Graphic Novels

Slurpee · April 02, 2009, 08:26:24 PM

I just found this when I was reading a geoff johns interview about Flash Rebirth

http://www.dccomics.com/sites/watchmen/?action=after_watchmen

pertinent!

FileCabinetClock · April 04, 2009, 04:23:22 PM

read it motherfucker

buttplug · April 04, 2009, 05:37:07 PM

Quote from: filecabinetclock;1556685[IMG]http://www.madprofessor.net/images/superdiaperbaby.jpg[/IMG

read it motherfucker

Damn I loved flip-o-rama

Silly Putty Clock · April 04, 2009, 09:46:17 PM

Quote from: ButtplugClock;1556750Damn I loved flip-o-rama

To Make A Long Story Short:

Me too.

HobboBear · May 15, 2009, 08:34:53 AM

Im reading some mexican clasics such as:
El libro semanal

El Libro Vaquero

And last but not least El Mistico

FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK · May 15, 2009, 10:34:40 AM

I highly recommend Kingdom Come and Transmetropolitan.

TheCheshireClock · May 16, 2009, 12:27:57 AM

"There is no hope for the world" type comics make me a sad kitty-kat.

Killing Joke for the win though.

AnkhClock · May 16, 2009, 12:37:06 AM

I've read Watchmen and Maus, as well as a few others. I want to get into some other graphic novels, so I'll be checking out some of these reccomendations.

buttplug · May 16, 2009, 02:10:01 AM

Quote from: TheCheshireClock;1579742"There is no hope for the world" type comics make me a sad kitty-kat.

Killing Joke for the win though.

I still don't get the end of the Killing Joke

mauserclock · May 16, 2009, 02:56:47 AM

comic books with more blood

Slurpee · May 16, 2009, 03:22:35 AM

Quote from: RonaldReaganClock;1579785I still don't get the end of the Killing Joke

the joke is a loose metaphor for the situation between batman and the joker.

the two men in the joke are both crazy. the one who leaps over the gap without any difficulty is batman, the other is the joker. the first lunatic wants to help the second get across the gap by having him walk across the beam of his flashlight, but he's crazy because that's impossible. the second refuses not because it's impossible, but because he doesn't trust the first lunatic. (the cusp of the joke is that they're both too crazy to realize you can't walk across a beam of light.)
likewise, batman wants to rehabilitate the joker, even though it's probably not possible, and the joker won't accept the help because he thinks he's beyond saving.

they're laughing not because the joke is particularly funny, but out of catharsis at the realization of how fucked things are between them. as batman had just said, it's probably leading to both of them destroying themselves, or each other.

FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK · August 28, 2009, 11:07:00 PM

Can this be the western comic megathread? We need one of thems.

buttplug · August 28, 2009, 11:56:59 PM

Quote from: Slurpee;1579801the joke is a loose metaphor for the situation between batman and the joker.

the two men in the joke are both crazy. the one who leaps over the gap without any difficulty is batman, the other is the joker. the first lunatic wants to help the second get across the gap by having him walk across the beam of his flashlight, but he's crazy because that's impossible. the second refuses not because it's impossible, but because he doesn't trust the first lunatic. (the cusp of the joke is that they're both too crazy to realize you can't walk across a beam of light.)
likewise, batman wants to rehabilitate the joker, even though it's probably not possible, and the joker won't accept the help because he thinks he's beyond saving.

they're laughing not because the joke is particularly funny, but out of catharsis at the realization of how fucked things are between them. as batman had just said, it's probably leading to both of them destroying themselves, or each other.

I didn't see this until now but thank you for explaining it to me :)

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