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GARTH ENNIS PLANES and BOYS

Started by Tiplodocus, 02 October, 2008, 10:21:19 PM

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Colin YNWA

Uh hark on me with me double post and all that. BUT did we know about this, due in August... but it being Titan we'd better not pick a year yet?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Garth-Ennis-Classics-Titan-Books/dp/1781167419/ref=sr_1_29?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1359719079&sr=1-29

Sounds like a very interesting read and will contain (apparently) another complete Battle story, HMS Nightshade, which I don't remember but I hear very good things about... or imagine I did...

QuoteNew York Times bestselling writer Garth Ennis, writer of The Boys, Preacher and Battlefields, selects his favourite stories from the seminal 1970s British boys' comic Battle. Included in this fantastic volume for the very first time is the complete HMS Nightshade, and the never-before-reprinted The General Dies At Dawn. With insights and introductions by Ennis himself, this collection of war comic rarities is not to be missed!

Proudhuff

DDT did a job on me

Colin YNWA

Battlefields 4, the first part of 'The fall and rise of Anna Kharkova' was simply brilliant. Ennis at his best.

There's not much else to say really.

strontium_dog_90

I'm rather excited about Ennis's imminent return to the world of "Crossed" :-)

Anyone else read the first issue of "Red Team," too? That's a pretty promising introduction.

Proudhuff

Quote from: strontium_dog_90 on 23 February, 2013, 08:56:12 PM
I'm rather excited about Ennis's imminent return to the world of "Crossed" :-)

Anyone else read the first issue of "Red Team," too? That's a pretty promising introduction.

I Have missed the start of the new Witches story, will try and dig it out on line somewhere.  SD90 don't know if I can be arsed with more Crossed, the whole torture porn thing put me off a while back and even Ennis's return might not save it.

RedTeam looks promising for anyone who's needing a fix after the Boys ended:

DDT did a job on me

Dodsy

I enjoyed the first issue of Red Team. Glad it's only a limited though, think it would suffer if it was an ongoing.
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Basilisk

¿Wasn't the Nightingale tale included on the War Stories collections?. I have the spanish omnibus edition and it's included.

The art was done by David Lloyd, right?.

So... What this book will include?. The Vertigo War Stories?.
Ah, Henry Peter Gyrich -- I should'a guessed. Tell me -- do you National Security Council Guys get a cheaper rate buyin' those sunglasses in bulk?

Proudhuff

Just managed to get the Nightwitches 1st part, great stuff, the navigator was a well rounded charactor, artwork up to scratch and that Stalinist Tankie at the end...spot on.

Second part of Red Team cooking up nicely, recommended.

DDT did a job on me

Satanist

Christ I had to go back 3 pages to find this.  :)

Anyhoo did ye read Ennis wee run on crossed. Back to its best.
Hmm, just pretend I wrote something witty eh?

Proudhuff

Missed it I'm afraid, maybe catch the collected version, I have been enjoying Si's work on the on-line version. a traipse around the NE of Scotland and the Islands in the company of the crossed was always going to be fun.
DDT did a job on me

davepain

I loved Preacher. Was what got me interested in comics as a 20 year old "adult" and is the bench mark for all comics that pass my eyes. So Ennis is a big deal for me.

Read the first 2 volumes of The Boys. I liked it. Funny in places, and I like what he did with costumed "heroes", but I didn't enjoy it enough to carry on. There was no character (apart from the female, perhaps) I was actually interested in. Seems a silly thing to say but I found it a bit TOO crass. Felt like he was trying a bit too hard.

I read Kick-Ass a while back and preferred that twist on caped crusaders/filth for the sake of it.

Colin YNWA

Well this thread is too long neglected and I can think of no better way to resurrect chatter of this great writer than by passing comment on the simply magnificent Fury Max book 2. The conclusion of this series was quite brilliant, quite, quite brilliant. I don't know if it was always planned as a finite story, it was certainly advertised as ongoing wasn't it, anyway it felt as perfectly planned, as it was perfectly executed.

Just one of the very best comic series I've read. Superb.

Dandontdare

ooh I'll have to check that out - book 1 was excellent.

Proudhuff




Well that was the final issue (7) I think and it was everything he promised, highly recommended!!



'Ennis spoke with CBR News about the series, saying that the similar grey areas explored by TV's new golden age of crime dramas served as his inspiration for the story. "The most obvious influence would be 'The Wire,' which I'm pretty sure is going to stand as the greatest TV show of all time," he said. "There's a dash of 'The Shield' in there too. And, to a lesser extent, 'The Sopranos,' 'Breaking Bad,' 'Brotherhood,' even a little 'Justified.' All that amped-up crime drama we've been getting over the past 15 years.

"The starting point for 'Red Team' was, essentially, what if someone tried to be the Punisher for real?" Ennis continued'.
DDT did a job on me

Hawkmumbler

Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 01 February, 2013, 11:52:43 AM
Uh hark on me with me double post and all that. BUT did we know about this, due in August... but it being Titan we'd better not pick a year yet?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Garth-Ennis-Classics-Titan-Books/dp/1781167419/ref=sr_1_29?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1359719079&sr=1-29

Sounds like a very interesting read and will contain (apparently) another complete Battle story, HMS Nightshade, which I don't remember but I hear very good things about... or imagine I did...

QuoteNew York Times bestselling writer Garth Ennis, writer of The Boys, Preacher and Battlefields, selects his favourite stories from the seminal 1970s British boys' comic Battle. Included in this fantastic volume for the very first time is the complete HMS Nightshade, and the never-before-reprinted The General Dies At Dawn. With insights and introductions by Ennis himself, this collection of war comic rarities is not to be missed!
I actually flicked through a copy of this in Smiths the other day. Must get round to buying it at some point, really enjoying these BPW reprints titan are putting out.