MasterWhedon wrote:I just read all seven volumes of Y: The Last Man, and boy do I ever love me a collected story.
I buy Powers and Ultimate Spider-Man in trade, and I find they work really, really well that way, probably better than as monthlies.
thedoglippedone wrote:I'm going to link in Lecko's Building the ultimate collection thread
Criminally, it has no love yet. It might prove useful within the context of this thread tho'
Leckomaniac wrote:thedoglippedone wrote:I'm going to link in Lecko's Building the ultimate collection thread
Criminally, it has no love yet. It might prove useful within the context of this thread tho'
Thanks for the love DLO. I ALWAYS check that link when looking for new things to pick up. It really does do a great job of covering just about everything.
Doc Holliday wrote:I've got the Age of Apocalypse Books I-III in tpb - which is just as well as it makes it easier to follow across the various titles.
I really don't see the point in issuing all 3 before June this year, then making me wait until 15th November for the fourth and final book. though that is my birthday, so you know...happy birthday to me.
I have studiously avoided Civil War for this reason - I took one look at how many different titles were covering it and thought "I'll just wait for them to bundle them altogether for me".
Mind you....what a wait.
I might crack.
cap wrote:I appreciate that my friend. Much like Vegeta and I tried not to do the same for Angel and Buffy....
I have also thought of getting into the new Astonishing X Men. Its still pretty fresh, with much Joss Whedon involvement. Got a little preview, it is very well done.
Bob Poopflingius Maximus wrote:Almost everything I get I get in TPB. I am lazy and do not always have money when the singles come out.
Lady Sheridan wrote:Amazon.com's used book section is a great place to pick up used trades. I just bought We3 there for $7.00 plus shipping, and I got my Astonishing and Ultimate #1's for $5.00--and the seller threw in Vol 2 for free.
Alot of them aren't even used, they are bargain dealers selling books ridiculously cheap.
I'm on the lookout for a cheap Watchmen at the moment, I haven't read it either...
thedoglippedone wrote:I'll look around for Blue then. Have you read Daredevil : Yellow by Loeb & Sale? Very good.
Al_Shut wrote:I decided to finaly close some of the gaps in my comic education and picked up the Dark Knight Returns and I have to say I'm a bit underwhelmed.
Sure it's not bad but I don't get the amount of praise it gets even 20 years after its release.
Would it help I knew more about Batmans history (For instance who Jason was and what exactly hapend to him)? Can somoone explain the appeal tthat the story obviously seems to have to a lot of people?
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:Al_Shut wrote:I decided to finaly close some of the gaps in my comic education and picked up the Dark Knight Returns and I have to say I'm a bit underwhelmed.
Sure it's not bad but I don't get the amount of praise it gets even 20 years after its release.
Would it help I knew more about Batmans history (For instance who Jason was and what exactly hapend to him)? Can somoone explain the appeal tthat the story obviously seems to have to a lot of people?
Jason Todd. Replaced Dick Grayson as Robin. Killed by the Joker. (before he was killed by the stans)
I don't know what to say to convince you of DKR's utter badassery, genius and esteemed place in comics history, 'cept that in 1986, the trifecta of Watchmen, Maus, and DKR utterly revolutionized comics.
I mean, aging Bruce? The sheer chutzpah and zany logic of the idea (as Miller said in an intro, he wanted Batman to be older than he was again, like when he was a kid), coupled with the more realistic approach to the Bats (yeah, there's still the giant penny, but still...)? Stuff like that just wasn't done back then.
The heroes are gone, the world is going to shite, and who comes out of retirement to make things right? An obsessive vigilante.
The showdown with Supes, the killing(?) of the Joker, the piece by piece takedown of the mutant leader and, finally, Robin as a chick...c'mon, what the fuck didn't you like about it?
I-fucking-conic comic.
Ribbons wrote:I think we also tend to take for granted just how much the comic did for the character of Batman. It basically set the template for who he is now.
unikrunk wrote:do NOT purchase, read, or even look in the general direction of The Dark Knight Strikes Again. In every sense that DKR was fan-fucking-tastic, DKSA is equally a total wash. THe art is horrid, the story is covulted, trite shit, and, well, that's about it. It sucks.
/Except for the release of Ray Palmer, kinda cool.
unikrunk wrote:And what the shit was going on with the art, and the story? Really, it was a total let down.
unikrunk wrote:Fucking WW looks like Zorba the Greek, fer Christ's sake
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:I don't know what to say to convince you of DKR's utter badassery, genius and esteemed place in comics history, 'cept that in 1986, the trifecta of Watchmen, Maus, and DKR utterly revolutionized comics.
I mean, aging Bruce? The sheer chutzpah and zany logic of the idea (as Miller said in an intro, he wanted Batman to be older than he was again, like when he was a kid), coupled with the more realistic approach to the Bats (yeah, there's still the giant penny, but still...)? Stuff like that just wasn't done back then.
The heroes are gone, the world is going to shite, and who comes out of retirement to make things right? An obsessive vigilante.
The showdown with Supes, the killing(?) of the Joker, the piece by piece takedown of the mutant leader and, finally, Robin as a chick...c'mon, what the fuck didn't you like about it?
I-fucking-conic comic.
unikrunk wrote:I don't think you can really compare the two books; apples and footballs.
Watchmen is a deftly layered, incredibly executed work, and functions on a whole other level than any other comic, even Moore's other work.
DKR may not be the best comic ever, but I think it is the best Batman comic ever, well, ties with Year One at the very least.
Keepcoolbutcare wrote: in 1986, the trifecta of Watchmen, Maus, and DKR utterly revolutionized comics.
DennisMM wrote:Watchmen is superhero comics by Thomas Pynchon. DKR is superhero comics by Ernest Hemingway filtered through William Faulkner.
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