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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
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Location: San Diego, CA
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....My local library system. We just implemented this catalog/request system that enables you to search libraries (public and university) throughout this state, Arizona and Nevada. And you can request books from any of them. For free. And they arrive within a week. Between all of these libraries I have yet to find a book (and even better, a COMIC book) that I cannot request and have delivered to within three blocks of my house within a week, for free. (Or movie for that matter I suppose, but I have Netflix for that.) This is without a doubt the most awesome and amazing service ever in the world. I will never complain about the asinine tax level here again. I'll just pretend all of my personal tax contributions are going to support this.
Anyway, my other motivation for this thread: who has a comic book (or hell, regular book) recommendation? I can get it all now. I've already requested a bunch of Batman (Hush, Long Halloween and Knightfall) and the first four volumes of The Sandman (a big hole in my classic comic reading) but any other--particularly Green Lantern or Iron Man. Or anything by Greg Rucka or Gail Simone. I'm ready to go nuts here, and I need your help!
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
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Usagi Yojimbo, of course.
Also, Lone Wolf and Cub.
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aeonic
Title: Sporadic Poster
Joined: Nov 19 2009
Location: Kissimmee, FL
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Green Lantern- Emerald Twilight
Gail Simone- Secret Six or Birds of Prey; I think she's fantastic
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yes. i second usagi yojimbo
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aeonic
Title: Sporadic Poster
Joined: Nov 19 2009
Location: Kissimmee, FL
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That new program sounds pretty sweet. Time to go pay off my long overdue library fees!
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
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Location: San Diego, CA
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AH, Usagi Yojimbo, got it! Should I just start with the first tpb, or is there a better place to start?
Thanks for the reminder about BoP, aeonic. I've read all of her Secret Six, but haven't read the old BoP run (except the first volume.)
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aeonic
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NP, it's a great series. For Iron Man, I'd suggest checking out Iron Man Noir at a comics shop. I'm reading it and loving it so far. I know that doesn't help for the library, but just an observation.
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SoldierHawk
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Iron Man noir huh? I love me some IM but (admittedly only after briefly flipping through the first issue) decided it wasn't my thing--at least not enough to invest in the whole thing every month. I may well check it out after it hits trades though.
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aeonic
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Definitely. It was a little slow to start but it seems to be maturing pretty well. Have you been reading Blackest Night/Brightest Day? I think the BN tpb is out soon, if not already, and that one should be totally worth it. Metahuman zombies with power rings = perfect baddies.
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SoldierHawk
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Oh yes. I started seriously reading comics just as Blackest Night was starting and have read all of that, and am currently getting Brightest Day. (Which is okay, I guess, but Blackest Night was a LOT better imho.)
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aeonic
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I couldn't agree with you more, but still, I want to see how Brightest Day plays out. I think it's still got loads of potential, but they're risking blowing it.
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SoldierHawk
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Oh totally. I think the *potential* inherent in BD is actually far greater than that of BN. Zombies rising from the dead and the various Lantern Corps having to band together to destroy them is cool, no doubt. But twelve people brought back from the dead, for reasons they don't understand, with a guy whose whole SUPERPOWER used to be being dead as the current key to LIFE? That's freaking amazing, both on a plot-potential level and a character-examination level.
SO WHY HAS THE WHOLE THING BEEN PRETTY MUCH BORING AS ALL HELL????
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aeonic
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I think that maybe Johns and crew are compensating a little for the huge amount of lethality in BN and the fact that there was a whole lot of action through it. Otherwise, I couldn't tell you, but I definitely agree. The Black Lantern Suicide Squad vs. the Secret Six was fucking spectacular.
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Dr. Jeebus
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You just got this system? Are you able to do search and reserve the books from your home computer, or do you have to do it at the library? If you can't do it from home, you're behind the times!
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UsaSatsui
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SoldierHawk wrote: |
AH, Usagi Yojimbo, got it! Should I just start with the first tpb, or is there a better place to start? |
Well, first you should know that there are two sets of books. The first 7 books are from a company called Fantagraphics, then later on Dark Horse picked up the series. The first 7 have some pretty important stories (Book 2 is the origin story, book 4 is the first big story arc), but for the most part you want to read them in order, since everything builds on the past and characters come and go you're probably supposed to recognize.
If you wanted to pick out just one book from a vacuum to read without knowing the background of the world, I'd choose Grasscutter. It's an epic story, and it only really requires a passing knowledge of the characters.
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aeonic
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Wasn't Fantagraphics a furry speciality comics company? I seem to remember Shanda the Panda and some others done by them, but naturally, I could be wrong.
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
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Dr. Jeebus wrote: |
You just got this system? Are you able to do search and reserve the books from your home computer, or do you have to do it at the library? If you can't do it from home, you're behind the times! |
Well we've always been able to request from within the San Diego County library system, but they just opened it up to allowing us to request from literally like 500 libraries across three states, to include a bunch of University libraries. And yeah, we can absolutely make the requests from home computers.
Thanks for the info Usa; I'll just start from 1 and go from there.
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
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JLA/Avengers comes to mind.
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"Life is a waste of time. Time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time, and you'll have the time of your life!" |
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LowEndLem
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Hawk, regular book recommendations: Shades of Grey, Fool, The Stupidest Angel(Both by Christopher Moore) Generation Kill, Hella Nation.
Comics: Any Deadpool you can get your hands on.
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<Tako> But, brontosaurs ate plants. It wouldn't be a threat to Jesus.
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aeonic
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Oh, Lem, there's just too many goddamn Deadpool comics anymore. He's worse than Wolverine!
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LowEndLem
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I still love the guy.
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<docinsano>i beat off using save states
<Tako> But, brontosaurs ate plants. It wouldn't be a threat to Jesus.
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SoldierHawk
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Oh god I love Deadpool so much! THANK YOU for reminding me to look for those!
Despite my love for him, most of the comics he's in right now are horrid. I think the biggest assripping I've given a comic as a reviewer to date were the issues of Deadpool Corps I reviewed (frigging awful). I wasn't too kind to Wade Wilson's War either.
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aeonic
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The only one of the ones he's in right now that looks promising is Deadpool Pulp. I don't know, I'm still kind of lukewarm with regards to Marvel right now, which is funny, because when I started reading comics, I didn't read DC
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Dr. Jeebus
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Deadpool has no less than 8 books being solicited to us right now, which is fucking ridiculous. He's a great character, but he can support one ongoing book and an occasional mini-series. His only book that's any good is the regular Deadpool title, and that's only good for what it is (Which I enjoy), not good from any sort of literary standpoint.
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Blackout
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Try and snag a copy of Towing Jehovah.
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