Best Trade/Hardcover/OGN you read this week
dubbat138
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Figured this would be a neat way to get people talking about what they have read this week.
For me it would be "Howard the Duck Max". I am a huge Howard the duck fan and a huge Steve "RIP" Gerber fan. So finding this trade for 3 bucks was great. The comic is a fun parody of all the various Vertigo series that were huge back then. Plus the artwork is really well done. Kind of sucks that we will never get any new Howard stories from Mr Gerber. But at least he got to do this Max series. Which really besides some nudity there isn't much in here that couldn't be in a non-Max comic. So I ask my fellow CGS fans what was the best trade/hardcover/OGN you read this week.
For me it would be "Howard the Duck Max". I am a huge Howard the duck fan and a huge Steve "RIP" Gerber fan. So finding this trade for 3 bucks was great. The comic is a fun parody of all the various Vertigo series that were huge back then. Plus the artwork is really well done. Kind of sucks that we will never get any new Howard stories from Mr Gerber. But at least he got to do this Max series. Which really besides some nudity there isn't much in here that couldn't be in a non-Max comic. So I ask my fellow CGS fans what was the best trade/hardcover/OGN you read this week.
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It's just a bummer that Northlanders didn't get to last logner. There isn't anything else I am reading right now that is like it.
I just last week requested to get the first volume of Northlanders through inter library loan. Gonna give it a try and see if I enjoy it. Cause it seems to be a series you either love or hate,no middle ground.
I mightve stopped reading were it not for the TV show giving it more "life" in my mind and the series really picking up around #4. #5+6 were good enough to keep me buying more.
It was the only one I read but still, I loved it back then, and love it now.
Surprise hit for me as well. I was expecting the story to be "okay".
I'm also picking up the re-released/remastered Sandman books. Dang, them are good. I wonder why there's no footnotes/BOMC episodes? Or maybe I missed them?
A little off topic, but are you watching either Grimm or Once Upon A Time? I have the same problem with them as I did starting Fables. Maybe I'll go through them when/if they come to Netflix.
Reread it earlier this week. And I love the story about an all girl rock band that on Earth can't get a gig. But in outer space are intergalactic superstars. Plus there is something about an all ages comic written by Peter "Hate" Bagge and pencils and inks by Gilbert Hernandez. You would think that with those two creators people that were into indy comics at the time would have at least given the series a try.Really there are only 2 drawbacks to this trade. First it is in black and white,and the original issues had stunning colors done by Joanne Bagge. And I wish they had reprinted the letter pages. Since all the letters were answered by Yeah's manager Crusty they were actually part of the storylines. I am really surprised this got a trade at all. I know when the comic was coming out as part of the Wildstorm spinoff Homage almost no-one was talking about it . Outta the 3 comic shops in that area only 1 was ordering any copies. And even then the owner was only ordering 3 copies. 1 for me,1 for the owner and 1 to put on the shelf. But that owner would try his best to order at least one copy of any all ages comic book. Mainly cause his store was right across the street from an elementary school. And back then he had a pretty decent amount of customers that were kids under the age of 13.
Read the first volume and had to get the rest. Really impressed with the story. Tony Harris and the colourists really impressed me, especially since they seemed to avoid using lines for every single detail and instead used colour to show muscle tone, shadows and the like. I've never really sat down and read a good chunk of Brian K Vaughan and was really impressed. Felt like I could vote for Mitchell Hundred. Always loved the idea of a candidate that will sacrifice politically to make things better, especially in this climate where I think a lot of people are feeling disillusioned with the current crop of political representatives. I'm surprised wasn't more of a Vertigo book instead of WildStorm, but it was a good mix of sci-fi and real world.
Also, I'm going to mention Ichiro again. I'm going to keep bringing it up until at least one person checks it out. It is too good to be the only person that read it and it is starting to drive me mad :)