Graphic Novels

[RizzoTheRat]

VinceFox said:

Im working my way through them now. It's a breathtaking body of work and grows into something quite serious fairly quickly. Cant believe i didnt get into it at the time.

Not read them in years, think a mate has the set, I may need to borrow them again at some point.

[Nightmare]

to clarify guys...cerebus or Sandman? haven't actually read/seen cerebus.....

[Johnnytheboy]

Pesty said:

I oike the one where the two hick cousins? Get their own little story

Ill have to dig them out.

Is that when they capture the man, woman and dog from the crashed plane? Jody seduces the woman and TC seduces the dog, both with the line:

"Nice night..."



I have that in a volume with the story of how the Saint of Killers came to be - now that is an excellent bit of work.

[RizzoTheRat]

Nightmare said:

to clarify guys...cerebus or Sandman? haven't actually read/seen cerebus.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebus_the_Aardvark

[VinceFox]

The first 25 episodes of cerebus are ok but nothing major, but stick with them. 25 onwards the quality leaps up and up.

It's the sort of thing i suspect you could get all of them on cd off an auction site, possibly.

[DMC2]

The Dark Knight Returns was always a favourite of mine. And Watchmen obviously.

[Nightmare]

thought watchmen was pretty average

[RizzoTheRat]

VinceFox said:

The first 25 episodes of cerebus are ok but nothing major, but stick with them. 25 onwards the quality leaps up and up.

Topical too, doesn't he become pope at one point?

[VinceFox]

RizzoTheRat said:

VinceFox said:

The first 25 episodes of cerebus are ok but nothing major, but stick with them. 25 onwards the quality leaps up and up.

Topical too, doesn't he become pope at one point?

Yes and he's a right cu.... Oh.

[Halb]

Mods, can this be shifted to What The Dicke...I mean the books forum please?

[Pesty]

Johnnytheboy said:

Pesty said:

I oike the one where the two hick cousins? Get their own little story

Ill have to dig them out.

Is that when they capture the man, woman and dog from the crashed plane? Jody seduces the woman and TC seduces the dog, both with the line:

"Nice night..."



I have that in a volume with the story of how the Saint of Killers came to be - now that is an excellent bit of work.

Yeah that's the one. The humour in preacher is spot on for my tastes .

[Johnnytheboy]

Pesty said:

Yeah that's the one. The humour in preacher is spot on for my tastes .

Garth Ennis can be really good or really bad for me. When he's writing his own characters he's very good. When he writes for established characters, not so good.

[onomatopoeia]

Currently have subscriptions running for the following comics :

Ten Grand
Star Wars (by Brian Wood)
Saga
The Star Wars (no.1 hasn't been published yet)

Just added Sandman : Overture to the list, since Gaiman's original Sandman series is what started me reading comics and IMO nothing in the genre I've read since surpasses it.

[Halb]

onomatopoeia said:

Just added Sandman : Overture to the list, since Gaiman's original Sandman series is what started me reading comics and IMO nothing in the genre I've read since surpasses it.

Read Lucifer?

[VinceFox]

onomatopoeia said:

Currently have subscriptions running for the following comics :

Ten Grand
Star Wars (by Brian Wood)
Saga
The Star Wars (no.1 hasn't been published yet)

Just added Sandman : Overture to the list, since Gaiman's original Sandman series is what started me reading comics and IMO nothing in the genre I've read since surpasses it.

Must admit, The Star Wars looks interesting.

[onomatopoeia]

Halb said:

onomatopoeia said:

Just added Sandman : Overture to the list, since Gaiman's original Sandman series is what started me reading comics and IMO nothing in the genre I've read since surpasses it.

Read Lucifer?

No. Is it worth a look?

[Halb]

onomatopoeia said:

No. Is it worth a look?

I love it. Collected the whole thing. Always liked Lucifer from the Sandman, and he gets good stories in his own thing, the Mythos is very well crafted.

[onomatopoeia]

Will give it a go, thank you!

ETA - gives me an excuse for a trip to Forbidden Planet this weekend.

[IainT]

For anyone who's a fan of Joe Abercrombie's First Law novels and hasn't spotted there's a 'webcomic' graphic novel that's pretty good. Captures teh plot of the book pretty well...

http://www.firstlawcomic.com/archive/

[Halb]

The Game of Thrones GN looks pretty decent too.