So what do you read in-between issues?

[pajkub]

Promethea seems to be quite the buzz these days--could someone tell me a little bit about it? Now that the semester's over, I'll finally have more time to read and I'm looking for some new stuff.

--Lillian pajkub http://super_lillian.homestead.com

[LAMECH]

I've been finding myself turning more and more towards manga. (Thank God for online translations because translating is a real pain.)

And these include.

Here is Greenwood
Cowboy Bebop
Trigun
Akazukin ChaCha
Inu Yasha

As well as the American comic

Blue Monday

[Darth Fett]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="comic sans ms, jester, Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by pajkub:
Promethea seems to be quite the buzz these days--could someone tell me a little bit about it<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Promethea is the name of a little girl, the daughter of a Hermetic Mage and Priest. He was murdered by christians, so he sent his daughter away to his gods. She was taken to the land of Magic. Promethea became a goddess of sorts, the spirit of humnan creativity, the spirit of the story.
Many times thru history, some creative person when writing about her legend would manifest her powers in the real world, and fight as champion of the specific manifestors ideals about creativity, stories, and magic.
Flash forward to the end of the 20th century.
Sophie Bangs is a college student, doing a paper on the myth of Promethea-well, of course, she's the next in line to become Promethea, and that is where our story begins.
I hope my piss-poor explanation doesn't turn you away, because Promethea is truely one of the great reads today. The issues dealing with the relationships between sex and magic was incredible(and up for an Eisner!) and the issue about the Tarot as a model of the Universe was simply genius.(Note-I am an avowed athiest, and I don't believe in any of that stuff. But I love this book, and I did beleive it while I read it-it's THAT good!)
I think anyone who read sandman will love Promethea. But beware-Alan Moore has the power to make you say 'Morpheus who?' with this one. He is a true genius in the medium.

Darth

PS-Interestingly, I have read in an interview that Alan Moore is a pagan, and believes to have communed with Hermes, the God of Magic. Kinda makes this book a very spiritual thing for him, which is evident in the care he uses to craft each story.

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'Faith. What a dirty monosyllable. Jill, why didn't you mention that one when you were teaching me the short words that musn't be used in polite company?'
-Valentine Michael Smith, aka the Man from Mars- Stranger in a Strange Land

[BankyE37]

I'm currently cutting back even more of what I read because I've noticed most of what I read I'm not enjoying really. So I'm cutting what I read to...

Ultimate Spider-man
Avengers
JSA
Powers
Strangers in Paradise
The Waiting Place
Steampunk (I'll buy anything Bachalo)

And I'm giving Green Arrow 3 more issues, and trying Brotherhood for a couple of months before I decide to keep those on the list or not. I'm thinking of quiting Ultimate Spider-man as well maybe last issues have been lack luster.

[ann athema]

Kabuki
Bone
The Waiting Place
Promethea
House of Secrets
Gloomcookie
Lucifer
Books of Magic/Names of Magic
Powers
Meatcake
Artesia
Transmetropolitan
and many more...

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[Christine the bumblebean]

coulda swore i replied to this already but can't find it...

:
kabuki
cry for dawn
a distant soil
lenore
johnny the homocidal maniac
gloomcookie
bondage fairies

i highly recommend kabuki and cry for dawn.


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[Badtz Maru]

I also read all those and countless more. Currently I am waiting patiently for my best friend to complete her work in progress called Kirst. Who knows,maybe it will make her famous <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="comic sans ms, jester, Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Lyric054:
Hey there all!! I just started reading SIP, but, thanks to my EX, I've been reading comics for a few years. Other books I enjoy are: Lenore
GloomCookie
Squee
FillerBunny and
I feel Sick.
I am going to pick up Willow and Tara tommorrow, weh I get my new SIP. &lt;Dancing happily around the room&gt;&gt; I hope I enjoy it. Happy reading!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

[Anaka]

To Cristine the Bumblebee- Eeeeeee!! I actually found someone else who reads A Distant Soil!!! Woo-hoo!! Have you read the newest? After the attack and Seren lost his power? Ohhh the scene with Niniri was both funny and extremely creepy ("Look, look! It's so cute, it's so happy to see you...") I always knew there was something Not Right about her... no one can be that nice and ignor Sere.
email me please if you have time and want to chat! [email protected]

[Christine the bumblebean]

i have the first two collected books of a distant soil, but not the third... which seems to have been backordered or not in stock whatsoever for the past 1 1/2 years... will try to email you sometime soon... take care ~christine

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&lt;had a typo, goddess forbid! ~c.&gt;

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[tothleben]

Next to SiP I read mostly

- Amazing Spiderman (vol.1)
- Batman (regular series)
- Grendel
- Sin City
- Lots of Vertigo stuff like Sandman, Hellblazer, Preacher, Swamp Thing, 100 Bullets and more) ...