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Post by Dizzy D on Oct 4, 2024 15:22:31 GMT -5
I've bought issue #2 of The Power Fantasy, I'll see if I have a little time for a longer talk about it in the appropriate thread.
I've read the Night Eaters 1 and 2 by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda. They are the creative team on Monstress, which I've been following since issue #1, but they took some time off to do these OGNs (and hardly did any marketing for the first issue in Monstress, which was really weird and why I am late to this. The second one I got the moment it was anounced in Monstress). 1 and 2 are out, 3 is coming out shortly. The story is unrelated to Monstress in any way. Milly and Billy are Chinese-American twins, living on Hawaii and running a small restaurant together with their loving father and .. difficult.. mother. The house next door is haunted. I loved these two books and am eagerly awaiting the next issue.
Also finished up Home Sick Pilots, which is at 3 trades a nicely wrapped up story. The art is still my favourite thing about this series, but the story is certainly not bad.
Both above recommended for anybody doing a Halloween horror read this month.
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Post by Batflunkie on Oct 4, 2024 17:15:37 GMT -5
Read Ghost Machine #1 (Hyde Street) and Hyde Street #1
Thought that it was a fairly interesting premise (people get lost in the real world and end up in this demented, parallel dimension called "Hyde Street" where anything goes) looking forward to more
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 7, 2024 9:50:48 GMT -5
Dracula Book One: The Impaler by Matt Wagner and Kelley Jones
I supported the Kickstarter for this one and finally got around to reading it. This is not the cover for the Kickstarter hardcover, but I couldn't find an easy jpg of it to kipe. Wagner and Jones' intention in these books is to fill in the blank spots in Stoker's book. Which is not a bad way to go. This first book finds Vlad the Impaler making a pact with Satan to study the dark arts, which ultimately leads to him becoming the first true vampire. Kelley Jones was born to do this kind of thing. And Wagner does a great job of establishing the noble hubris of Vlad, which will ultimately lead to the Dracula of the novel. Nicely done. I plan to support the upcoming Kickstarter for volume 2.
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Post by DubipR on Oct 7, 2024 10:03:02 GMT -5
Dracula Book One: The Impaler by Matt Wagner and Kelley Jones
I supported the Kickstarter for this one and finally got around to reading it. This is not the cover for the Kickstarter hardcover, but I couldn't find an easy jpg of it to kipe. Wagner and Jones' intention in these books is to fill in the blank spots in Stoker's book. Which is not a bad way to go. This first book finds Vlad the Impaler making a pact with Satan to study the dark arts, which ultimately leads to him becoming the first true vampire. Kelley Jones was born to do this kind of thing. And Wagner does a great job of establishing the noble hubris of Vlad, which will ultimately lead to the Dracula of the novel. Nicely done. I plan to support the upcoming Kickstarter for volume 2. I didn't support tis one and I wish I had! Two great creators making good comics. I'll need to support volume to get volume 2.
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Post by Trevor on Oct 7, 2024 22:25:41 GMT -5
I missed this one somehow. Hopefully the 2nd Kickstarter has a tier that includes the first.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 8, 2024 11:33:54 GMT -5
Dracula Book One: The Impaler by Matt Wagner and Kelley Jones
I supported the Kickstarter for this one and finally got around to reading it. This is not the cover for the Kickstarter hardcover, but I couldn't find an easy jpg of it to kipe. Wagner and Jones' intention in these books is to fill in the blank spots in Stoker's book. Which is not a bad way to go. This first book finds Vlad the Impaler making a pact with Satan to study the dark arts, which ultimately leads to him becoming the first true vampire. Kelley Jones was born to do this kind of thing. And Wagner does a great job of establishing the noble hubris of Vlad, which will ultimately lead to the Dracula of the novel. Nicely done. I plan to support the upcoming Kickstarter for volume 2. I didn't support tis one and I wish I had! Two great creators making good comics. I'll need to support volume to get volume 2. I missed this one somehow. Hopefully the 2nd Kickstarter has a tier that includes the first. Volume 2 just went live on Kickstarter today. I do think that volume one is getting a release by Dark Horse as a softcover as well.
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Post by Trevor on Oct 8, 2024 21:13:15 GMT -5
I didn't support tis one and I wish I had! Two great creators making good comics. I'll need to support volume to get volume 2. I missed this one somehow. Hopefully the 2nd Kickstarter has a tier that includes the first. Volume 2 just went live on Kickstarter today. I do think that volume one is getting a release by Dark Horse as a softcover as well. Thank you! Just pledged for both hardcovers. Will,be cheaper in the future thru Diamond maybe, but these are two of my favorite creators so they should get more of the money this way.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Oct 15, 2024 22:12:00 GMT -5
Finally got a chance to sit down and read Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze published by Titan Comics, by Mellow Brown, DJ Ben Ha Meen and Tom Mandrake. This is a sci-fi parable featuring Jimi as the protagonist, not any kind of biography, but a sci-fi epic based on elements of Jim's lyrics and overall vibe, authorized by the Hendrix estate and family. Mandrake's art is mind-blowingly trippy and utterly gorgeous. Mandrake became a favorite of mine for his run on Spectre in the 90s, and this may be the best I have seen from him. The story revolves around Jimi being on an intergalactic tour and working against an intergalactic war and the oppression of certain people by corporate interests (a sci-fi equivalent of the military industrial complex of "the man") with Jimi being positioned as both an inspiration for others and an actual freedom fighter in the climatic scenes of the OGN. Mellow Brown and DJ Ben Ha Meen have both worked as screenwriters on the American Gods show, and Brown has written Blade Runner Origins comics and has many other TV credits as well. The book is trippy, and leans heavily into a lot of the themes and philosophies of 60s psychedelia, but it is a solid sci-fi story elevated by Mandrake's art. I recommend listening to some Jimi as you read it as well. His lyrics play an important role in many aspects of the story, and it helps establish a mood and tone if you know the melodies that go with them. -M
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Post by Duragizer on Oct 20, 2024 22:10:49 GMT -5
Millennium (Joe Harris & Colin Lorimer) I recently watched the Millennium TV series for the first time. Though it's a mixed bag, I like the show and I'm disappointed that it was cancelled without ever receiving a proper resolution. I decided to check out this comic hoping it would do a better job tying up the show's loose ends than that one X-Files episode managed to do. Unfortunately, it's rather underwhelming. I'm not a fan of Lorimer's art, which I found hard to follow in certain panels. And it certainly didn't serve as a conclusion to the show; it came to a close open-ended, resolving nothing, apparently in anticipation of further arcs continuing the Millennium storyline, but it's been nearly a decade since this miniseries was published with no further comics, so I'm not holding my breath. 5/10
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