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AloeVega:
Anyone else here into comic books?

I like a really wide variety of comics, and have for a pretty long time. In terms of superheroes, I know a lot about DC and not very much about Marvel, and a few of my favorite characters are Superman, Animal Man, and Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner is my favorite Green Lantern, and Green Lantern is definitely my favorite superhero right now).

More recently, I've been getting into Disney's Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck comics, originally created by Carl Barks. These comics are made by companies which license the rights to these characters from Disney, and not Disney itself, which means they tend to have a little bit more "bite" to them than actual Disney cartoons a lot of the time, with stuff like social satire being present pretty often. Interestingly, these comics were super popular in the world as a whole, but their popularity fizzled out in America pretty soon after Carl Barks first created them. This means a lot of the newer Duck comics are from European artists and writers, even though the one who created them was an American (Carl Barks). The biggest exception is Don Rosa, an American artist/writer who is often regarded as the best person other than Barks himself to write Duck comics.

I really like these Duck comics because they very effectively capture a feeling of adventure. A pretty common story formula for the Donald Duck stories is that Donald ends up having to go on a hunt for some sort of treasure, often due to some sort of bureaucratic failure (there's the social satire :omg:k:smile:. In these stories, they'll often go through 3 or 4 different settings all around the world, and they always feel very distinct. There's a lot of comedy in these stories as well, but the emphasis of the stories usually feels like it's more about the adventure than the comedy. I don't like Scrooge McDuck comics as much as Donald Duck comics, but his comics are also pretty great, most of them having Scrooge either trying to defend his riches against a perceived threat (real or otherwise) or trying a new scheme to make more money.

What's also nice about the Duck comics is that they're pretty loose on continuity, and there's no specific reading order. It's a nice breath of fresh air from superhero comics, where each story is building on 70+ years of continuity. In the Duck comics, there's just a consistent setup, and each story is a standalone thing, which can pick up elements from earlier stories or not, depending on what the writer feels like doing! This means you can just read any story you find interesting in any order.

Disney comics fans have also created a really helpful index with information about the different comics stories called Inducks, which I consider one of the coolest sites on the internet.

Anyway, this turned into a long post about Duck comics, which wasn't quite what I intended, but that's alright haha. If anyone else likes to read comics, please reply and talk about what you've been reading lately! :grin:

Guest:
I read a lot of comics as a kid. Mostly the Sonic the Hedgehog series ran by Archie Comics, but I also have a few scattered Spider-Man issues, a couple of Ren & Stimpy comics, and one old TMNT comic where they were in space and there was a giant cow head that was also a flying saucer? I was mostly into the TMNT movies and cartoon series, so I decided the comics were too weird for me after that.

I have tried to get back into comics a few times as an adult. I picked up the first volume of Ultimate X-Men because I liked the idea of a series starting fresh from the beginning so you didn't have decades of backstory to catch up on, but eventually the Ultimate universe reached the same problem. Ongoing series are just too hard for me to keep up with, so now I mostly just pick up the odd graphic novel or mini-series here and there.

The last couple that I read were the "Thrillkiller"/"Thrillkiller '62" Batgirl miniseries and "We Hate Tank Girl."

AloeVega:
The Archie Sonic comics are great! Ken Penders' stories are of questionable quality, but at least they're interesting, and Ian Flynn's stuff is great. And yeah, the TMNT comics are a lot...weirder, than the TV show. I haven't really gotten into TMNT, but that's actually why, from what I have seen, I like the comics more :omg:k:.

I definitely sympathize with having trouble keeping up with ongoing series - especially with changing writers, it's hard to even tell if you should keep reading a series, or if it's gonna turn to crap with a new writer *coughcoughBendisonSupermancough*.

I haven't read those Batgirl series, did you like them? Tank Girl is an absolute classic too.

Guest:

--- Quote from: AloeVega on June 28, 2022 @679.81 ---And yeah, the TMNT comics are a lot...weirder, than the TV show. I haven't really gotten into TMNT, but that's actually why, from what I have seen, I like the comics more :omg:k:.
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I definitely appreciate weird more now than I did as a kid. I think it just wasn't what I was expecting based on the movies and show.


--- Quote from: AloeVega on June 28, 2022 @679.81 --- it's hard to even tell if you should keep reading a series, or if it's gonna turn to crap with a new writer *coughcoughBendisonSupermancough*.
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This is what happened with the New 52 Batwoman series. It started out great, but then the entire creative team left in protest of DC's handling of Kate Kane's marriage and they had to wrap up the story without them. The artwork suddenly went from amazing to looking like it was sketched on a napkin and the writing was horribly rushed.


--- Quote from: AloeVega on June 28, 2022 @679.81 ---I haven't read those Batgirl series, did you like them?
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Thrillkiller is really interesting. It's an elseworld story set during the '60s. It has a female Joker-analog who is a gangster named Bianca Steeplechase and Barbara Gordon is the wealthy heiress who becomes a vigilante while Bruce Wayne is a GCPD detective. The artwork is also amazing. Every panel is a full painting.

ggnonicon:
I love comics  :blush:
Im much more familiar with like, manga/japanese comics than I am with whatever other types there are? But I've dabbled a bit.

I've read some of the Sandman comics, The Dreaming, read a chunk of The Incal, I used to really like Calvin and Hobbes, I read through all of Saga, uhhhhh what else... Oh I like Megg and Mogg! And most recently I was on like issue #8 of The Maxx.
I used to own some Tank Girl offshoots, but sold em a while back during a move :sad:

These duck comics sound funny and fun to read... I wonder if they exist on my library app :eyes:

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