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[selenay]

Um, the comic thing could be very bad. Have bought the first volume of Fables, both issues of Demon Knights and the second issue of Stormwatch.

Oh dear.

And I think that I may be enjoying Demon Knights a tiny bit more than Stormwatch. They're both excellent, though.

Dad flies back to England tonight. He's possibly going to start packing soon.

I'm very tired, but I want to at least try to catch up on some of the things on my PVR. So I may try watching Once Upon A Time after he's left from the airport - two RL friends really enjoyed it so I've got hopes for it.

Why isn't it nearly the weekend?

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[gaspode.livejournal.com]

There are many other comics I could recomend ... Whens the IPad Coming

[gaspode.livejournal.com]

I Also recommend 4 odd issues of Batman. 404 - 407, The Year one story line by Frank Miller.

https://comics.comixology.com/#/issue/2485/Batman-1940-2011-404

Start with this and the next 3 issues, Its a standalone story but argueably one of the finest bits of Batman ever written

[selenay]

*adds to wishlist*

The iPad is my birthday present to me. So, my birthday. Which is less than a month away. Poor iPad, it's going to get loaded up with comics and Netflix on the first day and all other functions will wait until the weekend.

[fyrdrakken]

Way back when I acquired all the trade paperbacks of Stormwatch that Warren Ellis had written -- back then I think his run was the only part of the series that had been collected into trades, though I believe nowadays some of the prior stuff has been collected, too. The Authority was more fun, though I couldn't help but note that it was Ellis basically collecting all the new characters he'd created for Stormwatch (plus I think one or two of the old ones) and taking them away to play with on their own. I did enjoy Stormwatch, though. Never checked out Demon Knights -- and I've mostly broken the comics habit now, so I don't know if I ever will.

[selenay]

I think that I'm getting into the comic habit at just the right time - the DC re-launch was a couple of months ago so it's not difficult to pick up because most of the big lines are doing a new beginnings thing.

Marvel is doing the same thing early next year, so I'm holding off on trying to (finally) start X-Men regularly until that. Right now, I feel like I'd need months of research just to have the first clue on what's happening in the big lines because the backstory is so massive.

I grew up with no comic stores anywhere near me and no real ability to find or read the old print things. This digital thing is making it all so much easier - I don't have to start in the middle of a story because previous issues are right there for me to get!

[fyrdrakken]

DC I haven't really had much to do with (aside from selected Vertigo titles, like Sandman and Preacher and some Hellblazer and Lucifer). X-Men I got into shortly after the movie came out, and there was a lot of reading summaries online, a lot of the big "phone book" black-and-white trade paperback collections Marvel puts out ("The Essential [core title] Vol. [#]") that are actually pretty good in terms of packaging years of backstory affordably, and some browsing through bins at the local comic store or buying off eBay. (The experience was wonderful for me when I got into Doctor Who in 2006 or thereabouts -- I wasn't at all afraid of dealing with forty-some-odd years of often contradictory or retconned backstory, and being able to torrent a single Doctor's entire run made it laughably easy by comparison.)

I still have a "Graphic Novels" wishlist subset on Amazon, and sometimes I buy one or two (mostly titles by Warren Ellis, though sometimes tie-ins to a book series I love, and I keep wanting to catch up on some recent Hellblazer).

Of course I still gleefully watch comic-based movies -- need to get a couple of Netflix disks watched and sent back so I can finally see Thor and Captain America, in fact, because I'm starting to get excited about The Avengers. And I just loved Iron Man, and even kind of liked the sequel. (Hmm. I never have actually read Iron Man comics. And I know there are some Essentials volumes of that, too...)