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Oct 1, 2010 8:43:41 GMT -5
Post by Nick Taxidermy on Oct 1, 2010 8:43:41 GMT -5
I'm unable to control my laughter.
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Oct 1, 2010 8:55:11 GMT -5
Post by Terp Torp on Oct 1, 2010 8:55:11 GMT -5
Looking at that picture, it's perfectly clear that Shaft and Shatterstar are supposed to be Rob Liefeld.
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Oct 1, 2010 9:13:06 GMT -5
Post by Nick Taxidermy on Oct 1, 2010 9:13:06 GMT -5
oh, no question. it's just his face, hahaha!
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Oct 4, 2010 21:52:24 GMT -5
Post by jeremyzero on Oct 4, 2010 21:52:24 GMT -5
Bought Arkham Asylum, Batman: Year One, and Infinite Crisis for my bday. Thought about picking up an Iron Man, but they didn't have Demon In a Bottle, so I lost interest. Although it was funny that my wife laughed and said "It'd just be weird to see a Marvel title on the shelf".
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Oct 4, 2010 22:23:49 GMT -5
Post by russe on Oct 4, 2010 22:23:49 GMT -5
Bought Arkham Asylum, Batman: Year One, Both are damn awesome.
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Oct 4, 2010 22:26:50 GMT -5
Post by Terp Torp on Oct 4, 2010 22:26:50 GMT -5
Bought Arkham Asylum, Batman: Year One, and Infinite Crisis for my bday. Thought about picking up an Iron Man, but they didn't have Demon In a Bottle, so I lost interest. Although it was funny that my wife laughed and said "It'd just be weird to see a Marvel title on the shelf". Matt Fraction's current run on Iron Man is by far the best Iron Man story I've ever read. You have to get Warren Ellis' Extremis first though. Also yeah, those two Bat stories rock. Infinite Crisis is ok, but Final Crisis is the best Crisis. Though honestly 52 is probably the coolest DC event comic.
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Oct 4, 2010 23:50:31 GMT -5
Post by jeremyzero on Oct 4, 2010 23:50:31 GMT -5
Final Crisis is awesome, and I was tempted by the hardbound, but Infinite Crisis won out simply by virtue of my not having read it quite recently.
I'll check out Extremis. I've not really read much Iron Man, but I've always dug Tony Stark when he pops up in other comics.
Anyone else download comics and feel somewhat shitty about it but do it anyway? I do. It doesn't quite compare to actually having the books, but viewing them on ComicRack is damn close. I buy when I can, and stuff I love I purchase in graphic novel or TPB form when I can, whether I've read it already or not, but I find I keep up on current titles, or catch up on extended back issues, mostly through dl's.
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Oct 5, 2010 0:10:37 GMT -5
Post by russe on Oct 5, 2010 0:10:37 GMT -5
I've downloaded a few, but it's not the same for me. I like having it in my hands.
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Oct 5, 2010 19:24:09 GMT -5
Post by Terp Torp on Oct 5, 2010 19:24:09 GMT -5
I was a big downloader but I just got sick of reading stuff on my computer. For a while it was the only way I could read some independent comics because I didn't have a bank account and my local store orders very very little from non-Big Two publishers. It's good for reading very long runs as well I suppose, it's how I read Sandman first (which I am currently purchasing in those beautiful absolute editions) and Lucifer and Bendis's Daredevil.
Speaking of Daredevil, man has it fallen off since Brubaker's run. It went from best Marvel book to garbage.
Matt Fraction on Thor is already looking to be super great.
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Oct 5, 2010 21:09:49 GMT -5
Post by jeremyzero on Oct 5, 2010 21:09:49 GMT -5
I don't mind reading on the compy, I much prefer having the books, but I've only got so much discretionary cash, and my kids need to eat, so I buy when I can, DL the rest.
I've never been into Daredevil. Never read any Thor. Not much of a Marvel guy. I should try some though. I used to read Spiderman when I was a kid, and X-Men, but that's about it.
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Oct 5, 2010 21:26:35 GMT -5
Post by russe on Oct 5, 2010 21:26:35 GMT -5
I suggest getting anything Garth Ennis has done with Punisher and Nick Fury.
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Oct 5, 2010 21:26:59 GMT -5
Post by Terp Torp on Oct 5, 2010 21:26:59 GMT -5
Bendis and Maleev's and Brubaker and Lark's Daredevil runs are phenomenal, and Brubaker's continues from Bendis's. Absolutely worth reading. Bendis and Michael Gaydos's Alias is great too, it's from the MAX line, but it's mature in the sense that it's intelligent rather than extremely violent.
Spider-Man is so good. Even those hokey-ass Stan Lee issues are great. When Marvel first started putting out books they were MILES beyond everything else at the time. I definitely read more DC books nowadays, but that's probably because Grant Morrison is exclusive to them and I love that guy.
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Oct 9, 2010 11:51:42 GMT -5
Post by jeremyzero on Oct 9, 2010 11:51:42 GMT -5
Just read Extremis this morning. Cool run, dig the update on Iron Man. Even though the science behind "NOW I WILL REPURPOSE THE SERUM SOMEHOW INTO MAKING ME ABLE TO CONTROL SCIENCE!" was a little squidgy, even in comic book terms. Good stuff though.
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Oct 9, 2010 12:32:52 GMT -5
Post by Terp Torp on Oct 9, 2010 12:32:52 GMT -5
Nice, now you can move on to Fraction's Invincible Iron Man which is great.
Volume 2 of the Umbrella Academy is way better than the first, though I may have to read the first one again now that I have a handle on all the characters from all the stuff you get in the second one.
About to dig into the second trade of Frank Miller's Daredevil run as well. The Kingpin may well be my favorite Marvel villain. He's like huge evil Batman.
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Oct 10, 2010 12:59:10 GMT -5
Post by russe on Oct 10, 2010 12:59:10 GMT -5
I picked Lost Girls back up last night. 'Tis a different read.
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Oct 10, 2010 13:06:05 GMT -5
Post by Terp Torp on Oct 10, 2010 13:06:05 GMT -5
I read that but I don't really remember it too much. It was pretty strange. Speaking of Alan Moore, I read like halfway through From Hell and just never started again. It was really cool, if not a little difficult because the art makes it really hard to tell characters apart.
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Oct 10, 2010 13:11:38 GMT -5
Post by russe on Oct 10, 2010 13:11:38 GMT -5
I haven't read From Hell yet, but I really want to. I think I'm going to read Watchmen again after Lost Girls. It's been a little while, I need to read it again. I want to get his run on Swamp Thing as well. All I hear is great things about it.
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Oct 10, 2010 13:13:23 GMT -5
Post by Terp Torp on Oct 10, 2010 13:13:23 GMT -5
Yeah, I have yet to tackle his Swamp Thing, though obviously I should have already since it's important to both Hellblazer and Sandman, books I read currently/have read.
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Oct 10, 2010 13:22:26 GMT -5
Post by russe on Oct 10, 2010 13:22:26 GMT -5
I've got the first Hellblazer book. It's pretty damn good. I need to get more of them. Didn't Garth Ennis do Hellblazer for a bit, or am I thinking wrong?
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Oct 10, 2010 14:16:14 GMT -5
Post by Terp Torp on Oct 10, 2010 14:16:14 GMT -5
Ennis did it for years, yeah. Something like 50 issues. The weird thing about Hellblazer is that the trades have been published with no semblance of order and there are a lot of issues that are uncollected in random spots. Brian Azzarello's run where Constantine goes to prison is my favorite that I've read so far, even though the art is ugly as hell. Peter Milligan's been writing it for the last few years, and I love that guy from X-Statix and post Grant Morrison Animal Man, so I should get on that.
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Oct 10, 2010 14:39:13 GMT -5
Post by russe on Oct 10, 2010 14:39:13 GMT -5
I just need to get a shit ton of money so I can buy all I want. There is so much I feel I need to get.
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Oct 10, 2010 14:51:42 GMT -5
Post by Terp Torp on Oct 10, 2010 14:51:42 GMT -5
I use my school's Interlibrary Loan system to get lots of things for free, but there's a lot of stuff I'd rather own. I really want to buy all of Fear Agent because it's wonderful, and I still need those last 2 Absolute Sandman volumes (though they are 50 bucks a pop).
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Oct 10, 2010 15:18:10 GMT -5
Post by russe on Oct 10, 2010 15:18:10 GMT -5
I think Fear Agent is one my buddy has just about everything of. Is that the one that was on Wild Storm and moved to another, or moved to Wild Storm? I can't remember. It was on one and moved to another, correct? hahaha.
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Oct 10, 2010 15:36:28 GMT -5
Post by jeremyzero on Oct 10, 2010 15:36:28 GMT -5
I really want to read Alan Moore's Swamp Thing. It's one I refuse to download though, and I cant ever seem to find volume 1.
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Oct 10, 2010 15:37:52 GMT -5
Post by russe on Oct 10, 2010 15:37:52 GMT -5
I don't think I've ever seen them in stores. eBay and Amazon are good to go to.
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Oct 10, 2010 16:32:44 GMT -5
Post by Terp Torp on Oct 10, 2010 16:32:44 GMT -5
I think Fear Agent is one my buddy has just about everything of. Is that the one that was on Wild Storm and moved to another, or moved to Wild Storm? I can't remember. It was on one and moved to another, correct? hahaha. It was on Image and moved to Dark Horse I think. The guy who writes it, Rick Remender, is a big punk rock fan which is why the volumes are titled My War and I Against I and stuff. There are Black Flag posters in like every issue of his Punisher run.
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Oct 10, 2010 16:35:22 GMT -5
Post by russe on Oct 10, 2010 16:35:22 GMT -5
Haha. That's awesome. I need to check his stuff out.
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Oct 10, 2010 18:16:47 GMT -5
Post by Terp Torp on Oct 10, 2010 18:16:47 GMT -5
I keep telling myself that I'm gonna interview him to start my inchoate punk rock and comic books at the same time writing project but I never get around to it because I haven't read a whole lot of his stuff and I haven't done an interview in almost a year.
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Oct 11, 2010 10:48:08 GMT -5
Post by jeremyzero on Oct 11, 2010 10:48:08 GMT -5
I don't think I've ever seen them in stores. eBay and Amazon are good to go to. They had Volume 3 at Chapters when I was b-day shopping, but that was it.
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Oct 11, 2010 22:34:17 GMT -5
Post by Terp Torp on Oct 11, 2010 22:34:17 GMT -5
I feel I should tell everyone that Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunleavy's Action Philosophers and Comic Book Comics are super awesome. The former is comic book explanations of some of the most important ancient and modern philosophers which is great for someone like me who hates philosophy classes but is still interested in philosophy, and the latter is the history of comics in comics form which rules.
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