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Green Magnesium 01.09.2009 07:36 PM

Has anyone checked out the Berlin series at all? I have yet to get around to it.

It's been around for quite some time. Two volumes (of a planned trilogy) are on the market.

me. 01.09.2009 09:48 PM

 


Rutu Modan - Exit Wounds

and here's an online graphic blog - which i've not read yet!.

http://modan.blogs.nytimes.com/

me. 01.09.2009 10:04 PM

and also - The Murder of the Terminal Patient..

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/magazine/...dan.html/?_r=1

Toilet & Bowels 01.10.2009 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Phlegmscope
I'm bummed that I can't find any of the stuff mentioned here in the libraries.


a lot of comics get scanned and are available to download as .pdf, .cbr or .cbz files via file sharing or torrent programs

Phlegmscope 01.10.2009 12:29 PM

A lot of everything is available for download, but as for reading stuff, I sort of want to keep it separate from computer. I did have some comics on my old computer, which has been fucked long since.

This one was great, but it's not available in english:

 

EVOLghost 01.10.2009 01:26 PM

Last graphic novel I read was V for vendetta. I've been meaning to pick up the Superman novel where he fights doomsday.

Florya 01.10.2009 07:08 PM

I haven't read a comic for a very long time.
Used to enjoy Tim Vigil's 'Faust'

Dead-Air 01.10.2009 07:26 PM

It's weird, because I haven't really read any comics or graphic novels in years, however I'm currently being flooded with them to read or reread.

I checked out Volume 3 of the Dark Horse reprints of the early Conans from the library because the stories that Michael Moorcock plotted that have Elric in them are in that and I've never read them.

Meanwhile, The Science Fiction Message Board is having a Group Book Read of Alan Moore's classic Watchmen which I've already read, but don't own. I'm still waiting for my copy to arrive at the library.

Finally, out of the blue, a friend mails me a copy of Frank Miller's Ronin for some reason. Might have been a birthday or Christmas gift, but there was no note. I never did read it though, so it looks like I'll be doing three graphic novels in a row.

chairman of the bored 01.10.2009 07:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Green Magnesium
BLACK HOLE


how is this? i read in excert in mcsweeney's quarterly...the comic one...and it was cool, but not enough so to make me pick it up

Sonic Youth 37 01.10.2009 07:37 PM

I finished Watchmen this morning at about 3am. Borders is having a buy 2 G/N get 1 free thing, I think. So I'll be picking up some more. I'm thinking Batman:The Killing Joke and Batman: Long Halloween.

demonrail666 01.10.2009 07:38 PM

What did you think of Watchmen?

Sonic Youth 37 01.10.2009 07:39 PM

It was beyond excellent. I had never read a comic before and I just loved every bit of it. The style, the book/story excerpts for each chapter, the framing and color are astounding, but the writing might be the best part. Totally did not see the ending coming.

demonrail666 01.10.2009 07:46 PM

I agree. Here's an interview you might like, where Alan Moore talks about it.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qKebCtCTbCA

Sonic Youth 37 01.10.2009 07:55 PM

Wow, I never realized Alan Moore had written so many things. I might have to pick those up instead of the Long Halloween

Dead-Air 01.10.2009 08:07 PM

Alan Moore's Swamp Things were among the best regular comics I ever read (though so was his successor Rick Veitch's run!)

demonrail666 01.11.2009 11:31 AM

Yeah, Swamp Thing is great. V For Vendetta has dated a bit now but is in lots of ways my favourite of his.

phoenix 01.12.2009 06:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Sonic Youth 37
I bought Watchmen two days ago and am absorbed in it, about halfway finished. It is the first cb/gn I have ever read, but I can tell it'll be far from the last.


It's funny how when they reach you, they REALLY reach you. A good graphic novel can engross me the same way a really good piece of lit can. Maybe this is due to my predisposition to the visual though? hmm/

phoenix 01.12.2009 06:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phlegmscope
A lot of everything is available for download, but as for reading stuff, I sort of want to keep it separate from computer. I did have some comics on my old computer, which has been fucked long since.

This one was great, but it's not available in english:

 


I dont think I could stand to read comics/GN on the computer... the fun of slouching down in a really comfy chair and walking around with the thing until you finish it.. is gone.

phoenix 01.12.2009 06:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
Yeah, anything by Charles Burns is great. My favourite comic ever though is Love & Rockets.

 



yes

phoenix 01.12.2009 06:20 AM

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Originally Posted by floatingslowly
I'm too old for comic books. I only watch cartoons.



nyerr so start an anime/toon thread. gtfo. <3


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