[Abyss]

Abyss, on 28 January 2025 - 04:33 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 27 January 2025 - 04:31 PM, said:

Abyss, on 27 January 2025 - 03:44 PM, said:

BEASTS OF BURDEN Evan Dworkin writes, Jill Thompson art. Where has this comic been all my life?

Animal wizards, sometimes with human partners, sometimes in loose packs or groups, fight the forces of darkness. The stories are well paced, the characters are wonderful (there's a cowardly doberman, an english sheepdog who's basically Gandalf only more badass, a husky who's faced a werewolf, a cat who's a satan worshipper's ex-familiar...). They face a haunted doghouse, free ranging vampire heads, demons, giant spiders. The art is glorious, able to keep the animals cute but show them in full bloody gory combat with a tribe of goblins.
Four good sized collections, all worthwhile.

Say less. This sounds awesome!

Just Finished the last collection, and yeah, absolutely worth a look. It's definitely an adult book (zombie dogs ew) but it hits all the best notes of an aged up childhood story, friends backing each other up, evil villains, cowards overcoming their fears, enemies become friends, apprentices learning magic, and the art is just perfect... the cats and dogs are all distinct characters with distinct expressions and movement. I may have to look into a hardcover set for this.

sigh... despite my visceral annoyance with Dark Horse shafting their digital customers magnificently, I note that they're releasing a BEASTS OF BURDEN omnibus....


https://www.darkhors...den-Omnibus-TPB

....that is probably exceptional and worthwhile.

[Hammerhead88]

 Abyss, on 27 February 2025 - 05:36 PM, said:

 Abyss, on 28 January 2025 - 04:33 PM, said:

 QuickTidal, on 27 January 2025 - 04:31 PM, said:

 Abyss, on 27 January 2025 - 03:44 PM, said:

BEASTS OF BURDEN Evan Dworkin writes, Jill Thompson art. Where has this comic been all my life?

Animal wizards, sometimes with human partners, sometimes in loose packs or groups, fight the forces of darkness. The stories are well paced, the characters are wonderful (there's a cowardly doberman, an english sheepdog who's basically Gandalf only more badass, a husky who's faced a werewolf, a cat who's a satan worshipper's ex-familiar...). They face a haunted doghouse, free ranging vampire heads, demons, giant spiders. The art is glorious, able to keep the animals cute but show them in full bloody gory combat with a tribe of goblins.
Four good sized collections, all worthwhile.

Say less. This sounds awesome!

Just Finished the last collection, and yeah, absolutely worth a look. It's definitely an adult book (zombie dogs ew) but it hits all the best notes of an aged up childhood story, friends backing each other up, evil villains, cowards overcoming their fears, enemies become friends, apprentices learning magic, and the art is just perfect... the cats and dogs are all distinct characters with distinct expressions and movement. I may have to look into a hardcover set for this.

sigh... despite my visceral annoyance with Dark Horse shafting their digital customers magnificently, I note that they're releasing a BEASTS OF BURDEN omnibus....


https://www.darkhors...den-Omnibus-TPB

....that is probably exceptional and worthwhile.

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[Hammerhead88]

 Abyss, on 26 February 2025 - 03:37 PM, said:

 Hammerhead88, on 26 February 2025 - 07:54 AM, said:

...Also have a Nightwing deep dive on my list - do you have a reading order you are going to follow?

No, i picked a fairly random point... i like Tom Taylor so i picked his run that starts with NIGHTWING (2016) #105. I read a couple of issues just to confirm i wanted to continue, it has a fun action vibe with a WAYNE FAMILY ADVENTURES undertone. I plan to read up to present or close, then backtrack to the Waid and Morrison BAT/'TEC runs. i REALLY hate how much crossover stuff DC works in tho, it is annoying and mostly just bad comics dragging down good. If you have an order you're following pls share.



I'll go deep, i think, once i finish (semi hate read) the End of Krakoa/Fall of the House of X Xbooks, then will revisit this. The xbooks are all over the place for this phase... little glimmers of good writing with a pile of blunt 'we're phoning this in and we know it' work i'm mostly skimming.

I don't have an order and haven't started yet, but was probably going to use the comic book herald order which I have used for other runs in the past.