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I'll wash out for that one.

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At the moment I'm re-reading V for Vendetta, while also working my way through a slight backlog of tpb's and GN's I've built up. On top of that pile is Azzarello and Bermejo's JOKER, which will be followed up with Absolute Sandman Vol.4. (besides the weekly/monthly comics I also pick up).

Good times...

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"Because there is good and there is evil, and evil must be punished. Even in the face of Armageddon I shall not compromise in this."

I must say, I have a feeling that, once I finally finish From Hell, I'm going to have to get the Final Solution...

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Yeah yeah Final Solution that's it that's it!

The Maul and the Pear Tree is better written, even though it's not as directly involved.

Currently reading Countdown and Final Crisis. They're okay but I liked 52 a helluva lot more.

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None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with you. You're locked up in here with me.

I just read V for Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (1&2), and the first issue of Sandman. I enjoyed the first, didn't really like the second, and loved the third.

Watchmen wipes the floor with them all.

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Gibbons: It's possible to have the same message as the book....without the squid...it's something that frankly isn't of huge concern to me.
Moore: If they do a film..you couldn’t have the pirate stuff..couldn’t have the background details...

Finally read my copy of "The Great Outdoor Fight." Lovin' the extra material there.

Next I'll probably be digging into the volume of The Spirit I got a while ago. (The Spirit Archives, really nice hardback collection. Had to start at Volume 3 since that's the earliest one my local shop had.)

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"Under no circumstances should anyone encourage the ordinary person to be funny."
--Bob Mackey

just started reading "southland tales: the preldue saga" it's pretty good so far, the art is slapdash and the lettering looks like it's just been dropped on in ms paint, but i guess it's supposed to be like that.

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

Just finished that new Joker HC. Underrated, sort of struck me as in-vogue grittiness and violence.

Probably gonna re-read The Long Halloween and Dark Victory, as it as officially been forever.

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He did it.

I assume you meant overrated. Is it worth getting anyway? I've heard many good things about it (and I'll surely get it anyway, even if you tell me it's the worst thing to happen to Batman since Joel Schumacher).

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Oops. Late-night rambling. Yes, overrated. Don't get me wrong, the book was good, the art was great actually, but it certainly wasn't the next Killing Joke like it was puffed up to be. I read it once, and haven't had the urge to pick it up again and it will doubtless be a long time before I do. I was underwhelmed, but that's probably because I was expecting too much to begin with.

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He did it.

maus
black hole
loeg vol. 1
a contract with god
demo vol. 1

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A friend of mine let me borrow V for Vendetta and I really like it so far. I think the colors are a little dull and bland compared to watchmen, but I guess once you've had the best its hard to go back to anything less. When I'm done with that I'm going to read The Science of UFO's. Bought it like 10 years ago and never read it lol. Just found it in an old box.

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Citizens of Berlin, a ring of steel surrounds your wretched city! We will crush all who dare resist the will of the Red Army! Abandon your posts! Abandon your homes! Abandon all hope! URA!

A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin, book 1 of A Song of Ice & Fire. The BEST read I have in AGES.

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"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward."
- Søren Kierkegaard

both moore and lloyd both wanted it in stark black and white... and if you find the original unfinished serialised version in "warrior" you can see that they did it that way... until dc released the complete series internationally - in which the colours were the same as the tbp we all have seen.

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Empowered vol.2 and vol.3

I'm still hoping that one day DC will reprint it in just black and white. Maybe an Absolute Edition with both the B&W and colour versions....Ah! well, I can dream!

Keeping on topic... I've just finished reading Eisner's Contract With God trilogy. Very good, especially the latter two parts (A Life Force & Dropsie Avenue) - loved the way the different characters weaved in and out of the story. It's a little dated now maybe but considering when it was published, it's tone and subject matter must have been pretty revolutionary. Still don't understand why A Contract With God is considered a graphic novel though. It's just a bunch of short stories. It's no more a novel than Voice Of The Fire

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Someone must have been telling lies about Walter K.

Maus II — A survivors tale. Or in the language I'm reading it in: "En överlevandes historia".

Vladek's use of english is confusing translated into Swedish. The phrasing is reversed back into something resembling English. The Swedes often have the verbs last too, so a literal translation would seem normal.


Ah well. While reading it at the dentists I noticed a magazine about the SS and Himmler and the SS's recruitment drives across Europe during the later stages of WW2. Ghastly business.

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Marvel, 1602 and i have Hellboy Library Edition Volume 2 and 1602: Fantastick Four on my shelf to be read next

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.