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by **covalesky** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 7:25 am

Keb wrote:I might try Zenith later. Animal Man inspired me to start focusing my writing on meta-fiction. I caught a lot of shit from people for that but I still love the meta-fiction because of Animal Man. Shit blew my mind.

Seven Soldiers of Victory/All Star Superman is pretty much where I stopped with Morrison. I love both those series but after that I had enough.

I loved Valis. Need to hit up some more PKD.

Joe the Barbarian is one of the best morisson books i ever read, with beuond awesome art. Give it a try, you won't regret it.

by **Arion** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 6:48 pm

Keb wrote:I might try Zenith later. Animal Man inspired me to start focusing my writing on meta-fiction. I caught a lot of shit from people for that but I still love the meta-fiction because of Animal Man. Shit blew my mind.

Seven Soldiers of Victory/All Star Superman is pretty much where I stopped with Morrison. I love both those series but after that I had enough.

I loved Valis. Need to hit up some more PKD.

What do people have against meta fiction? I absolutely loved Animal Man. And Zenith was the first Morrison superhero story, before that he used to write short sci-fi stories for 2000AD.

by **BinaryMadman** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 3:07 pm

I'm new to comics, and this forum, but I just finished All Star Superman and thought it was great. Next up is Watchmen, I've heard so much good stuff about it I just had to get it. Look forward to checking out some of the graphic novels mentioned in this thread.

by **covalesky** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 5:55 pm

BinaryMadman wrote:I'm new to comics, and this forum, but I just finished All Star Superman and thought it was great. Next up is Watchmen, I've heard so much good stuff about it I just had to get it. Look forward to checking out some of the graphic novels mentioned in this thread.

Welcome, report back on your thoughts on the comics you read.

by **Arion** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 8:10 pm

BinaryMadman wrote:I'm new to comics, and this forum, but I just finished All Star Superman and thought it was great. Next up is Watchmen, I've heard so much good stuff about it I just had to get it. Look forward to checking out some of the graphic novels mentioned in this thread.

Welcome !

Please let us know what you think of Watchmen once you read it.

by **HNutz** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 8:16 pm

Just ordered some Tomb of Dracula Essentials. Will get back to you.

by **Arion** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 8:19 pm

HNutz wrote:Just ordered some Tomb of Dracula Essentials. Will get back to you.

So you were a fan of black and white after all ?

by **Keb** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 11:16 pm

covalesky wrote:

Joe the Barbarian is one of the best morisson books i ever read, with beuond awesome art. Give it a try, you won't regret it.

Yeah I saw that one. About the diabetic kid? I wanted to give that a read but I don't think it's out in paperback yet.

Arion wrote:
What do people have against meta fiction? I absolutely loved Animal Man. And Zenith was the first Morrison superhero story, before that he used to write short sci-fi stories for 2000AD.

A lot of people don't like meta-fiction because it tends to get weird and they can't handle it. I wrote a meta-fictional story for a class once and the meta aspect drove my instructor and half the class insane. I used to always do subtle things such as omniscient I comments that would annoy people. Not many people are welcome to it in fiction. It works on a completely different level in comics though (IMO) and that's why it works so well in Animal Man.

HNutz wrote:Just ordered some Tomb of Dracula Essentials. Will get back to you.

I saw some Classic Tomb of Dracula books at a store here for cheap. I almost bought them but didn't. I might go buy them. I await your input. :-D

by **GHERU** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 11:22 pm

LobsterJ wrote:just got lucifer 1-3 from the library, this shit any good?

fantastic

by **covalesky** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 2:09 am

Keb wrote:Yeah I saw that one. About the diabetic kid? I wanted to give that a read but I don't think it's out in paperback yet.

That book exactly. The TPB shouldn't take long, the HC already has a few months.

by **Keb** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 4:49 pm

Tonight:

And:

by **LobsterJ** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 5:08 pm

lucifer is pretty good, read the first 3 and waiting on more from the library. also read the frank miller visionaries 1-3, i forgot how good these were! i had only read bits and pieces before. its a shame what a dickhole miller turned into.

by **Arion** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 12:02 am

Keb wrote:Yeah I saw that one. About the diabetic kid? I wanted to give that a read but I don't think it's out in paperback yet.

A lot of people don't like meta-fiction because it tends to get weird and they can't handle it. I wrote a meta-fictional story for a class once and the meta aspect drove my instructor and half the class insane. I used to always do subtle things such as omniscient I comments that would annoy people. Not many people are welcome to it in fiction. It works on a completely different level in comics though (IMO) and that's why it works so well in Animal Man.

I saw some Classic Tomb of Dracula books at a store here for cheap. I almost bought them but didn't. I might go buy them. I await your input.

I understand what you mean. For some reason experimental approaches work better in comic books work, even Eisner did a couple of really weird things in his time. But no one complained about it.

By the way, I absolutely love Sean Murphy, the artist in Joe the Barbarian, even if you don't like the story you will love Sean's art.