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by **Victorian Squid** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 10:50 am

I love those old romance comics! :-D

by **Arion** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 2:12 pm

Keb wrote:Which one are you?

I'm the writer. My name is right there on top of everything.

by **Keb** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 3:32 pm

You have a cooler real name than me

by **Victorian Squid** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 3:37 pm

I got an early Nikolai Dante trade for half off, The Romanov Dynasty. With art by Simon Fraser, Chris Weston, and Charlie Adlard and others, how could I not buy it? I miss my progs but they are too expensive here and the promised weekly distribution and increased exposure in the U.S. has never borne any fruit that I've seen anywhere. I'd be much more willing to buy weekly than on an already heavy week have to get all 4 for over $20.

by **GHERU** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 1:43 pm

Finished Captain America by Ed Brubaker vol 1: American Dreamers last night and almost finished Punihser by Greg Rucka vol 1 as well. So far, Punisher is way more entertaining

by **TimDrake'sDumbWings** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 3:17 pm

GHERU wrote:Finished Captain America by Ed Brubaker vol 1: American Dreamers last night and almost finished Punihser by Greg Rucka vol 1 as well. So far, Punisher is way more entertaining

How is Punisher in general? Rucka's probably my favorite writer, but I've avoided it due to some criticism I've heard ("It's boring," "The Punisher barely shows up," "The art is weak compared to Opena's in the last run.")

by **covalesky** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 6:32 pm

Awesome book I nearly missed. The art, while not excellent, its competent and very dynamic. The plot is simple but very effective. Its seems a bit cliche in the first story, but it gets really addictive by half of it. Greatly enjoyed it.

by **Arion** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 7:44 pm

TimDrake'sDumbWings wrote:
How is Punisher in general? Rucka's probably my favorite writer, but I've avoided it due to some criticism I've heard ("It's boring," "The Punisher barely shows up," "The art is weak compared to Opena's in the last run.")

In the first issue the Punisher appears in two or three pages. Everything else is the woman cop (like the woman cop in Wolverine, or the woman cop in Gotham Central, etc.).

by **Keb** » Sat Aug 25, 2012 12:59 am

Reading Gotham Central. Kinda boring and pissing me off more than Powers.

Starting to think the Superhero police procedural doesn't work...

by **Punchy** » Sat Aug 25, 2012 7:02 am

Keb wrote:Reading Gotham Central. Kinda boring and pissing me off more than Powers.

Starting to think the Superhero police procedural doesn't work...

Gotham Central is brilliant, you're crazy.

Have you read Top 10?

by **Arion** » Sat Aug 25, 2012 5:30 pm

Punchy wrote:
Gotham Central is brilliant, you're crazy.

Have you read Top 10?

Top 10 is GREAT !

And so is Top 10: The Forty-Niners.

by **Keb** » Sat Aug 25, 2012 10:26 pm

Punchy wrote:
Gotham Central is brilliant, you're crazy.

Have you read Top 10?

Its pretty meh. Rucka and Brubaker are always miss for me. I just can't appreciate where they go with the series. I did like the story about driver and the girl. Only 10 issues in though.

Top 10 is awesome!

by **Arion** » Sun Aug 26, 2012 10:34 pm

Keb wrote:You have a cooler real name than me

Thank you!

And even so I still go by Arion here...

by **covalesky** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 3:53 pm

Finished the 6th volume of my newspapper comics reprint.
This time was a HC that gathered this:

and this:

The first one is ok, the dialogue is weird sometimes, but overhaul its ok. I was disappointed with the second one. The art was awesome, but the story was not very fluid.

by **TimDrake'sDumbWings** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 4:00 pm

Keb wrote:Its pretty meh. Rucka and Brubaker are always miss for me. I just can't appreciate where they go with the series. I did like the story about driver and the girl. Only 10 issues in though.

Top 10 is awesome!

Yeah, I love Gotham Central. I thought the first volume was GOOD, but I wasn't drawn in until the Joker story in the second volume. That was fucking great. I've always wondered how the GCPD reacts to the Joker being loose and wreaking havoc.

The series is easily one of my favorites. But if you don't like Brubaker or Rucka, you're NEVER going to like the series.