I'm too much of a pack rat. I would never be able to convince myself to let it go out of fear that I may want to read it again one day.
COMIC BOOKS vs BOOKS
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I'm too much of a pack rat. I would never be able to convince myself to let it go out of fear that I may want to read it again one day.
Books, without question. I've started reading through a number of graphic novels in the last few years, but they're just occasional treats (in part because they're just so short that I would soon have nothing to read). Most of my time is still the old print on paper form, and what graphic novels I do have make up only a small percentage of my broader library.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
I'll say 50/50, which is probably close to the truth. I read lots of books, comics and magazines, and I don't keep track so it's kind of hard to say.
Duh... I wike Comic books it's gots the purty pichers e-yuk!
I definitely read books more. As I have said before, comics are too much trouble for me to read. Books are easier on my eyes. The last comics I read were gifts.
1. A X-men trade paperback set during the whole Madelyne Pryor business.
2. One volume of the newer Cowboy Bebop manga.
1. A X-men trade paperback set during the whole Madelyne Pryor business.
2. One volume of the newer Cowboy Bebop manga.
No wonder you don't read comics, both of those are CRAP!
who gave you those books? friends? if so I'd get new friends fast! or at least one's with better taste for the medium.
What are you reading?
What are you reading?
I've had Watchmen on my desk for several months. I tore through the first three chapters, but then was away for a while. I need to finish it. I plowed through the first five Trade Paper Back Collections of Y: The Last Man about a year and a half ago. I've been waiting for the local library to stock the rest since. And I've been keeping an eye on the tie-ins for Firefly, Farscape, and Battlestar Galactica recently, though the only one I actuall read was the just passable Serenity: Those Left Behind. I'm not much of a comic book reader, so I'm sure there are many more that I need to read.
Oh, also, I polished off Batman: The Long Halloween and Batman: Dark Victory about six months ago, although outside of the artwork (which was excellent) I wasn't blown away.
Books more so. I am getting into comics a lot more though. I've purchased 4 graphic novels this year, and am working to complete my DS9 comic collection.
No wonder you don't read comics, both of those are CRAP!
The X-men comic, FROM THE ASHES was from a coworker who likes the characters. I found it interesting because it gave me more background into the characters. Many of these events had been alluded to in the novels I have read, but now I could finally read the story. Plus I enjoyed comparing it to what I remembered from the 90s cartoon. For example, it was neat seeing how the first encounter with the Morlocks went down in the comic.
My brother gave me the Cowboy Bebop manga after he had read it. I know it was only the first volume, but it did not impress me much. I prefer the anime series.
Scott McCloud would like to have a word with you, lol.
This is a stereotypical answer for someone who is "defending" the comic medium, but go read "Understanding Comics", a book that uses an autobiographical visual format to examine, and explain, the medium of sequential visual storytelling. Even if you don't read another comic besides that, it's utterly fascinating on its own merits.
Seriously though, the problem with comics is that even today, the medium is still struggling to find more creators who can take advantage of it. Comics / sequential art offers an experience different from reading words only, different from watching a moving film with audio dialog - it is its own language. A brilliant "comic" story creates a unique experience.
The superhero rags though, still dominate both the shelves and what people think comics are, with translated manga volumes coming up quickly from the rear.
Aside from the obvious Watchmen pick, there's way too much superb literature in the comic medium to dismiss it out of hand; anything that hosts the Sandman cycle can't be all bad. I just finished reading the epic reprint of Scott McCloud's own Zot! that came out last year, and for my money, that was the best "superhero" story I've ever read as a whole, outside of perhaps Watchmen.
I'd like to read more comics but sadly, there is not enough really great stuff to read. (I'm the same way with books; most science fiction and fantasy on the shelves doesn't interest me.)
*AHEM* Rags?
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I don't "turn my nose" at the comic medium, it's just never registered on my radar. I think it's very much an American thing, or at least not an Australian one.
I inadvertently lied, though: I do recall reading (and enjoying) Tintin comics whilst in primary school.
I never even thought of those; I guess the American comic book and the Franco-Belgian bande dessinée are just such different creatures that one doesn't naturally think of them together despite the basic similarity of format. I, too, still have a whole bunch of those from my childhood, almost all the Tintin and Yoko Tsuno books, a bunch of Gaston Lagaffe and Philémon, etc...
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
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