Whats everyone reading?

[sheldipez]

Has anyone here read Chew ???.......I'm wondering about 'splashing out' on the first GN as the premise really intrigues me.....A detective who 'detects' by eating 'pieces' from the scene of the crime....
Any thoughts on it would be much appreciated...

The first issue is free on comixology to try it out and it's really quite wonderful.

[Daveycandlish]

Chew is one of my favourite ongoing stories. Quirky and fun with dark twists. I would recommend it

[Skullmo]

Just reading Alan Moore's Supreme books - Story of the Year and the Return. Very good stuff so far, even if the printing is a joke.

Also still reading Book 1 of Cerebus - which is excellent.

Just re read Day of Chaos yesterday.

Also part way through the novel Lux the Poet.

[Theblazeuk]

Couldn't get more Sweet Tooth so got Grandville: Bete Noir instead. This is fun and as always, beautifully drawn. Talbot is the master of steampunk, particularly when you consider the genius of Luther Arkwright.

Was a pleasant coincidence to see Talbot lampooning proponents of abstract art for being patsies to a conspiracy just one day after I first came across the real life conspiracy that this is based on - that the CIA funded modern abstract art and undermined socialist realism as a movement. Talbot argues the ins and outs of this much more eloquently than a philistine like me could ever manage, both through his characters and the author's notes at the end of the book. However beyond this meta-textual stuff, the story itself was probably the least impressive of the Grandville books - a bit too 'sixty-centime dreadful' for me. Conspiracies and corruption are to be expected, yet though Le Brock's style is more Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes than Conan Doyles to begin with, it gets a bit too Jules Verne and starts to get a bit like one of those HG Wells/Sherlock fanfics that litter crappy fiction. No slight against Alan Moore intended.

[Colin YNWA]

Also still reading Book 1 of Cerebus - which is excellent.

If you think that's good, just wait til you get to the next few.

[Mabs]

I just finished Ocean by Warren Ellis. Being a huge fan of science-fiction storytelling, I was captivated by the premise of the comic. Ever since I was a young boy I wondered about the solar system, the planets, and in particular Jupiter and Saturn's moons, one in particular was said to have water beneath its icy surface. That moon in question was Europa, which is orbitting the gas giant Jupiter as we speak. Indeed, as is alluded to in the story, if these moons were anywhere else but in Jupiter's grip, it would rightly be considered a planet.

Ocean sets up these tantalising questions and throws us into the future where humans have discovered that there is life in the oceans of Europa, but life not in the manner we expected...

I understand Warren Ellis originally envisioned the premise for Ocean as a film, however it didn't get made and he ended up doing a comic book version, and all the better for it. Indeed, if you look closely at the way the story is set up and the characters esp. the main character Nathan Kane, he looks very much like Denzel Washington, probably that's who Ellis had in mind for the film. As for the story, it was a gripping, grown up science fiction thriller with some wry commentary thrown in for good measure. The premise as I outlined is that man has discovered alien humanoid life form inside thousands of 'coffins' floating in the ocean beneath the ice of Jupiter's moon, Europa. There is also a giant ring like structure in the ocean, we soon learn that it is a device that generates a worm hole, but for what purpose? As the story progresses we start uncovering the answers to this mystery, and the reasons for their being there, and let me say it's nothing to do with the benefit of mankind. Kane and the crew members on the space station, Cold Harbour, face a race against time to stop these beings from waking up, but a dangerous corporation called 'Doors' stands in their way. No doubt, 'Doors' is a thinly veiled allegory for the 'Windows' corporation, with all its human inhabitants onboard their space station deprived of human feelings, thanks (or no thanks) to modification to their personality (something which isn't as far fetched as it sounds). They're like walking zombies (or Borgs) following the every command of their insane superior, 'Mr. Manager'. Ellis' character's are well realised from our protagonist Nathan Kane, to Station Commander Fadia Aziz and others , and the script is very witty and interesting. Chris Sprouse's clear uncluttered artwork also suits the story well.  I also learned a few things reading it such as a theory on Jupiter's asteroid belt which I did not know beforehand. It's the type of comic which makes you think as well as thrill and I really enjoyed it!

[Mabs]

Ragemoor - Richard Corben & Jan Strnad's magnificent horror comic. You can find my review on the link below;

http://nexuswookie.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/ragemoor-by-richard-corben-jan-strnad-review/

[Link Prime]

I just finished Ocean by Warren Ellis.

Never heard of this Mabs, you've definitely piqued my interest- the objective of this thread!

[Mabs]

I just finished Ocean by Warren Ellis.

Never heard of this Mabs, you've definitely piqued my interest- the objective of this thread!

Glad to have been of assistance, Link! You should definitely check it out, it's well worth your time. :-)

[Mabs]

I'm nearing the end of D.R and Quinch and it's been an absolute blast thus far! Some of the stuff that Alan Moore came up with is just laugh out loud funny! One of the funniest moments were when the duo and their insane war vet friend are trying to break out of prison, the plan their friend devises for escape with the soap gun and the explosives shaped like a soap, is rip roaringly funny! The reaction on. D.R's face says it all!   

And their whole Hollywood shenanigans is also a blast. That incident involving Marlon (Brando) and the oranges was hilarious! Seriously, there should be a health warning on the book because someday someone could end up dying from laughter!

[Dandontdare]

I'm nearing the end of D.R and Quinch and it's been an absolute blast thus far!

'sright

[Mabs]

 

[Dark Jimbo]

'Mind the oranges, Marlon!' is one of the great 2K moments.

[Frank]

If you've never tried recently minted Nobel laureate Alice Munro, now seems like a good time. Some of the reviews she gets (and the covers of the books) make her work sound like up-scale chick-lit, but there's a ton of nasty sex, mental disorder and homicide amongst the psychological verité and finely observed minutiae of daily life to satisfy most readers. The short story format means that if a particular piece isn't working for you there'll be something else which does.

The Lives of Girls and Women and Open Secrets are my favourites, and the title story of the latter is the most perfectly judged exercise in telling a satisfying story without spelling absolutely everything out I've ever read.

[Mabs]

The Bodyssey by Richard Corben & Simon Revelstroke. A fun romp - literally in this case!

http://nexuswookie.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/the-bodyssey-by-richard-corben-review/