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Started by radiator, 11 February, 2013, 08:53:41 PM

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ming

Never afraid to state the bleedin' obvious, that's me! :D

Colin YNWA

Oh another one that might be fun and as its available for nowt what the heck is Liberty Meadows.

http://apesandbabes.com/welcome-to-liberty-meadows/


skurvy

As, like me, you seem to like a bit of sci-fi & crime I suggest:

Stray Bullets
Blacksad
Parker (Darwyn Cooke)
Grendel
Nexus
Fear Agent

And then:
Lone Wolf & Cub
Cerebus
Hate

Professor Bear

Prophet and Glory are two books from Image well worth checking out.  Ostensibly starting from the same point (they're both characters created by Rob Liefeld in the 90s to pad out backing casts), Rob has sub-let the creative duties entirely to untested teams and the results are comics you simply would not get anywhere else.  Perhaps Rob is an enabling creative force nurturing new ideas, or maybe he just signed a cheque and said "make the comics and don't bother me", but either way these aren't what you would expect from his comics label and have bugger all to do with all previous versions of the characters - probably for the best given their last outings as leads were in the 90s.
Glory started as a Wonder Woman analogue but the new team almost immediately ditch the "supermodel waif in a swimsuit" angle and turn the main character into a muscular and heavily-scarred Slaine by way of the Spartacus tv show.  If Robert Kirkman's Invincible wasn't boring, aimless, aimed at 8 year olds and full of cardboard characters spouting exposition instead of dialogue, it would basically be the closest thing on the market to Glory, but it's definitely Marmite comics and you will either love or hate it.
Prophet , despite starting with issue 21, is unconnected to the previous versions of the character (a sort of Wolverine/Captain America mash-up), and is instead the story of a series of clones with the same name revived across the galaxy thousands of years after the fall of humanity as a galactic power and fuelled by nebulous directives from their long-dead masters to make spectacular journies across completely alien landscapes.  The book was clearly heavily-inspired by Eurocomic travelogues, but doesn't stop with homage to Mobius and instead moves into more grotesque territory as each clone's story unfolds under different artists and in different locales varying from living planets to posthuman Earth to the corpses of dead space giants.  It reminds me most of a more compact and violent version of Léo's Aldebaran trilogy, or 2000ad's various "stranger in a strange land" death planet stuff.

radiator

QuoteStray Bullets
Blacksad
Parker (Darwyn Cooke)
Grendel
Nexus
Fear Agent

And then:
Lone Wolf & Cub
Cerebus
Hate

Good stuff. I've got the first two Parker books, and Lone Wolf & Cub is on my list already. Will have to see what is on Comixology...

Prophet is on my 'likes' list already.

gurnard

I second Fatale good read quite an in depth thing to follow I found but you do get involved with the story and the characters. 

Professor Bear

Quote from: radiator on 12 February, 2013, 12:08:31 PMProphet is on my 'likes' list already.

D'oh.  Then I reverse-recommend from Prophet to Léo's Aldebaran trilogy (Aldebaran, Betelgeuse, Antares - though the final Aldebaran volume is not out for a couple of months).  Like Prophet, a sci-fi travelogue, but with more focus on numerous characters that the writer helps you keep track of by concentrating only on a loose trio at any one time, and much more grounded than Prophet as lots of the plot takes place in human villages and communities.
A word of warning would be that there's a good chance of the books falling apart in your hands as you read them because of really poor binding by the printers.  Digital editions would be the preference, but the pages are also really big - Tintin/Asterix sized - and I don't know how those would look on whatever you use for a reader.

I, Cosh

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