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Frag Tag Mini 3 said:
Ok, just to be clear. By Sperg are we talking positive or negative? Because I have had an absolutely miserable fucking time with comics lately that's made me honestly kinda not want to read them anymore. And I could go on for pages about it. But I don't want to drop that shit in the wrong thread if it's more about deep appreciation than venting frustrations.
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A good chuck of this thread is people complaining about modern comics so I think you’ll be fine.
DocAwe said:
You goys reading anything interesting?
I've started Hawkworld.
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I just finished Infinity Inc. and I’m now in the weird point of picking something else out to read. It was good up until the last year or so when the crisis retcons started happening and made everything confusing. Overall I enjoyed it despite that.
 
Anon88 said:
A good chuck of this thread is people complaining about modern comics so I think you’ll be fine.
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Thank God. Ok, so I think I have recently read the worst book I have ever read. It's called The High Desert and it is so bad I walked away from it thinking less of the author as a person. So, entire comic is a very whiny 14 year old goes to a small town high school in (I think) Arizona. There, he encounters some fairly small issues and refuses to make any real decisions for himself, instead mostly bitching about white people and everything not being black enough. At some point he takes a trip to New York where he buys 100 dollar shoes before stealing food from charity workers that was meant for homeless people. After that he hangs out with some lady who is so terminally insane that Canadian M.A.I.D. would have been a mercy for her. After bitching about how shit white people are, he is then informed that everyone with a penis is a threat which is something he just goes along with. In the end, he decides punk rock really belongs to black people because the most punk thing you can do is declare ownership of musical concepts. Also declares that racist people aren't allowed to be punk, with racism just being......well being white. Then goes home where he bitches his mom out for bothering to care about him, having his friend die from an OD, whine about not getting to bang chicks, and in the end leaves the town because his mom loves him enough to want him to go to a better school which honestly, even the skin heads in the book deserved better than him. Worst acts of racism that happened to him is that some skin heads drove by and chucked a bottle at his moms car, and his black friend got beat up before they ran off with his guitar.

And everyone around me fucking loves this book. I have rarely seen such utter insanity. The only people in the book who aren't commiting several crimes such as vandalism and theft are all the white people that are bad. Meanwhile everyone this guy likes is either trashing random people's houses or stealing money and food from them. Not stealing as in "Oh well, jimmy left his trash out so I went through the trash can to salvage that perfectly good TV he was throwing out" but like, actually stealing hard money from people by doing shit like jamming tissues into the coin slots of pay phones so that it wouldn't kick out change. Then they would go up the next day, yank the tissues out, and get everyone's change. I don't even feel bad when the skin heads that have swastikas on their arm come over and kick his friends ass cause I'm like "Yeah, you fucking broke into some randos house and tore their stuff to shit and even made them buy a new fire extinguisher. I'm not even sure this is a hate crime as much as them getting even for possible wrecking a friends house."

Also, the art is so bad, you have several sections that are just confusing as fuck and you sit there not sure what certain things are.

And this is all his memoirs, so this is all stuff he's proudly declaring was his youth. And keep in mind, none of the theft or property destruction is said to be bad in the book. I rarely say this, the world would actually be a better place if the guy that wrote this unironically killed himself. Same with the fans of the book.
 
DocAwe said:
You goys reading anything interesting?
I've started Hawkworld.
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Had a sick day yesterday, so I sat around reading all of Universe X and started on Paradise X. It's wild the highbrow shit Marvel used to make before Disney turned them into a brown IP farm. Imagine cracking open a Marvel book today and seeing longform arguments on freewill and predestination instead of "I maek graffiti which is da troo art lol fukk old dead whyties (but also: pronouns)."
 
DocAwe said:
You goys reading anything interesting?
I've started Hawkworld.
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Nothing from the big 2 at the moment, other than Absolute.

But from smaller publishers, I've been looking into and following a few things.

-The Sacrificers: I'm a fan of Remender, so I'm not surprised I liked this one. It's about a fantasy world populated by human-like and anthropomorphic animal people, where each family gives up one child to the Gods. We follow the story of one Bird kid who was collected by the Gods' servants, and of the daughter of the ruling Sun God and Moon Goddess of this world, who accidentally gets mixed up with the sacrificed kids. Lots of twists, and obviously social commentary, but the story is interesting enough that I can let it slide. It hasn't ended yet, but it's clearly coming to it. And in fact, the conclusion it reaches is very much not what you'd expect from this kind of social commentary. Art is very good, characters are endearing, I recommend it.

-When I Lay My Vengeance Upon Thee: It's a comic about a couple of exorcists sent to deal with a possessed child on an island ambiguously placed in either Chile or Argentina, but clearly very far down south. It's pretty interesting, but more than talking about it, I wanna point out I really like this artist, Jakub Rebelka. I'd seen some of his illustrations years ago, and suddenly I started seeing comics with his art. The first I read was one about Judas going through hell after his suicide, then I found this one. He's got a number of comics published by Boom Studios, apparently, including one about Lovecraft. I intend to go through his works, but I'm stuck because there's one issue of the exorcism book that's not available online in any of the sites, and it's not the last one.

-Our Soot Stained Hearts: A story that takes the Santa mythos and twists it for a pretty interesting setting. A city in the middle of a cold, snowy region, in which everyone is mandated by law to commit a quota of evil acts, so Santa will send them coal, which they desperately need to keep the cold away. The main character is a hard-working girl who refuses to do evil, and flees into the wilderness in search of Santa. Great art, characters aren't that profound, but the premise is interesting enough to keep me going.

There's a bunch of other Boom Studios books that caught my eye but I won't speak of them until I read them.
 
I read "Our Soot Stained Heart" and really liked it.
Good pick.

I'm also reading this old independent comic (Mind Visions) called "Tigers of Terra - The Families of Altered Wars"
It was written by Ted Nomura.
He did a lot of work for Antarctic Press too.
It's a war comic mostly focusing on several combat air wings.
The story bounces between WWII and the war on Terra in the 2030s.
It's a little confusing as a lot of the characters look similar and it's in B&W.
It helps to be an airplane geek to read it.
I worked aerospace in a past life so it doesn't bother me but the average reader might get put off by the info dumps about the planes/spacecraft.
 
I forgot to say, and I think it counts because even though it's a webcomic, it does have print versions (and book 5 just came out); after a long, long time of faffing about and hiatuses because of various things, events are finally occurring again in Kill Six Billion Demons, Actually from a few weeks back, but big things happened in the last two weeks.

To give you an idea of how slow it's been, after the most recent update I went back to a page from about a year ago I think, and in a matter of minutes I was back at the present.
 
Nick Obre said:
I forgot to say, and I think it counts because even though it's a webcomic, it does have print versions (and book 5 just came out); after a long, long time of faffing about and hiatuses because of various things, events are finally occurring again in Kill Six Billion Demons, Actually from a few weeks back, but big things happened in the last two weeks.

To give you an idea of how slow it's been, after the most recent update I went back to a page from about a year ago I think, and in a matter of minutes I was back at the present.
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Sometimes a webcomic ends up being cool.
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Jetpack Himmler said:
Great mini-series. Such a shame that DC retroactively decided that it was a reboot three years after Crisis instead of leaving it as a "year one" story.
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Just finished issue #4.
I'm really liking it so far, picking up one or two issues when I hit the LCS on Wednesdays.
 
drfuzzyballs said:
Last time I read in a comic format was "The Drifting Classroom" which was a 10 part manga with similar themes to a Stephen King story. I would rate it 8/10
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Did you get the printed book or do the scan online? I really enjoyed it too. It was interesting to see kind of a different style to writing from so many decades ago. Would love to read more like it.
 
DeadwastePrime said:
irredeemable (and incorruptible by extension) seem more approachable than the boys, but invincible is more approachable than either comic series imo
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The boys is trash.
It's just sex, blood, and violence with no redeeming qualities.
It's just the creators personal fantasies put to paper.
Except for starlight, none of the characters are likeable.
 
No kill rules are retarded relics of the Comic Code Authority and outside Daredevil’s are always ridiculous, especially for a medium that hasn’t been for kids in decades. At least Matt’s has a genuine point and is written as the chain it is. Batman’s is retarded and for all his edge and in-universe hype, he comes off really pathetic for not even trying to end the misery machine. Absolute gets that one bonus I’ll grant it. He shouldn’t be killing everyone but Black Mask did deserve the ears through the head.

Writers insisting on focusing on them doesn’t help. That isn’t to say the opposite is preferable and Zack Snyder’s approach is retarded for it, just like the Punisher/Authority/90s “KILL THEM ALL TO THE DEATH,” approach.

Nuance. Superman doesn’t have one, Captain America doesn’t and they’re paragons. It’s the coastal mindset that’s the reason prisons are overflowing. Sometimes someone is in-fact an evil piece of shit who deserves to die. It’s not relative, it’s not fixable, some things are immutable. Black and white, good and evil. You can kill garbage and still be a moral, upstanding person. Superman sure as shit isn’t losing sleep over killing/using lethal force with intent to kill against Brainiac, Mongul, Dracula, Henshaw, Eradicator, Parasite, Doomsday, Prime, Zod, Darkseid and even Lex a few times pre-N52. He was fucked up with his first kills (the three Kryptonians) as anyone should be. But he didn’t suddenly stop being the man his parents raised him to be.

Think I’m exaggerating? They did a redemption arc for Norman “I killed the girl and still get boners from it” Osborn.
 
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