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DeCarlo Rules

#75
Quote from: irishmoxie on May 10, 2016, 09:27:57 AM
I also really like Rachel Rising which I believe is a horror comic. I probably like it because it reminds me of iZombie (tv show).

Have you read the Vertigo Comics (DC) iZombie? I don't know that I'd call that "horror" per se, although it's obviously having fun playing with horror genre tropes. Haven't seen the TV series, but I really like the comic.

Quote from: irishmoxie on May 10, 2016, 09:27:57 AM
Reading Afterlife didn't really stress me out but it did gross me out from time to time. I usually really like apocalypse stories but more in the vein of Alex and Ada.

It's funny to me that you mention Alex + Ada as an "apocalypse story", because that never would occur to me, and I don't see it that way. To me it's a science fiction story about 2 people (one of whom is an artificially-intelligent android) caught up in a political/social upheaval which hinges on changes brought about by advancing technology (most good science fiction is, one way or another, about social change being brought about by advancing technology). It also seems to explore some philosophical questions regarding how we define what it means to be "human". Humans are used to being in control as the sole sentient species that are masters of the earth, and in this story, most people seem to want to cling to that sense of superiority and not share their dominance with a new type of intelligent being. This is actually a pretty common theme of the particular subgenre of SF dealing with robots and artificial intelligences. In the Terminator franchise, the two intelligences are of different types and are in a state of war (John Connor is the leader of the organic intelligences, while Skynet is the leader of the cybernetic intelligences, and in fact those intelligences form a hive-mind). The Terminator future is one I'd consider post-Apocalyptic, because humanity is on the brink of extinction. In Alex + Ada, it's the new robot intelligences who are in danger of being hunted to extinction, but the robots are too few and have too little power to consider it a state of war. The difference between the two is that in the Terminator franchise, Skynet was created by humans for the specific purpose of waging war (and it does such a good job of it, that it simply decided to redefine the definition of "the enemy"), while in Alex + Ada, the robots were created for a different purpose altogether - to serve as companions to humanity (but what humans really want is obedient but intelligent servants, not a new free-thinking species to share the planet with). In Alex + Ada, it's human society that is the ultimate "villain" of the story. For the newly-emerging robot species, it's less of an apocalypse than a crib-death, but surprisingly, by the final issue some sort of state of compromise between humans and robots seems to be slowly emerging.

DeCarlo Rules

ARCHIE BY BOB MONTANA: THE COMPLETE DAILY NEWSPAPER COMICS: THE SWINGIN' SIXTIES (1960-1963) [IDW/Library of American Comics]
Walt Disney's DONALD DUCK "Trail of the Unicorn" by CARL BARKS [Fantagraphics Books]
Walt Disney's DONALD DUCK "Terror of the Beagle Boys" by CARL BARKS [Fantagraphics Books]

irishmoxie

Quote from: invisifan on May 10, 2016, 11:08:35 AM
Quote from: irishmoxie on May 10, 2016, 09:27:57 AM
It is a horror comic but more of a spooky mystery and has witches which is probably why I like it. I was obsessed with the Salem Witch Trials as a kid too. I didn't like the art at first but it the watercolor looks hazy and goes with the mystery aspect of the story.

Reading Afterlife didn't really stress me out but it did gross me out from time to time. I usually really like apocalypse stories but more in the vein of Alex and Ada. I like Descender well enough but I've only read one issue.

I also really like Rachel Rising which I believe is a horror comic. I probably like it because it reminds me of iZombie (tv show).
Walking Dead versus afterlife w/Archie ... The apocalypse in TWD is never explained although there are indications it's biological (virus?) based, and the zombies are less intelligent than animals (Archie's seem a bit smarter) so they are only dangerous in large numbers or when unexpected ... it's a story of survival in a suddenly hostile, post-apocalyptic world — no one is safe, but they aren't pre-existing characters like with Archie.

Speaking of iZombie (and female protagonists, magic, etc...) you might like "Wynonna Earp" (Fridays on Syfy and maybe on-line — in the States I'm not sure) it's 6 episodes in and ... well, hard to say for sure, but I think you might like it.

Thanks. I'll check it out. Wynonna has a comic too doesn't she?

I still might check out The Walking Dead. I just haven't been in the mood for death and destruction. But it's extremely popular so that makes me curious.

irishmoxie

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 10, 2016, 01:18:56 PM
Quote from: irishmoxie on May 10, 2016, 09:27:57 AM
I also really like Rachel Rising which I believe is a horror comic. I probably like it because it reminds me of iZombie (tv show).

Have you read the Vertigo Comics (DC) iZombie? I don't know that I'd call that "horror" per se, although it's obviously having fun playing with horror genre tropes. Haven't seen the TV series, but I really like the comic.

Quote from: irishmoxie on May 10, 2016, 09:27:57 AM
Reading Afterlife didn't really stress me out but it did gross me out from time to time. I usually really like apocalypse stories but more in the vein of Alex and Ada.

It's funny to me that you mention Alex + Ada as an "apocalypse story", because that never would occur to me, and I don't see it that way. To me it's a science fiction story about 2 people (one of whom is an artificially-intelligent android) caught up in a political/social upheaval which hinges on changes brought about by advancing technology (most good science fiction is, one way or another, about social change being brought about by advancing technology). It also seems to explore some philosophical questions regarding how we define what it means to be "human". Humans are used to being in control as the sole sentient species that are masters of the earth, and in this story, most people seem to want to cling to that sense of superiority and not share their dominance with a new type of intelligent being. This is actually a pretty common theme of the particular subgenre of SF dealing with robots and artificial intelligences. In the Terminator franchise, the two intelligences are of different types and are in a state of war (John Connor is the leader of the organic intelligences, while Skynet is the leader of the cybernetic intelligences, and in fact those intelligences form a hive-mind). The Terminator future is one I'd consider post-Apocalyptic, because humanity is on the brink of extinction. In Alex + Ada, it's the new robot intelligences who are in danger of being hunted to extinction, but the robots are too few and have too little power to consider it a state of war. The difference between the two is that in the Terminator franchise, Skynet was created by humans for the specific purpose of waging war (and it does such a good job of it, that it simply decided to redefine the definition of "the enemy"), while in Alex + Ada, the robots were created for a different purpose altogether - to serve as companions to humanity (but what humans really want is obedient but intelligent servants, not a new free-thinking species to share the planet with). In Alex + Ada, it's human society that is the ultimate "villain" of the story. For the newly-emerging robot species, it's less of an apocalypse than a crib-death, but surprisingly, by the final issue some sort of state of compromise between humans and robots seems to be slowly emerging.

I have read some of the iZombie comic. I think the TV show is a tad better but so far they are pretty different stories from each other. From what I have seen so far it isn't too gruesome and is probably more of a sanitized or girlie zombie story written by a guy of course.

I think I meant to say dystopian. In my mind I lump all these stories together as futuristic stories. That's a nice summary of Alex and Ada and you bring up some good points. I think I really like it because it reminded me of Japanese manga stories like Chobits and Absolute Boyfriend which I loved. To a lesser extent it reminds me of Kimi wa petto as well.


irishmoxie

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 10, 2016, 04:03:32 PM
ARCHIE BY BOB MONTANA: THE COMPLETE DAILY NEWSPAPER COMICS: THE SWINGIN' SIXTIES (1960-1963) [IDW/Library of American Comics]
Walt Disney's DONALD DUCK "Trail of the Unicorn" by CARL BARKS [Fantagraphics Books]
Walt Disney's DONALD DUCK "Terror of the Beagle Boys" by CARL BARKS [Fantagraphics Books]

Are there any actual unicorns in this story? The Last Unicorn is one of my all time favorite movies.

DeCarlo Rules

#80
Quote from: irishmoxie on May 10, 2016, 05:16:43 PM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 10, 2016, 04:03:32 PM
ARCHIE BY BOB MONTANA: THE COMPLETE DAILY NEWSPAPER COMICS: THE SWINGIN' SIXTIES (1960-1963) [IDW/Library of American Comics]
Walt Disney's DONALD DUCK "Trail of the Unicorn" by CARL BARKS [Fantagraphics Books]
Walt Disney's DONALD DUCK "Terror of the Beagle Boys" by CARL BARKS [Fantagraphics Books]

Are there any actual unicorns in this story? The Last Unicorn is one of my all time favorite movies.

The Disney DONALD DUCK by Barks hardcovers are (as this one is) around 216 pages, and composed of several stories. Usually they are titled after what the publisher feels would be the most notable or memorable story contained in that volume, but as all the stories are reprinted from old Disney comic books, none of them is any longer than would fit in a single comic book. The "Trail of the Unicorn" story is 24 pages, and it does indeed have a unicorn in it. The remainder of the Donald Duck stories in this volume have no unicorns in them. They're all the stories drawn by Carl Barks that immediately followed "Trail of the Unicorn" (because it's the very first story in this collection) by date of original publication.

invisifan

Quote from: irishmoxie on May 10, 2016, 05:03:15 PM
Thanks. I'll check it out. Wynonna has a comic too doesn't she?
Yes, from IDW — Originally a very '90s comic from Image (5 issues, 1995) it was revived by IDW in 2002 with a trade of the original run and a limited series "Home on the Strange"  ... then another in 2009 which were basically connected. Currently she's halfway through a 6 issue series, but it is essentially from the TV show which sort of a reboot — like iZombie — in this case a few more names are the same, but the plot and character are more developed and essentially different ... "inspired by" you might say ...
QuoteI still might check out The Walking Dead. I just haven't been in the mood for death and destruction. But it's extremely popular so that makes me curious.
My friend who has a LCS says that the audience for TWD appears to be much more heavily female than nearly any other major book — not because it's in any way targeting the demographic, it just is ...

invisifan

#82
Quote from: irishmoxie on May 10, 2016, 05:12:33 PM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 10, 2016, 01:18:56 PM
Have you read the Vertigo Comics (DC) iZombie? I don't know that I'd call that "horror" per se, although it's obviously having fun playing with horror genre tropes. Haven't seen the TV series, but I really like the comic.
I have read some of the iZombie comic. I think the TV show is a tad better but so far they are pretty different stories from each other. From what I have seen so far it isn't too gruesome and is probably more of a sanitized or girlie zombie story written by a guy of course.
The comic and TV series have  the title and owner in common ... beyond that? A female ''zombie" (in Seattle) who eats brains of the recently deceased to retain her human intellect and gets their memories when she does ... there is no other similarity at all — not even the names of the characters, how she gets brains (gravedigger vs morgue assistant) or what she does with the memories, or even the nature of the zombies ... it's a more total reboot than Riverdale, though given that the original involves a wide variety of supernatural creatures (ghost, shapeshifter, mummy, vampires and more) and has a definite direction and ending after 4 trade novels it really had to, to work as a TV show ... they are very much two different thing with a related concept — I don't mind the comic, but overall I think the show is stronger ...

irishmoxie

Quote from: invisifan on May 11, 2016, 04:04:23 AM
Quote from: irishmoxie on May 10, 2016, 05:03:15 PM
Thanks. I'll check it out. Wynonna has a comic too doesn't she?
Yes, from IDW — Originally a very '90s comic from Image (5 issues, 1995) it was revived by IDW in 2002 with a trade of the original run and a limited series "Home on the Strange"  ... then another in 2009 which were basically connected. Currently she's halfway through a 6 issue series, but it is essentially from the TV show which sort of a reboot — like iZombie — in this case a few more names are the same, but the plot and character are more developed and essentially different ... "inspired by" you might say ...
QuoteI still might check out The Walking Dead. I just haven't been in the mood for death and destruction. But it's extremely popular so that makes me curious.
My friend who has a LCS says that the audience for TWD appears to be much more heavily female than nearly any other major book — not because it's in any way targeting the demographic, it just is ...

I started reading The Walking Dead. I've read the first 3 issues so far. It definitely likes to end on cliffhangers to keep you reading. As far as being "heavy" and stressful it's not too bad so far. The zombies are drawn more comical than scary. Maybe the females like the family man aspect or maybe they just think Glenn is hot.  :smitten:

BettyReggie

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DeCarlo Rules

#85
Quote from: irishmoxie on May 11, 2016, 11:39:23 AM
I started reading The Walking Dead. I've read the first 3 issues so far. It definitely likes to end on cliffhangers to keep you reading. As far as being "heavy" and stressful it's not too bad so far. The zombies are drawn more comical than scary. Maybe the females like the family man aspect or maybe they just think Glenn is hot.  :smitten:

I'm just not much of a fan of horror comics that are ongoing series. I like shorter, done-in-one stories or miniseries (or anthologies of shorts like the classic EC horror comics). So far I've considered AWA and ChAoS as miniseries (they come out so infrequently that they don't make much of a dent in my comic budget or reading time), and I don't expect them to go on for substantial runs. Ongoing series like the 1970s Marvel monster comics (Tomb of Dracula, Monster of Frankenstein, Werewolf By Night, Man-Thing, etc.) were more like "monster-hero" series ("monster-villain" in the case of Dracula) than horror. Even if it were an extended saga, but the author obviously had a predetermined story structure for moving it forward over long arcs, with an ultimate ending he was working toward, I might consider it. But The Walking Dead is obviously much too successful for that to be the case. The humans have no hope of any final triumph in their situation, unless the comic were to start sliding in sales, in which case the writer might then decide to invent a conclusion just to satisfy the long-time readers. The idea of an ongoing series where the characters just constantly struggle for survival against the bleakest odds with no hope of winning just depresses me.

BettyReggie

#86
Today is the day you can preorder the August/September comics from Midtown Comics.
I PREORDER
JEM & THE HOLOGRAMS #18
SAGA #37
JUGHEAD #9-MOK & FISH & CHARM
BETTY & VERONICA #2 -WADA & SOHN & HUGHES
ARCHIE #11 -PITILLI & FISH
AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE #10-BALENT
INVINCIBLE #130

Mazz

I purchased the following 1st Series Sabrina The Teenage Witch comics.  #'s 31, 37, 39, & 54.

irishmoxie

Quote from: Mazz on May 20, 2016, 06:52:46 PM
I purchased the following 1st Series Sabrina The Teenage Witch comics.  #'s 31, 37, 39, & 54.

eBay?

irishmoxie

Quote from: BettyReggie on May 20, 2016, 01:59:03 PM
Today is the day you can preorder the August/September comics from Midtown Comics.
I PREORDER
JEM & THE HOLOGRAMS #18
SAGA #37
JUGHEAD #9-MOK & FISH & CHARM
BETTY & VERONICA #2 -WADA & SOHN & HUGHES
ARCHIE #11 -PITILLI & FISH
AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE #10-BALENT
INVINCIBLE #130

I'm excited for Jem #18. Jen Bartel's art is really good.

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