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artu
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posted June 02, 2013 10:25 PM |
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Edited by artu at 22:31, 02 Jun 2013.
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Recommend me good comics
A week ago I got a 128 GB iPad (old one was 32 GB and it was full to the brim) and finally I have enough room to use this great app called Comic Zeal, which looks fantastic when you put in a good collection:
I uploaded all Spider-Man issues for nostalgic reasons, I loved it as a kid. I also uploaded The Walking Dead, Serenity, Sin City and some other Frank Miller stuff, Y - The Last Man (which I already finished, it's a really fun story, "something" happens and all male humans on earth suddenly die except our hero). But the thing is, I haven't been reading comics for quite a while now and I realized I missed it, yet the stuff I know is all from my early teens and once the nostalgia is fed, it doesn't do it for me any more. So any recommendations? It doesn't have to be very serious stuff, good ol' fun will do, just not too kiddy stuff.
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Elvin
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posted June 02, 2013 11:01 PM |
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If graphic novels count I enjoyed the watchmen, V for vendetta, the killing joke, Asterios Polyp, all for different reasons. Also you can't go wrong with Deadpool  
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Vlaad
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posted June 13, 2013 12:54 AM |
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Edited by Vlaad at 03:40, 13 Jun 2013.
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Yeah, Asterios Polyp is perhaps the best graphic novel in the last decade. I can't recommend it enough. Anything else by Mazzucchelli is awesome too (Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: Year One, Rubber Blanket shorts, City of Glass).
As for Frank Miller, not all Sin City stuff is great but the early volumes are. Also his Daredevil run as well as Batman: Dark Knight Returns and 300. You can skip Batman: Dark Knight Strikes Again and Holy Terror.
Alan Moore's Watchmen is obligatory, and his Superman stories Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow and For the Man Who Has Everything as well as Batman: The Killing Joke are not half bad for the superhero genre. I loved his Top Ten and Tom Strong comics too.
Alex Ross's Marvels and Kingdom Come are also considered classics. If you like those, check also Earth X, which he co-created.
For lighter stuff, see Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier, in which the author revisits DC's Silver Age.
If you're looking for new comics, try Mark Millar's Ultimates (1 and 2 but not Loeb's 3!), which put a modern spin on the Avengers. He also did Marvel's Civil War.
Before that title you might want to check Brian Michael Bendis's Avengers: Disassembled and New Avengers storyarcs, which is where the "new" Marvel started. Later he went on to write Secret Invasion, but be sure to get all the tie-ins for that one... Much more interesting than the main "event". The saga continues with Dark Avengers and finally ends in Siege.
Grant Morrison and Joss Whedon (of Buffy and Firefly fame) had solid runs on the X-Men. The former also wrote All Star Superman, probably the best Superman series ever.
Hulk has been good lately, with Planet Hulk and World War Hulk arcs. I've enjoyed the Red Hulk myself, but please don't tell anyone.
Spider-Man has been horrible since the aforementioned Civil War, with such blasphemous stories as One More Day. However, you might like the Superior Spider-Man tale, in which Spidey and Dock Ock switch bodies and then the real Spidey dies (*gasp*).
Green Lantern was good since Rebirth, especially in Sinestro Corps War, which led to The Blackest Night, where you should drop it.
For a completely new character, check Invincible by Robert Kirkman (author of the Walking Dead).
Warren Ellis's Authority is yet another new take on superheroes.
Umbrella Academy was fun too.
Aside from superheroes, I'd recommend:
- Preacher (a must reading for an anti-theist such as yourself)
- Bone (Disney meets Tolkien)
- Fables (fairy tale characters in the real world)
- Big Questions (birds talking... a lot)
- Paying for it (one guy's experience with prostitues)
- Skim (growing up)
- Fun Home (growing up gay)
- Persepolis (growing up in Iran)
- American Born Chinese (growing up immigrant)
- Black Hole (growing up in the twilight zone)
- Ordinary Victories (midlife crisis)
- Maus (Holocaust)
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 1 & 2 (pulp fun)
- Pride of Baghdad (a pack of lions in bombed Iraq)
- Boulevard of Broken Dreams (cartoons and nightmares)
- almost anything by Daniel Clowes
- anything by Robert Crumb (well, anything but Genesis)
As for European comics, I find it hard to enjoy them on my tablet because they're larger in size, but am reading (or trying to) Leo's Aldebaran saga.
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artu
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
My BS sensor is tingling again
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posted June 13, 2013 03:53 AM |
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Thank you very much Vlaad. Your reply is so enthusiastic and full of detail, I'll almost fell ashamed if I don't read them all.
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Elvin
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posted June 13, 2013 06:15 AM |
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Edited by Elvin at 06:18, 13 Jun 2013.
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Speaking of European comics try Asterix, Tintin, Lucky Luke, Valerian and Laureline, Thorgal..
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artu
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My BS sensor is tingling again
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posted June 13, 2013 06:29 AM |
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Edited by artu at 06:31, 13 Jun 2013.
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The first three are very popular here, to the extent that almost any kid reading comics finish them by the age of 13-14 anyway. Lucky Luke (Red Kit in here) is additionally famous since back in the eighties, the prime minister Turgut Ozal, when asked by a journalist what books he reads, replied Red Kit. Was he being sarcastic, we'll never know.
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