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Kinda surprised nobody's claimed this one yet... Title: Fatale Publisher: Image Brief description: Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, team behind the excellent series Sleeper, Criminal and Incognito have another probing examination of pulp genre fiction up their sleeves. This time they're turning their eyes towards the horror fiction of guys like H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard in a story that spans fifty years. I'll refrain from saying more, both because the story's just getting started and because Brubaker himself has said: "If you're already planning to get Fatale, please don't read the reviews or interviews. It's best if you encounter it blind." Why I like it: Well, it's Brubaker and Phillips. Everything these guys have teamed up on has been gold. So far, this one is proving maybe the best showcase yet for Phillips artwork, combining his great and proven talent for depicting noir settings (the multiple time periods depicted here give him a great chance to show off) with his equal talent for creepy horror (as he demonstrated on books like Hellblazer and The Invisibles). I mean, just look at that cover. It's one of the most attention-grabbing covers to a comic I've seen in years, and it just captures the feel of the book completely. The book's just getting warmed up, so Brubaker's still in the slowly-teasing-out-details phase, but it's already shaping up to be a great ride. Issue that is a good jumping on point: Only two issues have been published so far, and both have gone back for multiple printings, so it should be easy to get caught up. Plus, as with Criminal and Incognito, this is a book that's really worth getting in single issue form instead of waiting for the trades, since with the single issues you get some great backmatter essays/illustrations about pulp history.
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Like I said, it's definitely still at the point where I have very little idea of what's going on, but it's engaging and weird enough that I'm dying to find out.
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Feb 23, 2012 03:38
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al-azad posted:Buuuut the art is great and it's 20-something pages of explosions and awesome splash pages. I just don't want to see it turn into something stupid like the later Godzilla films. Just to be contrary, seeing this turn into the stupid later Godzilla movies is exactly what I want. But yeah, it's awesome so far, of course.
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Aug 9, 2012 16:11
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bairfanx posted:Multiple Warheads is the comic I'm going to point to as a giant "gently caress you" to the Big 2 way of doing things, if only because it's 48 loving pages for $4. There's so much more going on there, but that alone, holy poo poo. I actually like that he said he's only gonna do like 4 or 5 issues a year just so he can make sure he does them really well.
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Nov 5, 2012 15:03
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The idea of someone complaining about the Incal being "unrealistic" is so bizarre I can't wrap my head around it.
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Nov 14, 2012 14:43
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I mean I still don't see how you could look at even a single page of the Incal and not immediately realize that it's as far from "realistic hard sci-fi" as sci-fi gets (like, even the cover of the book shows a guy with a pet pterodactyl), but I guess if you don't like it I'd recommend also avoiding anything else by Jodorowski and like 95% of Moebius too.
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Nov 15, 2012 06:08
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bgaesop posted:I opened it to one of the early pages with the dude falling down the giant city and thought "ooh! kind of reminds me of Judge Dredd. I can dig it. And I do love future noir" Interesting. And how far after that did it lose you?
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Nov 15, 2012 06:35
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Gavok posted:There is not a Can you spoiler this for someone who hasn't given a poo poo about Invincible in a long time?
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Nov 16, 2012 00:26
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big enough to describe this week's Invincible.
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That whole issue summary sounds so much like something Mark Millar would write that it's not even funny. Well, it's kinda funny. Kirkman blows.
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Nov 16, 2012 03:41
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Waterhaul posted:Nah you're not alone. I'm pretty sure the string of bad books followed by revelations that he's a pretty horrible person in real life killed any goodwill he had (around here anyway). What were these, specifically? I must not be up on current events.
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Dec 2, 2012 21:10
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Man, between Godzilla: Half Century War, Multiple Warheads and Fatale, this is the best new-comics-day I've had in a while. HCW in particular continues to make me do fistpumps every two or three pages like I'm eleven goddamn years old.
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Jan 2, 2013 20:50
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bairfanx posted:Multiple Warheads? I thought we just got Prophet today? Ah, I was confused as to when issue #3 had come out. It was supposed to be on my pull list but I didn't get it pulled for me two weeks ago so I just assumed when I saw it at the shop that it had come out today.
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Jan 3, 2013 00:32
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Man a lot of those books look really drat cool. I've been stoked for Satellite Sam since I heard about it, I'm not even that big on Fraction but it looks like a return to old-school, good Chaykin, and I know Fraction's a big fan of Black Kiss so I trust him to do it justice.
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Jul 3, 2013 15:53
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Gavok posted:From what I understand, that's how Brian Bolland wanted it. The original coloring job got him really depressed back in the day. They said the same thing about Flex Mentallo and that recolor sucked too.
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Aug 5, 2013 05:22
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I just wanted to take a minute to rep Burn The Orphanage by Daniel Freedman and Sina Grace, which came out this past Wednesday. It's essentially an awesomely drawn illustration of every 1990s side-scrolling beat 'em up you've ever played. Mandatory reading for everyone who spent a lot of time playing Final Fight as a kid. Gavok, I'm looking in your direction.
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Aug 11, 2013 20:23
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Qwo posted:The art in this isn't very good. I wholeheartedly disagree.
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Aug 12, 2013 05:55
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Waterhaul posted:The bit with kids getting beaten up and called fags or naked evil stripper ninjas being called bitches felt a little out of place too. Harsher than what should be in a fun comic. The first bit didn't really bug me since it was said by a teenage bully shithead and that is the kind of language teenage bully shitheads use. The second bit didn't even really register with me and I had to go back and see what you were talking about, but then I guess the word "bitch" hits some people a lot harder than it does me. Then again I've been rereading Preacher recently so I might just be desensitized. Uncle Boogeyman fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Aug 12, 2013 |
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Aug 12, 2013 19:13
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Yeah, I can understand your complaint even if I don't share it. The language and nudity is certainly not something you would actually see in an SNES game. It's kinda similar to how I feel about the violence in Invincible. I'm fine with gore, but in something that's ostensibly a YA comic it just feels icky.
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Aug 12, 2013 21:18
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Good Dog was a pretty good cute animal POV comic, especially the ending, but I have been spoiled for reading good animal POV comics lately with Elmer and True Swamp. Seriously, True Swamp is so loving good y'all.
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Aug 18, 2013 17:52
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unl33t posted:Thought I'd post this in here in case there are some people that don't check the Collection thread, some really good deals here if you can buy enough to compensate for the shipping charges: How is Alec? I'm considering blind buying the big collection.
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Sep 14, 2013 15:08
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Man, but East of West just does not do it for me. I have such a love-hate relationship with Hickman. The only book he's doing right now that I like is Manhattan Projects, but I really love that book.
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Nov 9, 2013 15:56
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Mr Wind Up Bird posted:And SPEAKING of uncomfortable pornography I noticed that Blue is the Warmest Color was opening at our local indie movie place so I got the comic off amazon. I haven't read it yet, but I flipped though it and it's just a gorgeous funnybook. But I'm also a sucker for sad coming-of-age stories. I'm still waiting for my copy to come in at the library. I'm really curious, especially now knowing that the writer/artist of the comic hates the movie (which I haven't yet seen).
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Nov 14, 2013 18:19
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Battling Boy is maybe my favorite thing Paul Pope has ever done, and it kills me that we probably won't see the next installment for a long while.
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Nov 22, 2013 00:53
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I've only ever gotten my hands on the first HC collection, which is great, so yeah, super pumped about this.
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Dec 18, 2013 18:35
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I still think Happy! is a return to Filth-era Morrison more than an Ennis pastiche. Also, it's dope and helped restore some of my love for Morrison after his Batman/Action Comics run.
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Jan 13, 2014 17:36
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Zachack posted:I'm not seeing how it's like the Filth, We3,or NXE, which is roughly what I'd consider the same period. Maybe elements of the dialog but that would also be out of place given the setting. It's not particularly like We3 and I don't actually know what NXE is but the combination of graphic, foul-mouthed depictions of awful people doing terrible things mixed with metaphysical weirdness and a bizarre optimism reminded me a lot of the Filth. It's the kind of vibe Morrison excels at, which is why I found it kind of puzzling that everyone got hung up on the Ennis connection. It's not like Ennis has a patent on cursing and Darick Robertson. Uncle Boogeyman fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Jan 13, 2014 |
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Jan 13, 2014 18:12
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StumblyWumbly posted:Has anyone ever been successfully sued for ripping off a character? Not actual use, like happens with Peter Pan or some parts of Holmes, but ripping off in the way Supreme, Samaritan, Hyperion, etc all rip off Superman. Didn't Liefeld get in trouble for some character that was really similar to Captain America? Also, I think Kirby & Simon had to change Cap's shield from its original shape to round because it was too similar to the character The Shield. edit: here we are Wikipedia posted:At Awesome, Liefeld and Loeb modified their unpublished Captain America plots and art pages in order to publish them as their own character, Agent America, which was nearly identical in appearance and background to Captain America, but Liefeld canceled these plans under legal pressure from Marvel, over similarities between the two characters. Thinking that it would be more feasible to use the pages by modifying them into an established character, Liefeld attempted to acquire the rights to Fighting American, another patriotic-themed character created in 1954 by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, but when the rights holders offered the rights at a price Liefeld thought was too high, he created a similar character, Agent America, in order to compel the Fighting American rights holders to acquiesce to Liefeld's offered price. The rights holders considered taking legal action over the similarity of Agent America to Fighting American, though it was Marvel who eventually did so, contending similarities between Agent America and Captain America. Before the lawsuit went to trial, Liefeld finalized the licensing deal to Fighting American. Marvel's suit against Liefeld was settled with the provisions that Liefeld's version of Fighting American would undergo some cosmetic changes to his costume, and could not throw his shield (a signature trait of Captain America), in order to distinguish it sufficiently from Captain America.
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Apr 21, 2014 20:46
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So is Thrillbent worth subscribing to? With all you guys talking up Empire and the fact that you get the first volume DRM free with signup and the fact that it's the cost of like one issue of one comic book a month seems to indicate "yes," but I was wondering how y'all feel about it.
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Jun 6, 2014 18:14
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moot the hopple posted:I recommend listening to the Shaky Kane and David Hine episode at the very least because they go into their incredible series, The Bulletproof Coffin. I'll have to check this out, that was a neat/weird series. Shaky Kane is awesome.
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Jul 14, 2014 00:04
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Unmature posted:How is Pretty Deadly? Thinkin' about getting that trade. I love Deconnick as a personality and what she's doing to help women in comics, but I thought the few issues I read of Captain Marvel were a snoozefest. I thought it was really, really good. Some modern Jodorowsky poo poo.
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Aug 2, 2014 17:03
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WinnebagoWarrior posted:Killers is actually my first foray into Stray Bullets, but holy gently caress do I love it. I think I am going to pick up the Uber Alles version of the original series sooner rather than later. I just finished it the other night, and yeah, make it sooner. Haven't dipped into Killers yet, but I'm very excited to. Also, not much to say about the Fade Out other than I really loved it and the "Magazine Edition" is really cool.
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Aug 22, 2014 16:09
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I mean I'm an unabashed Roman Polanski fan, so, whatever. The problem with Brian Wood is he's not actually a very good writer.
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Aug 31, 2014 22:07
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Heavy Metal posted:But while we're talking, could you recommend say your five favorite ongoing books not from the Big 2? I'm always on the lookout. Sex Criminals, Southern Bastards, Rachel Rising, Manhattan Projects, and, though it's just one issue in, The Fade Out.
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Sep 1, 2014 14:16
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Martello posted:Can you elaborate on that? I'm not trying to start an argument, I'm genuinely interested in what makes people think it's a great book. I really wanted to like it, after reading a lot of hype and loving Metabarons, but it was a chore to finish. Maybe I'm missing something. Dope Moebius artwork and Jodorowsky being all weird, also there's a talking pterodactyl.
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Sep 4, 2014 03:00
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al-azad posted:I'd say if you were at your wits end for Alan Moore stuff beyond the usual recommendations then Halo Jones and A Small Killing are both better and more aesthetically pleasing. A Small Killing in particular is one of my favorite illustrated Moore stories. A Small Killing is indeed neat and underrated. i used to have a copy i got for like $4 at a secondhand bookstore but i lost it  i didn't know what to expect from Crossed +100 but i ended up really liking it. "broken-English futurespeak" is one of those things that just annoys the piss out of me 9 out of 10 times it's used, but Moore managed to hit that Alex Burgess sweet spot where once you get into the rhythm of it (which, granted, takes like a third of the issue) it's kind of beautiful.
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Dec 23, 2014 16:17
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i'm an issue or two behind on Trees i think, but i'm actually really liking it. it tones down on some of Ellis' more obnoxious dialogue/character-based traits in favor to focus on what i think is pretty neat concept-driven sci-fi. And the art is fantastic.
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Jan 8, 2015 16:46
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Senor Candle posted:Who the gently caress hates Saga? i don't hate it, but it's lost my interest. the art is at such a higher level than the writing.
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Jan 12, 2015 00:06
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The other prequel to Neonomicon, The Courtyard, is really good.
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Apr 24, 2015 17:44
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Cithen posted:Boom! has a 'Recent Hits' sale on Comixology right now. I'm intrigued by Curb Stomp. Any others that are worth checking out? Clive Barker's Next Testament is awesome. i'd particularly recommend it to anyone who liked Mike Carey's Lucifer, it kinda scratches a similar itch.
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TheManWithNoName posted:Holy crap... I had no idea Stray Bullets: Sunshine and Roses was going to be at least 12 issues long. It's enjoyable but it's still just a flashback when I'd rather see Ginny in the 80's. Stray Bullets as a whole seems very big on denying the audience what they might expect/want.
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