it on PC or Console.

    It does deviate dramatically from the books though, which is obvious from the first episode.

    (Granted I haven't finished it, so it might wrap back around)


  • #1899
    Ste_JDM
    Registered Users Posts: 207 ✭✭Ste_JDM


    TotallyEpic wrote: »
    It does deviate dramatically from the books though, which is obvious from the first episode.

    (Granted I haven't finished it, so it might wrap back around)

    Indeed it does but it still holds its own.


  • #1900
    shazzerman
    Registered Users Posts: 637 ✭✭✭shazzerman


    Read Locke & Key, The Unwritten, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (again) over Christmas. Really loved Locke & Key, but The Unwritten was a great surprise - a magnificent work. I'm currently reading Rachel Rising, and it is a great read so far (love than Zoe character).


  • #1901
    Mal-Adjusted
    Registered Users Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭Mal-Adjusted


    Ste_JDM wrote: »
    It's what got me into it. It's a prequel to the Fables comics, based in 1980s Fabletown. It surprised me, I didn't know what it was about at all. I only bought it because Telltale, the developers, make The Walking Dead games and now they also have released a Game of Thrones

    I was impressed with their Jurassic Park and Sam & Max games so i'll check it out at some point.

    In other news I just got Judge Dred: The mega collection volume 1. It's basically a bi-weekly "best of" collection of hardcover books, with a small booklet accompanying it, something like Marvel do. Vol 1 is "America" and i have to say the quality seems really good.

    http://www.judgedreddcollection.com/


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