Sperg about comic books here

[GoPro]

Just curious, how dost anybody here get their sequential art fix these days?

I mostly read manga, niche, and European comics. Many European books are digital digital only, so there is no choice unless I want to have French versions. Some smaller publishers like Epicenter sell physical books through Ebay, so that's where I get my Italian comic books. Other than that it is buying directly from creators and publishers, izneo, comixology, ebay, smaller online bookstores, and if all else fails Amazon. If manga or TPB I want is available in a bookstore near me, I will get it there. If I like a comic, I want to make sure that creator and publisher gets incentive to publish it, and the biggest share of the price possible.
I go to library to get comics I am interested in, but not willing to pay for and use space on.

I stop by at a comic book store once in a while. Mainly because there is a chance that I will stumble upon something I would have not otherwise. Usually I do it once every two to four months. Sadly, most of inventory is taken up by big two comics, and I lost interest in most of Marvel's and DCs products long time ago. Staff I met has been a mixed bag. Most of them have little knowledge of stuff that isn't big two or Image flavor of the month. On rare occasions I have met people who were able to recommend something interesting, like Guerillas and Orc Stain.

I do not buy floppies at all. They are a waste of money and space.

 

[Moguro Fukuzou]

Just curious, how dost anybody here get their sequential art fix these days?

I mainly buy from Chapters since I decided to try out plum+ and it's a lot easier to order from them online than any of the semi-local comic shops that don't post their stock online and are a pain to get to. I've never had problems with any of the local places I've gone, honestly always been pretty chill and helpful, they're just inconvenient to go to at the best of times and covid hasn't helped.

Still read things online before I buy, but that's just a carry over from my years of reading manga. Most titles I either don't finish or thought were okay enough but unlikely to re-read, so I only buy the few that pass past those two tiers.

 

[CrazyRandomZyn]

I'm starting to read "WATCHMEN".
What can I expect to read?

 

[Kornula]

I'm starting to read "WATCHMEN".
What can I expect to read?

Amazing writing and art that no movie can ever capture.

 

[CrazyRandomZyn]

Amazing writing and art that no movie can ever capture.

You're absolutely right!! I'm currently reading the fictional memoir "Under the Hood" and I totally believe that the illustrations in it would have been photos for the readers in-universe.

 

[Kornula]

You're absolutely right!! I'm currently reading the fictional memoir "Under the Hood" and I totally believe that the illustrations in it would have been photos for the readers in-universe.

The Watchmen had been in development for decades. It went through a string of scripts and directors. Just before that hack, Snyder butchereed it, Terry Gilliam tried to take a crack at bringing it to the screen. He read the Graphic Novel...and said its literally unfilmable. Terry Gilliam made the unfilmable book: Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas" ....and he turned it down mostly for "Under The Hood" and the Black Pirate bits.. which are HUGE parts of the whole graphic novel.

 

[CrazyRandomZyn]

The Watchmen had been in development for decades. It went through a string of scripts and directors. Just before that hack, Snyder butchereed it, Terry Gilliam tried to take a crack at bringing it to the screen. He read the Graphic Novel...and said its literally unfilmable. Terry Gilliam made the unfilmable book: Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas" ....and he turned it down mostly for "Under The Hood" and the Black Pirate bits.. which are HUGE parts of the whole graphic novel.

Oh my God, and I was thinking of watching the film adaptation after the graphic novel. I shall stick to the comic for now.

 

[Kornula]

Oh my God, and I was thinking of watching the film adaptation after the graphic novel. I shall stick to the comic for now.

I personaly refuse to watch ANYTHING Snyder "directs" however, watch it if you like Snyder. Keep in mind, he also totally changes the ending... which pisses me off more than the mediocre directing job he did.

 

[CrazyRandomZyn]

I personaly refuse to watch ANYTHING Snyder "directs" however, watch it if you like Snyder. Keep in mind, he also totally changes the ending... which pisses me off more than the mediocre directing job he did.

Oh, I knew from movie reviews in magazines (when they didn't sperg about Dr. Manhattan's cock and sex scene) that the ending was different.
I also read "WATCHMEN" fan comics prior to checking it out 10 years prior.

 

[Overly Serious]

Selina decided she can not marry Bruce because that'll make Bruce be happy and she believes Bruce can not both be happy and be Batman at the same time and it is more important for him to be Batman.

Which is dumb because if there were anyone in Bruce's life that would think he should give up being Batman and just enjoy life, it would be Catwoman. At least you would think.

Unless she thinks he couldn't be happy not being Batman but then that's circular logic.

 

[JimiHendrix]

Which is dumb because if there were anyone in Bruce's life that would think he should give up being Batman and just enjoy life, it would be Catwoman. At least you would think.

Unless she thinks he couldn't be happy not being Batman but then that's circular logic.

i don't know. Joker was in a church and he talked Selina into it or some shit.

it's very difficult to tell which parts of Tom King's run is bad because he was being a monkey man and which is because DC forced his hand.

Tom King has legitimately written some good stuff. The Button was good. bringing Thomas back wasn't. Clark and Bruce at the carnival was good. killing off alfred wasn't. Selina not marrying him wasn't.

I know killing off Alfred was something DC forced, I don't know about the rest. so i don't know who to point my small scraggly finger at.

 

[Overly Serious]

i don't know. Joker was in a church and he talked Selina into it or some shit.

it's very difficult to tell which parts of Tom King's run is bad because he was being a monkey man and which is because DC forced his hand.

Tom King has legitimately written some good stuff. The Button was good. bringing Thomas back wasn't. Clark and Bruce at the carnival was good. killing off alfred wasn't. Selina not marrying him wasn't.

I know killing off Alfred was something DC forced, I don't know about the rest. so i don't know who to point my small scraggly finger at.

I read the beginning of this run and you are right. I'm not sure when exactly I tapped out but I do recall the Bruce + Selina, Clark + Lois double date. It was fun, even if my interpretations of the characters I can't really see Clark and Selina getting along. Where I stopped was sometime around finding there was this big secret alliance of villains all ganging up to make Batman feel depressed (may be a snide take on it, but whatever). It just doesn't work for me. Atrocious art aside, Knightfall worked because the villains were still doing their own thing in their own way and the co-ordinator (Bane) wasn't forging some sort of alliance, he was just setting them loose and taking advantage. A team-up of Batman villains has seldom really felt right to me. Most of them would hate each other and not work well together, realistically.

 

[JimiHendrix]

Where I stopped was sometime around finding there was this big secret alliance of villains all ganging up to make Batman feel depressed (may be a snide take on it, but whatever)

yeah that's about correct. Thomas Wayne and Bane teamed up to make Batman depressed so he'd stop being Batman to achieve this villains alliance they used Psycho-Pirate to mind control the majority of Batman's villains.

which is why Batman enlisted Ventriloquist because Ventriloquist is apparently immune to mind control because he's already being "controlled" by Scarface.

I read all of Tom Kings run, I remember few select parts of it being very good, but overall it wasn't great and even DC agreed considering they cut his run from 100 issues to 80.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Has Calvin & Hobbes received the cancel culture treatment yet?

Spoiler: To clarify

Not that I would try doing it, but I’m surprised to see it not get picked up by the people that support what cancel culture can do to you. It’s silly to even think about it.

 

[JimiHendrix]

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Has Calvin & Hobbes received the cancel culture treatment yet?

Spoiler: To clarify

Not that I would try doing it, but I’m surprised to see it not get picked up by the people that support what cancel culture can do to you. It’s silly to even think about it.

calvin and hobbes is an old comic from the 80/90s. that's like 20 years before people who support cancel culture were even born and i'm not even convinced the majority of them can read.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

calvin and hobbes is an old comic from the 80/90s. that's like 20 years before people who support cancel culture were even born and i'm not even convinced the majority of them can read.

Well, that’s not entirely true. They do read somewhat, like that book White Fragility.

 

[JimiHendrix]

i was trying to read Batman comics and i accidentally stumbled into Knight's End so I guess I'm reading Knight's End now.

 

[Newman's Lovechild]

I stumbled through Man-Bat for four issues, nothing much changes: Kirk Langstrom is a pointless loser, his wife never loved him and was right to run away, he gets regular lectures from competent women who tell him she was right to run away. Latest issue, Scarecrow up and tells him that he clings onto Man-Bat because it's the manifestation of his toxic masculinity.

I think I'm done.

Pity, because the artist was mostly excellent. I hope he learns to code crowdfund if AT&T pulls the plug.

European open domain books from Glenat are solid, but more hit and miss than Dark Horse's titles. They are published by Blaze as "Cimmerian" in the U.S. due to licensing reasons.

Their adaptation of Red Nails is great. Then I read Queen of the Black Coast. A montage of Conan awkwardly humping Belit, so that readers see no naughty bits, by a not-quite top-drawer artist, while exposition floats past in text boxes - it's a bit, 'yyyeah'.

Just curious, how dost anybody here get their sequential art fix these days?

Mostly digital. Comixology, Dark Horse app, Shonen Jump app.

and ough: the occasional reading stuff online for free and not paying - though to be fair I mostly do that to satisfy my itch with older comics

And that.

On the rare ocassion I buy something solid, it's usually a nice hardbound edition of something I already read and liked.

I haven't visited an actual direct market comic shop in a few years - not that I've soured on the very idea of brick and mortar comic retailers, it's just gotten too easy to get what I want online, and the nearest comic shop I would consider stepping foot in is too far away to justify the expense of driving there and back on a semi-regular basis.

Same, mostly, except I did sour. Mainstream comics turned to trash in my eyes, even before the late 2010s, the store often didn't get in books I still enjoyed, that were on my pull list, and they started to put up little markers of wokeness about the place. Less and less reason to get in the car.

i read somewhere that they are doing mask of the phantasm on comic form how is going?

They are?

I read Batman Year Two a few days ago. That was like Mask of the Phantasm. Except shitter.

comixology... and if all else fails Amazon

News for you, Slim.

 

[GranDuke]

Woman from Mask of the Phantasm is appearing in King's Batman/Catwoman mini if I'm not mistaken.

 

[God of Nothing]

Woman from Mask of the Phantasm is appearing in King's Batman/Catwoman mini if I'm not mistaken.

What? Is she gonna leave him at the altar too?