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Bone is my go-to for kids, highly recommend it. The Donald Duck / Uncle Scrooge comics are pretty great. Fantagraphics’ Disney Masters series is also really strong.
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Once again thank you all, I will look into all of this! Goons never loving fail me.
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Beasts of Burden! Don't buy Beasts of Burden for a kid.
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Jordan7hm posted:Bone is my go-to for kids, highly recommend it. Seconding this, when I was eight I read a lot of the classic Carl Barks and Don Rosa stuff, it's perfect for kids. Bone as well but it might be a little mature. I think Raina Telgemeier has a whole series of graphic novels for that age range? I'd also suggest Captain Underpants or really anything by Dav Pilkey.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Hey folks, with Comixology going down, possibly, I realized that since I started reading digitally I read way, way less. I'm sorry, what's happening with Comixology?
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Solitair posted:I'm sorry, what's happening with Comixology? It’s getting folded into the kindle service. Though they have delayed that after feedback
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Solitair posted:I'm sorry, what's happening with Comixology? Amazon has owned it for a while and they're planning to shut it down in favour of just using clunky old Amazon
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Solitair posted:I'm sorry, what's happening with Comixology? The were bought by Amazon and Amazon is going to transfer everything to Kindle, an awful place to browse for, well, anything. https://www.gamesradar.com/uk/comixology-amazon-integration/
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Just going back to the kids book thing when I was looking for a graphic novel for my niece I saw that scholastic actually has a lot of kids graphic novels so their imprint might be best place to look for some kids books.
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I remember venting on social media about Amazon buying Comixology back in the day and Comixology's CEO responded to me individually to say nothing would change except the level of resources at their disposal. Say that again while your baby sinks into the mud, old man!
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Has anyone read Ed Piskor's Red Room? Can you speak to how gruesome it is? I recently read Hip Hop Family Tree and enjoyed it and thought I might give Red Room a try, but I am a bit worried it'll be too freaky for me. I like horror, but there are some things that get under my skin too much. Anything related to harming small children is a no-go for me usually. That and poo poo where people do intentionally hosed up things to themselves (e.g., Taxedermia).
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I haven't read it, but I flipped through it. It's fairly gruesome. Some hosed up violence explicitly drawn, designed to be shocking and provocative. Sorry I don't remember the details, seemed to be in the gist of torture porn, but way beyond what you'd see in Saw, etc.
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He posts a lot of panels on his instagram. It's all in his style so it's not like it's hyper-realistic, but it's definitely gorey
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Dr.D-O posted:Has anyone read Ed Piskor's Red Room? Can you speak to how gruesome it is? It's not for you. If you like Ed Piskor, Wizzywig is great and I really enjoyed his X-Men Grand Design books but that's with the caveat that I'm a huge X-Men fan.
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Uthor posted:I haven't read it, but I flipped through it. It's fairly gruesome. Some hosed up violence explicitly drawn, designed to be shocking and provocative. Sorry I don't remember the details, seemed to be in the gist of torture porn, but way beyond what you'd see in Saw, etc. I haven’t read all of it, but what I’ve read is pretty much what you’d expect from a gore B movie franchise, but in comic form. The storytelling was a lot better than I expected (Piskor is a good cartoonist I don’t know why I was expecting less).
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Thanks for the answers to my question, fellas. I took a look at Piskor's Instagram and yes, definitely not for me. My local shop didn't have any copies of his stuff, so I ended up getting a couple of volumes of the Complete Crumb Comics, which I hear Ed was inspired by.
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Hello everyone. I haven't read comics for a while but I now have marvel unlimited for a bit. I think I stopped paying much attention about half way through age of Ultron. My question is, is there a quick guide to what's important but also good to the past decade or so of marvel stuff. Also which big events should i skip because they were bad. I have made my way through the latest daredevil series and immortal hulk which I'm enjoying, there where a couple of issues of daredevil where everyone was symbiotes though which seemed pretty poor. Feeling like there is a lot of stuff on there and I'm not sure where to go next with recent stuff so I'm re reading old 90s X factor from when I was a smelly teen. Is there a good recent jumping on point for X men stuff?
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only good event was 2015 secret wars, everything since then you should skip depending on your appetite for long reads, you could go into Hickman's Avengers/New Avengers which were the lead up to secret wars. if you're really into them, Jason Aaron's Thor ran for years and was the lead in to the War of the Realms event but tbh while the Thor book is great the event was pretty mediocre x-men you want to jump on at House of X/Powers of X, which i think was...2018? 2019? which then leads into all the Krakoa era books site fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Dec 3, 2021 |
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This is a rather specific request, and it's not really for me exactly. My brother-in-law is a mid-40s ultradork, but like, as far as I know he's not super into comic books in the sense of following comic books as they come out or anything. He's a trade paperback collection guy. He knows a lot more about this stuff than I do though, so the stuff that comes to mind for me when I look at the parts of his collection that I see, I think he already has. Based on the pictures below, my mind jumps to stuff like Scud: The Disposable Assassin, but I think that's a little shallow, and I'd bet he has it somewhere else. So what I'm looking for is like, budget of ~50-60 USD in trade paperbacks that he can put on a shelf that he could possibly be interested in, that maybe he wouldn't already have. In no way do I need to like it, and I do not need to know why he would like it. I don't know what most of this stuff is. I trust you, or at least I trust you more than me. Please, spend this money for me. It's not even my money to begin with. Please view these two sample bookshelves and tell me what the hell to buy this person (or direct me to a more appropriate thread, that's okay too). Caveat: these images are LARGE when you embiggen them.  
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Things that popped into my head: Love and Rockets East of West Adventure Time: Marceline and the Scream Queens (by the author of Octopus Pie) Rice Boy Slaine: The Horned God Uthor fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Dec 4, 2021 |
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Uthor posted:Slaine: The Horned God This looks extremely on point. I don't think I got it right in the second picture, but there are a few books on the top shelf that I didn't even recognize until I looked up Slaine and saw them in "related items", The Metabarons. I don't think I've ever seen a Slaine book around the house, but I know he likes Conan type stuff, so this looks right up his alley. Thanks so much!
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Slaine was published (I believe) in 2000AD like Judge Dredd so they might already be aware of them
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Scaramouche posted:Slaine was published (I believe) in 2000AD like Judge Dredd so they might already be aware of them The best outcome I think would be something they're aware of, but don't have To be safe, he is also a huge lego / tabletop stuff / star wars / you know, good type of people nerd, but has never gotten into any kind of gunpla thing, so I am rounding out the package between me and my wife so he gets some nippers and a bandai AT-AT model along with the comic. Fingers crossed I finally get an actual expression of joyful surprise
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I realised recently that quite a few of the most memorable comics stories I've read have been one-shots and limited series about second-stringer characters, such as the Batroc one-shot and that series about Namor done from the point of view of a submarine crew. (I also really wanted to like Bullseye: Perfect Game but I'm not American and I just couldn't wade through the endless baseball jargon) Anyone got any recommendations?
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Lamont posted:I realised recently that quite a few of the most memorable comics stories I've read have been one-shots and limited series about second-stringer characters, such as the Batroc one-shot and that series about Namor done from the point of view of a submarine crew. (I also really wanted to like Bullseye: Perfect Game but I'm not American and I just couldn't wade through the endless baseball jargon) There's an early 2000's Inhumans mini and a Loki mini about him after he's conquered Asgard. I think at least one of them has the same artist as the Namor mini you're talking about. Edit: Jae Lee I think? Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Dec 18, 2021 |
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Lamont posted:I realised recently that quite a few of the most memorable comics stories I've read have been one-shots and limited series about second-stringer characters, such as the Batroc one-shot and that series about Namor done from the point of view of a submarine crew. (I also really wanted to like Bullseye: Perfect Game but I'm not American and I just couldn't wade through the endless baseball jargon) If you can find it, Avengers: The Initiative #13 is a great one shot about Boulder. It's at a time in Marvel when everyone with powers had to go through hero training, and Boulder is invulnerable but also a clumsy nerd. It's a heartbreaking story.
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Lamont posted:I realised recently that quite a few of the most memorable comics stories I've read have been one-shots and limited series about second-stringer characters, such as the Batroc one-shot and that series about Namor done from the point of view of a submarine crew. (I also really wanted to like Bullseye: Perfect Game but I'm not American and I just couldn't wade through the endless baseball jargon) Longshot by Ann Nocenti is a classic Multiple Man by Matthew Rosenberg Beta Ray Bill by Daniel Warren Johnson Spider-Man Life Story by Chip Zdarsky... maybe? Cloks fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Dec 19, 2021 |
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I just finished The Metabarons, and I'm kinda giddy with how much I loved this absurdly over-the-top gorefest-folktale-fever dream thing. What else is out there that is in a similar vein? I don't really know a lot of graphic novels / authors / artists. I already have some of Juan Gimenez's other works queued up like Fourth Power, Garbage etc. on the suggestion of a great list of 'Jodoverse' stuff that looks like a good starting point. I was just wondering if there's anything else besides these that's worth checking out. poronty fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Dec 19, 2021 |
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Lamont posted:I realised recently that quite a few of the most memorable comics stories I've read have been one-shots and limited series about second-stringer characters, such as the Batroc one-shot and that series about Namor done from the point of view of a submarine crew. (I also really wanted to like Bullseye: Perfect Game but I'm not American and I just couldn't wade through the endless baseball jargon) Villains United. It made me give a poo poo about Catman. Dark X-Men. Norman Osborn puts together a team of also-ran X-Men, many with serious emotional issues, it goes really, really wrong. Simon Dark. Weird short lived series about a supernatural urban legend in Gotham pieced together from.other corpses who fights crime. All 3 of these are darkly funny. Skwirl posted:There's an early 2000's Inhumans mini and a Loki mini about him after he's conquered Asgard. I think at least one of them has the same artist as the Namor mini you're talking about. Esad Ribic. It rules.
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Lamont posted:I realised recently that quite a few of the most memorable comics stories I've read have been one-shots and limited series about second-stringer characters, such as the Batroc one-shot and that series about Namor done from the point of view of a submarine crew. (I also really wanted to like Bullseye: Perfect Game but I'm not American and I just couldn't wade through the endless baseball jargon) Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? (12-issue miniseries by Fraction and Lieber) Mister Miracle (12-issue miniseries by King and Gerads) Deadshot: Bulletproof (6-issue miniseries by Gage and Cummings; it feels like a modern Western and makes Deadshot into even more of an antihero) The Question (6-issue miniseries by Veitch and Edwards; this was the first time he was portrayed as an "urban shaman") Superior Foes of Spider-Man (17-issue series by Spencer and Lieber, about Boomerang, Shocker, Speed Demon, Beetle II, and Overdrive; mostly comedic) Moon Knight by Ellis and Shalvey (the first six issues of an ongoing series that continued with other creators, but their short run feels like a self-contained miniseries) Cobra: The Last Laugh (by Costa, Gage, and Fuso; the best G.I. Joe story EVER; 12 issues about an obscure Joe named Chuckles who goes deep undercover in Cobra) Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Dec 19, 2021 |
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:The Question (6-issue miniseries by Veitch and Edwards; this was the first time he was portrayed as an "urban shaman") Has he ever been shown as such after this series? That was the run that got me into the Question, and it was a really fun take on the character.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Esad Ribic. It rules. Ahh yeah, Esad Ribic did the Namor and Loki series, Jae Lee did the Inhumans one IIRC.
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:Has he ever been shown as such after this series? That was the run that got me into the Question, and it was a really fun take on the character. I don't believe so. I really want to read the recent Lemire/Cowan miniseries because I've always enjoyed the Question and everyone's wildly different takes on him, but that sounds like more of a continuation/modern update of the O'Neil/Cowan series. By the way, I'm a giant Daredevil fan, and somehow I just learned about a miniseries you wrote that bridges the gap between Soule and Zdarsky's runs. That is my #1 priority TPB to buy next.
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Skwirl posted:Hawkeye vs Deadpool is a really good mini, though I'm not sure if any of them are b or c list anymore. Hawkeye: Freefall, by Rosenberg and Schmidt, was terrific too. But then again, Hawkeye was the very definition of a B/C lister when the brilliant, beloved Fraction/Aja/Wu series started in 2011, and almost everyone lists it as one of the greatest comics of the past decade because it had such a strong voice and memorable style. I am eagerly anticipating finally reading Human Target by King and Smallwood as a complete collected volume a year from now.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:I don't believe so. I really want to read the recent Lemire/Cowan miniseries because I've always enjoyed the Question and everyone's wildly different takes on him, but that sounds like more of a continuation/modern update of the O'Neil/Cowan series. I hope you enjoy it! I about poo poo when that came down the pipe for my first in-print mini- a Daredevil story that had almost the same name as one of the most beloved Daredevil minis, oh and it was weekly so I was doing a script a week while still teaching junior high full-time. I think it turned out pretty well though.
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:I hope you enjoy it! I about poo poo when that came down the pipe for my first in-print mini- a Daredevil story that had almost the same name as one of the most beloved Daredevil minis, oh and it was weekly so I was doing a script a week while still teaching junior high full-time. I think it turned out pretty well though. I am the son of two teachers (middle school and high school), my wife is a college professor, and I'm a law school librarian/professor moving into administration, so I salute you, as a fellow educator. Looking forward to supporting you!
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