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exliontamer:
There has never been a reported case of a snuff film, ever. Snuff films are purely an urban legend...or at least according to the FBI they are.
LoveandaMolotovCocktail:
I remembered some others
Fables
Marvels
Flaming Carrot
Hecuba:
Wow, I'm a bit late to the party. I just wanted to point out- betteroffdead, if you know the general backstory (there are seven Endless, Morpheus is the Lord of Dreams, he was trapped for a long time and lost power) there's really no need to start with the first volume. It's actually my least favorite of the trades- the art is pretty crappy, especially compared with some of the fantastic stuff done later in the series, and you can really tell Gaiman hasn't found his feet in regards to what he wants to do with the series (especially with the inclusion of Doctor Destiny and the Martian Manhunter). The second volume is much better, and I think Sandman really came into its own there- try flipping through it. I hate to see any poor soul deprived of Sandman for any longer than they have to. :P
As far as the comics I read- my uncle was an avid collector and Marvel fan, so I grew up on a lot of 80's X-titles and the like. But... *covers face* I have to admit that I love the Ultimate universe so much more than most of the stuff I grew up on. The art is spectacular, the writing is vastly improved over most of the classic stuff (Ultimate Spider-Man is an especially good example of this, I think) and the universe as a whole has been given a chance to recreate without the huge amount of backstory bogging it down. Come to think of it, the only Marvel titles I pick up regularly anymore are Exiles (which is pretty fantastic, definitely miles above nearly everything else Marvel is putting out) and Uncanny X-Men from force of habit. I also read quite a few Vertigo and indie-ish titles, most in trade form- Preacher, Transmetropolitan, Fables, Nightmares & Fairytales, Gloom Cookie, the Hellsing manga and Lucifer. (Not all at once, obviously- I'd go bankrupt. My usual strategy is to check out what I can of the backlog at ZCult [the best BitTorrent comic tracker out there] and if I like it, start collecting the hard copy.)
SeanBateman:
If you skip the first Sandman, you miss some of the groundwork for the series. It's true that it's not as great as the rest, but It needs to all be read, since characters are introduced in vol 1 that play roles in 5, 9, and 10. Plus the 24 hours story is one of the scariest things ever
Mercurial:
--- Quote ---i have a copy of battle royale, i bought it in japan. i dont believe people are allowed to sell it here, but again, i'm not positive.
--- End quote ---
One of my friends has a copy that I think he bought out here. And I'm fairly certain that the local DVD rental place has a copy of both Battle Royale and the sequel. Then again, they also routinely import movies like Hero or Dogville long before they see stateside release.
Honestly, I'm not sure why it would be banned. It's actually a surprisingly good movie, with a decent amount to say. And the violence didn't seem unusually graphic or anything besides the odd bit of "arterial spray" which never appears in US movies...
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