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leemajors

09-12-2012, 01:02 PM

Anyone got any good recommendations? In the middle of reading The Boys, which is pretty fucking awesome. Before that I checked out the Dark Tower ones, and they were also very, very good. After I read American Vampire next, anyone got anything else good to read? I never imagined how much I would enjoy reading comics/graphic novels on a tablet.

Reck

09-12-2012, 01:34 PM

Funny how these things work. I also started reading comics a while back.

Actually I had downloaded a ton of them a few months ago and they have just been sitting on my external harddrive for later use.

I happen to have some issues of the one you mentioned, American Vampire.

for reccommendations I would suggest..

Batman The Killing Joke
Batman Arkham City issues (They run from 1 through 5)
Monocyte

The one listed above are relativaly short novels so you wont spent too much time on them.

And here are a few of my all time favorites but are really long and still ongoing..

Witchblade
X-Men Uncanny

lefty

09-12-2012, 01:35 PM

The Killing Joke

Batman Year One

Return of the Dark Knight

No Man's Land

Batman : the cult

Batman: the long Halloween

leemajors

09-12-2012, 02:04 PM

I read Killing Joke, it was good. Fairly burned out on Batman atm. i also wanna read Preacher after reading the boys

IronMaxipad

09-12-2012, 02:57 PM

Y: The Last Man

resistanze

09-12-2012, 03:04 PM

Someone buy me a tablet so I can read comics

leemajors

09-12-2012, 03:04 PM

Y: The Last Man

getting it, thanks.

symple19

09-12-2012, 07:43 PM

The Walking Dead (only comic I read)

AussieFanKurt

09-12-2012, 07:55 PM

Sin City and Walking Dead are really good. Walking Dead is long as fuck but I'm still engrossed in the story, much better than the TV show. Sin City is almost exactly like the film but theres 7 "books" all up and only 3 are in the film.

Creepn

09-12-2012, 07:56 PM

I recently bought my first comics ever and downloaded them to the tablet. Reading them on the tablet greatly enhances the experience with the animation effects no doubt. I bought Batman: Court of the Owls series. He gets his ass handed to in this one. Good read.

lefty

09-12-2012, 08:07 PM

Someone buy me a tablet so I can read comics

So you can sell it 2 days later ?

resistanze

09-12-2012, 08:12 PM

So you can sell it 2 days later ?

No I'd keep it on someone else's dime.

lefty

09-12-2012, 08:36 PM

No I'd keep it on someone else's dime.

True true

Its like everybody get tablets as gifts or win them during their companies's Christmas parties

Of course that shit never happens to us.

Capt Bringdown

09-12-2012, 08:41 PM

Black Hole (http://www.amazon.com/Black-Hole-Charles-Burns/dp/037542380X), Charles Burns
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Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) — but once you’ve got it, that’s it. There’s no turning back.

As we inhabit the heads of several key characters — some kids who have it, some who don’t, some who are about to get it — what unfolds isn’t the expected battle to fight the plague, or bring heightened awareness to it , or even to treat it. What we become witness to instead is a fascinating and eerie portrait of the nature of high school alienation itself — the savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety and ennui, the longing for escape.

And then the murders start.

As hypnotically beautiful as it is horrifying, Black Hole transcends its genre by deftly exploring a specific American cultural moment in flux and the kids who are caught in it- back when it wasn’t exactly cool to be a hippie anymore, but Bowie was still just a little too weird.

To say nothing of sprouting horns and molting your skin…

Trainwreck2100

09-13-2012, 12:02 AM

15 posts and no mention of kickass

CuckingFunt

09-13-2012, 01:44 AM

15 posts and no mention of kickass

Because it sucks. As does the sequel. As did Wanted. Mark Millar is much better at ideas than he is at actual writing.

CuckingFunt

09-13-2012, 01:50 AM

i also wanna read Preacher

Best thing ever.

A lot of the must reads have been mentioned here already: Preacher, the Frank Miller Batman stuff, Long Halloween and Killing Joke, The Walking Dead, and so forth.

I second the Y: The Last Man suggestion, even though I haven't had a chance to read it yet. Just skimmed a couple of the pages after downloading and liked what I saw.

Neil Gaiman's Sandman series is great. Anything by Alan Moore. Most stuff by Frank Miller (I like almost all of his work, but the bad stuff is utter shit). Maus is great. I'd also suggest anything by Daniel Clowes. He's best known for Ghost World, of course, but I've loved everything I've read of his.

Mister Sinister

09-13-2012, 03:46 AM

No love for Marvels? Really?

Marvels
Kingdom Come
Earth X/Universe X/Paradise X
Infinity Gauntlet
Hellblazer (Particularly the Dangerous Habits arc)
Thunderbolts (Particularly Warren Ellis's run on the title)
Age of Apocalypse
Transmetropolitan
Knightfall
Batman: No Man's Land
The Sinestro Corps War

leemajors

09-13-2012, 06:43 AM

Best thing ever.

A lot of the must reads have been mentioned here already: Preacher, the Frank Miller Batman stuff, Long Halloween and Killing Joke, The Walking Dead, and so forth.

I second the Y: The Last Man suggestion, even though I haven't had a chance to read it yet. Just skimmed a couple of the pages after downloading and liked what I saw.

Neil Gaiman's Sandman series is great. Anything by Alan Moore. Most stuff by Frank Miller (I like almost all of his work, but the bad stuff is utter shit). Maus is great. I'd also suggest anything by Daniel Clowes. He's best known for Ghost World, of course, but I've loved everything I've read of his.

Have you read The Boys?

CuckingFunt

09-13-2012, 11:09 AM

Have you read The Boys?

Not yet, but it's been recommended to me and the fact it's by Garth Ennis has kept it on my radar.

CuckingFunt

09-13-2012, 11:10 AM

Oh, yeah. Also on the I-haven't-read-them-yet-but-liked-the-few-pages-I-skimmed list are The Losers and all of the Scott Pilgrim books.

velik_m

09-13-2012, 12:12 PM

Alan Ford. Best comic ever.

Trainwreck2100

09-13-2012, 04:47 PM

Because it sucks. As does the sequel. As did Wanted. Mark Millar is much better at ideas than he is at actual writing.

this just proves it's good

symple19

09-14-2012, 12:57 AM

I have no idea if you can get it on a tablet since it's old as fuck, but "The Nam" was my favorite comic that Marvel ever released. I still have the entire series made out of good ole' dead trees.

It ran from 86' to 93', iirc (I started reading it in 91')

DarkReign

09-14-2012, 10:31 AM

z0sa

09-14-2012, 10:35 AM

The Walking Dead series got me into the graphic novels. Awesome suggestions so far

sinok

09-14-2012, 11:26 AM

The Metabarons from Jodorowsky
Awesome shit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabarons

DisAsTerBot

09-14-2012, 11:27 AM

I really liked The Twelve

leemajors

09-22-2012, 07:25 PM

About halfway through American Vampire - very good

MannyIsGod

09-23-2012, 12:46 AM

Have you guys watched the Batman movies based off of Year One and TROTDK?

Pretty damn good shit.

lefty

09-23-2012, 02:26 AM

Yup i have

redzero

09-23-2012, 05:53 AM

100 Bullets

leemajors

09-23-2012, 07:07 AM

Have you guys watched the Batman movies based off of Year One and TROTDK?

Pretty damn good shit.

Weller was a good choice for Batman's voice in Dark Knight Returns Pt 1

Edit: Also, I gotta say I have been a fan of nearly all the animated stuff DC has done the last 5 or so years, aside from the bouncy green lantern series.

leemajors

11-01-2012, 07:55 PM

Been watching the Ultimate Spider Man show and enjoying it quite a bit.

lefty

11-01-2012, 09:22 PM

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

By Paul Venti, art by Vincent Quattro

Proxy

11-10-2012, 02:34 PM

If you've got a good understanding of the basic Marvel Universe, then Earth X is a fantastic read

leemajors

12-09-2012, 10:48 PM

Just finished vol 16 of walking dead today, great series. Probably tackling preacher or y: the last man next

MannyIsGod

12-10-2012, 01:08 AM

Weller was a good choice for Batman's voice in Dark Knight Returns Pt 1

Edit: Also, I gotta say I have been a fan of nearly all the animated stuff DC has done the last 5 or so years, aside from the bouncy green lantern series.

Yeah I think most of the DC animated stuff has been great as well.

lefty

12-10-2012, 01:13 AM

BRhornet recommends John Persons comics

leemajors

12-11-2012, 06:45 PM

Volume 17 of Walking Dead was pretty eventful :wow

anyone else had a chance to check it yet?

CuckingFunt

12-11-2012, 08:26 PM

Volume 17 of Walking Dead was pretty eventful :wow

anyone else had a chance to check it yet?

I have, but I don't know which issues make up volume 17. I've been reading as individual issues and buying the hardcover trades, so the numbering is different.

leemajors

12-11-2012, 08:32 PM

97-102 is vol 17

CuckingFunt

12-11-2012, 08:44 PM

97-102 is vol 17

Ah, okay. Then I agree with your wide eyed emoticon. Especially when all of that excitement came after a long stretch where I thought things got waaaaaay too slow.

Reck

12-11-2012, 11:46 PM

97-102 is vol 17

You're basically up to date.

There are so many comics I want to tackle on I cant even decide. In the meantime, the backlog is growing every day.

leemajors

12-24-2012, 08:58 AM

i got most of the mentions here (ty freeleech) any others?

IronMaxipad

01-09-2013, 11:58 PM

Y: The Last Man
Anyone else read this yet?

New Line Sets Dan Trachtenberg To Helm ‘Y The Last Man’ (http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/new-line-sets-dan-trachtenberg-to-helm-y-the-last-man/)
Think it would've worked better as a tv show. I'm hyped nonetheless

leemajors

01-10-2013, 08:42 AM

Anyone else read this yet?

New Line Sets Dan Trachtenberg To Helm ‘Y The Last Man’ (http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/new-line-sets-dan-trachtenberg-to-helm-y-the-last-man/)
Think it would've worked better as a tv show. I'm hyped nonetheless

I am reading each volume between other books, the first five were great. Thanks for the rec again

leemajors

01-26-2013, 06:41 PM

Y The Last Man was awesome.

Proxy

01-26-2013, 08:15 PM

Anything by Chris Ware is pretty much a masterpiece. Jimmy Coriggan and the Acme Novelty Series.

Silver Surfer Requiem is a good one. Alex Ross' projects are money.

lefty

01-27-2013, 12:10 AM

holy shit I havent read anything else than Batman graphic novels lately :lol

Thanks for this thread, I will check out the suggestions :tu

Still, my favorite Batman graphic novel moment comes from Year One

" from this moment on, none of you are safe "

* puts the lid down on the fire *

:wow

leemajors

01-27-2013, 11:19 AM

Just started Planet Hulk, already badass only a few in.

symple19

02-07-2013, 06:35 AM

Bought the first 17 e-volumes of The Walking Dead for my new Nexus 10

leemajors

02-23-2013, 03:53 PM

I finished Greg Pak's run on Hulk, damn that shit is good. CuckingFunt, have you read Hitman? I grabbed all the stuff he did for it because I liked Preacher and The Boys so much.

CuckingFunt

02-24-2013, 02:17 AM

CuckingFunt (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=5793), have you read Hitman? I grabbed all the stuff he did for it because I liked Preacher and The Boys so much.

I haven't, but I'll add it to my list. I'm falling waaaaay behind on the stuff I want to read, though. Now that I'm working again in addition to grad school, I'm lucky if I have enough free reading time to just stay current with The Walking Dead.

leemajors

04-06-2013, 08:37 AM

Hitman was awesome. Starting Sandman soon.

leemajors

05-14-2013, 09:52 PM

Sandman was so damn good. Started Lucifer and love it so far.

leemajors

05-24-2013, 03:31 PM

Lucifer was very good. Started Hellblazer, like it so far

leemajors

07-11-2013, 07:23 PM

Beware the Batman starts this weekend, i'm gonna record it:

http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2013/07/11/52-reasons-you-should-be-aware-of-beware-the-batman

redzero

07-11-2013, 08:59 PM

Part of the reason Batman is so well-liked is because he has the most interesting villains by far. I don't read/watch Batman for Professor Pyg and Anarky.

Creepn

07-12-2013, 01:14 AM

Purchased Saga for the tablet. Weird but it kept my interest.

leemajors

07-12-2013, 05:11 AM

Part of the reason Batman is so well-liked is because he has the most interesting villains by far. I don't read/watch Batman for Professor Pyg and Anarky.

DC's animated shows have been great lately, no reason not to check it out.

-21-

07-14-2013, 03:59 PM

DC's animated shows have been great lately, no reason not to check it out.

DC animated shows/movies have always been great, especially the Batman ones. The only show Marvel had that was of good quality was Spectacular Spider-Man. It ended when Disney bought Marvel and replaced with Ultimate Spider-Man which is pretty crappy complared to SSM.

leemajors

07-14-2013, 04:20 PM

The Ultimate Spider Man TV show that is on now is quite good imo

Mister Sinister

07-16-2013, 11:52 AM

^ Agreed. It's doing a good job filling the void left when they canceled Spectacular.

leemajors

07-16-2013, 12:22 PM

^ Agreed. It's doing a good job filling the void left when they canceled Spectacular.

Something about the Avengers Assemble show bothers me. I guess I just thought World's Mightiest Heroes looked way better, dunno.

Mister Sinister

07-17-2013, 01:51 AM

Something about the Avengers Assemble show bothers me. I guess I just thought World's Mightiest Heroes looked way better, dunno.
I'm giving Assemble a shot, I think. EMH was hands down the best Avengers animated thing I've ever seen (United They Stand was *awful*, the Ultimate movies were meh), so I'm trying not to judge it too harshly.

-21-

07-18-2013, 05:35 PM

Something about the Avengers Assemble show bothers me. I guess I just thought World's Mightiest Heroes looked way better, dunno.

They've made the character design look like the design from the movies. It annoys me that they cancel a good show just for the sake of making a new one that is somewhat connected to the movies.

Anyway, Ultimate Spider-Man is a good show for what it is, but it's nowhere near Spectacular Spider-Man's quality. SSM just captured what Spider-Man was all about (balancing his superhero/normal life, real life problems like school, money, taking care of his aunt, and clever wisecracks while fighting.) USM is more of a kids show (a good one) with all the over the top stuff. Spider-Man is supposed to joke around a lot but breaking the fourth wall seems more in Deadpool's alley. The I only thing I like about USM over SSM is the art design.

Sorry for the long response but I'm a big geek fanboy when it comes to these stuff. :lol

leemajors

07-19-2013, 09:34 AM

They've made the character design look like the design from the movies. It annoys me that they cancel a good show just for the sake of making a new one that is somewhat connected to the movies.

Anyway, Ultimate Spider-Man is a good show for what it is, but it's nowhere near Spectacular Spider-Man's quality. SSM just captured what Spider-Man was all about (balancing his superhero/normal life, real life problems like school, money, taking care of his aunt, and clever wisecracks while fighting.) USM is more of a kids show (a good one) with all the over the top stuff. Spider-Man is supposed to joke around a lot but breaking the fourth wall seems more in Deadpool's alley. The I only thing I like about USM over SSM is the art design.

Sorry for the long response but I'm a big geek fanboy when it comes to these stuff. :lol

nah, the more talk about it the better. I didn't watch SSM at all, but shit like Spider Pig and Thor as a frog kills me. Deadpool was just on it a week or two ago I think :lol