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reading more and more...
« Reply #15 on: Aug 2nd, 2005, 07:12am » |
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Astro City: The Dark Age Book One #2
What a lot of good comics! I always love Astro City and this is no exception. Kurt Busiek is great in the way that he always delivers phenomenal stories, always. I also love it that he keeps the same artist on the book - this makes for a familiar feel when reading the book. Brent Anderson's art is good as well, a lot better than on the last couple of Rising Stars issues.
I'm really looking forward to the next issues.
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Re: So... what are we currently reading?
« Reply #16 on: Aug 11th, 2005, 5:17pm » |
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I've started reading Sandman. I read Preludes and Nocturnes last night, and plan on getting A Dolls House some time this weekend. Let me I tell you, I was NOT disappointed in any way. It lived up to all the hype that people made it out to be and from what I understand the storys and art get exponentially better with each arc.
BTW, the "24 Hours" segment is not for the faint of heart.
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Re: So... what are we currently reading?
« Reply #17 on: Aug 19th, 2005, 07:38am » |
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When I have all the trades, I'll start reading them. My girlfriend wanted to read Preludes and Nocturnes but she hasn't continued - I'm very curious what she thinks of it.
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Re: So... what are we currently reading?
« Reply #18 on: Aug 19th, 2005, 07:40am » |
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Preludes is a great story, but it's probably the weakest of the series so far (I'm on vol. 5 right now). Now, I didn't have a problem with all of the cameos when I first read Preludes (because they aren't as significant as people say they are.) but the Sandman stories do much better when they stand alone from the DC universe.
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« Reply #19 on: Aug 27th, 2005, 3:42pm » |
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I've been reading a lot.
Seaguy again (da fug! my new catchphrase), WE3 (Morrison & Quitely = awesome), Battle Angel Alita (manga that my girlfriend loves), Noise (prequel to the manga BLAME! which my girlfriend also loves) and Akira (the manga).
I'll be telling all about them in the appropriate threads.
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So... what are we currently [b]re[/b]reading?
« Reply #20 on: Sep 4th, 2005, 08:05am » |
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I've currently reread The Invisibles and have been, again, blown away by the story. There is so much to grasp, to try and understand that you cannot get it all. I wonder if I will ever understand this completely.
But that doesn't matter, because I love it anyway.
I'm also starting to reread my New X-Men hardcovers. Morrison's New X-Men rocks so much harder than his JLA work  .
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Re: So... what are we currently reading?
« Reply #21 on: Sep 5th, 2005, 06:28am » |
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I just got done with Punisher: A Man Named Frank. It was Elseworlds and pretty dissapointing.
Aliens: Female War. 
I really want to read Green Lantern: Rebirth. But I hear it's too negative on Batman. I read some people say Geoff Johns hates Batman and that it shows in the book. Anyone want to clarify for me? Is Bats really treated like shit in this?
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Sandman undid all that right? I flicked trough it but unless I read it again I can't be sure.
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Re: So... what are we currently reading?
« Reply #22 on: Sep 5th, 2005, 08:13am » |
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Unfortunately, he did not. I don't think he has the power, only his sister would and she wouldn't even do it as the consequences would be major.
And yeah, Johns is a great writer, but he makes Batman look like a bitch every chance he gets. ESPECIALLY in Rebirth. It's still readable, not on par with Johns' current Flash and GL work though.
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Re: So... what are we currently reading?
« Reply #23 on: Sep 5th, 2005, 10:41am » |
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It's some GA stories from the late 50s all drawn by Jack Kirby (before he became JACK KIRBY at Marvel). All stories collected in this volume are backups from Worlds Finest or Adventure Comics. It's amazing how much content they used to be able to get into so few pages (there are 11 complete stories in 71 pages).
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Re: So... what are we currently reading?
« Reply #24 on: Sep 6th, 2005, 01:05am » |
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on Sep 5th, 2005, 08:13am, Sarge wrote:Unfortunately, he did not. I don't think he has the power, only his sister would and she wouldn't even do it as the consequences would be major.
And yeah, Johns is a great writer, but he makes Batman look like a bitch every chance he gets. ESPECIALLY in Rebirth. It's still readable, not on par with Johns' current Flash and GL work though. |
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Damn, not the best way to go, eh? Getting massacred like that...
Also, I say we form a lynch mob and dress up as Batmen and go publicly hang Johns.
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more and more of a particular imprint
« Reply #25 on: Sep 21st, 2005, 11:03am » |
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I'm currently reading more and more from the WildStorm imprint. It has had a solid output of quality titles virutally for its entire existence. To name a few:
- StormWatch
Especially after Ellis took over which became (after a bloody tearing the team apart);
- The Authority
First Ellis & Hitch, after that Millar & Quitely et al.;
- Planetary
Ellis & Cassaday goodness on a three-monthly basis;
- WildCATS
Heard amazing stuff about it, Alan Moore's first trade Homecoming was very good;
- Divine Right
Collected in 2 trades and it has been written and drawn by Jim Lee and although most of the times, artist shouldn't write, this was a nice story, although a bit cliché;
- Ex Machina
Nice, nice stories. First trade is great.
- Global frequency
Ellis and every issue another artist about a global team of 1,001 specialists in their profession, contacted and made active into action by a special cellphone
- Sleeper/Point Blank
Great story about an undercover agent that is so deep undercover that no one can get him out except a man that is lying in a coma. Brubaker & Phillips
Stuff I'm interested in:
- DV8
I don't know anything about this, but it's written by Ellis so it's bound to be more than just okay.
- StormWatch
I haven't read any of Ellis' work on this one and the issues that he has written have been collected.
- Voodoo: Dancing in the Dark
The mini Moore wrote about one of wildCATS' members
Seriously, this imprint is one of the best. Check it out.
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« Reply #26 on: Sep 23rd, 2005, 10:18pm » |
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We're reading crap nowadays. With an added bonus of crappy art. These are the wonders of JLA/Witchblade.
Most of you probably know JLA, but Witchblade might be another story. The Witchblade is a weapon that can only be wielded by women. It bonds itself to fit, worthy women. Sara Pezzini, a NY cop, is only the latest to wield the weapon. Before her, Cleoparta, Joan d'Arc, Florence Nightingale and more have had possession of the artifact.
It turns out that Oracle and Sara know each other through their fathers who were both cops together. Sara gets attacked by Luthor who's working together with Mr. Irons (I assume a Witchblade villain). Sara gets brought to the JLA Tower to be treated and Witchblade changes host until it attaches itself to Wonder Woman. Then Sara gets the Witchblade back, because, although she wants to be free of the burden, she does not want anyone to suffer the burden for her sake.
A supermild, cliché, stretched and boring sroty. Don't waste your time. The art is simple, colours are bleech.
Blegh...
3/10
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« Reply #27 on: Sep 24th, 2005, 11:54am » |
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Ah well, I decided to torture myself today so I read The Dark Knight Strikes Again... again.
I did it so that I can tell you that you shouldn't. DK2 is probably the worst piece of crap ever.
DK2: Don't.
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« Reply #28 on: Sep 24th, 2005, 11:56am » |
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on Sep 24th, 2005, 11:54am, TheMidnighter wrote:Ah well, I decided to torture myself today so I read The Dark Knight Strikes Again... again.
I did it so that I can tell you that you shouldn't. DK2 is probably the worst piece of crap ever.
DK2: Don't.
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I'm really starting to see where Miller's Grayson (I just didn't want to say "Miller's Dick") got screwed up for DK2. If ASB&RtBW is in the same continuity with that, it's going to continue to suck.
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« Reply #29 on: Sep 24th, 2005, 3:57pm » |
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You know? We all got these great promises of the All-Star titles. It was going to be 'free' of continuity, i.e. it was going to contain stories that were just that: stories, not in or out of continuity because it didn't matter - you could just read them.
I have the idea that Grant Morrison will pull this off. He said this will be his final statement in superhero comics so I guess he also wants to go out with a bang and therefore I do think he also wants something for himself, to say something he really wants. And he's entitled to do so. By any means, be my guest, Mor.
On the other hand we have Frank Miller, whom I think wants to make 'his' Batman the world's; he wants that his Batman is the right one and his Batman is how Batman is supposed to be.
Of course, every writer thinks his version of a character is the right one (otherwise they wouldn't writer a character in that fashion) but what I fear is that Miller will just try to write his Batman, therefore strapping this series to DKR and whatnot and, with the first writer, blow up the promise of a title that is free of continuity and that is just telling stories.
I don't get it anyway. Why do you want to make a monthly title (it has to continue being published; it's monthly, what did you expect?) that stays free of continuity? One: I already thought we had something like that in LotDK (although it does get caught up in every big arc. How long until ASB&RtBW gets caught up in one of these big arcs? One? Two years?) and two: if a title continues being published and it will just grow out to be the playground for famous writers and artists (which it will be), ASB&RtBW will keep going further away from the promise they made us in the beginning.
Something tells me this, like most other titles, will start good but get only worse and that waiting for the trades might be the best way to enjoy this: finished story and you can look it at as not a monthly but just as a story, which was the intent anyway.
I'm, of course, aware that nothing like all the doomscenario's I'm sketching has happened yet, but I just have this hunch...
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