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Started by Goaty, 14 July, 2012, 06:13:28 PM

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Goaty

Just reading 117  :o

[spoiler]"We're not the monsters"[/spoiler]

NapalmKev

I've ordered the Walking Dead collection (issues 1-48) from Amazon.£29.70 reduced from £50.

I've never read the Walking Dead, and am very much looking forward to its arrival.

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Proudhuff

Are they moving to a two week issue programme?
the hack pages seems to give that idea
DDT did a job on me

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Quote from: Proudhuff on 11 December, 2013, 04:26:53 PM
Are they moving to a two week issue programme?
the hack pages seems to give that idea

Just finished the latest collection (Vol 19 'March to War'), and there were quite a few pages within obviously rushed.
I find it hard to criticize Charlie Adlard though- he's an amazing storyteller, and has kept to a monthly schedule that will probably never be heard of again in the world of comics.

BPP

Quote from: Proudhuff on 11 December, 2013, 04:26:53 PM
Are they moving to a two week issue programme?
the hack pages seems to give that idea

That was the initial idea but they scaled it back to 18 issues a year I think. Maybe 20.

The art has suffered terribly as a result. The full page of Maggie in 118 look amateur and the dynamic and decay from when it was just CA on art duty has been lost.
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Tiplodocus

Just finished Volume 19 (which I think goes up to Issue 114) and wasn't impressed. The human conflict wasn't enough to compensate for the lack of Zombies (plus, despite initially liking Negan's *really* hateful attitude,  haven't we done the "humans are as bad/worse menace" several times already).

This whole Negan thing is really dragging and his dialogue really grates.  There are now way too many characters who are so obviously the creations of a writer rather than just ordinary joes in extraordinary situations.

Every time I see a ninja ass-kicking Jesus or a person pretending to be a Knight or a rasta with a pet tiger, it pulls me out of the moment. I know we've always had samurai weilding Michonne on the scene and obvious comic book villains like The Governor but this just feels too much.
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TordelBack

While it does feel a little comic-book-guy to be thinking: "these tigers and ninjas in my zombie book are totally unrealistic", I have to agree. My big beef with the Washington storylines is how pretty much every plot twist and source of tension comes down to speed of communication between the various enclaves.  While I'm prepared to give Kirkman a pass on the 'why does nobody have a working watch' issue since that was a very early mistake, I can't get over the idea that nobody has laid hands on a few walkie talkies and some batteries.  I have two sets in my own house and I don't even own a katana!

Tiplodocus

Quote from: TordelBack on 02 January, 2014, 01:05:59 PM
While it does feel a little comic-book-guy to be thinking: "these tigers and ninjas in my zombie book are totally unrealistic", I have to agree.

Ha ha! It does seem a little nebbish, to be sure.  If Vampires and Werewolves turn up in it, I'd totally stop buying it, even though, to an outside observer, that attitude would make no sense whatsoever. ;o)
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vzzbux

I have just started book 8. [spoiler]Carl has just awoke from his coma after losing his eye.[/spoiler] Poor bastard.
I digested books 6 and 7 yesterday. have book 9 to follow.




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Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.

LorcanQ

Quote from: BPP on 15 July, 2012, 03:32:12 PM
about that time of 'ennie, meanie, miney, moe' it felt like a drawn out exercise in torture=porn comics.

Just got round to reading volume 17 there, does this type of thing, and most of the violent scenes in Walkding dead, count as torture porn? ive never watched any of those hostel-type films so really dont know what defines it.

As for this volume itself, I loved it as a little sensational guilty pleasure but really, i don't know if i could call it quality. As for the WD series in general, i think its been sagging for a while now. I remember absolutely adoring Volumes 1-8 of the trade, and despite only reading them once, id be able to go thru what happened in the plot of each cos they stuck in my mind. Since then however, the series kind of blurs into a good-enough lump, i vaguely remember what happened in it and just about know the characters but all in all its bland enough. Increasingly ive noticed that the main reason it entices you is how sensational it can become. Ill be honest tho, ill still read it for a good while to come, its a nice little guilty pleasure once or twice a year..

Goaty


Dammit, Issue 119, didn't expect that ending!

vzzbux

Just finished book 9.
Did anyone else feel angry [spoiler]at the demise of Glenn[/spoiler].
Also how far behind is the collection? It finishes with the meet of Rick[spoiler], Jesus, Dwight, Ezekiel and tiger[/spoiler].

Charley's War book X next.




V
Drokking since 1972

Peace is a lie, there's only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.

flip-r mk2

vzzbux book 9 takes you up too issue 108, monthly issue 119 just came out.

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That's what they call a sanity clause.
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vzzbux

Drokking since 1972

Peace is a lie, there's only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.

Tiplodocus

Quote from: flip-r mk2 on 13 January, 2014, 10:45:08 PM
vzzbux book 9 takes you up too issue 108, monthly issue 119 just came out.

filippo

Eh? Are these hardback books or fatter trade paper backs? The TPBs I get only have about six issues per book?
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