Comics

Y:The Last Man,

Read the first one, hooked, really want the whole set.

Currently reading Scott Pilgrim atm, loving it.

Oh, check out your local library. My local one was selling off a load of graphic novels all for 25p each!

Shameless plug time...
Kisu has let me play on his blog, the results are here:

http://12comics.blogspot.com/

Shameless plug time...
Kisu has let me play on his blog, the results are here:

http://12comics.blogspot.com/

Chapeau! Great idea and great comic(s) (the others are great too)

Just saw this and thought I had to share:

Genius, further proof that Azzarello can do no wrong.

Tamara Drewe coming out in film soon so I'm going to have to finally stop putting it off and get teh book out of the library.

Posy Simmons FTW. Great shout.

Just saw this and thought I had to share:

Is it part of the joke that this is a Calvin&Hobbes rip-off? Apologies for not getting it, I don't know much about comics.

Pretty much completely the joke. Falls upon a repetition of Calvin & Hobbes behaviour where they start on a joint daydream but Hobbes gets more excited about it and pursues an ends that isn't to Calvin's liking (either effort or results) and he then resolves to pursue either a simpler/more preferable ends or resort to his common behaviour.

Transmuting that to Lex Luthor and The Joker is brilliant.

Ah, I see. I don't know Batman, either, so wouldn't have got it either way.

Basically to counterpoint Calvin becoming Lex you have to substitute Hobbes intellect, occaisional single-mindedness and excitability. The Joker provides cunning, obsession and mania, which is ideal.

Also worth mentioning that the replication of Waterson's style here is spot on, anything less would have seemed contrived and failed.

Oliver, read Batman: The Long Halloween. You won't regret it.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
In graphic novel form.
Poor.

Fuckin' A - I've started buying them in French to try to re-learn the lingo.

Best Roman Legionnaire names in the series - Sendervictorius and Appianglorius.

gluteus maximus ftw

I never got massively into them, but Give Me Liberty by dave gibbons and frank miller is excellent, I would like to see it made into a film scene-for-scene direct from the book

I also liked the Preacher comics, and when I was younger I read a few of the alternative universe Batman ones, very dark and gothic, some great imagery in there

Just scene this. Brilliant:

http://www.viruscomix.com/page528.html

Just read Set to Sea by Drew Weing - brilliant. Really simple, beautifully drawn with a minimalist narrative all bound in a really great book,

http://www.drewweing.com/settosea/

Fantagraphics doing the business.

Last couple I read were Jenny Finn: Doom Messiah (Mike Mignola, short but fun) and the compilation of the complete Jeff Smith's Bone (not in the least bit short but also fun).

Think I'm probably in the minority in that I do actually like superhero stuff, but I've never really been that into the big name ones. Think my favourite superhero series is probably the Doom Patrol which is uncannily similar to the X-men in many respects (in fact the writer of Doom Patrol has accused Stan Lee of nicking his idea). Doom Patrol's much better, though ;)

Alex on Boris Bikes:

Just shopping for xmas pressies for my Dad, who was massively into comics when I was a kid, and therefore the reason I got massively into comics. So recently I'd been buying some 200AD series graphic novels that we both loved for him while he was stuck at home with the broken leg, Strontium Dog, Rogue Trooper etc.

I just stumbled on the re-issue of Commando in large format, and am quite excited about it - we both used to love these little books
http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/george+low/22commando223a+true+brit/5252814/
Does anyone else remember them? great drawing and epic war stories.

I'm trying to remember the name of the science fiction ones, was it Space Blaster? help me out here.

EDIT: Found it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starblazer explains why they were such a bastard to get hold of..

Sci fi comics- i loved them when i was a kid
fantastic tales

and marvel comics especially doctor strange

then graduated to robert crumb and fffb's

I've still got some Dr Strange, my dad loved em.
I love the freak brothers.

sounds like i'm the same generation as your dad clefty;-)

just remembered I've got a standing order at my local comic shop, so will have a years worth of comics to read when I return to london in january. Get In!
Hellboy, Astro City, and anything which Frank Miller has decided to grace us with.
Happy as larry.

I bought myself a Christmas pressie today. Grandville, by Bryan Talbot. Not quite as detailed as the Luther Arkwright stuff, but a cracking read nevertheless.
Steampunk (in a good way), Sherlock Holmesey, with huge nods to Rupert Bear and Tintin, very recommended.
Also catching up on www.freakangels.com, you can buy the books, but it's free online and there's an episode uploaded every Friday. Psychic Shoreditch hipsters in post-apocalyptic flooded London shock...