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Anyone read comics? I was thinking of starting. Bought a couple today.
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Rarely.
The last paper comics I bought was Jhonen Vasquez' I Feel Sick.
The last paper comics I bought was Jhonen Vasquez' I Feel Sick.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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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.SnowLeopard wrote:Anyone read comics? I was thinking of starting. Bought a couple today.
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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I was a big Marvel fan in my youth. Sold 'em all ages ago...
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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!
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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
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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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I did like the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers...
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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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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.SnowLeopard wrote:Anyone read comics? I was thinking of starting. Bought a couple today.
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Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
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This is the wrong forum for bluffing
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Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish!
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I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants.
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Yeah that's a good call. (Except a Game of You which was dreadful).Xamonas Chegwé wrote: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.SnowLeopard wrote:Anyone read comics? I was thinking of starting. Bought a couple today.
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.
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I don't really understand comics for adults..
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rEvolutionist wrote:I don't really understand comics for adults..
When you are a little older, perhaps...
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I'm 40 now! I can haz old?
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"Socialized medicine is just exactly as morally defensible as gassing and cooking Jews" - Seth. Yes, he really did say that..
"Seth you are a boon to this community" - Cunt.
"I am seriously thinking of going on a spree killing" - Svartalf.
"The Western world is fucking awesome because of mostly white men" - DaveDodo007.
"Socialized medicine is just exactly as morally defensible as gassing and cooking Jews" - Seth. Yes, he really did say that..
"Seth you are a boon to this community" - Cunt.
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Definitely agree. I also recommend any of Jim Woodring's Frank books.Audley Strange wrote:Yeah that's a good call. (Except a Game of You which was dreadful).Xamonas Chegwé wrote: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.SnowLeopard wrote:Anyone read comics? I was thinking of starting. Bought a couple today.
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.
People think "queue" is just "q" followed by 4 silent letters.
But those letters are not silent.
They're just waiting their turn.
But those letters are not silent.
They're just waiting their turn.
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