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Post by urrutiap on Jul 13, 2017 13:30:11 GMT -5
modern recent comic book series I just started reading earlier today is the 2011 IDW Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic thats still ongoing today I think. I think the series is up to issue 50something.
I read the first two issues and I really like it. Cant wait when I get up to issue 44 that involves the fate of Donatello.
I havent read a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle comic since the old Archie Comics's Ninja Turtles comic way back in the late 80s early 1990s
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jul 13, 2017 15:59:04 GMT -5
So Im guessing that this isnt really the right thread to post this but want it to be seen by more people, cos I figure it will be of interest to a number here.
Just saw this on Kickstarter
I know that link is ugly but for the life of me have zero idea how to change it to those pretty things you experts do.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jul 13, 2017 16:00:47 GMT -5
Hey that looks better than what I posted, hope its not one of those links that gets us all in trouble with the forum bosses.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 15, 2017 10:29:01 GMT -5
Read the first trade for Hawkeye (Kate Bishop)... kinda disappointing. I liked her in Young Avengers and the Fraction Hawkeye, but she's going more and more towards generic sassy young female hero #27 here. I felt like they were going for a Batgirl of Burnside vibe, and it didn't really work for me.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jul 16, 2017 6:14:50 GMT -5
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Post by Batflunkie on Jul 16, 2017 19:32:42 GMT -5
modern recent comic book series I just started reading earlier today is the 2011 IDW Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic thats still ongoing today I think. I think the series is up to issue 50something. It's a damn good book, but geez, you also have to read a baker's dozen of one-shots, mini-series, and the new sister book, TMNT Universe to fully understand everything that's going on. I get that it's a hot book and deservedly so, but why not just put some of those as serialized back-ups in the main comic? |
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Post by Spike-X on Jul 20, 2017 4:02:01 GMT -5
Read Nailbiter vol 4 yesterday. Damn fine series.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2017 9:42:04 GMT -5
Got the first volume of Star Wars: Doctor Aphra from the library and read it. Fun Star Wars romp with a nice Raiders of the Lost Ark homage in the opening scenes of the first issue.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2017 16:17:22 GMT -5
Just picked up and read the OGN Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D&D from the local library.  When I requested it, I thought it was a prose biogrpahy, but was pleasantly surprised to find it was a graphic novel put out by Nation Books. Full wraparound art sans trade dress...  some sample interior pages...    The author, David Kushner, spent time with both Gygax and Dave Arneson and interviewed them both for an article he did for Wired Magazine about 10 years ago, and that article blossomed into this project, which came out just this year. It is a good intro and overview to both men's contributions and the legacy of D&D, but for me it was nothing I didn't know already having spent time with both Gary and Dave prior to their deaths when I was freelancing in the rpg industry. Still though, it is a good read and well worth checking out. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 9:17:05 GMT -5
Read the second Volume of Wonder Woman Rebirth (collecting the issues by Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott forming the Year One arc). It was just ok. The story just felt there. Scott's art was good though I didn't really like the coloring. I know this was a dream job for Scott, but all things considered, I would have preferred to see more Black Magick from these two, which I thought was a hell of a book with both creators firing on all cylinders) instead of them putting the book on hiatus to do this arc. This just felt like been there done that before and it was better the first time around. This just felt like watching a recap of something I had seen too many times already rather than a fresh story that needed to be told. It was well done for what it was, just felt flat and unnecessary for me.
-M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 25, 2017 9:45:22 GMT -5
Read the second Volume of Wonder Woman Rebirth (collecting the issues by Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott forming the Year One arc). It was just ok. The story just felt there. Scott's art was good though I didn't really like the coloring. I know this was a dream job for Scott, but all things considered, I would have preferred to see more Black Magick from these two, which I thought was a hell of a book with both creators firing on all cylinders) instead of them putting the book on hiatus to do this arc. This just felt like been there done that before and it was better the first time around. This just felt like watching a recap of something I had seen too many times already rather than a fresh story that needed to be told. It was well done for what it was, just felt flat and unnecessary for me. -M I wonder if the creators have to do work for the Big Two to fund their creator owned work. The sad reality that people would rather buy the 25th iteration of a 70 year old character than something new and interesting. |
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Post by Dizzy D on Jul 25, 2017 12:27:25 GMT -5
Read the second Volume of Wonder Woman Rebirth (collecting the issues by Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott forming the Year One arc). It was just ok. The story just felt there. Scott's art was good though I didn't really like the coloring. I know this was a dream job for Scott, but all things considered, I would have preferred to see more Black Magick from these two, which I thought was a hell of a book with both creators firing on all cylinders) instead of them putting the book on hiatus to do this arc. This just felt like been there done that before and it was better the first time around. This just felt like watching a recap of something I had seen too many times already rather than a fresh story that needed to be told. It was well done for what it was, just felt flat and unnecessary for me. -M I wonder if the creators have to do work for the Big Two to fund their creator owned work. The sad reality that people would rather buy the 25th iteration of a 70 year old character than something new and interesting. I know some of them have to. At least Sejic is with DC now, because solo-work (except for Sunstone) just wasn't paying the bills. Peter Panzerfaust and 5 Ghosts were put on hiatus, while creators went on to do other work so they could fund those books. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 13:38:37 GMT -5
I wonder if the creators have to do work for the Big Two to fund their creator owned work. The sad reality that people would rather buy the 25th iteration of a 70 year old character than something new and interesting. I know some of them have to. At least Sejic is with DC now, because solo-work (except for Sunstone) just wasn't paying the bills. Peter Panzerfaust and 5 Ghosts were put on hiatus, while creators went on to do other work so they could fund those books. It depends. Someone like Brubaker seems to make enough for himself and his artists through trade sales to keep funding new work (though Ed does do TV scripting too which I am sure pays more than comics does). Brian K. Vaughan seems to be able to float his own stuff without returning to corporate comics as well (bit he does seem to have a large library of evergreen sellers in trade that keep revenue coming in so I am sure that helps). But they are likely the exception rather than the rule. I am guessing artists have a harder time of it than writers because it takes so much longer to produce pages of art than scripts, so it is harder for them to do side projects whole they are doing creator-owned stuff. And the bills have to be paid and sometimes can't wait for the back end payment a lot of creator-owned projects are built around, so taking something with a page rate helps make ends meet while waiting for the back end payment. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2017 23:54:34 GMT -5
Over the past few days I have read Volumes 1-3 of Black Science (comprising the first 16 issues of the series). I had read the first handful of issues as single issues when it came out and decided to trade wait, but things happened and I never got around to picking them up until this past weekend, and I dove in full steam ahead. I love Matteo Scalera's stylized art. He is a very talented visual storyteller with a distinct visual style and captures the mood of the book perfectly. His use of blacks is also amazing. Remender is at his best doing pulp influenced sci-fi, and this series is that in spades. I find Remender hit or miss with his Marvel stuff, but I am enthralled by a lot of his creator-owned stuff and this is beginning to rival Fear Agent as my favorite work of his.
-M
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Post by Spike-X on Jul 30, 2017 4:53:27 GMT -5
Black Science is amazing. Most of the time it's so incredibly fast-paced that I feel breathless after reading it.
Matteo Scalera's artwork is wonderful, but I hear Gil Kane called and told him to tone it down with the up-the-nose shots.
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