Free Comic Book Day 2006 84
Julio Ojeda-Zapata writes "It's Free Comic Book Day (May 6), and what better way to mark the occasion than a comic about comic books? A reporter and artist at the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press newspaper teamed up to honor the comic-book form -- imitation is the finest form of flattery, as they say. The comic is available online as a slide show, as well as in downloadable PDF form. As a bonus, the paper's 2001 manga-style tribute to manga (by the same artist, but with a dramatically different look and feel) has been reposted." More information is available at the official Free Comic Book Day 2006 site.
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that can be considered to be in the same universe, like Lucifer, Books of
Magic and Hellblazer. The characters certainly mingle now and then.
(Any of these series will introduce you to a ton of different writers
and artists who have made many other comics worth reading)
Poison Elves is another indie comic that tries to be more than just
action drawings, although there's an unhealthy amount of murder at times
100% is the name of a 5-parter by Paul Pope. It being a Vertigo release
should be a hint that it's not for kids, either. One word: GASTRO!
Sci-fi without the aliens is always the best.
If you didn't enjoy Watchmen, you may also hate V for Vendetta, Promethea
and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. But that's not an excuse to
take a peek.
Grant Morrison is sort of in the same league, except crazier; his Invisibles
and The Filth are my faves.
Warren Ellis is a bit hit and miss in quality, I think, but he writes
for the love of it, not to become rich(er). Transmetropolitan is his
greatest masterpiece. Mostly alien-less future "society", in a world
where they lost track of what year it is. It could be considered almost
post-apocalyptic, except it looks more like an on-going process.
On the Image label, please skip past Spawn and head straight for The
Walking Dead. I started on the first issue, not really expecting to like
it, but now I have 25 issues in my collection. It's got zombies. How
could any Slashdot-reader resist? No ninjas or pireates, though. Well,
perhaps *one* ninja.
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> that can be considered to be in the same universe, like Lucifer, Books of
> Magic and Hellblazer.
Well, technically, Superman and Batman are in the same universe...
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Or is it multiverse? Much of the story in Sandman is otherworldly
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Also there is Cerebus the aardvark, but at 6000 pages I couldn't read it all at once.
I'd recommend Joe Sacco's "Palestine" and "Safe area Gorazde" for a good look at situations you won't get through evening news.
Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis" and "Persepolis II" are also a good read about a girl from Iran.
And of course "Maus" is just better than awesome.
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I believe that the most shining example of a work that is accessible to "outsiders" is easily Maus by Art Spiegelman. (Don't just take my word for it, it won a Pulitzer Prize!) At its core, it's the true story of the author's father's experiences surrounding the
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Bone, by Jeff Smith, is fantastic. It's black & white, and a little bit lighter (though not all the time) than a lot of the other stuff being pushed. The entire run is available in TPBs or in one giant phone-book sized volume.
Mike Mignola's Hellboy is great fun. The art is beautiful and it's got a very pulp-action feel with good writing and good stories. A number of the stories are lifted dire
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Hellboy is one of my current favorites. The stories are good, but the art (IMHO) is stupendous; Mignola is one of the top comic artists working today.
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Well, one in particular won the Pulitzer Prize. (Score:2)
And I think it deserved it.
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Now, this may be too straightahead. It involves superheroes. It adds in variants of all sorts of history:
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Compare with so
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["In brightest day, in blackest night..."]
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You have to look at the pretty pictures.
Look at the way Moore and Gibbons show one thing while talking about another in the captions. And at the same time foreshadowing another.
Or the precise timing that is created when Rorschach walks under a blinking neon light.
Or the comic within the comic. It is pretty hard to do the same thing in another medium. In ci
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Yeah, and in an exchange that some consider to be one of the best lines in all of superhero-dom (myself included). After the heroes discover the details of a plan that would involved the killing of millions of innocents, they confront the would-be perpetrator, who responds:
"Do it?" Dan, I'm not a republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my masterstroke i
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I find it interesting that you were disappointed by the use of the "villain explaining the whole thing" in Watchmen; I found this to be one of Moore's most successful integrated commentaries on a comic-book storytelling trope. Because Ozymandius explains everything AFTER he had already done it, the story benefits in several ways. First (and most obviously) is the element of surprise (in that this trope has been stood on its head, and then in the several pages following that depict the chaos
I got my free manga already... (Score:2)
There are also free mangas/comics that aren't... (Score:2)
Obligatory... (Score:1, Funny)
All these comic books... (Score:1, Troll)
Holy Memories Batman (Score:2, Informative)
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(Sorry for just throwing links at you, but it's Saturday morning, I'm drinking Southern Comfort, and I don't have much else to say. I figured if you are a fan of comics, you might find them interesting.)
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Free Comic Book Day in Dallas, TX (Score:1, Informative)
Disclaimer: I am not a Zeus employee. I'm just a loyal customer.
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There's still a little time left if you are in the area.
The free comic... (Score:1)
And what a dull imitation. I've never read anything more boring.
Dont even bother reading that "comic" they've made. It could aswell be a powerpoint presentation.
Informative or flamebait? Fuck you.
Powerpoint-animated comic (Score:1)
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They gotta pay for these "free" (non-returnable, non-refundable) books so the more actual free ones they have, the less they have to spend.
Crazy! (Score:1)
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Comic stores DO pay for free comics (Score:2)
(He didn't seem very "into" the idea of Free Comics Day. Just a stack of comics on a table, and if he saw you looking at them, he said "Take one of those, they're free." The only reason he ordered them was that some his regular customers wanted them.)
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Maybe it's just me, but would anyone else like to see this die in the water ASAP? The reason I personally read manga is because I tend to find more mature stories on the topics I enjoy reading (Mecha mostly). The style doesn't make any difference what so ever, it's just there and will always be there. The only thing I really like about the style, is when they rele
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You've got a good point. But most comic fans I know don't get bought stuff by their parents. Most "adult" mangas (aka doujis) normally have semi clad women in a sexual position on them. It's normally easy to pick them out.
Most the stuff you've described is from children's anime/manga. Most fans don't seem to get that Naruto/Whatever is aimed at children and will always be mostly childrens things. These are like the ten million live action "adventures for kids" we sa
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I mean thats the thing with western comics, you can go from reading a story about fairy tale charcters (fables), to a war drama (Fury : Peacemaker) to a story about bug exterminators (The Extermin
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100 Bullets (Score:3, Interesting)
The initial conceit is that some figure with a ruined life is approached by a mysterious figure known as "Agent Graves", who presents them with an attache containing proof of who is responsible for their ruined life (e.g., framing them for kiddie porn), along with a gun and 100 "untraceable" bullets... and the promise that any action they choose to take with this evidence and weapon will have no legal consequences.
This may seem like a concept without much opportunity for diversity of plot, but they find many ways to take it in directions you don't expect. And -- this is crucial -- there's nothing supernatural going on ("Agent Graves" is just a clever name).
Asks for your zip code (Score:1)
The code does not appear to be valid.
Yeah right.
Any ant-theme comics? (Score:2)