Great reads that no one knows about..?

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?

Hard to say more than I did before, tbh. Anything else would just be synopsis. You'd be better served by a wiki preview or something similar.

I don't really remember what it was like after three issues,though. No one moment stood out to me more than others...I just think of it as a complete work. It's got as many political elements as super hero stuff, since he's mayor and all. Maybe that will turn some off?

Ex-Machina was great, I think I'm going to re-read it.

I'd also recommend DMZ to those who like Ex-Machina. Brian Wood has a very similar style to Brian Vaughan.

Girls

Originally posted by krisblaze
I'm reading Lazarus and loving it, leo!

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.

Mind, comic-book evil is a lot less disturbing!

Originally posted by krisblaze
I'm reading Lazarus and loving it, leo!

just got caught up on the last couple issues. i really can't recommend it enough. the world is sooooo well done. i love the letter columns bit--really fleshes things out. forever is friggin' awesome. 👆

They're doing a great job with Forever, incredible character imo.

Need some new reads, anybody got recommendations?

If you can get hold of them - they have been out of print for a while but pop up now and then on ebay and suchlike - Grant Morrsion wrote a five-part series based around a character called Zenith for the Uk comic 2000AD. It is awesome. The main character is a superhuman but utterly obnoxious, and he has to team up with some of the most original characters created in comics to defeat a universe-level threat. It's funny, intelligent, and it has brilliant art by Steve Yeowell.

Alan Moore's Albion is also really good. He imagines a bunch of long-forgotten British comic book heroes as they would function in the world today. Very funny.

I've had a really hard time getting a hold of the 2000AD comics 🙁

^ I have every 2000AD-related comic that has been published(a few thousand issues total.) Good stuff... Very obscure/underrated material(around here, at least.) 🤓

Originally posted by Galan007
^ I have every 2000AD-related comic that has been published(a few thousand issues total.) Good stuff... Very obscure/underrated material(around here, at least.) 🤓

Have you got "Matalzoic"? That's the one with a world populated with robotic dinosaurs, and the main character is a crazed robotic baboon called 'Armaggedon'. It's got Kevin Mills artwork (same guy who draws League of Extraordinary Gentlemen). That was a mad, mad story years ahead of its time. I can't remember who wrote it. I suspect that's another one that has been out of print for decades.
You're right about how under-recognised 2000AD is. Everyone knows Dredd, but there have been dozens of stories over the years that put a lot od DC/ Marvel stuff to shame. Halo Jones is another one - just genius writing.

Originally posted by wuleecat
Have you got "Matalzoic"? That's the one with a world populated with robotic dinosaurs, and the main character is a crazed robotic baboon called 'Armaggedon'. It's got Kevin Mills artwork (same guy who draws League of Extraordinary Gentlemen). That was a mad, mad story years ahead of its time. I can't remember who wrote it.

But yeah, good stuff indeed. 👆

Originally posted by Galan007
The artwork in 'Metalzoic' was done by Kevin O'neill. It was written by Pat Mills.

But yeah, good stuff indeed. 👆

Mixed my Mills and O'Neills. Thanks
I love that artwork. Nemesis the warlock was awesome when he drew it. Later artists...not so much.

Sorry to geek on about 2000AD but I also loved ABC Warriors.
That's the sort of thing I was talking about, an idea so far ahead of its time (I guess we must be talking around 1980?) but which even now, as a concept and as executed artwork and script, would make a lot of mainstream comics with their tired superhero BS look pretty lame.

Aside from Dredd, ABC Warriors and Slaine are my favorite 2000AD sub-plots. Absolutely superb storylines. 👆

Slaine...another slice of brilliance.

What amazes me was that those artists and writers were also producing stuff for a comic that was WEEKLY, not monthly or twice-yearly or anything else Marvelesque. I know that doesn't mean they were producing each set of pages and rushing them in on a weekly basis, I get that, but even so the way the stories always remained so fantastic and looked so beautiful is something of a miracle on that sort of tight timeframe.

ABC warriors - I would love to see Deadlock, Joe Pineapples or Ro-Jaws snuck into the pages of some ho-hum mainstream title, just for a single issue. The sense of humour tsunami would make most characters heads implode. (Although 'Deadpool meets Hammer-stein' would be terrific)

loved Dynamo 5, can't belive it just...ended...

I've heard of Dynamo 5, but never checked it out. Worth it, I'm gussing?

Originally posted by Galan007
I've heard of Dynamo 5, but never checked it out. Worth it, I'm gussing?

Yup, pretty standard fare though, nothing that's going to rock your world 😛

5 kids whose mysterious father turns out to be that universes superman-pastiche.

Just finished Near Death and Rebel Blood, both great.

Just read a Gaiman comic from the 90s called "The Books of Magic." Tim Hunter has apparently led a troubled life since then in the DCU, but the Gaiman mini is close to his normal standards, which are as high as any in the medium.

Originally posted by Digi
Just read a Gaiman comic from the 90s called "The Books of Magic." Tim Hunter has apparently led a troubled life since then in the DCU, but the Gaiman mini is close to his normal standards, which are as high as any in the medium.

That was a good series, I read it and most of the spinoffs.