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Anybody read comics?

BigBadMickBigBadMick
edited August 2008 in Chit chat
I've read The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series 1 and 2 and Watchmen by Alan Moore. Just finishing the last five issue of Y - The Last Man tonight.

Got Transmetropolitan lined up next.

Anybody else like reading comics? Can you recommend any other good comic series?
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  • RichBRichB
    edited August 2008
    Yep - don't mind a comic or two.

    Been reading 2000AD since it started and occasionally reread Starlord (which merged with 2000AD) as there was some cracking stories that, as far as I know, haven't been reprinted in graphic novel form since.

    Recently been having a read of Alan Moore's Hypthetical Lizard (Avatar) which was superb and also the magnificent Beyond Wonderland (Zenescope) - their Grimm's Fairy Tales series are top notch too - and also Caliber (Radical Comics). All worth a look if the usual superhero stuff is getting on your nerves...
  • WhizzBangWhizzBang
    edited August 2008
    I was mad about comics and the ZX Spectrum when I was a kid, and now I have a subscription to Viz and I play Knight Lore and Bomb Jack through emulation.

    I am living in Sweden now and for some reason I had a mad urge to read 2000 AD again a few months ago and so I have been downloading loads of them via bit torrent. Some of the strips are not as good as I remember them, but the letters pages are sometimes quite funny, with kids predictions of what the world will be like in the year 2000 and complaints about minor details in the comic strips.

    As you can probably tell, I am no expert on comics but I would still recommend Judge Dredd. I stopped reading it around issue 400 and assumed the best was behind it, but I am now up to issue 1000 and there have been some brilliant strips in the years that I missed. It got me quite enthusiastic about JD again and I read his Wikipedia entry and now I am looking forward to reading the story called 'Origins' when I get to it.

    The Zenith stories were also very good although the main character, Zenith, does practically nothing at all in the entire story but it has a great ending. (assuming there are no more after the ones I have read)

    Robo Hunter is great up until he is reincarnated via a clone or something.

    Strontium Dog is great up until Johnny Alpha was killed off in an appallingly illustrated and very long story.

    Rogue Trooper is great up until he kills the traitor and then the writers seemed to have struggled with thinking of something new for him to do.

    I think that my all time favourate comic story is Judge Death Lives illustrated by Brian Bolland.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited August 2008
    Not really but I'd like to get hold of the entire Akira story, I've seen graphic novels. But I'd rather have the 40 odd mini comics that built the story up. No chance of getting those now though.

    My cousin was collecting them in 1991.

    EDIT: Oh if I ever do buy the Akira comic set, I also intend to get Domu, Katsuhiro Otomos first graphic novel.

    Started reading it about 14 years ago (maybe longer), and never finished it, never really started it actually.
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  • psj3809psj3809
    edited August 2008
    I'm a huge 2000 ad fan, been buying most of the great case files.

    Search for Judge Dredd or Strontium Dog on amazon and you'll see them. There were 4 for Strontium Dog, Judge Dredd has 1-10 out already and there'll be plenty more.

    I do like Star Wars graphics novels and i've (cough) downloaded some 2000ad scans i must admit. Used to buy these back in the 80's but sadly threw them away yearssss ago. Seeing the scans (Just like Crash scans, eg cbr files) brings back so many memories though
  • andrew_rollingsandrew_rollings
    edited August 2008
    I remember reading a comic book (from Penguin or Puffin) that was a true story of the aftereffects of Hiroshima...

    I wish I could remember what it was, because I'd get it again..

    As for other comics, aside from most of the ones already mentioned, I went through a big Swamp Thing and Sandman kick a few years back.

    Most recently, I've been reading the Marvel Zombies hardbacks...
    Pretty excellent, (apart from Marvel Zombies 2, which wasn't so good).

    Andrew
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited August 2008
    I love the Freak Brothers comics... my brother has all of the compilation issues they released over here. Great stuff!! Not too keen on the Fat Freddy's Cat comics though, although I didn't mind his strips in the FFFB comics.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited August 2008
    GreenCard wrote: »
    I love the Freak Brothers comics... my brother has all of the compilation issues they released over here. Great stuff!! Not too keen on the Fat Freddy's Cat comics though, although I didn't mind his strips in the FFFB comics.

    My cuz used to get those, I remember one where fat freddy got beat up by a really butch librarian because he kept harrassing her about where the "Fuck Books" were hidden :lol:

    My cuz also used to get Snoid comics and Bijou Funnies, they had some really funny stuff in them. But some of it was just sick, I remember one story a politician married a yeti, but she was drawn in typical Crumb style, kinda like an old model French lady but hairy. Had some way over the top pics of him shagging said yeti :D
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  • chop983chop983
    edited August 2008
    I used to read the Beano
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited August 2008
    andrew_rollings wrote: »
    I remember reading a comic book (from Penguin or Puffin) that was a true story of the aftereffects of Hiroshima...

    I wish I could remember what it was, because I'd get it again..

    As for other comics, aside from most of the ones already mentioned, I went through a big Swamp Thing and Sandman kick a few years back.

    Most recently, I've been reading the Marvel Zombies hardbacks...
    Pretty excellent, (apart from Marvel Zombies 2, which wasn't so good).

    Andrew

    Yeah seen that one online if is Hiroshima The Atomic Holocaust by Ted Nomura. Looked pretty good.
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited August 2008
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    My cuz used to get those, I remember one where fat freddy got beat up by a really butch librarian because he kept harrassing her about where the "Fuck Books" were hidden :lol:

    There was a really funny one where they couldn't score any drugs and sat at home bored. In every cell, the drawings became more and more realistic, until the end of the comic where they weren't cartoon characters anymore but actual photos!!
  • andrew_rollingsandrew_rollings
    edited August 2008
    psj3809 wrote: »
    Yeah seen that one online if is Hiroshima The Atomic Holocaust by Ted Nomura. Looked pretty good.

    Not that one... It was written by a woman... Japanese survivor. It was illustrated in a very "Studio Ghibli" style... Reminded me of Grave of the Fireflies.

    Andrew
  • milemile
    edited August 2008
    not a fan of comics,

    but i did enjoy the terminator comics, and the alien versus predator graphic novel.

    i do want to read v for vendetta, and the league of extrodinary gentlmen tho.
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited August 2008
    mile wrote: »
    but i did enjoy the terminator comics

    I read the first issue and absolutely loved it, but never bothered to buy/read the rest.

    I did really like some of the early Turtles comics (the really grim ones, where they all wore red bandanas and had strange markings on their shells).
  • milemile
    edited August 2008
    GreenCard wrote: »
    I read the first issue and absolutely loved it, but never bothered to buy/read the rest.

    I did really like some of the early Turtles comics (the really grim ones, where they all wore read bandanas and had strange markings on their shells).

    yeah i think the first came out as a one off, i never saw the rest, but bought the set years later, they were good. sort of like the sarah conner chronicles, but much better.
  • Battle BunnyBattle Bunny
    edited August 2008
    Some recommendations ... These are mostly ongoing series, but previous stories are available in collected editions.

    For an engrossing (if grim & violent) sci-fi adventure series, Fear Agent from Dark Horse.
    For zombie aficionados, The Walking Dead from Image. #50 is a good place to start, as most everybody got killed in the preceding few issues.
    For sexploitative mega-violence, Bomb Queen from Image.
    For adventure, romance and mad science, Girl Genius from Airship Entertainment.
    For an excellent fantasy comedy adventure, Boneyard from NBM. This has finished now, but can still be obtained in collected volumes, and Richard Moore is now doing Fire & Brimstone at Antarctic Press, which is in the same genre.
    For an amusing tale of incompetent, drunken ghost hunters, Cemetery Blues from Image.
    For hilarious observations on life's absurdities, Halo & Sprocket from Slave Labor Graphics. It's about a young woman who lives with a robot and an angel. The second volume - Natural Creatures - is due out shortly.
    For supernatural adventure, any of the Nocturnals stories by Dan Brereton. There's a new one - Carnival of Beasts - due out shortly. For fans of Japanese giant monster stories, there's also GiantKiller from the same author.
    For super-hero sexaholics there's Empowered by Adam Warren from Dark Horse.
    For an exciting and technically impressive "giant robots battling alien invaders" story there's Cannon God Exaxxion, also from Dark Horse.
    For hilarious stories of D&D role-playing, there's none better than Knights of the Dinner Table from Kenzer & Co; collected in many volumes.
    Then for younger readers some titles I'd recommend: Little Gloomy, Courtney Crumrin, Polly and the Pirates; all in the fantasy/supernatural genre.

    If you want a good idea of what's available then pick up a copy of the monthly Previews catalogue from a comics shop - usually around 550 pages of temptation.

    And if anyone who read the recent Metal Men series understands what it was all about - then please tell me!
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited August 2008
    I used to really like Marshal Law when I was younger, a really dark twist on the whole superhero genre.

    Fear and Lothing was excellent, Marshal Law takes Manhattan was pretty good but a step down from fear and loathing, but The Hateful dead (serialised in Toxic before it became a kids comic), was terrible, it started off good, and ended up just being utter shite.
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  • BloodBazBloodBaz
    edited August 2008
    Not ever got into comics except for one...

    The Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited August 2008
    I love cartoons on TV (still to this day) but never got into comics really that much back in the day ... I only really like Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai ... and the well-made ones in Heavy Metal (not the secks ones really).
  • VanamondeVanamonde
    Somebody has scanned almost all the issues of Starlord:

    http://www.starlordcomic.com/index.html

    I finally got to read issue 1.
  • LunyLuny
    Vanamonde wrote: »
    Somebody has scanned almost all the issues of Starlord:

    http://www.starlordcomic.com/index.html

    I finally got to read issue 1.

    Excellent find Vanamonde. I missed out on Starlord... Time for a read..

    Oh by the way I use to read everything from Buster to 2000AD (but yes missed Starlord until they joined with 2000AD)
    I stopped some time ago when 2000AD went sh*te. But do read the odd DC / Marvel in eletronic form. Have skimmed through the odd 2000AD recently. It still looks like they've run out of ideas.

    Off to Comicon London in May to chat to the artist. Anyone else going?
    Sod it!

    @luny@mstdn.games
    https://www.luny.co.uk
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited April 2016
    not as such, since i was a lad lol

    used to buy 200ad and groo back in the day. these days i read the walking dead compendiums, thats about it

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  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    I used to love the Beano, mind you I was 5...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • saddestmoonsaddestmoon
    Have always loved reading comics - although not getting quite the time of late, to do so in depth. Mostly, glancing through my local comic store on my lunch break, skim reading, but not buying what I used to...
  • textvoyagetextvoyage
    Dipped into comics (or "graphic novels", I do beg your pardon!) a little in the late 80s/early 90s, nothing ever beat Hellblazer for me. Not even Watchmen!
  • hikokihikoki
    Sure because I couldn't read enough comics when I was a child :)
    Lucky Luke, Spiderman, Dick tracy, mortadelo y filemon, carpanta, popeye,..
    Humorous adult comics: lastly I'm enjoying Tabaré
    These ones are also amusing and silly in a good sense :
    https://goo.gl/eQpFjF
    https://goo.gl/LxzIef
    I liked also explore very old comics. Let me know if you can recommend noir,gangster comics in b&w
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  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited April 2016
    funnily enough the other day i was in a shop and noticed one of those little war comics and remarked to the missus i used to buy those as a kid and its still going lol

    Commando or someat its called?
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  • Shugs81Shugs81
    Chew from Image is good...

    Atomic Robo is excellent!

    Wormwood : Gentleman Corpse is great if you like the weirder stuff

    Powernap is a great webcomic too!!

    Enjoy!! :D
  • LunyLuny
    edited April 2016
    I discovered Ogri later in life. Bought the album compilations.

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    Was inspired and for a while based my own style on the same...

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    (Shameless plug)

    And have always enjoyed the Giles family...

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    Not strictly comics in the same sense, but just as enjoyable.
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    Sod it!

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  • hikokihikoki
    @luny any more plug we can get stuck to? Do you have any book published? As far as I know there are at least three cartoonists on wos, kevin macgoaty, dave hughes and luny. I'd pay to see a speccy comic strip :)]
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  • stupidgetstupidget
    edited April 2016
    These are my two all time favourite 2000ad issues. Basically anything with Judge Death in :-) . I also had an issue of Meltdown which was a really odd comic from the early 90's:

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