odessasteps Posted June 15, 2016 Author Share Posted June 15, 2016 Last issue of the sixth gun today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 In three months of being subscribed to comics Bento, I've gotten 12 books, six of them Valiant. Me thinks CB really likes this new Valiant. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 As well they fucking should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted July 14, 2016 Author Share Posted July 14, 2016 The new issue of Sabrina has Salem's origin and man is it effed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted July 15, 2016 Author Share Posted July 15, 2016 New Kaijumax is a realkick in the gut if you are a Gamera mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spritenaut 32 Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 So the owner of my lcs is trying to tempt me into reading Garth Ennis' The Boys by offering me a really good deal on the first six or so trades. I'm tempted. There are a lot of Ennis books out there I thought were fantastic. Then there's the output that was just too far down the rabbit hole for me. Opinions? I don't think I've read an Ennis book since... Demon? Hitman? Somewhere in there. Been a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted July 15, 2016 Author Share Posted July 15, 2016 If you liked Hitman, youd prob like The Boys. Not my cup of tea, personally, but if you like his work, checking out the first trade prob couldnt hurt, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 The Boys has some amazing moments, but also some really, really shitty bits. Ennis's absolute loathing of superheroes other than Superman comes through strong, and a lot of it relies on jokes about sexual depravity including rape, pedophilia etc. On balance, I liked it, but I'm not sure if I can *recommend* it--and it's hard to gauge your value without spoiling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 It's prime Ennis for gross content but it also has a lot of heart. In a lot of ways it's actually my favourite Ennis-style book (as opposed to the first book of Crossed which might be better but doesn't have the weird madcap elements or humour he's known for). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin877 Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 Humble Bundle had the entire The Boys run along wit Ennis's War comics in PDF format, I wish I had jumped on it a few months ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Let's just when it comes to The Boys, when you get to "We Gotta Go Now", you will never look at The X-Men in the same light James 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobholly138 Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 Just finished up my re-reading of The Boys tonight.Some how even though I own it all in trades I had never read the Highland Laddie or Butcher mini series. Damn good series. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted July 27, 2016 Author Share Posted July 27, 2016 RIP RIchard Thompson, creator of Cul De Sac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spritenaut 32 Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 So I'm on a Matt Wagner kick. Picked up the Madame Xanadu trades a few weeks ago and loved the book, so I decided to reread the Comico Wagner books. Finished Mage; The Hero Defined this morning. I was a big fan of Hero Discovered when it first came out (at one point, i owned the limited edition hardcovers, but they've been lost for at least a decade), but I hadn't read Hero Defined before. Pleasantly surprised to find out Hero Discovered holds up and Hero Defined is pure fun. Starting Grendel this week. I have the Grendel Omnibuses (reprinting almost anything Grendel related) and the Grendel Archive that reprinted the original black-and-white series. Picking up Grendel/Shadow this week and anything else not reprinted (I own the Grendel/Batman tpb. Not sure if there's anything else that didn't get reprinted in the omnibuses; I'll have to look at comicbookdb). Looking forward to rereading Grendel. I was a big fan of Devil by the Deed and the first two years or so of the Grendel series. Has Wagner written anything really great lately? I read Green Hornet: Year One a couple week ago and was nonplussed enough that I'm not in any rush to check out Shadow or Zorro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted August 15, 2016 Author Share Posted August 15, 2016 Im enjoying Gendel/Shadow. Not new, but both Trinity and the Demon mini are both enjoyable. That "early Batman" stuff was good but i dont remember liking a lot. Of course, SMT goes without saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 Honestly I can only think of like four or five Wagner series from the past ten years or so period. Less that he drew as well as wrote. Granted that juuuust misses all the Batman stuff he did for DC (or is it right on the cusp...anyway, I'm not counting it) but yeah, he's fairly choosy about his new projects. I still need to pick up Grendel/Shadow as I have all the other Wagner Grendel and even some of the non-Wagner stuff. The Batman crossover is always a battle for my sorting because I have a stupid big Batman trade collection and keep the Wagner stuff together but my Grendel collection is also prominent. Usually it goes with Grendel because it actually affected that canon but sometimes I change my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted August 17, 2016 Author Share Posted August 17, 2016 new podcast features chynna clugston flores talking return of Blue Monday, trade schedule and new issues, the Lumberjanes/gotham academy crossover, the mad mod issue of teen titans go, fads and music, silent movies and more. http://tinyurl.com/winter43 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Robert Kirkman has announced Invincible will end next year with issue 144. It's been such a dependably great book for so long that I don't kbow how to feel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Z Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Damn, first Fables and now this. Didn't expect Invincible to end before the Walking Dead, at least Kirkman is doing it on his own terms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 I'm volume or two behind, but that is somehow both disappointing and good news to me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted August 18, 2016 Author Share Posted August 18, 2016 Picked these up in a quarter box today along with an issue of the maze agency. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 COPRA is on sale at Comixology for $0.99/issue. Anyone who is a fan of 80s Suicide Squad or just good comics ahould check out at least the first arc (1-6). I already have 1-18 in trades but I'll likely grab the Vs. one shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobholly138 Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Local comic shop bought a huge collection recently. Lots of 80s thru mid 90s stuff. One drawback every issue has the previous owner's name written on the cover or somewhere inside the issue. So almost all of it got dumped into the dollar bins. Dug out 3 issues of an odd series. From 1981 and published by Survival Press Art. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted September 9, 2016 Author Share Posted September 9, 2016 Jeff Lemire doing a graphic novel with Tragically Hip's Gord Downie http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/gord-downie-chanie-wenjack-1.3753823 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Extra notable since Downie has terminal brain cancer so that's likely the last creative project he'll produce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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