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The more I watch Linkara ripping bad comics to shreds, the more I feel like writing comics.
It's just... he'll point out that a plotline is really dumb, and I promptly think "He's right! It would work so much better if they started at the museum!" and before I know it, I'm mentally rewriting the entire thing and making it awesome.
Linkara also leaves me wanting to frantically read as many good comics as I can get my hands on - which it a pity, because it's really hard to find comics I like enough to spend $30 on. (Welcome to Australia, home of EXPENSIVE EVERYTHING.)
I know a lot about comics, but, actually, I haven't read very many. In fact, so far the comics I've read are:
- Asterix (fun, and I really should read them again now that I'm old enough to get the jokes)
- Tintin (most unrealistic ways to get out of danger EVER)
- Ultimate Spiderman (really fun - although I preferred the movies)
- Ultimate X-Men (interesting, but not enough to keep reading)
- Buffy season 8 (horrible in every conceivable way)
- Runaways (absolutely excellent, until they changed writers - Joss Whedon should seriously never be allowed near comics EVER AT ALL)
- Y The Last Man (kinda boring)
- Marvel 1602 (truly wonderful, but required an enormous amount of comic history knowledge)
- random issues from the Silver Age (usually featuring at least one person turning into a monkey, and really corny jokes)
So far, the ones that I consider to be worth at least $30 are Ultimate Spiderman, and Runaways.
...and I can't just buy a random comic in the hope that it might be worthwhile. I've tried that - and it never is worthwhile.
I'd also like to try Marvel Zombies and more of the Ultimate series, but that's all I've got. Anyone else have suggestions?
It's just... he'll point out that a plotline is really dumb, and I promptly think "He's right! It would work so much better if they started at the museum!" and before I know it, I'm mentally rewriting the entire thing and making it awesome.
Linkara also leaves me wanting to frantically read as many good comics as I can get my hands on - which it a pity, because it's really hard to find comics I like enough to spend $30 on. (Welcome to Australia, home of EXPENSIVE EVERYTHING.)
I know a lot about comics, but, actually, I haven't read very many. In fact, so far the comics I've read are:
- Asterix (fun, and I really should read them again now that I'm old enough to get the jokes)
- Tintin (most unrealistic ways to get out of danger EVER)
- Ultimate Spiderman (really fun - although I preferred the movies)
- Ultimate X-Men (interesting, but not enough to keep reading)
- Buffy season 8 (horrible in every conceivable way)
- Runaways (absolutely excellent, until they changed writers - Joss Whedon should seriously never be allowed near comics EVER AT ALL)
- Y The Last Man (kinda boring)
- Marvel 1602 (truly wonderful, but required an enormous amount of comic history knowledge)
- random issues from the Silver Age (usually featuring at least one person turning into a monkey, and really corny jokes)
So far, the ones that I consider to be worth at least $30 are Ultimate Spiderman, and Runaways.
...and I can't just buy a random comic in the hope that it might be worthwhile. I've tried that - and it never is worthwhile.
I'd also like to try Marvel Zombies and more of the Ultimate series, but that's all I've got. Anyone else have suggestions?
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Gabrielle
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And Girl Genius makes me happy, three days a week, with remarkable art, an occasionally bogglingly weird story, steampunk, and mad science.
The Sandman series is excellent, with a note that it's Neil Gaiman and he's occasionally clueless. (That series in particular has one instance of trans* fail that makes me ragey, but overall it's still really good.)
If you can stand a great deal of political insight and Brave-New-World style dystopia mixed with yr. regularly scheduled vulgarity and violence, Transmetropolitan is amazing. But vulgar. And violent. It's Warren Ellis doing what he does best.
.. and I see you've already read 1602. *g*
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Thanks for the recs!
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On the DC side I'd suggest Blue Beetle. Jaime is a Mexican-American teenager who picks up a scarab one day and discovers that it is actually a piece of alien technology, which fuses to his spine and gives him superpowers, which he uses to fight crime. He's unusual among comics heroes in having a very supportive family and friends who know his secret identity.
I'm a massive fan of Batman stuff but I'm not entirely sure where to start reccing, there is way too much awesome!
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(Anonymous) 2011-03-03 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)Simon (or simonf on LJ)
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Gabrielle
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a) the anime
b) the other anime
c) the manga
Because I've been wanting to check out that story for a while (which, come to think of it, is partly your fault), but I've never quite figured out where to start.
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:)
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Second the Sandman rec, although I've actually only read the first two volumes. It's big epic stuff with the Gaiman imagination ramped up to 11. (It doesn't start finding its feet until the end of the first volume, though; it gets much stronger in volume 2.)
Also, I'm told FreakAngels is good, although I haven't dug into it yet - post-apocalypse, grumpy twenty-somethings with superpowers, and FREE.
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- Love and Rockets (CANNOT RECOMMEND THIS HARD ENOUGH - I prefer Jaime's storyline)
- Sandman
- Blankets (by Craig Thompson)
- Transmetropolitan
- Lost Girls
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I agree about Joss Whedon. He should never be allowed near comics again. I didn't like his stint on Astonishing X-Men either. It was boring.
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Sandman
Hellblazer
Sin City (violence warning)
Any Alan Moore (Warning: Lost Girls has several potential triggers including explicit graphic sex)
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Second, Scott McCloud's Zot! is worth taking a look at - it's been fairly recently collected in book form. It's arty and black and white, while still retaining a great deal of the form and feeling of a traditional superhero comic.
There was a further rec, but I can't remember the title, alas. Perhaps it will come to me.
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Good luck!
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