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Alkthash recommends you a comic book
Yeah, since there are a lot of "[Poster] compares you to [thing] threads, I figure I might as well jump on the bandwagon, but with a twist. Instead of telling you what you are, I'll tell you what comic you should read. All I ask is that when you post you give me a few things you like (genres or specific works or even character types or plot structure) so I can try to think of something to your tastes.
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i want more marvel shit
I like conspiracy plots, or anything with lots of cloak-and-dagger "just as planned" bullshit.
Hit me.
Urban Fantasy.
Faux philosophical narration, quotable bits and pr0n disguised as art.
I'm in!
Real world (low urban fantasy is acceptable), modern, politics/conspiracies/philosophy/social problems.
Either contemporary, or something with a lot more human drama and character interaction with actually interesting characters. If it has to be scifi/ fantasy/ superheroy, It'd like it to ignore the mythos, world building, technobabble and all that crap so it can tell me a story instead.
Series that take well known super hero tropes and turn them on their heads.
Juan
We've been over this before man. Since you seem to be liking Slott's run on Spider-man a lot, I'd say go with Hickman's run on Fantastic Four to provide some familiarity and great comics in general. Start with Dark Reign: Fantastic Four and then move onto issue # 570, pick up FF when it starts up and then the restart of Fantastic Four at #600 and read to the present. You shouldn't be dissapointed then.
If you want more good Marvel shit after that just pester me.
Crimson
Well for cloak and dagger and just as planned bullshit (man you are giving me a lot of leway here), Batman is a solid pick. One of the stories that shows that off best is the Black Glove Arc written by Morrison. For other conspiracy plots we have the fun of Transmetropolitan and Ellis' mini Red. If you are feeling in a Star Wars mood, there is always the Thrawn Trilogy adaptations, which are solid and have lots of the just as planned bullshit from Grand Admiral Thrawn.
Malkavian
Well I know you like the Dresden Files, so the comics are worth a shot, but really the only one that has any new content was the first volume Welcome to the Jungle*. But there is a chance you've already checked those out.
Something you really ought to look into though is Locke and Key. The plot is of the Locke family moving back to their family house after the bizarre murder of their father and discovering that the Keyhouse contains sets of magic keys and they try to untangle the mystery of the Keyhouse and the omega key. The most succinct way I can describe it would be imagine Harry Potter written by Stephen King**. And Rodriguez's art is quite simply amazing.
Hrmm, this really is an open ended prompt, so I'm going to toss out some more urban fantasy comics I like.
There are the Clive Baker adaptations collected by IDW, with 12 issue The Great and Secret Show being my favorite. The tale of a few generations of people trying to tap into and harness the raw dreamstuff/power of the Quidity(fun word to say). It also boasts art from Rodriguez, always a plus.
And finally I'll throw out American Vampire. Nice solid take on vampires, along with a lens for the dramatic focused at US history over the years. Nice art and plotting, and I think it hits the right balance between explaining the monster and letting them by unknown enough to be scary. And letting actions speak for themselves.
*We've got what you need-
** Fitting enough, since the author Joe Hill, is King's son.
I'm interested in mythic fantasy right now. Or a superhero comic that emphasizes and plays with dualities and polar opposites.
So, Alk decided to let me give some Recs because I love getting people into stuff I like
Insanity Addict:
I'll go with Transmetropolitan. Although I should mention that the "pr0n" as you decided to call it is pretty much anti-aesthetical, and deliberately so, and there's very few actual narration, outside of Spider Jerusalem's articles.
Hit me with anything.
InsanityAddict
Okay first of all, we are all nominally adults here. We can just say porn if we want. Porn porn porny pornity porn porn.
That said if you like faux philosophical narration, quotable bits and count playing up fetishes as pron, than Claremont's run on X-Men would count. But eh, it has enough heart into it that it is still endearing despite being corny and silly as all hell.
But eh, for quotable bits and explicit porn take a look at the Phoglio's comic XXXenophile. Pretty lulzy for nerd smut.
Or hell, take a look at Paying For It, one man's autobiographical accounts of being a John. Pretty humorous for it's general tone and it might make you think about prostitution a bit after reading it.
And for some heavy cheesecake there is always Empowered. And crazy quotable bits from the Caged Demon Wolf.
Milos
Ooh goody, I can suggest one of the best comics on my shelf to you. Go read Logicomix, the mostly true* story of the life and work of Bertrand Russel in his quest to codify the rules of mathematics. Expect to pick up bits and pieces of plenty of math and logic theory along the way and have a fun ride. And art is solid too.
Persopolis - Nah, everybody trots this out as something to meet your criteria. Not bad, just something you've probably already heard about.
For a fun philosophy read, check out Action Philosophers! a humorous condensed version of major philosophies throughout the ages, loaded with visual gags and giving us lovely lines such as "PLATO SMASH!"
*liberties were taken for the sake of the story and clarified and explained in the notes in the back of the book
Anything with lots and lots of Silver Age Weirdness.
There's a torrent floating around with all the Batman stuff from Issue One, counting annuals. Batman's silver age weirdness is special in comparison to most comics simply because Batman's supposed to be a pulpish tale of a man fighting criminals.
^^^Plato as a luchadore is the best thing.
^^Age of The Sentry is a great pastiche of Silver Age style stories and pretty much the only thing with the Sentry in it worth reading.
No thoughts on the suggestions I tossed out for you Malk?
Oh, whoops. I've already read American Vampire and The Dresden Files comics and loved them both. Well, I loved the original DF stuff, not so much the adaptations.
I've vaguely heard about Locke & Key but the person pushing it to me was a bit of an asshole to me about reading superheroes so that kind of colored my opinion unfairly. =| I'll definitely try it out, though.
Schitzo
Hrm, you were tough to pick some comics for but I'll toss out a few.
First, Empire State, or as my brain likes to think of it "Taking the piss out of every rom com every, especially the loser guy getting his child hood friend plot.". That's not to say the main character Jimmy is some horrible twisted "Nice" Guy. He genuinely is a nice guy, he's just a bit of an immature loser. And the dialog is spot on.
The other one I'll toss out is Hack/Slash. It follows the exploits of Cassie Hack, a survivor of a slasher attack* who roams the country with her groteaque friend/side kick Vlad killing slashers. Part straight up send for slasher films, part tale of the soft friendship of people with nothing else to lose and part love letter from everything from hair metal, to Archie comics, to Lovecraft fiction and even superheroes, Hack/Slash is a fun comic.
*A kind of undead monster that arises when somebody angry enough and crazy enough dies and decides to come back just to fuck shit up again.
If you want a trippier look at the silver age, check out Flex Mentallo, where a silver age walking joke stumbles around trying to save the world. Or if you want something thatcruns on Silver Age weirdness, but isn't a super hero comic, check out the visually stunning, near wordless Tales of Sand.
Icalasari - going to toss out Locke and Key and American Vampire again for the reasons I listed above. Right now DC's Animal Man and Swamp Thing are delivering a potent and messy mix of super heroes, world building and horror.
The Spider-man story, Kraven's Last Hunt is also a grim spookyess of superheroes, horror and balls to the wall crazy.
The recent mini, Severed, does something special and uses the cannibalistic madman as a vehicle for emotional terror.
Kraken - bluh, revving some Arachea comics, the arthouse publisher, but check out Mouse Guard(like Redwall but a lot more hardcore) and Siegfried, their first part in adapting the Nieblung saga.
The Conductor - try the following. Next wave, for being a glorious explosion of Super hero tropes with no restraint. Common Grounds for a look at what super heroes do in their off time; namely talk and hang out. Gotham Central for making super heroes take a backseat in Gotham and removing the safety cushion they provide. And finally Batman Noel, where Batman takes Scrooge's place in our favorite overdone Dickens plot.
Vandro - for some reason I think the Knights of the Old Republic comic and Slott's run on Spider-man(starting issue 648) would be fun for you. And Infinite Kung Fu and I Kill Giants for some non super hero stuff. It's all a gut feeling really.
And I typed all this on my phone for you jerks! I hope you're all happy!
Very.
I'll take any recommendations really, since my taste in comics has been "whatever Juan tells me to read". But I've mostly been Superhero stuff lately, so something outside of that area.
Wait.
Anyway, I'm digging Finder quite a bit. There's also Brubaker's Fatale.
There's also Transmet and Planetary (although I'd argue planetary is a superhero story on the vein of the fantastic four)
Me me!
Seven Soldiers of Victory by Grant Morrison as well as Demon Knights for fun and epic knight action and overall great characterization (and seven soldiers has Frankenstein as a secret agent so it's officially a gift of the gods)
Vague description is vague, just woke up.