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I think Image might be my favorite current publisher going, and I think they have some fantastic books currently going or recently collected. King City, Godland, Orc Stain, Fatale and Prophet are all very cool, but my favorite comic is... Title: Bulletproof Coffin Publisher: Image Brief Description: A man hired to rummage through the homes of the recently deceased comes across artifacts from some of his favorite comics and a David Lynch superhero/EC comic series ensues. Why I Like It: Shaky Kane has been a revelation to me because of this series. I was unaware of who he was prior to, but his artwork in this series seems a bit like Mike Allred's work set to a grindstone, rougher and harsher than Allred's ever looked even in the darker, more violent issues of X-Statix. The colors are sort of perfect, offsetting the dark subject matter with a weird neon palette that makes everything look somewhat sickly and is creepy in ways that very few horror comics achieve, or at least none that I've read. David Hine also does a fantastic job with the script, giving some worn-out meta-textual tricks new life via a pretty great sense of humor. He also manages to capture the trashy, goofy narration of old-school horror comics pretty well, filling the comics with classy gems like, "the stench of decay rises through the aura of her perfume, like a fart in a bubble bath," and still somehow manages to play it pretty straight. The series packs in some really strange fake advertisements similar to the period ads that show up in Moore's League of Gents, and they function to enhance the mood in sort of the same way as in those books. The Creators plan to do a bunch more with this little horror/superhero comic setting they've created, and the original series is being followed by the current six issue miniseries entitled Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred. Issue that is a good jumping on point: Buy the Bulletproof Coffin TPB because it is VERY GOOD, or just start from Disinterred at issue one if you are cheap, as the current story doesn't continue the events of the first, it simply shares characters/setting.
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Darth Nat posted:I became aware of Ross Campbell thanks to Glory, and I've been kind of interested in exploring his other work. I really enjoy how he actually draws female characters with more body types than "supermodel" and "perfect male fantasy." Is any of his creator-owned stuff worth checking out? Water Baby was mentioned the post before yours. I also liked Glory and am interested to hear if anyone has read Wet Moon from Campbell.
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Feb 19, 2012 21:44
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Image is really killing poo poo. I'd like to write a post for both Glory and Prophet but I want to give them a few more issues to see if they hold up and don't make me look like an idiot in case they go bad.
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Dacap posted:So what are everyone's thoughts on the first issue of Saga? I really liked the art, and the story has potential to be interesting, but this is my first Brian K. Vaughn comic and the dialogue rubbed me the wrong way a bit for reasons I can't particularly identify right now. Is his dialogue an issue generally or am I being weird?
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Mar 15, 2012 07:56
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Change was...I'm not sure how I feel about it. On the one hand, I like some craziness, but on the other hand, I almost felt like it wasn't quite crazy enough? And yeah, the dialogue was a little iffy. I'll stick with it, but I'm not sold yet.
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Dec 16, 2012 03:41
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Godzilla: Half Century War is so goddamn good. Also, Prophet's sci-fi inversion of a typical Heart of Darkness types story was pretty amazing too. Apparently, Brandon Graham says he's around halfway done with Prophet, and I will be pretty sad when it ends.
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Jan 4, 2013 00:55
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I hesitated for a while to make this post, but I received the fourth issue of a great little comic in the mail recently and I think it deserves a little wider recognition, if a short post on a forum is capable of such. I'd like to talk about something awesome. I'd like to talk about COPRA. http://michelfiffe.com I was loving around, checking the Internet a while back, when I really should have been working, and came across a sweet little article describing an obscure indie superhero comic. http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/11/13/michel-fiffe-copra-review/ The book styled itself as an homage to John Ostrander era Sucide Squad comics, a comparison that made little impression on me considering that I have thus far unfortunately been able to read any of them. (DC trade paperback program is balls.) I'd always liked that idea's core concept, however, a group of disposable villains/guns for hire/anti-heroes/whatever, engaging in some superhero action with actual, genuine consequences. Actual peril for a group of characters' existence can do wonders for a story's tension level. So, I decided to try this on a whim. It is fantastic. The art is wonderful, first of all, with each one of the superheroes featuring an incredibly unique color palette all their own. Their costumes/outfits never feel uninspired, as if the creator said, "gently caress it, let's give 'em tights/ a leotard," and even those outfits that come close to that generic style feature some cool flourish of a kind. Each issue is guaranteed at least one tremendously inspired moment of brilliance in terms of panel layout, or composition, or pacing, whether it's one of the best fight scenes I've seen in a comic in years in issue #1, a brilliantly depicted psychic tracking sequence in issue #2, or a dude in a big robot suit beating the poo poo out of some extra-dimensional thing in issue #3. The coloring is really engaging in a way I can only really describe as looking similar to incredibly well-done colored pencils one would use on a high-school project. It looks like nothing else on the comics stands. The writing is solid; with such a giant cast, each character is given a small amount of screen time but one still manages to understand the gist of each character's basic personality. Quite a lot happens in each issue as well, with at least one fantastic fight sequence in each issue so far. I highly recommend it, if you're looking for an indie superhero comic to read. InnercityGriot fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Feb 22, 2013 |
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Feb 22, 2013 04:39
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In response to the Joe Casey thing, he is definitely one of the most inconsistent writers out there, having written some personal favorite comics of mine (Wildcats 3.0, Godland, Vengeance, and Codeflesh) while also writing some pretty boring stuff as well, which I think the Bounce falls under. I do actually like Sex currently, even though it basically great art combined with a shitload of talky-talk, but the last issue seemed to finally get the drat thing moving a little bit, so maybe that's something for people to watch for. I do like the Terry Dodson-light art from the Bounce.
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May 30, 2013 02:27
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Mr Wind Up Bird posted:What's collected in the new Multiple Warheads thing that came out today? Does it have his old porno stuff or is it just early MW comics? It's an early MW comic AND one of the porn comics in one. The stories are fine I guess, if not up to the standards of prophet/current MW, but man I do not read porn comics and the explicit sex scene with dude with the werewolf dick was a little embarrassing to read.
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Oct 10, 2013 09:08
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According to Graham, it's still coming, in January. https://twitter.com/royalboiler/status/646437237257715712 I like 8House but I'm not finding it as engrossing as Prophet, personally. I think the pace is a little too breakneck and it's not giving some of the cool ideas in it room to breathe, whereas Prophet really did, and it gave time for the characters to develop as well. Then again, the series is young, so maybe that's still to come.
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Oct 9, 2015 07:51
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Prophet earth war is January, also Saga is bad at space stuff and Prophet is a million times better.
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I just purchased the Space Riders trade from my comic shop on a lark and what the gently caress man, what a weird, cool comic.
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