Comic Books / Graphic Novels thread

  On 11/3/2018 at 7:19 AM, mokz said:

Or maybe some actual horror?

good ol junji ito

  On 11/3/2018 at 7:19 AM, mokz said:

Speaking of manga. Is there any modern (post-)cyberpunk manga in the vein of Akira or Ghost in the Shell?

 

Or maybe some actual horror?

 

I don't follow manga publications and every time I get something recommended it's like ADHD teenagers with paranormal abilities or some romantic fantasy.

https://kodanshacomics.com/series/ghost-in-the-shell-global-neural-network/

  On 11/3/2018 at 12:32 PM, span said:

 

  On 11/3/2018 at 7:19 AM, mokz said:

Or maybe some actual horror?

good ol junji ito

hideshi hino too

Thanks, gaes. I'll check.

i was recently in seattle and went to the one and only Fantagraphics bookstore and I picked up:

megg, mogg & owl - one more year

jim woodring - poochytown

the daniel clowes reader

and some other stuff for cheap like grump toast

So I just got the first TP of Monstress and it looks awesome. Nice fantasy / horror type mix.

The cast is basically a furry, a talking cat and a girl with cthulhu living inside her that looks like a vagina. The characters are majority female (and a female writing / artist team so I guess they are making a point)

The new Martian Manhunter series has some beautiful psychedelic artwork.

I read up to vol 12 of Attack on Titan wondering why there are were titans the whole time. I asked my GF to check spoilers if it ever resolves and apparently it hasn't yet. So I'm reluctant to continue spending more money as I foresee a disappointing end.

I've been having a really difficult time finding anything that interests me other than waiting for the next East of West and Deadly Class volumes. I've had a lot of false starts with a few series in between.

deforge posted this 400+ page story on social media over the last year or so and now it'd getting published

read here https://www.instagram.com/richardsvalley/

Hey ... didn't know there was a comic book / graphic novel thread.

Cool.

Love me some comic books for grownups. Last one I read and really, really enjoyed was part four of Riad Sattouf's excellent Arab of the Future. Great story, great use of the medium - art and text often at odds with each other - great art. Just, uhm, great.

I bought an obscene amount of Hellboy anthologies in the Comixology sale over the holidays. Slowly getting through it and enjoying it immensely. I had never really read much of Mignola's stuff before, I just love the movies.

Just about to start Monstress TP2, a great story so far and the art is gorgeous.

Been reading Scott Snyder's New 52 run of Swamp Thing, nothing will top Alan Moore's run but Snyder is a decent writer and Yanick Paquette's art is great. It's a worthy successor...






 

Yep, I love this recent effort at Swamp Thing (as documented previously in this thread). I also read the Animal Man series. Not as great but ties in nicely and you need it to make full sense of the Rotworld crossover. Bloody crossovers.

Lady Snowblood.

Dave Gibbons' original art for Watchmen #1 sells at auction for $228,000:

https://downthetubes.net/?p=105167&fbclid=IwAR145lI4uGuyhU0yiKkPUfH4tlJKp0YFhUMB3SaF8pFq8aKce7hDtT7XvLY

  On 2/28/2019 at 3:50 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Dave Gibbons' original art for Watchmen #1 sells at auction for $228,000:

 

https://downthetubes.net/?p=105167&fbclid=IwAR145lI4uGuyhU0yiKkPUfH4tlJKp0YFhUMB3SaF8pFq8aKce7hDtT7XvLY

Worth it.

I'm at vol 24 of Attack on Titan, it's insane. I'm probably in for the long haul.

Reading Moebius' The World of Edena of which I read only the second (and maybe the third) part when I was around 10yo. Confused the fuck out of me, lol. Also boobs and penises, teehee.

Now it makes much more sense, particularly when starting from the beginning..

love that stuff. big fan of moebius. 

the incal was first one i read, written by Alejandro Jodorowsky, which is all the more "stream of conciousness" writing and can feel like it's not making any sense, + can feel very "And then this happened, and then this happened.. and then this happened.. and then this happaned" instead of being a tight narrative. always fun and interesting to read though and the illustrations are so inspired and top notch. 

the works in The World of Edena is all pretty great stuff. 

reading moebius as a 10year old would be so cool. imagine that's the kinda imagery that would stick with you.

  On 3/14/2019 at 2:52 PM, bitchroast said:

reading moebius as a 10year old would be so cool. imagine that's the kinda imagery that would stick with you.

Yes, I could distinctly recall some frames even though none of the story. But his Silver Surfer story was probably the first work by him that I read.

Moebius is awesome. First spotted his art in a how to draw comics book at age 10. Then got "The Eyes of the Cat", which to this day I can't really make sense of. Gorgeous art, though.

In fact, I feel this way about all his other work as well. The writing is dated, probably didn't make much sense to begin with, but the art is fantastic.

Today was Free Comic Book Day here in the states, grabbed some freebies and made some discounted purchases at various shops... East of West #42, which I've been keeping up with, a Spawn related off-shoot miniseries...

But the thing I was most happy to get was a hardcover collected volume of From Hell, been meaning to read this one for forever now, but the complete collection never seemed to be in stock. The hardcover looks awesome, looking forward to getting deep into this one.

from hell rules. i need to reread that one. 

I think that's the version with the appendix that details what is historically accurate in every panel. Reading through that was amazing. He really put a lot of effort into that story.

Quite a substantial list for Free Comic Book Day 2019:

https://www.freecomicbookday.com/Article/222154-Free-Comic-Book-Day-2019-Full-List-of-Comic-Books-Announced