Comic books and Manga

[FullMetal_old]

Hey, for all you geeks out there like me who know of any good manga or comic book series can u tell me, i'm going to london soon with some money to all the awesome shops and dont know many good ones cause i bought all the good ones i know of. Thanks D

[Toco]

what kinda shit u into, surperhero ie marval or that jap crap?

[FullMetal_old]

Well, i will tell u what i have so you dont have to post these:

Marvel Civil war
House of M
One Piece (manga)
Naruto(manga)
Bleach(manga)
Wolverine Origin
Death of Wolverine
A bunch of X-men books

and that basically sums all i have atm

[Toco]

i heard the new batman series thats out/coming out, is supose to be really good, has a dark theme similar to the new batman films

[FullMetal_old]

I'll look for that Thanks

[RoVaDo]

I'm Dutch, and anime/manga/good comics are scarce,
the ones I have are ordered.
Try Cowboy bebop,
and death note.

[FullMetal_old]

I know of them 2, dont like the look of Cowboy but i heard Death Note is a very successful manga and anime.

[Advent]

I can't tell if he's deliberately confusing machinima and anime or not

As for cowboy bebop, calling yourself an anime fan without having seen cowboy bebop is like calling yourself a stoner without ever smoking weed.
Madness.

[oldmeme]

I have distanced my self from anime and manga simply because I never found a logically plausible, realistic story. It was all "Babes" and "Whacky" humour that I did not realise I was supposed to laugh half the time. I lost interest, although thats not to say there is no such thing as a good one. Kino no Tabi/Kino's Journey was very good. Only one I could honestly recommend.

Marvel and DC oddly enough seem even weirder to me. While anime knows it's off the wall, M&DC take themselves so seriously about aliens and men in leotards who wear their "pants" on the outside. Also, the main Spider-man books are actually (pardon my french) shit. Parker talks like a five year old, read up if you want to see for yourself.

If you like noir or heavy reads I can recommend however are;

Watchmen by Alan Moore. A bugger of a read but it is so dark and gritty you will love it. Great if you like film Noir.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller. The movie is based off this I think (I have not yet seen it yet) but again is so dark, moody and unlike batman in every sense its brilliant.

If you can find it:
Kino no Tabi by Keiichi Sigsawa. A rare find, and not a comic/graphic novel, its a light novel but still fantastic.

I hear Maus by Art Spiegelman is good too and I have plans to order it soon.

Hope you have a good time in London.

[Johnimus Prime]

I watched Akira and was amazed and confused at the same time.

Then I watched Legend of The Overlord and decided it was all just toooooo fucked up

Studio Ghibli stuff is good though