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Finally got around to reading Sex Criminals v4 and v5. Either I took too long to read v4 after v3 or the way the story went just took itself too seriously for a handful of issues and started to lose its appeal to me. Still enjoyed the material, but didn't really like where it found its final arc. Now I join the rest waiting to find out if the last 5 issues ever get made.
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Yeah, I really enjoyed the early issues but near the end I think it went up its own rear end a bit (a pun I can't believe didn't get used in the comic itself). Still interested to read the final issues. Apparently the trade paperback for the final volume has been set for end of December... of 2020.
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Loved the end of Wicdiv, even if I was a bit past being ready for it to be over. The last arc ran a bit long, in my opinion, but I love how it wrapped up.
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Diet Poison posted:Loved the end of Wicdiv, even if I was a bit past being ready for it to be over. The last arc ran a bit long, in my opinion, but I love how it wrapped up. Okay, best independent Maxi-series? Sandman and Lucifer are definitely top 5, Preacher probably is in there, maybe Planetary. Y: The Last Man is also probably top 5.
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Endless Mike posted:Neither Sandman nor Lucifer is independent. I know Vertigo is Big Two, I just meant something self contained and not part of the main universes for a big comic. Everything else I mentioned is also technically owned or published by DC.
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cptn_dr posted:I've got a lot of love for The Unwritten. As you should. It's brilliant. But like Sandman and Lucifer, it too is Vertigo/DC. And that doesn't matter.
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A bunch of comic writers, Gillen included, have hinted that McKelvie has something brewing so watch this space I guess?
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Skwirl posted:Okay, best independent Maxi-series? Giant Days, which is also wrapping up.
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Skwirl posted:Okay, best independent Maxi-series? Lucifer v1, closely followed by The Unwritten.
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Cloks posted:Giant Days, which is also wrapping up. Yeah Giant Days is really lovely. I don't know if the entire constellation of Love & Rockets titles would count for this. I think also that if I'm being real, I think Bone is a vastly better comic than a lot of the Vertigo stuff suggested here, even though I'm really fond of a lot of those too. On a similar note of kid's/young adult comics that I think are just exquisitely done either way, I think Linda Medley's Castle Waiting and, as it stands, Lumberjanes, have a ton going on to commend them. Not as serial, but I think if I was really making a list I'd also to give some space for anthology stuff like Julie Doucet's Dirty Plotte or Roberta Gregory's Naughty Bits, maybe Eightball, almost definitely Acme Novelty Library. I guess I'd draw the line at Dykes to Watch Out For which is great but I'd really be stretching "maxi-series" to its breaking point. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Sep 5, 2019 |
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Skwirl posted:I know Vertigo is Big Two, I just meant something self contained and not part of the main universes for a big comic. Everything else I mentioned is also technically owned or published by DC.
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I'm not sure if this is the right thread for it, but there's a Red Sonja Humble Bundle. Is this worth picking up?
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Skwirl posted:Okay, best independent Maxi-series? It would have to be Moonshadow for me, no doubt.
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Skwirl posted:Okay, best independent Maxi-series? My apologies for voicing a taxonomic quibble, but is Planetary really independent given it formed part of WildStorm? Yeah, sure, for the most part it did its own thing, but it still has references to the High, Jenny Sparks appears, Elijah Snow is a century baby, and the Bleed is a major plot-point. But yeah, that aside, I'd put Planetary in my top 5 easily. But if despite its qualifications Planetary does qualify as independent, I'd put Sleeper up there as well - Brubaker does noir really well, and WildStorm was a great setting for super-powered noir.
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How many issues was Sleeper? Because now we're running into what you call a Maxi-series, I think 24 issues has to be the bare minimum.
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Artelier posted:I'm not sure if this is the right thread for it, but there's a Red Sonja Humble Bundle. The Gail Simone and Amy Chu runs are a lot of fun (the latter is esepcially shocking given the high concept sounds like a trainwreck: Red Sonja IN MODERN DAY NYC!). Haven't caught up with the Mark Russell run. The old Marvel reprints are also enjoyable as long as you like Roy Thomas.
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https://twitter.com/LlcTerrific/status/1170698865424494595?s=19 This twitter is literally just one man's slow mental breakdown in the form of a comic company buying a practically dead intellectual property. Technically, an indie comic now that its owned by someone other than Image.
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Covok posted:https://twitter.com/LlcTerrific/status/1170698865424494595?s=19 I think everything Image published was creator owned, that's why McFarlane was in a long time lawsuit with Neil Gaiman over characters Gaiman created for the couple issues of Spawn he wrote, that ended up with Marvel getting the rights to Angela.
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Covok posted:https://twitter.com/LlcTerrific/status/1170698865424494595?s=19 Image doesn't own anything they publish. Everything published by Image is independent.
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Skwirl posted:I think everything Image published was creator owned, that's why McFarlane was in a long time lawsuit with Neil Gaiman over characters Gaiman created for the couple issues of Spawn he wrote, that ended up with Marvel getting the rights to Angela. Endless Mike posted:Image doesn't own anything they publish. Everything published by Image is independent. Fair enough. Good to know. Wonder what that means for a few comics they made that I like that faded into the ether? Probably nothing. Most people move on after a failed project. Still, good to know.
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Covok posted:Fair enough. Good to know. Wonder what that means for a few comics they made that I like that faded into the ether? Probably nothing. Most people move on after a failed project. Still, good to know. It means the people who made those comics likely still own the rights, so if they wanted to make more of them there isn't a legal barrier.
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Skwirl posted:It means the people who made those comics likely still own the rights, so if they wanted to make more of them there isn't a legal barrier. No, I got that. But, chances are, no one is going to make more of Flavor and Isola since they clearly sold too little, unfortunately.
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GrandpaPants posted:Aw man did Isola get canceled? Did it? gently caress. I loved the first volume. Edit: just saw this tweet saying the next issue is due out this week. https://twitter.com/breathingcomics/status/1170305772137435136
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Cloks posted:Giant Days, which is also wrapping up. I've read the last two issues and as an ending, a few parts of it were kind of underwhelming? Daisy ran herself ragged trying to find who's been targeting her with pranks, while Esther and Susan stood by being unsupportive. Daisy finds the culprit, who admits she succeeded in ruining Daisy's last week at uni...and they just get away with it. It just feels like it ends Daisy's arc in a whimper. Esther gets forgiven by Emilia for the whole "siding with Susan when she stole my boyfriend" incident. It's a nice moment with Esther saying they should keep in touch. But once Emilia's out of earshot, Esther informs Ed that the two of them will never speak to each other again. It's depressing since I liked Emilia and thought she got unfairly shafted. And I just find it weird how the whole thing with Ken Lord ends. We've been shown he's a sex creep who tried to get Esther drunk enough to sleep with him. It's implied he does this a lot. So his last appearance being a jokey "haha look how Ed's dad is boring him!" leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
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blast0rama posted:Did it? gently caress. I loved the first volume.  Phew, I thought it was canceled.
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amigolupus posted:I've read the last two issues and as an ending, a few parts of it were kind of underwhelming? There's still an epilogue coming but I don't think it'll address those plot points. It works for me because it's true to how college was - things happen and it seems like they're incredibly important, life-or-death situations but then college just ends, and even without resolution or satisfaction, these things no longer matter. It's not the most satisfying thing in a fictional narrative but it makes sense to me.
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I've only read two volumes of Giant Days since learning it was written by the creator of Scary Go Round. So it just sort of peters out in an indie film/slice of life story story arc? That's not to say its bad.
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Andrigaar posted:I've only read two volumes of Giant Days since learning it was written by the creator of Scary Go Round. It don't fully think we can say it peters out, especially since they end on a cliffhanger that's going to be resolved in the finale. It remains good to the end, in my opinion. Heck, it won an Eisner!
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Cloks posted:There's still an epilogue coming but I don't think it'll address those plot points. It works for me because it's true to how college was - things happen and it seems like they're incredibly important, life-or-death situations but then college just ends, and even without resolution or satisfaction, these things no longer matter. It's not the most satisfying thing in a fictional narrative but it makes sense to me. Yeah, I get what you mean there. It's still a nice ending to the series, even if I didn't like how the stuff I mentioned was handled. Andrigaar posted:I've only read two volumes of Giant Days since learning it was written by the creator of Scary Go Round. It's a story about Esther and friend's time in college and how they grow up, so I thought it's always been a slice-of-life. Don't get me wrong, the series is still fun and good and it's definitely worth sticking to the end. I just wasn't a fan of a few elements of the ending. 
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I'll agree the Ken Lord thing was and is very weird. I don't know about academic life in the UK as much but ime while tenured professors can get away with a lot of poo poo they can't get away with, his behavior in that first issue with the dinner party would have been a scandal. It also felt off that Alison never does really bring him to task for it whereas a lot of his other more recent work is very karmically tidy in a lot of ways. My only hunch is that that issue-- 29 I think?-- was a deliberately anachronistic pastiche of the hyper-sexist "campus novel" of the mid-20th century, where the protagonists were all guys like Ken Lord full of self-pity and floppy grandeur, and all of them had 19 y/o girlfriends they hated and wives that they really hated. Hence the little nod to "Kingsley-Amis-chic" in regards to Esther's sharp duds in that issue? Ditto Ken's laughably on-the-nose little cravat and pin. But this of course is just me trying to make justifications for an iffy decision in a series I otherwise liked tremendously.
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Skwirl posted:How many issues was Sleeper? Because now we're running into what you call a Maxi-series, I think 24 issues has to be the bare minimum. 24 - it's just in. It's really good. Relatedly, I wish Brubaker and Phillips would finish Incognito. I love their straight crime noir but I'd like some more supes/pulp-influenced work.
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Archyduchess posted:I'll agree the Ken Lord thing was and is very weird. I don't know about academic life in the UK as much but ime while tenured professors can get away with a lot of poo poo they can't get away with, his behavior in that first issue with the dinner party would have been a scandal. It also felt off that Alison never does really bring him to task for it whereas a lot of his other more recent work is very karmically tidy in a lot of ways. It's even weirder because his first appearance was in a side story of Bad Machinery where Ryan invited Mrs. Lord and her husband over for dinner. They did talk about how Ken and his wife met ages ago where he was her college professor, but Ken seemed harmless and a decent person then, not to mention he and his wife seemed happy together. So it's extremely jarring that Ken in Giant Days becomes this creep who cheats on his wife because she's on a trip and would get students drunk so they'd sleep with him.
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Picked up Vampirella/Red Sonja #1 and was surprised to read a pretty fun comic.
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Remember John/Roc Upchurch? The original Rat Queens artist, disgraced after it came out that he beat his wife? Someone at Image thought this was a good idea: https://imagecomics.com/comics/releases/lucy-claire-redemption-1 quote:LUCY CLAIRE: REDEMPTION #1
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That didn't last long https://twitter.com/TheKirkFM/status/1175201872036057088?s=19
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