Comic Books / Graphic Novels thread

i know, man. i miss that 80's look. rough & raw.

or comics from the the 60's & 70's that had all that color bleedage from the pens...

kids these days.

Winshluss' Pinochio looks really really good, can't wait to get a hold of it

anyone else reading Star Wars Shattered Empire? It's pretty good so far, bridges part of the gap between EP VI and EP VII.

Finally read 8house by Brandon Graham + other artists, good stuff. Naturally, no idea what is going on, but it's fun.

I just rattled through the walking dead compendium 3, issues 96 - 144. I much prefer catching up on series this way, I think waiting for this to get released on a monthly basis would suck the life out of it for me.

It didn't feel like much actually happened over 48 issues compared to the early parts of the story, but I liked the war arch against Negan and the whisperers thing was fun, with potential to get pretty fucked up. The Carl and Lydia storyline was pretty messed up, he got his socket licked lol.

I need to catch up on the Walking Dead, I finished The vol. 2 compendium and a couple of the trades after. I left off just about when the war with Negan was warming up...

I totally stopped buying it. I got up to about issue 115 and just got real bored with the story. There are only so many times I can see them wander around and fuck people up.

  On 10/14/2015 at 1:00 PM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

Winshluss' Pinochio looks really really good, can't wait to get a hold of it

It's great, story is pretty fucked up at times. Not sure if there's translated versions, but there's not much dialog in it, my French is terrible and I followed it pretty easily.

  On 10/20/2015 at 9:41 PM, Braintree said:

I totally stopped buying it. I got up to about issue 115 and just got real bored with the story. There are only so many times I can see them wander around and fuck people up.

That was kind of my issue with it as well the overall story was just getting tedious... It was starting to get old how they'd manage their way through some impossible situation only to be met by some even MORE bleak situation... I mean I know that's kinda the whole point, but by Neegan it was getting a little ridiculous as he just seemed like The Governor 2.0

By "need to catch up", I more so meant that at this point I'm well behind, but idk... I'll get to it eventually it's not on the top of my list of series' I'm following right now.

Finished reading the "Endgame" arc of Batman, which was pretty great IMO...

For those interested in getting the trade, get the Joker edition NOT the Batman: Vol 7! Tthe Joker edition adds in the additional content of the arc from the other Batman related tie-ins and fills in the story much more than just the 5 issues of Batman, with the full arc it was a pretty intense read. I'm sure I will check out the continuation of Snyder's run with mech-suit Jim Gordon just to see where it goes, but it really felt like a great closure to the whole Batman story.

I'll probably be going back to fill in the cracks on pre-New 52 arcs (which I have mostly completed my collection of) before I move forward... I also started reading Preacher a little bit ago so I'll probably continue with that for a while.

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas graphic novel:

https://m.comixology.com/Hunter-S-Thompsons-Fear-and-Loathing-in-Las-Vegas/digital-comic/302514?ref=cGFnZS92aWV3L2Rlc2t0b3AvZ3JpZExpc3QvbGlzdDg4NDM

Picked up Saga TP1 and Injection TP1.

I like the premise of Saga, looks like it could get quite fun quite quickly.

And Injection is nicely quirky and keeping me interested. Wayland Smithy is just down the road from me too so it was pretty cool to see some local places dropped in

Im reading Doraemon

I got these english-translation copies from kinokuniya, they are for Japanese learning english, so they are in both english and japanese, so a learning tool also, but this is the only in-print Doraemon comics in English that I know of, and they are really amazing! It's kind of like Calvin and Hobbes Japanese style :D Great characters, drawings and humor.

http://www.abebooks.com/products/isbn/9784092270114?cm_sp=rec-_-bdp-_-plp

finally read star wars : dark empire. in preparation for star wars ep 7 i guess : >

it's pretty horrible. the writing .. the bland characterizations. resurrecting the emperor (several times). ugh.

having said that, the main draw to the series in the first place was the water colouring..

the water colouring ( and overall 80s ROTJ-esque weirdness ) is spot on :):)

not recommended. just look at pictures of it instead.

I agree, pretty but dumb.

It's star wars. It's never been particularly Mensa level SciFi. Isnt it basically a fairy tail?

That comic does look nice though

  On 11/6/2015 at 8:17 AM, fletcher said:

It's star wars. It's never been particularly Mensa level SciFi. Isnt it basically a fairy tail?

 

That comic does look nice though

shit writing is shit writing.

got nothing to do with sci fi vs fantasy.

damn so they canned the extended universe to make their own new cannon which already resurrects a dead emperor palpatine more than once?

doesn't bode well for the 'official' canon following ROTJ

  On 10/14/2015 at 1:00 PM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

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what did you think about it? Never talked with someone disliking it and I feel alone in that camp. I bought it several years ago because I liked the aesthetic and it won a big prize. then I read it and couldn't really appreciate, I thought it's no more than a patchwork of really dirty things happening one after the other but I couldn't find any line in it. I thought it was superficial and was pretty disappointed about it

Finally gotten around to reading Preacher lately, and I'm loving it so far, dark and very twisted. I picked up book 3 today.

Also decided to get caught back up on The Fade Out, picked up issues 7-11 and have issues 4-6 on order. I liked where the first 3 issues were headed and have always been a fan of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' work together. Plus Sean's artwork on the covers is gorgeous.

Also recently picked up the first issue of DKIII, and the pencils only "directors cut" issue of Batman: Endgame. I have yet to read DKIII but heard it's actually decent so far. Maybe having Brian Azarello on board as a creative filter for Frank Miller is paying off?

I normally can't stand Brian K Vaughn, but Paper Girls has been really good so far. It has the usual lazy pop culture references and shit Whedon-esque dialogue, but it's the first book he's written where I wouldn't celebrate the deaths of any and all characters. Cliff Chang's pencils are also fantastic.

Some other recommendations from 2015: Descender by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen, Invisible Republic by Corinna (?) Beckho and her husband, whose name I have forgotten. It was a really good year for new SF comics.

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what did you think about it? Never talked with someone disliking it and I feel alone in that camp. I bought it several years ago because I liked the aesthetic and it won a big prize. then I read it and couldn't really appreciate, I thought it's no more than a patchwork of really dirty things happening one after the other but I couldn't find any line in it. I thought it was superficial and was pretty disappointed about it

 

Still haven't read it, comics are crazy expensive. Hopefully I'll get it with Christmas money

After it gets going, Wytches is some good stuff.

If I'm gonna start reading Saga, get volume 1, or spring for the more expensive Book 1, that collects volume 1-3?

I recently got saga book 1 to see if I'd like it, and its rather great. Nice story and nothing too heavy on the brain but it looks great and is as much fantasy as it is SciFi. Will probably be carrying on with reading it.

Saga was super hyped when it was first starting and it turned out to be a pretty entertaining series, but not the mind-blowing masterpiece that it's been made out to be. But yeah, it's good.