What was the last comic or manga you purchased?
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The Buzzard - issue 2
Baron Von Shock - issue 1
Neonomicon - Issue 1
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FullMetal Alchemist volume 2
The Buzzard - issue 2
Baron Von Shock - issue 1
Neonomicon - Issue 1
Manga
FullMetal Alchemist volume 2
I would not pass over Garth Ennis so easily his run on The Punisher and Hellblazer were both amazing, plus the Boys is pretty entertaining in a B movie kinda way.GothmogII said:
Yeah, Transmetropolitan and Sandman are both great, and I need to complete the sets so there aren't gaps on my shelf. Empowered is kind of silly, but in the kind of way that's really likable, and I generally read them in one sitting as soon as I get a new one. It actually manages to develop some some sort of plot later while managing to keep the same general style/tone, which is good, or it wouldn't've held up for so many books on just running gags.GothmogII said:
In my opinion, Astro City is actually better than all of those (but not by much) if you haven't checked it out. The very first story in it, which is all of maybe half a dozen pages long, was enough to get me to pick up the entire series and stick with it, even with the painfully long wait between releases sometimes (apparently production is slow and unpredictable when your main author has/is recovering from mercury poisoning).
As far as The Boys, some people really like it, and some people really hate it. A friend of mine convinced me to read the first book, and while it's very over the top and frequently into the realm of offensive or gross, I still kind of like the way it completely mocks and destroys everything about superheros, and it can be funny if you don't get bothered by stuff like that. It's kind of the exact opposite of Astro City in that sense; where Astro City celebrates all the good things about older superhero comics and uses them as a way to tell a new type of story about what life would actually be like for people in that sort of world (kind of a reconstruction after the deconstruction of the genre in the 80s/90s dark and gritty stuff that got way overdone), The Boys is more of a re-deconstruction that goes for a second round of just smashing the entire history of comic book superheros in the face repeatedly. It's...not for everyone. Heh.
Eternals, vol. 3- written by Neil Gaiman.
Got 'em at a friends garage sale- they're fantastic! But then, I think I love everything Neil Gaiman is associated with
Got 'em at a friends garage sale- they're fantastic! But then, I think I love everything Neil Gaiman is associated with
Claymore volumes 10 and 11; now have 1-12. Waiting for my Borders gift card to arrive, so that I can get 13-15.
None in recent memory, there's nowhere you can buy decent comics around here and even if I had any interest in manga I'd have to get a bus over to a place that's about an hour away that fellow Sydneysiders might know as Chatswood and try to avoid the stares.
Mind you I did read the first few issues of the walking dead a week or two ago, I wish there was a place I could read more of it though.
Mind you I did read the first few issues of the walking dead a week or two ago, I wish there was a place I could read more of it though.
I recently finished the Saga of Darren Shan, or Cirque Du Freak. It was by buying the first book of the manga version that I got into it.
I strongly recommend it to anyone who likes dark stories with blood and tears.
I strongly recommend it to anyone who likes dark stories with blood and tears.