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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 26, 2016 14:31:53 GMT -5
I thought Prophet was a hot mess... maybe you needed to read more the the 1st trade, but it just was all over the place. Black Science a Doctor Who wannabe.. both disappointed me quite a bit.
Nicolai Dante has trades, and there's a novel that I remember being good.. you're right about it being more dystopian historical fiction, though.
Pluto, huh? Sounds interesting!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 26, 2016 14:43:35 GMT -5
If we're now suggesting good SF series, I can't recommend Valerian highly enough. Arguably one of the very best SF series ever!  |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 26, 2016 20:50:45 GMT -5
There's alot of Cinebook stuff I'd love to read if it wasn't so prohibitively expensive to get in the US... I mean, that comes out to about $11 US for 48 page comic... before shipping (which would be at least another $11).
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 26, 2016 20:56:38 GMT -5
Planet of the Vampires. It's a whole planet! Full of Vampires!
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 26, 2016 21:03:50 GMT -5
Ad one of my favorite comics ever is like SF version of the Godfather :  About the 70ies comics you're after, was it serialized in floppies or was it a "graphic novel" such as those Alex Nino nuggets :    (which was serialized in Heavy Metal...)   Skreemer is also quite high on my list of favorite comics (top 20). I generally like "Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction" and the other pictures look like things I should be reading. |
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 26, 2016 21:05:05 GMT -5
I like Enki Bilal's Nikopol Trilogy a lot. Don't know if Kirby's OMAC has been collected but the back issues shouldn't be expensive. Chaykin's American Flagg is a classic, of course. I've only read the first 3 or 4 issues, but they were enough to tell me it lives up to its rep. I feel like I'm hitting all the obvious stuff that Chris has probably already read. I have not read Nikopol. I came across it just light night while googling around for "science fiction comics". Ordered a hardcover from Amazon. |
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 26, 2016 21:08:21 GMT -5
Something a little more modern, I highly recommend Brandon Graham's Prophet from Image. Taking a weak Liefeld property and going crazy with it. It's so good. Planetoid by Ken Garing (also from Image) is very strong. Man survives a rocket crash on a planet where the gravity is too heavy for him to rebuild and leave.
Let's see... Black Science by Rick Remender & Matteo Scalera
I'd also recommend Paul Pope's THB or Heavy Liquid.
Frank Miller's got some classic science fiction: Hard Boiled, The Big Guy & Rusty the Boy Robot,Ronin, the Martha Washington series
Geoff Darrow's Bourbon Theret
I'm pretty good on keeping up with modern stuff, including Prophet and Black Science. I do need to read more Pope. I've read 100% and intend to read more. Bourbon Thret is something I obviously need to read. |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 26, 2016 21:20:17 GMT -5
Something a little more modern, I highly recommend Brandon Graham's Prophet from Image. Taking a weak Liefeld property and going crazy with it. It's so good. Planetoid by Ken Garing (also from Image) is very strong. Man survives a rocket crash on a planet where the gravity is too heavy for him to rebuild and leave.
Let's see... Black Science by Rick Remender & Matteo Scalera
I'd also recommend Paul Pope's THB or Heavy Liquid.
Frank Miller's got some classic science fiction: Hard Boiled, The Big Guy & Rusty the Boy Robot,Ronin, the Martha Washington series
Geoff Darrow's Bourbon Theret
I'm pretty good on keeping up with modern stuff, including Prophet and Black Science. I do need to read more Pope. I've read 100% and intend to read more. Bourbon Thret is something I obviously need to read. and Heavy Liquid are both great SF series and easy to get hold of The Nikopol trilogy is quite overrated IMHO : It's pretty to look at if you're into Bilal's aesthetic, but the storytelling skills are close to zero. But the worst is the plot, an esoteric mess of references that makes Grant Morrison's Arkham Asylum look like a work of constraint minimalism  |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 26, 2016 21:31:35 GMT -5
Pluto, huh? Sounds interesting! I'm so far only half way through it and it has become my favorite Urusawa series! But I think I rated Tezuka #3 in my christmas alltime top 12 of cartoonist  .jpg)  |
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Post by Batflunkie on Feb 26, 2016 21:51:30 GMT -5
Can't vouch for these since I didn't read them. The Publisher Tekno Comix was around for about 3 years in the 1990s. I've seen some trade book collections of their publications. They used ideas from Neil Gaiman, Isaac Asimov and Mickey Spillane among others. Here's a wiki link with their line up en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekno_ComixAs fascinated as I am by Gaiman's Teknophage and it's sister books, I'm unsure if it's really even fair to credit him in the process when all he came up with was the "thought" |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 26, 2016 21:53:15 GMT -5
I thought Prophet was a hot mess... maybe you needed to read more the the 1st trade, but it just was all over the place.\ I read a little bit of Prophet and it didn't do much for me, but King City (the comic Graham did before Prophet) is one of my favorite comics, period. It helps if you're a cat person, though. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Feb 26, 2016 21:54:48 GMT -5
Can't vouch for these since I didn't read them. The Publisher Tekno Comix was around for about 3 years in the 1990s. I've seen some trade book collections of their publications. They used ideas from Neil Gaiman, Isaac Asimov and Mickey Spillane among others. Here's a wiki link with their line up en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekno_ComixAs fascinated as I am by Gaiman's Teknophage and it's sister books, I'm unsure if it's really even fair to credit him in the process when all he came up with was the "thought" Well, he obviously cashed the check and let them use his name. So yes, he's accountable for the premise of the book. Nothing more though. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Feb 26, 2016 22:01:23 GMT -5
You should check out the DC Science Fiction Graphic Novel books from the late 80's, I especially liked the adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "Frost and Fire" by Klaus Janson, Marshall Rogers take on Harlan Ellison's "Demon with a Glass Hand" and Doug Moench's and Pat Broderick's adaptation of the "Sandkings" by George R.R. Martin.
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Post by tingramretro on Feb 27, 2016 2:56:21 GMT -5
Planet of the Vampires. It's a whole planet! Full of Vampires! Ah, the late, lamented Atlas line! Potential classics all, sadly strangled at birth...  |
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Post by tingramretro on Feb 27, 2016 4:00:57 GMT -5
Anyone else remember this three issue Eclipse anthology series from 1990?  |
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