I'll start: currently reading Erik the Red - King of Winter by Soren Mosdal.
I really like it so far, somewhat reminiscent of Mignola both in terms of art and writing, in a good, non-derivative way.
No Cinemaphile material right now, I'm on a manga kick at the moment.
>stuff ive read in 2023 that id give a high recommend
Arawn
Long John Silver
The Black Moon Chronicles
The Quest for the Time Bird
Thorgal (1980-2006 Jean Van Hamm)
Thanks for the recs.
We've been getting so many great Master/Deluxe/Omnibus editions of classics and contemporaries lately, they're almost making me forget the times of duwang.
I'm spending much more than ever even though I could technically get almost all of it from nyaa for free.
I read roughly the same amount of western comics and manga. I don't play video games, but not because I believe the whole the medium is cancer, but because it's too time-consuming given I already read so much. I get not liking a specific genre of medium though, like say horror or whatever.
I read a lot of both as well, but I don't tend to hang around Cinemaphile when I'm not in the mood for manga.
Unless you're trying to get back into comics, you're either here to shitpost or cartoons, both of which are cancer.
Early years
Anything by moebius, corben, druillet
These are not deep stories, mind you
I also like bilal, manara, liberatore
Later on Requiem is my guilty pleasure
Arzach and Rose for Ecclesiastes stand out from year one for me
Early years
Anything by moebius, corben, druillet
These are not deep stories, mind you
I also like bilal, manara, liberatore
Later on Requiem is my guilty pleasure
I don't "read" comics as such, but I do rapidly click through new releases on online piracy sites, hoping against hope to find something that's enjoyable to me and makes me feel joy or pleasure and gives me a serotonin hit or a dopamine dose.
Been failing so far. The last time I enjoyed a new comic was around 2005 or so.
In terms of what's coming out regularly right now, I am enjoying Rogue Sun. Vacuum Decay is a kickstarter but is probably my single favorite on-going title. In terms of old stuff I have been reading a lot of Cheval Noir and The Maxx lately.
I've managed to get a good amount of comic reading in this week. 2 volumes of the original Jaime run of Blue Beetle plus Graduation Day, the most recent batch of Batman Black and White, Uncle Scrooge and The Cave of Ali Baba, the first volume of Aliens comics, and some assorted MAD. Tomorrow I'll be starting on Mark Waid's Flash run.
oooh that sounds quite niceee , right now i am reading
a few but picked up "rare flavours" cuz "the many deaths of laila starr" was really nice, like a good piece of meat for the soul, and i am slow reading the one issue out and so far is really nice.
like Ram V has become one of my to go's when he ain't doing big two stuff.
also this arrived today, been meaning to buy the second boxset for a while even tho the omnibus is coming like in a month but i want to double dip anyway.
you think modern racists give a shit about ancient racists? ethnicity as a concept was completely different then. there was no "white", there was no "black". it was "those frickers to the *cardinal direction* of us"
modern racism is ironically more inclusive by lumping larger groups of people together. the reason humans living in modern times is worse is because they have the internet and all the information to debunk their moronic bullshit but choose to still be racist
'racism' by western definition is the mere acknowledgment of the existence of ethnicities/races and their differing physical/cognitive traits.
Cultural prejudice is a better term to describe what is intuitively understood as actual racism.
The 'historic racism' you're describing is tribalism.
The German edition of Tokyo Revengers has an entire essay-sized disclaimer printed on the first page, explaining that the Buddhist swastika is not actually the forbidden symbol, but anyway you shouldn't do TR cosplay just in case.
I last read through all the Coffin Comics roster, catching fully up on modern Lady Death, Hellwitch (AKA nu-Purgatori) and La Muerta (Mexican female Punisher). Some of the Lady Death lore needs more fleshing out, plus there were some inconsistencies and repeated plot points (her mom confessing she is not her biological mom twice), but overall pretty fun. Hellwitch is entertaining, but way too fan service heavy, especially issue three. La Muerta isn't bogged down in fan service shit, thankfully, and is actually pretty good. Sometimes I think it'd work better in black and white though.
I started going through Crossgen era Medieval Lady death, but slacked off. Not a bad series so far, but real life stuff started kicking my ass in the last week.
I’ve been reading Epic collections of 70s Dr. Strange stuff and oh boy is the writing all over the place. Frankly a lot of the time it just relies on the art to carry it through. Clea is basically next to useless in the stories, some of the writers just can’t write magic well and there’s some really peculiar ideas like Dr. Strange getting cucked by Benjamin Franklin when he’s taking a trip to colonial times, or how an ankh keeps showing up on Stephen’s forehead whenever he is in danger of dying which I suppose is meant to be like a Spider-sense of sorts? There’s also some hilarious stuff like Roger Stern trying to build this big evil nether realm demon bad guy who works through proxies and then the whole storyline abruptly ends when Stern leaves the book and you just have the baddie declare in Stern’s final issue that despite having yet another defeat he’s won “because he got Strange to doubt himself” or whatever and then he just goes away.
Nice thread. I'm waiting for the next week 2000AD prog. New Deadworld storyline gonna start next week and I'm sooo hyped. This series is like crack for me and honestly I prefer it over Lawless in terms of my favorite Dredd spin off. Right now rereading some 2000AD stuff here and there, currently reading The Order, I love the artwork.
Any fans here? I want to sperg about Deadworld so much but we don't have good 2000AD threads that often.
What's a good place to start with Dredd? Preferably something that's available in print and has good art.
My only exposure are the Karl Urban movie, which was excellent, and the Stallone movie, which wasn't very good but fairly entertaining.
Man, that's a tough one. I have a lot of love for short one prog stories while everybody and their mother recommends to read the epics. Basically Dredd is a series of short stories that get shaken up by large, status quo altering events. And people are like "yeah, go read that event". Which is dumb, honestly? I would say Case Files 5 is a good place to start but I'm more of a fan of late 80s, early 90s Dredd. So maybe go read The Pit and move on from there. Don't forget to check out other 2000AD stories like Strontium Dog and Rogue Trooper.
You know what? This might be a super counter intuitive move on your part, but go read Lawman of the Future series. Now, any Dredd fan would say that I'm moronic but this series just has a good catch on what Dredd "vibe" is, like that subplot with a singing doctor made me kek to hell and back when I read it. And if you loved what you saw, go read some proper 2000AD dredds.
Just make sure to skip the IDW series, it's a dookie.
>Basically Dredd is a series of short stories that get shaken up by large, status quo altering events.
That's a great concept, no wonder it's regarded so highly.
I'm going to read Miracle Man soon and then i will get volume 8 of monstress in late november.
i finally got the 4th issue of a mini series, Feud by Mike Baron from the heavyhitters thing. has dinosaurs fighting or something. i'll be reading that soon too
Currently reading through: >Simonson Thor >Ordway Shazam >Wolfman Titans >Spawn >IDW sonic >Stone Ocean
Caught up with: >Batman and Robin >World's Finest >Birds of Prey >Daredevil >Deadpool: Badder Blood >Fantastic Four >Green Arrow >Harley Quinn: Black + White + Redder >Jean Grey >Justice Society of America >Lord of the Jungle >Mieruko-chan >Ms. Marvel >Silver Surfer - Legacy: Rebirth >Starfinder >Superman >Superman: The Last Days of Lex Luthor >The Joker >Ultimate Invasion (though i didn't read this week's issue yet) >Unstoppable Doom Patrol >Void Rivals (didn't read this week's yet) >WataMote >World's Finest: Teen Titans
>Caught up with: Superman
I barely read capestuff, what do you mean when you say this, aren't there a dozen different Superman/Spiderman/Batman comics at any given time and an inifinte backlog? How do you 'catch up' on that? For reading things as they're being released I only do that with manga, so I'm a bit clueless.
I mean the current run of the book called "Superman" by Joshua Williamson, it's six issues in so far. I was also caught up with the current Action Comics run for a bit but I dropped it for being terrible.
what the frick how can you read that much capeshit without getting a brain aneurysm? I read like 4 WSJ series and feel like a degenerate. pace yourself.
Do you read battle manga? The fight sequences in most cape comics seem incredibly stiff and repetitive to me, just 2-3 pages of buff guys throwing stoic poses while colorful explosions happen in the background. There's exception of course, I really like Luther Strode, though not sure if that's considered cape strictly speaking.
So I picked this comic up yesterday. It's a pretty good one off. It's oddley about Frankenstein's Monster and Jack the Ripper. Story is pretty basic and really obvious where it's going but the artwork is top notch. I only spent a couple bucks and it's worth it just for the artwork.
Currently reading:
Amazing Spider-Man from ditko/lee (rereading actually) currently at #30, will continue forward in a full Spider-Man master reading
Uncanny X-Men, Factor and New Mutants (currently at year 1986, doing a full X-books reading begun at Claremont, though I expect I'll drop them due to low quality after Claremont leaves)
Full Post Crisis Super book reading (began with Byrne, currently at 1997 having started Superman Blue, reading all 4 monthly superman books, the quarterly, as well as Supergirl and Superboy, dropped Steel once Priest took over bc it was shit, dropped superman due to the terrible breakup arc that ruined Lois's character and only decided to come back bc the Blue plot was so close so I skipped to it, can still drop it if it doesn't stay good, Jurgens's run has been really mixed)
Green Lantern Vol 3, began with Emerald Dawn and Gerard Jones' run, am reading concurrently with the Super books so they stay synced up, with plans to get to John's GL run)
And for completions sake also reading watamote and trek books, doing all these in a daily cycle
Damn, good luck man. How are you doing it? I want to go on a prog slog but just thinking about reading all 2500 or so progs and jdms makes me anxious. That, and I'm not sure that I can go though the earlier stuff.
I read one prog (or jdm) a day, minimum, normally on days off ill get through more. I average about 14-20 a week. Been at it for about 2 years.
>not sure i can go through the early stuff.
That was the hardest. Some good stuff like shako, invasion and dredd, lot of bad stuff people praise like harlem heroes, robo-hunter.
Rogue trooper is a weird one, it was a slog, then got good, then slog, then good, repeat.
I dropped a few things because they were just so bad. 90s 2000ad was both the best and worst ride of the whole journey (so far).
I also read each prog from front to back to start, by 500 i dropped the letters and "features" unless the feature was on an artist/writer etc i really liked.
I buy comics every week. I'm a mark and I have been for a long time, decades.
Local Man
Firepower
Sacrificers
Kaya
Avengers
Thor
Wasp/Avengers Inc
She-Hulk
Fantastic Four
Immortal X-Men
X-Men Red
X-Men but I'll probably drop
Uncanny Avengers for Garron and it's only 5 issues
Dark X-Men - mini
Uncanny Spider-Man - mini
I haven't actually been this week, but if Thor issue 2 is 4.99 I'm not gonna do it. That goes for any new Marvel series I guess.
It means he's a dummy that buys comics even if they're shitty.
Eh, I don't read books I don't like. I follow mostly creators whose work I know I like. But I am being self-deprecating because I certainly spend more money on comics than I should.
Has She-Hulk gotten shittier since the show? I have a vague memory that Avengers/Cap/Thor etc. all got targeted for 're-imagining' after their movies cam out, but I could be wrong.
The last volume didn't remind me of the show at all, but it also wasn't like the old Byrne book. The writer comes from doing YA novels. The book was super decompressed but the characterizations were apt and consistent and I thought the romance was cute. I was definitely in the minority here though. Most anons complained that it wasnt coomer material.
Here's what I'm juggling right now
I like having a bunch of different books going on all at the same time, so I can dip in and out of whatever I feel like. It means it takes longer to finish an individual comic, but I like it. Another part of why I do it is because, when I just single-mindedly focus on one book and read it ASAP, I find I tend to forget what happens in it. This way, my reading gets stretched out and so the books stick in my mind a little longer.
How does Tom Strong compare to other Moore works? That's a pre-existing character he wrote issues for, like Swamp Thing, no?
I've only read 'originals' of his, so to speak; Watchmen, Vendetta, From Hell...
Tom Strong is an original Moore creation, co-created with Chris Sprouse. I think he mostly worked with his own original characters tbh.
I'm only a handful of issues into it, so I can't properly judge, but I'm liking it so far though. It's Moore's take on fun, sci-fi/fantasy adventures, and feels almost like what he might do with the Fantastic Four if he'd ever taken them on.
If you want more underrated Moore, then take a look at Top 10
Don't skip Jonnie Future.
It's the most cerebral of Moore's work, but well worth the effort. A considerable amount of study is necessary before one can entirely discern the subtle nuances embedded in the narrative.
I read his short story collection Illuminations last year. It's good, though obviously some stories were better than others. Made me think about whether Moore could've made it big as a prose writer instead of getting into comics, as he's got a great way with words
At first, I thought it was okay, but by the end, I really liked it.
Taking all of Moore's superhero work into account, he's become my favorite cape writer, despite his contempt towards the genre.
i buy a bunch of old comics and read em here's a picture of one of em I also have the comic where sinestro was sentenced to death when he was a green lantern
Damn Them All
Nightmare Country: The Glass House
Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham
Fish flies
And that's about all, though I am following a few manga too
Hirayasumi
Fool Night
Go with The Clouds, North by Northwest
Maiwai
Batuque
Currently reading The Killer by Matz and Jacamon, it's pretty entertaining so far. I'd recomendi it if you're into noir/hardboiled fiction. I've never seen it talked about here but a film adaptation comes out in november so I don't know if it'll get more attention.
I've been picking up the digitals of Marvel's Alien and Predator individual series'. They actually are NOT melding them with mainstream/alternate reality Marvel titles (outside of the promo covers, which I liked) & keeping them in their respective universes. Almost harkens back to the Dark Horse era runs.
Rat Queens. Even if you hate medieval fantasy, give them a read.
anyone else have this problem? I legit love comics as a medium and don't have trouble enjoying recent stuff anons recommend in threads like this, but half the time I go into my local comic shop I end up staring at the wall of recent releases blankly before I end up buying something indie or old largely to be polite.
Well that's not weird at all. I love comics as a medium too, but at the same time I acknowledge that 99% of comics, especially recent ones, are just slop.
>but at the same time I acknowledge that 99% of comics, especially recent ones, are just slop.
Are you illiterate? He said he enjoys current stuff just fine so he's not like you.
>Are you illiterate? He said he enjoys current stuff just fine
Are YOU illiterate? He didn't say that at all. He said, quote: >don't have trouble enjoying recent stuff anons recommend in threads like this
There's qualifiers in that sentence after the words "recent stuff". It has to be recent stuff "recommended by anons in threads like this". Not just any recent stuff.
Sounds like you just refuse to give anything new a chance due to bias and unwillingness to do any research. It’s like walking to a bookstore and complaining that you ended up picking up a Worthsworth classics instead of anything new because you can’t be arsed to give a new releases a chance.
Thanks for this (even though that's probably more than $25). Funnily enough I tried buying 2000ad at the comic shop last week and they were out but I didn't see or know that Creepshow was onto volume 2. Sweet. Of the others you listed, are there any particular ones you like and would recommend to others?
King Kong: The Great War
Battle Action
Groo: In the Wild
Sgt. Rock vs the Army of the Dead (written by Bruce Campbell. Yes, THAT Bruce Campbell).
Love Everlasting
Brzrkr: Poetry of Madness
Hallow’s Eve
Junkyard Joe
I kinda liked aspects of West of Sundown but it veered to a direction I wasn’t particularly keen on.
Koschei in Hell
Mazebook
Did you hear what Eddie Gein done?
7 months ago
Anonymous
I think the most recent issue of Battle Action (#5) dropped on the 27th
I've know about Fred Perry and his legacy for years but never bothered to read Gold Digger, well that changed this week, I'm still very early on, but I'm having fun.
Other than that, not much. I've got a birthday coming and a brother who has a 6th sense when it comes to picking out the good shit even though he knows nothing about comics and doesn't want to read them. If I set him lose in a store he will take a look around and within 5 mins he will zero in on something that's at least 9/10 without fail. I don't get it.
Yeah, basically McCay was the first person who truly believed comics and animation were a form of art also you should totally the story behind the production hell of TMS Little Nemo movie, is fricking crazy to see how many people was involved on that
>In his later years, McCay grew resentful of what he viewed as the commercialization of animation. In 1927, when a group of young animators decided to host a dinner in his honor, McCay delivered a speech in which he stated, “Animation should be an art, that is how I conceived it … but as I see what you fellows have done with it is making it into a trade … not an art, but a trade.”
You were in /shelf/ too when that Taschen sale happened, huh?
I haven't gotten around to unpacking my copy yet, but it sure looks nice. I got the massive Krazy Kat book as well + a bunch of non Cinemaphile stuff. Fast delivery and excellent packaging as well, if they ever do another sale of this kind again I'm going to have to assemble another shelf...
>saw that sale >talked myself out of it in the thread >now feel like shit for missing out on it
The Complete Nemo is still there last I checked, but frick, £80 is too much. Especially when I could have gotten it for £40.
You were in /shelf/ too when that Taschen sale happened, huh?
I haven't gotten around to unpacking my copy yet, but it sure looks nice. I got the massive Krazy Kat book as well + a bunch of non Cinemaphile stuff. Fast delivery and excellent packaging as well, if they ever do another sale of this kind again I'm going to have to assemble another shelf...
Was reading The Walking Dead, namely the Deluxe version before shifting back to B&W. Never got past the prison before, since it always felt filled to the top with needless stupid BS, where characters intentionally acted dumb to keep the intrigue up each week, but color felt like a good excuse to try again. While I stand by my initial assessment from years and years and years ago, it really gets going after leaving the prison and really depended on the prison having happened the way it did, mostly. Ben's a good way to encapsulate things (even though he happened slightly after): really fukken dumb and sudden, feels like it happened for the sake of it, but man did it mean so much for Carl's growth
But I'm also looking for anything new for afterwards too. Trying to find something good with a big yet reasonable number of issues (namely 60 but can go upwards of 150), has actually finished, and is self-contained. Stuff like Y: The Last Man, Invincible, or Chew. Would really appreciate if anyone had any suggestions.
Some of those have been on my radar or I have touched, but I appreciate the reminder for The Goon. Sandman I've also been meaning to check out because of his sick ass design, so to hear and then see he has the right amount of issues is noice. I'll check that out after TWD
I've been hyping this up so much because of all the posts like this one.
In my head, this run is an amazing, balls-to-the-wall space action series with amazing art. Almost like a western battle shonen, but not quite.
I hope I'm not disappointed. If it's anything like Infinite Crisis, I'll take a shit on all of you.
You should read it at least up until Sinestro Corps War ends. Rebirth and the early issues (like when Batman one) never were amazing to me but it does get very good around SCW and mostly maintains that quality to the end.
Finished this year! > Alien - The Original Screenplay
Currently reading this year! > Captain America - Sentinel of Liberty > Captain America - Symbol of Truth > Captain America (2023) > Uncanny Avengers (2023) > Damage > The Authority (1999) > Crime Syndicate (2021)
Going to start reading soon! > The Immortal Thor > Aquaman (2016) > Ultimate Invasion
Going to re-read & finish soon! > Ultimate Comics Ultimates (dropped it originally after the United we Stand arc) > Ultimate Comics Hawkeye > Rick Remender's Agent Venom run. > Coates's 1st Black Panther volume (fell off after the 1st 8 issues which were great but I dropped all comics around then)
I've been reading Spider-Man from the beginning. Recently I got back my original comic book collection that I had taken away from me do to bad grades when I was 12 (unfortunately most of it was eaten away by rats and such) and in it was a copy of Spider-Man Essentials 1 that I got from Walden Books back in the day that I don't recall ever really reading
It's funny. Much like Thor and Flash, Spidey was never a character that I thought I'd particularly like or care for, but I love being proven wrong
Right now I'm up to the Romita era (just got done with issue 50) and I thought I'd be adverse to it after coming off of Dikto, but outside of maybe the cleaner looking artstyle, the transition was fairly seamless
One thing I noticed going from Ditko to Romita is that Peter's social life improved basically immediately. Romita's first issue has Peter becoming friends with Harry which kicks off his whole social status quo for ages
Currently reading Soggy Landing - it's got super comfy art and cute character design, but the plot is about some miserable buttholes instigating a communist revolution or something. Worth checking out just for how weird it is, but probably not for everyone.
I was more into DC as a kid, it took me growing up to have an appreciation for Marvel. I think the first Marvel book I touched was Gerber's Howard The Duck? It's been a firm favorite for years and it still makes me laugh
That is the major exception. I've enjoyed Zdarsky's Batman up to that point, and I'm planning to keep reading, but this Gotham War story is every bit as bad as people say.
Reading: >Rob Liefeld's Supreme >Kupperberg's Vigilante >Nocenti's Daredevil >Early Love and Rockets >Strange Academy >Creed: The Next Round
Caught up with: >Teen Titans by Geoff Johns Omnibus >Miracleman the Silver Age >Punisher >Guardians of the Galaxy >Thor >Batman >Marvel Unleashed >Penguin >Brave and the Bold >Second Coming: Trinity >WildC.A.T.s >Green Arrow >Misfit Club For Girls >Superman Lost >Waller Vs Wildstorm >Big Game >Amazing Spider-Man >Captain America >Wonder Woman >Li'l Rocket >Cosmo the Spacedog >Avengers Inc >Batman and Robin >Danger Street >Justice Society of America >Birds of Prey
Tom King's Batman pretty hit or miss finishing up The War of Jokes and Riddles it was meh apart from Kite Man's origin which wasn't too bad kind of wish I had read the issues alongside /vo/ when it was first serialised this run seemed like a glorious shitshow
i enjoyed some parts at the start but it goes so hard to shit on that specific part and THE STUFF after that i got no good memories of the start anymore.
all it setups it fumbles, i am glad i never spent a cent on it.
I tried to read the Spider-Man's Masterworks.
The firsts chapters were words words words. I dismissed this as a thing of the era, but then I checked the most recent ones and it still was words words words but now in dialogue.
Wasn't reading a whole lot. I was working on a comic for some stuff here on Cinemaphile but I go lost in the sauce and missed the deadline. I'm still going to finish but when I do I'm going to read "Magic 7" that I've been postponing for a while.
I'll start: currently reading Erik the Red - King of Winter by Soren Mosdal.
I really like it so far, somewhat reminiscent of Mignola both in terms of art and writing, in a good, non-derivative way.
No Cinemaphile material right now, I'm on a manga kick at the moment.
>stuff ive read in 2023 that id give a high recommend
Arawn
Long John Silver
The Black Moon Chronicles
The Quest for the Time Bird
Thorgal (1980-2006 Jean Van Hamm)
Thanks for the recs.
We've been getting so many great Master/Deluxe/Omnibus editions of classics and contemporaries lately, they're almost making me forget the times of duwang.
I'm spending much more than ever even though I could technically get almost all of it from nyaa for free.
I might unpack this one later tonight.
Frank Thorne drew some really squeezable looking breasts.
Cancer.
>disregarding an entire medium out of spite
That's what you're doing.
I read roughly the same amount of western comics and manga. I don't play video games, but not because I believe the whole the medium is cancer, but because it's too time-consuming given I already read so much. I get not liking a specific genre of medium though, like say horror or whatever.
I read a lot of both as well, but I don't tend to hang around Cinemaphile when I'm not in the mood for manga.
Unless you're trying to get back into comics, you're either here to shitpost or cartoons, both of which are cancer.
Shut up, b***h.
>mass reply
>homosexual
Every single time.
Usagi Yojimbo, I'm on Saga 4 I think
Time Bird is great, that ending though...
>Time Bird is great
No.
OG Red Sonja
Cinemaphile stuff for me as well. Reading Monokuro Kinderbook
I just finished that the other day. I dig it.
what are some good highlights and stories from Heavy Metal?
Early years
Anything by moebius, corben, druillet
These are not deep stories, mind you
I also like bilal, manara, liberatore
Later on Requiem is my guilty pleasure
Arzach and Rose for Ecclesiastes stand out from year one for me
This anon is pretty spot on
The amount of talent concentrated in Heavy Metal was fricking insane. I wish there was a good documentary film on the subject.
I should read something.....
Try the Reckless series, I've read the first four and they've all been great, hoping the 5th will be awesome too
Walking Dead
Stop now.
Since nobody's reading comics, I'll come clean as well.
I've moved onto prose, but I've been following the Wizard Top 100 Standalones storytimes
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>Legion again
Frick...
I don't "read" comics as such, but I do rapidly click through new releases on online piracy sites, hoping against hope to find something that's enjoyable to me and makes me feel joy or pleasure and gives me a serotonin hit or a dopamine dose.
Been failing so far. The last time I enjoyed a new comic was around 2005 or so.
Bullshit. Dubs of falsehoods.
...Which part is the part you don't believe? I'm confused what you might be protesting about.
>"read"
Gun Honey from like 2020 was pretty fun
The first Punisher Warzone series
Jonah Hex
In terms of what's coming out regularly right now, I am enjoying Rogue Sun. Vacuum Decay is a kickstarter but is probably my single favorite on-going title. In terms of old stuff I have been reading a lot of Cheval Noir and The Maxx lately.
I've managed to get a good amount of comic reading in this week. 2 volumes of the original Jaime run of Blue Beetle plus Graduation Day, the most recent batch of Batman Black and White, Uncle Scrooge and The Cave of Ali Baba, the first volume of Aliens comics, and some assorted MAD. Tomorrow I'll be starting on Mark Waid's Flash run.
Some Goosebumps graphix books i got the other day.
Very underrated
oooh that sounds quite niceee , right now i am reading
a few but picked up "rare flavours" cuz "the many deaths of laila starr" was really nice, like a good piece of meat for the soul, and i am slow reading the one issue out and so far is really nice.
like Ram V has become one of my to go's when he ain't doing big two stuff.
also this arrived today, been meaning to buy the second boxset for a while even tho the omnibus is coming like in a month but i want to double dip anyway.
btw finished this, it was fricking great i wish i could find a copy.
The lack of activity in this thread makes me sad.
Can anyone ID this?
>
>British Artistocrat (?) in front of a Sonnenrad
Can't think of much to be honest. Über perhaps?
looks like alfred is crashing an a party of dudes who claim the like asatru and paganism but are really just racists and nothing else
Because ancient cultures were totally not racist at all
you think modern racists give a shit about ancient racists? ethnicity as a concept was completely different then. there was no "white", there was no "black". it was "those frickers to the *cardinal direction* of us"
modern racism is ironically more inclusive by lumping larger groups of people together. the reason humans living in modern times is worse is because they have the internet and all the information to debunk their moronic bullshit but choose to still be racist
'racism' by western definition is the mere acknowledgment of the existence of ethnicities/races and their differing physical/cognitive traits.
Cultural prejudice is a better term to describe what is intuitively understood as actual racism.
The 'historic racism' you're describing is tribalism.
It's all just word games now.
Don't simp for blacks
They don't want to be your friend
The German edition of Tokyo Revengers has an entire essay-sized disclaimer printed on the first page, explaining that the Buddhist swastika is not actually the forbidden symbol, but anyway you shouldn't do TR cosplay just in case.
>Alfred vs. The Based Department
I'd read that lmao
Sitting down and getting ready to read the first three issues of the new Blade series. Hoping they'll be cool
reread one piece and tokyo ghoul right now and catching up with my local comic book publishing company run
Going to start Pink Lemonade and Banana Sunday soon.
I last read through all the Coffin Comics roster, catching fully up on modern Lady Death, Hellwitch (AKA nu-Purgatori) and La Muerta (Mexican female Punisher). Some of the Lady Death lore needs more fleshing out, plus there were some inconsistencies and repeated plot points (her mom confessing she is not her biological mom twice), but overall pretty fun. Hellwitch is entertaining, but way too fan service heavy, especially issue three. La Muerta isn't bogged down in fan service shit, thankfully, and is actually pretty good. Sometimes I think it'd work better in black and white though.
I started going through Crossgen era Medieval Lady death, but slacked off. Not a bad series so far, but real life stuff started kicking my ass in the last week.
I'd read Sunday if I had it.
I’ve been reading Epic collections of 70s Dr. Strange stuff and oh boy is the writing all over the place. Frankly a lot of the time it just relies on the art to carry it through. Clea is basically next to useless in the stories, some of the writers just can’t write magic well and there’s some really peculiar ideas like Dr. Strange getting cucked by Benjamin Franklin when he’s taking a trip to colonial times, or how an ankh keeps showing up on Stephen’s forehead whenever he is in danger of dying which I suppose is meant to be like a Spider-sense of sorts? There’s also some hilarious stuff like Roger Stern trying to build this big evil nether realm demon bad guy who works through proxies and then the whole storyline abruptly ends when Stern leaves the book and you just have the baddie declare in Stern’s final issue that despite having yet another defeat he’s won “because he got Strange to doubt himself” or whatever and then he just goes away.
>Dr. Strange getting cucked by Benjamin Franklin
I will read your comic now.
Nice thread. I'm waiting for the next week 2000AD prog. New Deadworld storyline gonna start next week and I'm sooo hyped. This series is like crack for me and honestly I prefer it over Lawless in terms of my favorite Dredd spin off. Right now rereading some 2000AD stuff here and there, currently reading The Order, I love the artwork.
Any fans here? I want to sperg about Deadworld so much but we don't have good 2000AD threads that often.
What's a good place to start with Dredd? Preferably something that's available in print and has good art.
My only exposure are the Karl Urban movie, which was excellent, and the Stallone movie, which wasn't very good but fairly entertaining.
Anywhere. It doesn’t matter.
Man, that's a tough one. I have a lot of love for short one prog stories while everybody and their mother recommends to read the epics. Basically Dredd is a series of short stories that get shaken up by large, status quo altering events. And people are like "yeah, go read that event". Which is dumb, honestly? I would say Case Files 5 is a good place to start but I'm more of a fan of late 80s, early 90s Dredd. So maybe go read The Pit and move on from there. Don't forget to check out other 2000AD stories like Strontium Dog and Rogue Trooper.
You know what? This might be a super counter intuitive move on your part, but go read Lawman of the Future series. Now, any Dredd fan would say that I'm moronic but this series just has a good catch on what Dredd "vibe" is, like that subplot with a singing doctor made me kek to hell and back when I read it. And if you loved what you saw, go read some proper 2000AD dredds.
Just make sure to skip the IDW series, it's a dookie.
Thanks for the qrd, I'll give Lawman a shot.
>Basically Dredd is a series of short stories that get shaken up by large, status quo altering events.
That's a great concept, no wonder it's regarded so highly.
I'm going to read Miracle Man soon and then i will get volume 8 of monstress in late november.
i finally got the 4th issue of a mini series, Feud by Mike Baron from the heavyhitters thing. has dinosaurs fighting or something. i'll be reading that soon too
I am reading Fables, liking it so far
Currently reading through:
>Simonson Thor
>Ordway Shazam
>Wolfman Titans
>Spawn
>IDW sonic
>Stone Ocean
Caught up with:
>Batman and Robin
>World's Finest
>Birds of Prey
>Daredevil
>Deadpool: Badder Blood
>Fantastic Four
>Green Arrow
>Harley Quinn: Black + White + Redder
>Jean Grey
>Justice Society of America
>Lord of the Jungle
>Mieruko-chan
>Ms. Marvel
>Silver Surfer - Legacy: Rebirth
>Starfinder
>Superman
>Superman: The Last Days of Lex Luthor
>The Joker
>Ultimate Invasion (though i didn't read this week's issue yet)
>Unstoppable Doom Patrol
>Void Rivals (didn't read this week's yet)
>WataMote
>World's Finest: Teen Titans
>Caught up with: Superman
I barely read capestuff, what do you mean when you say this, aren't there a dozen different Superman/Spiderman/Batman comics at any given time and an inifinte backlog? How do you 'catch up' on that? For reading things as they're being released I only do that with manga, so I'm a bit clueless.
I mean the current run of the book called "Superman" by Joshua Williamson, it's six issues in so far. I was also caught up with the current Action Comics run for a bit but I dropped it for being terrible.
what the frick how can you read that much capeshit without getting a brain aneurysm? I read like 4 WSJ series and feel like a degenerate. pace yourself.
sounds like a you problem
The only fiction genres I like are capeshit, scifi, and westerns, and that last one I only got into recently.
what's some good capeshit fiction? only example I can think of is "Soon I Will Be Invincible"
Do you read battle manga? The fight sequences in most cape comics seem incredibly stiff and repetitive to me, just 2-3 pages of buff guys throwing stoic poses while colorful explosions happen in the background. There's exception of course, I really like Luther Strode, though not sure if that's considered cape strictly speaking.
So I picked this comic up yesterday. It's a pretty good one off. It's oddley about Frankenstein's Monster and Jack the Ripper. Story is pretty basic and really obvious where it's going but the artwork is top notch. I only spent a couple bucks and it's worth it just for the artwork.
Currently reading:
Amazing Spider-Man from ditko/lee (rereading actually) currently at #30, will continue forward in a full Spider-Man master reading
Uncanny X-Men, Factor and New Mutants (currently at year 1986, doing a full X-books reading begun at Claremont, though I expect I'll drop them due to low quality after Claremont leaves)
Full Post Crisis Super book reading (began with Byrne, currently at 1997 having started Superman Blue, reading all 4 monthly superman books, the quarterly, as well as Supergirl and Superboy, dropped Steel once Priest took over bc it was shit, dropped superman due to the terrible breakup arc that ruined Lois's character and only decided to come back bc the Blue plot was so close so I skipped to it, can still drop it if it doesn't stay good, Jurgens's run has been really mixed)
Green Lantern Vol 3, began with Emerald Dawn and Gerard Jones' run, am reading concurrently with the Super books so they stay synced up, with plans to get to John's GL run)
And for completions sake also reading watamote and trek books, doing all these in a daily cycle
If you're gonna read X-Factor at least make sure you get to the good stuff by PAD before you drop it
>Amazing Spider-Man from ditko/lee (rereading actually)
Crazy.
I’m doing that now too but I’m taking a quick Spider-Girl break now that I’ve reached the Byrne run and everything good is about to be undone
Currently reading all 2000ad/jdm in release order.
Currently on prog 1516, 29th nov, 2006.
I also read stuff in between too so its doesnt become a prog slog.
Although, 90% of the stuff ive read in the last 2 years has been pre2010s
Damn, good luck man. How are you doing it? I want to go on a prog slog but just thinking about reading all 2500 or so progs and jdms makes me anxious. That, and I'm not sure that I can go though the earlier stuff.
I read one prog (or jdm) a day, minimum, normally on days off ill get through more. I average about 14-20 a week. Been at it for about 2 years.
>not sure i can go through the early stuff.
That was the hardest. Some good stuff like shako, invasion and dredd, lot of bad stuff people praise like harlem heroes, robo-hunter.
Rogue trooper is a weird one, it was a slog, then got good, then slog, then good, repeat.
I dropped a few things because they were just so bad. 90s 2000ad was both the best and worst ride of the whole journey (so far).
I also read each prog from front to back to start, by 500 i dropped the letters and "features" unless the feature was on an artist/writer etc i really liked.
I buy comics every week. I'm a mark and I have been for a long time, decades.
Local Man
Firepower
Sacrificers
Kaya
Avengers
Thor
Wasp/Avengers Inc
She-Hulk
Fantastic Four
Immortal X-Men
X-Men Red
X-Men but I'll probably drop
Uncanny Avengers for Garron and it's only 5 issues
Dark X-Men - mini
Uncanny Spider-Man - mini
I haven't actually been this week, but if Thor issue 2 is 4.99 I'm not gonna do it. That goes for any new Marvel series I guess.
>mark
What does that mean?
It means he's a dummy that buys comics even if they're shitty.
I see.
Eh, I don't read books I don't like. I follow mostly creators whose work I know I like. But I am being self-deprecating because I certainly spend more money on comics than I should.
From your list, you like some shitty books, so you're still a doofus.
That's what you used to call simps before phones.
Has She-Hulk gotten shittier since the show? I have a vague memory that Avengers/Cap/Thor etc. all got targeted for 're-imagining' after their movies cam out, but I could be wrong.
The last volume didn't remind me of the show at all, but it also wasn't like the old Byrne book. The writer comes from doing YA novels. The book was super decompressed but the characterizations were apt and consistent and I thought the romance was cute. I was definitely in the minority here though. Most anons complained that it wasnt coomer material.
Byrne FF. was not expecting a miscarriage subplot
Sue? Maybe it just went invisible.
I read that issue right after Secret Wars cause I wanted to check out all of the return issues. Never been soured on a writer so quickly.
Here's what I'm juggling right now
I like having a bunch of different books going on all at the same time, so I can dip in and out of whatever I feel like. It means it takes longer to finish an individual comic, but I like it. Another part of why I do it is because, when I just single-mindedly focus on one book and read it ASAP, I find I tend to forget what happens in it. This way, my reading gets stretched out and so the books stick in my mind a little longer.
How does Tom Strong compare to other Moore works? That's a pre-existing character he wrote issues for, like Swamp Thing, no?
I've only read 'originals' of his, so to speak; Watchmen, Vendetta, From Hell...
Not that anon, but tom strong is my favourite moore work.
But then its well written, but not up its arse.
Tom Strong is an original Moore creation, co-created with Chris Sprouse. I think he mostly worked with his own original characters tbh.
I'm only a handful of issues into it, so I can't properly judge, but I'm liking it so far though. It's Moore's take on fun, sci-fi/fantasy adventures, and feels almost like what he might do with the Fantastic Four if he'd ever taken them on.
If you want more underrated Moore, then take a look at Top 10
Picked up, but 60€ is a little pricey, I think I'll just get a .cbz for now.
Don't skip Jonnie Future.
It's the most cerebral of Moore's work, but well worth the effort. A considerable amount of study is necessary before one can entirely discern the subtle nuances embedded in the narrative.
Not sure if you're trolling.
I wonder how many anons have read Jerusalem, I haven't, but I enjoy the occasional Cinemaphile memes.
I read his short story collection Illuminations last year. It's good, though obviously some stories were better than others. Made me think about whether Moore could've made it big as a prose writer instead of getting into comics, as he's got a great way with words
Personally I didn't like it. Pretty slight.
At first, I thought it was okay, but by the end, I really liked it.
Taking all of Moore's superhero work into account, he's become my favorite cape writer, despite his contempt towards the genre.
i buy a bunch of old comics and read em here's a picture of one of em I also have the comic where sinestro was sentenced to death when he was a green lantern
Reading some mango atm.
Damn Them All
Nightmare Country: The Glass House
Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham
Fish flies
And that's about all, though I am following a few manga too
Hirayasumi
Fool Night
Go with The Clouds, North by Northwest
Maiwai
Batuque
Currently reading The Killer by Matz and Jacamon, it's pretty entertaining so far. I'd recomendi it if you're into noir/hardboiled fiction. I've never seen it talked about here but a film adaptation comes out in november so I don't know if it'll get more attention.
Darkwing Duck
Manga
Out Of Placers
Gunnerkrigg Court
Scurry
Oren's Forge
TMNT-IDW run. It's actually quite good.
I've been picking up the digitals of Marvel's Alien and Predator individual series'. They actually are NOT melding them with mainstream/alternate reality Marvel titles (outside of the promo covers, which I liked) & keeping them in their respective universes. Almost harkens back to the Dark Horse era runs.
Rat Queens. Even if you hate medieval fantasy, give them a read.
anyone else have this problem? I legit love comics as a medium and don't have trouble enjoying recent stuff anons recommend in threads like this, but half the time I go into my local comic shop I end up staring at the wall of recent releases blankly before I end up buying something indie or old largely to be polite.
You sound autistic.
Well we are on Cinemaphile. Still, I suppose I could pay closer attention to the release calendar if I want to support local retailers
Well that's not weird at all. I love comics as a medium too, but at the same time I acknowledge that 99% of comics, especially recent ones, are just slop.
>but at the same time I acknowledge that 99% of comics, especially recent ones, are just slop.
Are you illiterate? He said he enjoys current stuff just fine so he's not like you.
>Are you illiterate? He said he enjoys current stuff just fine
Are YOU illiterate? He didn't say that at all. He said, quote:
>don't have trouble enjoying recent stuff anons recommend in threads like this
There's qualifiers in that sentence after the words "recent stuff". It has to be recent stuff "recommended by anons in threads like this". Not just any recent stuff.
But still recent stuff, you imbecile.
Sounds like you just refuse to give anything new a chance due to bias and unwillingness to do any research. It’s like walking to a bookstore and complaining that you ended up picking up a Worthsworth classics instead of anything new because you can’t be arsed to give a new releases a chance.
Thought experiment. Budget is $25, you have to spend it all on new / within the last month comics. What are you buying at the local comic store today?
DC?
Unstoppable Doom Patrol
Justice Society of America
Peace Maker Tries Hard
Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham
Marvel?
Loki
Avengers Inc.
Immortal Thor
Hades
Third Party?
Creepshow
Elvira in Monsterland
2000ad
Thanks for this (even though that's probably more than $25). Funnily enough I tried buying 2000ad at the comic shop last week and they were out but I didn't see or know that Creepshow was onto volume 2. Sweet. Of the others you listed, are there any particular ones you like and would recommend to others?
Outside of the one month limit? Sure.
King Kong: The Great War
Battle Action
Groo: In the Wild
Sgt. Rock vs the Army of the Dead (written by Bruce Campbell. Yes, THAT Bruce Campbell).
Love Everlasting
Brzrkr: Poetry of Madness
Hallow’s Eve
Junkyard Joe
I kinda liked aspects of West of Sundown but it veered to a direction I wasn’t particularly keen on.
Koschei in Hell
Mazebook
Did you hear what Eddie Gein done?
I think the most recent issue of Battle Action (#5) dropped on the 27th
I've know about Fred Perry and his legacy for years but never bothered to read Gold Digger, well that changed this week, I'm still very early on, but I'm having fun.
Operation Galactic Storm.
Other than that, not much. I've got a birthday coming and a brother who has a 6th sense when it comes to picking out the good shit even though he knows nothing about comics and doesn't want to read them. If I set him lose in a store he will take a look around and within 5 mins he will zero in on something that's at least 9/10 without fail. I don't get it.
>at least 9/10
I don't believe you.
Right now I'm reading Little Nemo on archive.org
I don't know the whole story, but this was massively influential right?
Yes. McCay had an influence on comics and animation.
Yeah, basically McCay was the first person who truly believed comics and animation were a form of art also you should totally the story behind the production hell of TMS Little Nemo movie, is fricking crazy to see how many people was involved on that
>In his later years, McCay grew resentful of what he viewed as the commercialization of animation. In 1927, when a group of young animators decided to host a dinner in his honor, McCay delivered a speech in which he stated, “Animation should be an art, that is how I conceived it … but as I see what you fellows have done with it is making it into a trade … not an art, but a trade.”
He sounds pretentious.
That's what people sound like to cattle.
That's a harsh verdict.
He seems more idealist than pretentious.
Such is the way of the artist.
>saw that sale
>talked myself out of it in the thread
>now feel like shit for missing out on it
The Complete Nemo is still there last I checked, but frick, £80 is too much. Especially when I could have gotten it for £40.
I'm sure they'll be another sale someday.
Got the complete book on sale, it's really great.
You were in /shelf/ too when that Taschen sale happened, huh?
I haven't gotten around to unpacking my copy yet, but it sure looks nice. I got the massive Krazy Kat book as well + a bunch of non Cinemaphile stuff. Fast delivery and excellent packaging as well, if they ever do another sale of this kind again I'm going to have to assemble another shelf...
This mf forgot he was Miracleman
What's Miracle Man's power?
Ripping off Captain Marvel with enough changes to avoid a lawsuit
His powers come from both Captain Marvels (Shazam and Mar-Vell).
Was reading The Walking Dead, namely the Deluxe version before shifting back to B&W. Never got past the prison before, since it always felt filled to the top with needless stupid BS, where characters intentionally acted dumb to keep the intrigue up each week, but color felt like a good excuse to try again. While I stand by my initial assessment from years and years and years ago, it really gets going after leaving the prison and really depended on the prison having happened the way it did, mostly. Ben's a good way to encapsulate things (even though he happened slightly after): really fukken dumb and sudden, feels like it happened for the sake of it, but man did it mean so much for Carl's growth
But I'm also looking for anything new for afterwards too. Trying to find something good with a big yet reasonable number of issues (namely 60 but can go upwards of 150), has actually finished, and is self-contained. Stuff like Y: The Last Man, Invincible, or Chew. Would really appreciate if anyone had any suggestions.
Well, in case you haven't read one of them yet: Preacher, Sandman, Hellboy/BPRD and The Goon all fit your bill.
Some of those have been on my radar or I have touched, but I appreciate the reminder for The Goon. Sandman I've also been meaning to check out because of his sick ass design, so to hear and then see he has the right amount of issues is noice. I'll check that out after TWD
I'm reading Stan and Kirbys fantastic four run
And 80's Iron Man
Denny O'Neill Iron Man or Micheline/Layton?
I miss the Geoff run so much bros.
I've been hyping this up so much because of all the posts like this one.
In my head, this run is an amazing, balls-to-the-wall space action series with amazing art. Almost like a western battle shonen, but not quite.
I hope I'm not disappointed. If it's anything like Infinite Crisis, I'll take a shit on all of you.
You should read it at least up until Sinestro Corps War ends. Rebirth and the early issues (like when Batman one) never were amazing to me but it does get very good around SCW and mostly maintains that quality to the end.
Finished this year!
> Alien - The Original Screenplay
Currently reading this year!
> Captain America - Sentinel of Liberty
> Captain America - Symbol of Truth
> Captain America (2023)
> Uncanny Avengers (2023)
> Damage
> The Authority (1999)
> Crime Syndicate (2021)
Going to start reading soon!
> The Immortal Thor
> Aquaman (2016)
> Ultimate Invasion
Going to re-read & finish soon!
> Ultimate Comics Ultimates (dropped it originally after the United we Stand arc)
> Ultimate Comics Hawkeye
> Rick Remender's Agent Venom run.
> Coates's 1st Black Panther volume (fell off after the 1st 8 issues which were great but I dropped all comics around then)
The Original X-Men run, which feels like absolutely nobody wanted to do
I've been reading Spider-Man from the beginning. Recently I got back my original comic book collection that I had taken away from me do to bad grades when I was 12 (unfortunately most of it was eaten away by rats and such) and in it was a copy of Spider-Man Essentials 1 that I got from Walden Books back in the day that I don't recall ever really reading
It's funny. Much like Thor and Flash, Spidey was never a character that I thought I'd particularly like or care for, but I love being proven wrong
Right now I'm up to the Romita era (just got done with issue 50) and I thought I'd be adverse to it after coming off of Dikto, but outside of maybe the cleaner looking artstyle, the transition was fairly seamless
One thing I noticed going from Ditko to Romita is that Peter's social life improved basically immediately. Romita's first issue has Peter becoming friends with Harry which kicks off his whole social status quo for ages
Bump
Bump
Why?
Might as well ask here: Which is the Captain America book where he turns into a grandpa and is it any good?
I like it, but I'm not telling a MCUgay how to find it.
Currently reading Soggy Landing - it's got super comfy art and cute character design, but the plot is about some miserable buttholes instigating a communist revolution or something. Worth checking out just for how weird it is, but probably not for everyone.
I dropped it once I saw the bear was female. Homophobic bullshit.
Been collecting old comics like furrlough. I like to see the many artists that worked on these.
This is what I got this week. I'm liking DC a lot more than Marvel right now, and really some of the Marvel books I'm buying I might drop soon.
I was more into DC as a kid, it took me growing up to have an appreciation for Marvel. I think the first Marvel book I touched was Gerber's Howard The Duck? It's been a firm favorite for years and it still makes me laugh
I've read some Howard and I really like it. But I actually didn't start out as a DC fan, but their comics just interest me more right now.
Even with Gotham War?
That is the major exception. I've enjoyed Zdarsky's Batman up to that point, and I'm planning to keep reading, but this Gotham War story is every bit as bad as people say.
Reading:
>Rob Liefeld's Supreme
>Kupperberg's Vigilante
>Nocenti's Daredevil
>Early Love and Rockets
>Strange Academy
>Creed: The Next Round
Caught up with:
>Teen Titans by Geoff Johns Omnibus
>Miracleman the Silver Age
>Punisher
>Guardians of the Galaxy
>Thor
>Batman
>Marvel Unleashed
>Penguin
>Brave and the Bold
>Second Coming: Trinity
>WildC.A.T.s
>Green Arrow
>Misfit Club For Girls
>Superman Lost
>Waller Vs Wildstorm
>Big Game
>Amazing Spider-Man
>Captain America
>Wonder Woman
>Li'l Rocket
>Cosmo the Spacedog
>Avengers Inc
>Batman and Robin
>Danger Street
>Justice Society of America
>Birds of Prey
I recently decided to start reading the entirety of the Spider-Man Comic series in order of their release.
Currently on Issue 46 of the original The Amazing Spider-Man series
Nice.
Current reading backlog of a recent haul I got.
Tom King's Batman pretty hit or miss finishing up The War of Jokes and Riddles it was meh apart from Kite Man's origin which wasn't too bad kind of wish I had read the issues alongside /vo/ when it was first serialised this run seemed like a glorious shitshow
Stop trying so hard to fit in. It's an enjoyable run, moreso on a uninterrupted reread. Cinemaphile's hysterics added nothing.
i enjoyed some parts at the start but it goes so hard to shit on that specific part and THE STUFF after that i got no good memories of the start anymore.
all it setups it fumbles, i am glad i never spent a cent on it.
I tried to read the Spider-Man's Masterworks.
The firsts chapters were words words words. I dismissed this as a thing of the era, but then I checked the most recent ones and it still was words words words but now in dialogue.
Stick to cartoons.
Wasn't reading a whole lot. I was working on a comic for some stuff here on Cinemaphile but I go lost in the sauce and missed the deadline. I'm still going to finish but when I do I'm going to read "Magic 7" that I've been postponing for a while.