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Halb

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Sunday 26th June 2011
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Y282 said:
wold newton is proper geek territory.

moore is the pinnacle, read league of extraordinary gentlemen if you want something with a LOT of layering and references. very, very good. 1969 version is out imminently.
I have vol I&II, and Century...I am gonna have to pay a visit to Forbidden Planet to get the Black Dossier.

Y282

20,566 posts

171 months

Sunday 26th June 2011
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black dossier is mental as the day is long. the first time you read it you might be a little disappointed, but you'll keep going back to it over and over and suddenly it all clicks like a magic eye picture. i wasn't mad on century 1910 but i'm assuming when all 3 centurys are read together it'll be a bit special.

i'm a bit worried he keeps hinting at the dark side of the moon, 'cos moore seems to suggest a lot of stuff that ends up coming true. the start of black dossier shows britain after the labour years, returning to free enterprise. it's VERY apt.

Halb

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Sunday 26th June 2011
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Really? Can you explain what you mean by dark side of the moon please?

Y282

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171 months

Sunday 26th June 2011
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yeah, at the end of league 1910 he has part of a short story about mina travelling to the moon. prospero asks her to do it and alludes to there being something there that he doesn't think mankind should now about. maybe something to do with the nature of ficticious characters and how they're real in that world?

Halb

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182 months

Sunday 26th June 2011
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H is an unusual fella
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Moore#Religion_a...

What stuff has come true that he has written aboot?

Don

28,377 posts

283 months

Sunday 26th June 2011
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KaraK said:
I've read the odd graphic novel here and there - Watchmen still being the standout if I'm honest!
Watchmen was the first graphic novel I have ever read. I read it only recently when the movie became news.

Stunning.

Totally different experience to a book, or a comic or anything else. A different art form entirely. I am quite in awe of what awaits in the genre to be honest...

Y282

20,566 posts

171 months

Sunday 26th June 2011
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Halb said:
H is an unusual fella
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Moore#Religion_a...

What stuff has come true that he has written aboot?
are you canadian?

i look back at a lot of his v for vendetta ideas and watchmen, come to that. the breadth of ideas and theories he uses/creates always seem to end up being mirrored in the real world. media perception/control, military power struggles, hero worship. he scares the st out of me.

and then he goes and does that simpsons cameo. they must have been geeking out over having him there.

vdubbin

2,165 posts

196 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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Warren Ellis' FreakAngels is worth a read, it's free and online.

http://www.freakangels.com/

Halb

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182 months

Wednesday 29th June 2011
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Well Preacher vol 1 and Y:The Last Man:vol 2 are on their way.

Y282 said:
and then he goes and does that simpsons cameo. they must have been geeking out over having him there.
Did you catch him on Stewart Lee's show, that was a curious little cameo.

Y282

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171 months

Wednesday 29th June 2011
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Halb said:
Well Preacher vol 1 and Y:The Last Man:vol 2 are on their way.

Y282 said:
and then he goes and does that simpsons cameo. they must have been geeking out over having him there.
Did you catch him on Stewart Lee's show, that was a curious little cameo.
st, i missed that. the comedy vehicle?

Shinobi

5,072 posts

189 months

Wednesday 29th June 2011
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WE3 is a very good book,I tend to mainly read Marvel stuff but have stopped recently due to losing interest but I usually read anything that involves Captain America as I have almost every issue of it.

Halb

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182 months

Wednesday 29th June 2011
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Y282 said:
st, i missed that. the comedy vehicle?
Yip, he was pretending to be a historian and they went on a dig in a WW2 bunker, after the secret that Churchill was really a pig...bizarre.biggrin
Shinobi said:
WE3 is a very good book,I tend to mainly read Marvel stuff but have stopped recently due to losing interest but I usually read anything that involves Captain America as I have almost every issue of it.
Was a huge Marvel fan, but they kill off characters just to reuse them...ok once is fair enough, but they do it over and over.
I do still buy MGNs because they have good enclosed stories, like WWHulk, or Civil War, the Ultimates stuff is good as well.

tractorguy

765 posts

158 months

Thursday 30th June 2011
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I've got a few graphic novels and I do like to re-read them every now and again. I've got J O'Barrs The Crow, Alan Moores V For Vendetta, the Dark Horse Terminator novels and The Initial D novels up to volume 33 (you cant seem to get the last few at all over here).

mrdelmonti

1,420 posts

180 months

Thursday 30th June 2011
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My favourite is Locke and Key, can't remember how I was introduced to it though.

Halb

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53,012 posts

182 months

Thursday 30th June 2011
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I've got a few old DH Terminator ones, not read them for yearsbiggrin

Read one called A God Somewhere last month, shows what would really happen if a human got superpowers....basically go nuts.biggrin

series71

2 posts

152 months

Friday 1st July 2011
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Batman v Judge Dredd were a great trilogy.

Lefty

16,132 posts

201 months

Friday 1st July 2011
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300 is good.

Halb

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53,012 posts

182 months

Thursday 28th July 2011
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Had to put Y:The Last Man down for a while as I have become obsessed with reading A Song of Fire and Ice.
But I think it should be the next one to get The Walking Dead treatment.

Y282

20,566 posts

171 months

Thursday 28th July 2011
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league 1969 is out shortly, a lot more images are starting to leak out online now. looks bloody good.

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

185 months

Thursday 28th July 2011
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Another vote for Preacher.

Some of the Judge Dredd long stories are always worth a read: I have Block Mania/The Apocalypse War as a bound volume, also Necropolis, top stuff.