What comic books/graphic novels are you reading at the moment?

Well BT won't generally block most unless its "very" illegal. I've not heard of it before and odd, most free comic reading would come with advertising I would have thought or some other form of revenue generating.
 
Nemesis The Warlock - the 2000 A.D. stalwart. The Planet Termight (Mighty Terra) .. the insane traffic, Torquemada, and all of it - still really good after all these years. Grobbendonk and gibberish. 3 issues in, it's more fun than most movies I've seen lately.

A one-off - Gregory 1987, by Marc Hempel. Gregory is an infantile maniac... who spends most of his time running around in a circle in his cell/room, screaming. Sound interesting? Somehow, it is.
Other faves - Reid Fleming - World's Toughest Milkman.
Steven comics by Doug Allen, just really different and funny, can't find it now after foolishly selling off comics to save space. (Don't do it again! )
 
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just started Bone

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Bone is excellent - well worth anyone's time IMO (online Read here):

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On hols at the moment and stumbled across this....

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Loved the artwork in the shop copy, so snapped it up after verifying that it didn't actually cost $75 <eeek> rather a waaaaaaaaay more pocket friendly £10
 
Another issue of Monstress and of The Spire came out recently and Tokyo Ghost had another issue semi-recently too. Devouring both series with great fun as they come out.

Monstress is a well drawn puzzle of a story rife with magic, ghosts, demons, monsters and more. Great fun and one of those that leaves you on a cliffhanger nearly every issue thus far. Very much recommend this series as it stands and hope it keeps going as strong as it is!

The Spire - a more quirky kind of artwork, but well drawn. Characters come alive in this and each issue starts to put together a little bit more of the overall back story set many years before that results in the current mysterious events occurring in the Spire. With racism (well specisism really) rising in the Spire and war on the horizon what shall happen and indeed what did happen! Rare that a story can hook me both with future and past mysteries (often I find past mysteries are a painful annoyance done to make a simple story seem more complex to the reader). Again another I eagerly get at release.

Tokyo Ghost is bitter-sweet incarnate. Set amidst a futuristic world full of drug, internet and television addiction this story holds no punches. An emotional rollercoaster of a story and whilst its still ongoing, like the others, I really recommend people to check this one out.


I have to say that at present the above three are my top current reads and indeed if they keep going as strong as they are now will be firm long term best reads.
 
I have recently read Kamisama no Iutoori. It is a manga of two seasons and season one is just godly. I don't particularly care about season two as it is quite poorly written, but season one is very dynamic with an interesting cast and premise. I definitely suggest season one as one can treat it as a standalone (it's what I'm doing).
Takahata Shun's day at high school begins just as normal and boring as ever, but it doesn't end that way. After his teacher's head explodes, he and his classmates find themselves forced to play children's games, such as Daruma ga Koronda (a game like Red Light/Green Light), with deadly stakes. With no idea who is behind this mysterious deadly game session, and no way of knowing when it will finally end, the only thing Shun and other students can do is keep trying to win...
 
Injection & Trees by Warren Ellis, published by Image
Both are typical Ellis i would say (which is good), mix of technology, science, magic and craziness
Last Injection issue is #6, Threes #13
Trees resonated better with me, but i would recommend both
 
Paying for It (2011) by Chester Brown - seriously talented author, alternative at it's best
Green River Killer - A True Detective Story (2011) by Jeff Jensen - another great graphic novel, based on a true story
Moving Pictures (2010) by Kathryn and Stuart Immonen - lets' just say i don't see the hype
 
The comic section in the local library has some different stock in so -

Bone: Out From Boneville and I was vastly disappointed after all the love I had seen. It's nicely drawn (very Pogo) but the story was - so slow it felt pointless, aimless, meandering. (Despite what I said about the liking the less frenetic pace of European comics earlier I do like to think the comics creator has some sort of plan in his head. A lot of this book felt like the artist was treading water waiting for an idea to come along.) My six year old sort of liked it but was also disappointed when he got to the end. (He didn't like that he didn't find out "who won the race?")

the other book was

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an English translation of a Belgian book that had me in tears by the end of it. Simply told, beautifully drawn - and heartbreaking.
 
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Bone: Out From Boneville and I was vastly disappointed after all the love I had seen. It's nicely drawn (very Pogo) but the story was - so slow it felt pointless, aimless, meandering. (Despite what I said about the liking the less frenetic pace of European comics earlier I do like to think the comics creator has some sort of plan in his head. A lot of this book felt like the artist was treading water waiting for an idea to come along.) My six year old sort of liked it but was also disappointed when he got to the end. (He didn't like that he didn't find out "who won the race?")
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no, no you must of read that awful copycat of a real Bone that's floating around :)
But seriously, in it's defense i could say all grand fantasy works start off similar to what you described, and it's only the first book
I don't remember it at all like that, but it was a long time since..


The Guns of Shadow Valley (2014) - this book came out of nowhere, and it was a really pleasant surprise, western paranormal fantasy mix, beautifully drawn


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Running in the western them I've started East of West Vol. 1: The Promise. It's a quirky take with mythology in the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse mixed with a gun slinging western inspired world (complete with other nations around that time like china) and sci-fi weapons and themes. It's a mad mashup and takes a while to let the reader really get into the story; there's a lot to puzzle out and work out which makes for a fun read!

I'm also reading Elves which is well drawn and features 5 stories set in the same world to the same style of art and story but with different elf and human groups interacting. It's interesting; although the pattern of writing is a little odd and takes a bit of getting used to how they deal with the pace of the story. Nice solid read though and entertaining!
 
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Running in the western them I've started East of West Vol. 1: The Promise. It's a quirky take with mythology in the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse mixed with a gun slinging western inspired world (complete with other nations around that time like china) and sci-fi weapons and themes. It's a mad mashup and takes a while to let the reader really get into the story; there's a lot to puzzle out and work out which makes for a fun read!
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If various sources is to be believed, you are in for a treat



The Hidden (2011) by Richard Sala, a take on Frankenstein with a apocalyptic twist, Richard Sala art and atmosphere is really something, definitely gonna look for more if his work.

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Frank Frazetta's Death Dealer - Shadows Of Mirahan
Something that should be re-read every once ina while

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I came across a series called Widdershins, by Kate Ashwin, when I saw her selling them at a table at a Comic Con. She's doing seven stories, all based around a Deadly Sin, and all set in the magical town of Widdershins. The latest one out is about Envy, portrayed as a green fox only the envious character can see. They're great fun.
 
Monstress 4
Red Sonja Vol 3, 3
Rat Queens 15

It's like they know what I read and release it all on the same day!

Also Dynamite released all four parts to Red Sonja: Queen Of The Frozen Wastes which by my counting means that the bulk of RS is now in digital format in one form or another.
TopCrow also released a new updated final volume that collects the last issues of Witchblade together
 
Have recently had a Walking Dead glut by reading the three compendiums more or less back to back. On the whole I liked it but I was disappointed that certain elements about the zombies (e.g. in different states of decomposition, hive behaviour) were not developed further. Also, though this is possibly down to the fact I read so many at once) I do feel it's dragging a bit. Sure, they jumped forward some years at one point, but I get the feeling that it needs to either go in a new direction or wrap up - though presumably there can be only two endings (everyone dies, or open ended with the characters walking off into the sunset).

I also enjoyed the first 40+ issues of Invincible. A fun comic.

Before that, despite being a Grant Morrison fan, I was disappointed with his run on Action Comics; I thought he was trying too hard to be, well...Grant Morrison. I did like his run on Batman which I'd just finished.

And before that, Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing which was excellent.

There are more omnibuses on my shelf waiting to be read (I buy them as soon as I see a good deal, even if I know I don't have time to actually read them) such as Deadpool, The Avengers (1-30) and Doom Patrol (years ago, I bought almost the entire Grant Morrison run before he was GRANT MORRISON for just pennies each (it must have been shortly after they were published) - at the same time I also got a big run of Shade the Changing Man, again for pennies, which is surely due the omnibus treatment.

I'm currently waiting for Gary Spencer Millidge to finish Strangehaven which after a loooong hiatus he seems to be doing.
 
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