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Just got Kingdom Come in the mail, along with my Rorschach fig. Hopefully it'll bve good, although I'm not very familiar with DC characters...hopefully that won't be too much of a problem...


I don't think that will be a problem. I wasn't too familiar with DC when I read it and I still enjoyed it.

Keep an eye out early on for some Watchmen references as well as a cameo from a familiar face!


Already did! The bar scene put a gigantic smile on my face....and a psychological pain in my finger ;)

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read about 2/3 of superman red son last night, and it's awesome, really love the world that has been created by mark miller, just having a little trouble seeing what batman's problem is with superman's government, when his real beef is with pyotr

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I've just finished re-reading watchmen and v for vendetta.


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I've been reading James Ellroy's Dudley Smith Trio. I've finished Big Nowhere and LA Confidential, and I'm onto White Jazz. Great stuff, if very brutal.
I think I'll move onto Robert Graysmith's Zodiac books, or possibly Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi (the book which became Goodfellas), afterwards...

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t3cii wrote:
diego1235467 wrote:
Just got Kingdom Come in the mail, along with my Rorschach fig. Hopefully it'll bve good, although I'm not very familiar with DC characters...hopefully that won't be too much of a problem...


I don't think that will be a problem. I wasn't too familiar with DC when I read it and I still enjoyed it.

Keep an eye out early on for some Watchmen references as well as a cameo from a familiar face!


The TPB version has a little summary of who's who. With pictures. So no problem there.


Reading: Marvel zombies, KC (again), Watchmen (when I'm bored), The Two Towers (I loved the extended movies, so I'm reading the three books just to see how well they were adapted), Isaac Asimov's To the Fundation (or something like that).

I finished Jurassic Park and The Lost World. Pretty good read (specially JP) but Crichton has a problem with the endings, they feel rushed. Or at least for me.

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t3cii wrote:
diego1235467 wrote:
Just got Kingdom Come in the mail, along with my Rorschach fig. Hopefully it'll bve good, although I'm not very familiar with DC characters...hopefully that won't be too much of a problem...


I don't think that will be a problem. I wasn't too familiar with DC when I read it and I still enjoyed it.

Keep an eye out early on for some Watchmen references as well as a cameo from a familiar face!


The TPB version has a little summary of who's who. With pictures. So no problem there.


Reading: Marvel zombies, KC (again), Watchmen (when I'm bored), The Two Towers (I loved the extended movies, so I'm reading the three books just to see how well they were adapted), Isaac Asimov's To the Fundation (or something like that).

I finished Jurassic Park and The Lost World. Pretty good read (specially JP) but Crichton has a problem with the endings, they feel rushed. Or at least for me.


after you read marvel zombies, i recommend marvel zombies: dead days (a prequal one shot, and all the issues of both ultimate fantastic four and black panther that the marvel zombies cameoed or starred in) and marvel zombies 2 (direct sequal to MZ) as much as i liked MZ i didn't appreciate it properly until reading the others.

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Just finished Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. On to Silence of the Lambs.

I'm surprised at just how faithful Brett Ratner's film was to the book, though certainly not as good...

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Bought V for Vendetta today. Would have got LoEG 1+2 on the 3 for 2 offer, but because there were already other offers they didn't apply :( guess I'll have to wait for the end of the month.

Are Alan Moore's "Tales of the DC universe" (I think thats what it is called) good? Because I was going to buy it earlier this week, but when I went in with money today it had gone. Is it worth pursuing from an online store?

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Would have got LoEG 1+2 on the 3 for 2 offer


Waterstones, right? Yeah I saw that but I figured it wouldn't be worth it because they charge the full RRP, so even if you effectively take a third off you're spending the same amount as you would anywhere else (£10)

P.S. DC Universe is cheap on Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1845762576/

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Look to Windward – Iain M. Banks

A Culture novel. A Chelgrian* emmissary, Quilan, is sent to visit a self-exiled fellow Chel, Cr Ziller, on an orbital**. He has a secret mission, which isn't quite clear to either himself or the suspicious implanted mind of a military tactitian within Quilan's head. (Their "conversations" are amusing – especially when there are others about).

Cr Ziller is a well-known composer who is working on a piece of music to mark the end of a terrible war fought many light years previously. The war ended when two suns were destroyed in induced novae. The light from the first exploded sun has just reached the orbital. The newly written concert will be played when the light from the second nova finally reaches the ring world.

* Chelgrians are former predators that are covered in fur and have very sharp, pointy claws.
** An orbital is an enormous rotating ring world built by humans and their machines. (Think Bungie's Halo).

Iain M. Banks owns.

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I just started reading The Umbrella Academy.
Love it so far.

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tbone wrote:
Would have got LoEG 1+2 on the 3 for 2 offer


Waterstones, right? Yeah I saw that but I figured it wouldn't be worth it because they charge the full RRP, so even if you effectively take a third off you're spending the same amount as you would anywhere else (£10)

P.S. DC Universe is cheap on Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1845762576/



thank you :)

I have now read enough of V for Vendetta to understand why the film was hated by some people, it is so unlike the book, and also inferior.

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Finished the bone series last week for the first time, it was really good. Now reading Sandman Vol 5. After i finish the all the sandman books I'm thinking about starting the Cerebus series.


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I just finished Sword and Citadel, the second half of Gene Wolfe's Book Of The New Sun. Great writing, a cut and a half above most fantasy writers. A brilliant 'conclusion' (sort of. Nothing ever ends in this story) to the torturer Severian's journey.

Just started Iain Banks' 'Whit', One of his brilliant late-nineties 'real world' (as opposed to SF stories written under the Iain M. Banks name) novels, sort of the same period as 'The Crow Road' and 'The Wasp Factory'. Damn good so far.

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I just started 'Zodiac' by Robert Graysmith. Great film, but I'm not sure about the book so far...

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I've always got a few books on the go at any given moment.

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Long Walk To Freedom - Nelson Mandela
Y The Last Man: Vol 8. Kimono Dragons
Dawn of the Dumb - Charlie Brooker
Watching The Watchmen (Again!)

Also dipping in and out of Watchmen - finished re-reading for the umpteenth time last week, but it still draws me back.

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just bought Alan Moore's Tales of the DC Universe. It was the last one in the shop so I was happy, but when I got it home, I realized that there was a big crease on the bottom right hand corner in the front of the cover, like the ones you get on a paperback book spine. I can't take it back because I don't have proof that it was like that in the shop, and I don't want to have to buy another one but all my other GN's are in pristine condition.

Anyone know how to get rid of a big, ugly crease?

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tbone wrote:
just bought Alan Moore's Tales of the DC Universe. It was the last one in the shop so I was happy, but when I got it home, I realized that there was a big crease on the bottom right hand corner in the front of the cover, like the ones you get on a paperback book spine. I can't take it back because I don't have proof that it was like that in the shop, and I don't want to have to buy another one but all my other GN's are in pristine condition.

Anyone know how to get rid of a big, ugly crease?


if it was in internal page you could try stacking heavy stuff on it, or even ironing it on a low heat through towels or something, not sure what that would do to the gloss on the cover though, maybe it you ironed in from the matte inside :S

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