What other good schtuff is out there?

[Archipelago]

Rising Stars
Midnight Nation
David Mack's Kabuki
Linda Medley's Castle Waiting
The Red Star
Jeff Smith's Bone
JSA
Amazing Spider Man
X-Force
Powers
Frank Cho's Liberty Meadows
Kurt Busiek's Astro City


But if you want a book that is totally unilke anything else on the market, pick up Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Boy on Earth. Excellent read and has won critical acclaim and a few major awards as well.

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[Lyric054]

I just found Amelia Rules...and its great. Has anyone out there read Liberty Meadows, by Frank Cho? I picked up a copy at my local book shop and I am quite intriged. (nothing even close to my SiP obsession, but its a fun read)
It's more like a sunday strip then and actual storyline, and it's kinda like a mix between Doonsebury and Bloom County. And it makes me laugh.

Just a few thoughts.

Lyric054

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Water under a burning bridge.

[moderndulcinea]

So I took some of the above advice, and went out and bought "Lone Wolf and Cub." My local comic book store guy got so excited when I brought it to the register that he practically grabbed my arm and yanked me into the back of the store, behind the stacks, where he was copying old Kung Fu and other martial arts movies from tape to his computer hard drive. It was so funny...he totally abandoned his post at the register, ignored all of the other customers, and proceeded to tell me all about the film version of "Lone Wolf and Cub" and the actor who played Lone Wolf, and how he was also in "The Blind Assassin" and, and, and, and! I tried to listen very politely, even know I had NO idea what he was talking about. he was just so excited to be seeing a gal in his store buying "Lone Wolf."

Anyway, I took it home and read it and really liked it. The new editions with the Japanese glossary in the back are especially helpful. It's completely different from what I usually read, which is why I find it so appealing.

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[Archipelago]

Another amazing book is "[I]Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth[i]" by F.C Ware.

I think anyone who likes SiP should at least take a look at this book at this review.

Chris Ware won a major award last year out of the UK, THE GUARDIAN First Book Award 2001. (Hey, a 10,000 pound first prize isn't bad.) He has also won several HARVEY awards, including Best Cover Artist, Special Award for Excellence in Presentation, Best Letterer, Best Colorist, Best Continuing or Limited Series and Best Single Issue or Story.

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[Prodigal]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="comic sans ms, jester, Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by moderndulcinea:
I'd like to know what other comics you all know and love out there. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Aside from SiP my favorites would be (in no particular order):

Amazing Spider-Man: As a fan of Babylon 5 and the writing of its creator, I had to give this a look. And it proved to be good enough for me to add it to my pull list each month. In his first issue, JMS managed to do something that was so obvious that it stunned me to realise that it had never occurred to any of the other writers of the book.

Plus, Peter Parker taking a job as a science teacher at his old high school was an incredibly cool idea.

Suicide Squad: Keith Giffen is at his best when he's writing this one. The best part about the humor in this book is that he lets it happen naturally, rather than forcing the jokes the way he did too often when he was in charge of the JLA (and in his first issue, he even managed to redeem some of what he'd done then.)

Dork Tower, Knights of the Dinner Table, and PVP: As an avid gamer, I find all three of these comics to be just plain fun.

Planetary: This is, by far, my favorite of all Warren Ellis' work, and watching the layers of the story peel away is an ongoing joy.

Rising Stars: JMS (of Babylon 5 and Amazing Spider-Man fame) asks the question "What if people had super-powers in the real world?" And some of the answers he comes up with are stunning.

Midnight Nation: JMS moves from the world-shaking to the extremely personal here, following a man whose soul was stolen, and whose quest to get it back drives the story. But the further we get, the more we discover that it is nowhere near so simple as that...

And I'm reading Ultimate X-Men because it takes me back to the days before the storylines started to get so impossibly tangled up.

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[Prodigal]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="comic sans ms, jester, Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Darth Fett:
Powers-nuthin' but cops and dead super heores. Bendis write some of the best natural language dialouge I have ever read

Amazing Spider-Man-Joe Straczynski had made webhead fun again!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Darth fett and I agree on something? I think the cold snap we've been experiencing is the result of a certain metaphycial plane freezing over.

Another title I have to recommend (I knew I would forget some when I was posting) is Alias, by the same man who writes Powers. It's more suited to those who like mysteries than those who don't, but I would recommend taking a look.

Oh, and for those of us who grew up watching the GI Joe cartoon, they've revived the comic. It's set about ten years after the GI Joe program formally shut down, with the return of Cobra to the international scene causing the Joes to come out of retirement to face them once again. It's sheer fanboy goober fun to read.

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[Darth Fett]

Yo JOE!


Man, I sure hated the cartoon, but the original comic got me into comics!
I meet the guys at Devil's Due at wizard world and a store signing, and they seem to have a really good head for the property.

Bizzarre, isn't it Prodigal? I loved Alias too.


BTW-Did you know Bendis is a HUGE Howard Chaykin fan? So you don't have to take just my word on recommending American Century. You would also be doing yourself a huge favor to pick up his old American Flagg! stuff(it's dirt cheap on eBay...)

Oh, add TOP 10 to the list of Kewl Schtuff.
Just snagged them all, and I tell ya, that Moore fella can right(Alan of course, no relation! )

And if you liked Lone Wolf and Cub, you might want to check out Vagabond from Viz. it's a comic adaptation of a fictionalized account of the life of Miyamoto Musashi. Very different in character than LWC, but a very similar style of visceral story telling.


Darth


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'A long life eating mush is best.'
Kawatabuke Sanjuro, ronin

[Darth Fett]

Oh, here's another one: Marmalade Boy from Tokyo Pop by Wataru (I can't remember her last name....)

It's a shoujo(Japanese for 'Girl's Comics') manga. It's kind of a reverse Brady Bunch-Mika's parent's meet another couple on a romantic vacation-and decide to divorce; and re-marry each other! However they plan to all move into the same house, where Mika will also have to contend with her new step-brother Yuu. The second issue comes out today. It's actually really funny.

Interestingly, it's also printed in the original Japanese format(back to front, right to left) instead of being flipped, so it's kinda neat to read too.

If you like messed up relationship stories, (and of course you do, otherwise you wouldn;t be reading the SiP message board ), you'll probably like this.

Darth

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'A long life eating mush is best.'
Kawatabuke Sanjuro, ronin