i'll go ahead and mention this here because i've never seen anyone else mention it around the forums(so i'm assuming it's not overly popular on kmc), but i started reading rucka's/brubaker's 'gotham central' yesterday and i am legitimately hooked now. for anyone who isn't familiar: 'gotham central' focuses on the men and women of the gotham city police department and the difficulties they face living and working in gotham with batman and his villain gallery. it has very original and well-written subplots coupled with michael lark's fantastic artwork(which suits the tone of the series perfectly.) i can definitely see why it won the eisner and harvey awards.
suffice to say: this comes highly recommend. tbh, i can't imagine any comic book fan not enjoying it.
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will check it out. just recently tried the first couple issues of rise of the magi. NOT so highly recommending it.....has potential, so i'll give it a chance, but right now, not so great.....
have you tried sixth gun, four lazarus or rachel rising? they are my next to-read projects...
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lazarus=outstanding. REALLY enjoyed it.
sixth gun=VERY outstanding. i'ma huge fan of some of the themes and the way the story is told in the series. very addictive imo. highly recommend both series'. i'll be trying raising rachel shortly.
Just finished Ex Machina. Vaughn is apparently a writer I'm always going to enjoy, but who will remain outside my absolute favorites. I really enjoyed it, would recommend it to anyone, but it stopped short of transcendent imo. Much the same way I felt about Vaugn's "Y: The Last Man." I know others will have a higher estimation of Y, but it's not a knock on Vaughn...I really enjoyed both.
Exactly the same way I feel about him. Saga for example is something I'm really enjoying at the moment and it has such amazing style and a really gripping storyline, but it just lacks that special something that blows me away that I'll find in say, a Grant Morrison comic.
I've never taken to Morrison, personally. But I get what you're saying, and I agree. For me, the easiest comparison is to Warren Ellis, who is my favorite comic writer by a comfortable margin.
It's about a superhero cop, who gets sick of only being allowed to take psychopaths and monsters into custody and therefore starts killing them. That of course is against the law and the police goes after him.
SENTRY - VOLUME 1
It's about an aged man, who one day wakes up and realizes that he was a superhero once, but something terrible happened and the world forgot about him. He goes into the night to find out more about his past.
SUPERMAN - PEACE ON EARTH
Superman realiszes that in all of his years of crime fighting he left the worst opponent untouched: the world hunger. He makes the effort to battle it.
SUPERMAN - EARTH ONE
A more modern take on Superman, which ultimately makes Superman more relateable.
SILVER SURFER - REQUIEM
Silver Surfer realizes that he is dying and that no one can help him. He goes out to find his true purpose.
And even though it's 17 issues, it should be noted it is not a decompressed comic- it follows war reports and key scenes in the war, meaning a good amount of things have happened in that time. The Battle of Paris, the Second Blitz of London, the Allies' own superhuman development programs, and so on.
Also, even though it has nazi superhumans, it's very much not a glorification of them. It's interesting how the additional of superhumans, due to them being added so late, generally just makes things worse for, well, pretty much everyone!
Yeah at first I worried a bit it would be some awkward case of role reversal. 'What if the germans were the 'good' guys or something. Fortunately it's a nuanced portrayal of what could've happened.
Couldn't really imagine anyone in western media create something that paints Germany as anything other than comic-book evil.
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