Comic and graphic novels

[Pedrito]

Picked up a copy of Judgement on Gotham...2000AD meets Batman. The artwork is excellent by Simon Bisely who does my favourite Sláine stuff.

Bisely does The Horned God story which I cannot recommend enough..Irish mythical crazy stuff. Love it.

The old 2000AD stuff had elements of the puerile to it which I actually quite like so looking forward to continuing with The Incal when I get the chance.

[Scáthach]

The Horned God is one of my all time favourites. The painted artwork by Bis is stunning. Book of Invasions is cool too. Drawing on the mythical migrations of the Tuatha de Danann and Sons of the Dea (not Willie O), with a bit of Lovecraft thrown in for good measure.

[Carnage]

I preferred Bisley's (and Fabry's) art for Sláine to Langley's, though he (Langley) suited The ABC Warriors perfectly.

Always been a Bisley fan, his ABC Warriors work was the first I saw, if memory serves. I have the first two parts of The Horned God, and had all of it in its initial 2000AD run, but stupidly loaned it to someone and never got it back. I must pick up the reissued versions, though I think they're in a slightly smaller format?

Bought Judgement On Gotham when it came out, the second one too but never came across the third one.

[Mower Liberation Front]

I remember reading somewhere that the (fairly meh) second and third Dredd/Batman crossovers came out when they did was because Glenn Fabry was taking so long to do Die Laughing - so long they ended up getting Jim Murray to take over for the second part. Pretty enjoyable one that - Joker as the fifth Dark Judge.

[Nail_Bombed]

Been doing a re-read of Vertigo Hellblazer - still absolutely brilliant and essential reading. Not just horror comics - nearly every issue had something to say about the state of various forms of politics, mainly in the UK.

Also really liking The Immortal Hulk at the moment - probably the best thing to come out of Marvel for a long time. It's very like Alan Moore's Swamp Thing - The Hulk as a modern horror allegory.

[Carnage]

Speaking of Hellblazer...

I bought the first 3 Sandman TPBs last week (the 30th anniversary versions), looking forward to reading it properly, only dipped into it on the past.

[Nail_Bombed]

Speaking of Hellblazer...

I bought the first 3 Sandman TPBs last week (the 30th anniversary versions), looking forward to reading it properly, only dipped into it on the past.

You're in for a ride there, man. The Sandman's awesome.
If after reading you want to go further, check out Lucifer. Also they've brought back some characters lately for a The Sandman Universe series of titles - Books Of Magic, The Dreaming, Lucifer and mostly recently Hellblazer as well.

[Carnage]

I'm looking forward to it alright. There's a danger of falling down the rabbit hole in trying to keep up with all the offshoots, though.

Tried Moore's run on Swamp Thing a few years ago, couldn't get into it (just sticking with the Hellblazer/John Constantine theme), but I might go back at some point.

[Nail_Bombed]

Been reading Matt Fraction's Hawkeye. Great stuff and stylish with it too - you feel like you're watching a Edgar Wright film when you read it, snappy dialogue and all.

[kiehozero]

Have to say, it defied belief why they haven't made a series out of Transmetropolitan..talk about predicting the future..as pertinent to the current state of play as 1984 or Watchmen.

I've been waiting for Transmet to get the treatment for years, stunning it has been overlooked really. The new Watchmen is scored by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross which is always a reason for me to be interested.

Speaking of which, has anyone read High Level? Rob Sheridan who did all of the NIN artwork for years has been heavily involved in that but I've not seen it anywhere in this country yet, hopefully that will change when the paperback comes out in February.

[Carnage]

The Watchmen score is decent alright, first decent thing Reznor's been involved in for a long time - every previous score he's done has been awful and NIN have been unlistenable for at least a decade.

Ross' last decent work is the score for The Book Of Eli.

[Nail_Bombed]

Just finished reading House Of X / Powers Of X, Jonathan Hickman's soft reboot of the X-Men series. Really good, setting up a nation-state of mutants and a much more hardline Charles Xavier, who's joined up with Magneto, and has claimed his dream has changed from being wanting to help humans to wanting them to acknowledge mutants as the inheritors of the Earth - essentially becoming Magneto. There's a whole load of Israel/Palestine allegories in there.

[leatherface]

Been on a 2000AD rediscovery kick recently. So far I got Judge Dredd vol. 5 (in the 'case files' series), which is great but I have seen that there are almost 40 something 'case files' titles, where to next?
I also got 'Shakara' which I haven't delved into yet, 'Future Shocks' (awesome), 'Missionary Man' (weird, ultra violent future western stuff, great!) and getting some 'Rogue Trooper' arriving soon.

[Pedrito]

Class, I've got 3 of the case files and man they're so inventive and unique. You should definitely pick up some of the old Sláine stuff. The Horned God series with Mills and Bisely is genius stuff...Celtic mysticism and beserker slaughter with a dash of goddess riding.

[Mower Liberation Front]

Been on a 2000AD rediscovery kick recently. So far I got Judge Dredd vol. 5 (in the 'case files' series), which is great but I have seen that there are almost 40 something 'case files' titles, where to next?
I also got 'Shakara' which I haven't delved into yet, 'Future Shocks' (awesome), 'Missionary Man' (weird, ultra violent future western stuff, great!) and getting some 'Rogue Trooper' arriving soon.

Loved Shakara, violent as hell, and Henry Flint's artwork is perfect for it. Rogue Trooper, depends on what you get, the original run started off great til it ran out of steam, then they tried rebooting the in the 90s with Friday, which while starting off pretty decent, nosedived, and when they tried to merge the continuity with the original Rogue... oh dear. They ended up just scrapping the whole thing mid story.
The modern stuff's pretty good - it's the original Rogue, set on Nu Earth. Some good spin offs as well, like Jaegir.