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^burtle posted:Finished the second Sweet Tooth trade, Lemire is such a great storyteller but gottdamn sometimes his art just transforms into pure ugly. I love Lemire art. The doodly, ugly aspect of it matches the tone of his writing so perfectly, and can squeeze more emotion and feeling in one framce, one look, than many artists can in a whole book. Fake Edit: Wow, that is some serious hyperbole.... But what I'm getting at is that his art may be untraditional, but it's drat beautiful in its own way.
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^burtle posted:Finished the second Sweet Tooth trade, Lemire is such a great storyteller but gottdamn sometimes his art just transforms into pure ugly. I'm with choobs, Lemire's art is great for his stories where everyone has broken hockey player noses and seen-too-much eyes. If he did the art for, say, Seaguy or THUNDER Agents, I'd walk away.
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Seaguy with Lemire on art would be a very different book. It would be pretty cool to see Lemire doing art for other stories, because it really does bring its own mood. Final Crisis with Lemire. Darkwing Duck with Lemire.
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Every so often I look at Gus, the character, and wonder about Jeff Lemire's son, Gus.
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Oh man, did the second Sweet Tooth trade come out while I wasn't looking? That is absolutely on the must-buy list.
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Huh. http://vertigo.blog.dccomics.com/2011/01/04/flex-mentallo-is-back/ quote:If you’re a fan of Grant Morrison (and who isn’t?), you’ll be stoked to know that FLEX MENTALLO will be published in book form this year. This marks the first time the four-issue mini-series written by Morrison and illustrated by artist Frank Quitely is being collected. FLEX MENTALLO sprang out of Grant’s mind bending and infamous run on DOOM PATROL.
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I heard the rumor months ago that Flex was coming back into print. I'm overjoyed that it's official. It's quite possibly the best Morrison/Quitely collaboration ever.
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Syrg Sapphire posted:I'll believe it when I see it. They promised me Lucifer hardcovers too. Quitely's already done artwork for the cover (which is why Morrison "didn't announce" that something was being done with Flex at SDCC) and Morrison is one of DC's biggest writers right now. Wait for The Unwritten to get more of the praise it deserves and we may see the Lucifer hardcovers some day. It wouldn't hurt for Carey to write some mainstream DC too. I'm kind of curious how he feels about the DCU, as I know he's a pretty big X-fan.
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Goddamn, Scalped is a brutal read. It makes 100 Bullets look tame and uneventful.
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^burtle posted:Goddamn, Scalped is a brutal read. It makes 100 Bullets look tame and uneventful. This reminds me, I really need to pick up the first trade of Scalped. I've been meaning to get into this book for ages and keep putting it off. This, and Northlanders, really. Maybe I'll get the first of both today.
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Speaking of brutal: I need to finish Unknown Soldier. Amazing first trade. Don't know why I didn't keep going with it.
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DMZ is good and all, but Unknown Soldier really blows it out of the water.
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The first Unknown Soldier trade was amazing, but the second one was kind of disappointing to me. It's hard to explain, but even after just one arc I felt the series had a certain vibe and the second story moved away from that completely. Different setting and tone, it just wasn't what I was interested in. Luckily the third one went back to its roots and was fantastic. Really dragged me back and I will definitely be buying the final trade.
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teekun posted:This reminds me, I really need to pick up the first trade of Scalped. I've been meaning to get into this book for ages and keep putting it off. Seriously, do this today, then order 2-6 as soon as possible. This is probably my favourite book right now.
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StumblyWumbly posted:DMZ is good and all, but Unknown Soldier really blows it out of the water. I like the somewhat journalistic edge Unknown Soldier had. It was great infotainment, and I never gave a poo poo about the LRA's terrorism of Uganda before I read it. Sucks that it's going down the tubes. Seems like a rushed ending.
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I like The Unwritten quite a bit but this team's art seemed way better to me back in the Lucifer days. Pity.
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GOP posted:
Just read the last Air tpb and got the same feeling. While the ending wasn't exactly bad it definitely felt rushed.
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nosophoros posted:I like The Unwritten quite a bit but this team's art seemed way better to me back in the Lucifer days. Pity. You might want to go back and take a look at Lucifer again. I felt similarly, at first, but I feel like a lot of the Lucifer art was similar to The Unwritten. They really need an Eisner at some point, what with all the nominations for Lucifer...
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Jack of Fables had a pretty terrible ending. I see what they were going for, a Looney Tunes like free for all, but eh, it felt gratuitous and not funny.
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Alhazred posted:Just read the last Air tpb and got the same feeling. While the ending wasn't exactly bad it definitely felt rushed. Air got cancelled, didn't it? I don't think they had originally planned to end it when they did.
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Air, Unknown Soldier, Greek Street and Madame Xanadu all got canned around the same time, unfortunately. Madame Xanadu was rather underrated, and I enjoyed it much more than Fables post-issue #75. Fables ended for me after the Empire fell.
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Witters posted:Air, Unknown Soldier, Greek Street and Madame Xanadu all got canned around the same time, unfortunately. Madame Xanadu was rather underrated, and I enjoyed it much more than Fables post-issue #75. Fables ended for me after the Empire fell. Fables ended for me at issue 50 when Snow and Bigby got married, and I had to read about 3 pages of Willingham using Bigby as a proxy to tell me how badass Israel was.
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The Action Man posted:Fables ended for me at issue 50 when Snow and Bigby got married, and I had to read about 3 pages of Willingham using Bigby as a proxy to tell me how badass Israel was. I opted out even earlier because I was tired of hearing about Snow and Bigby in general.
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This may be a bit of a tangent but while we're praising Mike CareyI might as well mention that his prose novels are pretty good. Not High Literature or anything, but a very compelling and entertaining urban-fantasy-noir setting with interesting characters and stories.
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Mike Carey's urban-magician Hellblazer run is probably my 2nd favorite after Delano's; Ennis comes a close 3rd. Even though I prefer the down-and-out, working-class, inner-dialogue Constantine, Carey's stories were very interesting and well-crafted. He does a phenomenal job tying up all the different storylines from his arc into a rather satisfying conclusion. There was a bit of intrigue and suspense that I felt was lost during Azzarello's run.
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Sick_Boy posted:This may be a bit of a tangent but while we're praising Mike CareyI might as well mention that his prose novels are pretty good. Not High Literature or anything, but a very compelling and entertaining urban-fantasy-noir setting with interesting characters and stories. Agreed. For anyone that likes Carey's Hellblazer, the Felix Castor series is worth your time.
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Witters posted:Mike Carey's urban-magician Hellblazer run is probably my 2nd favorite after Delano's; Ennis comes a close 3rd. Even though I prefer the down-and-out, working-class, inner-dialogue Constantine, Carey's stories were very interesting and well-crafted. He does a phenomenal job tying up all the different storylines from his arc into a rather satisfying conclusion. There was a bit of intrigue and suspense that I felt was lost during Azzarello's run. I'd agree with you except switch it around a bit, ennis: 1st (showing what a bastard Constantine can be, show how great his rotating cast is, then have the balls to show what his bastardy can do to them), and Carey 2nd. I still haven't gotten to read Delano's yet (I still haven't read his original run, shame on me). Milligan's current run is pretty fantastic. Constantine is loving married!
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I'm getting kind of annoyed with American Vampire at the moment. For a few issues now, they have been heavily implying that Henry would die without following through. Either actually kill him or don't keep on trying to make the reader think it is a strong possibility. It gets old pretty quick.
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bairfanx posted:Agreed. For anyone that likes Carey's Hellblazer, the Felix Castor series is worth your time. If you're looking for prose books to compare it to, Dresden Files is close, but the Castor books are better.
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So I just read Daytripper for the first time, in trade. God drat.
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strangemusic posted:So I just read Daytripper for the first time, in trade. That was pretty much my reaction the first time I read it in trade. Really a phenomenal work. The emotional resonance of the work was up there with some of Will Eisner's works. What else should I look into if I wanted something similar?
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I'm having a hard time not reading all of Daytripper at once. I want to give each issue some time to soak in so I can think about it.
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The Action Man posted:Fables ended for me at issue 50 when Snow and Bigby got married, and I had to read about 3 pages of Willingham using Bigby as a proxy to tell me how badass Israel was. I think I totally tuned this out; anyone have a scan of this segment? Please tell me he made a deliberate comparison between the war of survival against the Adversary and Palestine.
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Colonel Pancreas posted:I think I totally tuned this out; anyone have a scan of this segment? Please tell me he made a deliberate comparison between the war of survival against the Adversary and Palestine. Yep! Bigby even calls it Operation Israel. And the chapter is called The Israel Analogy. Also the Adversary is Palestine. I WONDER WHAT WILLINGHAM'S POLITICS ARE.
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