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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2016 11:26:24 GMT -5
Mind MGMT book 2 This book is a trip! Secret agents with mind powers and erased memories and all kinds of cool stuff going on. That's a series that's been on my radar for a while but I haven't pulled the trigger on yet. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2016 12:08:11 GMT -5
Mind MGMT book 2 This book is a trip! Secret agents with mind powers and erased memories and all kinds of cool stuff going on. I read the first couple volumes and enjoyed them, but then switched to something else and now I don't remember a thing about them. I may pick them back up soon. |
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Post by The Cheat on Dec 4, 2016 16:29:13 GMT -5
Really enjoyed Mind MGMT and checked out a lot of Kindt stuff off the back of it. Unfortunately, everything else of his I've read has been disappointing.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2016 19:01:35 GMT -5
Mind MGMT book 2 This book is a trip! Secret agents with mind powers and erased memories and all kinds of cool stuff going on. That's a series that's been on my radar for a while but I haven't pulled the trigger on yet. -M So that was this morning right before we left for a family Christmas gathering. Turns out, just down the street from the community center my wife's family rents for the occasion is a comic shop I had never been to before, so I stopped in before we made the hour drive home. No back issues, but a great selection of trades and with this thread fresh in my mind I ended up getting Mind MGMT Vol. 1 in hc and BRPD Plague of Frogs Vol. 1 in softcover. Will probably dive into Mind MGMT in the coming week. -M |
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Dec 4, 2016 22:13:25 GMT -5
I just started dipping my toes into some newer reading again. Going through the new Moon Knight stuff by Lemire. Very interesting. Is this how MK has always been portrayed? Has he always battled his multiple identities? If not, when did this premise begin because I feel like it was looked at before this series but I do not know if it was every a focu back in the 80's and early 90's.
The writing is good, the artwork solid. I am enjoying it and would recommend it.
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Post by Spike-X on Dec 4, 2016 22:31:25 GMT -5
That's a series that's been on my radar for a while but I haven't pulled the trigger on yet. -M So that was this morning right before we left for a family Christmas gathering. Turns out, just down the street from the community center my wife's family rents for the occasion is a comic shop I had never been to before, so I stopped in before we made the hour drive home. No back issues, but a great selection of trades and with this thread fresh in my mind I ended up getting Mind MGMT Vol. 1 in hc and BRPD Plague of Frogs Vol. 1 in softcover. Will probably dive into Mind MGMT in the coming week. -M You're welcome! |
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Post by Spike-X on Dec 4, 2016 22:34:33 GMT -5
I just started dipping my toes into some newer reading again. Going through the new Moon Knight stuff by Lemire. Very interesting. Is this how MK has always been portrayed? Has he always battled his multiple identities? If not, when did this premise begin because I feel like it was looked at before this series but I do not know if it was every a focu back in the 80's and early 90's. The writing is good, the artwork solid. I am enjoying it and would recommend it. Check out the great 6 issue Warren Ellis/Declan Shalvey run from a couple years back. It's available in a single tpb called From The Dead. It's the launching point for the current series, followed by a run by Brian Wood and Greg Smallwood, before it gets to the current Jeff Lemire series. |
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Post by The Captain on Dec 5, 2016 8:56:51 GMT -5
I just started dipping my toes into some newer reading again. Going through the new Moon Knight stuff by Lemire. Very interesting. Is this how MK has always been portrayed? Has he always battled his multiple identities? If not, when did this premise begin because I feel like it was looked at before this series but I do not know if it was every a focu back in the 80's and early 90's. The writing is good, the artwork solid. I am enjoying it and would recommend it. The multiple identities were very prominent during the original Moench & Sienkiewicz run, but it really wasn't treated like mental illness. It was more that Marc chose who he wanted to be (himself, Steven Grant, Jake Lockley) and MK was his superhero identity. This was abandoned largely in the Marc Spector: Moon Knight series, but the idea that Marc may not be entirely there upstairs surfaced in the Moon Knight series by Charlie Huston, then explored a little bit more in the short-lived Vengeance of the Moon Knight series that immediately followed the Huston series. It wasn't until Warren Ellis took over the character that the idea that Marc may be completely bat-crap crazy was fully delved into, and Lemire has just continued with that thread in the current series, which is one of the last remaining Marvel titles on my pull list. It's a really good book, although I have been less enamored with the two most-recent issues than I was the first six. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 18:17:41 GMT -5
So that was this morning right before we left for a family Christmas gathering. Turns out, just down the street from the community center my wife's family rents for the occasion is a comic shop I had never been to before, so I stopped in before we made the hour drive home. No back issues, but a great selection of trades and with this thread fresh in my mind I ended up getting Mind MGMT Vol. 1 in hc and BRPD Plague of Frogs Vol. 1 in softcover. Will probably dive into Mind MGMT in the coming week. -M You're welcome! Read the first volume of Mind MGMT last night. It took me a little bit of getting used to reading the blue line print on the left margin of the page for little tidbits as its an important part of the story experience, but the blue line text on the top of the page is the same every page and not really a part of the experience as much. The marginalia certainly added to the mindf*ck quality of the reading experience. Well worth the read and very distinctively different type of comic reading experience, more in line with reading Robert Anton Wilson's fiction as there is all kinds of metacommentary within the fiction that comments on both the story and the real world but it still part of the story experience itself. I kept waiting for Hagberd Celine or Markhoff Cheney to make a cameo. -M |
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Post by Spike-X on Dec 6, 2016 20:58:50 GMT -5
The marginalia get even more interesting in volume 2.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2016 22:13:51 GMT -5
I read the first four issues of IDW's Micronauts series and was pleasantly surprised how much I dug them.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 10, 2016 1:59:03 GMT -5
I collected the Captain Marvel series that lasted 16 or 17 issues in 2012 to 2013, and I've been re-reading them lately. (I'm missing a few issues though.) There have been two Captain Marvel series since then. I'm talking about the one that had covers like this: I remember liking them as I read them month by month. But reading one or two a day, I'm noticing that this was a really good series! Great art, very well-written, awesome supporting cast, great guest stars. Plus the female equivalent of Sgt. Fury and the Howling Commandos! Fighting the Japanese in 1943 on an island off the coast of Peru! Pretty cool! |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Dec 10, 2016 16:42:11 GMT -5
Just read Injustice: Gods Among Us Year one.. very cool alternate universe. I wouldn't recommend it for hard core Superman fans, though.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2016 19:07:02 GMT -5
Just read Burns' Last Look/X'd Out Trilogy. The only other Burns I've read is Black Hole, which I wasn't as high on as most folks. I enjoyed this enough that I may give Black Hole another shot, as it's been like a decade since I read it and my taste has shifted considerably.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Dec 17, 2016 16:51:24 GMT -5
My trade reading this week:
Iron West - A wonderfully weird spaghetti western with alot of.. other stuff. Like, giant robots, Big Foot, and the Loch Ness Monster.
Miles Morales - I want to like him, but he's just kinda boring as a character. Also, he's WAY too powerful to fit with the character. Still, glad I checked it out.
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