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Sandicomm
Bree
Feb 20 2007, 3:05pm
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I know that CAH is a big comics fan, and in the RR, Darkstone mentioned R. Crumb and Jack Kirby (heart). Any other comic book fans out there? What books do you like and read?
I read a lot of manga and mainstream comic books (though the price of my grand total of six series that I read regularly is making a big, big hole in my wallet and I can't really afford manga anymore.  ) I read Wonder Woman, Manhunter, Birds of Prey, Justice League of America, Green Arrow, and 52 (oh, and Devi!). My favorite manga are Sailor Moon, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and Planet Ladder.
I'm also a member of the feminist fan site Girl Wonder.
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Aelric
The Shire
Feb 20 2007, 3:32pm
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I stay current with Naruto every week. 
mmmm pie!
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Sandicomm
Bree
Feb 20 2007, 3:59pm
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Hmm, how is that? I never really got into it. (Though the early chapters of the manga were cute.)
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Aelric
The Shire
Feb 20 2007, 4:08pm
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It has its good and bad issues, but overall it rocks.
mmmm pie!
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Aerlinn
Lorien
Feb 20 2007, 4:55pm
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A few years back when I could afford it I would put in a monthly order to Westfield Comics and get a lovely big box. I already knew ElfQuest, which I need to dig out and enjoy again one fine day... I discovered Stinz through the catalog, and Albedo (which I missed most of), and lots more I expect I'll remember sometime around 2 am. Or when, goaded by this thread, I go find all my boxes.
I always loved many of the Marvel comics, especially X-Men and some of the offshoots: Wolverine, Excalibur (I think I have the whole run up to whenever I stopped), and another one I can't remember about the teens which didn't last long.
DC - loved Green Arrow; never much cared for Superman, Spiderman, Batman, etc., though Batman the most of those ...
I've got hundreds of comics and graphic novels bagged and boxed in the spare room. Someday I need to go blow the dust off.
It's been years; I pretty much went cold turkey.
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SandWitch King
Rohan
Feb 20 2007, 7:31pm
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I love comic books or graphic novels or sequential art or whatever people want to call it to make them feel cooler when they read them.
Some are really fun, some are escapist, some are great and some are great literature.
I tend to play more in the Marvel Universe these days than over where you seem comfortable over in DC.
I gravitate to certain writers and a lot of them are at Marvel these days but I have no problem reading cross company and I feel no loyalty one way or the other.
I do feel strong loyalty to the character of Daredevil. The first comic (DD #160 if anybody cares) to make a big impression on me was that one and I collect that title always and forever. Currently written by Ed Brubaker, it is pretty decent.
I read also, Brian Bendis' "Powers" Brian K. Vaughn's "Y: Last Man Standing" Charlie Huston's "Moon Knight" and Bendis' "New Avengers". I pick up other various titles when I am at the shop. I just enjoyed the first issue of Stephen King's "Dark Tower" book.
I am always looking for great, fresh reads. So glad to see comic book people about! 
Once upon a time I was MrCere. I still am but this name is for posting and being part of the community while that one is for official business. 8-)
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CAhobbit
Rohan
Feb 20 2007, 8:11pm
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soooooo far behind in comics. The staple comic series I was reading was "Fallen Angel". It started as a DC title but is now with IDW. I'm about 9 issues behind though. Eeeep. I'll probably start getting into comics again once the new Buffy issues start emerging.
Do not meddle in the affairs of hobbits for we can bite your kneecaps off!
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Darkstone
Immortal
Feb 20 2007, 8:21pm
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Read and collected "funny books" from about 1958 to 1976. Marvel, DC, Carlton, Dell. FF, JLA, Carl Barks' Scrooge. Not to mention Mad and Cracked. In 1976 (?) got totally disgusted with the end of Steve Gerber's Elf With A Gun Defenders plotline, and Roy Thomas' quickie solution to the long drawn out Reed Richards/Sue Storm estrangement. The Kirby/Lee breakup had already hit me hard. Plus with the end of the Comics Code it seemed heroes really weren't heroes anymore. So with the money I saved I went to Europe. With all the retconning that's been going on I hardly recognize anyone anyway.
Still my favorite cover:
"That which does not kill you will mess you up so bad that the next little thing will take you right out."
-Friedrich Nietzsche's doctor
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SandWitch King
Rohan
Feb 20 2007, 9:31pm
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We are definitely in an era of murky heroes in comics.
There are a few 'pure hero' books around but not many.
Once upon a time I was MrCere. I still am but this name is for posting and being part of the community while that one is for official business. 8-)
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Aunt Dora Baggins
Immortal
Feb 20 2007, 9:53pm
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Does this count?
Nathan Hale graphic novel
The last time I bought a real comic book was about 1970, and it was a Fantastic Four. The Nathan Hale book I got for Christmas and I love it. He has kind of a manga look in some of the frames.
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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Chance Meeting at Rivendell: a Tolkien Fanfic
and some other stuff I wrote...
leleni at hotmail dot com
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deej
Tol Eressea
Feb 21 2007, 12:09am
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I am a big comics fan; when I was about 10 my dad bought me a box of comics from a garage sale; the ones I remember were 'Vault of Horror' and stuff like that (man, I wish I still had them!)
Later, I got really into Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' and 'Death' series, along with most everything else from the Vertigo/DC line. Then I discovered Alan Moore, who I think is amazing.
Now i'm starting to get into the 'traditional' comics - Batman, Superman, X-Men, etc... My collection isn't very big right now, but I plan to try and catch up at the cons i'm going to this year!
Sincerely, deej - The Artist Formerly Known as djdeathskiss
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squire
Half-elven
Feb 21 2007, 6:13am
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I was huge into comics...before high school.
Marvel in the 1960s was like, the avant-garde of, well, comic books. It was such a amazing moment when Thor lost his hammer and had to ride an elevator, and get stared at by the normal citizens. Or, well, all the soap-opera qualities of Stan Lee's writing...you really did feel like part of the Marvel family, as you realized all the characters were massively f**ed up in the head, and all appeared in each other's stories. I would occasionally check in with the DC books, which I had inhaled in near-fatal doses a few years earlier, and noticed the rip-off effects as Superman began to get introspective.
The funny thing is, I was into Tolkien at the same time, and I fell out of love with comics at about age 15 (still a sentimental memory, but I didn't read them anymore) just as my Tolkien phase passed. But the Tolkien thing stayed dormant. I kept up, surreptitiously, waiting (unconsciously) for the films... and TORn. The comics, on the other hand, never came back. Just as well, as I pretend to be a 50-year-old family man with a job, a house, and real responsibilities. Tolkien marginalizes me. Comics would destroy me.
I have a complete set of about 100 Thors (my special favorite) from the 1960s in the basement, wrapped in plastic. Once I went down and tried to read a few, and aside from the nostalgia, the writing was laughably ridiculous. Some of Tolkien is laughably ridiculous, but not all. (Does anyone remember the Marvel villain called "Sauron", the demonic incarnation of some Tolkien-obsessed evil teen? Avengers? Fantastic Four? X-Men?)
Immolative introspection aside, there seems to be something about comics (why called that? they're not particularly funny!) that practically defines the geek. Even if I don't go near them now, I remember practically every detail of the ones I read 35 years ago. What is a geek, if not a comic-book reader? And why do they seem to be associated with a particularly introspective type of adolescent male?
squire online:
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Footeramas: The 3rd TORn Reading Room LotR Discussion; and "Tolkien would have LOVED it!"
squiretalk introduces the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: A Reader's Diary
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Sandicomm
Bree
Feb 24 2007, 5:44am
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The New York Post has been reprinting some of the old Spidey comics. I thought Stan Lee's style was highly irritating, but I appreciate the insight he brought into the industry.
Now if only that insight could be applied to characters who weren't male...
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Sundoulos
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Feb 24 2007, 8:30am
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I've never was into comics as a kid (at least not very often)...the notable exception was Transformers. After all, I was a child of the 80's. I don't really collect them very much, but there are one or two series that have caught my attention. Both of them were i
My absolute favorite comic is Jeff Smith's masterpiece, Bone; you may or may not have ever heard of it. He independently produced it over a period of 13 years, spanning 55 installments. If you've ever just glanced at it in a comic book store, you might be tempted simply to pass it up...and you would be sorely missing out. The artwork is wonderful, reminiscent of Walt Kelly's Pogo mixed in with the bizzare monsters of Bill Waterson's Calvin and Hobbes. The characters are also compelling, The Bone cousins themselves are hilarious and instantly likable. Fone Bone, who is almost sort of a Frodo or Bilbo character, is an everyman (er...everyBone) hero who loves literature. You can't help but feel attached to him through the series. Phoney Bone, my early favorite, Phoney Boneis a conniving, Scrooge McDuck type negative hero, who, as one amazon reviewer put it, has a total lack of scruples joined whit a nietzcheian rationalization ("People like to be victims! There's a sort of moral superiority attached to it..."). Smiley Bone, the cigar-chomping happy-go-lucky character; he seems to be a little simple or off, but he comes through in a clinch with sage observations and a heart of gold.
While at first the comic may seem like a silly tale for the first two books frames, by the third volume, the plot eventually takes a few relatively dark and unexpected turns. What seems a silly comic book filled with talking animals, Bone creatures, and racing cows :o) at the beginning becomes an epic adventure after a few of the volumes... I'm probably spoiling it just by saying so, but I think it should be said if it attracts more readers. There are many Tolkienesque moments in between the wacky antics of Phoney and Smiley...one scene in particular, reminded me of the Hobbits' trip from Farmer Maggot's to Bree...including the subsequent flight from the Black Riders. Wry Humor is also liberally peppered throughout the book...from monsters who like Quiche to Phoney's moralizing... "Peop. There's more than one time in the comic, especially early on, that I was reminded of parts of FOTR, such as a nightime flight from a farmhouse.
I know that I sound like a commerical, but I think that this series is worth plugging. :) The 1300 page one-volume edition of Bone is easily, and currently inexpesively available on sites like Amazon. I bought this back in 2004, loved it, and now I'm collecting the 8 volume color printings that are being produced by Scholastic and Jeff Smith...mainly for my child when he/she is old enough to read. (Mrs. Sundoulos and I have one on the way!) If you like comics, or just good fantasy, do yourself a favor and buy or or get it from the library. It's well worth the effort.
Also, Jeff Smith's blog is located at boneville.com. He's got several sections of artwork and covers that have been used in various countries over the years.
- Sundoulos ... aka "Gourry" from TORN years gone by.
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Sandicomm
Bree
Feb 25 2007, 3:16pm
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I've read some of it, but I've always meant to pick it up. Obviously I should. If you're interested, Jeff Smith is currently doing a miniseries for DC about Captain Marvel (a boy who turns into an adult superhero with wizard-granted powers whenever he shouts "Shazam!"), and it's supposed to be excellent.
Congratulations on the little one that's on the way, Gourry/ Sundoulos!
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