What are you reading?

[caro]

Hello everyone! I'm going to be helping eponymous moderate this community. There's still a lot of work that needs to be done, but there's no reason we can't start talking about comics in the meantime.

So what is everyone reading these days? What do you think of it? Would you recommend it?

I just finished the last volume of The Exterminators, which was an unfortunately rushed end to the series. I'm not sure I'd recommend it -- I think the series had potential, but with the cancellation and the truncated storylines, it just felt disappointing. I also recently read the first volume of Umbrella Academy, which was surprisingly fun. One of my favorite webcomics, Platinum Grit, just updated with Episode 19, and that was amazing. I definitely recommend Platinum Grit -- wacky but surprisingly layered story with expressive and increasingly gorgeous art.

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[mochi]

I recently read Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä. I had seen the movie before, but the comic is really a different story. It is really well drawn, with dynamic panels and interesting use of shading. I would recommend it to everyone. I read it as part of a class on modern Japanese fiction, and even people in the class who had never liked comics before loved it. It deals with some interesting questions about humanity, war, and nature. It's a pretty relevant work to our times, with all the concerns about global warming, and whether we're past the tipping point for environmental disaster. Plus, it's fun! And of course, drawn in Miyazaki's signature cute style.