Last Comic/Graphic Novel You Have Picked Up

Picked this up:


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It was great fun, especially all the extra material at the end where, among other things, Moore delivers a very peculiar take on Alice of Wonderland fame.
Probably not as weighty as a lot of Moore's other work, but a good read anyway, with consistently amazing art by O'Neill.
 
I read the first couple of pages of that in Waterstones the other day - looked fun and interesting, but I'm not sure if the film's reputation puts me off a little.
 
And it has Fu Manchu as possibly the most creepy and evil thing ever to be glimpsed through a door left ajar. Creepy. I can still picture it perfectly.
 
1602 by Neil Gaiman and Any Kubert.
and the last Hellblazer TPB.
 
Angel Sanctuary 4, the infamous manga. It's sad the OVA ended with the third book, but things get far too complicated after that. Glad to see Kato is back, though Kira is my favorite. The art in this series just gets better and better; Kaori Yuri is the queen of long, floaty hair.

I am also reading The Demon Ororon, about the Prince of Hell and his affair with the daughter of an angel, as well as Under the Glass Moon, about two extremely hot mage brothers. One of them, Luka, is very fashionable and spends a lot of time lounging around in short shorts and fisnets shirts. He's gorgeous and snotty - and also the most powerful traditional mage in the world. His younger brother, Luel, is very sexy too although a little bit geeky. The first book was a lot of fun, but I can't find the second to save my life. The art is phenomenal, too.
 
I realise this sounds like I'm teasing you, but have you read the Lucifer comics, Lucifer? If so, how are they? Seen a bunch of trades lying around the stores here, and am curious but cautious.
 
Did you know that Moorcock is currently writing a story for Alan Moore's Tom Strong? It should be interesting for Multiverse fans
 
Fans of Grant Morrison should totally check out We3. Drawn by Frank Quitely, it is one of the most brilliant and beautiful graphic novels by Morrison to date.


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Above: Cover for We3 #1, art from #1

Last graphic novel picked up: league of extraordinary gentlemen Vol. II.
Great comic.
 
knivesout said:
I realise this sounds like I'm teasing you, but have you read the Lucifer comics, Lucifer? If so, how are they? Seen a bunch of trades lying around the stores here, and am curious but cautious.
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I read two. Picked them up fairly cheap- very god, but as I don't have them all confusing...
 
nixie said:
Use to be a big fan of 2000AD,so if I see the graphic novels I buy them.

The last two were the Judge child Saga and Necroplis book one.
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Judge Child - would that be the Kraken storyline, by any chance?

Yay - that with the Dead Man was great - I read it as it was happening, then came Necropolis.

Then 2000AD re-orientated towards a younger audience again, and the repercussions of it all were quickly ignored.

I don't know if 2000AD ever recovered it's interest in the more mature market.
 
I've read some recent ishes of 2000 AD - there is some good stuff going on there.

I recently read the first issue of Spider-Man India, and am rather resoundingly dissapointed. It was just a re-hash of the same old Spidey sob-story, only in a dhoti and in Mumbai. Peter Parker is Pavitr Prabhakaran, Mary Jane is Meera Jain and, instead of being bitten by a radioactive spider, Pavitr gains his powers from a mysterious bearded man, who tells him to go and 'fulfill your karma' because that's like so Indian man. The art is competent, but suffers from an excess of photoshopping. Big dissapointment all around. Maybe the kiddie crowd will like it.

I also read a rather odd contraption called Batman: Hong Kong, a graphic novel about the cowled crusader chasing down a killer in Hong Kong, written and drawn by Chinese comic-book creator Tony Wong and translated by Bat-scribe Doug Moench. The plot was total pants, although the art was cool at times.

I also read Batman: Broken City, created by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso, the team whocreated 100 Bullets. It was the darkest, grittiest and most satisfying Batman tale I've read in a while, bringing to mind both Frank Miller and shades of Bob Kane's original vigilante. Far better than Loeb and Lee's Batman: Hush which started so well and then descended rapidly into soap-opera territory.
 
Battle Royale Volume 2- the manga. Immensely satisifying, plenty of flashback sequences involving Kazuo- especially love the one showing all the things he is good at.

Not as violent/ dodgy as the others, but still just as interesting ;)
 
The last ones I got were the Scion tradepapers from Crossgen. I'm so disappointed that that company went bankrupt! So I'm trying to get my hands on the TP's while I still can. I need to somehow get ahold of the individual comics as well to finish out the storylines for Meridian, Scion, and Sigil. Those were the 3 series I got hooked on. I'd like to pick up Sojourn too.
 
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