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[Lemmy Caution]

Currently reading a lot of the things already mentioned, most of what I read strays away from the big two capes stuff, though I have been trying to catch up a bit having finished Siege and starting in with the new Avengers titles.

You absolutely HAVE to be reading Locke and Key and Rasl right now. Joe Hill is a dynamo.

Crossed: Family Values is a good read if you want a comic to motivate you to take a shower.

Really enjoying the Year One take on Cassie Hack in My First Maniac. The ongoing at Devils Due was sort of losing the plot after the Reanimator arc.

[J.H.]

So is this where I can talk about how much I love The Boys?

Because really... I love reading The Boys!

The sheer absurdity and over the top nature, its basically how I imagine the DCU/Marvel U would have ended up if Ennishad ended writing more than Hitman and The Demon. If he had kept writign superheroes he would've lost his mind!

James

[TheVileOne]

Ennis hasn't lost his mind?

Boom's Darkwing Duck monthly ongoing is pretty awesome so far and the best thing in stores right now.  Basically exactly like watching a new season of the TV show.

[Cliff Hanger]

Those who only know Fred Van Lente's mainstream work REALLY REALLY need to buy Comic Book Comics and especially the Action Philosophers omnibus.

I want badly to like Boom!'s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, but I just can't handle the unabridged narration and attendant decompression (the novel is, what, 160 pages yet the comic is going to hit 500+?)  I understand the desire to be super faithful, but in this format it feels padded to me, like the fidelity is harming rather than helping the finished product.  I read the first two and won't bother with the rest.

IDW needs to ditch their proprietary iPhone/Pad store and either get on board with Comixology like everyone else, or do something better.  Because the reader as it exists suuuuucks.

There was something else I wanted to talk up here, but it has escaped my mind.  (No, it wasn't Atomic Robo.  I do enough of that already.)

[bink_winkleman]

Cliff Hanger, on Aug 22 2010, 07:03 PM, said:

I want badly to like Boom!'s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, but I just can't handle the unabridged narration and attendant decompression (the novel is, what, 160 pages yet the comic is going to hit 500+?)  I understand the desire to be super faithful, but in this format it feels padded to me, like the fidelity is harming rather than helping the finished product.  I read the first two and won't bother with the rest.

Had a very similar reaction.

I know The Boys isn't that popular around here, but since J.H. mentioned it, I'll say that, overall, I enjoy the book.  I wish Ennis wasn't so fucking puritanical, but I can't help but like the characters even when I'm not down with the storylines.  Book has a great cast.

[The Unholy Dragon]

I also love the Boys, and I think it's pretty much become my favourite Ennis work.

Comic Book Comics is great, but the erratic printing schedule and unavailability of early issues makes it hard to get into. It's the indy that needs the support, but because of the circumstances around it, it's better to just wait for a trade.

[Rev]

Since it just ended... Star Wars:Legacy? Awesome. I really hope something can keep John Ostrander healthy, because his work has been excellent.

[Cliff Hanger]

The Unholy Dragon, on Aug 22 2010, 11:25 PM, said:

I also love the Boys, and I think it's pretty much become my favourite Ennis work.

Comic Book Comics is great, but the erratic printing schedule and unavailability of early issues makes it hard to get into. It's the indy that needs the support, but because of the circumstances around it, it's better to just wait for a trade.

I must confess, I was planning to wait for a final compilation as I did on AP; only my receipt of an iPad and the ready availability of the issues in that format got me to jump on it now. :)  Much as I hate to see Herc/PoP go soonish, if it means more CBC I'll be happy to see it.

[Blazing Dragon]

If you've ever been into pen and paper RPGs (especially D&D or wild west type RPGs), check out a comic called Knights of the Dinner Table.

[Cliff Hanger]

I liked what I've read of Boys quite a bit; I'd been reading in TPB and stopped after the G-Men stuff simply because at the time there was a pretty good wait for the next TPB, and by the time Herogasm came out in trade I was engrossed in other things.  I need to go back to it.  (I'd probably rank it as #2 on my Ennis List after Hitman)

[-MJ-]

I want to read Ennis' Hitman.

I've read Y: The Last Man recently and enjoyed it.  The idea was great and the story was usually exciting.   The dialogue and pop culture/movie references were grating to me at first, but as the series went on and Yorick matured, it improved.  Intentional or not, I thought that aspect was neat.  I think it's tailor-made for some type of film adaptation minus the dialogue.

I dig Black Hole by Charles Burns too.  A STD outbreak, which only affects teenagers by giving them physical mutations set in the 70s. Trippy artwork too.

[Mushroomjones]

Did Joe the Barbarian fall of the face of the earth?  The last issue came out over two months ago with hide nor hair of any re-solicit.  Knew I should have waited for the trade.

[Televiper]

HELLBOY: THE SWORD has been incredible!

[TheZ]

Since this is a wrestling message board, has anyone here read Headlocked? If so, any good?
I've seen that it got some good reviews and it got endorsed by guys like Rob van Dam and Samoa Joe. Jerry Lawler and Scott Lost painted some art for it.

I've only seen a preview of it and the art didn't look very good in my opinion, but I would give it a try, if the writing was really strong.

[assfax]

http://www.comicsall...-way-from-boom/

AW shit.







also, now that Stumptown is over I can say that I wasn't blown away.

[blitzkrieg]

Got to finally read the first issue of Morning Glories with the second print and I have to say I like it and I'm interested in that "I really have no clue what is going on" sense. If it keeps up it seems a shoe in for "pimp hard to non-comic readers when the first TPB comes out."

Edit: The CW always probably should be already working to get the rights for a series based on it.

[Agata's Pedal Setup]

I swore off everything Ennis midway through Crossed (friend was buying it) and this happened to include the Boys. I only read TPB #1 and it was.... very Ennisy so I had no problem ditching it but my friend goes on and on about how the plot gets wicked and blah blah blah, again, same guy who said Crossed was "blowing my mind" every other month.

Anyone reading Sweet Tooth? Some review of it hi the nail on the head: "In the Sweet Tooth universe NOTHING is ever happy." Awesome book. I'm a huge Lemire fan anyway (Essex County is, dare I say, heartwarming?) and I can't wait for Superboy.

Was anyone reading Unknown Soldier? That was a FANTASTIC book, relevent, great art, brutal, great characters, than after issues 12 or so the mian artist left and man it went in the absolute shitter, lost almost half its readers in 6 months and is now on the chopping block. Sad.

In good news, everything BRian Wood does is aces, ESPECIALLY the new Northlanders arc. Gonna be sad to see DMZ go.

Y: TLM was a real fun read. Its one of the few "long story" books where the story moves in pretty much every issue and yeah, the characters seem too good to be true, but I'll be damned if my jaw didn't hit the end when you know what happened to you know who. Saddest ending ever.

Also, the Goon rocks.

[The Unholy Dragon]

Agata, on Sep 8 2010, 10:09 AM, said:

I swore off everything Ennis midway through Crossed (friend was buying it) and this happened to include the Boys. I only read TPB #1 and it was.... very Ennisy so I had no problem ditching it but my friend goes on and on about how the plot gets wicked and blah blah blah, again, same guy who said Crossed was "blowing my mind" every other month.

Crossed picks up in the second half, where it shies away from the graphic violence and focuses more on the effects of living in that world on your psyche. It's pretty damn awesome by the end and a great horror book. One issue in particular doesn't have the Crossed in it at all, but you spend the whole damn thing tensed up waiting for the shoe to drop. When it doesn't, it's actually relieving to the reader as much as the characters. That's good horror.

The Boys is one of my favourite Ennis books, and it does pick up after the first trade. That said, if you hate all things Ennis, you probably won't like it.

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Was anyone reading Unknown Soldier? That was a FANTASTIC book, relevent, great art, brutal, great characters, than after issues 12 or so the mian artist left and man it went in the absolute shitter, lost almost half its readers in 6 months and is now on the chopping block. Sad.

It is an absolutely fantastic book, and honestly the art has been awesome throughout. Also, the book's main artist only took a two month hiatus for #13 and 14. He was back at #15 using a slightly different style and has done almost every issue since. And the book started at a low level for sales and just slowly crawled down...there wasn't a sudden downtrend for it with the art change.

I love the book. It's one of the best things out there. Sucks that it's done with issue #25, but that's just the market for most non-superhero books nowadays.

[odessasteps]

for all you kids of the 90s....

[Cliff Hanger]

So a couple weeks ago when I first got the iPad, I was looking for stuff to download via Comixology and, being a long-time Dorkin fan, picked up the issue of Hack/Slash with Milk and Cheese (DAIRY PRODUCTS GONE BAD~!) in a cameo (#12).  Based just on the premise of the book and the cheesecakey promo art, I wasn't expecting to care much for anything without blood-curdling curdled criminals, but I actually did enjoy it.  I picked up the second half of the story (#13) and a couple of the pre-series issues (including the comic con-set one where Robert Kirkman and Steve Niles die horribly).  I'm not a fan-4-life or anything, but I got my buck an issue worth and I'm even more on board for Seeley's upcoming Ant-Man/Wasp buddy mini.  Will probably pick up the rest of them a couple at a time if it continues to be enjoyable.