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Post by SnowLeopard » Wed Mar 05, 2014 6:25 pm

Anyone read comics? I was thinking of starting. Bought a couple today.
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Post by Robert_S » Wed Mar 05, 2014 6:37 pm

Rarely.

The last paper comics I bought was Jhonen Vasquez' I Feel Sick.
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Post by Audley Strange » Wed Mar 05, 2014 6:48 pm

SnowLeopard wrote:Anyone read comics? I was thinking of starting. Bought a couple today.
For decades. I'd recommend not bothering, except perhaps for 2000A.D. since Judge Dredd was always a hoot other than that though the superhero medium is increasingly stale and attempts to make it "right on" have left their main audience (35 y/o and above aspie white males) gurning for movie adaptations they can nit-pick.

Some of the writing is still fun, but in the end not worth it. If you have a vehicle and the inclination come down to Glasgow and I'll give you a shitload for free. I have thousands I want rid of but no-one else, not even hospitals want them.
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Post by JimC » Wed Mar 05, 2014 8:19 pm

I was a big Marvel fan in my youth. Sold 'em all ages ago...
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Post by Rum » Wed Mar 05, 2014 8:52 pm

Ditto JimC! I had Issue #1 copies of SpiderMan, The Fantastic Four, Thor, The Avengers and a couple of others, all amongst my collection of several hundred comics. I dumped them never thinking they would be worth a fortune now! :cry:

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Post by tattuchu » Wed Mar 05, 2014 9:30 pm

Still love comics but haven't read them in years. The comics industry, or at least the independent/indie/alternative/whatever portion of it, collapsed twenty years or so ago. All my favorite creators stopped coming out with stuff, so I gave comics up about the same time I got into video games. No idea what's being published these days :dunno:
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Post by Pappa » Wed Mar 05, 2014 11:34 pm

I used to read 2000 AD and Judge Dredd many moons ago, and occasionally Heavy Metal, but not a lot since then.

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Post by JimC » Wed Mar 05, 2014 11:36 pm

I did like the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers...
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Post by PsychoSerenity » Thu Mar 06, 2014 12:03 am

I vaguely remember when I was quite young having had a copy each of The Beano and The Dandy. I think my Nan bought them for me. I remember Dennis the Menace - but he was on TV anyway. I also remember Desperate Dan the wild west man who ate pies with entire cows in them with the horns sticking out the top.
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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Thu Mar 06, 2014 12:17 am

SnowLeopard wrote:Anyone read comics? I was thinking of starting. Bought a couple today.
I would recommend Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics - available as 10 compiled books - to anyone. But comics are like any format: Most of it is either crap or not to your taste. And, also like any format, there are some examples that are simply breathtaking and could not have been presented better any other way.
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Post by Audley Strange » Thu Mar 06, 2014 1:34 am

Xamonas Chegwé wrote:
SnowLeopard wrote:Anyone read comics? I was thinking of starting. Bought a couple today.
I would recommend Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics - available as 10 compiled books - to anyone. But comics are like any format: Most of it is either crap or not to your taste. And, also like any format, there are some examples that are simply breathtaking and could not have been presented better any other way.
Yeah that's a good call. (Except a Game of You which was dreadful).

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Post by pErvinalia » Thu Mar 06, 2014 2:23 am

I don't really understand comics for adults..
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Post by JimC » Thu Mar 06, 2014 2:37 am

rEvolutionist wrote:I don't really understand comics for adults..
:console:

When you are a little older, perhaps...

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Post by pErvinalia » Thu Mar 06, 2014 2:41 am

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Re: Comics!

Post by tattuchu » Thu Mar 06, 2014 2:46 am

Audley Strange wrote:
Xamonas Chegwé wrote:
SnowLeopard wrote:Anyone read comics? I was thinking of starting. Bought a couple today.
I would recommend Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics - available as 10 compiled books - to anyone. But comics are like any format: Most of it is either crap or not to your taste. And, also like any format, there are some examples that are simply breathtaking and could not have been presented better any other way.
Yeah that's a good call. (Except a Game of You which was dreadful).

Recommendations? From Hell by Alan Moore. Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli and the first half of Cerebus the Aardvark by Dave Sim. (The second half is great if you want to see a man's mind crumble into a religious text filled with hatred of left wing politics and women, but the story goes out the window). I can't think of anything else that isn't for teenagers. Especially a lot of the "Mature readers" crap, which seems like an excuse for poor writers to out-offend each other or preach their ill-informed politics or philisophical stances.
Definitely agree. I also recommend any of Jim Woodring's Frank books.
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