Comic Confessions

[scoundrel3000]

For some reason, I don't get Fables, Walking Dead the book, Fear Agent, and Deadpool the character. I have no doubt that they are all great and awesome, but they just never clicked with me.

[holds head in shame]

What stuff do you enjoy?

No shame here that's why the thread exists

[Bobgar Ornelas]

just 'cause it's in the news...I've never read one page of a crossgen comic.

I haven't finished it but I don't see what is so important about Maus. I understand what the point is, I just don't think it was done in a way that connected to me

[LoadofBS]

i love gaiman's novels but don't care for his comics. i was never a rucka fan until i read his novels.

[Dave A]

I really love his creator-owned work, but I think Ed Brubaker's superhero comics suck butthole.

And yeah I read through the first 25 issues of Captain America... took me 3 months. BORING. That shit made John Ney Reiber's Cap look like a cocaine-filled disco orgy.

[Tempo House]

i love gaiman's novels but don't care for his comics.

Funny. Just the opposite for me.

[Tempo House]

What stuff do you enjoy?

No shame here that's why the thread exists

From ongoing series: Scalped, Locke & Key, Proof, Elephantmen, Doom Patrol, Legion of SH, Iron Man, etc.  I'm looking forward to seeing more Stumptown, Umbrella Academy, and Shuddertown.

[Kilmarock]

I loved the Adam West/Batman TV show when I was a kid, and still do. One day a friend of mine told me that it was a spoof I didn't believe him. 

I can't remember exactly when this was but I was probably about 10-12 years old at the time so this would have been around 1980-82.

I disbelievingly told my mother what my friend told me. I was shocked when she agreed with him. 

It wasn't until after watching several more episodes that I finally accepted that I was wrong and they were right.

[Bobgar Ornelas]

I loved the Adam West/Batman TV show when I was a kid, and still do. One day a friend of mine told me that it was a spoof I didn't believe him. 

I can't remember exactly when this was but I was probably about 10-12 years old at the time so this would have been around 1980-82.

I disbelievingly told my mother what my friend told me. I was shocked when she agreed with him. 

It wasn't until after watching several more episodes that I finally accepted that I was wrong and they were right.

I have not accepted that you were wrong. I wasn't wrong having the same opinion.  Ther's only two "real" Batmen for me .one is Adam West the other is Kevin Conroy

[leafinsectman (Dan)]

I haven't read Born Again yet. I have it though so I might do it in the next few days.

I can appreciate Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns to a certain extent but I'd much rather see more Iron Fist/Immortal Weapons stuff from Ed and Matt and Swierczynski and Jason Aaron and other similar writers.

[Kilmarock]

I have not accepted that you were wrong. I wasn't wrong having the same opinion.  Ther's only two "real" Batmen for me .one is Adam West the other is Kevin Conroy

I still love the Adam West Batman Show. The villains were great on that show. So silly. I never stopped loving it, I just learned to laugh at it.

I agree with you, Kevin Conroy is the other "real" Batman. So much better than anyone that has played him in the movies. 

[AztecLos]

Black Hole I don't dig it. I tried to read it and just not find the art interesting.


Asterios Polyp is another praised a lot but I just couldn't get through it. 

[Former Poet Laureate]

I always wanted to wrestle Chris Neesman shirtless. My reasons for doing so remain my own.

[JimN]

Black Hole I don't dig it. I tried to read it and just not find the art interesting.


Asterios Polyp is another praised a lot but I just couldn't get through it. 

I like both of them but everybody has different tastes. I can certainly see why those two books wouldn't appeal to someone.

With Black Hole, the strange thing for me is that it's become Charles Burns' best-known and most-praised work but I probably like it the least of his works. I still like it (a lot, actually) but I find much of Burns' other comics more fun and interesting to read (especially El Borbah).

Jim

[VinceB]

With Black Hole, the strange thing for me is that it's become Charles Burns' best-known and most-praised work but I probably like it the least of his works. I still like it (a lot, actually) but I find much of Burns' other comics more fun and interesting to read (especially El Borbah).

Have you seen the Adult Swim show Ugly Americans? Wholesale appropriation of the man's style of character design (sans the sawtooth shading). Flattering, I guess, but if I was Burns, I'd be a bit livid...

[Jeppe]

Have you seen the Adult Swim show Ugly Americans? Wholesale appropriation of the man's style of character design (sans the sawtooth shading). Flattering, I guess, but if I was Burns, I'd be a bit livid...

I saw a few clips from the show, and that really stunned me as well. Does anyone have any idea if the show is worth watching besides that?

[scoundrel3000]

Asterios is not for me either.

Ugly Americans is hilarious

[VinceB]

Does anyone have any idea if the show is worth watching besides that?

Oddly enough, I just watched an episode last night. It's made by the same group that produces Superjail, so expect a high mayhem/gore content. I was amused by the slaughter, character design, and hot devil chicks ('natch!), but I think I need to give it a few more episodes before I decide whether it's the carnage or the content that's pulling me in.

I do love me a bloody spectacle, and the episode was exactly that. Severed limbs, pools of bleeding intestines, eyes gouged, cannibalism...and hot devil chicks. I need little more reason than that to continue watching.  
 

[Jeremy G]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/nPdT-mLGLWc&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/nPdT-mLGLWc&rel=1</a>

I like it!

[ComicGuy]

 i have  alot of trades on my shelf that i haven't read and yet i still go buy the next one before i read the ones i own 

[Kenney]

I agree with you, Kevin Conroy is the other "real" Batman. So much better than anyone that has played him in the movies. 

Kevin Conroy is the "only" "real" "Batman" (using quotes is fun!) to me. I wish there was a way to get the tone he created into the Nolan movies, because then they would be perfect (I love the Nolan movies, but Bale is the weakest element of them to me).