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

[Lith]

Reading Fruits Basket and Neon Genesis Evangelion at the moment. Also read the first issue of Shutterbox (shows promise) and the second issue of InuYasha (eh, it's pretty standard Japanese stuff). Fruits Basket is good, if you can get used to the girliness of it. Eva's also pretty good, though I'm not usually into mecha.

And Van Von Hunter. It ran in our local newspaper for a few months and I absolutely loved it! But weirdly, there's an issue of it out as a SAT vocabulary builder! I guess I never thought about the educative possibilities of manga.

And reading Bleach and Fullmetal. Both are coming out at a slow rate, now that I'm up to speed on them... wait, wait, wait...

 

[Connavar]

Reading Fruits Basket and Neon Genesis Evangelion at the moment. Also read the first issue of Shutterbox (shows promise) and the second issue of InuYasha (eh, it's pretty standard Japanese stuff). Fruits Basket is good, if you can get used to the girliness of it. Eva's also pretty good, though I'm not usually into mecha.

And Van Von Hunter. It ran in our local newspaper for a few months and I absolutely loved it! But weirdly, there's an issue of it out as a SAT vocabulary builder! I guess I never thought about the educative possibilities of manga.

And reading Bleach and Fullmetal. Both are coming out at a slow rate, now that I'm up to speed on them... wait, wait, wait...

Which vol are you on in FullMetal ? Seen the anime ? I have read up to vol 5 of the manga collections.

Was wondering where the anime and manga shared stories end.

 

[Lith]

I've read through vol. 15, and seen all the anime (several times). The two start to diverge around Lab 5, though some of the plot threads show up here and there in both of them. Unfortunately I've been reading them so slowly that I just realized something I read in vol. 15 should have made me realize something and I didn't, due to the difference between anime and manga, and my slow reading pace.

How's that for vague non-spoilerishness?

 

[Connavar]

I've read through vol. 15, and seen all the anime (several times). The two start to diverge around Lab 5, though some of the plot threads show up here and there in both of them. Unfortunately I've been reading them so slowly that I just realized something I read in vol. 15 should have made me realize something and I didn't, due to the difference between anime and manga, and my slow reading pace.

How's that for vague non-spoilerishness?

Haha

Lab 5 was pretty early in the anime i think.

Anime is alltime favorit of mine so i have waited for the manga collection to realese more then 10 vols before i read more.

I have missed Ed and Al.

I plan to get vol 6-16 pretty fast so i can enjoy at my leisure

 

[DeepThought]

Up to the fourth volume of Bill Willingham's Fables ; March of the Wooden Soldiers and quarter of the way through, great stuff, its shaping up nicely to an explosive finish. Best I've read of the series thus far, hope the next ones gets better and better from here on, that would be just phenomenal!

Cheers, DeepThought

 

[Connavar]

I read Captain America # 35, Daredevil 102-103
by Ed Brubaker/Guice/Michael Lark/Stefano Guidiano

Right now read Hulk :Gray which looks awesome thanks to Sale's amazing art !

 

[DeepThought]

Right now read Hulk :Gray which looks awesome thanks to Sale's amazing art !

Wow! Best rendering of Hulk I've seen in the long time, love that new look, stunning, in fact this has intrigued me enough to look into getting one of the volumes . Its been a long time since I've read any Hulk.

Cheers, DeepThought

 

[woodsman]

V For Vendetta - Alan Moore

 

[Connavar]

Wow! Best rendering of Hulk I've seen in the long time, love that new look, stunning, in fact this has intrigued me enough to look into getting one of the volumes . Its been a long time since I've read any Hulk.

Cheers, DeepThought

Its in awesome looking trade which collects the six issue mini from 2005.

Its really good story too. Its part of Sale/Loeb color series which is named after the mood of the story. DD: Yellow about Fear, Spiderman Blue about gloom, Hulk:Gray how things arent always black and white.


I loved the story and im not even a Hulk fan ! The tone of the story and the awesome more animal looking Hulk was interesting to read.

 

[DeepThought]

Thanks for the info Conn. I'll definitely check the comic store for this one.

Cheers, DeepThought

 

[Talysia]

Wow, that Hulk artwork is striking!

Started my RuroKen reread, then I'll be looking for something new.

 

[DeepThought]

Finished reading Fables; up to Arabian Nights (and Days). I'm taking it slow with these babies, lest I run out of the volumes published thus far (have similar situation with Fullmetal Alchemist; savoring every volume). The storyline is very intriguing; fairy tales/myths/legends are the glue and nuts & bolts making up the foundation of fantasy, and considering I love the genre with a passion, how can I not adore Fables. My orders for Alan Moore's run on The Swamp Thing (think its six-seven volumes), League of Extraordinary Gentleman and Garth Ennis's Preacher is still pending, so until then...

Cheers, DeepThought

 

[Chillin Snake]

Calvin and Hobbes: Days are Just Packed

^ This is the greatest damn comic series ever created. Watterson is a genius.

 

[Nesacat]

Two volumes of a set of comics by Virgin that retell Hindu myths. The first volume contains tales of Shiva and are pretty well done. I'll admit to being very sceptical at first but I liked it so much I went and invested in volume 2, which has tales of Vishnu as well as others.

The third volume due out in August or so will focus on Hanuman.

I bought them all in a tiny comic store in Leuven, Belgium. They had an astonishing number of comics from all over the place.

 

[Perpetual Man]

Just finished MAUS by Art Spiegalman. Absolutely riveting, I started reading it yesterday and finished this morning. On another thread it was claimed to be one if not the best graphic novel ever written and there was no way I could argue against or for it without reading it.

It'll take a few days for everything to completely sink in, but I can see why so many people thought it was so good. The artwork is a bit different, but once you get into the story it does not put you off.

Emotional, wonderful. Brilliant.

 

[thiagoleal]

Now I'm reading Persepolis from Marjane Satrapi.

 

[Connavar]

Chronicles of Wormwood TPB by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows


A sick but very funny and dark story about Anti-christ not wanting to do his work for his daddy and trying to live in the humans world.

 

[Perpetual Man]

Chronicles of Wormwood TPB by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows


A sick but very funny and dark story about Anti-christ not wanting to do his work for his daddy and trying to live in the humans world.

Oh, a truly wonderful and remarkable book, hilarious and sick all in one go. Not one to let the kids near...

 

[Connavar]

Oh, a truly wonderful and remarkable book, hilarious and sick all in one go. Not one to let the kids near...

Hehe i thought the same.

I think its the sickest thing i have read by Ennis. Only the Pope and his actions are so sick


It wouldnt work if it didnt have the humor,charm,characters of trademark Ennis works.

 

[Flemcodogmusic]

DC Universe: The Stories Of Alan Moore, and The Best Of American Splendour ... at the moment! Also just finished Alice in Sunderland ...