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Post by Turn the Page on Sept 1, 2015 20:18:44 GMT -5
I've slowly been re-reading Matt Fraction and Salvador larroca's Invincible Iron Man through trade, and Scalped Deluxe Hardcover Vol 1 by Jason Aaron and RM Guerra. I'll be picking up Vol 2 sometime in the next few weeks i imagine.
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Post by Spike-X on Sept 1, 2015 20:56:25 GMT -5
Bro, Hawkguy is seriously good book, bro.  Seriously bro. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2015 4:35:22 GMT -5
Just read the first issue of Birthright, and it was mighty good. Kind of a similar premise than Terabitha, but probably a little more dramatic. Will soon read the rest. I've been enjoying that series |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Sept 2, 2015 13:57:19 GMT -5
Bro, Hawkguy is seriously good book, bro. Seriously bro. I just finished the 1st trade (My Life as a Weapon). Now it's got me hooked and I have to find the next one cheap. |
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Post by Dizzy D on Sept 3, 2015 7:34:37 GMT -5
I found the fourth trade of Hawkeye slightly disappointing (not that it's bad, but the first three were so good), but I will be rereading the entire series in one setting next weekend, so I might reconsider.
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Post by Spike-X on Sept 3, 2015 20:21:39 GMT -5
Just finished Autumnlands vol 1: Tooth & Claw. It's not bad. If I could only read one comic on a continuing basis, that wouldn't be it, but it's a solid enough read that I'll probably stick with it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2015 22:42:41 GMT -5
Read the first volume of Trees by Warren Ellis and Jason Howard. Good stuff, felt a little different than some of Ellis other recent stuff, but I can see a lot of stuff he has been ruminating about in Orbital Operations and Morning Fruit the past year and a half or so gestating into the stuff he did here (or vice versa-stuff here gestating to stuff he ruminated about in his newsletter/daily bog). The art really fit the style of story being told. Be interessted to see where Vol. 2 goes from here.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Sept 8, 2015 10:36:04 GMT -5
Just read the 6 issues of Terminal Hero from Dynamite, written by Peter Milligan dn Piotr Kowalski.  Milligan may be my favorite writer, and Kowalski isn't the greatest artist ever, but he is consistent and competant. His style could maybe described as a very rough variation on Timothy Green III's lush lines. He's also the artist on Joe Casey's Sex, the current Nightbreed ongoing, and the latest Dark Tower instalement. The coloring is actualy pretty great and lifts the artin a great way. The covers are from Jae Lee in his current Rockwell-ish style, but they're very sketchy and basic. So it's about a terminal brain cancer patient/doctor who through a special treatment gains control over his cancer as well as super powers who'd make him the greatest possible assassin. Ludicrous concept sadly never sublimed. The pacing isn't great, the dialogue is so so, it never really manages to become interesting. I didn't struggle to get through it, but I wouldn't mind parting with those issues. 2/6 |
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Post by Jesse on Sept 21, 2015 2:03:49 GMT -5
 There are only two issues out but so far I thought it's been pretty interesting. It's basically a detective crime procedural in a world where an STD called The Beauty runs rampant because it causes people to become more attractive. When one of the infected spontaneously combusts on a subway it is brought to the attention of two homicide detectives who are immediately blocked by the CDC and later discover a coverup while one of them becomes infected. Here's the preview www.comicbookresources.com/comic-previews/the-beauty-1-image-comics-2015 |
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Sept 23, 2015 0:14:55 GMT -5
Have just finished LOW 1 through 7, holy crap that's a beautiful book. Also thanks to a post here in another thread I tried Nonplayer as well, loved the first issue but not so much the 2nd, though it sure is purty. Rumble is another well worth trying out.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Sept 23, 2015 4:15:56 GMT -5
Ah nice! Glad I hit a few marks. Haven't read Nonplayer #2 yet, but it most indeed looks a little weaker from the superb inaugral issue.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Sept 23, 2015 5:35:26 GMT -5
I just read Bubber #1 from Gilbert Hernandez. It's a collection of surrealistic short stories, kind of on the gross side, somewhat sexual and violent. It reminds me of Johnny Ryan's Prison Pit quite a lot. I really liked it as it is very impressionistic.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2015 0:08:54 GMT -5
Just read Volume 3 of Five Ghosts, Men & Monsters. Interesting stuff. Still one of my favorite series currently being published and Mooneyham has such a Joe Kubert vibe (he is a grad of the Kubert school) it's like he is possessed by the artistic ghost of Joe Kubert (and a few others). I thinkI liked volumes 1 and 2 a little bit more, but I really liked this volume (it's still head and shoulders better than the vast majority of stuff coming out these days) and the long term plots with the Cabal it set up have me very intrigued.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Sept 28, 2015 3:23:19 GMT -5
I've slowly been re-reading Matt Fraction and Salvador larroca's Invincible Iron Man through trade, and Scalped Deluxe Hardcover Vol 1 by Jason Aaron and RM Guerra. I'll be picking up Vol 2 sometime in the next few weeks i imagine. Good stuff. I really enjoyed that Iron Man run, and Scalped is my favorite ongoing "factory system" comic from the last few years. I read Low, too. The trade talked about how the writer learned how to have optimism in therapy and wanted to write a comic where the main character has optimism. Now I have to keep reading this series to the very end and praying after every issue that the main character (and her optimism) get eaten by phirahnas, and then that will be my # 1 favorite comic of all time. |
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Post by Turn the Page on Sept 28, 2015 18:33:46 GMT -5
I've slowly been re-reading Matt Fraction and Salvador larroca's Invincible Iron Man through trade, and Scalped Deluxe Hardcover Vol 1 by Jason Aaron and RM Guerra. I'll be picking up Vol 2 sometime in the next few weeks i imagine. Good stuff. I really enjoyed that Iron Man run, and Scalped is my favorite ongoing "factory system" comic from the last few years. I read Low, too. The trade talked about how the writer learned how to have optimism in therapy and wanted to write a comic where the main character has optimism. Now I have to keep reading this series to the very end and praying after every issue that the main character (and her optimism) get eaten by phirahnas, and then that will be my # 1 favorite comic of all time. Low is great. I do love me some Remender. |
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