[ambient-whisper]

this is a neat one.

http://www.glasswings.com.au/comics/t+k/cover_05.jpg

[Probus]

wayfinder: i�m just a newcomer to comics like spawn, i read one story and i liked it alot. i think they chose to keep telling the story because of all the newcomers like me. i wouldn�t understand a thing if they didn�t.

i dig the style of both drawing and coloring. but i�m sure i�ll think different after reading so much episodes, and after reading more comics of this sort.

So... "how did spawn become such an item?" maybe a newbee thing?

[Spooky]

This has been talked about before in the forum somewhere - I suggest to the guys that are just getting into comics to check out that old thread somewhere around here.

A friend of mine, Mark Schultz, does some writing for Superman right now, but his best stuff is his self-created work Xenozoic Tales or Cadillacs and Dinosaurs as it has popularly become known. His Aliens / Predator / Terminator stuff is good too if you like movie spin-off's. Mark really does treat his characters with respect. His award-winning art is great too, reminiscient of the Al Williamson and Wallace Wood type of stuff.

Dan Brereton's Nocturnals is fantastic. Dan's stuff is eerie and spooky and is all hand painted. He's done a lot of other stuff for DC and Marvel and has done a lot of self promo pieces. I'm looking at a print of his right now of the Halloween characters as a matter of fact.

Mike Mignola is another talented guy and does the coolest characters and art right now in my opionion. A paranormal investigation team of monsters like Hellboy and Abe Sapien. Hellboy is in the tradition of great Universal Monster flicks, The X-Files, and good old fashioned action adventure films.

Kelley Jones captures his characters, Batman, Deadman, etc. in a elongated and detailed style artistically. This is very true to the word 'goth' and what the 'Goths' really were believed to be.

Tom Strong - great story telling from master Alan Moore

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - a great combination of 1800's famous characters and their adventures. Alan Moore again.

Alex Toth's art is also great. Black and White is some of his best works.

Moebius art is always cool.

Lone Wolf and Cub series by Kazuo Koike and Gozeki Kojima. A Samurai and his baby walk the Earth.

Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns, Sim City Etc. Frank's writing work is a little too misogynistic and dark for comics in general according to some, but his high contrast art is definitely amazing and inspiring.

Craig and other might really enjoy people like Dan B. and also Alex Ross who do their work in painting. Alex has a 'realistic' approach to Super Heroes that works great in Kingdom Come for DC Comics and Marvels.

Frank Cho (known of Liberty Meadows) is an artist in the same realm as Mark Schultz and Al Williamson. His art is detailed, enjoyable, adventurous and fun to look at! Check out his Illustrator book for further insight.

Geof Darrow is the creator of Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot and also has done major concept work for The Matrix films. He has a great highly detailed style.

Bruce Timm - responsible for the drawing simple cartoon style of Batman and Superman and the new JLA characters and his partners-in-crime Paul Dini and Alan Burnett also treat their characters with the best of the best of writers and artists.

Tim Sale and Jeph Loeb have produced some wonderful work together that are available now as compilations. Superman: A Man For All Seasons, Batman: A Long Halloween, and others are great art and writing together.

Anyway, between these and the other thread, that should get most of you started in the right direction.

[ December 10, 2001: Message edited by: Spooky ]

[shinji69]

Berserk by Kentaro Miura. (currently 21 volumes out there. If you live in LA, go to any Japanese boosktore and buy them.)

A dark, grim, pessimistic story, beautiful art. This guys is probably one of few manga artists who actually studied intense art anatomy. Intense quasi-medieval world saturated with blood-drenched and gut-splitting violence and hard-core sex.(yeah, there's at least one chapter-long orgy scene)

Beautiful art, zero-escapism, move-over-Sam-Peckinpah story, ultra extreme violence and ultra extreme hardcore sex.

And Neon Genesis Evangelion manga. The compositions of each panel are beautiful.

[Glondus]

I bought Dark Knight Strikes Again today. Frank Millers follow up to the 80s hit The Dark Knight Returns.
Nice story and all .. but the coloring, my god, the coloring. It was full of filters! Everywhere! Filters! Lynn Varney is quite a nice painter I believe. But whoa.. this was just awful. And it was expensive too.

On a happier note I got Authority #27. Ive been waiting a year for that bloody book to come out...

[kantide]

quote:

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Originally posted by maceface:
btw anime used to be really cool untill you couldnt turn a street corner without running into a DBZ t-shirt. arg. sigh...i need to go read some maus.

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No kidding. I still like manga and anime, but it sucks that all these greasy 12-year-old fanboys got into that buchered crap that they show on TV.

[MoleculeMan]

^^ That is terrible!

and I just bought Dark knight Returns, by miller, and it is quite possibly one of the best Superhero comics ever written/drawn. I loved it.

jake

[kantide]

I read:

Battle Angel Alita
Kabuki (beautiful art!)
Gunsmith Cats
Oh My Goddess!
Ghost in the Shell
Kingdom Come

[Socar MYLES]

I almost forgot...one of my very favourites--"Tales from the Crypt"! I even had a couple of the original books--the 1950s ones, not the reprints--until I left them at my parents' house and my mother let my sister cut them up for a school project.

It was the most expensive school project she EVER did.