Dude, ramble away! It's nice to have someone to have this chat with without worrying I'm spamming people with a sudden influx of unwanted comics! :p
Yeah, so far I've been really impressed with Gail Simone's storytelling which means I should probably read her turn on Birds of Prey but, I'm not sure, for some reason that is totally counterintuitive to all my good sense and everyone else's recommendations, I've just never had the urge to read it. Then again, I once felt that way about Wonder Woman and now I'm like DUDE SHE'S AMAZING. So we'll see?
As to Wonder Woman, my thoughts about her having read the Rucka and Simone runs are here -
http://beccatoria.livejournal.com/151350.html
Gail Simone definitely tells a good tale but also does some...challenging things with the character gender-wise in ways that are hard to discuss if you haven't read it, so if you're totally spoiler free probably best not to read the above link, but it's not like, spoilerrific either, but um, if I get into that again here, I'll run outta comment space. ;)
Farscape does indeed have an ongoing comic! It's on issue...22 now? I think? I think there were also a few mini series that preceeded the ongoing comic. It's...pretty good? I enjoy it as a continuation of the story, but it's partly written by Rockne S O'Bannon and it does get to epic space battles and galaxy-wide stuff but there's a sort of...season one vibe to it in a lot of ways rather than the David Kemper twisted tragicomedy that characterised the show from the second season onwards. But yeah, I do enjoy it.
I get what you mean about the monthly thing. I generally agree with you, except there have been some comics I've loved so much I've wanted to get it serialised because I didn't want to wait (mostly Star Wars stuff) and I've learned to appreciate the medium, if only because part of my appreciates the pulpy aesthetic of collecting single issues, but I definitely understand the psychology of the trade-waiter, especially now that almost everything DOES get collected in trade paperbacks (at least from the big companies) unlike in years gone by.
I haven't actually seen the Scott Pilgrim movie - sounds like that'd be a good place to start then? But I will probably skip over the Buffy comics. I was never a huge fan of the series (though I did watch and like it), and you're not the first person to say that the comic is a bit uneven.
Finally - on Detective Comics, no, it's an ongoing comic book - it's actually one of the oldest ongoing comic books. Along with Action comics, it's never been renumbered until this new reboot in September. "DC" actually STANDS for "Detective Comics"! ;) But yeah, I totally understand why that's confusing because it confused me for ages too. Basically, "Detective Comics" launched in...the 30s or whatever, and it had detective stories in it, while Action comics had more, well, action stories in it. Action comics usually features Superman and various backup characters in other shorter stories, while Detective generally focused on Batman, again with other features too. Of course Superman, Batman, et al, eventually got their own series, but as a general rule, they ALSO still anchor Action and Detective, but sometimes they will change that up and feature another character from the same "family" as Superman or Batman. So for instance, for a while Action comics focused on Lex Luthor while Detective focused on Batwoman.
Again, until very recently, Action and Detective were both larger than usually sized so that you got the main comic and then a half-sized "backup feature" featuring a lesser-known character. VERY recently they cut that in order to cut the price of the comic by a dollar.
So yes, Detective comics just had issue 881 released! But what you've been hearing good things about was probably the most recent 10 or so issues by Scott Snyder. Originally it featured Dick Grayson as Batman (he took over for a while, long story) with a story about Commissioner Gordon and Oracle as the backup feature, but the backup feature got cut a few issues in and it just started alternating between the two storylines before they merged together. And yes, it's a very creepy but very good run of issues.
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Date: 2011-08-15 11:08 pm (UTC)Yeah, so far I've been really impressed with Gail Simone's storytelling which means I should probably read her turn on Birds of Prey but, I'm not sure, for some reason that is totally counterintuitive to all my good sense and everyone else's recommendations, I've just never had the urge to read it. Then again, I once felt that way about Wonder Woman and now I'm like DUDE SHE'S AMAZING. So we'll see?
As to Wonder Woman, my thoughts about her having read the Rucka and Simone runs are here -
http://beccatoria.livejournal.com/151350.html
Gail Simone definitely tells a good tale but also does some...challenging things with the character gender-wise in ways that are hard to discuss if you haven't read it, so if you're totally spoiler free probably best not to read the above link, but it's not like, spoilerrific either, but um, if I get into that again here, I'll run outta comment space. ;)
Farscape does indeed have an ongoing comic! It's on issue...22 now? I think? I think there were also a few mini series that preceeded the ongoing comic. It's...pretty good? I enjoy it as a continuation of the story, but it's partly written by Rockne S O'Bannon and it does get to epic space battles and galaxy-wide stuff but there's a sort of...season one vibe to it in a lot of ways rather than the David Kemper twisted tragicomedy that characterised the show from the second season onwards. But yeah, I do enjoy it.
I get what you mean about the monthly thing. I generally agree with you, except there have been some comics I've loved so much I've wanted to get it serialised because I didn't want to wait (mostly Star Wars stuff) and I've learned to appreciate the medium, if only because part of my appreciates the pulpy aesthetic of collecting single issues, but I definitely understand the psychology of the trade-waiter, especially now that almost everything DOES get collected in trade paperbacks (at least from the big companies) unlike in years gone by.
I haven't actually seen the Scott Pilgrim movie - sounds like that'd be a good place to start then? But I will probably skip over the Buffy comics. I was never a huge fan of the series (though I did watch and like it), and you're not the first person to say that the comic is a bit uneven.
Finally - on Detective Comics, no, it's an ongoing comic book - it's actually one of the oldest ongoing comic books. Along with Action comics, it's never been renumbered until this new reboot in September. "DC" actually STANDS for "Detective Comics"! ;) But yeah, I totally understand why that's confusing because it confused me for ages too. Basically, "Detective Comics" launched in...the 30s or whatever, and it had detective stories in it, while Action comics had more, well, action stories in it. Action comics usually features Superman and various backup characters in other shorter stories, while Detective generally focused on Batman, again with other features too. Of course Superman, Batman, et al, eventually got their own series, but as a general rule, they ALSO still anchor Action and Detective, but sometimes they will change that up and feature another character from the same "family" as Superman or Batman. So for instance, for a while Action comics focused on Lex Luthor while Detective focused on Batwoman.
Again, until very recently, Action and Detective were both larger than usually sized so that you got the main comic and then a half-sized "backup feature" featuring a lesser-known character. VERY recently they cut that in order to cut the price of the comic by a dollar.
So yes, Detective comics just had issue 881 released! But what you've been hearing good things about was probably the most recent 10 or so issues by Scott Snyder. Originally it featured Dick Grayson as Batman (he took over for a while, long story) with a story about Commissioner Gordon and Oracle as the backup feature, but the backup feature got cut a few issues in and it just started alternating between the two storylines before they merged together. And yes, it's a very creepy but very good run of issues.
...hope that wasn't horribly confusing?