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DeimosRising posted:These hardcovers are nice and the price point is good, but I was really hoping for Library Editions of BPRD like we get for Hellboy. Does anyone know if that's in the cards eventually? I'd be really surprised. Maybe if it became a hit TV show.
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Vincent posted:I've been hearing about how good Locke & Key is (and it's drawn by a very good chilean artist so that's a plus) so I've been meaning to pick it up, but I read Joe Hill's short-stories book, 20th century ghost and really disliked his writing. Have you read the book? and if so, is the writing on the comic similar? In the comic, Hill doesn't over write, he doesn't over narrate, and he lets the artist tell a his fair chunk of the story. Locke & Key is really good.
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Mr Wind Up Bird posted:A cool comic you should get Forgot this one was coming out. Got it, like it, Wood does a nice job of weaving together the story of where the team is and how they (and the world) got there. It's a disaster scenario that isn't crushingly bleak (like Walking Dead), but doesn't have much joy in it either. Very eager to see where Wood takes it.
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Jun 14, 2012 02:41
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Locke & Key HC vol 5 came out last week, and I just managed to get it. It is still very good, came up with some very satisfying answers and it sets everything up for a great final volume.
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Jul 19, 2012 15:34
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Tolstoi posted:Has there been a second issue for Nonplayer from Image yet? I remember the first one came out over a year ago and the last update I found is just as old. Did WB optioning it out as a film kill it or something? I know the art was pretty detailed, but a year between issues is a little too Kevin Smith for me. I think the dude isn't a full time comics guy and also broke his arm.
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Sep 3, 2012 14:48
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Is anyone familiar with the Dark Horse comic Ghost? I've only seen some covers, and they tend to focus on guns and cleavage, but now I guess Kelly Sue and Noto are doing some work on it, and they're people I'd give a chance. So Ghost, is there anything for them to work with there?
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Oct 5, 2012 00:41
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Madrox posted:I'd like to recommend Joe Kelly and Ken Niimura's I Kill Giants. Great self-contained story about a little girl who firmly believes she's a giant-slayer, despite all the real-world evidence to the contrary. At its heart it's a poignant story about a young girl coping with loss. Didn't know what to expect when I picked it up, and totally loved it. I'm not afraid to say it genuinely made me tear up.
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Dec 5, 2012 15:38
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Waterhaul posted:Did it ever become anything more than Ennis lite? No, its been over the top darkness and perversion to hammer home a trite message. The art was well done tho.
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Feb 23, 2013 17:40
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I'm a huge Locke & Key fan, too, but I only read the trades, which are really well done hardcovers. My wife and I have been talking about doing some cabinet work and general redecorating, and she wants to put a little lock and key motif going around the house.
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Feb 26, 2013 18:01
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Chew Chew is a tough one to review, because any single element sounds dumb, all the elements taken together sound horrible, but when you actually read the comic it is crazy, hilarious and brilliant. I'm generally not a guy who likes dumb humor, I'm not a fan of Robot Chicken or Family Guy, but when I read Chew, I read lines like "I'm from NASA and I'm here to lick your paintings" and its great and it makes perfect sense in the universe of the comic. In the world of Chew, a massive avian flu epidemic has made Chicken illegal and the FDA is the most powerful agency in the US. Certain people are also being born with food related powers, such as the main character...  The story rockets around and involves conspiracies, aliens, roosters of mass destruction, vampires, and a USDA staffed by cybernetic version of Charlie's Angels and their cybernetic pets. The art is really what brings the comic home. Guillory gives everything an energy that carries the story along and adds enough odd background notes to make everything worth reading twice. The book is consistent enough that the first trade should tell you if you'll like it or not, but I recommend the OSHC Omnivore edition because I like fancy books.
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Mar 30, 2013 03:56
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There was all kinds of stuff in issue 3 or so, when the Will went to pleasure world. Either they don't review everything or one reviewer is just bad.
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Apr 9, 2013 20:49
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Just got the Skullkickers: Treasure Trove, which is a OSHC collecting the first 2 TPBs. I grew up playing D&D, but I really dislike fantasy now, and this book really just hit the right spot for me. It does a good job with a lot of elements that people tend to do very badly, the main characters are a dwarf and a big guy with a gun, they make quips and have adventures that are more late night roll-playing than lord of the rings. Its all fun light stuff, the stories are well crafted, and the background elements get increasingly silly. Biggest complaints are probably that the colors were fairly poor in the first chunk of the book. I don't think it was a printing problem, I think the colorist may have just picked colors that tend to blend together, making the pages a chore, but by the end of the first trade things get comfortable. My book had some extra stories at the end, the first two were early anthology stories and weren't great, but the last chunk was stories by other authors and was pretty good (including the one by Clevinger). If you want light elves and dwarves fantasy, this is worth grabbing.
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Hollis posted:I keep seeing Skullkickers recommended where's a good place to start? First 2 TPBs are in Treasure Trove I, which is a nice OSHC
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Jun 10, 2013 01:25
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Graham has a really great "staring up at skyscrapers" feel in his sci-fi. Like there's all these awesome rockets and poo poo all around, and he takes time out to wonder at it occasionally, but most of the time you're wandering to the sandwich shop and breathing exhaust. It has a lot of truth to it.
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Jul 25, 2013 18:24
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HereCometheKillBots posted:So, The Massive 15, Something like that? It's intentionally unclear, but the story has been leading up to that.
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Sep 6, 2013 18:20
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I think part of the Sex Criminals thing is just that any of the elements in it could be done wrong and it would ruin the whole book, but everything works together so well. The whole is really greater than the sum of its parts for this book.
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Sep 27, 2013 05:38
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Yeah, Jordie has earned a well deserved rep over a fairly short time.
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Oct 10, 2013 00:23
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Hedrigall posted:Does anybody else like Storm Dogs? It's a pretty cool grim/gritty hard SF series set on a human-occupired planet with two native alien races. Short though, with only 6 issues per "season" (and the first season ended on several cliffhangers). Trade comes out in December. That sounds interesting and I'd like to hear a bit more about it. I just got the 2nd Skull Kickers OSHC. I was surprised I liked the first one because I'm really not a fantasy guy, but it has enough smart rear end stuff going on around the main story to be fun. The 2nd book shows a larger plot, but otherwise is about the same as vol 1 in terms of quality. I feel like the book is close to being great, but just isn't there yet, maybe I'm not enough of a D&D guy to love it. I'm not a D&D guy at all, if you are you should check Skullkickers out.
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Oct 17, 2013 06:07
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GrandpaPants posted:Did Powers end up being a good read? I only read the first TPB and I enjoyed it, but I don't know if it maintains quality or just drops. I don't even know if it's finished, but according to Wikipedia it doesn't seem like it? I think the first Powers TPB is the worst. It's still going, but it has been through a bunch of really sharp changes, I'm still a fan. The Gotham Central idea of cops taking on superheroes is a consistent thread through the book, but Bendis isn't afraid to change the characters and more layers get added on. StumblyWumbly fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Oct 23, 2013 |
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Mr Wind Up Bird posted:I can't tell what is going on in Pretty Deadly at all. It looks nice but, like, nothing makes any sense to my brain. There's cowboys and vulture girl and stuff happens but nope it's just not clicking. Yeah, Pretty Deadly is definitely going for a very slow start, but it is probably Rios's strongest work yet, and I have strong hopes that De Connick will bring her A game.
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Oct 30, 2013 02:37
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Has Umbral been good? I liked some stuff about Wasteland but it really ran out of steam.
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Nov 28, 2013 18:15
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Anyone know what's up with Nowhere Men? Just got the first book, it's pretty much all setup, but it is well done, dense, and a meat sci fi world. Doesn't look like any issues came out since, so does anyone know if it is continuing?
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I've been looking for the 3rd collection for a while, but it is impossible to find, so I am very happy about the Uber Alles edition coming out.
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Dec 18, 2013 02:25
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Happy felt a lot like a guy writing something he thought people wanted. Reading it was really painful.
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bobkatt013 posted:I am a huge fan of Hellboy and BPRD and was wondering how is Baltimore? I like it. The idea is vampires and poo poo rose up during WWI, so it is a solid supernatural post apocalyptic setting, and the art really pulls everything together. I could see getting sick of it if I read too much too quickly, but it comes out slowly.
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Coffin Hill: Worth checking out a trade or not? I thought I heard folks say good things about it, but can't find that now.
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RevKrule posted:Just an off topic here, how the gently caress did Liefeld not get sued for Diana Dane??? It's one of the most transparent rip offs I think I've ever seen. Has anyone ever been successfully sued for ripping off a character? Not actual use, like happens with Peter Pan or some parts of Holmes, but ripping off in the way Supreme, Samaritan, Hyperion, etc all rip off Superman.
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Apr 21, 2014 20:44
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Did anyone else check out Caliban? A Garth Ennis space mystery. First issue looks promising
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Sundowner posted:I quite like it. Issue 2 was pretty tense. Looking forward to seeing where it goes. drat,I did not know that 2 was out, gonna have to hit my shop again.
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May 10, 2014 23:10
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Avatar has no restraint when is comes to violence. I'm worried it will turn into goreporn too.
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May 11, 2014 01:34
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Southern Bastards was pretty good, but Deadly Class was my best comic this week. Well drawn, unpredictable, good characters, I am a bit surprised how much I like a book about Harry Potter with assassins. Bonus points for the part at the end where RR talks about how autobiographical the book is. Trees was neat, too. Issue 1 just set up the world, but it's a neat world so I'll follow it for a bit at least. COWL felt like all episode and very little world or overarching plot. Just a day in the life in a notably different world. A neat day, but the issue did nothing to really introduce anything.
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May 31, 2014 02:09
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Hedrigall posted:Caliban went from a comic I was hugely excited about to a total snoozefest in just three issues. Great job there, comic writers. I hear you. At first I was impressed that Avatar was putting it out, then it turned into another Avatar comic.
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david_a posted:Have they ever explained why they decided to base it off Prophet if it's 99% new anyway? Is it just an in-joke of turning a (presumably) terrible Liefeld franchise into something completely different? I'm pretty sure Rob Liefeld came to Graham and asked him to do a thing and then stayed the gently caress away or something. So Liefeld has good taste and sounds like a pretty good boss. He did something similar with Glory, which a lot of folks liked and it was neat, but not my thing, but that ended up ending after ~20 issues.
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moot the hopple posted:I actually remembered to remove the Abe Sapien series from my pull list due to having a small haul this week. I don't know about you guys, but I find it both bafflingly slow-paced and plodding AND somehow hard to follow at the same time. The transitions between scenes and issues in the same arc are just so inelegant that it struggles to form a cohesive narrative. I hear you. I have the whole Mignola line on my pull list, and I'm thinking of dropping Abe. It's been slow and uninteresting, and the last issue was poorly done as well. I liked Scott Allie's vampire stories, which were also poorly received, but this last issue just lost me. You're right. BPRD is really making gold out of some things I did not think would work, like Varvara and Iosef. I kind of wish the end was in sight, but it has been consistently good and evolving, so maybe that's fine.
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Sex Criminals is just amazingly real for a comic that was advertised as two of the biggest smart-asses in comics writing about people who rob banks while loving. East of West is pretty much all style, but it's good style, so that's good. The plot is pretty much just Steve Shoots-a-lot looks for a MacGuffin, while awesome villains monologue against him and the human condition. Caliban 3 came out, and it is still a creepy space mystery instead of a bucket of gore, so good on them. It's like Alien with different characters and this issue hinted at a backstory next issue. I also picked up the Velvet TPB. Read the first issue, can't wait to get into it.
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I don't know about the first 50, but the first ten or so (outside number 1) were by huge talents.
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I'm looking at: Rumble - Arcudi doing crazy poo poo? I'll give that a try Invisible Republic, Drifter, Southern Cross - I need more sci fi Injection - Moon Knight has bought some faith
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Agreeing with TheQat. There isn't really much to say about it yet, unlike Moon Knight or Trees which started with something distinctive. The art is really neat, but I don't know if the blue lines in the background are for anything, our if that's just how the artist does things.
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404GoonNotFound posted:Is The Wicked + The Divine too new to put on any of these lists? I mean, Gillen's already said it's going to be closer to 30+ issues than 6. I think there's just a lot of really good comics coming out in a lot of different genres. Chew is still awesome for kinda gross comedy, Black Science is great if you want crazy bullshit sci fi. Picking a best in show is tough.
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Kull the Conqueror posted:Tougher to spot on pull lists (I almost missed them) but both Stumptown Vol. 3 and Morrison/Irving's Annihilator start today. I grabbed Annihilator... Morrison has some great work and he has some lovely work, and Annihilator has some neat bits, but it is pointed in the wrong direction
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