Great reads that no one knows about..?

Started by krisblaze14 pages

"They are not like us" is okay, kinda dragging on tbh.

Copperhead is good.

Going to try reading Rumble next.

Anybody ready "Tooth and Claw" by Busiek?

"They Are Not Like Us" has the trouble in that Strong Female Protagonist is already a *great* take on superpowered people not being superheroes. The bits I looked at didn't interest me.

Which does remind me, the first Strong Female Protagonist book is great ^^ Basic take, superpowers came up, so did some supervillains, the heroes basically won, and now Megagirl, the strongest brick in the setting, has quit being a hero, and is trying to figure out how to actually change the world. Includes some dark-but-awesome stuff, like one regenerator's approach to the problem.

Oh yea, Mark Waid's Empire is in the middle of having a sequel coming out. I'm tradewaiting, but the first one (Basically, 'what if Dr. Doom conquers the Earth?'. The first novel starts when he's 90%+ done) was great, and it's Waid, Waid is great.

I'll check out SFP now!

Does anybody have any series that span more than 10-20 comics to recommend? I enjoy shorter series every now and then, but they basically last me an hour or so...

Originally posted by krisblaze

Does anybody have any series that span more than 10-20 comics to recommend? I enjoy shorter series every now and then, but they basically last me an hour or so...

Hm... if one travels back in time a bit, the old Crossgen titles had several solid comics.

Negation (space opera, buncha people from all over find themselves in an alien prison camp in another universe), Ruse (Sherlock Holmes with more weirdness), Way of the Rat (kung fu), there was some good stuff.

Or hey, there's Judge Dredd. That can keep anyone occupied for awhile ^^

I haven't read Ruse and Way of the Rat, I'll check them out!

Reading SFP, pretty good.

Author's added these shitty comments at the end of every other page though. Sooo unnecessary.

I skipped the comments, figuring they were behind-the-scenes stuff better off for a re-read.

anyone reading american vampire, second chronicles? anyone picked up lazarus yet? LOVE that series....

I really need to check out Lazarus at some point.

yes you do. sneer

btw, sandman overture is pretty awesome so far. i think the art is...utterly incredible.

Spoiler:
is his father supposed to be 'god' or the yahew from lucifer you think...? i mean he did seem to be eating an apple from the tree of knowledge so maybe it's supposed to be that obvious....

I definitely think he's supposed to be the Supreme Being... I can't imagine him calling anyone else 'Father'. /shrug

i agree, just an odd take on the character. i would have expected something more in line with what we saw in lucifer. also didn't have a real sense of omniscience for some reason. maybe just me? really enjoying the series though.

ps--you'll probably like lazarus even more than i do. for some reason i just see it as being in your wheelhouse. you'll correct me if i'm wrong i'm sure, but i think you'll really love that series. a thinking man's series it is. 👆

Yeah, Overture has been excellent. The artwork alone is worth checking it out... Just phenomenal.

You've been recommending Lazarus for a long time now. It just keeps slipping my mind, lol. I think I'll start reading it tonight. 👆

cool, pm me and let me know what you think.

👆

anyone tried the ascendant?

No, but I've been following this real cool book called Lazarus...

Which interestingly, has a lot of neat worldbuilding stuff in the back of the issues.

i've been saying that for months. sneer

I know, and I've said it too. It's just some of these other people oddly aren't reading it yet...