-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
COMICS! |OT| August 2016. That's Rare Groove. Volume is Crucial.
- Thread starter Tyrant Rave
- Start date
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Brianimaniac
Banned
McKelvie would be so much better without the hipster style sensibilities.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
I didn't have any problems at all jumping into East of West as my first Hickman book.
Love it
Brianimaniac
Banned
Nah, you foamed at the mouth and passed out for 20 minutes that one time.
Freezasaurus
Member
1/6 Black Widow from ThreeA
$160, Pre-orders open 8/31.
Love it.
$160, Pre-orders open 8/31.
Love it.
DirtyLarry
Member
Read Demonic #1 last night by Image. Kind of liked it.
Also really liking Strange Attractors by Boom.
Unfollow keeps delivering.
House of Penance by Dark Horse is pretty good.
still liking Black Eyed Kids even if it is a bit hokey.
The Sweetness is interesting.
Same with Animosity.
Just so much out there these days it is hard to keep up. I seriously have to figure out some kind of decent looking storage solution soon. My wife is getting unhappy with white boxes scattered through the house.
Anyway, OT another nod for East of West.
And The Dying & The Dead.
And Manhattan Projects.
Honestly I really like a decent amount of Hickmans "indy" stuff pretty much.
The Nightly News is still one of my all time favorites. Especially when it dropped (2007). It was during my not reading a lot of comics at all phase (from 92 to 2012), but a friend of mine who picked it up urged me to do the same. So I did and loved it. Absolutely loved it. Then I did not read a whole lot of comics religiously again until about 5 few years later (2012). It took me like 3 years after I started reading again loving The Manhattan Projects to realize "wait a minute, this is the same guy that did The Nightly News."
Also really liking Strange Attractors by Boom.
Unfollow keeps delivering.
House of Penance by Dark Horse is pretty good.
still liking Black Eyed Kids even if it is a bit hokey.
The Sweetness is interesting.
Same with Animosity.
Just so much out there these days it is hard to keep up. I seriously have to figure out some kind of decent looking storage solution soon. My wife is getting unhappy with white boxes scattered through the house.
Anyway, OT another nod for East of West.
And The Dying & The Dead.
And Manhattan Projects.
Honestly I really like a decent amount of Hickmans "indy" stuff pretty much.
The Nightly News is still one of my all time favorites. Especially when it dropped (2007). It was during my not reading a lot of comics at all phase (from 92 to 2012), but a friend of mine who picked it up urged me to do the same. So I did and loved it. Absolutely loved it. Then I did not read a whole lot of comics religiously again until about 5 few years later (2012). It took me like 3 years after I started reading again loving The Manhattan Projects to realize "wait a minute, this is the same guy that did The Nightly News."
echoshifting
Banned
Gosh what are you going to do without Messi here to talk statues?
The Answer:
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Don't worry haha, it wasn't a supreme judgment or anything, nor am I saying anyone would necessarily have a problem with east of west, just that tmp is a little more palatable off the bat, more comedic, real world figures to use as touch points even though they go waaay out there with them haha. East of west is this big world that youre thrown into without all the context of the world bar the initial exposition dump, as ive mentioned before i love hickman but i do think he has the habit of getting plotty and heady first oppose to putting the characters in the drivers seat which is my personal preference, and I think the manhattan projects really does a good job there. I'd still stick by what I said thinking it over again but in all honest, I'd probably encourage someone to buy both anyway!
Are those your dogs in your avatar by the way?
haha I remember getting the nightly news then it dropped back then, I was still going single issues, hadn't switched to trades yet. I'd went through my own getting back into comics around 04-05, and I'd been swinging heavier and heavier towards indie stuff, and I remember picking TNN off the back of the reviews and just being like what the fuuuuuck is this hahah. I wasn't that young at the time, 18, but even still, I'd never saw a comic like that. It felt like fight club or something, or at least it made me feel a little how I felt watching Fight Club the first time when I was younger, but for the age I was reading TNN if that makes sense, but through this alien filter haha. I think these days I much prefer just to reread his modern output, I don't pull it out tooo often, although Transhuman still really cracks me up, but to this day it's really unique stuff. Did he even get that OGN out about the psychologists that he was working on or something? It was supposed to be a big return ot those style of books from him. Feel better now I think was the name.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
I'm following ThreeA in Instagram and they have so many cool looking figures but I can never find out how your suppose to order them.
BKatastrophe
Member
She will, but it'll be rough
Yup. I knew it focused largely around the common political problems involving superheroes and metahumans, but I had no idea it was so damn depressing.
Schweinehund
Member
Still waiting for that Kingdom Come animated or live adaptation.
They'd probably mess it up somehow. Still, Captain Marvel vs Superman is the best comic book fight ever. TDKR fight is good but the result is mostly meaningless compared to KC's ending.
They'd probably mess it up somehow. Still, Captain Marvel vs Superman is the best comic book fight ever. TDKR fight is good but the result is mostly meaningless compared to KC's ending.
echoshifting
Banned
Black Road #5: As the arc concludes, in comes the swerve. This is a good twist. I like it. I enjoyed watching
, that was a great sequence. I also like the new character a lot, I hope she sticks around for awhile. I feel like the book is beginning to overemphasize the
...like I get that that's an important part of the setting, no reason to waste four pages on another flashback. Hopefully he tones it down in the next arc. Still, this remains a solid book with minimal exposition and lots of gorgeous panels of characters pressing on through harsh, beautiful landscapes.
Brief aside: I think we get more full frontal male nudity in comics these days than in movies and television combined
Julia (I think that's her name?) shoot Magnus full of crossbow bolts
Christian invasion
Brief aside: I think we get more full frontal male nudity in comics these days than in movies and television combined
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Does Black Road feel much like Northlanders then, or does it really feel like it's own beast? I understand this is an actual proper ongoing story oppose to what Northlanders was, but damn did I love that book. This is more overtly fictional too right? LEss emphasis on the historical trappings?
If they stick clear to the source material, I'd doubt that they'd have room to mess it up.
I keep forgetting this and she wolf when to comes to new image comics
echoshifting
Banned
Having only read a single issue of Northlanders I'm afraid I can't really make a comparison between the two
It's on my list of books to read sometime
echoshifting
Banned
Definitely overtly fictional. I would be surprised if any of this is true.
edit:
http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.co...lk-black-road-vikings-and-fight-choreography/
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
Image and Boom are two of my favorite up-and-coming writers.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Having only read a single issue of Northlanders I'm afraid I can't really make a comparison between the two
It's on my list of books to read sometime
Haha no bother! Didn't help that Northlanders was out of print for a good while. They just did a new trade though that I think collects half the series, and there's another around christmas finishing it off. I super recommend, would love to hear other's thoughts on it. I kind of have to replace my trades, theyre on that horrible rough paper Vertigo trades used to like to print on, same reason I want to get rid of my Sweet Tooths and Scalped, and switch them out for the HCs. Image usually turn their trades around mighty fast so might keep an eye out for Black Road in the next month if that's the arc done.
echoshifting
Banned
What does "out of print" mean? I am unfamiliar with this term.
It will getting a Ongoing/Mini as far as I recall
Sibersk Esto
Banned
Trying to imagine Alex Ross' art style transforming into nasty current DC animated movie style make me shudder.
TetraxShards
Member
Not sure if serious, but it just means there are no copies available from the publisher anymore, so once stores have depleted their stocks you'd have to go second hand.
I'm imaging some nasty ass motion comic styled thing, like Alex Ross art animated through Adobe Flash bone tools (I did something similar for a portfolio assignment, it was ghastly but the tutor loved it) and it's hilarious.
Its like when stuff isnt online avaiable while I am able to read it and laugh about you all digital guys because you cencor yourself
echoshifting
Banned
McKelvie was the initial reason I bought that. I don't remember who wrote it (Hopeless maybe?), but I ended up being pleasantly surprised by the story.
It's a hell of a ride, that's for sure. A lot of heavy stuff goes down in that book.
I'd also recommend Marvel's Earth X. It has a similar premise and is full of gorgeous John Paul Leon art.
I was wondering how they were flint to lead up to it
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Cheers for that, will read that over before I crash for the night. I did read something at some point where he made a comparison to the silk road or something haha but it was quite awhile, book took a little while to materialise. I'm okay with that. I'll be honest, I'm a hugeeee sucker for historical fiction, as much as I am for actual history. If it has a sense of a real place and time, that's better than you get a lot of the time, and dropping some of the stricter rules will obviously give him flexibility for an ongoing.
Oh, just literally the original Northlander trades were impossible to get unless you wanted to pay double the price for some volumes at a certain point, they stopped making new ones and making them available so it was all just private sellers on amazon etc
edit: right i knew that had to be a troll, but I've only been back a day hahahah, didn't want to be a dick
yet
I know what you are now. 21ST CENTURY DIGITAL BOY
TetraxShards
Member
The Name of the Wind could have used pictures. It would be a nice distraction from reading The Name of the Wind.
echoshifting
Banned
I am also a bit of a history buff. I would say it's well balanced. It has that sense of place and time you are looking for without being constrained too much by an actual timeline of events. There are a few super unrealistic portrayals of unfolding cultural shifts so you may end up doing a few of these:
But in the end it's not so bad. It's worth it, I think, to create an atmosphere filled with dread, tension and a sense of inevitability.
lolol
Good thing none of the art was by Ross then!
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I forgot I shouldn't post in OT comic threads. People who don't know a damn thing but got strong opinions about comics...
Just read the news!!! Fuck yes. I love her and can't wait to see her. They don't even need to dye her hair. Like her with braids the most
Now it makes sense at least
Dont you know how MJ has no character traits beside her hair?^^
Every comic book thread not created by Us turns to shit. Even with slayven and others fact checking people it still gets rough.
You can tell the people who know marvel from Movies and the ones from comics
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Bruh, Peter was faithful to MJ after Gwen. Let's forget all the times he was fucking with Felicia.
Endorphineforeverybody
Member
http://www.ecc.ehapa-shop.de/asterix/gesamtausgaben
As i said the front is with a sticker. But overall not bad. They did a new lettering and colouring for that one.