[JPK]

I had a Treat Yo Self day yesterday and picked up several tpb's that I'd been wanting:

Black Science Vol 4
Planetary Vol 1 & 2
Saga Vol 1 & 2
Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street & The New Scum.

Throw in East of West like I mentioned yesterday and I got a Damm good haul.

[QuickTidal]

 JPK, on 17 November 2016 - 04:52 PM, said:

I had a Treat Yo Self day yesterday and picked up several tpb's that I'd been wanting:

Black Science Vol 4
Planetary Vol 1 & 2
Saga Vol 1 & 2
Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street & The New Scum.

Throw in East of West like I mentioned yesterday and I got a Damm good haul.

There is so much goddamned BEST in your list of pickups...that I can't figure out where you should start. Enjoy all those!

[Abyss]

 QuickTidal, on 17 November 2016 - 05:38 PM, said:

 JPK, on 17 November 2016 - 04:52 PM, said:

I had a Treat Yo Self day yesterday and picked up several tpb's that I'd been wanting:

Black Science Vol 4
Planetary Vol 1 & 2
Saga Vol 1 & 2
Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street & The New Scum.

Throw in East of West like I mentioned yesterday and I got a Damm good haul.

There is so much goddamned BEST in your list of pickups...that I can't figure out where you should start. Enjoy all those!

Yes.
Hell yes.

[JPK]

 Abyss, on 18 November 2016 - 04:57 AM, said:

 QuickTidal, on 17 November 2016 - 05:38 PM, said:

 JPK, on 17 November 2016 - 04:52 PM, said:

I had a Treat Yo Self day yesterday and picked up several tpb's that I'd been wanting:

Black Science Vol 4
Planetary Vol 1 & 2
Saga Vol 1 & 2
Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street & The New Scum.

Throw in East of West like I mentioned yesterday and I got a Damm good haul.

There is so much goddamned BEST in your list of pickups...that I can't figure out where you should start. Enjoy all those!

Yes.
Hell yes.

So after my treat yo self, I realized I'd built up about $40 in amazon credits so now I have a few more things on the way as well:

Transmetro Volumes 2, 3, and 5
Planetary volumes 3 and 4
Injected volume 1


So, I've actually read up to this point in Trans before through an old co-worker. He suggested I read Freak Angels and let him know if I liked it. I didn't. I loved it. After that he loaned me the first half of Trans before I transferred work locations.

Planetary and Injected ate both new for me, but they're both Ellis so I know I'm in solid territory.

The only thing I picked up on chance was Saga, but I seem to remember seeing it praised on here so I figure why the hell not.

I've already finished EoW. This volume was almost about those last few pages for me. Specifically the new direction of the Babylon arc, and the horsemen reveal. I can't wait to see the beginning of year three.

Next up I'm going to tackle Black Science since I'm already actively working on that series.

[QuickTidal]

SAGA is incredible.

And PLANETARY is (in my mind) the best thing Warren Ellis has ever created.

[Andorion]

 QuickTidal, on 18 November 2016 - 04:45 PM, said:

SAGA is incredible.

And PLANETARY is (in my mind) the best thing Warren Ellis has ever created.

Planetary, not Authority?

[QuickTidal]

 Andorion, on 18 November 2016 - 04:56 PM, said:

 QuickTidal, on 18 November 2016 - 04:45 PM, said:

SAGA is incredible.

And PLANETARY is (in my mind) the best thing Warren Ellis has ever created.

Planetary, not Authority?

AUTHORITY is amazing too...but a lot of AUTHORITY operates on existing character archetypes and twisting them in new ways...while I feel like PLANETARY pushed all kinds of fresh and new boundaries.

[amphibian]

Planetary is my pick for the best thing anyone in comics has done. It's that good, even if some people don't rank it as high as I do.

The mythos remaking, the depth of characters, the interesting and believable usage of powers, and the motivations behind the characters are all truly top notch - as well as the art. It stands up to multiple rereads and has amazed everyone I've given/lent the series to.

[Abyss]

 QuickTidal, on 18 November 2016 - 05:09 PM, said:

 Andorion, on 18 November 2016 - 04:56 PM, said:

 QuickTidal, on 18 November 2016 - 04:45 PM, said:

SAGA is incredible.

And PLANETARY is (in my mind) the best thing Warren Ellis has ever created.

Planetary, not Authority?

AUTHORITY is amazing too...but a lot of AUTHORITY operates on existing character archetypes and twisting them in new ways...while I feel like PLANETARY pushed all kinds of fresh and new boundaries.

AUTHORITY is Dresden.
PLANETARY is Malazan.

[polishgenius]

Transmet >>> everything.

Especially now. It looks more prescient by the day.

[T77]

I'm making an effort to read complete series and finish what I've started. I've been bouncing around too much. Lately I've read.

Ghost Rider by Jason Aaron, the complete run. It was good.

Finished Hickman's F4, I liked it, but wasn't as blown away as most.

New X-Men by Grant Morrison. This was very good. There was a string of 11 or 12 issues towards the end that were incredible. The last 4 issues were very good, but a bit of an acid trip. I believe this is the first I've read by Morrison, definitely moving him up on my TBR pile.

I am now reading Bendis' New Avengers. I had read a couple of volumes prior. I like it so far, but I am not blown away. It's very long, so if it doesn't really grab me I might have to put it aside. And on the non-Marvel front, I plan on focusing on Sandman, I've read a few volumes of this already, this hasn't grabbed me yet, but I know this is considered one of the best comics ever, so I will finish it.

Loving MU so far. I had a few technical glitches that I think were due to me reading on my iPad and Android phone. Haven't had any since I restrict it to the iPad now. I reported the issue to Marvel, but I doubt it will get resolved.

[amphibian]

I just read the first volume of Low by Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini. It's brilliant. It beats the hell out of Saga.

Think "dying sun is slowly killing Earth and the remaining life on the planet is now at the bottom of the oceans and fighting each other to survive/get off planet". The artwork is brilliant, the characters are interesting, and the story goes.

[QuickTidal]

Jeezus no. LOW is nowhere NEAR the excellence of SAGA.

Artowkr is good, but it's not a shade of Fiona Staples excellence. And Vaughn writes FAR better dialogue than Remender could ever.

[polishgenius]

From what I've read of the two (which isn't all that much yet), the artwork in Low is prettier in pure 'wow lookit!' terms, but Staples is probably the better visual storyteller.

[PLUGO]

 Abyss, on 15 December 2006 - 04:51 PM, said:

By examples of goodness...,

WE3 - not as brill' as it could have been, but still a mad crazy animal story where things 'splode and dudes get their heads ripped off by pissed off cyber-pets.

Pride of Baghdad - i cannot say enough good about this book. The story is genius and wrenching and more genius. The art is stunning.

Kingdom Come - You grew up reading DC comics superhero stories and you want to see your heroes (and their kids) throw down one last apocalyptic time. I'll probably get DC/Alex Ross' 'Justice' when it's done and collected on the same basis.

The collected Sandmans - I had no patience for these in floppy form, but collected it is a thing of beauty. Gaiman has a way with dialogue that amazes me. By halfway thru, no line is ever wasted.

The collected League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - again, a work that just reads SO much better in the alltogether. The third one 'The Black Dossier' is being released only as an OGN, no floppies.

 Abyss, on 15 December 2006 - 06:32 PM, said:

Ah, Y runs 60 - right, noted.
V is on my list to eventually check out.

I'm told FABLES is brilliant, too.

 T77, on 30 November 2016 - 06:03 PM, said:

I'm making an effort to read complete series and finish what I've started. I've been bouncing around too much. Lately I've read.

Ghost Rider by Jason Aaron, the complete run. It was good.

Finished Hickman's F4, I liked it, but wasn't as blown away as most.

New X-Men by Grant Morrison. This was very good. There was a string of 11 or 12 issues towards the end that were incredible. The last 4 issues were very good, but a bit of an acid trip. I believe this is the first I've read by Morrison, definitely moving him up on my TBR pile.

I am now reading Bendis' New Avengers. I had read a couple of volumes prior. I like it so far, but I am not blown away. It's very long, so if it doesn't really grab me I might have to put it aside. And on the non-Marvel front, I plan on focusing on Sandman, I've read a few volumes of this already, this hasn't grabbed me yet, but I know this is considered one of the best comics ever, so I will finish it.

Loving MU so far. I had a few technical glitches that I think were due to me reading on my iPad and Android phone. Haven't had any since I restrict it to the iPad now. I reported the issue to Marvel, but I doubt it will get resolved.

I really aught to hunt down Aaron's Ghost Rider series, I'm digging his recent takes on THOR & Dr. Strange. Have we talked about Hickman's other recent work? East of West and Manhattan Projects have been fun in long form. His version of Secret Wars is gorgous, same artist as Remender's 7 to Eternity I believe.

Meanwhile Lake of Fire has been pretty great.

So...about Grant Morrison.

We3 was pretty great - Frank Quietly is a phenomenal illustrator and his current series Jupiter's Legacy is sort of a Micheal Bay version of Watchmen - But his collaboration with Morrison tend to be great. Seminal work includes All Star Superman and Flex Mentallo as well as a Justice league graphic novel Earth 2. That GN spins out of about 5 years worth of writing DC comics' JLA (Justice League America), which he worked on before New X meN and was more traditional super-heroics. He got to really flex is psychedelic tendencies with THE INVISIBLES, arguably his magnum opus, it was a very 90's comics, the Bizarre love-child of The X-Files and every Philip K Dick novel you remember. More recently his comic Klaus was fun (the dark secret origin of Santa Claus) while NAMELESS is as scary as Alan Moore's Providence(which you wouldn't think so, based on the name, but that's some frightful stuff).

His long Batman run was often hamstrung by the art (same as New X meN) but spun out the much prettier Batman & Robin & BATMAN INC. series; if you like Batman.

But if you haven't read DOOM PATROL that was seeing print at around the same time as The Sandman.

Has anyone followed League of Extraordinary Gentlemen into it's current incarnations its series Century was epic though the adventures of Nemo's daughter was a little weaker, maybe it was because such large chucks were written in Hindi and German.

I miss reading Planetary, I'm not sure Warren Ellis's writing has been as strong.

[T77]

There has been East of West talk, it's on my list. As is his Secret Wars and Morrison's Doom Patrol.

[Abyss]

Heh... funny to see that 2006 post Pluto necreplied to.
EAST OF WEST is brilliance. Sheer SF n fantasy graphic art brilliance. I love everything about that work, art, plot, dialogue... all of it. Not complete, but the storyline just reached a natural pause point and starting now wouldn't leave a new reader hanging.
LoEG CENTURY... speaking as someone who loved the original first two volumes, I really really disliked CENTURY. Black Dossier signaled a shift in Moore's approach to the concept, from high adventure celebrating its source material to deconstructive reference work and also boobs and penises. Century was worse. All of it. From raping Capt Nemo's daughter as the sole plot point of the first Century book to Orlando effectively replacing the protagonists for the rest of them. Utterly disappointing.

[QuickTidal]

 Abyss, on 01 December 2016 - 06:37 PM, said:

Heh... funny to see that 2006 post Pluto necreplied to.
EAST OF WEST is brilliance. Sheer SF n fantasy graphic art brilliance. I love everything about that work, art, plot, dialogue... all of it. Not complete, but the storyline just reached a natural pause point and starting now wouldn't leave a new reader hanging.

Seconded. It's in my top three comics I've read in the last decade EASILY. I can't decide if I look fwd to SAGA or EoW more...but I THINK EoW edges out SAGA slightly even. It's simply incredible.

[amphibian]

 QuickTidal, on 30 November 2016 - 07:14 PM, said:

Jeezus no. LOW is nowhere NEAR the excellence of SAGA.

Artowkr is good, but it's not a shade of Fiona Staples excellence. And Vaughn writes FAR better dialogue than Remender could ever.

Brian K Vaughn is so wildly overrated and I can't forgive his shitheap homage to Rudy Giulani.

[Abyss]

 QuickTidal, on 01 December 2016 - 07:01 PM, said:

 Abyss, on 01 December 2016 - 06:37 PM, said:

Heh... funny to see that 2006 post Pluto necreplied to.
EAST OF WEST is brilliance. Sheer SF n fantasy graphic art brilliance. I love everything about that work, art, plot, dialogue... all of it. Not complete, but the storyline just reached a natural pause point and starting now wouldn't leave a new reader hanging.

Seconded. It's in my top three comics I've read in the last decade EASILY. I can't decide if I look fwd to SAGA or EoW more...but I THINK EoW edges out SAGA slightly even. It's simply incredible.

Yeah, I love SAGA as an emotionally engaging story with great characters and sometimes stunning art, but EoW utterly blows my mind minimum once every 22 pages.