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pandamonium:
There seems to be a lack of discussion about comics not web-based on this forum. I aim to rectify that.

Have you read any lately? Were they good? Were they bad? Did they make you question your existence?

A comic I've been paying attention to is Fables - it's still being produced, I think, and the collections are up to 14 or 15. I just finished reading #12 and it was great, of course. The premise of Fables is pretty straight forward: the people/creatures from fairy tales, myth, and legend exist in parallel worlds to ours. There's some war and strife and more conflict and it's beautifully drawn.

Y: The Last Man finished up this year I think, and has a total of 10 collections. It was an apocalyptic comic - as the title implies, there's one guy left alive after a horrible event occurs. I thought the writers did a good job with the character development, which can be hard given the limited media they work in.

I'm thinking of starting to read a newish comic called The Unwritten. Any one heard of it?

Bunsen:
I really liked The Umbrella Academy by Gabriel Ba.  Even if it was written by the front-man for My Chemical Romance, the worst band since Men At Work and The Beatles.

I was searching for an iconic image from the series I could show you to demonstrate the art.

Instead I found this.  When I get around to cropping it, I think it'll be my new avatar.

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pandamonium:

--- Quote from: Bodhisattva Bunsen on Dec 28, 2010, 03:36:16 AM ---I really liked The Umbrella Academy by Gabriel Ba.  Even if it was written by the front-man for My Chemical Romance, the worst band since Men At Work and The Beatles.

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Even though you've demonstrated that you have questionable musical tastes, you're the second person who's recommended The Umbrella Academy. I keep forgetting about it. :D

Skeptress:
Our post library has a small selection that I keep meaning to check out and then promptly forget to do so.  Maybe I'll remember tomorrow. 

Janus:
I hear Fables is wonderful.  That's next up on my queue.

I finished re-reading The Sandman series over the holidays.  Absolutely wonderful.  Amazing art and covers so much of the world of fiction, mythology, religion.  It's truly an opus.

I'm a regular reader of Chew, which is set in a world where the FDA is as powerful as the CIA.  And the main character can trace back the origins of any food item by eating it (a really neat twist on psychic powers).

The Boys is another ongoing series I read.  A group of folks whose job it is to keep super heros in line.  Very dark and graphic, but loads of fun.

Preacher may be hands down one of my favorite comic series.  Really compelling characters and storylines.  Also has one of the best treatments of god and religion in it.

Of course, Scott Pilgrim gets a nod for being amazingly fun and innovative.  Even if you've seen the movie, the series takes some very different turns in the end (the 6th book was written at the same time as the movie script).

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