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Post by Trevor on Aug 6, 2015 12:39:08 GMT -5
Read Courtney Crumrin and The Twilight Kingdom, collecting the 4-issue Oni miniseries. Beautiful edition of a great work. I still have trouble deciding what age this is best for. It has all the hallmarks of a children's work, but it's so dark. And dark in a very poignant and powerful subtextual sort of way. Puts me at 6 issues for the month. Courtney Crumrin is another of the many many series where I read a first issue, loved it, and have been buying everything else since without actually reading it. Maybe I'll add the first collection to my queue for this month. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Aug 6, 2015 21:46:04 GMT -5
I had a few Conans in my to read pile... 163-168 and 170. Bursema art, though by this point it was, IMO, starting to be sketchy and looking phoned in at times. These issues are mostly (5 of them) 1 and dones.. with Fafnir functioning as Conan's sidekick. He's not my favorite. The best of the bunch was actually the fill in (164) where a young boy tries to get revenge on Conan killing his brothers in a most unusual way. The last couple stories are vaguely connected, both to each other and a previous story, but it's so sudden and shifty tone-wise it's painful.
Good books overall, but far from the best Conan has to offer.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2015 2:33:50 GMT -5
Well, it's not a classic, but I did read Birthright #10 today.
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Post by Trevor on Aug 8, 2015 9:08:08 GMT -5
Sticking with one Fables trade per day so far, and still really enjoying it. Also tried a new Comixology Submit series, Heathen, and will continue buying it.
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Post by Crimebuster on Aug 8, 2015 14:12:53 GMT -5
Just started reading Mage. The first couple issues were okay. I like the concept and the characters. The writing and storytelling are both pretty raw, though I know Wagner eventually got very, very good. So I'm going to keep at it, especially since I already have the rest of the first arc.
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Post by Dizzy D on Aug 8, 2015 15:58:10 GMT -5
I'm terrible at the classic part of this challenge. At my father's house, so I picked up Matt Wagner's Madame Xanadu to read this evening.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 8, 2015 17:23:24 GMT -5
Finished the Fables Trade Storybook Love and am almost done with March of the Wooden Soldiers.
Also read the first Melvin Monster collection. I think it clearly counts as fantasy.
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Post by Crimebuster on Aug 9, 2015 17:36:12 GMT -5
Finished Mage, both volumes 1 and 2. At the end of the collection for volume 1, he laments that it took 10 years for him to get around to volume 2, and he says he hopes volume three will be out much quicker.
Yeah, not so much. It's now been 16 years since volume 2 finished, and still no sign of volume 3.
Definitely good stuff. I can see why it became a cult classic, and I'll be interested to read volume 3 if it ever happens.
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Post by Trevor on Aug 9, 2015 19:30:15 GMT -5
I'm terrible at the classic part of this challenge. At my father's house, so I picked up Matt Wagner's Madame Xanadu to read this evening. Perhaps my favorite creator, and a favorite character, yet I've never read this. How? Why?! Finished Mage, both volumes 1 and 2. At the end of the collection for volume 1, he laments that it took 10 years for him to get around to volume 2, and he says he hopes volume three will be out much quicker. Yeah, not so much. It's not been 16 years since volume 2 finished, and still no sign of volume 3. Definitely good stuff. I can see why it became a cult classic, and I'll be interested to read volume 3 if it ever happens. I finally met Matt a few months ago. Couldn't get my mouth/brain to form any adult sentences; but should have talked to him about Mage. Mage volume 1 is key to me being a comics addict and branching out from the big two. Im waiting for volume 3 to read them all in order again. Perhaps I should stop waiting and enjoy the 'partial' reads again. |
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Post by Dizzy D on Aug 10, 2015 4:16:47 GMT -5
I'm terrible at the classic part of this challenge. At my father's house, so I picked up Matt Wagner's Madame Xanadu to read this evening. Perhaps my favorite creator, and a favorite character, yet I've never read this. How? Why?! AH, so I can blame you for the series getting cancelled! Seriously: it was Vertigo series, but it's squarely within the DC-universe (though without it being a superhero comic). Art by Amy Reeder Hadley and for an arc Michael Kaluta. Nominated for multiple Eisner. I got around to halfway through Broken House of Cards this weekend, will continue next weekend. Anyway I fully recommend it, it's a great series.Knowledge of Arthurian legend helps a bit for the first story arc. Edit: As for Mage volume 3, we had a CBR chat with Matt Wagner years ago (2006, I'd say?) and even back then he said that it would be a long time before Mage 3 would come out. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 10, 2015 5:57:40 GMT -5
I read issues #17-19 from the 1974 Kazar run. This 4 parter ( which started in #16) has Kazar and about 5 other people transported into a world ruled by a race of lizard looking people complete with flying sharks. The tale has sorcery, fantasy type animals and even a Gnome sidekick thrown if for good measure. It wasn't a bad arc.
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Post by Trevor on Aug 10, 2015 8:59:12 GMT -5
Perhaps my favorite creator, and a favorite character, yet I've never read this. How? Why?! AH, so I can blame you for the series getting cancelled! Seriously: it was Vertigo series, but it's squarely within the DC-universe (though without it being a superhero comic). Art by Amy Reeder Hadley and for an arc Michael Kaluta. Nominated for multiple Eisner. I got around to halfway through Broken House of Cards this weekend, will continue next weekend. Anyway I fully recommend it, it's a great series.Knowledge of Arthurian legend helps a bit for the first story arc. Edit: As for Mage volume 3, we had a CBR chat with Matt Wagner years ago (2006, I'd say?) and even back then he said that it would be a long time before Mage 3 would come out. I think it came out during one of my several year plus sabbaticals from comics. I think I've since accumulated one or two of the trades; need to make sure I have them all and give it a read next August. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2015 14:29:54 GMT -5
I read that Madame Xanadu run last year. It is fantastic.
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Post by berkley on Aug 11, 2015 2:00:32 GMT -5
How about Philippe Druillet's Lone Sloane books - would they be considered fantasy in a loose sense, in spite of science fiction trappings like space ships?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2015 2:20:31 GMT -5
How about Philippe Druillet's Lone Sloane books - would they be considered fantasy in a loose sense, in spite of science fiction trappings like space ships? I would put them in the space fantasy sub-genre, but I have only read Chaos of them. -M |
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