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COMICS! |OT| July 2015. Okay for everyone, unless you're a DC or a Spider-Man.
- Thread starter Spike Spiegel
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echoshifting
Banned
Well that sounds like something I need to track down
Doesn't appear to be on comixology, unfortunately
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
It's out of print. I got it as a throw in on an IST order when they were out of my manga.
echoshifting
Banned
Hmmmm, Prince of Cats is on kindle, though. Anybody have experience reading comics with kindle?
I believe that's what JC lovingly calls a "Spanish sounding jobber"
Actually, yes. Haha. Basically the first comic I ever read was Batman Year One on my Kindle (the very basic $79 one). Suffice to say, I did not really appreciate Mazzucchelli's brilliant art on that screen...
Simply Sarah
Member
I think the two hardest things about my getting back into comics recently are:
1. Figuring out who the hell all the modern (and modernish) creators are.
2. Coming in knowing basically nothing about non-big two stuff.
In other words, I always feel a bit lost in most creator and non-big two discussions here. A learning curve!
1. Figuring out who the hell all the modern (and modernish) creators are.
2. Coming in knowing basically nothing about non-big two stuff.
In other words, I always feel a bit lost in most creator and non-big two discussions here. A learning curve!
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
The app or the devices?
I read comics on my Kindle Fire. I backdoor the apps in and it works really well.
As for the app, I'd guess it works well enough on any tablet.
Sounds like you need some Valiant in your life.
echoshifting
Banned
Yeah, I use a Fire too with CMX, just wondering how the reading experience is for comics in the native kindle app.
1. Hmm I guess. But I think this comes after starting getting into comics.
2. This is much harder and much more rewarding. Finding out that there's better stuff out there without superheroes is a beautiful thing.
Kindle format comics are a mixed bag, it all depends on the publisher. DC/Vertigo stuff can have really crap resolutions that look bad super high res screens. You also can't rotate on double page spreads, which is super annoying.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
Oh, then yeah, it's solid. No problems whatsoever on my end.
echoshifting
Banned
The best thing you can do is download the sample and see how it looks
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
i will PITCH
my COMIC
howEVER
i PLEASE
please
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my COMIC
howEVER
i PLEASE
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Simply Sarah
Member
Maybe! I admit that most of what very little I know about Valiant is from the early-mid 90s and that they don't even own the rights to like half of the properties I tend to associate them with. This resulted in my being a bit puzzled seeing properties like Magnus, Solar, and Turok being on sale under the Dynamite label on CMX this last week or two.
Oh, I already knew there was other stuff, it's just, as you say, harder to work with.
You and me both. It's almost suffocating sometimes. There's so much fantastic stuff out there and I'm finding something new every day, and it's all just a jumbled mess as I try and sort it out. I spend 90% of my time just lurking wondering what the hell everyone is even talking about as I creep along, one book at a time. Teeny bit of a learning curve, yeah.
Serpentine
Banned
the post you quoted tripped me up because for i second, I thought i actually made an accidental post that i didn't remember posting!
this has potential to be a good book by talented creators
or very bad
It starts out okay but eventually turns into this.
1. Ghost Rider jobbing
2. It's hilarious to read this in Cage screaming voice
3. It's twice as hilarious because I just watched all of Inferno Cop the other day
Coriolanus
Banned
How is that hard? Pick the guardians of the galaxy book since the film was awesome, then track down everything that the dude wrote. Foolproof.
I mean, he wrote guardians AND also Age of Ultron? Ain't no way that's gonna be bad.
My best suggestion for both of you is to hit up your local public library and pillage the graphic novel section. They will be in one of two places (or both depending on how good the tech services people are), in the Young Adult section organized alphabetically by title and/or adult nonfiction in the 741.xxx call number range. Find books and creators you like without making a huge financial commitment and then you can spend money on stuff you know you'll like.
TheKaeptain
Banned
Learn to love Image.
Forget capes because 99% of them are horrible. Batman is good. Pick up the Multiversity collect in a few months. There have been some good runs. Remender's Captain America was awesome. Grayson is a good book but it's a spy comic. The first 12 or so issues of Fraction's Hawkeye are pretty good. It takes a huge nosedive.
Seriously capes are at an all time low unless you buy into shitty gimmicks like Birdie does. Just give image and indie comics your money. That's where the good storytelling and diversity strives.
Here is a name you should get familiar with.
ALES KOT. The dude is great. Fucks with people's exceptions. Writes good and believable dialogue. Interesting story ideas.
Neil Gaiman and Grant Morrison are still the best writers in the medium. This will probably never change.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Do NOT listen to this person. Honest to whatever deity anyone believes in, do not listen. It's not that he has good taste or not, but this is a limited worldview when it comes to comics.
Simply Sarah
Member
I think I may have had a slight advantage over you in this regard since I've long found myself picking up a level of awareness to DC/Marvel stuff from here, there, and everywhere even while not actually reading their books, so hopping back into most stuff from them has been pretty easy for me.
Haha. Actually, the modern GotG team confused me a bit because I actually had passing familiarity with the original team. I know I had gotten my hands on the annual from the 90s GotG series waaaaaaay back in the day.
TheKaeptain
Banned
Way to fuck it up Marvel.
Dude is so going to be the next Batman writer.
I'm like one of the few here that reads everything.
But have you read current Garfield?
TheKaeptain
Banned
The online one? Sometimes.
echoshifting
Banned
It just goes to show how divisive this hobby is, and how little consensus there is on, well, anything. I don't even like Ales Kot, but enough people do that it's probably worth a look for newbies regardless. It's why "forget capes" is just bad advice. You really do have to pay attention to your own critical voice and personal enjoyment and take everything one issue at a time.
And you're not recommending that? For shame, Kaeptain, for shame.
Serpentine
Banned
I actually did read comics last night, I reread + read the rest of the first arc of Jimmie Robinson's Five Weapons, a YA comic that's like, Harry Potter in an assassin school (it's not like Deadly Class at all) where you choose between five different weapon clubs to join and this one kid enrolls and tries to make it without using any weapon. It's fun and the art is very good, but the first arc is 5 issues, so it introduces a bunch of characters and has to resolve the plot and the several twists & turns really quickly, so it feels a bit cramped. It'd have been super dope if it were like, twice as long and got to breath more because the world it creates and the characters are really cool and interesting, but there's only so much time for each of them. I still dug it, though.
Marvel were trying so hard to kill x-men that they even tried putting one of their best writers on the lead book. Those Devils.
TheKaeptain
Banned
You know what that person wanted.
Calcium
Banned
Bastards.
Snyder's Batman post-Black Mirror isn't even that good though
Simply Sarah
Member
Haha, I've been here a couple months already guys and I've been listening and learning. I'm past the initial reentry phase and am more into intermediate book awareness levels. There may still be a lot to learn, but I am learning.
Well, I mostly agree with the stuff the post points to as being positive, but yes, I have much broader tastes than that.
Well, I mostly agree with the stuff the post points to as being positive, but yes, I have much broader tastes than that.
WadiumArcadium
Member
Looking forward to this. Waid's run has been a lot of fun but it'll make a nice change seeing a darker Daredevil again.
Poodlestrike
Banned
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
Haha, I've been here a couple months already guys and I've been listening and learning. I'm past the initial reentry phase and am more into intermediate book awareness levels. There may still be a lot to learn, but I am learning.
Well, I mostly agree with the stuff the post points to as being positive, but yes, I have much broader tastes than that.
You know nothing. We will continue to spoon-feed you until you have outlandish opinions about Ann Nocenti or Mark Millar. It's the way things are done here.
Coriolanus
Banned
Oh yeah? How many mangas have you read this week?
The Three Rules of Comigaf:
1. Hate the Land
2. Hate the Cosmic/Group Bendis
3.
TheKaeptain
Banned
You're just saying that because you're in love with that Dickbats.
I read Naruto. Started One Man Punch. Read some older Jo jo.
shhhhhhhhhh. we don't speak about that during the daytime. Every saturday morning at 2am est we come to comics-gaf and talk about how boring Snyder's New 52 Batman run is.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
I'm not much of an X-fan but this makes me sad. I loooove his X-Force. Definitely one of the reasons why I got more heavy into following ongoings as opposed to trade waiting.
echoshifting
Banned
Well maybe he'll be in for the second year of the book or something. Definitely a shame to miss out on some Remender X-Men.
Coriolanus
Banned
It's like you don't want to be loved.
TheKaeptain
Banned
Only conformist basic dudes want loved. See Messi.
Haha, I've been here a couple months already guys and I've been listening and learning. I'm past the initial reentry phase and am more into intermediate book awareness levels. There may still be a lot to learn, but I am learning.
Well, I mostly agree with the stuff the post points to as being positive, but yes, I have much broader tastes than that.
Plenty of good big two books out there. Pick a title that appeals to you and go from there. If you want recommendations I'd be happy to help. I pull almost all the big two stuff.
How about you keep comments like this to yourself? Deal?
who isn't?
err i mean you guys wanna drop $500 on a no-name artist's rendition of a girl in fishnets?
Noted. Honestly, I feel like that should have been so completely obvious. I've poked my head around there a few times before, hah.
Oh definitely. I'm starting from the ground up on all fronts. A mountain to climb, that's for sure, but damned if it isn't an enjoyable one.
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