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schmericaSO. COMICS, HUH? So that's what you've been talking about for the past, you know, five years!
...I mean.
Okay, so I read the complete run of Sandman and The Dark Knight Returns and a bunch of other random stuff a couple years back, but this last week I have read:
Age of Bronze: a Thousand Ships; Age of Bronze: Sacrifice; Green Arrow: Quiver; Y The Last Man: Unmanned and the first half of Alias Omnibus. And, uh, possibly more Y the Last Man is on the way. And Runaways. And a bunch of random individual comics, too. Um. *cries* Is this fandom supposed to be so expensive?
So I guess my question now is: what next? Tell me what I should read! Graphic novels are good, current series, past issues and excitingness. And what can anyone of you tell me about sharing or downloading issues? I am under the impression that torrents aren't incredibly useful?
...If I were smart, I would have gotten fascinated by comics at a time when I was up in Portland so I could make Livia and Zee dump everything to read in my lap in their apartment. Hmmph.
ON A DIFFERENT NOTE: I saw Superman Returns today with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
speshope, and it was ridiculously, shockingly visually glorious. However, I refer you all back to my requirements for fictional love triangles! To wit: please either have one leg of the triangle be uncompletely unsuited for each or make one of them a bastard, OR make all three of them easily smooshable into a nice OT3 scenario. Otherwise -- and this is the case in Superman Returns -- it is all MUCH TOO STRESSFUL.
...I mean.
Okay, so I read the complete run of Sandman and The Dark Knight Returns and a bunch of other random stuff a couple years back, but this last week I have read:
Age of Bronze: a Thousand Ships; Age of Bronze: Sacrifice; Green Arrow: Quiver; Y The Last Man: Unmanned and the first half of Alias Omnibus. And, uh, possibly more Y the Last Man is on the way. And Runaways. And a bunch of random individual comics, too. Um. *cries* Is this fandom supposed to be so expensive?
So I guess my question now is: what next? Tell me what I should read! Graphic novels are good, current series, past issues and excitingness. And what can anyone of you tell me about sharing or downloading issues? I am under the impression that torrents aren't incredibly useful?
...If I were smart, I would have gotten fascinated by comics at a time when I was up in Portland so I could make Livia and Zee dump everything to read in my lap in their apartment. Hmmph.
ON A DIFFERENT NOTE: I saw Superman Returns today with
speshope, and it was ridiculously, shockingly visually glorious. However, I refer you all back to my requirements for fictional love triangles! To wit: please either have one leg of the triangle be uncompletely unsuited for each or make one of them a bastard, OR make all three of them easily smooshable into a nice OT3 scenario. Otherwise -- and this is the case in Superman Returns -- it is all MUCH TOO STRESSFUL.
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8/7/06 07:28 (UTC)• V for Vendetta, which was made into a really cool movie.
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the first volume of which was made into a really stupid movie that Moore disclaimed. Volume two uses elements from War of the Worlds, Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Barsoom books, and The Island of Doctor Moreau to amazing effect.
• The trade paperback collecting the Moore–penned issues of Image Comics’ Supreme, in which he takes some of the more bizarre elements of Superman canon from the forties and fifties, places them in a modern context, and makes them work. (I especially love what he does with the superpowered dog.)
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8/7/06 07:34 (UTC)• From Hell, which is a much, much bigger story than the film version could convey — Moore gets into history, mysticism, and the sheer wonkiness of human nature. The art by collaborator Eddie Campbell is particularly fine, and involved an insane amount of research. One warning: the story contains graphic violence, as one would expect in an exploration of the Jack the Ripper case; during some of the later chapters I was extremely glad that the book was in black-and-white.