| 4 MAY 2010 at 8:49am |
alkis21Schattenjger
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Status : Offline | Camelot 3000 gets my vote.
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| 4 MAY 2010 at 11:12am |
JKingSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | The only comic books I've read are Hergé's Tintin series, of which I've read most in the original French. I've also read a bit of Astérix, but not as much.
I have watched a number of animations based on manga, the most notable and best being Fullmetal Alchemist and (particularly) Rurouni Kenshin. The latter is fantastic Meiji (Late Victorian) period fare, and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes action---and romance.
i do still have my Tintins, and I also have an omnibus of Sandman which I got as a gift from someone who knew I liked Neil Gaiman, but I don't seem to like anglo comic books. Ah, well.
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| 4 MAY 2010 at 11:18am |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By JKing (4 MAY 2010 11:12am)
The only comic books I've read are Hergé's Tintin series, of which I've read most in the original French. I've also read a bit of Astérix, but not as much.
I have watched a number of animations based on manga, the most notable and best being Fullmetal Alchemist and (particularly) Rurouni Kenshin. The latter is fantastic Meiji (Late Victorian) period fare, and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes action---and romance.
i do still have my Tintins, and I also have an omnibus of Sandman which I got as a gift from someone who knew I liked Neil Gaiman, but I don't seem to like anglo comic books. Ah, well.
Gosh, how could I forget Tin Tin and Asterix? Asterix and Obelix were my brother's fave, he must have collected all the books by now. He always expressed a wish to try out some roast wild boar; I must ask him if he has had the opportunity by now..
Tin Tin was a fave for both of us, -even I enjoyed Tin Tin, and still have a good amount of the DVD's, and a few of the books themselves.
Camelot looks nice, Alkis. (I like anything Arthurian, and am therefore biased.) Pity it ran for so short a time?
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| 4 MAY 2010 at 12:20pm |
ButterproofSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Tintin, no doubts
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| 4 MAY 2010 at 5:26pm |
colpetSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | I didn't read tradional comics in my younger years, but I did buy the occassional Mad Magazine. I especially liked Spy vs Spy and the folding back page.
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| 5 MAY 2010 at 11:18am |
FnordSchattenjger
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Location: SE, Stockholm
Status : Offline | I loved the original Transformers when I was younger. These are in fact the only comics that I've ever been a big fan of.
As for comic to movie adaptations, the asterix movies were great (even tough I never really liked the comic books), as was the anime PlanetES (a very low sci-fi series that deals with the lives of a few people who collects debris in earths orbit).
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| 5 MAY 2010 at 8:10pm |
chronotigger65Journeyman
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Status : Offline | The only comic books I used to read was Elfquest (which is in need of an animated series) and the manga Ranma 1/2. I eventually lost interest in both earlier in my life.
I read the comic stripes Garfield and the now defunct The Far Side in books that I collect.
I also read various webcomics too. List includes...Sabrina Online, Flipside, Las Lindas, Rascals, Twokinds, Sequential Art, Original Life, Gesille and others.
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| 5 MAY 2010 at 8:26pm |
TechnoSpikePrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | Cool, a comic-book thread! Plenty to [s]ramble[/s] talk about! I'll only talk about american and european comics, which are the ones I know about, but this is a kind of topic that could go on, and on, and on...
I'm essencially a Marvel fan. Althoug I have enjoyed some comics from DC I mainly read Marvel.
Apart from those, I have read franco-belgian comics like Asterix, Lucky Luke and The Adventures of Tintin, since I was a kid. More recently I've discovered other comics of this genre like Spirou et Fantasio, Gaston Lagaffe. These, like the others, are a perfect good match of funny and adventurous stories (Asterix, Spirou and Gaston with a stronger predominance in the funny department).
Besides those, there's Blake and Mortimer, a good detective investigation - sci-fiish kind of stories, set in the 40s-50s (if I recall correctly...) and Ric Hochet, a reporter that solves misterious cases which sometimes seem too fantastic, but end in a clear and down-to-earth explanation (unfortunally for me, I've only read a hand-full of stories, it seems that there's not much translated stories and my french knowledge is very elementary).
There's also the Fumetti (Italian comics). From here, I've only read Dylan Dog, a horror comic. Dylan Dog is a paranormal investigator (or better called, a Nightmare Investigator), based in London, where he lives with his assistant, Groucho (a character that acts, and talks, like Groucho Marx).
Back to the comics of Marvel / DC, there's a lot of good stories (but unfortunally a much, much bigger number of "stinkers!" in the regular editions. But, I think that starting to read a regular edition might be complicated to start with (too much backstory to catch on, for instance, ...). A good alternative, in my opinion, could be starting with Graphic Novels.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (please, ignore that stinker of movie, ok?), V for Vendetta (again, the movie sucked compared to the original), Watchmen (prefered some of the ideas of the comic instead of the ones they chose to follow in the movie), Batman: The Killing Joke, The Dark Knight Returns, X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills, Death of Captain Marvel, Revenge of the Living Monolith, Marvels, might be some good reads.
V for Vendetta and Watchmen are not your more typical super-heores stories, they are much more than that. Also, on the lines of what we talked about in the Stephen King Thread, if you like fantasy-horror, you should definetly try out Hellboy and John Constantine (again, please ignore that piece of crap of movie with Keanu-I-Know-Kung-Fu-Reaves, the comic is a 100 times better)...
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| 6 MAY 2010 at 3:27am |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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As a kid, I loved all of the original Marvel comics by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
If I had to pick a favorite from way back then, it was probably Spiderman with The Fanatstic Four a close second and The Hulk a close third.
Cheers, Terry
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| 6 MAY 2010 at 4:34pm |
LadyDiIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | As a kid I loved "Little Lulu" and when I was just a bit older any horror comic I could get my hands on. This was when comics were 10 cents each, so showing my age here!
Slightly off-topic, but does anyone remember that marvelous magazine for children "Jack and Jill"? That was definitely a regular in our house.
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| 6 MAY 2010 at 5:03pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Hi Traveller. Remember me?
I don't like comic books very much, and certainly not the superhero ones. But the only comic book I really, really enjoyed is Little Nemo In Slumberland. Masterpiece of surrealism and weirdness.
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| 6 MAY 2010 at 6:54pm |
AShadowWalkerPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | My favorite comic is Conan The Barbarian, followed by Red Sonja, followed by Prince Valiant, and then followed by Batman and Superman.
I grew up with Superman, Superboy, Supergirl, Captain America, The Green Lantern, The Amazing Spiderman, The X-Men, Classics Illustrated, The Flash, Iron Man, The Avengers, Daredevil, Nick Fury - Agent of Shield, Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandos, and Thor among others.
The only exception is The Hulk. Do not ask me why, but I never liked it. [smiley=shrug.gif]
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| 10 JUN 2010 at 6:44pm |
FnordSchattenjger
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Location: SE, Stockholm
Status : Offline | I've been spending quite some time with Batman today (in Arkham asylum), and this has sparked my interest in the old character. Apart from a very odd "Batman vs Predator" comic (with the same kind of predator that Arnold fought), and some cheesy old batman comics that my father owned (I think they were from the 70s), I've never actually read any batman comics. So does anyone have any suggestions on any more recent batman comic album to read (recent enough to be easy to find at least)? They don't sell issues of the regular comic book over here, so I'm limited to albums, and starting from the very beginning is not really an option, as the old bat has been around since the 30s, and the first comic book featuring him would probably cost me more than I own. I'm also a bit more interested in the grim & dark batman of today rather than the borderline racist batman of the 40s (I've seen the cover of some of those issues that were released during WW2...) or cheesy batman of the 60s-70s.
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| 10 JUN 2010 at 10:36pm |
MarkGuild Master
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Little Lotta, Richie Rich, Casper, the Friendly Ghost, and Tales From the Morgue.
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 11 JUN 2010 at 3:14am |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
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Status : Offline | On my 9th birthday, I got 9 comic books and was in heaven. Among them were Archie, Nancy and Sluggo, Casper, and Little Lulu, but no superheros. In the newpapers, I always loved B.C., The Wizard of Id, and Peanuts, and later on, Gary Larsen's Farside, Calvin and Hobbes, and Bloom County by Berke Breathed. Like Colpet, I also loved Mad, and I have the Absolutely Mad DVD, which has over 600 issues of the magazine.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (please, ignore that stinker of movie, ok?)
Heh. I liked the movie, but I've never read the comics.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 11 JUN 2010 at 6:42pm |
Lucien21Guild Master
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Status : Offline | All time fav is probably the Sandman series by Neil Gaiman, but there are tons more.
The obvious classics like Dark Knight Returns, Crisis on Infinite Earths, V for Vendetta, Watchman. the less obvious choices would be the likes of Queen and Country, Essex County, Bone, Maus.
Most recently I would say the best 2 graphic novels of the last year have been Asterious Polyp and Parker the Hunter.
Dear Diary, My teenage angst bullsh*t now has a bodycount.
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| 13 JUN 2010 at 1:17pm |
Mr Innocent.Journeyman
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By TechnoSpike (5 MAY 2010 8:25pm)
Besides those, there's Blake and Mortimer, a good detective investigation - sci-fiish kind of stories, set in the 40s-50s (if I recall correctly...)
Hey, I used to love those! Especially the art.
Anyone read the spanish Mortadelo y Filemón? I used to love them too.
And let us never forget the wonderfulMafalda.
I used to read the X-men comics voraciously as a teen, but I eventually tired of superhero themes. I can still enjoy a good Graphic Novel set in the Marvel universe, as Technospike said. One I recently read and liked is Old Man Logan.
If I have to pick one favorite comic series though, it'd have to be Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan.
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| 13 JUN 2010 at 2:01pm |
HalcyonSchattenjger
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MAD magazine in the 60s.
Batman/Superman/Legion of Heroes
Sad Sack
Bugs Bunny
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| 13 JUN 2010 at 9:43pm |
TechnoSpikePrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By nik2008ofs (13 JUN 2010 1:17pm)
Anyone read the spanish Mortadelo y Filemón? I used to love them too.
And let us never forget the wonderfulMafalda.
I totally forgot about those! Mafalda is great, but, I confess that my preference goes to the sheer nuttiness of Mortadelo y Filemón! For me, they rival in the "funny department" with Asterix & Obelix or Gaston, and they beat them by a long shot! My favourite stories would be the ones in which they would they suffer with the "inventions" of Profesor Bacterio!
Originally Posted By nik2008ofs (13 JUN 2010 1:17pm)
I used to read the X-men comics voraciously as a teen, but I eventually tired of superhero themes. I can still enjoy a good Graphic Novel set in the Marvel universe, as Technospike said. One I recently read and liked is Old Man Logan.
Good choice Nik, I read and liked that also. I have a special liking in "What If" kind of scenarios like that novel. Do you also try out some tradepaperbacks?
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| 13 JUN 2010 at 10:06pm |
TechnoSpikePrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By LadyKestrel (11 JUN 2010 3:13am)
Heh. I liked the movie, but I've never read the comics.
Well, I that case, sorry for my comment, but it was trully heartfelt! As someone who liked a lot of the original books I was really displeased with the path they chose to follow (the proeminence of Alan Quatermain, the "Phantom" plot, the whole Mina-vampire thingy, Nemo's Kung-fu, I could go on and on and on...), specially because I felt that the original material was much more "rich".
If you liked the appeal of a kind of "deconstruction" of classical literature characters, cameos from different stories and steampunk references, I would strongly recommend the reading of the comic!
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| 14 JUN 2010 at 12:37am |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
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Status : Offline | No need to apologize, Spike. One of my favorite t-shirts says "Never judge a book by its movie." I know how Hollywood has messed up some of my favorite stories. I'll have to give those comics a try.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 14 JUN 2010 at 2:47am |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By TechnoSpike (13 JUN 2010 10:05pm)
If you liked the appeal of a kind of "deconstruction" of classical literature characters, cameos from different stories and steampunk references, I would strongly recommend the reading of the comic!
Yeah, sounds like I'll have to check out the comics. When I heard about the movie I thought the concept sounded great. When I actually saw the movie, I was pretty disappointed, I felt there was much more that could have been done with the premise. And the comics have gotten very good reviews in general, so I look forward to seeing (hopefully) how much better they handled the concept.
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| 14 JUN 2010 at 2:54pm |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | I'll have to give it a try as well. Reading a comic book might be a good way to relax after all the Russian literature that I've been reading as of late (if the comic is sold over here, that is. Comics are usually viewed as something for children over here, as is are cartoons (and that is why anime that clearly are not suited for children (like hellsing) can be found among movies for children), so I don't know if i'll be able to find it).
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