Comics!

[CiG]

That makes no sense. I'm seeing that's a trend with your opinions.

 

[CiG]

No.

 

[CiG]

Which parts were specifically preachy or layered on thick to you?

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

The Killing Joke along with The Dark Knight Returns are both overrated
Both are good, but holy shit. People need to calm the hell down

 

[CiG]

They're pretty fucking great.

 

[Vilden]

The Killing Joke is great, DKR is hit or miss for me. The art is great, and the general story is interesting, my biggest problem is that Batman often just seems like a Don Quixote lashing out at the world around him angry at everything. Pretty much every character in the book is unlikeable, which probably is the point but I think it makes for a worse reading experience.

The Long Halloween, Dark Victory and Grant Morrison's Batman run leading up to The New 52 is probably my all time favs.

 

[CiG]

New 52 in general has been an amazing project.

 

[Vilden]

I disagree!

 

[CiG]

I haven't come across a flop yet. Which ones are the stinkers?

 

[Vilden]

Which ones aren't? I mean some are not bad or even quite good I guess when I read them but almost all stories are washed out and going nowhere ever. Very safe writing with stereotypical characters acting in their comfort zone. Look at John Constantine and friends for example, perfect example how they took cool engaging characters with deph and made them boring one trick poneys.

Even more important though, it is just all a marketing ploy to make us buy more comics. I mean each other issue has some tie in to another book and to get the whole story you have to read up on that, really annoying. Crossovers and events are cool, once in a while.

Good series: Snyders Batman, Morrisons Action Comics, and that's about it.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Snyders Batman has been badass!

 

[Carpe Mortem]

I've been pricing out my mishmosh of mint Deadpool comics and hoping to sell a few. #14/ Fallout is probably the most valuable I've got at around $40 but all put together I think it might get me a few hundred.

Not quite the retirement plan I hoped for as a teenager on /b/ thinking MAN THIS SHIT GON BLOW UP SOMEDAY.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

I have so many I want to get rid of.

 

[Carpe Mortem]

Just start hitting up different local shops and see what they'd give you. Once you have your list made it's pretty effortless, really not as daunting a task as you'd think.

Also correction: My most valuable is $60ish.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

I have hundreds..

 

[TageRyche]

Darwyn Cooke, the creator behind DC: New Frontier, passed away this morning from cancer.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Some mighty enticing announcements:

DEMONIC—Sometimes the worst demons are the ones inside

Weird Detective #1

And holy fuck Lucio Fulci comics!

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Well then... http://www.previewsworld.com/Article/182251-The-Horror-The-Horror-Zombies-And-Gore-Are-The-Rage

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

SDRSH! In Praise Of Guido Crepax

 

[CiG]

Picked up some new comic books/manga:

Dollman 1 and 2
The Punisher: Born
Dominion (4th edition)
Orion
Black Magic
Intron Depot 5: Battalion

Yeah I love Masamune Shirow.