Comic Books

[jump]

Snyder's current Batman stuff is mindblowing - and I wouldnt even be the biggest fan of the character.

I'm really enjoying his run, loved the Black Mirror arc and the current Death In The Family is fucking brillaint. He's become one of those writers that I will buy simply because his name is attached.

[AcademicPistol]

Some of my best work in football mags was in those years! Football memorabilia is worth money 50 years down the line - if it's mint. Look at the demand for Charles Buchan's Football Monthly - check this site: http://www.soccerbilia.co.uk/

Edited to add: Bloody hell one of the mags I did (Striker) is on there at £3.95 an issue - I had everyone of them until I moved house, plus masses of SuperReds, Liverpool Monthlies and the like

I think I have a few Strikers from that period as well, I might save them until I become a grandad then

[5co77ie]

I think I have a few Strikers from that period as well, I might save them until I become a grandad then

I could sign a few of the ones that I edited - bound to treble the value!

[Wooderson]

I'm really enjoying his run, loved the Black Mirror arc and the current Death In The Family is fucking brillaint. He's become one of those writers that I will buy simply because his name is attached.

Agreed! And I'm not even really that interested in Batman. I've read all the classics and some less than classics.

The aul pull list is getting bigger and bigger at this stage. 23 different ongoings and trade-waiting on rakes of stuff.

The last week for examply just blinding. Saga for example - HOW GOOD is that book?!

[Wooderson]

Anyone who likes/liked reading comics should give "Saga" a go. Its glorious in ever way.

[5co77ie]

this one?

http://travel.saga.co.uk/holidays/landing-pages/holidays/mediaLibrary/Images/Saga/Landing%20pages/Aurasma/new-brochure2.ashx?w=280&h=386&as=1

[kaosmark2]

Anyone who likes/liked reading comics should give "Saga" a go. Its glorious in ever way.

What style is it? What's it similar to? Does it use any traditional characters?

I'm going to repeat my recommendation of Sweetooth. It's overtaken Walking Dead as my favourite currently running series now.

[Wooderson]

What style is it? What's it similar to? Does it use any traditional characters?

I'm going to repeat my recommendation of Sweetooth. It's overtaken Walking Dead as my favourite currently running series now.

Romeo & Juliet meets Star Wars scripted by Tarantino.

[kaosmark2]

Romeo & Juliet meets Star Wars scripted by Tarantino.

Ooooh, it's written by Brian K Vaughan. I loved Y: The Last Man.

Ordered the 1st trade. I'll let you know what I think.

[Wooderson]

Sweet. Don't think you'll regret that one.

[Wooderson]

Interesting stuff from Sequart (and Comicsbeat) on the tiff between Moore and Morrison.

http://sequart.org/magazine/17235/on-the-moore-morrison-feud-literary-borrowings-and-the-anxiety-of-influence/

[jump]

Interesting stuff from Sequart (and Comicsbeat) on the tiff between Moore and Morrison.

http://sequart.org/m...y-of-influence/

It's much simplier than that, they are both fucking crazy.

[kaosmark2]

They are both fucking crazy. Morrison winds me up though, while Moore just entertains me (mostly). The preachy self-introduction to the first Animal Man trade is disgusting and made me want to slap Morrison. After that I don't think I can bring myself to buy another trade by him, despite how good the best of his work can get.

[Wooderson]

Have you read Morrison's riposte to Moore? He tears the beardy old git a new one.

I say this as the unapologetic Morrison überfanboy that I am.

Moore is a creep.

Edited November 26, 2012 by Wooderson

[jump]

They are both creeps in the best possible way, one is a paranoid anarchist witch and the other takes shit loads of drugs to talk with God whilst asking his reader to literally w*nk over his comics.

[kaosmark2]

Moore is a creep. He has a twisted obsession with using rape as a plot device.

However, he's a far more consistent writer than Morrison. Morrison's peak matches Moore's, but he spaces out, gets incredibly referential to things way beyond the current run and diverts into tangents that are exaggeratedly weird for the sake of trying to show himself as superior.

Edit: Jump said it better.

Edited November 26, 2012 by kaosmark2

[Wooderson]

Morrison has an endearing level of tenderness and sensitivity that comes through in his writing. I fail to see any of this in Moore's work. It seems to me so devoid of warmth so as to make Miller's work look like something Bob Zemekis cooked up.

Yes, Morrison is an egomaniac. But he is giving of himself. Supergods is a profoundly honest work.

I think Moore is a pretty sad and self deluded shambles at this stage.

Edited November 26, 2012 by Wooderson

[kaosmark2]

Morrison has an endearing level of tenderness and sensitivity that comes through in his writing. I fail to see any of this in Moore's work. It seems to me so devoid of warmth so as to make Miller's work look like something Bob Zemekis cooked up.

Yes, Morrison is an egomaniac. But he is giving of himself. Supergods is a profoundly honest work.

I think Moore is a pretty sad and self deluded shambles at this stage.

Like the endless preaching about animal rights that pervades through most of his work?

Swamp Thing has more bittersweet tenderness than I've read in everything Morrison's done put together. Hell Neonomicon has some sensitivity and that's just plain twisted.

[Wooderson]

Admittedly Moore's "Swamp Thing" is not something I've read.

"Neonomicon" is awful rubbish - like everything on Avatar Press (!). Its nearly as bad as "Lost Girls".

[Wooderson]

"Chew" hits issue #30 this week pop-pickers.

Couldnt recommend it highly enough. This is a perfect jumping on point aswell.

[kaosmark2]

Moore's Swamp Thing run is one of my favourite comic runs. Not quite Sandman or Preacher but still brilliant.

Neonomicon really entertained me. I thought it was an amusing take on Lovecraftian tales in a modern horror way.

[jump]

The Moore vs Morrison argument would be a lot better if it was about which one is crazier rather than which one is the better writer.

I'm actually buying the collected Swamp Thing editions at the moment.

Edited November 26, 2012 by jump

[kaosmark2]

The Moore vs Morrison argument would be a lot better if it was about which one is crazier rather than which one is the better writer.

I'm actually buying the collected Swamp Thing editions at the moment.

Both are batshit. Gaiman's better than either.

Have fun with that. I love Swamp Thing so much.

[Wooderson]

I've read 50/60% of Sandman. First 5 trades. Dunno why but it never really clicked. Its one of the only "canon" runs that I've only half of on the shelf. Normally if I get the first trade/hardcover I'll get them all. But Sandman just sits there sneering at me every day.

[Wooderson]

Bar "Good Omens", which I realise is only partly written by him, and the first half of "Sandman" I don't think I've read anything else by Gaiman. His stuff doesnt grab me, lads, sorry. Don't have the patience for it or something.