Comics - what are you reading?, your thoughts Options

[curtinparloe]

Ugh, 28 weeks later is such an unnecessary film. It had better not suck.

I have high hopes for it. The director made Intacto, a remarkably good and weird Spanish/English film featuring Max Von Sydow.


hmm.. I haven't read any Strontium Dog in blooming ages.

The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Library Volume 4
Fat Freddie's Cat Rules.

[monkeyman]

Preacher is fucking awesome. Particularly when it's drawn by Steve Dillon.

[gulfcoast_highwa...]

I agree. We might get to see a scene I wish they'd put in an actual episode.

Willow kicking the snot out of Amy for turning her into Warren

Looks like I'm going to get my wish..........


And happy birthday to SMG, she be 30 today.

This post has been edited by gulfcoast_highwayman: Apr 14 2007, 07:20 AM

[Jimmay]

Grrrr. I ordered Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life weeks ago and it still hasn't been posted. This best be worth it!

[empathy-with-bea...]

I read Alan Moore's Exit Interview, not a comic book but the trnascript of an interview with Moore about the state of the comic book industry. It is some times tempting to see Moore at a grumpy old bastard, and certainly he's got a lot of bile reserved for DC, but then some of the things that have happened to him are pretty insulting. The League of Extraordinary Gentleman film was sued by a Hollywood screen writer who claimed that the idea of a group of Victorian super heros had been stolen from him, and Times Warner settled out of court on a case that was suggesting that a film producer had rung up Moore and got him to write the comics as a cover for the theft. Similarly he's pretty pissed off that when the producers of V for Vendetta lied about him being excited about the movie he wasn't able to get a retraction of the statement.

But the book isn't really a load of gripes but an expression of Moore's sorrow that the medium isn't being allowed to be what it could be. It's a unique medium in which ideas can be expressed in a way that they couldn't be anywhere else, and as a serious art form could really change the way people think, but instead it's become a fearful little enterprise in the thrall of the movie business.

I found what Moore was saying quite resonant as I'd just read 28 Days Later The Aftermath. It's written by Steve Niles, who's meant to be one of the industry's good writers, but it was just this hollow little unresearched cash in. One of Moore's gripes with the film of V for Vendetta was that it was just an Americaisation of a British story, or at least lazy people writting what about what they think Britain is like and it's true of this book as well. The book is stuffed with careless errors, there's no pride in it, no depth, no proper research (the British policemen in the book all loook like Victorian bobbies) and after reading Moore's account of the lack of ambition within comics I thought back on this book and thought "I know exactly what you're talking about."

[melzilla]

I bought this recently....another Neil Gaiman/Dave McKean collaboration.....Quite a sweet story, in a very dark, sinister way and similarly cute/freaky artwork!...Me likey!

[Jimmay]

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life finally arrived yesterday. Can't wait to get home and give it a proper read as I only thumbed through it quickly last night but looks good so far.

[Jessopjessopjess...]

I read The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume I last week, and finished Volume II this morning. Great stuff, and the artwork is perfect.

[gulfcoast_highwa...]

I read Alan Moore's Exit Interview, not a comic book but the trnascript of an interview with Moore about the state of the comic book industry. It is some times tempting to see Moore at a grumpy old bastard, and certainly he's got a lot of bile reserved for DC, but then some of the things that have happened to him are pretty insulting.

What are his gripes with DC?

He's my favourite writer, but when I was a full time collector they were my publishers of choice, so I'm a bit upset to hear they pissed him off.

[dandan]

has anybody read the 'death note' manga? i did a quick search, but couldn't find any mention. i watched the first film last night and wanted to investigate further...

[Kick in the Head]

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life finally arrived yesterday. Can't wait to get home and give it a proper read as I only thumbed through it quickly last night but looks good so far.

I got all three books last autumn, and have read them and re-read them since. Very much looking forward to the fourth installment due in the summer, as well as what Edgar's going to make of the film version if that gets off the ground.

has anybody read the 'death note' manga? i did a quick search, but couldn't find any mention. i watched the first film last night and wanted to investigate further...

It's really big in Japan right now. My friends are absolutely hooked on the manga and the anime, which are, according to them, far far better than the movie and its sequel (which apparently cocked up the plot and was horribly miscast). I really haven't taken an interest in it (excluding me from many a conversation, much as Lost has done previously) but I'd say that if the film piqued yours, it's worth a go.

[dandan]

It's really big in Japan right now. My friends are absolutely hooked on the manga and the anime, which are, according to them, far far better than the movie and its sequel (which apparently cocked up the plot and was horribly miscast). I really haven't taken an interest in it (excluding me from many a conversation, much as Lost has done previously) but I'd say that if the film piqued yours, it's worth a go.

yup, i've heard that the second film is a let-down, which is why i'm starting to think that i should investigate the manga / anime...

on an unrelated note: if i paypal you money, will you post me over some 'black devil' cigarettes? i have been craving them, after seeing an empty pack during some spring cleaning...

[Douglas Nicol]

I'm reading "Eye of the Traitor", the 3rd book in the Rogue Trooper collection published by Rebellion. This brings back a lot of fond memories.

BTW, "To the Ends of Nu Earth" is the 4th (and presumably) the last of the 'classic' Rogue Trooper stories which ends with Rogue finding the traitor general. I remember there was a story after that in which Helm, Gunnar and Bagman were re-gened, and the Norts and Southers made peace but high ranking officers in both sides were being assasinated. This was round about the time I stopped reading 2000AD, so do any of the reprints deal with this. I know some of the books are modern stories which form prequels and so on.

[Kick in the Head]

It's really big in Japan right now. My friends are absolutely hooked on the manga and the anime, which are, according to them, far far better than the movie and its sequel (which apparently cocked up the plot and was horribly miscast). I really haven't taken an interest in it (excluding me from many a conversation, much as Lost has done previously) but I'd say that if the film piqued yours, it's worth a go.

yup, i've heard that the second film is a let-down, which is why i'm starting to think that i should investigate the manga / anime...

on an unrelated note: if i paypal you money, will you post me over some 'black devil' cigarettes? i have been craving them, after seeing an empty pack during some spring cleaning...

Afraid I don't have a PayPal account, but maybe I should get one and start taking requests for random stuff people here want from Japan. Can't say I've ever seen them, but then again, I've not been looking for them.

[NiteFall]

If you do do that then I'm so after some Gundam models. And sweets. In fact, fuck it. I'll just send you 1/2 of my paycheque each month and you can supply me with Pocky.