Comic Books

[Psychonaut]

Alright, let's get a thread going for all of the comic collectors on the Apricity. First off, who else out there is a comic fan? What are your favorites? What are you working on getting a collection of now?

Here's my spiel. So far I've got full runs in TPB format of:


Sandman


Battle Angel Alita

...and loads of one-shot TPBs (like Watchmen, the Crow, etc.).

I've got full runs in regular comic format of:


Hawkmoon (all four mini-series)


Corum

I'm working on getting full runs of these:


Cerebus (I've got the first ten trades)


X-Factor (I've got 50 or so issues)


Elric (I've got the first two volumes)

So, how about you?

[lei.talk]

my maternal grand-father read to me
many stories from pulp-fiction digests.

many of those tales
were written by the creator of tarzan
and a writer that closely matched him
in several genre.

consequently,
this tarzan-clone comic-book
was irresistable:

and, after having read this issue:



these comic-books were equally attractive:

confusingly,
the cover-illustration on the amazing stories
is not buck rogers, but,

the first appearance of "the skylark of space"
by one of the most influential science-fiction authors.

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[lei.talk]

watch now!

[Groenewolf]

One of my favorite comic books series is Thorgal.



Wich is set in the viking-era. Thorgal himself is a child whose parents came from the stars. Read decendants of the people of Atlantis who moved there. Who as a young child was raised by a viking Chieftan and is favoured by the Goddess Frig.

The series now focus more on his son Johan.

[Sarmata]

One of my favorite comic books series is Thorgal.



Wich is set in the viking-era. Thorgal himself is a child whose parents came from the stars. Read decendants of the people of Atlantis who moved there. Who as a young child was raised by a viking Chieftan and is favoured by the Goddess Frig.

The series now focus more on his son Johan.

Yes, it was my favorite comic series. . Thorgal was created by Van Hamme and Polish graphic artist- Grzegorz Rosiński.

[Sarmata]

One of my favorite series was also Slaine.-Almost- epic Saga about adventures of Celtic hero-Slaine, story full of black humour, pagan or even anti-christian motives

[lei.talk]

...i enjoyed this cartoon strip
from the sunday news-paper
in the late forties:

when she recognised the artist's name,
she gifted me this book
in the late fifties:



and altered the expectations/goals
of my exercise-program.

forty-five years later,
i bought the revised edition -

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[Cato]

I've started to read Star Wars: Invasion from Dark Horse, which is set about 20 years after The Return of the Jedi.

"Star Wars: Invasion is an ongoing monthly comic book series, written by Tom Taylor and illustrated by Colin Wilson. Published by Dark Horse Comics, this new ongoing series is set in the New Jedi Order era and depicts the events of the Yuuzhan Vong War. Just like another ongoing series by Dark Horse - Star Wars: Legacy - it is confirmed to include various ties to the novels by Del Rey, while still remaining accessible to new readers. It launched with two online-only preview issues on StarWars.com in May and June 2009. The first printed issue was published on July 1, 2009."

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Invasion

The series, which is brand new, will feature new characters and established characters, such as an older Luke Skywalker (now a Jedi Master), Han, Leia and their three teenage children (Han and Leia were married according to the canon set by the Star Wars spinoff novels).

I'm a Star Wars geek, frankly admitted, but this is basically something that's been a given since I was a wee lad.

[Kempenzoon]

My dad's an avid collector and runs a comic webstore on eBay as a little side earning. But he only really bothers with French and Belgian comics. Both the popular children's series like Suske & Wiske, Jommeke, De Rode Ridder, ... ; and the more alternative art house comics.

I myself like reading some of those more alternative comics, but overall I wouldn't call myself a collector. I do buy a few series on my own though: the Star Wars comics from Dark Horse (all on-going series except Clone Wars); Northlanders from Vertigo; and other than that I love 'dark' comics like Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Transmetropolitan, etc.

I've started to read Star Wars: Invasion from Dark Horse, which is set about 20 years after The Return of the Jedi.

Invasion is turning out pretty interesting, I don't like the Star Wars novels, so atm all I know of the Invasion is what is implied in the SW: Legacy series. Really looking forward to the rest of the Invasion episodes.

My favourites remain Legacy (about 130 years after the movies) and Knights of the Old Republic (about 4000 years before the movies) series though.

[Smaland]

I haven't seen an issue in years, but I used to like Green Lantern when I was a kid: