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Chinston Wurchill posted:So Robert Kirkman is running a new Transformers and GI Joe shared universe with books by Daniel Warren Johnson and Joshua Williamson? And this was revealed in his new Image book which isn't obviously related? I'm tentatively excited! The only Transformers and GI Joe I care about is Tom Scioli's version, I should re-read those someday.
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Anything good ongoing out there fantasy wise? Already reading Monstress. Die was a bit too much for me.
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Synthbuttrange posted:Anything good ongoing out there fantasy wise? Already reading Monstress. Die was a bit too much for me. It ended last year, and is set in modern times, but Once and Future was a fun take on King Arthur coming back (it is not a good thing that he came back). Same writer as Die, but not as serious.
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Jul 11, 2023 08:11
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I love badass grandmas a lot
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Jul 11, 2023 08:34
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Synthbuttrange posted:Anything good ongoing out there fantasy wise? Already reading Monstress. Die was a bit too much for me. It’s not super-traditional fantasy but Kaya is very charming and the first TPB just came out.
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Jul 11, 2023 18:17
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I've started Starhenge by Liam Sharpe, but just moved cross country and haven't finished it yet, but it is both fantasy and hard scifi. I don't want to spoil anything but far far future magic is the basic thread. It seems like it's a Hickman/Gillen style story of big huge spanning ideas and also a little dreamlike.
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Jul 11, 2023 21:52
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Finished reading Sunshine & Roses and I didn't really enjoy the Amy Racecar stories. I didn't really need Lapham to explain the themes of the story over and over again.
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Jul 11, 2023 22:50
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8 Billion Genies is kindof fantasy. The premise is that the right billionth person is born, and everyone gets one wish from a personal genie. It’s like a post apocalyptic magic setting as some people try to survive everyone on earth’s crazy wishes overlapping.
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Jul 12, 2023 03:25
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Thorgal is a very standard fantasy bit it's also really good and has beautiful art. The premise is that a kid who was born by our ancient forefathers who traveled to space gets orphaned and raised by vikings. Oh, and the norse gods and maybe the christian god are very much real.
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Jul 12, 2023 11:30
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I just remembered some books you may enjoy. There are adaptations of several of the early Forgotten Realms Drizzt Do'Urden novels. If you've never read any of the novels, it's a good way to try them out. They may even be on Kindle for free to borrow as long as you have a Kindle device.
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Synthbuttrange posted:Anything good ongoing out there fantasy wise? Already reading Monstress. Die was a bit too much for me. I'll second Once and Future as well as Kaya. Khroma was another fantasy-ish one I enjoyed recently, and it was a mini so it won't take much work to catch up on. G. Willow Wilson just started a new fantasy series called The Hunger and the Dusk and issue 1 did a good job setting the scene. It seems promising. Kelly Thompson's Black Cloak is sort of a fantasy crime investigation and it's been good so far. I don't always love the art but the writing and premise are good. David Hazan's Monomyth is off to an interesting start after two issues. Modern folks are sucked into some kind of ancient (and horrible) school of magic. Going a few years back I really enjoyed Si Spurrier's Coda and Matt Kindt's Folklords. Not technically indie, but Philip Kennedy Johnson's The Last God was a pretty good dark fantasy. I thought it meandered a bit but you might like it more than I did. Oh, and Head Lopper is always fun. It's inconsistently published but worth checking out. Chinston Wurchill fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Jul 13, 2023 |
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Jul 13, 2023 18:47
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I may have asked this here previously, but is BRZRKR good? Based on nothing but the covers, I assumed it was in the vein of Rucka's Lazarus. I also have a local shop that is convenient for me to visit safely (immunotrainwreck) and I want to set up a box. The one book I pick up immediately is Love Everlasting, and I have the first 2 or 3 issues of All Against All that I haven't read yet. I also picked up the first 3 issues of that Kelly Thompson book. I like cyberpunk style scifi, not necessarily alien scifi cyberpunk. The afore mentioned Lazarus is a good example. Romance comics that aren't t&a and are about adults. Mr and Mrs X is one of my favorite series ever. I'm an early 80s kid, and no one will ever be as cool as Snake Eyes from GI Joe unless they are played by Harrison Ford. Ninjas and swords kick rear end. Not too dark of a theme. I've been trapped inside almost nonstop since the pandemic started. I prefer fun, but I'm not opposed to hyperviolence. I generally don't care for the standard manga art styles I see, but I'm not opposed. I try to have an open mind and try anything once. The Way of the Househusband on Netflix is terrific and my type of humor. Also a big Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell fan. (I'm old, my points of reference are generally 30 years old) I really liked Altered Carbon as books and the show. I just haven't been in a shop with much in it for years and have missed tons of stuff.
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if you like cyberpunk i thought the series of cyberpunk 2077 minis were actually pretty good
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Lucifunk posted:I may have asked this here previously, but is BRZRKR good? Based on nothing but the covers, I assumed it was in the vein of Rucka's Lazarus.
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Endless Mike posted:I haven't read Lazarus, so I can't compare, but I found BRZRKR mediocre, at best. Like it definitely feels like a movie pitch that got rejected so he just made a comic of it, and it definitely felt too long for the store they were telling. Art's pretty bad, too. Thanks for the heads up. I'm always tempted, but never buy it. I also used to play the pencil and paper Cyberpunk game in college and I loved the video game a ton. I didn't know about those, so thanks for that recommendation too.
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Jul 17, 2023 22:17
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Endless Mike posted:and it definitely felt too long for the store they were telling didn't help that issues came out like every 4 months. i think i stopped bothered looking for it halfway through
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Lucifunk posted:I like cyberpunk style scifi, not necessarily alien scifi cyberpunk. The afore mentioned Lazarus is a good example. If you like Cyberpunk and think Harrison Ford is cool, maybe try the Blade Runner comics? And if you like romance comics without T&A, Strangers in Paradise is probably something you should read once.
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Oh yeah blade runner 2019 and 2029 are good e: oh poo poo now there's a 2039 as well?? need to catch up on that myself site fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Jul 18, 2023 |
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Good call on Strangers in Paradise. I've only read little bits. I didn't know about those Blade Runners, so I'll look out for them. I wrote a term paper on Blade Runner and Do Robots Dream of Electric Sheep for a "Film as Literature" course I took in college. I actually just got back from the shop I visited the other day and it was a totally different and bad vibe. I was just treasure hunting and I picked up some Hellfire Variants. I asked if he carried any 80s Uncanny I could look for in a box somewhere that I might be missing. "Yeah but they're all over, which issue?" So I see something called Deep Cuts and the first issue seems to be about New Orleans jazz and I'm from the area and lived in the city for quite a few years pre and post Katrina. I'll find out tonight what it's about. Kinda hoping for a straight history of the music, or something like Criminal but set down here. I see a box of variants and virgins. I like to display various comics in my office in frames. The cheapest variant was $30. I could shop on Whatnot and get that stuff cheaper in live auctions. Luckily I tracked down a 2nd shop a bit further out but if I set up a box, I get variants for cover price, and the shop is minority owned instead of the Simpsons guy I talked with. He also was weird about me coming masked. Like he walked to the back and just left me wandering the store and my voice sounds like gravel with my disease and I can't speak loudly to get his attention. I'm told my voice has mutated into Roy Kent from Ted Lasso. Just a weird and unpleasant visit. The other guy said he had all the indie stuff I read and what he did t he'd ordered and hoped to see me soon. Comic shops are fun.
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Ok, now I recommend Deep Cuts highly. It was a very realistic snapshot of life in the early 20s in New Orleans before Storyville got shut down. It is about jazz, and how it came to be synonymous with New Orleans. There's even sheet music in the back for the songs. I've got to get the rest of the issues that are out now. Nothing supernatural or anything, just a great story and fantastic art. The writer has to be from here. The Anne Rice shows on AMC also show an accurate view of New Orleans and how music is part of the magic.
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Tokyo Ghosts is pure cyberpunk fun. I would say it's worth checking out.
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Lucifunk posted:Ok, now I recommend Deep Cuts highly. It was a very realistic snapshot of life in the early 20s in New Orleans before Storyville got shut down. It is about jazz, and how it came to be synonymous with New Orleans. There's even sheet music in the back for the songs. I've got to get the rest of the issues that are out now. Nothing supernatural or anything, just a great story and fantastic art. The writer has to be from here.
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Lucifunk posted:Ok, now I recommend Deep Cuts highly. It was a very realistic snapshot of life in the early 20s in New Orleans before Storyville got shut down. It is about jazz, and how it came to be synonymous with New Orleans. There's even sheet music in the back for the songs. I've got to get the rest of the issues that are out now. Nothing supernatural or anything, just a great story and fantastic art. The writer has to be from here. If you like jazz, don't sleep on Blacksad: A Silent Hell. It's set in the 50s rather than the 20s, but New Orleans jazz is sort of constant. (Don't sleep on any of Blacksad, really - it's all great and there's an Integral edition - but you can read it in almost any order, so a library visit or digital hunt for ASH will tell you if it's worth buying the rest.) Jedit fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Jul 18, 2023 |
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I think one should read blacksad in order, there is character development and things that reference other things. Also the like ha ha ending of the first and the intro makes more sense up front than somewhat later. Blacksad is great
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Dave Chisolm made a couple of interesting OGNs about jazz. Chasin' The Bird is a bio about Charlie Parker, and Enter The Blue is about playing jazz itself (Dave has a doctorate in jazz trumpet). He's currently working on another bio comic about Miles Davis.
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I know that there are more publishers outside of the big two and there are more indie publishers outside of Image and Dark Horse and Boom so any recommendations for titles from stuff like Avatar, Black Mask, Aftershock etc?
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I think I may already own a digital copy of Tokyo Ghosts. Maybe some Blacksad too. As well as Deep Cuts nailed New Orleans, the fact that it's an anthology instead is great. NOLA is almost always portrayed wildly incorrectly, so it really stands out when it's done right. Kelly Thompson nails it too. I'm definitely going to pick the rest I can find up, and see some other locations at what I assume is the same level of accuracy and detail. The Dave Chisolm stuff is added to my list now too. I'm not necessarily a deep jazz fan, but I listen to it a lot, especially when I'm working. I just moved back to Louisiana and seeing that book seemed like a good sign. Madkal posted:I know that there are more publishers outside of the big two and there are more indie publishers outside of Image and Dark Horse and Boom so any recommendations for titles from stuff like Avatar, Black Mask, Aftershock etc? I've liked some books from AWA. They're all clearly movie bait, but they don't drag on and are short enough to not pad it out more than it needs. Honestly, these days most of my books are under the Image umbrella. Most of my collection is still in storage at the moment, or I could look for better specifics for you. I think some of the Comixology exclusive books are good based on the few I've read. I know Zdarsky's Public Domain is being printed with 2 issues out now that I know of. Snyder has several books in that line and I'd bet at least some of those are getting printed as well. Lucifunk fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Jul 18, 2023 |
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Now I want to see a flow diagram to help you decide what comic to read have a choice between the hero wielding a magical sword that slices through dimensions, or a trumpet.
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Both. The deviation is between if they have cybernetic implants or not and branches from there.
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Lucifunk posted:I think I may already own a digital copy of Tokyo Ghosts. Maybe some Blacksad too. There's a Gambit miniseries (Gambit of the X-Men) where he goes back to New Orleans and a huge part of it takes place in a huge underground catacomb.
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That must have been what caused the sinkhole near the Harrah's casino a few years back. Dat shady sumbitch trenchcoat in the tropics havin' rear end. The first time I was able to leave the house masked but to go anywhere but the doctors' my wife bought me the 1st appearance of Gambit and the GI Joe silent issue when I was turned around. Didn't get a chance to get them graded before moving, but I dug up some aughts books and found Ultimate Fallout 4 in a bag and board boxed since the month it came out. I'm going to be rich now for sure!
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Definitely not a comic at all but Confederacy of Dunces is a very famous book about New Orleans and also worth checking out if you want to read something with local flavour about the city.
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Madkal posted:Definitely not a comic at all but Confederacy of Dunces is a very famous book about New Orleans and also worth checking out if you want to read something with local flavour about the city. It’s so dang good
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Madkal posted:Definitely not a comic at all but Confederacy of Dunces is a very famous book about New Orleans and also worth checking out if you want to read something with local flavour about the city. Required reading in high school and college here. My wife and I both attended LSU and we each have copies from our courses, but different professors. They drat near put copies in hotel rooms next to the free bibles. I just thought of an interesting New Orleans book for y'all. And it's AWA for a non Image/Dark Horse as well. The Crimson Cage is a retelling of Macbeth, but in the world of New Orleans local wrestling in the 80s. I wouldn't put it above Do A Powerbomb, but it's a fresh take on all three aspects of the story. Lucifunk fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Jul 18, 2023 |
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I really need to spend more time in NOLA. My first time there was disastrous. The second was a blast. I didn't find the T'ieves Guild either time, though they found me the first and my wife the second.
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Stay out of alleys, no matter how nice everything is around you, if anyone says for he'll bet you $20 if he can tell where you got them shoes at, you answer "on my feet, in New Orleans" and keep moving. The quarter is for tourists and the people who want their money or whatever they have on them. The Marigny is a good midway point that has the music and food, but for locals. If the R Bar is still there drop in and get a haircut from a barkeeper and a shot. The back cover to the toilet in The Saint used to be constantly gritty from people crushing pills on it all night. They sold corn dogs too. After Katrina you couldn't get weed for poo poo, but coke was everywhere. It was easier to get a keybump than a joint. I was seeing a woman who ran an art gallery there and through her I ran in the cooks and musicians and artists circles. Anthony Bourdain once told a group of them while I was present that his favorite thing to cook on a whim is eggs. Crack and put them in a bowl, whisk with a fork, pop in the microwave and flavor to taste. This culinary master told the real line cooks for Emeril, etc. that he liked microwaved scrambled eggs. Pure insanity with its own zip codes. It's how I found out I was bipolar when i went California sober with a doctor's help. It's a hosed up city, but if you like it, you'll love it. Or at least that was the deal, I've been away for several years. I also met John C Reilly once at One Eyed Jacks in the quarter. Almost all my friends were women, and I was there with 4 of them who decided to wear ninja outfits to the show that night with plastic katanas. He was infatuated with their whole deal. His head is as large as it is on TV or in movies, but his body is like 2 sizes smaller in proportion. Also pointed Denzel Washington to the toilet once. Lucifunk fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Jul 18, 2023 |
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The backup story in the new issue of Newburn from Image is by ex-goon David "hermanos" Brothers with Nick Dragotta on art.
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Read the first volume of a French orphan drama, The Misfits Club For Girls, and really liked it but was super disappointed to find it's digital only because I've greatly soured on reading stuff that way after the last few years of fuckery. It's kinda funny how much stuff I've seen lately that I'd love to get but is digital only (see also some cool looking fantasy thing someone posted in the Badass Panels thread that had a super limited physical release or something, pah).
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Sentinel Red posted:Read the first volume of a French orphan drama, The Misfits Club For Girls, and really liked it but was super disappointed to find it's digital only because I've greatly soured on reading stuff that way after the last few years of fuckery. Yeah, the digital only stuff is a bummer but I also found Misfits Club For Girls quite compelling. I've been really impressed with some of the slice-of-life type stuff coming out of France recently-- Lucie Bryon's Thieves wowed me as well.
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