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Skwirl posted:I just listen to a lot of podcasts about X-Men and a bunch of adult queer people keep talking about reading their parent's or older sibling's collection of Claremont X-Men at about that age being an eye opening experience. I get it. He just doesn't seem to be into superhero stuff. It just proves how far apart we are when you look at our family tree!
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Uthor posted:I need Xmas comic gifts for my cousins' kids! Just adding to this, if your not adverse to newspaper comic strips you might want to try Wallace the Brave by Will Henry and Phoebe and her Unicorn by Dana Simpson, both of which have several collected volumes out. Both strips have a strong Calvin and Hobbes vibe and are a lot of fun. You might also want to try John Allison's Bad Machinery which features English school age children solving mysteries that often involve the supernatural/paranormal. Think Scooby-Doo but the monsters are real, although that makes it sound more sinister than it actually is. These strips are posted in the Newspaper comic strip thread, if you want to check them out first.
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(Bone, Lumberjanes, gotta start a series for the youngest one...)
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Defenestrategy posted:More like Nailbiter please. Already read through hack/slash, harrow county, nice house, something killing children, and locke and key. So I guess horror mystery? Glad to hear it! E: Vulpes Vulpes posted:I don't know if this is the thread for unsolicited recommendations, but ALL AGAINST ALL #1 comes out tomorrow and it's got my highest recommendation. It's ALIEN if the humans were aliens and the xenomorph was Tarzan. Endless Mike fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Dec 12, 2022 |
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I started reading New Masters and even though I just started it so I don't know whether I'll actually like it I'd love some recommendation for what to read next, because it did make me realize I've been wanting to read a specific type of story. I'm looking for sci-fi and fantasy that doesn't focus on the big stuff, but instead is centered around the common folk and those that just have to make due in a world where there's an ever present *thing* that affects their life. Preferably really alien or non-western. I want to learn about new cultures and experience a different perspective, you know? I remember ( So kinda small scale, slice of life stuff in a setting that's fantastically different (either scifi or fantasy), preferably non-western, if that makes sense?
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It's western, but Transmetropolitan is mostly slice of future-city life stuff interspaced with plot.
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Thanks! I actually read it but it's been over a decade so I could do a reread. Like you said, it's western but I think just alien enough to scratch the itch. I didn't include a list of things I already read because I don't really keep track of it and what I'm asking for is too specific to be able to really list, you know? You also reminded me that I should get back into Saga, because that also has a lot of slice of life in alien cultures stuff, even though it's definitely more space opera and I'm looking for shorter stories and not epic storylines. Some more recommendations would be highly appreciated though, especially if it's inspired by South American, African or non-Japanese Asian culture. (Nothing against Japanese culture or anything but it's fairly mainstream especially in scifi/cyberpunk media, you know, but don't hesitate if it's it's really good anyway!) Also I think I'm going to re-read Bacigalupi's The Wind Up Girl because I remember that being really good and exactly what I'm looking. That's a novel though so not really what this thread is for.
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Hickman's East of West isn't really small scale, but it takes place in a bonkers version of Earth which is pretty fun. Monstress is also not small scale, but it involves travel through a very different fantasy world and going into its history. Far Sector, a Green Lantern by NK Jemisin (Read Broken Earth!) is much more pure sci-fi and might work for you. I remember liking Trees, but I think Ellis just left it hanging, although I see now that Vol 3 came out 4 years after vol 2, so maybe it wrapped up?
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I think I read Vol. 3 of Trees and I remember liking it. It focused on a small town cop in Russia iirc, bit of a murder mystery, but it didn't really give any final answers or a definite conclusion to the big question which I found fitting. It added to the alien otherworldly nature of it all. The Trees were never the focus, just part of the setting. Personally, I love not getting all the answers when it's thematically appropriate and doesn't cause obvious plot holes or feel like a cheap cop out. It leaves me wondering and allows me to fantasize and speculate. I'll check out your recommendations and check in in a couple of days to see if anyone else has some and let you know what I think.
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Looking for something new to read. I will take anything. I have a slight preference for lesser known but still good comic book runs like say, Jason Aaron's Avengers run (I have no idea if it was good, I'm just using it as an example of what I'd prefer as opposed to say, something in the vein of Walt Simonson's Thor run, which is quite well known), but as said, I will take any recommendation, any genre, anything. You might recommend stuff I've read before, that's fine, you can't read my mind and reading history. Just make it clear if you're recommending something bad just so I can see how bad it is.
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Cornwind Evil posted:Looking for something new to read. I will take anything. Judge Dredd, and anything by John Wagner. I recommend the Judge Dredd Complete Case Files series, vol 2 in particular is a cool early one, has two of the first longer form tales. For a taste of more modern vibe, America by John Wagner is a must. Also anything with Carlos Ezquerra working with Wagner, like Necropolis or The Apocalypse War. And their sci-fi western Strontium Dog too. Savage Dragon, Ultimate Collection 1 just hit, and it's available in a bunch of forms. One of my favs, ever creative and quirky good stuff. Invincible, just a drat good run, and the complete jam of 00s indie superhero excitement. This is hot right now but had to recommend anyway, ever in my top 3. Cobra: The Last Laugh, cool neo-noir tale that can be read on its own. Started with a forgotten GI Joe reboot, but this story is never forgotten. Danger Girl, the original mini-series. Some trades have an intro by Bruce Campbell. Power Girl, the Conner/Palmiotti run of 12 issues. Good times. Sin City, it was cool. Fist of the North Star, Ranma ½, One Piece, instant classics. Witchblade, the original Turner/Wahl/Z run. It is good. Ditto for early The Darkness by Ennis and Silvestri. Conan run of Busiek/Nord. Heavy Metal fucked around with this message at 06:34 on Dec 24, 2022 |
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Heavy Metal posted:Cobra: The Last Laugh, cool neo-noir tale that can be read on its own. Started with forgotten a GI Joe reboot, but this story is never forgotten. YESSSS. I always recommend this one to people! Some more recommendations: Chew. An action-horror-sci-fi-comedy-crime series set in a food-obsessed world where certain individuals have food-related super powers and the FDA is the most powerful government agency. Tony Chu is a cibopath who can get psychic readings from anything he eats, whether it's delicious food, evidence at a crime scene, or even dead bodies. He's the protagonist, but he doesn't even have the weirdest powers in the huge cast of characters. The TV adaptation of iZombie (where the female zombie protagonist helps the police solve murders by getting psychic readings from eating brains of the recently deceased) was a great, fun show, but kind of fixed it so we can't get a Chew adaptation, with a vaguely similar concept. Superior Foes of Spider-Man. A comedic crime caper book with five of Spidey's lesser villains reforming the Sinister Six (they never do find a sixth member) and making enemies of everyone, including each other. Nick Spencer writes terrific assholes, and Steve Lieber gets so many emotions and so much humor out of his expressive faces. Wildcats volume 2 #8-28 and Wildcats 3.0 #1-24. The cheesiest and most generic of the original Image Comics superhero teams got shaken up by Alan Moore, then completely reinvented in this underappreciated run by Joe Casey. What happens when soldiers no longer have a war to fight? What do they have left? How can they fit into the world? One loyal android takes over his dead mentor's mega-corporation and creates a safe, endlessly renewable power source that they sell to the world in the form of batteries. More than any of the fighting they ever did, this can truly change the world for the better and even save it... but of course, there are plenty of powerful institutions that won't let them. The Losers. This relatively obscure Vertigo series helped launch the careers of Andy Diggle and Jock. It's an action movie on paper, and I mean that in the best possible way. It even inspired an underrated movie adaptation starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Idris Elba, Zoe Saldana, and Chris Evans (as the comic relief character). Adventureman. Matt Fraction's love letter to the pulp heroes of yesteryear like Doc Savage, featuring some of the most gorgeous artwork I've ever seen by Terry and Rachel Dodson. A bookish, awkward single mom becomes the latest incarnation of a forgotten pulp hero, and her super-cool, super-competent, multicultural adopted sisters will become her team of specialists and experts. It's also a love letter to New York City. There are two beautiful hardcover collections out so far, collecting #1-9 between them. Deadshot: Bulletproof. Along with John Ostrander (Suicide Squad) and Gail Simone (Secret Six), Christos Gage becomes yet another artist who really GETS Deadshot, DC's mercenary marksman with a death wish. This story feels a lot like a Western, as Deadshot discovers he has a daughter being raised by a single mom, then does whatever he can to keep their crime-ridden neighborhood safe from bad guys who are way worse than he ever could be. I love the character, and I love this five-issue miniseries, collected in a TPB.
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My current faves are: 8 Billion Genies: everyone on earth gets one wish. Hijinx ensue. Do a Powerbomb: The daughter of the most famous female Japanese wrestler at the time sees her mom break her neck and die in the ring. The other wrestler involved and her have a rough 15ish years. They get the chance to go through an intergalactic wrestling tournament, and everywhere else wrestling is a real combat sport, but earth has preplanned theatrical pro wrestling, They decide to fight God and bring the mom back. It's finished up recently. The X line at Marvel: Everybody's loving and fighting. They have cured death for mutants, and formed a nation and other escalating things from there. Nightwing: I haven't liked Pete Spider-Man books in over a decade other than an arc here and there. Nightwing is the best Spider-Man style book that's been out in a very long time. Nightwing is grounded and has relationships. He's also pals with Superman. The nicest dude in DC is arguably the best book they're putting out now. The art is great too. Imagine Fraction's Hawkeye, but Nightwing is a success instead of a disaster. Zdarsky's Daredevil run and the other related books he writes. Daredevil is almost always a top tier book, and he's maintaining the tradition. Zdarsky writes a really good Batman too. He's over red batman and black daredevil and they are very different books. Maybe the current big 2's best writer right now. If you like Star Trek there's a pretty good new series just called Star Trek and it's a sequel of sorts to DS9. If you want nightmares I also recently read Stray Dogs and it was fantastic but also Jesus Christ man, that's hosed up. The Disneyesque art adds a lot to it too. I'm trapped at home with an autoimmune disorder. I read a ton of comics and have the Marvel and DC services. Can't go wrong with either, imo. Almost forgot Love Everlasting: A woman keeps finding herself in various cliched check out line romance stories. She either gets married or something bad happens. No matter what happens, at the moment she accepts or rejects the proposal a new story begins. The stories depicted as a 50s style melodrama but occasionally she wakes up and fights back. Lucifunk fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Dec 24, 2022 |
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Cornwind Evil posted:Looking for something new to read. I will take anything. I have a slight preference for lesser known but still good comic book runs like say, Jason Aaron's Avengers run (I have no idea if it was good, I'm just using it as an example of what I'd prefer as opposed to say, something in the vein of Walt Simonson's Thor run, which is quite well known), but as said, I will take any recommendation, any genre, anything. You might recommend stuff I've read before, that's fine, you can't read my mind and reading history. Just make it clear if you're recommending something bad just so I can see how bad it is. Stray Bullets by Lapham Lazarus by Rucka American Splendor by Pekar X-Men Legacy by Carey Superfuckers by Kochalka the Reckless series by Brubaker and Phillips Daredevil by Ann Nocenti (most issues 236-291) GOD IS BED fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Dec 24, 2022 |
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Dec 24, 2022 22:21
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Always and forever HobtownVulpes Vulpes posted:I finally picked up the first 2 volumes of the Hobtown Mystery Stories, The Case of the Missing Men and The Cursed Hermit, and I'm super taken with it. A surreal mix of Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys/Tom Swift YA adventure, surreal horror tinged with a Junji Ito sensibility, all with a veneer of 90s Atlantic Canadian cigarette smoke and spilled domestic beer (it's set in Nova Scotia in 1996, and I lived in PEI in 1996, so it's all very relatable to me). . Vulpes Vulpes fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Dec 25, 2022 |
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Is the Spider-Verse collection worth a read?
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Heavy Metal posted:Cobra: The Last Laugh, cool neo-noir tale that can be read on its own. Started with a forgotten GI Joe reboot, but this story is never forgotten. I also highly recommend the GI Joe series written by Paul Allor that should have really been A Thing but sadly didn't catch on. Also as a reminder for all things Hasbro IDW loses the license very soon so if you want to purchase them it's probably best to do so soon.
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Was Image's "American Jesus" interesting? I was looking up Tomm Coker stuff trying to find out of the Black Monday Murders are ever coming back.
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The first one was decent, the second and third are more of what I expected from Mark Millar. The art is consistently nice. I think it's about to conclude soon.
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Between "Something is Killing the Children" and "Gideon Falls", which is the better horror comic?
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Gideon Falls, please and thank you
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just throwing it out here but are there any good runs/comix of redemption stories similar to journey into mystery (kid loki) or incorruptible (minus the weird grooming poo poo) in the scope of following a character who was a total shitter and is trying against all odds to be better? for some reason nothing else was really coming to mind even though i swear i've read some good arcs of a similar vein. i ended up going through the classic run of thunderbolts recently and it was uh, not great (but very much of it's era!) and am the mood for that kinda stuff
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I haven't actually read it, but Irredeamable Ant-Man maybe? Ghost in Dark Reign era Thunderbolts? Dakken in Dark Avengers/his own book from that same time? Oh, oh, in the Williamson run of Thor where they all go to Hel to save a bunch of mortals tricked into damning themselves and Skurge tags along. He stood alone at Gjallerbru
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Fereydun posted:just throwing it out here but are there any good runs/comix of redemption stories similar to journey into mystery (kid loki) or incorruptible (minus the weird grooming poo poo) in the scope of following a character who was a total shitter and is trying against all odds to be better? The Shade's redemption arc throughout James Robinson's Starman series is one of my all-time favorite examples of that, especially if you read The Shade miniseries where it fits in chronologically. The Deadshot: Bulletproof miniseries by Christos Gage is another favorite redemption story, where the mercenary assassin with a death wish learns he has a daughter and finally has something to live for. It has the tone of a modern-day Western. While the Busiek and Nicieza Thunderbolts issues feel somewhat dated, I loved later Thunderbolts comics written by Warren Ellis, Andy Diggle, and especially Jeff Parker. Songbird, Mach V, Fixer, Ghost, and a few other characters continue to have terrific redemption arcs, especially contrasted against some psychos they have to work with later.
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Carey's X-Men Legacy has a couple of redemption arcs- Danger, Daken, Frenzy, and even Prof X.
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Fereydun posted:just throwing it out here but are there any good runs/comix of redemption stories similar to journey into mystery (kid loki) or incorruptible (minus the weird grooming poo poo) in the scope of following a character who was a total shitter and is trying against all odds to be better? Astro City: The Tarnished Angel
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:The Shade's redemption arc throughout James Robinson's Starman series is one of my all-time favorite examples of that, especially if you read The Shade miniseries where it fits in chronologically. I genuinely forget Songbird used to be Screaming Mimi most of the time when she shows up in something, her redemption arc is so good.
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StumblyWumbly posted:Astro City: The Tarnished Angel Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:The Deadshot: Bulletproof miniseries by Christos Gage is another favorite redemption story, where the mercenary assassin with a death wish learns he has a daughter and finally has something to live for. It has the tone of a modern-day Western. i checked these out and they were good! the bulletproof one definitely has this weird element of havin' to be in a larger universe/not rocking the boat too much i think but tarnished angel is great! that little bit at the heroes 'last' appearance when they're taking conquistador away is just absolutely gutwrenching and fantastic
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All of Astro City is really good along those lines. Life in the Big City is full of great one shots, including the greatest (not) Superman story ever told. Confession is really good too, and I almost recommended it as a redemption story but its a little not quite. The other ~14 books are solid, some highs and lows, but those first two are by far my favorites.
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Is this any good? I like Tom King and the premise sounds interesting https://www.instocktrades.com/products/dec220161d/love-everlasting-tp-vol-01
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What are some good currently running DC comics series? Priority would probably be weird poo poo, Green Lantern, the Flash, Superman, Wonder woman, then Batman, from most to least interested, but I would be down for any good runs.
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Hiro Protagonist posted:What are some good currently running DC comics series? Priority would probably be weird poo poo, Green Lantern, the Flash, Superman, Wonder woman, then Batman, from most to least interested, but I would be down for any good runs. Happily Flash is very good now if that's a favorite. Nightwing's probably DC's best ongoing at the moment with Tom Taylor at the helm, and he's also doing good thing on Superman. If you're looking for wild, there's also Taylor's medieval AU Dark Knights of Steel. Batgirls is a personal favorite but I'm a big fan of Cass Cain and Stephanie Brown, so bias.
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Nightwing Harley Quinn - The Animated Series Batgirls Taylor's Superman son of kal-el is good too but ngl while his heart is in the right place there are a couple 🙄 moments in it
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Human Target has maybe one or two issues left so it's technically still running.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:How is Where's the Furthest Place from Here? I enjoy it, but I'm a big Jawbreaker/Jets to Brazil fan. It's kinda confusing and takes a while to get going, but I expect that from a title loosely based on song lyrics.
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Cassa posted:What are the quintessential Hugo Strange stories? I'd suggest Matt Wagner's Batman and the Monster Men and the Doug Moench/Paul Gulacy "Prey" storyline from Legends of the Dark Knight (#s 11-15).
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GOD IS BED posted:I enjoy it, but I'm a big Jawbreaker/Jets to Brazil fan. It's kinda confusing and takes a while to get going, but I expect that from a title loosely based on song lyrics. As am I!
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Then jump on in, friend! The art is great, the characters are complex and intriguing, the world is weird and wild. It's a fun read.
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