What comic did you last read?

[Fallenblackrose]

Originally Posted by Posh

It gets so much better, believe it or not.

It really does...and it may get even better, gonna end up having to buy volume 10 . Just read guardian devil, and im going to have to get fables back of ais...shes had them for ages and not read them

[Posh]

I thought I gave you volume ten ages ago and you were waiting for 11?

[Fallenblackrose]

Originally Posted by Posh

I thought I gave you volume ten ages ago and you were waiting for 11?

Im sure you gave me nine at caitlins a few weeks ago, and told me joe had ten, then told me prof had it...and i got confused.

[Posh]

I'm sure I gave you 1-6 and 8-9 the first time, got 7 for you later cos Prof had it, then gave you ten at Cait's that night you weren't invited.

Go check! I'll phone Joe later to see which one he has.

[Fallenblackrose]

Originally Posted by Posh

I'm sure I gave you 1-6 and 8-9 the first time, got 7 for you later cos Prof had it, then gave you ten at Cait's that night you weren't invited.

Go check! I'll phone Joe later to see which one he has.

You could be right...which one starts with the comedian, because thats the next one i have to read. Id check but the last one i read is in my car and its cold out.

Ah screw it ive gotta get booze out it anyway...

[Fallenblackrose]

Aha i was right, i only have up to 9, which you brought to the first AbsolutioN and also left with it.

[Evapilotone]

God damn. Powers Vol:2 is awesome.

[MarkMono]

Wait until you get to Forever (Vol 7 I think) I still read it and say to myself "God-damn...thats awesome."

[Charlie Parker]

Fables: Homelands. Now ran out of volumes. A year ago I would've sneered at Fables but that's when I was a fool.

[Fallenblackrose]

Serenity issue two, still waiting to get the first two volumes of fables back so i can re-read them so i can read the rest .

[MarkMono]

Originally Posted by Charlie Parker

Fables: Homelands. Now ran out of volumes. A year ago I would've sneered at Fables but that's when I was a fool.

Jack of Fables seems a bit lacklustre in comparison, but its still a good read.

[Charlie Parker]

I will keep an eye out!

[Evapilotone]

I finished Watchmen last night. I'm not going to lie. I just didn't get it. I didn't get the story, the meaning, the hype...meh.

V for Vendetta was much, much better.

[MarkMono]

The new edition of Batman: The Killing Joke.

It was well publicised at the time that Brian Bolland was deeply unhappy with John Higgins colours on the original as apparently Bolland had seen this as a 'classic' Batman story (God knows how, I don't remember the joker crippling and molesting Batgirl in the 50's) and Higgins colours reflected the dour, dark 80s with their sickly neon and pasty lifeless drone-people.

The recoloured version is ubelievably good. 20 years on Bolland remains the premier elder statesman of British comic artists, and he's even taken the time to teach himself to colour his own work in the last two decades. One of the major differences is that all the flashbacks are now in black & white, with very subtles undertones of red popping up more and more as the flashback story builds to the Jokers disfigurement and the burst of colour required. A lot of Gotham City looks far more sober and defined and, well, less crazy, which is really the only criticism I can find, and the only reason I'm looking for a criticism to make is that I still find myself preferring the John Higgins version.

There are some parts of the Killing Joke which are irrevocably tied to the period in which it was created (The grimness of the characters for one) but they seem to have successfully made it at least look like a timeless piece. Beautiful and perfectly formed, but lacking something of an edge, which you wouldn't even notice if you hadn't read the original version a hundred times.

Higgins for the win.

[Posh]

It's gorgeous but I prefer the original colouring in all its demented glory.