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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I love Dillon too. I feel like people would not remember Preacher half so fondly if not for his art. Dillon's art in Preacher was pretty good though: 
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Alhazred posted:Dillon's art in Preacher was pretty good though: I like his art in Hellblazer, too. His contributions make the Mortal Clay arc particularly gruesome.
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For anyone looking to start a 8 book serie, The Kitchen's first issue was a lot of fun to read.
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Goatmask posted:Speaking of Vertigo and Grant Morrison, how is the post-Morrison run of Animal Man? Yeah, Milligan's run was a pretty worthy follow-up. It was a surreal and rather lighthearted story and you could see a clear stylistic connection to stories like Coyote Gospel, while maintaining his own voice (and not directly aping Morrison's style) and also without negating Morrison's conclusion. Delano's run is just terrible, unfortunately. The vegetarian preaching goes overboard (Morrison did it too but he had a far better sense of how to leaven it), and he succumbs to the same malady many British writers do when they figure it's their mission to pull the curtain back on The Real America. usenet celeb 1992 fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Nov 12, 2014 |
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Alhazred posted:Dillon's art in Preacher was pretty good though: Yes, that's his art in Preacher.1 1. Vast majority of art may not look even remotely as good.
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xenilk posted:For anyone looking to start a 8 book serie, The Kitchen's first issue was a lot of fun to read. Echoing this. Sets up plenty of plot for issue 2 to hit the ground running. Knowing it's scheduled for 8 issues raises my hopes that this won't spin its wheels at all.
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I read The Wake and was disappointed. The first half is interesting but it feels padded--it spends more than three issues on what is basically one long action sequence. Then the second half is crammed full because it has to introduce a completely new future world and also explain everything, and most of the explanation is done in the last issue as a ridiculous plot dump. Maybe the idea was good but the execution needed to be a lot better.
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I have zero clue what's going to happen in the last issue of Unwritten. 
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Action Jacktion posted:I read The Wake and was disappointed. The first half is interesting but it feels padded--it spends more than three issues on what is basically one long action sequence. Then the second half is crammed full because it has to introduce a completely new future world and also explain everything, and most of the explanation is done in the last issue as a ridiculous plot dump. Maybe the idea was good but the execution needed to be a lot better. Fully agree. It really lst steam in the second half and there were some borderline incoherent panel layouts that made me think I had missed a page. I just glazed over the end and didn't quite get what was going on other than,"Well poo poo. Guess its over."
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Kull the Conqueror posted:I have zero clue what's going to happen in the last issue of Unwritten. Hope you don't mind waiting til February to find out. 
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cptn_dr posted:Hope you don't mind waiting til February to find out. Whaaaaat? God dammit all!
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Action Jacktion posted:I read The Wake and was disappointed. The first half is interesting but it feels padded--it spends more than three issues on what is basically one long action sequence. Then the second half is crammed full because it has to introduce a completely new future world and also explain everything, and most of the explanation is done in the last issue as a ridiculous plot dump. Maybe the idea was good but the execution needed to be a lot better. When I finished The Wake I went online looking for reviews of the last issue and was baffled that more than a few comic-reviewing websites (granted, not many) seemed to really like it. Yes, (tiny) bits of the ending were seeded in previous issues, and yes, the title of the book has numerous meanings, but that doesn't make the book good when it hits the end and just goes "uhhh... everything is fine now". I think if the names on the cover were replaced the book would have been panned (albeit with positive comments towards art). A good chunk of the positive reviews kinda read like they considered the back half/ending as an avenue for future fan-fiction/D&D campaigns, and I just can't relate to that.
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http://www.vertigocomics.com/blog/2014/12/15/vertigo-group-solicits-march-2015 STRANGE SPORTS STORIES #1 Written by various Art by various Cover by PAUL POPE 1:13 Variant cover by MIKE MITCHELL On sale MARCH 18 • 40 pg, 1 of 4, FC, $4.99 US • MATURE READERS Comics’ top talents, including some making their Vertigo debut, take on the classic DC Comics anthology title for four issues of strange, scary, sexy and sensational sports stories. Featuring stories and art by Brian Azzarello, CM Punk, Paul Pope, Gilbert Hernandez, Lauren Beukes, Ben McCool, Ivan Brandon, Monica Gallagher, Lee Loughridge, Nick Dragotta, Christopher Mitten, Darick Robertson, Mark Finn, John Lucas, Gabe Soria, Ronald Wimberly, Michael DiMotta, Tim Fish, Rael Lyra and many more! Ahaha awesome.
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Huh, I hadn't heard they were going to do a comic adaptation of The Wolf Among Us. Might be the first Fable comic I pick up in a long while.
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Kull the Conqueror posted:I have zero clue what's going to happen in the last issue of Unwritten. Oh my God how do you do that to people in the second-last issue of the series?
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Chairman Capone posted:Huh, I hadn't heard they were going to do a comic adaptation of The Wolf Among Us. Might be the first Fable comic I pick up in a long while. Seems pretty pointless if it's just a straight adaptation. The art doesn't look that great either.
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Is Fable not any good? I enjoyed The Wolf Among Us but it's my only contact with the series.
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Obliterati posted:Is Fable not any good? I enjoyed The Wolf Among Us but it's my only contact with the series. It was pretty novel when it started, and I enjoyed it up until it reached its "natural conclusion," but then it went on for like another 100 issues after that and they haven't been very good. Also the not-at-all-subtle right wing sermonizing towards the end. I still read it though because I have no willpower  Art is still nice, at least.
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Obliterati posted:Is Fable not any good? I enjoyed The Wolf Among Us but it's my only contact with the series.
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Obliterati posted:Is Fable not any good? I enjoyed The Wolf Among Us but it's my only contact with the series. To give you an example of what GrandpaPants mentioned, he pushes right-wing political positions and analogies a fair bit which can be a big turn off. It has been years since I read it, but near the climax of the story he has Bigby push a Pro-Israel position which is relatively mainstream for the USA cue to the unique pro-Israel atmosphere there but would be viewed as incredibly one-sided and stupid pretty much anywhere else in the world. However the thing is it's not subtext, he outright states it.  So if you hadn't figured it out beforehand, that will then clue you in that there was a political subtext of a lot of the earlier story - like the Arabic fables with their drat genies (WMDs) - which push forward positions that are a lot less mainsteam and acceptable even within the USA.
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team overhead smash posted:To give you an example of what GrandpaPants mentioned, he pushes right-wing political positions and analogies a fair bit which can be a big turn off. Also the witch who gains power by killing babies does it in the real world by funding abortion clinics.
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That's actually super disheartening. I just picked up the TPB of volume 1 and was really enjoying it. How long before it goes to poo poo?
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Cabinet posted:That's actually super disheartening. I just picked up the TPB of volume 1 and was really enjoying it. How long before it goes to poo poo? It stays good with occasional painfully awkward scenes or allegories up until issue #75, at which point the plot steadily goes downhill so you might as well stop there.
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Cabinet posted:That's actually super disheartening. I just picked up the TPB of volume 1 and was really enjoying it. How long before it goes to poo poo? The conservative viewpoints are always there, but its not until the Israel analogy it becomes blatant, and rereading it you begin to see it more.
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So is anybody reading The Kitchen?
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I feel like the only redeeming issue in the past year has been that episode where Bigby meets his oldest son.
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Benny the Snake posted:So is anybody reading The Kitchen? I read the first one. I won't be reading any more.
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Benny the Snake posted:So is anybody reading The Kitchen? I read both current issues and am subscribed.
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I just got my final Lucifer trade and I got feels putting that last book on the shelf. So I prompltly loaded up issue one on the iPad. I'll never escape.
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Jedit posted:I read the first one. I won't be reading any more. I enjoyed the first issue, haven't gotten to the second, yet.
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Benny the Snake posted:So is anybody reading The Kitchen? I like it, and I'm not normally a fan of 70s mobster stuff. The sequence in issue 2 where they were talking about Tommy was neat, Masters has a good voice for this, and Doyle's pencils and fashion sense really work for it.
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I've been really enjoying The Kitchen. I'm kinda torn in that the miniseries nature points towards a definite ending, presumably the girls ending up in prison just as their husbands get out or something, but it could have had kind of Breaking Bad/Sopranos legs. Doyle's art is great, and her expressions are great, especially with how fierce Kath gets. The pacing is a little confused, though. Like, the events so far seem like they've taken place over a week or two, yet the girls are already seen as the power in the Irish mob?
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Gaz-L posted:The pacing is a little confused, though. Like, the events so far seem like they've taken place over a week or two, yet the girls are already seen as the power in the Irish mob? They broke a couple of eggs, everyone else smells the omelette.
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For any Sweet Tooth fans, there's a new story in Vertigo Quarterly Black this week. http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2015/01/26/preview-monday-gotham-by-midnight-3-and-vertigo-quarterly-black-1#17 Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 08:49 on Jan 27, 2015 |
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I finished reading Lucifer for the first time yesterday. Holy poo poo, I think I enjoyed it even more than Sandman, another great book that I waited too long to read. What I loved the most was how Lucifer's selfishness was never played down in order to make him a "good guy".
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Soonmot posted:I finished reading Lucifer for the first time yesterday. Holy poo poo, I think I enjoyed it even more than Sandman, another great book that I waited too long to read. What I loved the most was how Lucifer's selfishness was never played down in order to make him a "good guy". Yeah, I'm pretty sure Lucifer is one of the few spinoffs that manages to be even better than it's source. And on that note, I've been re-reading The Unwritten in prep for the final issue. It really is one of the best comics ever written. The 28th can't come soon enough.
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drat... I need to start reading Lucifer. A friend got me into Sandman around ten years ago and at the time she told me to read Lucifer next because it was even better, but after Sandman I just didn't think it was possible, so I kept putting it off. I've seen enough people say the same sentiments now that I'm definitely feeling the need to get into it. Skimming the article on Wiki, I see it's collected into 11 volumes - there aren't any sort of side-stories or the like I need to also check out, are there?
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Chairman Capone posted:drat... I need to start reading Lucifer. A friend got me into Sandman around ten years ago and at the time she told me to read Lucifer next because it was even better, but after Sandman I just didn't think it was possible, so I kept putting it off. I've seen enough people say the same sentiments now that I'm definitely feeling the need to get into it. It's been collected more recently into bigger trades. The whole series and the mini, one-shots and stuff are in 5 volumes.
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The new Quarterly is out. How is it? I'm considering picking it up. Also, "The Kitchen" is really, really good.
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It comes out tomorrow. I've enjoyed all the quarterlies so far, but I dig anthologies, so I'm getting it regardless.
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