What are you reading?
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comicsHello 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.
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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Date: 2009-05-19 12:00 am (UTC)Recently I got Batman: Terror out of my library. It was... kind of crap. The seams are showing. All the plot devices are trying to do their jobs while shouting their job descriptions really loudly at everyone, and I don't know if you've ever tried that but it's not very efficient. I was left with the feeling that it SHOULD have been a good story, but somehow... it... just... wasn't. It was like they tried to make a cake by tossing all the right ingredients into a bowl and setting the microwave on high.