The Last Comic/TPB/Manga/Etc You've Read and Rate It Out of 10

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    I like that more human Batman, though. Before he was magically the best at everything in the world. I'd love to see that Batman slotted into the kinds of stories writers can tell today.
     
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    I like a more fallible Batman, but it can be a bit extreme in this series. At some point I need to read more Batman and Detective Comics from the same era and compare the characterization.
     
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    Angaloid
    by Alex Graham 9.5/10

    Angaloid is great! This is a story about an artist. (A painter, not a cartoonist!) Haha.
    The author, Alex Graham, is a painter and cartoonist, and I'm certain this book is likely thinly veiled autobiography... Delightfully so. All the better that the story not be saddled with conventions or expectations thrust upon it by that genre.
    It's an excellent meditation on the anxiety of introspection and the overriding effect of impulse and desire on our concentration. The quasi-cosmic/semi-spiritual subplot is refreshingly optimistic. This book is also really funny! There is a scene where the protagonist has tepid after-party sex with a person they're not super into. The person has a lady body, but a toaster for a head. When she climaxes burnt toast pops out of her noggin. Weirder shit happens still.
    Highly recommended if you're into that 90's alt comix feel, and want a retro yet still relevant hit made in the current era.

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    Lazarus volume 3 7/10
    by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark

    This volume continues world building while also deepening the history of the ruling elites (familys) and defining the ley lines of the delicate power balance between them. I enjoyed seeing inside Hock's prison-state. The Lazari (as a concept/group of individuals) also receive more attention. The tension is so good! I find myself flying through comic for several pages and then screeching to a halt so that I can savor a moment or release some tension. I didn't initially love Michael Lark's art when I'd glanced at these books. Now that I'm engaged with the book, I find that it more than just serviceable... It's vigorous and taught, fully greased.

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    Artichoke Tales 6.5/10
    by Megan Kelso

    I think I may have read this comic 7 years ago or so. Or I may have just read part of it. The book itself has an internal deja-vu narrative mechanism. Kelso tells the story of several generations of characters. The chronology of the story is non-linear. The latter two generations feature characters who're drawn essentially identically: one minor difference, mother Ramona is depicted having open pupils (light eyes), and daughter Brigette having filled in pupils (dark eyes).
    This is a story about misunderstandings--how similar narratives can drive parallel groups to believe in wildly different histories and can make each group wish for wildly different outcomes. A northern population and a southern population went to war. The Quicksand family, whose mulit-generational drama is tied up in the conflict between these peoples, is the author's cypher for examining the divergent ways that two populations recount the same history.

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    The Freak 5/10
    by Matt Lesniewski

    Whump whump. This comic is bo-ring. However, the drawings are kinda neat!
    This is the story of a man so ugly he gets beaten regularly. Eventually he seeks revenge.
    The central gimmick doesn't really work because Matt Lesniewski endows everybody in his drawings with the same gritty pugishness. The eponymous Freak may have slightly wider eyes than most of the drawn humans, but it doesn't read like this ought to translate as being 'ugly' in this world.
    It is kinda delightful that when the Freak disguises himself he sometimes covers the top half of his face, sometimes the bottom half. In either case, the folks normally triggered by his awful visage are seemingly unperturbed. I'd wager the artist is making an intentionally winking reference to superhero secret identities, as his art is too laborious and consistent for this to be an accident of bad character design.
     
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    Last night I was binge reading catching up on the newer recent Venom series. Issues 1 to 10 I read last night. Pretty good but let down by the first 5 issues that involved Knull. Reminded me too much of that Spider-Man bad guy that hated the totems or whatever
     
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    I've LOVED the Age of Reptiles volumes I've read. Thanks for putting it back in my mind, to seek out more! I wish I could physically teleport these comics back to my 8 year old self, they would've been the most perfect thing I could imagine at that time.

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    Dark Garbage 8/10
    by Jon Michael Frank

    This book was a surprise pleasure. A surprise because prior to starting my new job at the comic shop I wasn't remotely aware of Jon Michael Frank's output. The shop recently stocked (and sold) many of his prints, which feature his brusque drawings of figures or objects floating in negative space with hilarious captions. His comedy is derived by exploiting tension between sardonic observation and brutal honesty.

    Dark Garbage features a similar aesthetic, but revolves around a fantasy realm populated by depressed and philosophically rigorous characters. The main protagonists are Esther (a lady barbarian--think Xena physically played by Arnold Schwarzenegger but with Larry David's pathos) and Mona (a cursed butterfly, trapped in a bottle, with an equally acerbic personality). A third character Poef (a sort of minor male gorgon with a tragically goth persona) acts as a sometimes compatriot, sometimes foil, to their adventures.

    The book is constructed like traditional comics, most often with a six panel grid. Throughout the book blocks of hand scrawled text are interjected. These chunks of prose read as a sort of free-associative poetry and operate as a mood-setting device. The book is divided into three episodes. In each episode a quest of some type is undertaken--but really this is just a pretense for Jon Michael Frank to send his characters walking and talking. Esther and Mona discuss scenarios, preferences, and existential topics. Their nihilistic worldview provides both provocative insights and good belly laughs.

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    The Incal 7.5/10
    by Moebius & Alejandro Jodorowsky

    I've wanted to read this book for about 7 or more years, ever since watching The Holy Mountain/Humanoids bringing it back into print. For whatever reason (financial mostly?) I've kept putting it off. Well, no longer!

    This book is a real fun trip. Thoroughly wacky, and surprising lighter than I'd expected. I guess maybe I expected harder sci-fi and less frivolity? I'm glad to have had my expectations over-turned.

    Moebius' art is on-point as ever, conveying scope and action with ease. The characters are all a bit too archetypal, with little room for depth.

    Nonetheless, of the three I've read this week, this would be the book I'd most happily casually recommend to others, as it's way more accessible (visually, narratively) and has broader historical relevance.

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    Gates of Plasma 10/10
    by Carlos Gonzalez

    I really like Gates of Plasma! This is easily my favorite of the batch.

    {I actually read the first several chapters of this book Wednesday, then The Incal on Thursday, finishing Gates of Plasma Friday. Sandwiching The Incal in there served both books well. I needed to read The Incal quickly as a matter of circumstance, as the book belongs to a friend I was housesitting for Thursday. Gates of Plasma is told in chapters, so there are nice breaks in the narrative to allow a breather.}

    Like The Incal, Gates of Plasma weaves together the disparate lives of many characters, who're all cosmically charged by a shared set of bizarre circumstances. These characters are sometimes conspiratorially, sometimes unwittingly coalescing towards a mutual cataclysm. They payoff here is fantastic. I think sticking a landing is one of the hardest parts of storytelling. Gates of Plasma has a great ending.

    While it'd be ludicrous to place Carlos Gonzalez's drawings in the same basket as Moebius, I think it's fair to contrast Gonzalez's storytelling with Jodorowsky. Both books are great fun, but I sincerely think that Gonzalez does Jodo one better. The philosophical quandaries of the characters are earnest and worth grappling with. Themes of loss, compromise, addiction, trauma, and destiny inform the tragicomic backstories of the various players. Many of these backstories are revealed via oral vignettes, as characters weave stories within stories within stories. As a framing device, these layered narratives could easily get too confusing, especially with Gonzalez's thin line and flattened abstraction. He keeps it super clear, balancing weird and specific character design with verbal cues, zooming us out to the framing narrative, before diving back into the substory.

    About his drawing: I've always admired Carlos Gonzalez's sensibilities. His drawings are like slippery, melty egyptian hieroglyphics used for telling daytime soap opera sci-fi's. There is something Chester Gould-ish about the functional way physical freaks cavort about his world attracting minimal notice or comment. Comparing this work with the two previous stories I've read (Test Tube & Scab County), his drawing is tighter and the compositions more complex. Gonzalez draws a mean desert landscape here. Also, the many insects depicted in this book are a special delight!
     
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    ive binge read alot of Doctor Aphra and the main current Marvel Star Wars comics.

    ive binge read Star Wars issues 36 to 49

    and Doctor Aphra issues 18 to 32

    i was pretty much bored out of my mind reading the stuff in Doctor Aphra
     
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    Isn't that the series where they pretty much genocide the old SW xenos races via zombie flea virus?
     
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    No. Aphra deals with stuff like the psycho Triple 0 protocol droid, dealing with that bisexual Imperial officer, Darth Vader, some weird Force fungus and even Dr Evanzan shows up.

    the current Marvel Star Wars its been dealing heavily alot with Jedha stuff. Im already on issue 50
     
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    If you don't own these books already,Tales Of The Batman: Len Wein and the TOTB: Gerry Conway TPBs are great examples of that, in my opinion. Have you read any Batman stories from either of them? If not, I can point out some good ones.
     
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    Very few. I read some early 70s Batman in one of the black and white showcase volumes, but that's about it, apart from the two Brave and the Bold volumes I own.
     
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    i'm gonna count this as a single read since both arcs lead into each other....wolverine: enemy of the state and wolverine: agent of shield.

    10/10 great story by mark millar great art by john romita jr. bloody, violent, amazing to me. other than the clairmont stuff at the very start and anything with logan in japan this is one of my favorite wolverine stories. starts with a bang then goes non stop to the end.
     
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    Darwin's Game. 8/10.

    It is one of those mangas where the protagonist is forced into a deadly IRL pvp games, and each contestant gets a super power. I give it a high rating because it gets pretty creative with the tropes. The characters powers, and their uses are pretty interesting, and the plot actually moves, so you aren't stuck with the MCs just planning to defeat the evil/crazy game master like in a lot of these. In fact...

    It’s recently been revealed that the game master actually isn't as in control of these events as he pretends. In fact, he seems to be a well intended extremist who has been given the opportunity to try and prepare humanity to fight against MULTIPLE threats to the species continued existence. There's even multiple versions from parallel dimensions who have pretty much FAILED and it resulted in mankind being all but wiped out in those other worlds.

    Unfortunately, it doesn't have an English translation, but it is getting an anime, so maybe if it does well here, it'll be brought over.
     
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    Shoulder-a-Coffin Kuro vol. 7 by Satoko Kiyuduki (plus full series): 9/10

    [Note: this is somewhat of a retrospective] This volume contained the end of a story I've been reading for... Well, I'm really not sure. About a decade or more. The first two volumes of this manga were released in English in 2008 and the series was on hiatus from 2009-2012. I can't remember exactly when I picked up the first two (probably no later than 2009 since I do remember that I picked them up in a brick-and-mortar store), but the third I got right when it released in English in 2012 (thanks, Amazon purchase history). With the slow rate of releases, I was worried that any number of things could happen: it might get canned, creator might stop, the English license might get dropped, or they might just stop translating it. When I read the final volume was getting released, I was anxious to hear about the English version. When the English version was confirmed for release, I was excited and nervous for the day it would arrive on my doorstep. And now that I have it, after probably ten years of following this series, I'm satisfied.

    The series is slow-paced, sometimes light hearted, and sometimes a bit depressing. It's about a small group traveling to... find something. I don't want to really say much specific about that. But most of the series is a "journey not the destination" type of deal. Generally as the group travels, they meet people, leave their mark, and move on. Things don't always go their way; sometimes they end up with a hard lesson or a sobering fact more than a heart-felt farewell.

    I'm not sure what to really say about the art. I love it, to be sure, but it tends to skirt a line between "cutesy" and "pointy" if that makes any sense. It's also a bit unusual (though not unheard of) for a manga as every volume has a number of full color pages, usually at the beginning of chapters. It's beautiful, in my opinion, though the precise style could probably be said to be in contrast to the subject matter at times.

    After spending so long with these characters and this series, there are so many ways and times I could have just stopped reading it. But every volume had me wanting more. I can't say that I think it would be the best series to recommend to people. It's not a laugh-out-loud comedy. It's definitely not an action series. And there's not much of anything you could call romance. Just a bit of a mystery in the journey and I guess what you might call a contemplative atmosphere. But even now, at the end, I'm still wanting just a bit more.

    And maybe I'll have that last bit yet, as the afterword mentions some stories that some stories didn't fit into the final volume. So maybe I'll get to see just a little more of this series in the future.
     
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    Uzumaki -Junji Ito -10/10

    Truly deserves it's place as a horror epic masterpiece. A series of interconnecting tales that begin with obsessions, and quickly leads to the supernatural, the grotesque, Lovecraftian, and beyond. In true Japanese fashion, with a ultimately unexplained beyond a point force that has no escape. The main point of view character, Kirie, and her boyfriend Shuichi, are decent for protagonists. Kirie is normal enough to relate to easily without seeming weak, though not totally gung-ho either, somehow keeping a level head despite some of the really screwed up things that happen around her. Some good emotions too in the later stories as things become more desperate. While my personal favorite Junji Ito tale is still "Hellstar Remina", I have no problem proclaiming the praise Uzumaki deserves.

    Warning: If you're expecting your first child, you may want to hold off reading the hospital chapters, "Mosquitoes" and "Umbilical Cord". Yikes!
     
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    The Flash: The Silver Age Omnibus volume 1 - 9/10

    I had a few comments on this over in the DC Comics discussion thread to the effect that I had tried reading some of this material before and it hadn't appealed to me. But I decided to give it another shot, and I'm glad I did, because this time around it's been a lot of fun. Some of these stories are a bit too silly, but most work fairly well and the art is excellent. I love that the book begins with Jay Garrick's last Golden Age solo Flash story before giving us Barry Allen's debut, probably because of all the creative and fictional links between the two characters and series, including the fact that Barry's series starts with #105 rather than #1. A new villain seems to get introduced every month, the three Dimwits make one appearance (I had no idea they had appeared in this era), and Barry's protégé (NOT sidekick) Wally West makes his debut and is nearly always a lead character in his own stories, much to my delight. Elongated Man first appears and gets married in this book, and we get two appearances by Jay Garrick as he returns in "Flash of Two Worlds" and again not long after. Barry himself is typically heroic and determined, finding plenty of creative ways to use his speed to fight aliens, the various super-criminals that come out of the woodwork to challenge him, and other dimensional threats.

    The older I get, the more I appreciate the simple fun of these old comics. I'm glad I gave this series another try, and I will certainly have to read volumes 2 and 3.
     
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    Batman: Knightfall Omnibus
    5/10

    I expected to like this book more than I did. While I made it through the roughly 900 pages and enjoyed some of the highlights, I find I was right back in the 1990's to just thumb through most issues of this bloated crossover at the newstand without buying into it.

    Problems I had:
    1) Artwork--Some okay, some godawful, but it all looked very rushed. Scott Hanna inked much of the issues, using two very different styles, and both were weak. Lots of panels from veteran artists like Jim Aparo where there should have been backgrounds, but there weren't.
    2) Colors. What the heck was up with all the orange, yellow, and red on every page and cover? This pallette is awful for Batman.
    3) Reproduction. Each issue's interior pages look good, but the covers are low quality scans that look like they were done on a scanner FROM the 1990s.
    4) Story: Really big problems here, with Batman's characterization. He whines about burnout for issue after issue. I like a humanized Batman, but I don't want him to be a pussy. Bane is poorly characterized as well. His motivation is not believable and he talks a big game but you never see him actually DO anything outside the back breaking fight. You can tell each issue is just trying to get to its pre-determined handoff point for the next writer. The flow is awkward because of this, with individual writers having too little control or room to breathe.

    I've got Knightquest and Knightsend waiting on me now. While I will go ahead and read them, I think this set of books is going to eBay.
     
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    Marvel Masterworks Amazing Spiderman vol 2 - 8/10

    I'm not much of a Marvel reader, however having enjoyed their movies I'm more interested in their characters than I used to be. Since I've just finished the Silver Age Flash omnibus 1, I was interested in comparing it to Silver Age Marvel, and yes, I can see the difference. The villains are just as fun and silly for Spider-Man as they are for the Flash, but I have to admit that the melodramatic soap opera that is Peter Parker's home and school life is not only a lot more engaging than Barry Allen's personal life, it also carries on from issue to issue. It feels like an ongoing storyline, even though in reality it's probably just as much "back to the status quo" at the end of every issue as Barry's life is. There's something appealing about watching Peter try to look after his Aunt May and struggle to make a dollar, and I just shake my head and how he can never quite get his relationship with Betty Brant to work, mainly because he can't communicate and she can't do anything but assume the worst. And J. Jonah Jameson treads pretty close to the line of being a villain with some of this actions.

    The Marvel universe of this era feels much more connected than DC's, as characters from other series frequently appear in Spider Man's book, particularly the Human Torch. Characters bicker a lot for no real reason, and show up just to get a little panel time so you'll buy their book. The most blatant example of character promotion has to be the annual from the middle of the book, where characters like Thor or Iron Man literally just fly through for a couple of panels and get name-checked by Spider Man, while a caption box tells us where they can be regularly found. Steve Ditko's art is an acquired tasted, but it's grown on me as I've gone through this volume. Villains who show up in the ten issues include Doc Ock, the Sandman, Electro, and first appearances by the Green Goblin, the Scorpion and the Sinister Six. There's a new character literally almost every month and a lot of world-building. The self-promotion in the caption boxes and the feeling that Stan Lee is talking to the reader creates a whole different atmosphere than contemporary DC books.

    The book certainly gives value for the money (though it cost me nothing, since I checked it out of the library) with 10 issues and an annual.

    None of this is anything that hasn't been said before, but it's been interesting to actually read and compare for myself as opposed to reading some reviewer comment on the differences between the two companies. Today there are probably far less differences with all the talent that goes back and forth between both companies, but in the 60s I can see a massive difference in storytelling.
     
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    Zombies Assemble volumes 1&2- 7.5/10.

    Nothing groundbreaking, but a nice short story. The actual zombie infection part kinda makes sense, which was a nice surprise. The art was also enjoyable.
     
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    Hulk: Last Call
    4/10

    This was just pointless. On paper, the idea of reuniting Peter David and Dale Keown for a Hulk project sounds like gold. Unfortunately, this kind of project always suffers due to being limited to a single issue. Good super-hero comics require either continuity of quality stories over time, or if done in one, something new and clever to say or do. Since the first wasn't an option, I hoped for the latter. I was disappointed.

    The story takes us back to one of the least interesting versions of Bruce Banner in the time period after PD's run when Betty was deadish. Spoiler, I guess. She got better. And the fact that a lot of pretty good Hulk content came along post PD really undercuts the emotional impact of seeing Bruce calling in to a suicide hotline. We saw Bruce dealing with these issues 20 years ago in the Jenkins run. Then we saw him re-marry during Planet Hulk. Then there's the whole Red She-Hulk thing. But we'll ignore all that, cause... Uh... Cause. Bruce is sad. Go with it.

    Not that any of that matters, since the titular call is only used to set up a framing sequence for stuff we already know. For some reason, Bruce 'members when Betty turned into Harpy. Okay, why not. Then he fights Mr Hyde because why not. There's nothing but filler in this.

    Keown has probably lost a step--most 1990s artists suffer when modern production techniques are applied to their pencils. But I am not sure if I blame him because the editor, inept, has a half dozen different inkers doing pages in different styles. What. The. Fuck. How does that even happen on a one-shot?

    Points for the appearance of Veronica, a character I remember being introduced in the 1990s so there could be a "Betty and Veronica" gag.

    If you love Peter David Hulk, skip this and avoid the disappointment.
     
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    Grant Morrison's writing is always hit or miss for me, but my opinion was the opposite of yours. I really enjoyed Multiversity, not so much for the overall story as for the variety of artists and characters and scenarios on display. It probably didn't hurt that I was really down on the New 52 and this all felt like a refreshingly creative alternative. Thunderworld is far and away my favorite issue of the series, and I honestly enjoy that Sivana goes on to be a major villain of the series, given how much I enjoy classic Captain Marvel. The earth of the 90s legacy heroes was fun, the pulp Dr. Fate worked well, and the only one that didn't really do a lot for me was Ultraa Comics. It felt like Morrison really brought some of his more creative ideas to the table here, and I enjoyed the great art every month. I'd probably give this 8.5 or 9 myself.
     
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