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remilia_scarlet wrote:Nobody here has read johnny the homicidal maniac, have they?
Yeah. I have. Didn't care for it too much, though, kind of read like self-indulgent revenge fantasy. Of that kind of genre, I would go for Lenore any time. I'm more into Transmetropolitan, 100 Bullets, Criminal, DMZ, Garth Ennis stuff, that kind of thing. I read a fair bit of DC, I tend to borrow it from my brother-in-law who's really into it, and I thoroughly enjoy it.
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htj wrote:You can always trust a man who quotes himself in his signature.
Please tell me that another Dakkanaut bought The Heckler as well ! It was great... all 6 or so issues of it..
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
Blackest night series, except I didn't care for superman too much.
Walking dead.
Squee.
The dark tower adaptations.
Usagi yojimbo.
Creature tech.
Deadpool.
rising stars.
The crow.
Everything else I've seen so far is ok, I don't care too much for marvel for now, but that might change, I've lost interest in darkhorse, and DC is the ok too.
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captain fantastic wrote: Seems like this thread is all that's left of Remilia Scarlet (the poster).
Just placed my pull list for the DC relaunch.
All three Justice League comics (JL, JL International and JL Dark)
Both Legion books.
Mister Terrific
Men of War
All star Western
Stormwatch
Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E.
More comics than I've pulled ever before. I'm sure I'll prune half out and if any show the excessive violence that DC has been putting in their comics lately I'll drop those quickly.
The Mr. Terrific one did intrigue me, I dig the character as he currently is written anyway.
Time will tell I guess.
meanwhile...
oh yes !
been reading Grant Morrison's "Supergods" book which I can thoroughly recommend , almost essential reading really.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
Alpharius wrote:It was very JMS in that it started out great, and finished (if at all) badly.
He seems to lose interest about halfway through a lot.
I've been reading the current Supreme Power miniseries, which is another once-great title that JMS abandoned. And one that went profoundly downhill after he left. Anyway, the current series is much closer to the original JMS series in tone, and in fact it seems to mostly gloss over the whole Ultimate universe tie-in disaster. I hope the current creative team gets to continue on this path, but I fear a lot of readership just won't return after getting burned so badly.
With the DC relaunch, I'm most excited about Action Comics #1...that has a chance to be truly epic, IMO. I'm also looking forward to JLA #1 and the accompanying origin reboot.
So does anyone have any idea what's going to happen with the Batman Inc./Leviathan storyline? Maybe I'm the only one, but I liked where that was going. I'm guessing it's now headed nowhere with Morrison off the Bat-books.
Batman Inc. as it was described to me sounded completely slowed.
I'm still waiting for a decent bat-book to come out of the mess DC have made of their best book the last few years.
The new Venom comic looks okay though.
Alpharius wrote:It was very JMS in that it started out great, and finished (if at all) badly.
He seems to lose interest about halfway through a lot.
I've been reading the current Supreme Power miniseries, which is another once-great title that JMS abandoned. And one that went profoundly downhill after he left. Anyway, the current series is much closer to the original JMS series in tone, and in fact it seems to mostly gloss over the whole Ultimate universe tie-in disaster. I hope the current creative team gets to continue on this path, but I fear a lot of readership just won't return after getting burned so badly.
I'm reading that too. It's good. Only a 4 part series so far though, hopefully they'll make more. Couldn't agree more with how it went off the rails after JMS left.
I like him because he made his name in television before doing comics.
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"...he could never understand the sense of a contest in which the two adversaries agreed upon the rules." Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
I like him because he made his name in television before doing comics.
Ya, I guess I'm doing it a bit backwards right now. I'm watching Babylon 5 now because of his comic book work. On season 2 right now, It's ok. It hasn't really aged well.
Almost finished Garth Ennis' Punisher run. He's slaughtered every Irish, Italian, African American, Russian and other gangsters/mobsters in New York but he only only really hates group furiously: The Moldovians! God damn, he hates the Moldovians!
KamikazeCanuck wrote:Almost finished Garth Ennis' Punisher run. He's slaughtered every Irish, Italian, African American, Russian and other gangsters/mobsters in New York but he only only really hates group furiously: The Moldovians! God damn, he hates the Moldovians!
I take it you haven't read this?
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reds8n wrote:
been reading Grant Morrison's "Supergods" book which I can thoroughly recommend , almost essential reading really.
I'm not so sure.
It's a good read, to be certain, but I think you have to be a Morrison
fan to really get the most out of it. My favorite parts have to be the
ones where he describes the King Mob/Magic/Invisibles stuff, but I
hear that was already pretty well known before that.
Some of the history is fascinating, and some of it is just a big
rambling mess inter-stitched with stories of his own coming of age
as a comic book writer/counterculture musician/magician.
I'm also surprised that for all his love of superheroes as mythical
figures he doesn't say a single word about Busiek and Astro City.
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"...he could never understand the sense of a contest in which the two adversaries agreed upon the rules." Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
, almost essential reading really.
