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Just heard about Image's Punks The Comic out this week and checked out a preview. http://kodychamberlain.tumblr.com/post/92639659186/punks-the-comic-four-page-preview I like Joshua Hale Fialkov for The Bunker and I, Vampire, looks influenced by The Young Ones, it's made out collaged clippings. Sounds awesome, except one character says "Le sigh' multiple times in the first page, then another character says 'Le sigh' on the next.  Maybe the reference is Pepé Le Pew, but I'm dreading a pile of modern internet memes. e: Actually read the top of the page and found out it's a ten year old thing with new material. Any fans? Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 12:58 on Oct 6, 2014 |
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Southern Bastards vol 1 arrived this weekend, and I read it quickly and holy poo poo, it's just brutal. I don't know why I thought it would be more lighthearted than Scalped but I was not expecting a book entirely about hitting people with a magic tree branch.
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Oct 6, 2014 19:49
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Sigma-X posted:Southern Bastards vol 1 arrived this weekend, and I read it quickly and holy poo poo, it's just brutal. That's what it seemed like, and as issue 4 shows that is not what its going to be about.
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Oct 6, 2014 21:19
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I also read Southern Bastards 1 over the weekend. Really looking forward to volume 2. There is a dark side to waiting for trades, but I don't plan on changing anytime soon.
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Oct 6, 2014 21:21
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Southern Bastards #4 was so unexpected. Jason Aaron (who lives in KS) was at my local store signing copies of all his books. I told him about my love of Southern Bastards and he said "And the story is just starting!" so I'm really looking forward to the next part.
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Oct 6, 2014 21:36
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While I was adding Southern Bastards 1 to my Amazon wish list, I noticed Kieren Gillon's The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 1 up for preorder. I thought he was generally well received, but I had never heard anything about this until it was in the recommended thing, so...how is it?
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Oct 6, 2014 21:40
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GrandpaPants posted:While I was adding Southern Bastards 1 to my Amazon wish list, I noticed Kieren Gillon's The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 1 up for preorder. I thought he was generally well received, but I had never heard anything about this until it was in the recommended thing, so...how is it?
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Oct 6, 2014 23:15
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I'm a fan of Gillen and have followed the majority of his work. The Wicked + The Divine really seems like the natural progression of his work as it contains many of his familiar themes and interests, but it also feels like W+D has the luxury to work out its ideas in detail without being hampered by telling a superhero story in a preexisting universe. Comixology is selling the first issue for .99.
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Oct 7, 2014 04:37
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I'm not big into pop culture, fantasy, or much of Gillen's other work outside Three, and I really like W+D. It's fun, I like how it portrays gods as these over-sized personalities with issues and no special love for humanity, and I didn't notice there were no white male characters until it was pointed out.
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Oct 7, 2014 16:33
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Anybody read Wytches yet? I'm debating if I want to pick it up. The art from the previews I saw looks pretty cool at least.
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Oct 8, 2014 18:14
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A Tin Of Beans posted:Anybody read Wytches yet? I'm debating if I want to pick it up. The art from the previews I saw looks pretty cool at least. Anyways I got it last night during Forbidden Planet's midnight signing and love it. Was planning to trade wait it but I'm going to getting it monthly now. Jock's art fits the tone well and Snyder goes all out on the script. Expect some disturbing imagery.
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Oct 8, 2014 20:11
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Has anyone else read the Brian Wood run on Conan?
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Oct 8, 2014 20:17
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Martello posted:Has anyone else read the Brian Wood run on Conan? I read the first couple of arcs and really liked it, but apparently most people don't like Brian Wood as much as I do. It really captures the early Howard vibe.
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Oct 9, 2014 00:23
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Martello posted:Has anyone else read the Brian Wood run on Conan? I have and I think it's fantastic the whole way through. It's basically Northlanders fused with Robert E. Howard lore.
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Oct 9, 2014 01:09
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A Tin Of Beans posted:Anybody read Wytches yet? I'm debating if I want to pick it up. The art from the previews I saw looks pretty cool at least. Wow. Issue 1 was 5 stars, terrifying. One of the scariest comics I can recall reading. I hope it stays this good and this intense.
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Just picked up Birthright and it seems really good. I'll have to wait until #2 in November but #1 definitely piqued my interest. The guys at Whatever... on Castro seemed pretty enthusiastic about it.
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Oct 9, 2014 04:55
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Wytches is definitely worth it, goddamn I enjoyed that
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Wytches sounds great. Are there any other cool recent horror series/miniseries I should check out to get into the Halloween spirit? e: and by 'recent' I suppose I mean anything within the past five years or so. I haven't been able to keep up with comics as much as I used to be able to.
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pugnax posted:I read the first couple of arcs and really liked it, but apparently most people don't like Brian Wood as much as I do. It really captures the early Howard vibe. I like Brian Wood and I really didn't like his work on Conan. I've only read Queen of the Black Coast so far, so maybe The Death is better, I dunno. I think the opposite, it's a huge departure from early Howard. I even read the prose version of Queen again just to make sure. The emo, brooding, uncertain, lovesick Conan is nothing like "early Howard." Don't get me wrong, I totally get and approve of the idea of taking a Conan-like character and turning him on his head by giving him more emotional depth and making him dependent on his lover and so on, but that's not what Conan himself is supposed to be about. The fact that everything by Busiek and Truman is so close to the original Howard makes Wood's departure that much worse. The other thing that bothered me was that he leaned so heavily on the narration boxes. Busiek did it a lot early on and while I didn't hate it, I felt the storytelling got stronger when he or Truman (not sure who started using them less, it's been a while) didn't put in so much written narration. It's a comic book adaptation, after all. It's nice to see lines straight out of Howard, and even a few narrative lines, but the art and dialogue should be enough to carry the story. A great example is The Tower of the Elephant (my all-time favorite, just edging out Free Companions) where Yag-Kosha tells Conan of his life before the tower, and it's all his storytelling dialogue and that incredible art shift. Kull the Conqueror posted:I have and I think it's fantastic the whole way through. It's basically Northlanders fused with Robert E. Howard lore. Then why doesn't Wood just keep writing Northlanders? I loved Northlanders. Conan is something different, and should stay that way. Maybe I'm being a grumpy old man but if the series started out as an almost perfect adaptation and expansion of Howard's prose, why did he have to jump in and make it something completely different? Becky Cloonan's art rules no matter what. Though I wish they made one good departure from Howard and made Belit at least tan. I mean, for gently caress's sake the woman is supposed to be proto-Semitic AND lives on the open ocean. Maybe she has magic SPF 1000 sunblock. And I also wish she didn't make Conan look like he didn't even lift. I see Van Lente is on the book now. I like him a lot, though with what he's done before I'm not 100% he'll be a replacement for Busiek or Truman. Is King Conan any good?
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ovaries posted:Wytches sounds great. Are there any other cool recent horror series/miniseries I should check out to get into the Halloween spirit? Gonna put my stock recommendation of Locke and Key here. My favorite series of all time.
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Garth Ennis's mini Caliban wrapped up yesterday. It's a horror/sf book from Avatar, so that tells you a lot about what you're getting from the start, but there's a lot about Ennis's writing I enjoy for its own sake. I wouldn't be surprised if this started as a film pitch; it's got a feel to it like he's already hoping it'll get optioned.
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Martello posted:Don't get me wrong, I totally get and approve of the idea of taking a Conan-like character and turning him on his head by giving him more emotional depth and making him dependent on his lover and so on, but that's not what Conan himself is supposed to be about. First of all, I really appreciate your whole post and apologies in advance for plucking just a couple snippets. I suppose I think it's best to start here, though. In a concise manner, what is Conan supposed to be about, to you? I'm curious to see what your (or anyone's) take looks like compared to mine. Martello posted:I see Van Lente is on the book now. I read the first issue and hated it. As soon as there was a moment where Conan made a defeated opponent lick the blood off of his sword, I was done. Conan is violent, but for me, he's not some kind of (metaphorically) sexual sadist.
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Wanderer posted:Garth Ennis's mini Caliban wrapped up yesterday. Okay, so does it end well? Worth checking out in trade? (I like Ennis when he's "on," generally hate Avatar art, but am at base definitely into space horror as a genre.)
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Hm, it's a bit hard to say to be honest. It ends well (as in, the thing that you've basically wanted to happen since the second or third issue happens) but I don't really feel it ever got going if that makes sense.
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onefish posted:Okay, so does it end well? Worth checking out in trade? (I like Ennis when he's "on," generally hate Avatar art, but am at base definitely into space horror as a genre.) It's a Lovecraftian space opera, so with that in mind, it ends about as well as could be imagined. It's also not as bad about grue for grue's sake as some of the Avatar go-to guys, so there's that. Ennis does okay with endings. It's not like Ellis where a lot of his books just stop.
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Martello posted:Is King Conan any good? Kull the Conqueror posted:First of all, I really appreciate your whole post and apologies in advance for plucking just a couple snippets. I suppose I think it's best to start here, though. In a concise manner, what is Conan supposed to be about, to you? I'm curious to see what your (or anyone's) take looks like compared to mine. 2000AD is excellent right now, 1900+ issues, only a couple years away from 2000AD #2000. With Judge Dredd's creators from the 70s John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra on Dredd, oh yes. Kingdom by Abnett is back too, so great. Heavy Metal fucked around with this message at 08:15 on Oct 11, 2014 |
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Shitshow posted:Gonna put my stock recommendation of Locke and Key here. My favorite series of all time. I'm surprised Locke and Key isn't as big as something like Harry Potter, I think it's that good. Edit - Not to say Locke and Key is some kind of young adult type story, but I feel like if they actually released the show or movie (I think this is in the works) it could be huge. G-Whizard fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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ovaries posted:Wytches sounds great. Are there any other cool recent horror series/miniseries I should check out to get into the Halloween spirit? I know Kirkman doesn't have much of a good rep here, but I'd recommend his recent series 'Outcast'. Only four issues are out and so far, it's about a depressed man-child and his priest exorcising demons by punching. That said, it is a lot more grounded than his other series, demons aside. Set in a small town in, I want to say, North-Eastern united states. The people who they're dealing with aren't sadistic assholes who want to murder their families, but normal people who are hurt, hurt others, and maybe go crazy due to possession. As such, a lot of the possessed people they punch are secondary to the story of people with histories and differing personalities, all of whom have lives are affected by other people who either mean to or are forced to harm others. It's dark and brooding, and is completely sold by it's artwork and coloring. What it does so well is make darkness seem hostile and threatening, and make light seem dangerous like a knife. As well, Kirkman himself says an ending has been set with a goal in mind, so hopefully it won't fall into Walking Dead's or Invincible's aimless Kirkman-Syndrome.
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There's Severed, The Wake and American Vampire also by Scott Snyder and Batman: The Black Mirror by Snyder and Jock, the Wytches artist. It's all good, creepy stuff.
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I grabbed Wytches because I liked The Wake so much. I think Jock's art is awesome, and the color in Wytches is super cool. Copperhead #2 did not disappoint. I especially liked his little note at the end about writing it 'Marvel Style' - the art is great and it's nice to give the tempo up to the artist in a rough-and-tumble type story.
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Has anyone else read the Wrenchies yet? It is super high quality, Farel Dalrymple blew me away. Most likely you'd be familiar with his work on Prophet, but Wrenchies is a much more mature solo effort. He also posts his project "It will all hurt" on Study Group comics website, so if you're interested go read it here http://studygroupcomics.com/main/category/title/it-will-all-hurt/ I wish I could show this nunchuck fight early on in the Wrenchies, the layouts and flow of action Farel Dalrymple draws at times is great. 
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pugnax posted:I grabbed Wytches because I liked The Wake so much. I think Jock's art is awesome, and the color in Wytches is super cool.
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James Gunn interview with Grant Morrison includes the first art from his and Chris Burnham's upcoming Image series. http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/grant-morrison#_  
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Kull the Conqueror posted:First of all, I really appreciate your whole post and apologies in advance for plucking just a couple snippets. I suppose I think it's best to start here, though. In a concise manner, what is Conan supposed to be about, to you? I'm curious to see what your (or anyone's) take looks like compared to mine. Sorry I left you hanging, I really want to continue this conversation. I was on "vacation" all last week remodeling my kitchen and living room until midnight or so every night, so I didn't have much time to sit down and think/talk about Conan. Tonight or so I'll sit down with the Howard original and the Wood comic of Queen and give you a proper response. Heavy Metal posted:Terrific stuff. Truman adapting Howard stories, I think you'll dig it. Okay, sounds awesome. And yeah, the earlier Dark Horse adaptations are pretty much pitch-perfect to my eyes.
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I read Roche Limit from Image...and I didn't get it? Some of my friends said it was good but it seemed like it was nothing? Am I missing something? It seems a lot like The Fuse. Is this writer known for ramping up to cool stuff or is this just not my jam?
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I burned through the first volume of Southern Bastards. It felt a LOT like Scalped, especially in terms of theme and pacing. An ex-military protagonist who is super reluctant to go back home but does so anyway, only to find that said home is basically run by a "legitimate businessman" who everyone knows is a monster but does nothing about it. At the end of it there's even a main character death, but obviously the details surrounding the spoiler is way different. I realize a lot of it is superficial, but it all adds up to this impression that it is kinda samey, like it was sort of a reskin. But after the events of #4 (and the general strength of Scalped), I'm still going to give it a chance.
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Just read the first trade of East of West. I liked it, but it feels to ~big~ to me, like the concepts are just too much. The world is really neat though, it just seems like the supporting cast is more interesting than the main characters.
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I hope this isn't gauche, but I just worked on a project that I'm really excited about and I was hoping I could share it here: I wrote a jazz soundtrack to Image's C.O.W.L. that's being released next week. It's a partner piece to the first TPB--something to listen to while you read it. I worked on it with Kyle Higgins and Bear McCreary (of Walking Dead fame) and you can check out lo-fi samples on Amazon. We're hoping to press vinyl soon.
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That actually makes me want to read C.O.W.L
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negative x posted:I hope this isn't gauche, but I just worked on a project that I'm really excited about and I was hoping I could share it here: Comics and accompanying vinyl? Here, just take all my drat money.
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