Great reads that no one knows about..?

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.

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...

^ no, although i might give them a go after i'm done with gotham central. i've heard great things.

well, after a few issues of lazarus, i can def recommend it. very, very good stuff. 👆

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.

good to know. i'll be checking those out this week, hopefully.

btw, gotham central was fantastic. 👆

just read a GN called "The Blot", written by tom neely.

unquestionably the strangest book i have ever read by a large margin. that being said, i was strangely...intrigued by it. anyone else read this?

Originally posted by leonidas
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.

Lazarus is great.

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.

Originally posted by Digi
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.

Originally posted by appletonia
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.

ABSOLUTION

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.

Kieron Gillen's über is pretty amazing. Only 17 issues out thus far, sadly.

Art's amazing, tons of delicious aryan überwomen.

The writing is also good 🙂

huh, never heard of it. will check out. 👆

I thought I'd mentioned Pride of Baghdad in this thread.

Anyways, Pride of Baghdad is another great read that not many people on here know about.

Originally posted by krisblaze
Kieron Gillen's über is pretty amazing. Only 17 issues out thus far, sadly.

Art's amazing, tons of delicious aryan überwomen.

The writing is also good 🙂

Yea, it's good, but gorey, so be warned.

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!

I'm reading Lazarus and loving it, leo!

Originally posted by Q99
Yea, it's good, but gorey, so be warned.

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!

Couldn't really imagine anyone in western media create something that paints Germany as anything other than comic-book evil.

And sadly there is no rule 34 of klaudia 🙁

Originally posted by Digi
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.

Sorry for double-post, but could you please elaborate a bit on Ex Machina?

I've read 3 issues now and it doesn't really pique my interest.

I enjoy most of Vaughn's stuff actually, but something just rubs me the wrong way. Will it get better?

digi doesn't like morrison. that's enough to tell you what to make of his "opinion". sneer

Originally posted by krisblaze
Sorry for double-post, but could you please elaborate a bit on Ex Machina?

I've read 3 issues now and it doesn't really pique my interest.

I enjoy most of Vaughn's stuff actually, but something just rubs me the wrong way. Will it get better?

It's politics done pretty well by a mayor who happens to be the world's only former superhero.

There's also lots of buildup to the secret of where the power came from and such. Some quite interesting, weird stuff.

However, I did find the last volume didn't live up to the buildup.