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Post by Ozymandias on Jun 30, 2018 5:29:12 GMT -5
- Amazing Spider-Man #801
- Astonishing X-Men #12
- Avengers #3
- Black Panther #2
- Daredevil #604
- Deadpool - Assassin #1
- Hunt for Wolverine - Weapon Lost #2
- Multiple Man #1
- Old Man Logan #41 & 42
- Punisher #226
- Sentry #1
- Thor #1 & 2
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2018 12:14:20 GMT -5
Read Cameron Stewart's Sin Titulo this morning. It is a collection by Dark Horse of Stewart's web comic that ran from 2007-2011, collected in 2013.  It is a noir tale, a mystery thriller with elements of Magic Realism combined to tell the story of a man (Alex MacKay) who uncovers a mystery about his recently deceased grandfather and it opens up a host of dream like memories he had quite forgotten, and leads him on a journey that takes a noirish downward spiral, costing him, his job, his wife, and putting him on the police's most wanted list. Also, as a webcomic moved to print, the pages are oriented towards landscape rather than portrait (much the way BKV & Marcos Martin's Private Eye was done and more recently Barrier). Stewart's art style is what Scott McCloud would call expressionistic, using cartoonish figures with lushly real backgrounds (reminiscent of how Herge did things) but also using a limited palette dominated by browns atop the black, white and gray tones, to give the art a surrealish/dream-like vibe that seems one step off from reality but close enough to confuse what is real and what is dream. The execution here is superb, the story though is merely good, not great. As an exhibition of cartooning, it is top notch, but the story itself is entertaining, but doesn't stand out falls just short of gripping. Worth checking out if you like noir tales or stories in the genre of magic realism, and it's a good story, just not one tht resonated with me but others may find it more compelling. Some sample art from Stewart...     -M |
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Post by Batflunkie on Jul 5, 2018 17:56:58 GMT -5
Flipped through both Lion Forge's Encounter and IDW's Sonic. The newer Sonic versus the older Archie one really isn't for me at the moment, really would prefer that they go back to the "classic era science fiction" route that made the series so endearing in the first place, but they probably can't because of the whole Ken Penders' lawsuit, which sucks I'm not even really sure what to make of Encounter other than it's an endearingly cute throwback to Silver Age Jack Kirby with a character that looks like a hybrid between Mister Miracle and Ambush Bug but is really some kind of mutated alien space giraffe that hatched from an egg
Lion Forge has been coming out swinging with it's "White Event" books. Really REALLY liked their Miami Vice Remix even if it did go down some roads that probably shouldn't have been tread thanks in part to Joe Casey's "balls to the wall" creativity that made me pick up Accell. If anything, it came off as one parts GTA Vice City and two parts Hotline Miami
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Post by Duragizer on Aug 1, 2018 14:53:16 GMT -5
 A mixed bag, but certainly better than The Dark Knight Strikes Again — in no small part, I assume, because Miller wasn’t the only writer or main artist, and most of what Miller did draw was vastly improved upon by Klaus Janson’s inks. |
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Aug 1, 2018 20:23:38 GMT -5
Picked up the new Justice League Dark #1. Pretty interesting team with Wonder Woman in the mix. I liked the the initial issue. Art was good too. Looking forward to more.
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Post by Batflunkie on Aug 10, 2018 17:52:04 GMT -5
Picked up the new Justice League Dark #1. Pretty interesting team with Wonder Woman in the mix. I liked the the initial issue. Art was good too. Looking forward to more. Apparently not a lot of people liked the original Jeff Lemire New 52 one, have no clue why (the argument seems to be that Lemire can't write team books but the Fantastic Four knock-off he's doing for "New Age Of Heroes", The Terrifics, seems pretty good) Is kind of weird though to have Wondy as the leader, especially because no one (myself included) thinks of her as a "magical character" |
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Aug 10, 2018 19:32:32 GMT -5
Picked up the new Justice League Dark #1. Pretty interesting team with Wonder Woman in the mix. I liked the the initial issue. Art was good too. Looking forward to more. Apparently not a lot of people liked the original Jeff Lemire New 52 one, have no clue why (the argument seems to be that Lemire can't write team books but the Fantastic Four knock-off he's doing for "New Age Of Heroes", The Terrifics, seems pretty good) Is kind of weird though to have Wondy as the leader, especially because no one (myself included) thinks of her as a "magical character" Maybe it was thought a big star was needed to carry the team or get people reading. At least that is what they did with the recent animated feature when they added Batman. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 25, 2018 10:26:16 GMT -5
I just read the 14 issue run of Jeff Lemire's Royal City. Lemire's creator-owned work is as good as anything that is being done today. A mark of how damn good he is is that he made me not just like, but love a slice-of-life work. Eisner may well be the only other creator to do that.
The setting is just familiar enough that if really hits home for me. A dying smallish factory town with the flashbacks to the early 1990s. Having grown up in an area completely dependent on agriculture and agricultural processing and graduating in 1986 the setting hit home. The story is about a dysfunctional family that never quite dealt with the tragic death of the youngest child. He haunts each of them in their own way his memory moving through their lives and in some cases ruling their lives.
It's really a beautifully done work that is even more surprising by the fact that it can make an old cynic like me who hates that type of story fall for it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2018 1:54:01 GMT -5
I just read the 14 issue run of Jeff Lemire's Royal City. Lemire's creator-owned work is as good as anything that is being done today. A mark of how damn good he is is that he made me not just like, but love a slice-of-life work. Eisner may well be the only other creator to do that. The setting is just familiar enough that if really hits home for me. A dying smallish factory town with the flashbacks to the early 1990s. Having grown up in an area completely dependent on agriculture and agricultural processing and graduating in 1986 the setting hit home. The story is about a dysfunctional family that never quite dealt with the tragic death of the youngest child. He haunts each of them in their own way his memory moving through their lives and in some cases ruling their lives. It's really a beautifully done work that is even more surprising by the fact that it can make an old cynic like me who hates that type of story fall for it. I've read the first volume and really liked it, but haven't gotten to Vol. 2 yet. Lemire seems to take it to another level when he does creator-owned stuff vs. his work-for-hire stuff, which is solid and readable, but rarely spectcular like his creator-owned material. -M |
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 27, 2018 2:39:31 GMT -5
I have to respectfully disagree.
His mainstream / superhero work is also very solid.
Lemire is a name I'll always buy.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2018 2:49:07 GMT -5
I have to respectfully disagree. His mainstream / superhero work is also very solid. Lemire is a name I'll always buy. I said his mainstream stuff was solid and readable, so I am not sure what you are disagreeing with. However, his creaor-owned stuff is head and shoulders above solid and readable, and is usually spectacular. -M |
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 27, 2018 2:53:09 GMT -5
Ok, I read that wrong.
I'm super-impressed with his work and am very glad he's risen to the upper levels of fandom, though I don't feel he still gets as much acclaim as he should.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 27, 2018 14:30:30 GMT -5
I just read Cullen Bunn's new book Cold Spots and was really pulled in. It's only one issue but its a solid mystery/supernatural story so far with a missing girl and the dead returning to the world.
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Post by Trevor on Aug 28, 2018 6:59:08 GMT -5
I just read Cullen Bunn's new book Cold Spots and was really pulled in. It's only one issue but its a solid mystery/supernatural story so far with a missing girl and the dead returning to the world. I haven’t tried everything he’s written (yet), but Bunn has been one of the most consistently good writers for quite awhile imo. |
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Post by Dizzy D on Aug 28, 2018 9:12:57 GMT -5
Kill or Be Killed vol 4: The final trade of the latest Brubaker/Phillips series. Overall I lost interest in this series as it progressed, but I still am interesting in their upcoming work. I saw that their next work will be a OGN and I think that format works better for their work.
Sex Criminals Vol 5: No1 on the list of comics you won't be reading on the bus. This trade could work as a series finale for me (even if the matter of the main "villain" has not been adressed at all, the two protagonists do complete their respective arcs IMHO). Then again, ending the series now, would not give them the opportunity to call the last volume (volume 6) "Six Criminals" and that would be a shame.
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