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Post by thebeastofyuccaflats on May 5, 2014 14:46:09 GMT -5
Concrete came back in print in smaller-size trade editions about the mid-aughts. And the more recent DHP strips were put into a one shot in late '11 called Concrete: Three Easy Pieces.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2014 14:52:45 GMT -5
Small like the Buffy Omnibus sizes? That's not too bad. Way easier than tracking down all the singles, even if they aren't expensive. I'll check that out, thanks!
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Post by thebeastofyuccaflats on May 5, 2014 14:57:06 GMT -5
Small like the Buffy Omnibus sizes? That's not too bad. Way easier than tracking down all the singles, even if they aren't expensive. I'll check that out, thanks! They're more like the post-movie Sin City editions, in terms of size. And you're welcome. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on May 5, 2014 15:02:06 GMT -5
Hated it. No sense of world building, and spectacularly incompetent in plot and character development. I can see the popularity of stuff like this and Y: The Last Man - There's no real need to exert mental energy to follow the storyline because it's a bunch of non-connected events with less depth that a Garfield comic, which could make it easy for people who have trouble with the comics form to follow along. |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2014 15:11:15 GMT -5
Man, a Garfield slam. Is nothing sacred?
Has anyone read Wood's Northlanders?
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2014 15:13:58 GMT -5
Man, a Garfield slam. Is nothing sacred? Has anyone read Wood's Northlanders? I read the first arc and quite liked it, but haven't gotten around to tracking down the rest. -M |
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Post by fanboystranger on May 5, 2014 15:18:38 GMT -5
Has anyone read Wood's Northlanders? I was kinda disappointed by it. It's not a bad book, by any means, but it never really clicked for me. Lots of people love it, though. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 5, 2014 15:20:44 GMT -5
Has anyone read Wood's Northlanders? I liked it quite a bit. It varied from storyline to storyline, but overall very solid. |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2014 15:30:18 GMT -5
Good enough for me. I'll give the first trade a shot.
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Post by DubipR on May 5, 2014 15:46:44 GMT -5
Man, a Garfield slam. Is nothing sacred? Has anyone read Wood's Northlanders? Has anyone read Wood's Northlanders? I liked it quite a bit. It varied from storyline to storyline, but overall very solid. Pretty much what Slam said. The arcs varied but overall, a good series. I really liked the first two arcs quite a bit. |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2014 15:55:23 GMT -5
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 5, 2014 17:17:10 GMT -5
Man, a Garfield slam. Is nothing sacred? Has anyone read Wood's Northlanders? I too read the first trade... It was pretty good, but not good enough to to get the next one. I think it's pretty similar to his Conan, only without Conan, so you don't have to worry about his butchering the classic characterization. |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2014 17:56:21 GMT -5
Hated it. No sense of world building, and spectacularly incompetent in plot and character development. I can see the popularity of stuff like this and Y: The Last Man - There's no real need to exert mental energy to follow the storyline because it's a bunch of non-connected events with less depth that a Garfield comic, which could make it easy for people who have trouble with the comics form to follow along. Okay, now I just have to ask...what series have you read that - in your opinion - requires one to exert mental energy to follow the storyline? |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on May 5, 2014 18:12:22 GMT -5
Okay, now I just have to ask...what series have you read that - in your opinion - requires one to exert mental energy to follow the storyline? Any other Vertigo comic. Most runs of superhero comics by a single writer. Virtually all modern TV shows... 99.98% of professional fiction in general in any medium. USUALLY you have a progression of events - Something happens, then the characters change as a result of this, and then something else happens BECAUSE the first thing happens, and then something else happens because the (now changed) character takes action. That's how fiction works. Ex Machina and Y the Last Man (both by the same author) just felt like a bunch of random events, completely unconnected by a story-line... there's hardly any progress in the plot or characters in relation to past events. I was honestly kind of amazed to see that in a work of fiction by a professional writer. Which doesn't make them terrible, exactly. There were some really good individual scenes-that-didn't-impact-anything-else-that-happened-in-the-book-so-I-had-no-reason-to-care-about-the-storyline-overall. Well, they were sort of terrible. Although come to think I gave up at the end of Volume 4 of Ex Machina. Just couldn't take it any more. It might have improved greatly and tied all the individual plot threads together into a brilliant, logical ending. I will never find out. But I'd totally recommend Saga to you. The early issues go for big $, and it says the F-word all the time. |
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Post by antoine on May 5, 2014 18:18:32 GMT -5
Man, a Garfield slam. Is nothing sacred? Has anyone read Wood's Northlanders? I liked it quite a bit. It varied from storyline to storyline, but overall very solid. Pretty much what Slam said. The arcs varied but overall, a good series. I really liked the first two arcs quite a bit. Didn't like it... Bought the first trade and couldn't even finish it... In the genre, I much prefer Thorgal, which everyone should check out! |
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