I used to like Wizzer and Chips, but I don't really know why as even then I kind of knew Sid's Snake, on the first page was quite poor. In most stories Sid's Snake ended up pretending to be a scarf, or something equally amusing.
Then there was Shiner too, the main hero of the Chips section. He was always getting socked with a black eye. In my mind I pronounced Shiner, Shinner, missing the connection completely.
If you were in Shiner's gang you were known as a Chipite. (I said Chip-Tee). Chipites were never my scene.
I haven't read these modern comics for big people though.
I recently helped my mum clear out her house as she was moving and got all my comic annuals from out of the loft. Tons of Shiver & Shake, Topper, Beano, Dandy, Cheeky from the 70's and 80's and I've been reading them the last few nights - it's quite scary how vividly I remember them!
I tend to wait for the trades (i.e. bunch of comics bound together in book form) - currently enjoying the new Transformers comic :D It's never going to win any awards for Mature Storytelling and all that modern malarkey... it's more like somebody's taken the rosy tint bathing my memories of the 1980s Marvel comics (which, now I look back as an adult, are appallingly drawn and, naturally, infantile) and distilled it. It's still about big robots disguised as cars and stuff knocking the crap out of each other... but with more thought put into why each side have a presence on Earth, how they interact with other races and each other etc. Pick up Infiltration (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Transformers-Infiltration/dp/1600100104/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221739078&sr=8-1) if you want to see what they've done.
That's pretty much my only current comic. Read Preacher and Hitman at Uni thanks to living with a comics nut (very useful), 2000AD before that, Whizzer and Chips, and some of the old IPC/Fleetway titles like Action and Valiant (and Commando, natch).
This reminds me, must see about importing a copy of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier...
yup, that?s right!
got tones of the stuff too,
cbr/cbz simply represents rar/zip structure
u just need special reader to make it look more.... comic :D
Heavy Metal is still going strong and there is talk of a third movie too
I do recall a few years ago I wanted to subscribe and checked their prices ... it was just too steep ... though I do understand it because that's true comic-book quality ... not mass-churned crap like most comics are (imho).
I do recall a few years ago I wanted to subscribe and checked their prices ... it was just too steep ... though I do understand it because that's true comic-book quality ... not mass-churned crap like most comics are (imho).
Heavy Metal was and still is a quality production, and each issue was around 120 -150 pages long.
I've only got one ( physical ) copy of heavy metal now and thats the one with the cover that was later pinched for the cover to Imagine's 'Game Over'
I liked Marshall Law, as I posted up in another thread relating to comics, Fear and Loathing is excellent. Marshall Law take Manhattans is good, and The Hateful Dead starts off OK then goes severely downhill very quickly. I also quite liked the Storm Graphic novels, the stories where pretty naff, but the artwork was outstanding.
Hellblazer was pretty good too read a few of those when I was about 15, I had some of the Alien comics too, but one of my friends nicked em'.
Oh and Akira, would still love to get my hands on the actual comics, not the graphic novels.
is any one reading final crisis or Secret Invasion?
I think that you should have made your subject line more consistent with your actual question, as of the numerous replies so far not one has actually answered it.
Anyhoo, I'm reading the main Final Crisis 7-issue mini but none of the plethora of related crossovers, one-shots and mini-series. I've been pretty peeved altogether with this recreation of the DC Multiverse which has been building up for the last few years. They happily got rid of it 20 years ago with Crisis on Infinite Earths and I've no desire to see it back again - so I've avoided most of the material related to it.
As it is, reading just the Final Crisis primary mini, I've not got much grasp of what's going on with this latest segment of the saga. From the adverts in other comics it would seem that Darkseid of Apokolips takes over the Universe or somesuch. As the New Gods were bumped off a while ago, I suppose that they're going to have to be brought back somehow, being the only ones who could defeat Darkseid.
As the regular ongoing DC titles I read (eg. Batman, Booster Gold, Detective Comics, JSA) aren't referring to the Final Crisis at all (except perhaps for JSA having acquired an alter-Earth Superman and Power Girl being transported to some variant of the old Earth-2) I'm not worrying about it too much.
As regards Secret Invasion, I've never had any interest in the Skrulls, so I've only read those fragments of the story in cross-overs to the regular titles I read (Incredible Hercules and She-Hulk). As it happens, both of those crossovers seem to be key to the plot, as both Herc and Shulkie encounter major Skrull characters.
I did read quite a lot of the previous Marvel Civil War saga. I thought that conflict over super-hero registration - and the event which triggered it - was an interesting idea which was developed well, and it also led me to read the post-death Captain America title (although, as he hasn't been buried and his body's being kept in a vault somewhere by Tony Stark, I wouldn't bet on him not coming back - maybe it was a Skrull double that was shot).
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nope... love marvel zombies though.
waiting for the delivery
Reading Judge Dredd Case files 10 at the moment. Great series of books
Then there was Shiner too, the main hero of the Chips section. He was always getting socked with a black eye. In my mind I pronounced Shiner, Shinner, missing the connection completely.
If you were in Shiner's gang you were known as a Chipite. (I said Chip-Tee). Chipites were never my scene.
I haven't read these modern comics for big people though.
That's pretty much my only current comic. Read Preacher and Hitman at Uni thanks to living with a comics nut (very useful), 2000AD before that, Whizzer and Chips, and some of the old IPC/Fleetway titles like Action and Valiant (and Commando, natch).
This reminds me, must see about importing a copy of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier...
yes they were photo strips, so nothing like a comic, so lets not go into that area as it is off topic.... thank you.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! :???:
and 'The Crow - Flesh and Blood'
Also read most of Chaos Comics output, Lady Death, Evil Ernie, Purgatory and such.
Also a big fan of Zombie comics and have several hundred including all the Romero adaptations and spin offs, the Marvel Zombies range ect ect.
get most of my comic collections on DVD now
they are called cartoons, dear.
Not quite dear, .cbr files are scanned in comic books that aren't animated. Amazing how many comic books you can fit on one DVD. S'very handy :)
http://jomic.sourceforge.net/
comics on your TV, i think you are pulling my leg. :)
yup, that?s right!
got tones of the stuff too,
cbr/cbz simply represents rar/zip structure
u just need special reader to make it look more.... comic :D
What files did you get ? Those .cbr files are superb, have lots of them for some of the 'graphic novels' i download.
The Middleman series.
I wait for them to collected in trade paperback.
Do the quotation marks hint at an adult nature? :razz:
Heavy Metal is still going strong and there is talk of a third movie too
I do recall a few years ago I wanted to subscribe and checked their prices ... it was just too steep ... though I do understand it because that's true comic-book quality ... not mass-churned crap like most comics are (imho).
Heavy Metal was and still is a quality production, and each issue was around 120 -150 pages long.
I've only got one ( physical ) copy of heavy metal now and thats the one with the cover that was later pinched for the cover to Imagine's 'Game Over'
Ha ha! I also have only one Heavy Metal! It's a recent one too ... well ... a few years old.
A friend of mine was a subscriber, and I'd read his ... but that was last century sometime.
Hellblazer was pretty good too read a few of those when I was about 15, I had some of the Alien comics too, but one of my friends nicked em'.
Oh and Akira, would still love to get my hands on the actual comics, not the graphic novels.
I think that you should have made your subject line more consistent with your actual question, as of the numerous replies so far not one has actually answered it.
Anyhoo, I'm reading the main Final Crisis 7-issue mini but none of the plethora of related crossovers, one-shots and mini-series. I've been pretty peeved altogether with this recreation of the DC Multiverse which has been building up for the last few years. They happily got rid of it 20 years ago with Crisis on Infinite Earths and I've no desire to see it back again - so I've avoided most of the material related to it.
As it is, reading just the Final Crisis primary mini, I've not got much grasp of what's going on with this latest segment of the saga. From the adverts in other comics it would seem that Darkseid of Apokolips takes over the Universe or somesuch. As the New Gods were bumped off a while ago, I suppose that they're going to have to be brought back somehow, being the only ones who could defeat Darkseid.
As the regular ongoing DC titles I read (eg. Batman, Booster Gold, Detective Comics, JSA) aren't referring to the Final Crisis at all (except perhaps for JSA having acquired an alter-Earth Superman and Power Girl being transported to some variant of the old Earth-2) I'm not worrying about it too much.
As regards Secret Invasion, I've never had any interest in the Skrulls, so I've only read those fragments of the story in cross-overs to the regular titles I read (Incredible Hercules and She-Hulk). As it happens, both of those crossovers seem to be key to the plot, as both Herc and Shulkie encounter major Skrull characters.
I did read quite a lot of the previous Marvel Civil War saga. I thought that conflict over super-hero registration - and the event which triggered it - was an interesting idea which was developed well, and it also led me to read the post-death Captain America title (although, as he hasn't been buried and his body's being kept in a vault somewhere by Tony Stark, I wouldn't bet on him not coming back - maybe it was a Skrull double that was shot).