Comic Books / Graphic Novels thread

Hoping to pick up this variant tomorrow, 80s flashback.

Image Comics has launched an old-school mail order subscription service: http://www.newsarama.com/23227-image-launches-mail-order-subscription-service.html

This is cheaper than buying from your local shop, but still more than a preorder service.

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I also just finished:

Volume 8 of Scalped (Jason Aaron), this shit is approaching Preacher level greatness.

Volume 3 of Brian Azzarello's Wonder Woman run, which I think is the best superhero book of the last 3-4 years.

Having not read any of these I found the Humble comics bundle to be a decent offering. https://www.humblebundle.com/books

  On 1/16/2015 at 3:02 AM, doublename said:

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I also just finished:

 

Volume 8 of Scalped (Jason Aaron), this shit is approaching Preacher level greatness.

 

 

I recently finished the Scalped series and am dying for more! I can't believe how good this was. I was thinking 100 bullets might be the best sprawling crime series, but Scalped IMO has surpassed it. The only gripe I have is I didn't like the guest artist who came in around Volume 4 as R.M Guera totally nailed it with the look. internet says they're supposed to turn it into a TV series...

just started Thief of Thieves which is enjoyable so far

^ Have you been reading Jason Aaron's new series Southern Bastards? It's got a similar feel to Scalped and is shaping up to be great in its own right.

haven't started Southern Bastards yet but will check it out for sure!

Marvel's next brilliant idea - Vagina Force!

Comic artist Norman Lee missing in the Caymans, possibly dead.

Gekiga-Style Manga Pioneer Yoshihiro Tatsumi Passes Away

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-03-08/gekiga-style-manga-pioneer-yoshihiro-tatsumi-passes-away/.85748

Without him, none of the serious work Japan produced would exist--gekiga influencing Katsuhiro Otomo & Tezuka among many others--nor would we have the fantastic brick of a book called A Drifting Life, which I highly recommend if you have even a vague liking of Japanese comics and would like to know more how Japan came to be one of the few countries in the world where comics are still bought in the hundreds of thousands, some of them even selling millions (One Piece, Naruto etc).

He was working on a follow up to A Drifting Life, which I hope will still see release, even if he did not complete it.

DC is making a big deal out of pulling this cover, saying it promotes rape. Really?? Now fictional characters have to be ass all PC as well? These days Killing Joke wouldn't even get published.

DC handles its female characters appallingly (see: current Wonder Woman run) , but backing down over a run of the mill cover like this is embarrassing.

what

Is it because the collar isn't zipped all the way up?

Or rather, because a collar exists that may look as if it's partly unzipped?

To comic book nerds, touching a girl is practically sex so yeah it could be construed as rape in their opinion

  On 3/19/2015 at 3:01 PM, Rubin Farr said:

DC is making a big deal out of pulling this cover, saying it promotes rape. Really?? Now fictional characters have to be ass all PC as well? These days Killing Joke wouldn't even get published.

 

Heard about this... it's really stupid, as that is some great artwork and a good homage to events that are cannon to the Batman story (The Killing Joke). Although it's never explicitly stated that he did rape her back in that arc, which is why this whole debate is stupid. It is shown that he did photograph her naked after shooting her, but I think it was more about making Babs look vulnerable to get under Jim Gordon's skin. Although I wouldn't put rape past Joker... This whole banning of this cover is totally catering to SJW's, Joker isn't supposed to be a pillar of morality it's supposed to be disturbing, fuck your triggers.

I actually never got rape vibes n connotations from killing joke. It may have just been my dumb brain not putting 2and2 together and now im tempted to go back reread it and potentially see the comic in new light but ?? did anyone actually get the connotations from that story ? are they there ?

There are pannels in TKJ that show that at very least he stripped her down and photographed her naked and bleeding in order to later show the photos to Jim Gordon... it never explicitly states rape though. It could be implied, but like I said I think the idea was more just about making Babs vulnerable and exploiting it to get under Jim's skin. Joker was trying to break the commish.

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  On 11/11/2011 at 5:29 AM, Braintree said:

That first issue is fucking gorgeous. It's been nearly a year and I'm still waiting on issue #2, but I know it will be well worth it. I heard it took about a year to complete that one, by the way.

And nearly four years later, the second issue is going to come out in June:

^ Awesome.

I quite like a number of the Image releases of late, it would probably frustrate me picking up these 2 then not knowing when I will get to finish the story though.

Archie vs Predator? Apparently this is a thing.

http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/27-991/Archie-vs-Predator-1

Afterlife With Archie is awesome, so this has some potential I guess.

Just started Satoshi Kon's Opus. Good shit, reminds me of Grant Morrison's early DC work.

Dark Knight Returns: The Master Race announced by DC.

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/04/24/dc-announces-the-dark-knight-returns-3-the-master-race

I hope Azzarello can make this thing readable.

Bought the entire Grant Morrison run of Batman and Batman & Robin today as a birthday present for myself, I'd been holding off on these until I read more of the events leading up to his run. $120 but worth it to complete a big chunk in the later part of my Batman collection.