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Post by wickedmountain on Nov 11, 2021 0:44:31 GMT -5
A righteous thirst for vengeance #2 ( 2021 )
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Post by wickedmountain on Nov 11, 2021 0:54:38 GMT -5
Out #2 ( 2021 )
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Post by Batflunkie on Nov 20, 2021 15:43:57 GMT -5
A half dozen volumes of My Hero Academia showed up at work (a lot of them were just random volumes), so I scooped up the first four. As I also posted on facebook, It started out great, but quickly devolved into something very half-hearted and boring, which is an honest to goodness shame for something with the fabulous idea of melding American Superheroics with Japanese sensibilities
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Post by wickedmountain on Nov 22, 2021 3:16:26 GMT -5
Elvira Meets Vincent Price #3 ( 2021 )
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Post by wickedmountain on Nov 22, 2021 13:44:55 GMT -5
The girl from the Sea TPB Part 1 and Part 2 ( 2021 )
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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 22, 2021 18:00:28 GMT -5
A half dozen volumes of My Hero Academia showed up at work (a lot of them were just random volumes), so I scooped up the first four. As I also posted on facebook, It started out great, but quickly devolved into something very half-hearted and boring, which is an honest to goodness shame for something with the fabulous idea of melding American Superheroics with Japanese sensibilities I haven't read the comics, but the Anime is pretty good. There are definitely points where it grinds to a halt, and others where it gets pretty trope-y, but there are definitely some moments of brilliance. |
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Post by wickedmountain on Nov 25, 2021 0:47:09 GMT -5
Titans United #2 and # 3 ( 2021 )
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Post by bashbash99 on Nov 29, 2021 11:01:17 GMT -5
I've been rereading Secret Avengers (vol 1, which launched in 2010 and lasted 37 issues). Based on the concept of a stealth team led first by Steve Rogers and then by Clint Barton, the book featured three different writers* during its run. Steve's initial team consists of Black Widow, Valkyrie, War Machine, Irredeemable Ant-Man, Moon Knight, Beast, Sharon Carter, and Nova but as with most Avengers teams the roster changes up, mainly when Remender takes over.
Brubaker's stories are my favorite portion of the run, not his best work especially compared to his creator-owned stuff but relatively pulp-tinged stories (lost cave on Mars! gems that can revive Fu-Manchu!) plus i just love Deodato's artwork although he is certainly prone to cheesecake.
Ellis does his familiar thing where he does a bunch of done-in-one issues each with a different artist. They range from decent to great imo but comes with Ellis' usual storytelling and dialogue tics. There is a bit of a long-term plot but it came across as a fairly half-hearted effort, although again some of the individual stories are pretty good.
Remender switches things up a bit, working elements from other comics into a plot involving a city of artificial beings run by a council including a Doombot, an LMD, a Deathlok, among other things. I generally prefer Remender on team books and this is i think an underrated run of his. As usual he does not shy away from creating a bunch of new characters (in this case a bunch of spin-offs from Super-Adaptoid). He tends to rely A LOT on that "1st person stream of consciousness narration while fighting" that Frank Miller really brought to prominence in DKR. Its okay in small doses (which fortunately tends to be the case in team books) but it can get old fast. Remender also makes the best of having to work in an AvX crossover that lasts a few issues. However, the artwork during Remender's run is OK but doesn't stack up to the standard set by Deodato and Ellis' various collaborators.
Anyhow i enjoy this run, its interesting to me that it has three pretty distinct writers who each do their own thing but yet it all still holds together at least somewhat. I feel like with many modern comic runs you get one good writer and then it falls apart when they leave, or the comic just starts at a new volume when a new writer comes on.
*Nick Spencer wrote a few rando issues that weren't really part of the main run, i guess? or at least i don't think i've read them. He would go on to write vol 2 of Secret Avengers which i will try to get around to rereading soon. iirc the most notable aspect was that it brought Phil Coulson from the mcu into the comics
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Post by Dizzy D on Nov 30, 2021 13:33:34 GMT -5
Bought and read the first issue of Fine Print, the new OGN by Stjepan Šejić. I liked it a lot, just need a bit more time to write up something about it.
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Post by Dizzy D on Dec 3, 2021 8:45:04 GMT -5
Crossposted from another comics board:
Like I said in the new comics thread, I wanted to write a bit about Fine Print, the new OGN by Stjepan Šejić. Set in the same "universe" as his ongoing Sunstone series and a couple of other series (Punderworld and Blood Stain by Linda Šejić first and foremost, but also Sugar and Swing, mentioned above).
This one is more closely related to Punderworld btw, as it has mythical and supernatural elements, while the other four titles are all deal with more mundane issues, but the series can still be read independently of the others (all links are just minor details in the wider world).
The usual warning: Like Sunstone, this comic contains "scenes of an adult nature" as the Americans tend to say. Like Sunstone sex is an important part of the story and with a lot of the main cast being Succubi and Incubi, you're going to see some nipples and bottoms.
It's part 1 so it's mostly setup; we have a prologue and six chapters (though Chapter Six is just a few pages) to introduce us to this world and its rules:
Prologue
Fantasy writer Rachel Simms walks into a bookshop and notices that Meryl, the shopkeeper has horns and a tail, but nobody else seems to notice. When asking her about them, Meryl reveals that she is a succubus (note: Not a Demon, this is very important to her). In this world, Succubi, Incubi (basically the same thing as far as I can tell and they all seem capable of changing their forms, so no real difference between the two) and Cupids are the descendents of Eros, the god of love and desire (with the Cubi focusing on Desire and the Cupids focusing on Love, though some of the old Greek Gods seem also to have changed from deity to Cubi, more about that later). Only special people can see through her disguise though, so Meryl offers Rachel a very rare Golden Contract. Rachel accepts and an incubus appears, Cale Morningstar, the highest Incubus, who offers her unimaginable pleasure. Slight problem: Rachel is asexual, but the Incubus is confident and welcomes the challenge. 2 years later, Cale still hasn't returned to his realm.
Chapters 1-6
In the next chapters we're introduced to the various characters that make will make up the story and there are quite a few: Lauren Thomas, a supermodel who abandoned the man she loved years ago to focus on fame and fortune and now regrets that choice, seems to be the main character.
Then there are Thadeus and Leliah, two Cubi who are both striving to become the new top Cubi now that Cale has disappeared and while Cubi should only be interested in Desire and not Love, both of them have their own lovers that they care more about than they should.
There is Meryl, who is in a heap of trouble because she gave Cale an unsolveable Golden Contract and her mothers Bauphette (aka the former Fury Alecto turned Cubi) and Charon (the ferry-woman turned Cubi) who rank above the others and really want to protect their daughter from the fallout of another Golden Contract.
Overall
In Punderworld (and this was a thing I liked the most in Punderworld) and in Fine Print, all the divine characters have "Crowns", a combination of horns and/or halo's (appearance depending on which part of the divide the owner is from, but also their own feelings at the time). Linda, whose art is a bit more cartoony, used these to great effect in Punderworld to show-not-tell character emotions with Persephone (whose crown as Goddess of Spring and Fertility, is made of leaves and flowers or weeds and thorns depending on her inner feelings). Stjepan's art is less cartoony, but the crowns and their appearance still form an important part of the story.
It's a Stjepan Šejić story so we get a lesson on what BDSM actually is (I don't mind these): A depressed Lauren enters a BDSM club and asks several dommes (in succession) to use and abuse her so that she can forget her past. All three refuse her, having enough experience to tell a submissive from a depressed person in need of therapy.
It's both funny and endearing, but a small glimpse of the future at the start of the story shows that things may not have a happy ending like Sunstone had. Eagerly awaiting part 2, but it'll probably be a while.
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Post by DubipR on Dec 4, 2021 18:31:41 GMT -5
Not really a comic but new. EM Rauch's 600 page opus of the history of Buckaroo Bonzai is crazy insane. It's densely packed with stories that could've made 10 movies, 20 TV shows and a ton of comics. Told to him by The Reno Kid, one of Buckaroo's confidants, the history of the 8th Dimension expanded, the World Crime League and what could've been and happened. It's smart, funny and a bonkers read.  |
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Post by berkley on Dec 5, 2021 0:37:32 GMT -5
Not really a comic but new. EM Rauch's 600 page opus of the history of Buckaroo Bonzai is crazy insane. It's densely packed with stories that could've made 10 movies, 20 TV shows and a ton of comics. Told to him by The Reno Kid, one of Buckaroo's confidants, the history of the 8th Dimension expanded, the World Crime League and what could've been and happened. It's smart, funny and a bonkers read.
Been years, decades since I've seen the movie but I'll probably have a look for this - especially since, after looking it up, I see that EM Rauch is the original creator of the character.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 9, 2021 14:27:11 GMT -5
With Moonshine (Azzarello and Risso) ending I figured it would be a good time to get back too it. There was a decent amount to like, particularly Risso's art and colors. But it just seemed like it kind of petered out and wasted a very promising beginning. And for a history nerd like me it had stuff that just completely took me out of the story. The last part of the series dealt with elements of the Castellammarese War. The problem with that is that we'd already seen Eliot Ness as Safety Director in Cleveland and an earlier arc dealt, in part, with the Cleveland Torso Murders. The Castellammarese War had ended over four years before Ness took over as Safety Director for Cleveland and the earliest reasonable torso murder was less than four months before Ness took that job. That kind of stuff bugs me.
I'd say it's generally worth a read, but suffers from the same issue that Azzarello had with 100 Bullets, in that it went on too long and he couldn't stick the landing.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Dec 9, 2021 18:03:32 GMT -5
Couple of recent trades from my pile yesterday...
Old Guard vol. 1: Greg Rucka's take on the 'Immortals that live among us' trope... pretty decent, but nothing outstanding. The art was great at times but in consistent (like it was rushed, or something). I'd get the next one if I found it for a deal, but not necessarily at full price.
Rivers of London vol 1 : Gonna get the novels for this one for the back story and world building.. seems really cool.. a typical PBS British murder mystery (ala Inspector Lynley) with a bit of magic and supernaturalness mixed in.
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Post by berkley on Dec 10, 2021 0:26:09 GMT -5
After a couple of false starts I was finally able to get on a roll with Gideon Falls and finish the series. For me it was the first two volumes that were something of a hump that I had to get over before carrying on with it. On the whole, I'd have to say it never really clcked with me, though there were element that I liked and once I got to a little bit past those first two books, I was entertained enough read through the rest of the seriesfairly quickly. Sorrentino's art was really nice, and both creators put a lot of work into the world-building, but Lemire's writing rubed me the wrong way at times - much of the dialogue felt like stuff I'd heard on a zillion tv shows - "We need to talk," stuff like that and certain little tics got on my nerves in a simliar way to how Bendis's style can be annoying at times. The deliberate tributes (I assume that's what they were) to shows like Twin Peaks or the Prisoner all fell flat for me and felt like a shallow attmpt to claim association with superior creations. Maybe I'm being a little too harsh, but that's how it struck me - and more than once - while reading the series.
I still thnk the creative team of Lemire and Sorrentino has potential, though, and I plan to try something else from them at some point. I'll wait a while to let the slightly bad taste of this one fade away first, though.
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