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Dawgstar posted:Thanks to whomever recommended the IDW TMNT comic. I've read the first two trades and it's really solid. I love the rationale why Splinter and the Turtles are together. It's the kind of reimagining of the origin that should be too goofy, but it's played just straight enough that it's actually kind of perfect.
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I enjoyed Fear Case #1 quite a bit. If you like Matt Kindt I'd recommend checking it out:quote:Matt Kindt! Tyler Jenkins! A new, horrific detective series by Matt Kindt (Ether, Mind MGMT) and Tyler Jenkins (Grass Kings)! A no-nonsense Secret Service agent and his new-age partner investigate a mysterious box known as the ''Fear Case,'' which has appeared throughout history at sites of disaster and tragedy. Whoever comes into possession of this case must pass it on within three days or face deadly consequences. The agents must track down this Fear Case while staying one step ahead of a psychotic cult and the otherworldly forces behind the Case's existence.
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Feb 4, 2021 20:47
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Erik Larsen’s first printed comic book work was Graphic Fantasy, self-published in 1982. He re-released it this week through Image Comics and tried to keep it as close to how it was originally published, minus the printing gaffes like the color offset and moire patterns, but preserving the similar paper stock and print quality. It’s pretty cool to see this thing (and Graphic Fantasy 2) back in print and on the comic rack. 
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Feb 5, 2021 06:44
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Pretty cool! Long may he reign. Erik I mean. Dragon is cool too. Well I mean, oh hell, here's some big current spoilers folks there is a charming alternate universe version of Dragon in Savage Dragon currently, the very Paul Dragon from those old books! Pretty wild.. As far as I'm concerned, John Wagner (2000AD/Judge Dredd) is the finest comic writer alive, and Erik Larsen is the finest cartoonist. By finest I mean up my particular alley, but still, it's nice that these maestros happen to make stuff I dig so much. The coolest looking art is probably Ryan Ottley. Oda from One Piece for most chutz·pah. (I copied and pasted that)
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Feb 5, 2021 07:00
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ruddiger posted:Erik Larsen’s first printed comic book work was Graphic Fantasy, self-published in 1982. He re-released it this week through Image Comics and tried to keep it as close to how it was originally published, minus the printing gaffes like the color offset and moire patterns, but preserving the similar paper stock and print quality. It’s pretty cool to see this thing (and Graphic Fantasy 2) back in print and on the comic rack. For a second I read this as Gary Larson and was very confused.
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I just finished reading the first volume of Adventureman by Matt Fraction and Terry and Rachel Dodson, and I loved it. It's a new Image series, and the first four issues were collected in an oversized hardcover that is probably gorgeous, although I read it online as a Hoopla e-book checkout. It's a homage to Doc Savage, where the titular Adventureman and his team of friends and fellow heroes from a glorious Art Deco age sacrificed themselves to stop an ultimate evil and were forgotten, except their stories lived on in rare and obscure pulp novels. A single mom who inherited her late mother's bookstore is still a fan and collector, and she and her son know the Adventureman stories inside and out. She is part of a family of overachieving adopted sisters, all of different races and ethnicities, and all successful specialists in their fields. (Even cooler, the female lead and one of the other sisters have disabilities, but still lead very full lives.) If you can guess where that all might lead, you're probably right, but it's a fun, exciting, funny, and GORGEOUS comic. I've never seen the Dodsons' art look more stunning, and Fraction clearly has a lot of love for Doc Savage and the old pulp heroes and their networks of allies and friends. He introduced a similar team for Orson Randall, Danny Rand's pulpy predecessor, back in Immortal Iron Fist, and I always wanted to see more of that team. I have love for the old pulp heroes and Golden Age "mystery men" too, although I never enjoy those original stories as much as I want to. For me, the setting and aesthetics have a lot to do with why I like them. In his notes at the end of the book, Fraction comments on how many of the old pulp stories have aged poorly due to sexism, racism, and colonialism, and this was his change to take everything he loves about the genre (which seems to be what I also love) and put a modern spin on it. I'm so glad it's going to be a continuing series, and not just a miniseries. Fraction might be my current favorite writer in comics, since he can write virtually any genre, and is almost always able to inject humor into his stories. Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Feb 8, 2021 |
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Feb 8, 2021 02:04
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I hadn't heard about that before, and it sounds great. Love the premise, like you said Fraction is one of my favorite writers currently, and the Dodsons do amazing art that I feel doesn't get them enough attention. Red One was a really good looking book, and fun too.
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Chairman Capone posted:I hadn't heard about that before, and it sounds great. Love the premise, like you said Fraction is one of my favorite writers currently, and the Dodsons do amazing art that I feel doesn't get them enough attention. Red One was a really good looking book, and fun too. I hope you check it out. If your public library offers the Hoopla service, you can literally check it out, but I may actually want to own this in hardcover, and I NEVER buy hardcovers. By the way, my favorite comic of 2020 (even though I didn't read it until January 2021) was Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, one of the funniest drat comics I've ever read, but also a really clever and twisty mystery by Fraction and Steve Lieber. And I have never heard of Red One, so now I need to seek that out. Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 08:27 on Feb 8, 2021 |
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Feb 8, 2021 02:54
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Radiant Black was pretty boring.
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Feb 11, 2021 19:50
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I thought this was pretty cool. So the original Graphic Fantasy came out in 1982. In 1999, Erik Larsen reincorporated his Graphic Fantasy storyline into his then ongoing plot in Savage Dragon with issues 63 and 65. Those stories were then reprinted in black and white in the Archives Vol 3 edition in 2013. Graphic Fantasy was released this month, so if you have the 3rd volume of the Archives edition and the new GF reprints you can check out the side by side comparison of Erik’s art in the same story told 17 years apart.    
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Feb 15, 2021 08:35
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There are a lot of Canadians in comics! I had no idea Chip was from Edmonton and I didn't even know Curt Pires was Canadian.
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Feb 27, 2021 02:27
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Chinston Wurchill posted:There are a lot of Canadians in comics! I had no idea Chip was from Edmonton and I didn't even know Curt Pires was Canadian. Vaguely functional healthcare system lets people pursue crazy arts based jobs.
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Feb 27, 2021 02:34
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https://twitter.com/JoeMadx/status/1366777702817087494 C'mon Joe, you can't post something like this without context! 
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Was Nightwar any good?
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JordanKai posted:https://twitter.com/JoeMadx/status/1366777702817087494 I assume its whatever video game he's playing instead of drawing comics.
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Mar 2, 2021 19:27
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battle chasers is the video game that he did all of the art for
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Skwirl posted:I assume its whatever video game he's playing instead of drawing comics. Uhhh Battle Chasers is his old comic that is probably FINALLY coming back now
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Alaois posted:battle chasers is the video game that he did all of the art for That's because it was based on his comic.
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fatherboxx posted:Uhhh Battle Chasers is his old comic that is probably FINALLY coming back now Although he's apparently not drawing it, which is why it's coming out.
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Dawgstar posted:Although he's apparently not drawing it, which is why it's coming out. So what videogame is he playing then?
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Mar 4, 2021 15:11
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Skwirl posted:So what videogame is he playing then? Probably the League of Legends spinoff RPG that his company is developing now
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Endless Mike posted:That's because it was based on his comic. that cant be right, joe mad doesn't draw comics
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I've had an ebay alert for Charles Burns' early out of print collections for over a year, last week I found out I could have just loaned them from my local library this whole time. I was half hoping they would be bad so it wouldn't matter that they're to expensive to justify getting but no, they're all great. Check them out if you're a CB fan in Suffolk I guess.
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Does anyone read the Ahoy Comics stuff? I feel like I'm the only one, but stuff like Second Coming, Dragonflyman, etc are pretty great. I was disappointed with Penulitman however. The ending really didn't stick for a comic series where the gimmick is "super hero with self-esteem issues". He decides to just go with the robot's plan for the robot to take his identity while he stays at home, away from everyone's sight, and assume the robot's former position. Like, what the hell is that about, how is that an ending?
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Koburn posted:I've had an ebay alert for Charles Burns' early out of print collections for over a year, last week I found out I could have just loaned them from my local library this whole time. I was half hoping they would be bad so it wouldn't matter that they're to expensive to justify getting but no, they're all great. Check them out if you're a CB fan in Suffolk I guess. And don't forget about inter-library loan! Also, Hoopla has a lot of Image comics and modern libraries tend to have great comics collections, Dewey 741.5 for life. I work in libraries so the more people use them, the more secure my job is.
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I’m still waiting for the middle part of six issue miniseries Nonplayer.
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hadji murad posted:I’m still waiting for the middle part of six issue miniseries Nonplayer. You mean issue 2?
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We're never getting the ending to Uber: Invasion, are we?
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Considering Avatar unceremoniously killed the series, we're not getting an ending because they own the IP.
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Jedit posted:You mean issue 2? 3 actually.
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I just read the first TPB of Dryad from Oni Press by Kurtis Weibe and Justin Osterling. The art's great and I enjoy this a lot more than I did Rat Queens, although the story might jump around a bit too much. Reads nice in chunks, though.
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Dawgstar posted:I just read the first TPB of Dryad from Oni Press by Kurtis Weibe and Justin Osterling. The art's great and I enjoy this a lot more than I did Rat Queens, although the story might jump around a bit too much. Reads nice in chunks, though. I've been meaning to bring up Dryad in here, and I second your recommendation. It's a fun mix of fantasy and...other things that will become apparent over the first few issues.
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Chinston Wurchill posted:I've been meaning to bring up Dryad in here, and I second your recommendation. It's a fun mix of fantasy and...other things that will become apparent over the first few issues. Yeah, it's absolutely a hard book to describe but it would give too much away and you also don't want people to go poking too closely because that also gives stuff away.
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I quite liked Ultramega! I love James Harren's art and although the story was a pretty standard Ultraman/Pacific Rim pastiche there's enough to keep me coming back. The new Stokoe book Orphan and the Five Beasts is also worth checking out.  
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Mar 18, 2021 15:18
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Chinston Wurchill posted:I quite liked Ultramega! I love James Harren's art and although the story was a pretty standard Ultraman/Pacific Rim pastiche there's enough to keep me coming back. I just came to post about both of these! Ultramega had great art (not surprising) with both really good giant fighting action and small-scale body horror. The near humanity of the kaiju really adds another layer of monstrousness as compared to, say, Pacific Rim kaiju. And I'm a sucker for James Stokoe, so I loved Orphan and the Five Beasts. So far it seems fairly standard, plotwise, but the art is gorgeous and I'm excited to see what twists he brings. (Also, Stokoe mentioned doing a comic on Patreon about Bowie from Orc Stan which I'm also very excited about)
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Read a Walk Through Hell and really liked it. When you know it's a story about hell and a child murderer written by Ennis published by an indie label you kinda expect the worst, but this is Ennis at his most restrained. The most horrible stuff is left to the reader's imagination. It also have some neat twists: The gruff agent who breaks the rules would usually be the hero but in this story she unknowingly causes the manifestation of anti-christ. There's also a part where it seems like it's all an elaborate hoax before it's revealed that, nope, this is really hell The art is also good.
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Heads up, Humble Bundle has Best of BOOM! Studios 2020.
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Looks like an odd grab bag of comic volumes and maybe all of the Irredeemable series without Incorruptible. Or is it with? Not that I'm sure I could ever re-read Irredeemable anyway.
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The only ones of those I've read are Folklords and Strange Skies Over East Berlin, and I liked both of those.
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Origins and Wynd are both pretty good. We Only Find Them when They're Dead is amazing of course, but I think most everyone already knows that.
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