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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 22:20 (UTC)And if you like horror and magic and snarky, competent, trickstery men, Vertigo's Hellblazer rocks -- I like it more than Lucifer, myself. And I like the full Books of Magic, although a lot of people don't.
If you like fairy tale type things, I second Fables, and add Castle Waiting. The full previous run just came out as a hardback book, and the title is starting publication again through Dark Horse.
If you like the Gotham universe at all, early Gotham Knights and Gotham Central (about the GPD) are good.