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Gridgm:
--- Quote from: Dark Flame on 08 Dec 2008, 22:02 ---Completely forgot about Warren Ellis. Transmetropolitan is a favourite of mine, and he's written some other great things as well. He's also currently doing Astonishing X-Men, which a lot of people seem to hate, but I love.
100 Bullets I've had a lot of trouble getting in to. Granted, I've only read the first trade, but I found the quality was really mixed throughout, and none of the stories really got me excited. Maybe it gets better?
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100 bullets has the same story line for every issue for the first two trades or so, the only really important one being when someone starts questioning the "untraceable" bullets, from there the series starts developing a more over arcing plot which is really addicitve
my current personal list is
astonishing x men - for joss whedon's run the first two arcs are excellent the second two not so much, warren ellis has managed in each issue so far (3) to do an absolutly gold line which are a reason enough to keep reading (see listed)
armor (on wolverine teasing her about her name)
"he says if my name's "armor" then his name is "claws" and ms. frosts name is "brain" and ms. rogue's name is "suck"
(armor throwing wolverine to a ship above them)
"storm was right you are heavy"
"adamantium skeleton"
"not the beer?"
(scott swears at agent brand(beasts girlfriend))
agent brand: did you just say "****" to me?
beast: scott you jsut said "****ing" to my...um
beast: actually what are you? "girlfriend" doesn't sound quite right
agent brand: "xenophiliac experementation partner"?
beast: scott, you jsut said "****ing" to my girlfriend
batman (at least while grant morrison is writing)...it has batman running around the city beating up bad guys while on lsd in an attempt to beat someone mind controlling him
fables (although the war arc was a real let down compared to the rest of the series...(somethign about it being narated instead of followed if that description works) but definatly read up to issue 50
jack of fables: a spin off of the above series but no where near as serious
powers: if you can handle the sporadic release schedule it's an excellent series the first few issues are avaliable for free here it focuses on a detective in the "powers" division of the police force
runaways: once again a sporadic release schedule but excellent series
rynne:
Pretty much anything by Alan Moore. People have already correctly cited Watchmen, From Hell and V for Vendetta, but if you're in the mood for lighter fare his America's Best comics are great too. Plus, they're limited-run comics so the entire series are usually just a few trade paperbacks long.
You probably know The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen from the terrible movie adaptation. Rest assured that the comic is much smarter and much better. And Mina Murray isn't a damn vampire. [3 trade paperbacks: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 are self-contained stories, the third book, The Black Dossier, is a collection of shorter tales.]
Top Ten is a Moore's homage to police procedurals, imagined in a city where every cop, criminal and average citizen has superpowers. The whole thing is chock-full of background gags playing off all kinds of superhero comics. Its spin-off Smax pulls the same trick for the fantasy/sword-and-sorcery genre. [3 trade paperbacks: Top Ten Vols. 1 & 2 are a single long story line, Smax is a one self-contained TPB. There's a prequel book, Top Ten: Forty-Niners but I haven't read that to give suggestions.]
... or if you like the idea of Alice (Alice in Wonderland), Wendy (Peter Pan) and Dorothy (The Wizard of Oz) having explicit hard-core sex with each other and everyone else, there's always Lost Girls, written by Moore and illustrated by Moore's wife.
0bsessions:
--- Quote from: Gridgm on 09 Dec 2008, 04:40 ---batman (at least while grant morrison is writing)...it has batman running around the city beating up bad guys while on lsd in an attempt to beat someone mind controlling him
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I cannot disagree with this enough. I have read some great Batman and some terrible Batman in my day and Morrison's run has been the epitome of mediocre and impenetrable. R.I.P. was the most egregious offender of the "Batman plans ahead for everything and you simply cannot beat him because he was twenty steps ahead of you before you even decided on your lunch on June 24, 1987" fiasco I have ever seen. His run has been a mess of less than amusing or poignant super hero pastiches, villains bordering on parody, over-the-top and nonsensical reveals that turned out either untrue, never went anywhere or outright never got resolved (Such as the revelation that the villain of the last arc may or may not have been a prominent figure from Bruce Wayne's past and Alfred may or may not have been a sexual deviant who did heroin) and the world's most terrible deus ex machina situations (Such as having a foolproof contingency plan in place should someone brainwash you, drive you insane and leave you homeless).
Grant Morrison is probably the most overrated writer in comic book history.
Runaways is a solid recommendation, though. At the least, the first two volumes by Brian K. Vaughn (The same guy who did Y: The Last Man and Deus Ex Machine) were pure gold. Pick up anything with his name on it. Joss Whedon's run on the title is largely ignorable. He added a cast member, but his run was largely uneventful and poorly executed. The jury's still out on Terry Moore's current take on it, but it's failing to reach BKV levels by any stretch.
0bsessions:
Sounds to me like you're reading the Terry Moore incarnation of Runaways, Jens. Does it look something like this?
If so, trust me, the BKV incarnation is a significant step up. The book has been downhill since he left.
I'm also not saying Morrison has never written anything good or great. I've read some quality Grant Morrison. That said, he's also written a whole fuckton of absolute shit, such as his Batman and X-Men runs. He's had some quality stuff, but he's a vastly overrated dime store Warren Ellis.
0bsessions:
Okay, you just have terrible taste in comics, then. Sorry, Jens.
For the record, folks, the covers are not done by the same penciler as the interiors.
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