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Cloks posted:I apologise if people have been talking about AD After Death already and I missed it but I just picked up the first two and I'm really liking it. The story seems Nolan-esque but where I personally find Christopher Nolan pretentious, this story is engaging and sad. Very curious as to how it ends. If you like A.D., I would recommend checking out both Scott Snyder's Swamp Thing and Jeff Lemire's Animal Man, both of which launched in DC's New 52 period and are best read in tandem because they intertwine a lot (and explicitly cross over in both of their third volumes with the "Rotworld" saga). You'll get to see an earlier example of how the two of them work as collaborators (albeit with Lemire writing rather than doing art), and both series are good mixes of superheroics and visceral horror that expand a lot on the mythology of a dark corner of the DC Universe. If you're in the mood for straight superhero stories, I'm also a big fan of Snyder's Batman run. It's kind of a big undertaking, but there are a few different points you can jump on depending on how completionist you want to be. The first volume he did is called The Black Mirror and focuses on Dick Grayson during a recent period where he was filling in as Gotham City's Batman while Bruce was having globetrotting adventures in another book. The main storyline is intertwined with a more suspense/horror-oriented story set largely in the past, and they eventually come together. The next Batman thing Snyder did was a miniseries called The Gates of Gotham that expands on the history of Gotham City and shows Dick leading a small team of other Bat-sidekicks, but this was maybe kind of forgettable compared to the better parts of Snyder's run. His stuff really kicks into high gear with the first volume of his New 52 run, called The Court of Owls, which features the return of Bruce, does a lot more world-building and shadowy conspiracy stuff, and sets up some really good stories later on. Not to give anything away, but the Joker shows up a couple of times later, and for my money Snyder writes one of the scariest Jokers I've ever read. I'd say either The Black Mirror or The Court of Owls is a good starting point depending on your preference. RhymesWithTendon fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Jan 18, 2017 |
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Thanks for the recommendations, everyone. I reserved three first three volumes of Animal Man and Swamp Thing, Severed and Wake from my library. They have all of American Vampire and Snyder's Batman as well but I think eight books is enough for now. I also read Huck and it's okay at best. I like the art and it's always nice to read a positive story but it doesn't do anything revolutionary or even interesting.
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I picked up Rumble vol 1 on a whim because the guy on the cover looks cool and holy poo poo this a neat comic book. Absolutely gorgeous art and it has a sort of dirty fantasy to it that reminds me of The Maxx? I haven't even finished the volume yet and I'm hooked.
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Sigma-X posted:I picked up Rumble vol 1 on a whim because the guy on the cover looks cool and holy poo poo this a neat comic book. https://www.humblebundle.com/books/image-comics-book-bundle I feel like you ought to have waited a couple of hours.
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Jan 19, 2017 01:27
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KaosMachina posted:https://www.humblebundle.com/books/image-comics-book-bundle eeeeeh this is a REAL LIVE BOOK and not digital though, and it was $6 (pretty much any Vol1 from Image on Amazon is $6) I saw that though and yeah there's a bunch of poo poo I already own on there. That is a drat fine humble bundle.
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Jan 19, 2017 02:07
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Shitshow posted:Was Prophet ever finished? Yeah Earth war finished a few months back.
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Jan 19, 2017 03:07
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Looking at that bundle, how is Mirror? I'd get it primarily for Emma Rios's art, but would be happy if there was good writing in there too!
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Shitshow posted:Was Prophet ever finished? Nothing is ever finished.
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So Curse Words was a lot of fun. Looking forward to more, and I recommend checking it out if you like really dumb fun.
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GrandpaPants posted:Looking at that bundle, how is Mirror? I'd get it primarily for Emma Rios's art, but would be happy if there was good writing in there too! I read it not knowing it was part of Brandon Graham and Marian Church land's fantasy world collective. Pretty art, but a poo poo ton of proper nouns, royalty heirarchy, and magical concepts to wade through. I personally didn't make it past the first issue.
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I tried checking out that new image book rockstars but it seems to be getting pretty high off its own farts
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I can't remember who suggested lumberjanes but it owns so ty
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site posted:I can't remember who suggested lumberjanes but it owns so ty Agreed. I haven't read up to the latest issue, but what I have read has been phenomenal.
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Checking in with this thread because I got The Spire for Christmas but only got around to reading it over the last couple of nights. It's really drat good. Whole thing feels like it could take place in China Mieville's Bas-Lag world (eg: Perdido Street Station). Art is great, there are some cool LGBT themes (including a trans* character, for whoever was asking a couple pages back), and it's just a great story full stop. The basics: Fantasy city in the shape of a giant spire, filled with humans and "skews" (mutants and non-human races, all grouped together and hated by most humans). The Baron of the city dies which kicks off a conspiracy, a string of gruesome murders, the resurfacing of dark secrets, and a looming war with a neighbouring city. Ends very neatly with some super satisfying reveals. The whole thing is about a 200 page paperback and goes by in a blur. I can't recommend enough.
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New Rucka at Image https://imagecomics.com/content/view/the-old-guard-marches-into-stores-this-february
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I think Image's publishing schedule has broken me. I realize they're great for creators, they can create at their own pace, create what they want etc. But I literally have no idea what is coming out when, and because of that I don't even bother trying to keep track. Mind the Gap? Copperhead? Black Magick? Some of these might have even released new issues by now for all I know. I'm not really a pull list guy, and I can't be bothered to be constantly reading the weekly release schedules, I just go into the store every now and then and grab what I want. In addition to that, I'm now a bit gunshy about getting invested in nearly any of their interesting titles, because for all I know it'll just peter out in 9 months time.
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I'm actually pissed about Mind the Gap. It's been effectively dead for two and a half years, and as far as I know, McCann has yet to say anything about it. Granted, it was getting really weird even before that point, but it's sort of a murder mystery, which is a terrible thing to leave incomplete. I want to say somebody said on here that McCann had just run out of money to pay the artist or something.
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Scaramouche posted:I think Image's publishing schedule has broken me. I realize they're great for creators, they can create at their own pace, create what they want etc. But I literally have no idea what is coming out when, and because of that I don't even bother trying to keep track. Mind the Gap? Copperhead? Black Magick? Some of these might have even released new issues by now for all I know. I'm not really a pull list guy, and I can't be bothered to be constantly reading the weekly release schedules, I just go into the store every now and then and grab what I want. In addition to that, I'm now a bit gunshy about getting invested in nearly any of their interesting titles, because for all I know it'll just peter out in 9 months time. That's... sort of the point of pull-lists? You're asking the store to keep track of that for you so you can just go in and pick up the things you already know you like, and can still grab new stuff off the shelves. You know it doesn't prevent you buying stuff NOT on your list, right?
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Scaramouche posted:I think Image's publishing schedule has broken me. I realize they're great for creators, they can create at their own pace, create what they want etc. But I literally have no idea what is coming out when, and because of that I don't even bother trying to keep track. Mind the Gap? Copperhead? Black Magick? Some of these might have even released new issues by now for all I know. I'm not really a pull list guy, and I can't be bothered to be constantly reading the weekly release schedules, I just go into the store every now and then and grab what I want. In addition to that, I'm now a bit gunshy about getting invested in nearly any of their interesting titles, because for all I know it'll just peter out in 9 months time. I basically buy all my Image titles once a year during a big comixology sale and catch up all at once.
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Gaz-L posted:That's... sort of the point of pull-lists? You're asking the store to keep track of that for you so you can just go in and pick up the things you already know you like, and can still grab new stuff off the shelves. You know it doesn't prevent you buying stuff NOT on your list, right? zoux posted:I basically buy all my Image titles once a year during a big comixology sale and catch up all at once. These are both good approaches. If you prefer digital (or just don't have a comics store around) but want to get things as they come out Comixology also does subscriptions where when a new issue arrives they email you a week in advance (so you can cancel if you change your mind) and then charge your card and put it in your library.
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How is Image's print subscription service? I've used Marvel's before but stopped when i was getting comics 3-4 weeks after their release
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New Über is out. Basically making Boston into a Hiroshima commentary, and setting up the general plan for the Americans in the upcoming issues. Was more tactful than I'd thought.
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BigglesSWE posted:New Über is out. Basically making Boston into a Hiroshima commentary, and setting up the general plan for the Americans in the upcoming issues. Was more tactful than I'd thought. Made me sick to my stomach to read... but that was the point. Ubers are nuclear weapon analogs, and the destruction they wreck should be horrifying and sickening, but not for its own sake. An appropriately haunting issue. The American plan from this point forward reminds me of the proposals to invade the Japanese home islands if the atomic bombs hadn't worked. A lot of men are probably going to die repelling this invasion.
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Reminds me more of the Soviet "human wave" tactics employed during the first half of the "Great Patriotic War". These coming issues is gonna be rough. Gillen said somewhere that this first arc is building up for issue 8, after which things become "something else". I REALLY hope this won't turn into a Wolfenstein: New Order sort of thing, with the nazis taking over the world and the rest of it just being a resistance story. We've had a whole bunch of those, I find it much more interesting to have a conventional war that simply last longer than WWII ever did. As it is, I expect the Americans to take horrific casualties but I would also think that there's a ticking clock element for the Germans, seeing as they can probably not bring in a steady stream of reinforcements. Every dead german soldier on American soil is a tiny victory for the Americans, and I think they'll figure this out in due time.
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Don't worry, gillen has stated several times that the Nazis won't win, it's just that they're making the Allies eat it first
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Yeah, the Nazis themselves have said they know they can't win, and they're just doing their most to make sure no one else does, either.
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In materials, manufacturing capacity, and just straight number of people the Germans are out of their league. The only advantage they have at this point is that they got human enhancement technology first and actually waited to unleash it at a point where it could turn the tide. Without Battleships this would be similar to regular warfare, just more bloody, basically the fighting would be similar to what happened in Uber's Okinawa. It's the presence of the three German Battleships that has destroyed all balance. Their mounting injuries is making them increasingly less relevant, and certainly less capable of defeating a fresh Allied assault. Once the Allies manage to complete more than one Battleship and field them against the Nazis, the war is all but over except for the screaming. I wouldn't be surprised though if Russia levels the rest of Europe in the process. That is, unless something really weird happens that I suspect is coming later this series. aliens, it's got to be aliens
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Speaking of World War 2: has anyone here read Garth Ennis' Dreaming Eagles? Is it worth picking up?
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Just read the new Locke and Key holiday one-shot, and you're all dumb for not posting about it. That was a great little story, and I dunno if Rodriguez's art has ever been better.
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Someone want to explain the ending of Chew for me? Was he just mad that they made him sad and do some bad stuff? I hate endings that don't wrap stuff up neatly (I am a lazy reader).
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Kwyndig posted:That is, unless something really weird happens that I suspect is coming later this series. aliens, it's got to be aliens Yeah they're definitely testing us. They gave us the technology to create a Utopia, and we used it to make war even more horrific and gruesome. All those monologues that sound like historical accounts, the last issue we'll find out that it's all testimony at the Trial of the Human Race.
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scuba school sucks posted:Yeah they're definitely testing us. They gave us the technology to create a Utopia, and we used it to make war even more horrific and gruesome. All those monologues that sound like historical accounts, the last issue we'll find out that it's all testimony at the Trial of the Human Race. Oh certainly, enhanced humans could easily save lives. Even with the basic enhancement they'd be invaluable in construction, disaster relief, and exploration. A Battleship class, with their greatly upgraded Halo effect in scope, is nearly unlimited in their potential for good. We've seen them turn dirt into food, shape flesh, and transform air into steel. While most of the more extreme effects are Maria, there's been nothing to show that these effects aren't possible at a smaller scale by other users of the Halo Effect.
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BigglesSWE posted:New Über is out. Basically making Boston into a Hiroshima commentary, and setting up the general plan for the Americans in the upcoming issues. Was more tactful than I'd thought. Uber's gore has been good, I think. It's always pretty gorey and yeah sure sometimes it's cool to see the spectacle, but there's also really horrifying things in there like Colossus' fate when he was deployed and now this, which actually made me uncomfortable. The part with the mother trying to get her daughter out from under part of the house.
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Kwyndig posted:In materials, manufacturing capacity, and just straight number of people the Germans are out of their league. The only advantage they have at this point is that they got human enhancement technology first and actually waited to unleash it at a point where it could turn the tide. Without Battleships this would be similar to regular warfare, just more bloody, basically the fighting would be similar to what happened in Uber's Okinawa. It's the presence of the three German Battleships that has destroyed all balance. Their mounting injuries is making them increasingly less relevant, and certainly less capable of defeating a fresh Allied assault. I want to know what Turing is working on!
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Sanford posted:Someone want to explain the ending of Chew for me? Was he just mad that they made him sad and do some bad stuff? I hate endings that don't wrap stuff up neatly (I am a lazy reader). They killed the woman he loved, his best friend, and millions of people. I don't blame him for holding a grudge.
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