Comics!

[Vilden]

Yeah, Shirow rules so much. But his art is much better than his writing. I think both Orion and GITS are kind of awkward at times. Appleseed, Black Magic and Dominion are his best works imo.

I would really like a shirt with some 90s over the top artwork from Shirow. Seems harder to find than I thought.

 

[CiG]

Appleseed is my absolute favourite of his, Dominion is the one (besides his more recent Pandora In The Crimson Shell) that I've never read before.

What do you mean by awkward in the case of Ghost In The Shell? Curious if it's something I picked up on but never paid any attention to.

 

[Vilden]

What do you mean by awkward in the case of Ghost In The Shell? Curious if it's something I picked up on but never paid any attention to.

It was quite awhile ago I read GITS now, so maybe I remeber wrong but what I ment wasn't that the story is awkward but more like the writing is. I remeber it as quite clunky and non-engaging which also made it hard to follow.

 

[CiG]

Was it something that carried over to the animated film in your opinion?

 

[Vilden]

No, the anime is much better than the manga (which is a rare feat.). Atleast the original movie, I've watched too little of the series to have a clue about them.

Lol checked now, there are like 5 GITS movies? WTF I'm totally behind in all this, I've only watched the 95 version...

 

[CiG]

Oh okay. I really need to buy the manga, it's one of those things where I read them all at the library while I was in high school and for some reason never bothered to buy them later on.

Actually I can safely recommend you see Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence as it's quite good, granted you can get into/get passed the film's use of some CGI.

The rest of the movies I have no idea about, but I hear good things about Stand Alone Complex.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

@Vilden I tend to believe that Stand Alone Complex is the perfect mixture of the film and the manga. Highly recommend it to you, @CASSETTEISGOD.

Also, I've been reading Star Wars: Crimson Empire, Tower of Babel, the Garth Ennis Hellblazer comics, Star Wars; Knights of the Old Republic and I've been catching up with the last two volumes of Berserk.

 

[Vilden]

Knights of the Old Republic is one of, if not the best Star Wars comic out there. It's great!

Have you read any other Hellblazer besides Ennis run? Because I think he is maybe one of the less good, and definitely the most overrated run. Both Delano (one of the best comic runs ever all categories) and Carey are much better imo.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

Knights of the Old Republic is one of, if not the best Star Wars comic out there. It's great!

Have you read any other Hellblazer besides Ennis run? Because I think he is maybe one of the less good, and definitely the most overrated run. Both Delano (one of the best comic runs ever all categories) and Carey are much better imo.

I agree that Delano and Carey are better (after all, their work made me a fan of John Constantine in the first place ) but I just wanted to revisit Ennis' run of the character. He is somewhat overrated for this because of his fame with Punisher Max but it isn't bad so far.

And yes, the Knights of the Old Republic comics kick ass. You should read Crimson Empire as well if you haven't already.

 

[CiG]

Punisher Max is top tier for me, but I definitely agree that his run of Hellblazer is overrated.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

finished vol 2 of Daredevil by Mark Waid.
The Netflix show has made me a big Daredevil fan

 

[CiG]

finished vol 2 of Daredevil by Mark Waid.
The Netflix show has made me a big Daredevil fan

Apparently the popularity of that show has lead to The Punisher getting his own show. Fuck yes.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

Apparently the popularity of that show has lead to The Punisher getting his own show. Fuck yes.

I still kind of wish that Punisher sequel with Thomas Jane would have happened.

 

[CiG]

I still kind of wish that Punisher sequel with Thomas Jane would have happened.

Same. The Punisher has always suffered from under-the-radar status though, it's hard to generate enough interest in the mainstream, likely because the politics of vigilantism are very unpalatable today. Also it's hard to make anything with The Punisher that isn't R-18.

Did you see War Zone with Ray Stevenson?

 

[Talos of Atmora]

Same. The Punisher has always suffered from under-the-radar status though, it's hard to generate enough interest in the mainstream, likely because the politics of vigilantism are very unpalatable today. Also it's hard to make anything with The Punisher that isn't R-18.

Did you see War Zone with Ray Stevenson?

I did and while liked the Ennis-esque aesthetic, the action, Ray Stevenson's acting and the genius casting of Wayne Knight as Microchip, it still couldn't save the film. It just didn't have a good script.

 

[CiG]

I actually don't own it so it's been too long for me to remember it properly, though I do seem to recall liking it. I remember it being appropriately violent.

Jigsaw was a cool character too to put on the big screen.

 

[CiG]

I have to go with the first one myself.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

Punisher Warzone is the best Punisher film ever made.

S...seriously? With those villain portrayals? Nope.

 

[CiG]

That's the strength of War Zone, the violence.

 

[Krow]

I have to go with the first one myself.

I had no clue other people liked this movie. Its likely one of my favorite superhero movies. (probably because its not really a super hero movie and more of a revenge film) It's gritty, its got funny parts, his fight with Kevin Nash is hilarious, and he kills John Travolta at the end. Tough to beat all that.

Ehhhh I'm referring to the Thomas Jane film.

I've never watched the 1989 film if thats what youre referring to.

muh reading skills.