I haven't read anything from Archie, but it was entertaining. And did make me want to check out the new stuff.
I highly recommend it and I frequently go back to it. I'm sure I'm one of the few people who hold it in such high regard but at this point all I really want when I go home is not have to worry that the characters I root for are in danger of death or secretly someone else all along. I guess mostly I'm just trying to compensate for having such a boring high school! @Colby Searcy ihateu
March Book Three is out and I am stoked as hell! Nate Powell's art is insane. My girlfriend put me onto him after Swallow Me Whole.
He came to my LCS for a signing last year. I am not familiar with the original series/characters at all but thought the new series had a cool premise. Excited to get to find out what the Lipstick Incident is
I've finally gotten around to reading Cooke's PARKER adaptations. I literally couldn't put down the first book. I read it in one sitting. I can't wait to finish the final two books. It's just a shame we won't be getting any more.
Just finished all of I Kill Giants and that was fantastic. Super emotional, very well written, and extremely rad art!
Started and finished Paper Girls Vol 1 during my lunch break. Part of me is thinking "what the fuck did I just read?!" And the other part is incredibly intrigued
Yep that's them! I had them same reaction with Saga as well. I assume that that's just how BKV is though where every story is just kinda out there and set in a futuristic time or what not. I was expecting this to be more grounded in the real world but I guess that's on me haha
Hmmm. I didn't have that experience with Saga. Perhaps because I was expecting a straight up Sci-fi epic with all that that entails. But definitely with Paper Girls. It seems to me that with PG, he is really embracing the part of him that worked on LOST, with several WTF? cliffhanger moments. (I juxtapose that with his work on Y: The Last Man, which often featured cliffhangers, but were more of the "Oh man, no way!" variety. PG is more of the head scratching variety.)
I thought Paper Girls would be grounded, too! Maybe that's what he's setting us all up for? One day he's just going to write a straightforward family drama (and it'll be amazing) but the whole out-there-ness of it is that it's not out there at all.
I didn't know anything about Saga going in really so it was just kinda crazy from the get go, especially all the sexual imagery and such. Never watched LOST or read Y:The Last Man only exposure to BKV for me is PG and Saga
LOST was awesome except for an episode about Jack's tattoos. Literally it was 40 minutes about the meaning behind a character's tattoos. I gotta read Y: The Last Man, Saga, WSOG, and Ex Machina! I read The Private Eye and his one-shot of The Walking Dead on Panel Syndicate and both were fantastic.
I never finished We Stand on Guard. I only read the first issue. It just didn't grab me as much as I had hoped. I will probably revisit it sometime because it is BKV. The trio of Y, Runaway, and Ex Machina had a huge impact on my comic fandom. Gobbling those thing up in single issues was probably me at my most rabid "must get to the comic shop every wednesday!"
RE: Runaways. Do you need previous knowledge of anything in the MU? Only thing I'm remotely familiar with is Miles Morales and Doc Ock Spidey(sorta)
None at all. There are some characters who pop in, but they are explained well enough to understand everything. Every single character to start the book is new to the Marvel universe.
Not really. It has been a while since I've read it, but my recollection is that the characters are all fairly new with only a few overlaps to Marvel U concepts. And those overlaps are that mutants exist. Things like that.