RATE/REVIEW Last Comicbook/book/printed stuff you read.
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Yep , that pretty much sums it up...
Thanos the mad “love sick” titan.
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I haven't started the Dark Tower series yet
I loved the books so enjoying a more fleshed out back story it has....pretty good art also.
Best thing I have read recently is Injustice.....
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I've heard the anime is even better. It changes the story quite a bit from what I've read.
batfan08
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10/10
Of all the Batman comics I’ve read over the years, this one may be my favorite. I’ll be honest: I’m someone who has always gravitated to an extremely grounded Batman. I’m not talking about Chris Nolan’s stylized hyperrealism, either, but the seedy, gross Gotham inhabited by coke heads and gangsters that we saw in Year One. The truth is that, prior to reading this, I never thought it possible to balance *that* Gotham with the more comic book elements of the character’s history, but Brubaker and Rucka do it masterfully, and, honestly, I think they may have succeeded in replacing that grounded preconception that I had long since clung to.
That’s what’s amazing about Gotham Central. It takes place in a world where Superman and the Teen Titans exist, where the Mad Hatter can control people’s minds, and it still feels completely realistic, and the reason it does is because of the characters. Rucka and Brubaker write everyday people with everyday problems thrown into a world of heroes and monsters. You have guys coping over lost partners, you have people dealing with relationship struggles and gambling addictions, and while these details are, by no means, the focus of the story, when juxtaposed against the backdrop of the mainstream DCU, it creates a fascinating dynamic unlike anything I’ve ever seen or read before.
When you have a three dimensional character dealing with real world problems and you thrust them into a situation where they’re face to face with The Joker or Mr. Freeze, these characters, who we so often see as cannon fodder for Batman’s fists to be carted off to Arkham at the end of each encounter, become not only infinitely more formidable, but immensely more terrifying because these characters see them exactly as we would: without comprehension. You see all of the homicide detectives, desk sergeants, and vets of the GCPD and they respond to crime accordingly: they see regular people doing horrible **** all the time and, if they catch a body of a woman whose husband beat on her all the time and who finally took it too far, that’s just another day on the job, but how do you acclimate yourself to watching a guy get hit with a freeze ray and then shatter on the floor?
But what’s so great about it is the fact that they manage to infuse the supervillains with the same degree of realism that they do the cops, and their obsessions become more unhinged, their motivations become more understandable, and because of that; because they do feel like they’re more than just cartoon supervillains, you’re able to see them in the same light as the regular people who they terrorize on a daily basis. The fact that it’s also a procedural, and I’m not talking about some cut and paste “law and order” rip-off bull****, but a book that paints a picture of bureaucracy in a city where vigilantes operate with autonomy. I don’t know. There’s just so much to love, and there’s something to be said about a book that can balance real-world issues like sexism, racism, and homophobia in the office with giant monsters without coming across as preachy, but, instead, to just flesh out the fact that, just because this world might have different, often more extraordinary problems to deal with, it has a hell of a lot of the same ones we do, as well.
I can gush about it for hours and I hope I haven’t done it a disservice, but if you’re a Batman fan and you’ve never read it, buy the omnibus. The whole series in one big, beautiful volume. The writing’s amazing, the artwork’s beautiful, and, if you’re anything like me, you’ll find hours going by like seconds when you’re really engrossed in it. If anybody’s interested in it, I feel like it’d be too weird and sponsory to post a link, but there are several sites that I use that have these books anywhere from 40-50% off cover that I’d be happy to share.
Christine - 9/10
Misery - 9.5/10
Bazaar of Bad Dreams - 4/10
Revival - 5/10
Blockade Billy & Morality - 6/10
Sleeping Beauties - 9.5/10
ebor
Super Freak
Blankets (Craig Thompson)--10/10
Blade of the Immortal - 8.5/10
Really a great read, and the art style deeply develops the further into it you go.
Really a great read, and the art style deeply develops the further into it you go.
punisher1974
Super Freak
Reading some epic collections from Marvel. Good price point for the stories and takes me back to when I read them 30 years ago.
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Hmmm. I have a love/hate thing going with Saga.
I loved it in the beginning, but as BKV got piles of fan letters from gay/trans/queer/etc fans every month, he saw who was breading his butter and jesus christ the PANDERING.
It becomes a parody about halfway through....the lectures from the trans character were eye-rollingly bad. I also hated that family of rat-creatures, so when they left the book, I was glad, even though BKV clearly wanted me to be sad about it.
But then, he wraps up an storyline like he just did in issue 54 and I say "DAAAMN!!!"
I loved it in the beginning, but as BKV got piles of fan letters from gay/trans/queer/etc fans every month, he saw who was breading his butter and jesus christ the PANDERING.
It becomes a parody about halfway through....the lectures from the trans character were eye-rollingly bad. I also hated that family of rat-creatures, so when they left the book, I was glad, even though BKV clearly wanted me to be sad about it.
But then, he wraps up an storyline like he just did in issue 54 and I say "DAAAMN!!!"
I read Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal last month. Red Dragon was awesome, definitely my favourite of the three. Silence of the Lambs was good, but Hannibal pretty much read like it was some fanboy's/girl's fanfiction in which the main characters are pretty much bent out of shape and twisted into something they are not,
Truly lame. I'm not even gonna bother with Hannibal Rising, since Harris only wrote that because the movieproducer wanted him to do so.
just so they can end up together.
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