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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jul 10, 2014 15:24:40 GMT -5
The thread title is fairly self-explanatory. It wasn't really planned but it has been happening. Apparently this is the summer that I start putting a dent in the list of things I'd like to read now that I'm over the BS notion that I'm too old for comics.
Read: Hawkeye vol. I Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters Manhattan Projects Vol. 1-4 Saga of the Swamp Thing Vol. I Maus I Understanding Comics Saga Vol. 1-3 Batman and Son TPB Batman RIP
Currently Checked Out From Library/Owned Unopened/Unfinished for Some Reason: Maus II Essential Classic X-men Vol. I
I've got a list of stuff to request at the library, but I'm open to suggestions. I'm kind of limited to what I can get there though, just not in the budget to go out and buy stuff right now. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2014 9:00:29 GMT -5
This is rad. I hope you'll post some thoughts here, though I think everyone would understand if you are fortunate enough to find time to read the comics, much less review them in some fashion.
I hadn't planned to get into reading comics, either. My comic / graphic novel reading started years ago when a friend gave me a copy of Neil Gaiman's American Gods as a present; I liked it well enough to look into Gaiman and his other work, which led me to getting the Sandman books from my public library as they were available. This in turn led to me checking out other books from the graphic novel shelf: Daniel Clowes, Charles Burns, the brothers Hernandez, among others. I was delighted when I found the Aja / Fraction Hawkeye book at the library, to say the least.
Pretty much everyone I know who has read Maus is a rad person. There are a couple things on your list that I am interested in reading! You'll have to let me know what you think of Manhattan Projects - I've heard good things but haven't read them yet.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jul 11, 2014 9:42:50 GMT -5
My take on Manhattan Projects is that it's dumb fun for nerds, if that makes any sense, so of course I loved the 1st volume and promptly requested the rest from the library. The whole thing is absurd and I'm not sure it even completely makes sense if you think about it that hard, but if you just take it for what I think it's meant to be (mad scientist sci-fi hijinks that reward you for having a little familiarity with history) it's a good time.
I actually just finished that Swamp Thing volume last night. I had read some of Moore's other big hits in the past (Watchmen and V for Vendetta) so I figured it would be a relatively safe bet for something I'd enjoy. I was not wrong and it looks like I'm going to hound the DM public library to purchase the remaining volumes.
I had actually put Maus on my Amazon wishlist after it first came to my attention and kind of forgot about it. Then I ended up getting it as a gift from my in-laws at Christmas and it had been sitting on my shelf for 6 months making me feel guilty for not reading it yet. I'm glad I'm finally getting around to it though.
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Post by Chicanery on Jul 12, 2014 15:51:03 GMT -5
Fucking get Saga!
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jul 12, 2014 18:39:10 GMT -5
Saga is on the list, so I'll probably request the first few trades from the library after I get through my current batch of stuff. |
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Post by Baramos on Jul 13, 2014 20:37:31 GMT -5
Enjoy Hawkguy, great comic.
Get some Valiant comics. X-O Manowar, for starters.
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Post by sarapen on Jul 13, 2014 21:27:32 GMT -5
Yeah, Valiant has been knocking it out of the park. Though I'm a year behind on all comics beside Morning Glories right now, which is about a group of teenagers forcibly recruited into a boarding school founded on Darwinian competition.
Don't read that one piecemeal by the way, it's best just to read it all in one go, the mysteries make more sense that way.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jul 14, 2014 15:14:54 GMT -5
Picked up the first 3 Saga trades at the library over lunch, so I'm excited to get going on those. Put in a request for the library to purchase the rest of the volumes of Moore's Swamp Thing, so we'll see what happens with that.
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Post by Post-Lupin on Jul 15, 2014 8:17:54 GMT -5
Picked up the first 3 Saga trades at the library over lunch, so I'm excited to get going on those. Put in a request for the library to purchase the rest of the volumes of Moore's Swamp Thing, so we'll see what happens with that. Great thing about Saga is it went on a hiatus after those 3 trades, so you'll only be a couple of months behind in the run if you're so inclined to get the floppies. And, I believe in Swamp Thing you'll be about to meet Mister John Constantine. |
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jul 15, 2014 8:24:29 GMT -5
Picked up the first 3 Saga trades at the library over lunch, so I'm excited to get going on those. Put in a request for the library to purchase the rest of the volumes of Moore's Swamp Thing, so we'll see what happens with that. Great thing about Saga is it went on a hiatus after those 3 trades, so you'll only be a couple of months behind in the run if you're so inclined to get the floppies. And, I believe in Swamp Thing you'll be about to meet Mister John Constantine. Any budget I might have had for buying floppies evaporated when I decided to reproduce so I'm stuck waiting for trades anyway. I don't really mind though, I know I've got decades-worth of great stuff I've never read. I can afford to be patient. |
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jul 17, 2014 9:04:31 GMT -5
So with regards to Saga, I'm glad that I'm reading it in trades, because it took me about halfway through that first volume to really get on it's wavelength and get hooked. Had I read the first issue in a traditional floppy format, I don't think I would have necessarily kept going with it and gotten to the point where I had to force myself to put down Vol. 2 last night and get some sleep.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jul 19, 2014 12:12:40 GMT -5
So, I started on the first trade of Grant Morisson's Batman the other day and...there's interesting stuff going on, but I constantly feel like I'm missing a page in my book that should have made more sense of what's going on. Is that something that gets better, just me not "getting it", or simply the way he writes?
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Post by Post-Lupin on Jul 20, 2014 14:58:30 GMT -5
So, I started on the first trade of Grant Morisson's Batman the other day and...there's interesting stuff going on, but I constantly feel like I'm missing a page in my book that should have made more sense of what's going on. Is that something that gets better, just me not "getting it", or simply the way he writes? It's not typical Morrison: he relies heavily on the reader having a fairly solid knowledge of Batman & DC mythology. There was a whole bunch of stuff I didn't grasp, but I enjoyed it - just not on the same level as his earlier superhero stuff or (especially) his creator-owned work. Has AVC done a Gateway To Geekery on Grant? If not, someone here should (and I possibly might if time allows). |
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Post by Nasdaq Smorepunish on Jul 20, 2014 16:08:31 GMT -5
Read Love & Rockets and Krazy Kat.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jul 21, 2014 8:25:08 GMT -5
So, I started on the first trade of Grant Morisson's Batman the other day and...there's interesting stuff going on, but I constantly feel like I'm missing a page in my book that should have made more sense of what's going on. Is that something that gets better, just me not "getting it", or simply the way he writes? It's not typical Morrison: he relies heavily on the reader having a fairly solid knowledge of Batman & DC mythology. There was a whole bunch of stuff I didn't grasp, but I enjoyed it - just not on the same level as his earlier superhero stuff or (especially) his creator-owned work. Has AVC done a Gateway To Geekery on Grant? If not, someone here should (and I possibly might if time allows). It wasn't even that so much (I don't mind having to go Wikipedia the Club of Heroes an things like that), but I just found the pacing sort of, I don't know, abrupt? Especially in the early going I just found some things poorly set-up and a little disorienting. Given the story he's trying to tell though, maybe that was part of the point. I did find that feeling lessened the further into it I got.
Also, I'd definitely be up for that GtG article if you felt so inclined.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jul 28, 2014 10:16:04 GMT -5
So it looks like the library is actually going to buy volumes 2-6 of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing, per my request!
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Aug 22, 2014 16:17:24 GMT -5
So it looks like the library is actually going to buy volumes 2-6 of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing, per my request! My Swamp Things arrived this week! Looking forward to getting into those as soon as I finish Gone Girl, which I'm trying finish fast since I know there was a waiting list at the library. |
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Sept 11, 2014 10:43:13 GMT -5
Picked up the first 3 Saga trades at the library over lunch, so I'm excited to get going on those. Put in a request for the library to purchase the rest of the volumes of Moore's Swamp Thing, so we'll see what happens with that. Great thing about Saga is it went on a hiatus after those 3 trades, so you'll only be a couple of months behind in the run if you're so inclined to get the floppies. And, I believe in Swamp Thing you'll be about to meet Mister John Constantine. I have indeed enjoyed Constantine's appearances in Swamp Thing, my previous experience with even the idea of the character only being the Keanu Reeves movie. If I ever got around to it, where would one best start with Hellblazer? |
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Post by Post-Lupin on Sept 11, 2014 10:51:54 GMT -5
Great thing about Saga is it went on a hiatus after those 3 trades, so you'll only be a couple of months behind in the run if you're so inclined to get the floppies. And, I believe in Swamp Thing you'll be about to meet Mister John Constantine. I have indeed enjoyed Constantine's appearances in Swamp Thing, my previous experience with even the idea of the character only being the Keanu Reeves movie. If I ever got around to it, where would one best start with Hellblazer? At the beginning: Jamie Delano's run defined the character. After that, lots of folk have worked with him to varying sucess. I personally dislike both the most popular runs (Garth Ennis & Brian Azarello) and laud the run of Mike Carey & the shortened stint by Warren Ellis. Avoid the John Shirley novels; they're even less like the Laughing Magician than Keanu was. |
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Sept 11, 2014 10:53:43 GMT -5
I have indeed enjoyed Constantine's appearances in Swamp Thing, my previous experience with even the idea of the character only being the Keanu Reeves movie. If I ever got around to it, where would one best start with Hellblazer? At the beginning: Jamie Delano's run defined the character. After that, lots of folk have worked with him to varying sucess. I personally dislike both the most popular runs (Garth Ennis & Brian Azarello) and laud the run of Mike Carey & the shortened stint by Warren Ellis. Avoid the John Shirley novels; they're even less like the Laughing Magician than Keanu was. Cool. You always think "start at the beginning" would be the obvious answer, but that is so rarely the right place to start with comics. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2014 12:49:41 GMT -5
Here's a suggestion, one you can get at your library, which I know because it is also my library. Brian Wood's "The Massive". I just picked this up because I liked his previous stuff, and it is fantastic. They have the first two trades there, and I can't recommend them enough.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Sept 25, 2014 8:48:58 GMT -5
Here's a suggestion, one you can get at your library, which I know because it is also my library. Brian Wood's "The Massive". I just picked this up because I liked his previous stuff, and it is fantastic. They have the first two trades there, and I can't recommend them enough. I'll add it to the list. I'm taking a little break because I think I just burned myself after all my book requests came in at once and I tried to rush through them. That and I've been taking advantage of the awesome fall weather to take long walks over my lunch hour, which cut into my reading time. Planning on getting back to my books once the weather gets real cold. |
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