I saw the trade sitting on the shelf of the shop I go to, and the cover was so eye-catching to me, I almost bought it there knowing nothing else of it. Are you enjoying it?
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I saw the trade sitting on the shelf of the shop I go to, and the cover was so eye-catching to me, I almost bought it there knowing nothing else of it. Are you enjoying it?
Last week Comixology introduced a new subscription service, which allows access to tons of their comics without having to pay individually for them. Comixology Unlimited.
I'm tempted, but I don't know if I really want to have to pay for monthly subscription on top of the other services I already pay for.
I'm tempted, but I don't know if I really want to have to pay for monthly subscription on top of the other services I already pay for.
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I am. Without giving too much away, it's about mankind's first steps into extended space travel. I feel like it would make a great TV show. They also have a very cool app you can download that allows you to interact with certain pages.
I am. Without giving too much away, it's about mankind's first steps into extended space travel. I feel like it would make a great TV show. They also have a very cool app you can download that allows you to interact with certain pages.
I downloaded it separately at on my iPhone. You point your phone at a specific page and it comes to life on your phone. Sometimes it'll be additional info on vessels, and sometimes it actually supplements the story in the form of mission logs. It's pretty cool. If you open the app and point it at the cover of the 3rd issue you get a fun retro game!
Wow, I don't think I've ever seen anyone treat Constantine so dismissively.
Just out of curiosity 5s, what is it you dislike so much about indie comics? It just seems strange to me to dismiss such a varied category of comic, especially some of them are even written by the same people who write for Marvel and DC.
Like I said before, I haven't really read any indie's yet, but to be honest, a lot of them do sound more interesting to me than a lot of the stuff coming from Marvel or DC. For me my interest in Marvel and DC's stuff tends to be more about the character, while the indies I'm interested in tend to be because of the stories. Don't get me wrong, the Marvel and DC comics do have some great stories, but that's not really the biggest draw.
What is it that is so horrible about Vertigo? They put out a lot of really well regarded stuff, and so far the three Vertigo series I've read, Fables, Y: The Last Man, and The Sandman were great.
I don't like Indy comics because I only read comics for DC/Marvel characters, and for some franchises I already liked outside of comics (like Star Wars). Indies don't tell stories I like, and they have no characters worth a damn in my opinion. Even writers I love when they work for DC/Marvel don't put out Indy titles I'd read. As far as I'm concerned, comics exist as the medium nowadays to tell good stories in the DC/Marvel universes, and to tell some good licensed stories from big franchises that weren't created from comics.
That's the beginning and ending of my interest in comics. Well, modern comics at least (I'll read older stuff from back when more companies were putting out heroes in the 40s-70s, stuff like that). There are one or two comics I like that don't fit that mold (like Sandman, Fables, Gail Simone's Welcome to Tranquility) but, for me, Indy comics have generally nothing I want. If it wasn't for Marvel/DC, I wouldn't read comics. I don't like comics as a medium in general, I like them as a way of reading stories about characters I like, in universes that I like with writers that are guided and not allowed to do whatever they want. I'll take the worst DC or Marvel comic over the "best" indy comic any day. There is no comparison.
As for Vertigo, it did not put out Sandman, at least not originally. Sandman was into the 40s (I'm talking about issue numbers) before Vertigo was founded and Sandman was folded into the imprint. As for what's wrong with Vertigo, its just not for me. For one, I like the comic equivalent of "PG-13" comics, not the generally uncensored HBO style of most Vertigo comics. Plus, it releases books that are generally bad anyway, with Sandman and Fables being the only two vertigo books that I've read that were worth the paper they were printed on. Vertigo books also generally have terrible art (even Sandman was probably only about 50/50 from a good/bad art perspective, Fables is really the only Vertigo comic I've seen that had consistently good art).
I guess if you don't like comics, I could see why you don't read anything but Marvel and DC, but if you really don't like them, wouldn't it be better to just watch the movies and TV series and stuff.
I did remember one other non-Marvel/DC comic that I read and really really enjoyed, Boom!'s Lumberjanes. I read the first collection a few months back, and it was a blast.
I did remember one other non-Marvel/DC comic that I read and really really enjoyed, Boom!'s Lumberjanes. I read the first collection a few months back, and it was a blast.
I 've really enjoyed some of the mini-series Boom! has been releasing. Stuff like Broken World, Klaus, and Snow Blind. There is something satisfying about getting a complete story like that. I just started a new mini from Boom! called Strange Attractors that looks promising and another mini from Dynamite called Control that also seems promising. For some reason I really seem to be into the non-super mini-series stuff right now.
I love comics, but just the DC/Marvel and licensed franchise ones. Its like how I love reading books, but I only read certain genres, I'm not interested in all the types of books that are written. Same with comics. The ones I like are great and so is the format of comic books, but I'm not interested in reading all comics just because I like certain types. Basically I'm trying to say that loving, for example, X-Men comics doesn't mean I give even a little bit of a crap about stuff like Invincible, just because they're both comic books. I love certain types of comics, and only those types. I don't find the entire medium interesting. Just like how I like some movies, but don't watch certain types that don't interest me.
See that's where we differ, I just look for anything that looks interesting, whether it's a Big 2 character that I'm curious about, or an indie with a cool sounding story.
Rather than only reading a certain genre of books, to me what you do would be more like only reading books published by Simon & Schuster or Del Rey, and refusing to read other stuff just because it was published by HarperCollins or Penguin.
Rather than only reading a certain genre of books, to me what you do would be more like only reading books published by Simon & Schuster or Del Rey, and refusing to read other stuff just because it was published by HarperCollins or Penguin.
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