Any reading recs outside of Sandman, Preacher, Y: The Last Man, Lucifer, Swamp Thing, and Fables?
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Any reading recs outside of Sandman, Preacher, Y: The Last Man, Lucifer, Swamp Thing, and Fables?
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we3
saucer country
american vampire (inb4 inb4)
pride of bagdad
spaceman
Shade the Changing Man. Enigma.
Daytripper
Enigma
The Filth
Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery
The Invisibles
Sandman Mystery Theatre
The System
I really liked 100 Bullets.
THIS
amazing art and cool story. got "the wire" vibes with an assassin/mob element
Iirc, Morrison’s Doom Patrol wasn’t really Vertigo, but my copy of the omnibus has the vertigo label on it, so I’ll mention it anyway.
It ended right before Vertigo started.
In a similar vein, Morrison's Animal Man is retroactively Vertigo.
No.
Yes. It was republished under Vertigo many times.
Doom Patrol is to Vertigo what Space Ghost Coast 2 Coast is to Adult Swim.
I don’t really watch TV, so I have no idea what that means.
That'd be Swamp Thing
Sandman would be Aqua Teen, because it pretty much set the default template for the base Vertigo book and a bunch of things spun out of it
Doom Patrol I would call maybe the Harvey Birdman
Border Town
Goddess Mode
Hex Wives
American Carnage
Safe Sex
I really liked the relaunch titles and I a say that as a transgender woman of color
Frick you
>tfw Global Rule 16 apparently just doesn't fricking mean anything
Look up something to read yourself, you lazy piece of shit. Cinemaphile is not a goddamn library, and nobody here is obligated nor inclined to be your fricking servant. Frick off.
Oh, I forgot to mention that as a transgender woman of color I am so emotionally volatile as a result of my violent shits that I take as a result of my hrt
>someone asking for comic recommendations is low-effort shitposting that ruins comic discussion and must be met with overwhelming and disproportionate vitriol
I'm curious to see how you'd respond to actual trolls and spammers tbh anon
He's one of them. Don't respond to him anymore. Let him seethe.
He's been like this for years. Ignore him.
He might trying to do that reverse psychology bullshit, but ignore him just the same.
>spoonfeeding the moron
You are actively making this board worse, and you're too stupid to see that. Frick you.
Understood, disregard my post.
Ignore that idiot. He wants to kill comics discussion on this board.
No worries. Everyone has to learn the etiquette sometime.
I'm trying to save comic discussion on this board. Nobody ever wants to talk about comics because morons like you keep inviting shitposters by giving them plausible deniability. Frick off.
You sound like Lee Goldson/Barneygay with your level of assblast dedicated towards this thread. Did Piskor’s death put you on edge /:)?
Why I Hate Saturn
My Faith in Frankie
100 Bullets
Transmet
Scalped
Young Liars
>Young Liars
This one right here. Criminally underrated.
-SCALPED (neo-noir masterpiece, still Aaron's finest work)
-TRANSMETROPOLITAN (good rants)
-HELLBLAZER (the Ennis and Milligan and Spurrier runs especially, ignore the Delano run)
-HUMAN TARGET (Milligan again, he's great)
>-HELLBLAZER (the Ennis and Milligan and Spurrier runs especially, ignore the Delano run)
The Delano run is the Hellblazer run worth reading. Milligan’s run is ass, Ennis’ stops being good after 1992 and Spurrier is discount Delano.
WHICH IS IT?
The Delano ruin is Hellblazer at its most Hellblazer. The Ennis run coasts by on Dangerous Habits but does go to shit when it becomes a Vertigo title because Ennis sucks at long-term stories and gets bored hallway through, leading to the decline of quality.
You're going to have to read it all
Trust me amigo, the Delano stuff is an endless, boring slog, and badly drawn to boot. Skip skip skip. Milligan's stuff is good though, with great Giuseppe Camuncoli art.
You know someone is bullshitting when they put the fricking Milligan run over Delano’s when even Milligan apologized for terrible his run was and Ennis and Moore admit Delano’s Constantine is the character at his peak.
Moore's Constantine is better, though. Delano didn't exactly do him justice, but I guess his may be the best in the solo run.
>Milligan apologized for terrible his run
No he didn't and the run is actually good, the guy was clearly falseflagging. There are worse runs out there like Ellis.
b***h please, even the Constantine movie was better than Delano's Hellblazer.
The people who say shit like this don’t like Hellblazer
Milligan's run is even worse than Azzarello's, you dishonest dog.
Everything's worse than the best run
Azzarello's run is mediocre.
nuh-uh
Wrong.
nah
Agreed insofar as that Azzarello's only good story is HARD TIME (love that Corben art), whereas Milligan's whole run is brilliant and interesting.
You read Delano for the setup to the rest of the series. It's solid.
You read Ennis because it's everywhere and it's mostly fine.
You read Ellis because it's quick and tasty.
You read Azzarello for comedy.
Anything else is pedantic or indulgent, and results may vary.
Nice try Jamie. The Delano stuff is the comics equivalent of 'just watch the first six seasons, then it gets really good' - except it doesn't get really good.
Ennis, Ellis, Azzarello, Milligan - they all have written many, many acclaimed classics. Delano is only ever mentioned in relation to Hellblazer, having not written much outside of that. Says it all really.
Milligan has not written any acclaimed classics, Pete. Always the sloppy second to the greats. It must hurt.
Sandman Mystery Theatre is an absolute must.
And also COMPENDIUM VOL 2 FRICKING WHEN???
2011 bros I miss you so much.
Vertigo Swamp Thing and Hellblazer sucked
Very true
The Unwritten is also a series where I must politely ask DC about COMPENDIUM VOL 2 WHEN???
Cairo was a pretty good graphic novel
American Splendor is a comic that I think everyone should read at some point. It's okay if you don't like it, but you should at least try it first
That's the Vertigo American Splendor. Is it the same as the 70s one?
It was written by the same guy, but the art was done by more mainstream people as opposed to the more "underground" types Pekar got (Our Cancer Year has some very odd choices in art style, but I like it). I will say that Pekar just kinda assumed that the readers would all be familiar with his previous work, so starting with the older stuff isn't the worst idea.
Alright.
The Unwritten > Fables
Yes
For one thing it had the courtesy to know when to end
Was Army@Love any good? I remember seeing lots of ads for it but never bothered with it
I enjoyed what I skimmed, but never committed.
Has the thought occurred to you that maybe OP was hoping to generate discussion alongside/after the recommendations?
And it's a bit rich of you to talk about "approaching the subject in bad faith", when your first post was calling the OP "a lazy piece of shit" and telling him to frick off.
we used to loved scott snyder back then in 2009-2012, then everything changed in 2013.
izombie comicbook was good, was like 23 issues. I miss old WinO too.
>we used to loved scott snyder back then in 2009-2012, then everything changed in 2013.
You could start a whole new comic book company out of all the creators which Cinemaphile once loved, but now hates
Charles Soule
Jason Aaron
Mark Russel
and the list goes on
and the one I didn't undestand why we hate now: Mark Russel and WE UBER LOVED HIM in 2015-2016. (I still love his books)
FBP was good.
I remember liking it but not much about it
Saucer country is must, but it isn't for everybody
I read back then punk rock jesus and deadwardians were OK
Oh wow I forgot about Bourdain's comic
>Saucer country is must
Never heard of it before tbh. How is Paul Cornell's comic work, in general?
I only know him from Doctor Who
>Paul Cornell
I love his action comics run with lex luthor.
Then his wolverine is 50/50
His Black Widow: Deadly Origin is a bit childish
We love his new52 Demon Knights #1–14
He was OK with his batman and dark reign Marvel stuff
Man, we used to love paul cornell in 2010.
>We love his new52 Demon Knights #1–14
On the whole it's good, but I dislike how Yistin was some kind of troony thing before it really got popular in what seemed to me like it was trying to one-up Seven Soldier's Reverse Trap Justin.
>Saucer country is must, but it isn't for everybody
I was really interested in that one since I'm fascinated with AYYS (not a believer tho).
The recent final issue was a huge disappointment.
mad max and suiciders were okish at best.
This wasn't a bad lineup, Sheriff of Babylon is still the best thing King ever wrote, Unfollow was pretty nice, New Romancer was funny and I remember people really liking Jacked back then but I never got around to reading it. I personally quite enjoyed Red Thorn.
theser were last vertigo titles
I read savage things, very underwhelming.
Are you done?
This anti-recgay shows up at the same time as the sci-figay. Could be the same guy, since both very obviously want to kill comics discussion on this board.
By the time Swamp Thing became Vertigo it pretty much sucked.
"Nice sloppy photoshop, dipshit."
>spamming the exact same fake ass post like it matters
Recommendations are against the rules, and immoral besides. Frick off and use your goddamn search bar, you useless pieces of shit.
I'll give you some recs that I never see mentione
Outlaw Nation
2020 Visions
The Last One
Vertigo Voices: tainted
Vertigo Voices: The Eaters
Egypt
Scarab
Sebastian O
It's a Bird
Sloth
Loveless
And check out their anthologies like Heart Throbs, Weird War Tales and Weird Western Tales
I'll give you the finger. Your misguided spoonfeeding is actively making the board worse. You're not helping anyone, you're just inviting shitposters who want plausible deniability. Dumbass.
Stop crying.
Is Vertigo dead? I don't read modern comics, and all I see are recommendations for older stuff.
It got discontinued a while back. It has since been replaced by Black Label, which is pretty much all shit.
I'm reading Scalped now and I enjoy it a lot.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Millennium Edition.
I don't know if I'd recommend it past Volume 2. Alan Moore's strengths of being able to weave in all kinds of classical literature and stage play fiction into a beautiful autistic tapestry starts unraveling the closer he gets to the 20th century, and by Century about the only things he has to speak of relevance there are how he's tired of superhero comics, dislikes Harry Potter for being too twee, and visibly doesn't have any knowledge of anything else beyond that. And really, if you wanted to read someone's fan fiction about superheroes getting their asses kicked by a different form of fiction, someone's probably written that better for free online.
Stop being such a negative nancy.
>Stop being such a negative nancy.
Stop being a shill.
Stop being a redditor
>someone's probably written that better for free online.
Great, now I have to disregard everything you said.
A shame, but fair enough. Still wouldn't recommend anything past Century, just cause Alan Moore's butthurt over the comic book industry is palpable through the text and it gets in the way of actually enjoying things like James Bond being dicked over.
But you write like a redditor so well.
>But you write like a redditor so well.
Define your terms, shill.
https://gprivate.com/6agbb
>someone's probably written that better for free online.
You "people" are mentally ill, we used to mock you before you started coming out of your containment sites.
I normally wouldn't object, but I legitimately do rank Moore's understanding of 21st century literature well below that of actual fan fiction, and I'm not going to apologize or beg forgiveness for that.
You don't have to do anything. You'll simply be disregarded entirely.
Oh no, someone on the internet disagrees with me. I can't possibly survive knowing that.
It's not about disagreement. It's that you said something incredibly silly and expect no backlash.
That's because you're a fanficgay with delusions of grandeur.
I'll recommend reading Black Dossier and skipping Century, then continuing with the Jena Diver stories even though it's not Vertigo anymore.
Seconding this. I read up to and including Black Dossier and I feel that's fine as is. It's not a proper conclusion, but it's still a decent ending point, and though I like Moore and O'Neil, I've no real burning desire to read the rest of the series.
I think the problem with LoEG is that the original Victorian cast is such a good bunch of characters that killing two-thirds of them off and moving onto the 20th century just kills the reader's interest stone-dead.
>O'Neil
>O'Niel
It's O'Neill.
Ah hell, I should've caught that.
I still miss him
I heard the Nemo Trilogy was good.
Yeah, Black Dossier was still better than Century. Honestly didn't know that they actually went further with Jenny Diver's stories. She admittedly didn't compel me as a character, but I'd be willing to give it a shot.
And yeah, you can tell Moore and O'Niel were far more into the stories of the Victorian cast than the latter additions, none of the others got as much focus beyond Orlando, and Orlando flipflops between talking like a snide butthole and talking too much about their genitals. Black Dossier is acceptable in that regards, considering the rest of the series was a let-down.
I miss 2008-2013 anons so much
house of mystery was good same goes for xanadu, northlanders was OK.
Sandman Mystery Theater is the best original Vertigo run.
I think Vertigo series are very overrated but it in the true sense of the word, they are most certainly worth discussing more often on this board
Best: Transmetropolitan. A joy to read.
Most underrated: I remember really enjoying Midnight Mass a lot more than the regular gloomy urban fantasy comics Vertigo kept churning out like clockwork.
Most overrated: Astro City. You'd be hard pressed to find a more boring comic than this one.
Most mediocre bait so far.
Bait? You think I give a shit if you enjoy reading about Superman knockoffs going on dates or talking about their sleep schedules? Shits the kind of thing people read when they've completely wrung out all of the good stories and decide its time to read about Clark's trip to the shoe store and his amazing grocery list.
No, it was meant for the fact that you think Transmet is not only good, but the best.
You gave yourself away anyhow.
Well it's the best of the choices left if you cut out all the shit he listed in the OP. No I was never impressed with the Constantine book, Lucifer was better. Also better than Sandman but I've never been a fan of Neil's writing either.
I agree. The art is mediocre as frick too.
I think people would greatly enjoy a superhero sitcom type of thing
Most awful post in the entire thread.
>Most awful post in the entire thread.
Fair because I thought you were talking about that turd Astro City but you were talking about Ellis cringe.
I can't stop laughing.
I couldn't disagree more. Never seen anyone love Transmet that much. I couldn't stand it. But you do you. I miss Vertigo a whole lot though.
Astro City was only Vertigo during its final volume, which wasn't very good.
Any Vertigo titles set in the DC universe besides the ones OP mentioned?
Checked and yes.
And they are?
What am i in for it though?
What are Vertigo comics?
I hate how the only thing this board reads are artsy-fartsy "British Invasion" comics. None of that stuff was really all that good.
It was all better than the American stuff. Even the really shitty ones by Millar, Ennis, and Ellis. You can't blame people for wanting to read better comics.
This is the exact opposite of reality. American comics are vastly superior. The best British material never left 2000AD.
Simply wrong.
So what philistine burgerslop do you read, then?
Marvel kino.
Is Immortal Hulk Ewing attempting to do a Vertigo book?
What website/source can I read comics on mihon?
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