You Decide - 2005
This is much cooler than that silly Marvel one from a few years back.
Here is my offer...you folks out there all pick a comic title that you think is good (let's try to keep it recent, unless it is an older story available in trade format), and I'll try to hunt down a couple of issues or a trade (no guarantees I'll find them, but I think I'll be able to do okay), read them, and put up an entry about it.
So a whole entry just on one comic...hopefully it will bring the attention of the two people who read this blog (plus the 5 other blog writers, so hey, that's seven possible new readers!!!).
Sound cool?
If so, then you decide!!
Here is my offer...you folks out there all pick a comic title that you think is good (let's try to keep it recent, unless it is an older story available in trade format), and I'll try to hunt down a couple of issues or a trade (no guarantees I'll find them, but I think I'll be able to do okay), read them, and put up an entry about it.
So a whole entry just on one comic...hopefully it will bring the attention of the two people who read this blog (plus the 5 other blog writers, so hey, that's seven possible new readers!!!).
Sound cool?
If so, then you decide!!
posted by Brian Cronin at 1/05/2005 05:23:00 PM
28 Comments:
Okay.
Justice League Elite limited series, issues 1-7 out of 12 out by now. One of the very few superhero comics that I bother reading. I don't know how it sells, but whatever the figures are, they can't be enough.
For the record, I would have loved to just say "Batgirl ongoing", since the new Andersen Gabrych/Ale Garza team seems to be very good and nobody anywhere gives the title reviews or even so much as a passing mention, but as the first two issues are both crossovers with the now-shitty Robin title, maybe it's better to wait for some stand-alone stories.
Shit, just one? My favorite comic right now is Rex Mundi. (This is the comic's site.) It's a murder mystery and conspiracy theory that may strike some as a rip-off of The Da Vinci Code, except it's much better. Arvid Nelson and EricJ (who is no longer doing the art, unfortunately), have created an alternate 1930s world where the French Revolution never occurred and the Inquisition is still around. They have done maps of this world and each issue has a few fake newspaper pages at the end that pack in information about the world. It's exciting and gorgeous to look at (I hope they get a good artist to replace Eric) and it's smart. An excellent comic book.
Marvel's 'Godzilla, King of the Monsters' issue #9.
Greg, the Rex Mundi Vol. 1 TPB has now been ordered.
I have a bead on the first seven issues of Justice League Elite. I'll read them soon.
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"Marvel's 'Godzilla, King of the Monsters' issue #9."
I wouldn't want to offend our very own Alex Cox.
Battery Park is a-coming.
Isn't at least half of Global Frequency out in trade format. All those delicious stand-alone stories with their silver age science issue feel made me happy in ways I've not been happy in ages.....
I think I shall go re-read them now.
Chad
I, too, just recently re-read the entire Global Frequency series, so I can certainly put up an entry on that, Chad.
Good pick.
More people pick things I have recently read!
Heh
How about The Pro by Ennis & Amanda Conner?
Sure, haven't read the Pro since it came out.
And I have a nice little diatribe about that one.
Brad has heard it before.
Cool.
I liked her attitude towards the capes myself.
Can't decide if I'm going to go cruel or timely-nerdy. Hmmmmmm. Hell, I'll suggest both. The most recent Peep Show trade (eeeuuuughhh) and the original Longshot mini-series from Marvel.
(Greg Morrow of the Howling Curmudgeons)
PS238 (Dork Storm Press, Aaron Williams, one collection available).
Fallen Angel (DC Comics, Peter David and somebody else, one collection available).
Ultra (Image Comics, the Luna Brothers, issues 1-5 available, 6 or 8 issue miniseries).
Identity Crisis.
The artist on Fallen Angel is David Lopez, and that's my vote too. For God's sake, why aren't more of you bastards reading this title?
Lurkers miniseries from IDW by Steve Niles and Hector Casanova. The first three issues are available.
Mother Russia is looking to be extremely good. Everyone says Max isn't close to the Marvel Knights Ennis stuff. I think it's just as good. The art isn't as good as Dillon's but it's still good.
Hey Brian, I'm changing my vote to the Hitman Ace Of Killers tpb! It's a fun romp with plenty of feeling.
Darnit, Joe, I actually could have read the Longshot mini-series recently!
But not anymore.
And Peepshow is out of stock at Diamond.
However, I did order Fallen Angel TPB , Lurkers #1-3, The Pro (yeah, thetechnocrat, I put that order in already...sorry), Electric Girl Vol. 1 TPB and The Punisher Max Vol. 1 TPB
"Phoenix" by Osamu Tezuka. Start with "Phoenix: Dawn." Viz started publishing these in English but stopped about midway through. Good stuff.
Since Brian cowardly backed out of my two suggestions, let me see if I can come up with another one. How about: Snake 'n Bacon's Comic Calvacade? If not that, then Pussey!
Shake 'n' Bacon is unavailable for order.
Pussey is out of stock.
Give me another one!
Intimates, I'm good with.
I just ordered Phoenix:Dawn.
And Dan, I'll review either one, but aren't both of them, like, really really famous?
Either of Kirkman's Image titles. Walking Dead or Invincible? They both have been put into Trades recently.
Jed
Sure, Jed, I'll do an Invincible one right now.
I'm having crappy luck. Or the catalogue has a crappy selection, one of the two.
How about Little Lit (any of them)?
Pupshaw and Pushpaw?
Mister O?
Hicksville?
Beg The Question?
Top Ten?
Hicksville, it is!
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