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What comics have you been reading?

Started by irishmoxie, March 30, 2016, 10:49:35 PM

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BettyReggie

#465
I read
Archie #666- the one with Jughead on the cover
Jughead #19
Jughead #4 Erica Henderson


steveinthecity

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on July 21, 2016, 01:31:27 PM
ONE-PUNCH MAN VOL. 4, 5, 6, & 7 - One of the most enjoyable manga series I've read in a while. I intend to pick this up from now on as new volumes come out.
I'll look for this. Never heard if it.
Comics!

DeCarlo Rules

#467
Quote from: steveinthecity on July 22, 2016, 03:53:39 PM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on July 21, 2016, 01:31:27 PM
ONE-PUNCH MAN VOL. 4, 5, 6, & 7 - One of the most enjoyable manga series I've read in a while. I intend to pick this up from now on as new volumes come out.
I'll look for this. Never heard if it.

Yeah, it's very interesting. Runs the gamut from silly comedy to heavier drama, with plenty of melodrama in the middle, but it's chiefly fascinating to me that the creators seem to like the superhero tropes, but at the same time don't have the kind of reverence (that's the best approximation, I think) for that genre that American comics do. That allows the creators to examine the themes of vigilante justice, fame and celebrity, what motivates someone to become a hero, etc. in ways that American comics seem to rarely (if ever) explore. A lot of Saitama's (he's the "One-Punch Man" of the title, but that's not an official hero name) colleagues in the Hero Association are revealed to be venal, and some truly heroic, some in-between, but there's a real spectrum of characters there. I was actually kind of surprised to find this series was nominated for an Eisner award last year. I didn't know that until after I'd read it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-Punch_Man

Since I caught up on most of the current volumes of One-Punch Man (still missing Vol. 2 at the moment, and it seems to be out-of stock currently with Diamond Distribution), I decided to catch up on a few more random manga things I'd bought and hadn't gotten to in the last year or two:

JACO THE GALACTIC PATROLMAN by Akira Toriyama - This is a series of short chapters that make up a single done-in-one volume. Jaco is a young Ultraman-type alien law-enforcer, who comes to Earth looking for a monster, and the monster, which he never does find, turns out to be the baby Saiyan warrior named Son Goku, in a tie-in to Toriyama's mega-popular DRAGON BALL series, which I've never read (or seen the anime). That's sort of a bonus feature to the main story of Jaco, though, as the plot here stood on its own. I enjoyed this quick, light-hearted read, and particularly liked the artist's drawing style. May have to look into reading Dragon Ball now, too.

Disney's BIG HERO 6 Volume 1 by Haruki Ueno - Still only partway through this one. Haven't seen the movie, by the way, although I'm aware of its origins as Marvel Comics' Japanese counterpart to nationalistic superhero teams like Canada's Alpha Flight. There's a Volume 2 in this series, not sure if there are any more to come. Will review after I've read both. There's also a "Cinestory" color comic adaptation taken from frame grabs of the movie, and it occurred to me I should actually read that -- as these other B&W volumes are prequels, I think -- so I ordered a copy.

BettyReggie

#468
I read some Digital Comics for a change. I read each of them for 12 minutes.
❄ B & V Snow Day
💝Betty & Veronica-Sabotage
🍍Jughead In Love

DeCarlo Rules

Finished reading BIG HERO 6, volumes 1 & 2 - a complete story which had an ending. Seemed like an origin story, but now I'm still a little confused (because of how the story ended) as to exactly how this related to the movie (which I haven't seen) so... I'm going to wait until I get the "Cinestory" photomanga adaptation to review all three. On to more manga...

BEN 10 ALIEN FORCE: DOOM DIMENSION Volumes 1 & 2 (Del Rey Manga, 2010) - Actually more of an "Amerimanga" (still in the B&W/small paperback format) by writer Peter David and artist Dan Hipp. Each of these was a slim book with only 80 pages of story, and together these two (like the two BIG HERO 6 volumes) make up a single complete story. Made me wonder why it wasn't just published as a single book of 160 story pages -- guess they were just trying to milk the consumer for the extra cash ($8 cover price each). I was familiar with Peter David's prior comics, and this story was typical of his usual good work. Dan Hipp was not an artist whom I was familiar with, but he has a very interesting style. While the characters remained recognizable as the same ones from the television series, he definitely put his own stylistic stamp on them. Somewhat manga-esque (and the tv series itself was obviously influenced by manga heroes and the manga style to begin with), but Hipp has his own 'independent-y' style. I'll be on the lookout for more of his work from now on. The story could have been a more-or-less typical episode (or two-part episode) of the tv series, which is a good thing I guess, because this doesn't seem like it wouldn't fit in with the type of adventures Ben 10 is usually involved in. I have to wonder what the genesis of this manga spinoff was though, and why only these 2 books were produced. The artwork has a lot of gray tones (much more than is the usual case for manga) so I wonder if it wasn't originally supposed to be printed in color, and going with the manga format was an afterthought. It could have worked either way, I suppose, as a standalone color graphic novel in the regular trade paperback format, but it still looks good in black & white and reduced to the tankobon (as it's called in Japan) format, too.

SPIDER-MAN J (Vol. 1) Japanese Knights & (Vol. 2) Japanese Daze by Akira Yamanaka (Marvel, 2008/2009) - This is an English-language adaptation (by Marc Sumerak & Zeb Wells) of a story that originally ran for about 6 months in the shonen manga Comic Bom Bom (published in Japan by Kodansha) in 2004-2005. The Americanized adaptation previously appeared as 11 chapter installments in the anthology comic (which was partially reprinted material) SPIDER-MAN FAMILY. It's also not the first manga version of Spider-Man to be produced in Japan -- an earlier version by Ryoichi Ikegama (later to be known for Mai the Psychic Girl, Crying Freeman, and Sanctuary in the U.S.) had appeared in Japan in 1970-71 (that version has also been partially reprinted by Marvel, in the standard floppy comic format, no collected edition so far). I bring it up only to point out the differences to Spider-Man J. While Ikegama's manga Spider-Man had been aimed at a slightly older readership, and took pains to be realistic and serious-minded, Spider-Man J is just the opposite, aimed at younger kids, and strictly for fun. I wasn't familiar with creator Yamanaka's work, but I really enjoyed his 'retro' style of manga art -- it looks to be influenced by that first generation of manga artists who began working in the 1950s and 1960s, like Osamu Tezuka, Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Shotaro Ishinomori, along with the somewhat younger Akira Toriyama (DragonBall Z). In this version, Spider-Man works with a Tokyo police detective partner (Detective Makoto in Japan/Detective Flynn in the Americanized translation). In Japan, Spider-Man J's true identity is Sho Amano (but in this version, he's just called "Peter Parker"). I found this kind of annoying, the adapters trying to translate the manga back into its American counterpart. Why is Peter Parker living in Tokyo, and working with a Tokyo Police detective named 'Flynn'? Why is his Aunt May (actually Mami) so young looking, and why is she dressed in a kimono, making a living in Tokyo as a dressmaker? His friends at school (because Spider-Man J is only 15 years old) are "Jane-Marie" (actually, Megumi) and "Harold" (actually, Densuke), and of course, they look nothing like Mary Jane Watson and Harry Osborn (even allowing considerable leeway for the artistic differences in American style comics and Japanese manga). Apart from that, this is a fun little tale, filled with the sort of tropes found in those henshin hero Japanese TV programs (think Power Rangers or Masked Rider), and again, I'll be looking out for more of creator Yamanaka's work in the future.

BettyReggie

#470
I read Betty & Veronica #1-Andy Price variant.

BettyReggie

#471
I read Betty & Veronica #1-Hack variant This afternoon I read each of these for 12 minutes each
Betty & Veronica Comics Double Digest #239
World Of Archie Comics Double Digest #49
Archie 1000 Page Comics Blowout

rusty

I just finished reading Archie #3-9 plus the most recent issue of Afterlife with Archie and the last two issues of Sabrina.  I thought all of them were pretty good.  I'm going to read the new Jughead series and B&V #1 next.

DeCarlo Rules

#473
GARTH ENNIS' RED TEAM: DOUBLE TAP #1 (of 8 )
POWERPUFF GIRLS (2016) #1
HOWARD THE DUCK #9
RICK AND MORTY #16
SAVAGE DRAGON #215
SHE-WOLF #1 & 2
ARCHIE #10 (just the reprinted story)
TITANS #1
ACTION COMICS #960
DETECTIVE COMICS #937
WONDER WOMAN #3
HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS #1
MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS: PINK #2 (of 6)
SCOOBY-DOO TEAM-UP #17
HANNA-BARBERA FUTURE QUEST #3
THE SHADOW: THE DEATH OF MARGO LANE #2 (of 5)
LORDS OF THE JUNGLE #5 (of 6)
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS' THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT #1
KONG OF SKULL ISLAND #1 (of 6)
DARK HORSE PRESENTS VOL 3 #24
PREDATOR VS JUDGE DREDD VS ALIENS #1
MICRONAUTS #4
ACTION MAN #2
MICKEY MOUSE SHORTS: SEASON ONE #1 (of 4)

BettyReggie

#474
I just read my digital copy of Archie #10. It was just ok. It was mostly about a teacher who mean to the stud students but he had his reasons. Veronica took video of him being cruel & it started a lots fights because now this teacher's life is ruined. And that video that Veronica taped made him a candidate for Mayor & he's actually Betty's Uncle. Reggie was only in one page.

BettyReggie

#475
No reading for me today, I was busy in the morning at Physical Therapy. So I skipped it.

BettyReggie

#476
I read these books for 12 minutes each
Archie's Funhouse Jumbo Comics Digest #15
Betty & Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #238
Lumberjanes #28- the cover with those beautiful unicorns

Archiecomicxfan215

I am currently reading Betty and Veronica Comics Double Digest #245

irishmoxie

Quote from: BettyReggie on July 29, 2016, 07:07:44 AM
I read these books for 12 minutes each
Archie's Funhouse Jumbo Comics Digest #15
Betty & Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #238
Lumberjanes #28- the cover with those beautiful unicorns

I wanted that cover but it was pretty expensive from Midtown.

irishmoxie

Quote from: BettyReggie on July 27, 2016, 05:25:28 AM
I just read my digital copy of Archie #10. It was just ok. It was mostly about a teacher who mean to the stud students but he had his reasons. Veronica took video of him being cruel & it started a lots fights because now this teacher's life is ruined. And that video that Veronica taped made him a candidate for Mayor & he's actually Betty's Uncle. Reggie was only in one page.

Yeah it was pretty boring. This was the first issue of the reboot that has taken me days to get through.

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