Topic: Comics Thread

Recently finished up Vampirella: Crown of Worms on Prime Reading.

Wanted to try something a bit different than the typical superhero fare, and this fit well for the spooky season. It pretty much follows a female vampire who hunts down other vampires, and while she apparently has bad blood with Dracula, they must form an uneasy alliance after she runs across a nest of vampires who are under the control of an ancient interdimensional god worm (yes, it's pretty nuts) which aims to bring on the apocalypse.

It's by far the goriest comic I've yet read, and while the character was originally conceived to be pretty cheesecake in terms of design, this appears to be a bit of a grittier reimagining where she seems to be at odds with her "old self" and is struggling to find herself.

Finished reading Batman: Dark Victory after having read The Long Halloween. I really enjoyed both, they’re proper detective stories which you don’t really get in adaptations. It was also a proper origin story for Harvey Dent, who’s one of the more tragic figures in Batman’s rogues gallery. I think I’ll maybe go for Hush next, I really like Jeph Loeb’s take on Batman!

Discovered this and thought I'd do a double hit of childhood nostalgia.

I was only planning on getting the first one but it has me got me just curious enough to see where it goes I might keep it going for now.

@nessisonett I really liked Hush when I read it a few years ago - did you read it?

I am reading Promethea at the moment by Alan Moore. I enjoyed the first issue, and am looking forward to reading the second one, later at some point. Does anyone else on here like the works of Alan Moore? His Literary works or his comic books?

@TheBrandedSwordsman Yeah, I read it last year and really enjoyed it. I should probably watch the animated adaptation at some point.

@TheBrandedSwordsman I quite like Alan Moore. As typical as it may be at this point, nothing I’ve read of his tops Watchmen, though I’ve yet to read Promethea.

Have you ever read anything by Jeff Lemire? I’ve yet to read anything less than outstanding from him, but his ‘Sweet Tooth’ series is a real diamond in the rough that I can’t recommend highly enough.

@Jimmer-jammer No I haven't read Jeff Lemire's Sweet Tooth series, I do like Promethea so far though, with regard to Alan Moore, actually next on my to-read list is The Life After, a quest through the afterlife with the main character in a Dante style role with Ernest Hemingway as his Virgil.

@TheBrandedSwordsman ha! Now that sounds interesting...I just googled Sweet Tooth and it sounds like they are bringing it to T.V. I’m both excited and disappointed by that. Hope they can do it justice. I’m gonna look into The Life After, sounds wild.

Ordered all the SW High Republic comics, and I don't regret it... yet.

I was packing away all my comics earlier, and I've got The Ultimates and the first few volumes of Ultimate X-Men. They are good a can reccomend them too.

And I've got these on my tablet, along the whole Bloodborne collection.

@JohnnyShoulder I never read Superior Spidey though heard a lot about it (it was quite notorious), what were your thoughts on it?

Also, I’d be interested in the Bloodborne comics, are they done well?

@colonelkilgore Not read any of the Spider-Man ones yet and only the first issue of Bloodborne so far. The setup seems to be quite good.

@JohnnyShoulder I’m gonna checkout whether I can get a trade-paperback collection of all the Bloodborne comics… I actually haven’t read a comic in about 5 years but I do miss it… and I’m obviously a huge fan og BB. The story hidden beneath the games surface is class too, so I’d love some further information on it. I’ll let you know how I get on 👍

@colonelkilgore I usually prefer TPB's for comic books, but sometimes the prices digitally are too good to turn down, or just not available anymore in a physical version. I've got one which would have cost me about 80 quid to buy physically, but cost me about 20 quid on the Google Play store.

@JohnnyShoulder yeah I get you, I just checked now and a collection of the first three volumes won’t arrive til November (after I move house)… so I’ll have to wait a wee while before I make the order. £30 for the three isn’t too bad.

@colonelkilgore Think I paid that for all 6 issues.

@JohnnyShoulder aye… don’t know if we have our wires crossed but the £30 is for the 3 volumes as opposed to issues. If it’s anything like the trade paperbacks I’ve collected before the volumes contain around 6 issues.

@colonelkilgore Ah ok. And it turns out there are actually 15 issues overall.

@JohnnyShoulder so it turns out the collection of volume 1, 2 & 3 only releases in November… but you can just get them separately now. I think I’ll just slip it into conversation with the missus though as she’s always looking for good little Christmas gift ideas 😉