I’ve read some Paul Pope. Solo, The One Trick Rip-Off, his issue of Spider-Man’s Tangled Web, and Batman: Year 100. They all sucked ass and I will never bother with this loser again. I had THB, 100%, and Heavy Liquid on my wishlist but after reading that other garbage, I’m not even gonna bother.
I’ll check out Scott Pilgrim once I scrounge up some more cash. Or find a deal on eBay.
I was kidding about hating Pope.
lolz.
You’re a liar. The Question isn’t in neither of the comics, they don’t come out weekly like 52, and they aren’t HC’s.
You will never get them. EVER.
scott pilgrim is only in manga-sized digest i believe so i will pass
is there a tpb of batman year 100?
Yup, there is a Batman: Year 100 TPB. It even includes an extra Pope Batman story that he did for some random Bat anthology.
Stupid DC. They’ve canceled the Showcase Presents: Suicide Squad collection.
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=127206
Those jerks.
gabe do you still have the one more day promo? are you willing to part with it? lemme know how much $$ you want for it if you do
pm me your cell # fool…the one I have doesnt work
I’m reading Marvel Comics Presents: Wolverine vol. 1 right now and it is really good. I remember most of this from my youth but def have more appreciation for the Klaus Jansen inks now. Claremont was actually doing good work at this time. I like the serialized nature of the story - it makes things more exciting - although the page count is a little low for my tastes (it collects the feature wolverine story from MCP 1-10…ends up being about 100 pages)
I also got the George Perez: Storyteller book from Dynamic Forces but I havent really cracked it yet as I have been reading a book on the Death Wish movie series.
Hey, have you ever read the Weapon X story? The one by Barry Windsor-Smith?
Concrete > Groo any day of the week.
Paul C.'s a genius!!!
Funny you mention that… I am reading a Concrete book right now! Chadwick is definitely one of my favorites. But there’s no need to denigrate Groo. Some books are just different from each other. It bugs me when people compare things like that… As though if you read one, you don’t need to read the other. Fact is, almost all of those Dark Horse Legends/Maverick books from back then are pretty awesome.
Except for Byrne’s NextMen. That sucked ass. Or, as we shall now say, it was just ALL SKILL, BABY.
I’ve read some Groo stories but they didn’t get my attention as much concrete stories did, I do remember laughing in one of the groo stories to that undertaker guy when his plot got fucked up.
I need to find more groo somewhere it’s just those books are hard to find at my LCS like the madrox mini which is still rare to see for sell nowadays even on the net, yet it came out 2 years ago.
What’s up with that?
Dude I knew I wasn’t crazy…four devils one hell was James Robinson, not Steve Seagle (seagle did Devil in our Midst…the one in Antarctica)
Yeah I read most of the claremont wolverine when I was a kid because my brother collected it, and I now have the weapon x story as part of the Best of Wolverine vol. 1 OHC. It was really disturbing when I was younger…really dark and scary. The covers were awesome.
I just ordered a crapload of new books that will start coming in. I just got the Mike Carey x-men supernovas OHC in the mail today…bachalo and ramos are all good in my book when it comes to x-men (I loved all the non-quietly art in morrison’s new x-men that everyone hated). Also picked up silverfish finally, bru’s x-men OHC, x-factor visionaries vol. 2, 52 vol. 2, all the alien/pred dark horse omniboo, and some other assorted stuff.
I’m almost done reading the Dynamic Forces book George Perez: Storyteller. It has a lot of cool stuff in it. My interest is especially piqued on the Avengers reboot he did with Busiek…I may have to pick up those OHC’s. I also may try his Wonder Woman and I really should read teen titans at some point.
Oh yeah, you are correctamundo about James Robinson on Four Devils, One Hell. I guess I got confused 'cause Teddy Kristiansen has done a bunch of work with Seagle. Probably should have done my research before I shot my mouth off. Good thing you are there to cover my ass. No homo. Or is there?
i think someone needs to get out of SF for a while…
also got Alan Moore’s complete Wildcats…that should be an interesting read. I’ve been meaning to pick up his Supreme tpb’s too.
I read the first appearence of the Scorpion in amazing spider-man…good stuff. One of the better origin stories I think, although the mechanical tail was hilarious/ridiculous. Ditko’s art is also really getting good in these issues
I’ve read Supreme: Story Of The Year, which I liked. It’s very clever, though it is very dense, like Watchmen. And since the story is told in a much more episodic fashion than Watchmen, it takes a while to get through.
Yeah, Alan Moore’s WildC.A.T.s is the coolest Image comic ever. The only thing that was weak was how they kept getting all these fill-in artists to do stuff. At least Travis Charest does a decent amount of issues in there. When I first read those issues, I was so impressed 'cause I was used to Jim Lee’s WildC.A.T.s, but Moore’s definitely made me a diehard fan of the team and concept. After you finish that, you got to hit up the Joe Casey/Sean Phillips volume 2 run and then Version 3.0. That stuff is my favorite team superhero comic.
And the Alan Moore Supreme stuff is so top tier. Best Superman story ever, maybe. It’s just an awesome tribute to Superman and Silver Age comics. Some of the issues have some junk artwork by random EXTREME artists but a good chunk of them also have gnarly Chris Sprouse art. And Rick Veitch draws a lot of pages in every issue as well, so there is a nice cohesion to the overall run.
I’m really enjoying Watchmen. It really is a sweet book. I should probably check out more of Alan Moore’s works.
My co-worker let me borrow his Batman Archives Vol. 1. Has Detective Comics 27-50. I’ve never read any of the old school Batman stuff. I’d considered picking up the Batman Chronicles books but I wasn’t too sure if I’d enjoy the earlier Batman stuff like I did the early Spider-Man works. But now that I can check 'em out for free, I’ll see how they measure up.
just remember that those early batman books are a full 25 years earlier than the spider-man stuff (golden age vs silver age)
Stuff I have read lately:
7 Brothers - This is the Virgin Comics book developed by John Woo and written by Ennis. I tried reading some of Virgin’s other comics (the one whose title I remember is Devi) but didn’t think anything much of them. 7 Brothers is the truth, though. It’s not related to any of the other Virgin books and is just a stand-alone graphic novel. This one combines Chinese mythology with Ennis profanity. It’s mad entertaining and just a great read. I say it’s worth owning.
Groo: Death and Taxes - I liked this more than the previous Groo book I read. This is the one ragey mentioned the other day, about the coffin-maker who tries to start wars so he can sell more coffins. It’s pretty engaging and is probably a great introduction to Groo.
Concrete: The Complete Short Stories 1986-1989 - This is out of print now that Dark Horse has been releasing those new “trim-size” TPBs. But Concrete’s awesome in album format and I found this in a bargain bin, so I had to get it. I think there might’ve been only one story in this that I thought was pedestrian, but everything else was sexy writing.
Skizz - This is one of those stories Alan Moore did for 2000 A.D. back in the early '80s. I had read this a couple years ago and finally got my own copy. It’s just so interesting how Moore can write satisfying 4 page chapters to tell a decent length story. (I think 2000 A.D. is/was a weekly anthology.) I have read some of his other 2000 A.D. comics like D.R. & Quinch and The Ballad of Halo Jones, but I think Skizz is my favorite. There’s just a patient vulnerability or sentimentality to Skizz that makes it stand out to me. Just imagine Alan Moore writing E.T., because Skizz and E.T. share the same premise. The Jim Baikie artwork is also pretty amazing, with awesome inking and great use of blacks.
The Pro - Another comic I read a couple of years ago and just got my own copy. It’s just Ennis being absolutely filthy and horny. Nothing essential, but this comic still entertains me with its dirty humor and poop jokes.
Punisher MAX: Widowmaker - Yeah, I really like this. I still have nothing but blind devotion to Ennis’ Punisher comics. This one was an issue longer than all of the other arcs so far, but it’s a great concept: Widows of gangsters the Punisher has killed decide to team up and avenge themselves upon him. I feel like this story really covered a lot of how Ennis feels about how Frank Castle can do what he can do, and why other people aren’t like him. When you get the HC, I guess you can judge for yourself.
Ennis always goes out and does some wacky stuff for offbeat publishers…remember his Shadowman run for Acclaim?
I read that concrete book when I was really young and I remember most of it flying over my head. Art was killer though, especially the painted cover.
I am a little more than halfway through X-Men: Supernovas and it is on fire. Mike Carey on the X-Men is the truth. The 6-parter “Supernovas” was so good on so many levels, the least of which is he actually made me like/respect Rogue