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832207 wrote:Oh yes, we did well there...
http://www.marveldirectory.com/individu ... ritain.htm
what a hero... tossbag.
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84night_tools wrote:The Code is Almighty wrote:Strontium Dog, innit?
Yo, have you seen the new(ish) collected editions of Strontium Dog, Judge Dredd, Nemesis and all your other 2000AD favourites? They're in chronological order, and look fantastic. I'm saving up for them, starting with the SD ones. I really want to re-read 'The Final Solution' story-line.
Also I went back to my parents' house this weekend and grabbed a load of my old comics - Looking forward to revisiting 'Powers' and 'Y - The Last Man'.
I also finally borrowed book II of Maus, and I'll be reading that first off.
Final Solution story was a good one! I liked Simon Harrisons art on that
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85Since there are a few old school 2000AD fans here, I will give a mention to The Last American, which was written by John Wagner and Alan Grant, and illustrated by Mike McMahon.
The story and writing are simple, which befits the quiet grimness of the story. A notable background detail to the story is that it marks the break-up of Wagner and Grant's writing partnership. I always thought of them as pedestrian, but looking back, their basic, unpretentious and straightforward action/black humour mix was perfect for the stories that they wanted to tell. Since I read a ridiculous amount of their work (Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Bogie Man et al) whilst maintaining my high-minded teenage snobbery against them, it shows that I was a hypocrite in my opinion. They were a great pulp partnership, very entertaining, imaginative and solidly subversive.
But the best aspect of The Last American is the awesome work of Mike McMahon. I used to dislike his dark, odd and apparently deliberately unattractive drawing. Everyone looked ugly, the shapes looked all wrong, this did not look like real life In! The! Future!
But, something changed in my brain, and McMahon became my favourite comic book artist; his work is so weird and distinctive, full of searing imagery whilst always focusing on telling the story. I am going to stop digging myself into this pit of abstract adjectives which is undoubtedly putting some off the poor guy already. Just check his work out: his art evokes stories and contains all kinds of perfect wrongness.
The story and writing are simple, which befits the quiet grimness of the story. A notable background detail to the story is that it marks the break-up of Wagner and Grant's writing partnership. I always thought of them as pedestrian, but looking back, their basic, unpretentious and straightforward action/black humour mix was perfect for the stories that they wanted to tell. Since I read a ridiculous amount of their work (Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Bogie Man et al) whilst maintaining my high-minded teenage snobbery against them, it shows that I was a hypocrite in my opinion. They were a great pulp partnership, very entertaining, imaginative and solidly subversive.
But the best aspect of The Last American is the awesome work of Mike McMahon. I used to dislike his dark, odd and apparently deliberately unattractive drawing. Everyone looked ugly, the shapes looked all wrong, this did not look like real life In! The! Future!
But, something changed in my brain, and McMahon became my favourite comic book artist; his work is so weird and distinctive, full of searing imagery whilst always focusing on telling the story. I am going to stop digging myself into this pit of abstract adjectives which is undoubtedly putting some off the poor guy already. Just check his work out: his art evokes stories and contains all kinds of perfect wrongness.
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87Sparky, The Last American is a fantastic comic. Mike McMahon's art is pretty bloody great if you ask me and the story is great too. McMahon's work on Slaine is incredible when I look back on it now. I'm re-reading Watchmen at the moment for the first time in a few years and that's still surprising me now with it's depth. I've been "backing" up my old collection in CBR format which is great for jogging my memory and revisiting a tonne of stuff I can't be arsed with trying to dig out of cupboards. The Adventures of Luther Arkwright is well worth a mention by Bryan Talbot and Charley's War by Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun is an incredible piece of work that's currently being reissued through Titan books.
I recently obtained the complete 2000ad collection and I'm trying to plough through it all and revisit some of my old favourites.
I recently obtained the complete 2000ad collection and I'm trying to plough through it all and revisit some of my old favourites.
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88GypsumFantastic wrote:
I recently obtained the complete 2000ad collection and I'm trying to plough through it all and revisit some of my old favourites.
Do you mean a complete 'physical' collection of 2000ADs, or a virtual one? If it's digital, may I ask where you got it? If it's the real thing, I hope you have a big house.....
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89I've got a few hundred issues and a load of the old Titan collections from the eighties. There's a silly torrent doing the rounds at the moment progs 01-1536. I'll pm you details.
What are peoples views on the whole digital comics thing? I won't lie and say I don't have an issue with it. Mainly the chance it's given me to download a load of stuff I have already have just for conveniences sake and things I've known about but never had the chance to read as you're unlikely to find them now. Also titles I would have never of heard of i'm buying now. It's got me back into buying comics and visiting shops a hell of a lot more than ever in the last 10-15 years.
What are peoples views on the whole digital comics thing? I won't lie and say I don't have an issue with it. Mainly the chance it's given me to download a load of stuff I have already have just for conveniences sake and things I've known about but never had the chance to read as you're unlikely to find them now. Also titles I would have never of heard of i'm buying now. It's got me back into buying comics and visiting shops a hell of a lot more than ever in the last 10-15 years.
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90Preacher is great, a few people mentioned it here already. Anyone read anything else Garth Ennis has done? From what I've seen and read about (which was a few years ago) it looks like he's just doing the violence aspect of Preacher, but without the awesome other aspects of the story.
Anything by Alan Moore is awesome, and Neil Gaiman.
The Invisibles is a fucking incredible comic, as is Doom Patrol and most other stuff I've read by Grant Morrison.
Astro City is really great too. That super-hero as regular person type thing.
100 Bullets and Sin City[/n] are great noir/crime stories. I'll have to check out [b]Stray Bullets
Hellboy just kicks ass, and so does Mike Mignola's artwork and the one BPRD book I've got.
I haven't really been keeping up much with the heroes-in-tights books since junior high, but I do like Planetary, which is sort of that, but really more of a literary type thing.
I recently downloaded a whole bunch of old pulpe magazines, Amazing Stories and some other titles. Someone had scanned them and put them in a RAR archive with a renamed extension that can be viewed using this free viewing program. I wasn't that into the program (too slow), so I'm converting them to PDF. If anyone's interested in old, cheesy sci-fi, horror, detective, or secret agent stories, PM and I can send you some of them.
Anything by Alan Moore is awesome, and Neil Gaiman.
The Invisibles is a fucking incredible comic, as is Doom Patrol and most other stuff I've read by Grant Morrison.
Astro City is really great too. That super-hero as regular person type thing.
100 Bullets and Sin City[/n] are great noir/crime stories. I'll have to check out [b]Stray Bullets
Hellboy just kicks ass, and so does Mike Mignola's artwork and the one BPRD book I've got.
I haven't really been keeping up much with the heroes-in-tights books since junior high, but I do like Planetary, which is sort of that, but really more of a literary type thing.
I recently downloaded a whole bunch of old pulpe magazines, Amazing Stories and some other titles. Someone had scanned them and put them in a RAR archive with a renamed extension that can be viewed using this free viewing program. I wasn't that into the program (too slow), so I'm converting them to PDF. If anyone's interested in old, cheesy sci-fi, horror, detective, or secret agent stories, PM and I can send you some of them.