Comics!

[CiG]

I was worried that I don't quite understand what a run means in comic book lingo.

I have to go with Watchmen, I really am kinda obsessed with it. But if that isn't technically a run, I'll go with Akira.

If Akira doesn't count because it's a manga (whatever the difference is supposed to be) I'll go with Barry Windsor-Smith's Weapon X, if that even counts as a run.

I really love the way Barry Windsor-Smith crafted his story like a slasher film, his art is fucking fantastic but I also feel like he's an underrated writer.

 

[CiG]

So apparently Frank Miller is going to do an origins story for Sin City that will be a western.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Miller lost it a loooonng time ago.

I was worried that I don't quite understand what a run means in comic book lingo.

I have to go with Watchmen, I really am kinda obsessed with it. But if that isn't technically a run, I'll go with Akira.

If Akira doesn't count because it's a manga (whatever the difference is supposed to be) I'll go with Barry Windsor-Smith's Weapon X, if that even counts as a run.

I really love the way Barry Windsor-Smith crafted his story like a slasher film, his art is fucking fantastic but I also feel like he's an underrated writer.

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Not familiar with manga, but the rest of those are fuckin' top notch stuff.

Classic: Claremonts X-Men, John Byrnes Fantastic Four, Walt Simonsons Thor, Paul Chadwicks Concrete. Frank Millers The Dark Knight Returns, Peter Davids Incredible Hulk Loebs and Sales Batman runs(The Long Holloween, Dark Victory) arent from the 70's-80's like the rest of this list but id rather put them up here

Modern: Astonishing X-Men, Brubakers Daredevil and Captain America runs, Geoff Johns Green Lantern, Hickmans Fantastic Four, Ellis and Robertsons Transmetropolitan, Brubakers/Phillips Criminal. Ennis and Dillons Preacher, Joe Hills Lock & Key and finally Sam Keiths The Maxx(the first 20 or so issues)

Scalped, 100 Bullets, Planetary, Moores Swamp Thing, PunisherMAX, All-Star Superman and Peter Davis second X-FActor are up there too.

Pretty sure i left a few out, but that looks good enough.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

@Nate Skalman hey man have you read the X-Force(Yost and Kyle) run from a few years ago? Good stuff.

 

[CiG]

So if none of those were not runs and I didn't fuck up, since you asked what's our top favourite, our the favourite - mine is definitely Watchmen.

I'm actually already feeling the urge to re-read it again.

If he doesn't die first.

Miller lost it a loooonng time ago.

I heard that DK3 wasn't so good, I wonder if it's better than DK2 at least?

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

yea there's really no rock solid definition of a run, except for one-shots. Basically a guys work on said series.

Yea i think its been about 7-8 years since the last time i read it, maybe its about time i do the same.

 

[CiG]

Can anybody recommend me any comic books that are particularly cinematic?

 

[Vilden]

Well Blueberry is probably my all time fav comic but not sure if you can call it a run in the American sense. It is serialized tho.

If we are talking strictly American style comics probaby Delanos Hellblazer.

 

[Vilden]

Can anybody recommend me any comic books that are particularly cinematic?

Can you elaborate on what you're looking for?

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

yeah i'm not sure i understand what hes looking for either.

Try 100 Bullets, Scalped and Y: The Last Man

 

[CiG]

Friend of mine is Kickstarting to get his digital comic book printed as a book, as well as seeking some funds for part 4 and part 5.

His style is pretty cool, kind of fast and loose and psychedelic.
Anyhoo, just putting this here for his benefit.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1783207042/earthbound-between-two-breaths-on-earth

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Did you look into any of the books i mentioned in the above post?

 

[CiG]

Oh sorry yeah!

Y: The Last Man I actually ordered from Dymocks almost immediately after looking it up.

 

[Vilden]

Y: The Last Man is ok, it starts out good but turns quite sour after a while.
If you like post apocalyptic stuff I think Wasteland by Johnston is one of the best (and much better than Y: The Last Man). Quite epic and abit more "fantasy", "mythological" or atleast detached from the real world. Kind of the way that Dune is still a scifi book.

 

[CiG]

Oh cool man, cheers I'll do that.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Y: The Last Man is ok

Yeah, pretty much this. Just about everyone else loves it though and its won a shitload of awards.

Dont know how cinematic Wasteland really is, i tried reading the first book a long time ago and wasnt impressed at all.

A lot of those Vertigo books should be right up your alley @CASSETTEISGOD

100 Bullets and Scalped are about as close to movie type of comics as you can get. Also Brubakers Criminal is fuckin' top notch.

edit: You've read Alan Moore's Swamp Thing, right? Oh and Jeff Lemires Sweet Tooth might just be the best post-apocalyptic comic book out there.

 

[Vilden]

Yeah, I guess I recommended Wasteland more for it being a better post apocalyptic comic than Y: The Last Man. But I guess they aren't really similar so it might be a weird rec.

By the way @CASSETTEISGOD (and @Vegard Pompey but I don't think you read comics) that are a Twin Peaks fan. You should REALLY give Strangehaven a try, which I probably recommended a few times in this thread. It's a british indie comic about a small town in rural Britain were strange stuff happens. It's very much like Twin Peaks in the sense that all the characters are, well real characters, quirky, weird and sometimes VERY creepy. Secret cults, indian mythology, ghosts, aliens, romance, family fueds ensured.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Maybe i should try Wasteland again. Are the books easy to get nowadays?

 

[CiG]

Can you elaborate on what you're looking for?

yeah i'm not sure i understand what hes looking for either.

Huh. Could have sworn I responded to these.

By cinematic I mean comic books that are more adult, that seem like maybe they started off as a film script even. I should have just said adult.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

(and @Vegard Pompey but I don't think you read comics)

Generally not, unless it's manga I do wonder if there are any good long-running western comics with strong, continuous stories like the ones you often find in manga. The only thing I know of that fits the bill is The Walking Dead (which I like quite a lot).

As for this comic you are highlighting; I usually very vary of things that draw influence from Lynch and Twin Peaks in particular, it has such an inimitable style and a lot of things that wear TP-influences on their sleeves often feel very artificial and cringy to me. Those two pages you show do look promising though.

...Why would a story taking place in rural Britain involve Indian mythology though?