Comic Books / Graphic Novels thread

  On 8/18/2015 at 7:05 AM, doublename said:

 

  On 8/17/2015 at 9:04 PM, fletcher said:

I enjoyed all of the recent swamp thing run.

Rotworld was the low point, but it helps if you read Animal Man too.

I have given up on DC now that both of those books have come to an end. The crossovers with crossovers and team ups were doing my noggin in.

I just wanted some decent self contained story arcs that make me enjoy a few characters. Swampy and Mr Butter Baker mainly did that, but unfortunately I guess they didn't shift enough units and they got axed.

You should give The Omega Men a shot -- religious fanaticism, space terrorism, it's the most out there book DC is doing right now.

 

Thanks will look into Omega Men, looks like the first TP is out early next year so I'll keep an eye out for it.

Jack Kirby issue of Heavy Metal Magazine delayed indefinitely, possibly til 2016.

  On 8/18/2015 at 5:42 AM, Rubin Farr said:

John Carpenter horror anthology coming on Halloween:

 

 

http://comicbastards.com/comics/john-carpenter-releases-john-carpenters-tales-for-a-halloweenight/

ooooh, gonna have to look into this.

Anybody here into Mignolaverse comics? I've blown through ~4 volumes of BPRD in the last few days, but neither of the first two Hellboy trades did anything for me.

Is the other stuff good too?

for all those swamp thing fans who never made it through all 177 issues of the original 'saga' run

they just started releasing the graphic novels of the last 40 or so issues written by Grant Morrison/Mark Millary and later just Mark Millar. I know what you're thinking, 'why would i want to read Mark Millar doing swamp thing, does he write Tefe saying cunt?'

no its actually really good surprisingly, arguably the best thing Millar has ever done

here is the first one out so far



collects issues 140- 150

^ I'm at the end of a long library wait list for that one, good to hear Millar doesn't Millar it up.

I'm drooling over Tula Lotay's IG account right now:

^ Scarlett from Under The Skin?

My dad found a box with lots of my old books in it.

sandman complete series, No.5, Nausicaa box set.

Scweet!

  On 8/22/2015 at 5:59 AM, usagi said:

^ Scarlett from Under The Skin?

Yeah. I was trying to track down the ones she did of Rachel from Blade Runner, but I can't find them anymore.

just read the first issue of this. fun stuff. looking forward to reading more comics by this james harren fella.

did anyone here like Batman RIP or Final Crisis? Its basically the last batman and superman stories before the New 52 reset. Surprisingly psychedelic and dark even for a Grant Morrison story

  On 9/1/2015 at 11:16 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

did anyone here like Batman RIP or Final Crisis? Its basically the last batman and superman stories before the New 52 reset. Surprisingly psychedelic and dark even for a Grant Morrison story

nope, will have a look, i like psychedelic and dark.

and rumble looks cool!

looks like Image is the new Vertigo

  On 9/1/2015 at 11:27 PM, lala said:

 

  On 9/1/2015 at 11:16 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

did anyone here like Batman RIP or Final Crisis? Its basically the last batman and superman stories before the New 52 reset. Surprisingly psychedelic and dark even for a Grant Morrison story

 

nope, will have a look, i like psychedelic and dark.

 

here's a sample

^was that from the 3D superman comic?

i just remember superman's tombstone

  On 9/1/2015 at 11:16 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

did anyone here like Batman RIP or Final Crisis? Its basically the last batman and superman stories before the New 52 reset. Surprisingly psychedelic and dark even

for a Grant Morrison story

yeah, RIP & final crisis get way to much hate. that Return of Bruce Wayne time travel story he did as a follow up to RIP was good too.

  On 9/1/2015 at 11:16 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

Surprisingly psychedelic and dark even for a Grant Morrison story

i dont know how anyone can expect to say that and not raise a few eyebrows.

interested.

well i take that back somewhat, for his DC work its very out there compared to other stuff i've read by him. His vertigo stuff is more similar to this actually

  On 9/1/2015 at 11:30 PM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

looks like Image is the new Vertigo

Image has had tons of great releases over the past 10 or so years. They publish most of the titles that I read.

Hell, they republished Scud.

Neil Gaiman Humble Bundle on sale today

https://www.humblebundle.com/books

noice. sep30 i believe is the new sandman #6 release date. just about finishing American Gods atm actually too. getting good timing to finally start with issue 1 i think :):):)

correct on Sandman, it only took 3 years! lol

funny thing is i generally don't bother with single issues and just stick with TPBs and collected issues, graphic novels etc.

never .. again .. lol

Yeah this is the last paper series i will do, bc it's Gaiman and McKean. But I can't have a missing tooth in my Sandman shelf can I? Lol

i got local comic shop keeping aside an issue every time one comes of the new sandman.

specifically asked to have the mckean covers. i kind of lost track and started getting phone calls saying "is this ben? we've had your copy of sandman issue 5 sitting aside for a couple of weeks now..." as if it was some massive insult that i didn't pick up the issue on day one (despite the fact the series in general had been constantly delayed + keeping track of when the issues hit australian shores = pretty much impossible keeping track of when the issues are arriving). my issue 5 ended up NOT being mckean cover

not really a big deal but even then, it's like.. what's the point in having these? may as well just throw them in the bin and buy the TPB when it comes out ... lol

^ (slight exaggeration maybe. i 'm probably not actually that angry or actually flipping tables over this)

Thank god I just preordered the hardcover. 10 years from now we'll still be waiting for the last issue of Gaiman's Miracleman from Marvel.