Commissioner Gordon has a secret team of police that work the midnight shift in Gotham protecting, surveying and taking care of supernatural occurrences throughout Gotham.
These two girls who had been missing show up at their parents house but aren't speaking a known language. Their parents are concerned and call these guys in to help them out.
They figure out that the girls have been possessed by something, or have been really close to death recently. The issue ends with these two dudes going into the woods and finding an eerie school room cabin full of other children sitting in a classroom and a demon nun writing on a chalkboard. Once they open the door to that school room, the two girls at their parents house lose their marbles and start going crazy.
Once again, hard to really tell if I am down with this story or if I want to read further because of these damn cliffhangers.
Psychedelic fantasy art in combination with the epic retelling of Homer's Oddysey = mind blowing.
I liked this for a number of reasons !!
1. At the front, there is a massive fold out timeline of events for where the story takes place including color coded key with a map of the galaxies with a giant 6 page spread on the reverse side. It introduces the story really well, as well as a taste of the really beautiful artwork.
2. The artwork in this is really something else. From what I've read so far in the first month of comic books, this is my favorite artwork. Each page is unique in it's layout format, which makes it exciting to read, not that typical grid format is boring, but I don't think that would have worked well for this story because it is so dramatic and fantastic. Each page has so much color and there is so much depth and layering to each page, it really is a beautiful work of art. There is so much going on, but Ward keeps everything so well balanced with his use of line.
3. Gender roles reversed! Though it is the retelling of Homer's Oddysey, all of the men are now women so REALLY every character that you are reading about in this issue is female, powerful, strong, complex character. Fraction said he wanted to create a futuristic Wonder Woman type set of characters for his daughter to look up to. They are not overly sexual or dramatically 'feminine' like most female roles in comic books, but they are also not just a mirror image of their male counterparts from the original Oddysey with breasts. They are women, which, I obviously think, is really cool.
Holy smokes so MANY CHARACTERS TO REMEMBER.
Reading this I was down, but I only know the main characters from watching a few movies here and there. In the front of this issue it gives a back story to what is important to this story arch which was helpful, but then it lists all the people that are in this ONE SINGLE ISSUE and it's 39.
39 characters...........hi.
Uncanny Avengers, Avengers, X-Men, Uncanny X-men, Evil Guys, Uncanny Evil guys, Side orders, Uncanny Side orders. The list is never ending.
I feel like I need to start at square one for these Marvel teams because there is so much back story to each character and how they all relate to each other it is SO overwhelming, how would someone even remember it all unless they started reading these as a child. I feel.
It was cool, and I really liked reading it, but I felt pretty lost the whole time because I didn't know who was on what team and I kept reverting back to the front page to figure out who was who.
I want like a chronological timeline of events, a list of character traits, what skills they have, who they fight for, who their enemies are, how they joined this crew. I feel like I need that BEFORE I start reading any comics about them or else I am just going to be ??????????????????????????? very lost.
This story arch might be too twee to be real.
Bee is a loveable girlie who is unemployed and was down in the dumps about it until she meets Puppycat, a magical stray animal and the two of them become instant pals and lots of weird stuff starts happening to Bee.
Together they go on a bunch of adventures, the colors are pastel and sparkly and cute and great.
A real fun, sweet ol' read.
Probably good for people who like Adventure Time, Sailor Moon, etc.
Barf.
I'm not into this.
I don't want to talk about how much I am not into this.
This story is following a number of academy students around Gotham Academy.
The main girl Olive with white hair is suuuuuper moody and acting like she has changed so much since the last year and wants to break up with her boyfriend and doesn't know why she feels so different and blah blah.
The younger girl, Maps is the younger sister of Olive's current boyfriend who she wants to break up with. Olive is supposed to be mentoring Maps this year because she is a first year student at the academy.
Bruce Wayne comes and visits the academy and Olive gets in trouble and somehow Bruce already knows who she is. Olive is NOT down with Batman, and she seems very angsty about the whole Batman hero in her hometown and is annoyed when people are talking about it.
There is talk that there is a ghost in the school, there was an incident that no one is speaking about yet in detail and the issue ends with a yellow eye peeking out of a crack in Olive's bedroom.
The story begins with this guy talking about his life and how it is the same every day, he goes to work he goes on the bus home a girl drops a scarf he goes to his apartment he watches a cooking show he goes to bed he wakes up and brushes his teeth.
One day on the bus he is thinking about the girl on the bus and how he has never seen her face so he gets up and tries to follow her off the bus but the driver grabs his arm and won't let him leave.
Every time the boy touches someone in this story an electric shock happens and the boy is aware of information that happened either in the past or in the future (not sure which) and he is taken there as well.
He meets Earnest Hemmingway who tells him that the boy is now dead and they are in purgatory for suicides. The plot of this story arch reminds me of a movie I saw once called Wristcutters: A Love Story which is about the afterlife for people who have committed suicide.
Seems like it is set in the future so its like thousand and thousands of years of people are in this story, all of them at once in this place - which I think would be really cool.
I have no clue what I just read.
Thats the thing about first issues is that if the story is all over the place, the issue is over and then you still have no idea who the characters are, what is going on, blah blah.
I know its supposed to come off as intriguing but I just find it to be a waste of time, I'm not really interested in what I was reading so why should I read the second issue to figure out more of the story that already doesn't make sense to me.
From what I've gathered, there is a girl and also another person who has one body on the front of them and one body on the back of them and can switch back and forth and they are running from something and it might be post apocalyptic. But who knows.
I wasn't too down with the artwork, it was really washed out like it was done with watercolor, and the only dark ink on the page was the text which really wasn't done very well, so many times I had no idea who was talking.
At the end of the issue there were like 4 or 5 pages, looked like a mini cut-out zine that was all garbled text and yeah, not down.
Teen Dog.
teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen dog
a high school pizza loving skater dodge with a punk rock girlie bff.
that is pretty much it as far as the first issue goes.
and it is cool.
I think it would be better as a cartoon show rather than a comic because nothing really happens at all.
I found myself really enjoying this mirror manga. Tezuka explains the origins of Buddism and the birth of Gautama Budda in his own unique way. I was surprised with how violent and graphic the story was, but enjoyed the back history and side stories of each character.
Even though it was a fairly large volume, I'm still not really sure who each of these characters are in relation to the origin of Buddism, which is intriguing. I read about them for the entire volume, but still not sure what their part is in all of it. Interested to find out each person's part.
I think this is the first volume of 7, and I am super eager to read the rest of the volumes. The illustrations are really beautiful and I LOVE the way that all of the animals are drawn - similar to Disney style of animals from Bambi and Fox and the Hound, super big eyes and so so so cute.
Heck starts out with the lead character, Heck at his fathers funeral and we learn that he was quite a big-shot in high school. He has returned home to pack up his fathers house and take care of family business.
Heck teams up with Elliot, the faithful water-boy from Heck's high school football team and together they start packing up the house. They find a gateway to hell and start their own business communicating with those in hell for those on Earth that want final closure.
It is a really imaginative book, inspired by Dante's Inferno. Heck travels down through the different levels of Hell throughout the story for his job and encounters different troubles, meets people along the way, learns more about himself but learns the most through his selfless friend Elloit.
As dark as this book would seem to be, since it is about hell, it is really charming and mainly about friendship.
Holy smokes. This story is so intense, I really wish I didn't have just the first single issue of this story.
From what I know so far, it is the end of the world, there is some crazy pandemic called The Spread which pretty much kills anything that it comes into contact with. The Spread is killing off humans and there are only a few people left. There is a outsider, dark, quiet character named 'No' who is immune to The Spread so he is going around killing people that have been infected as well as just trying to stay alive by not being murdered by The Spread.
We're introduced to the narrator midway through the story who is a child, like in Saga, so you know this baby not only survives but is also a super important baller, or at least I hope so. They call her 'Hope' because her BABY TEARS DESTROY THE SPREAD LIKE ACID.
and then the issue is over. So............................
The Woods! So great! Where do all these writers come up with these ideas!
A entire high school in Wisconsin gets abducted/transplanted onto another planet during the middle of the day.
Weird stuff starts happening, the sky goes dark, alien beasts start attacking the school and eating students. A senior student computer geek gathers a crew of misfits to travel to the heart of the woods, as he believes this will lead them to answers about how and why they were abducted.
Definitely will continue reading on, and I'm glad the story took the turn that it did. At first I thought I was just going to be reading about a bunch of high school seniors who don't know what to do after they graduate and try to find where they belong in the world, but luckily for me and luckily for these writers, they have imagination and the story got wild real fast.
Deadly class is a really awesome read.
The story follows one boy who used to be homeless at his new school where he and his classmates are training to be assassins. It is a very graphic story, but that should be assumed
I would definitely continue reading this story, because of the art. My favorite part of this volume was the coloring. Most pages are monochromatic, which I find to be really balanced and easy to look at, and the color hues that were used look so nice against the black ink. There are scenes throughout with only hues of complimentary colors which looks amazing, and the second half of this volume the crew is in Vegas and are tripping on acid -- the colors and drawings are remarkable.
I found myself really liking this story. The main character is likeable even though he is clearly a psychopath. He is definitely troubled but even still, you find yourself wanting him to be safe, be okay, stay out of trouble.
This comic is insane and perfect.
Nothing in this storyline makes any sense and somehow everything makes total sense.
I should say that this is not for certain types of people for sure, but those that grew up finding stupid cartoons like Spongebob Squarepants or Captain Underpants hilarious, like myself, this garbage is for you and it is not garbage, its gold.
My favorite character is the 3D ghost who gives back stories when necessary and pops in every now and then just to say hi.
The whole thing is a trip.
and I'm very down.
Very righteous noir comic with mystery, intrigue, murder and more. Lead character is a male, who in my mind is Leonardo DiCaprio - seems like he would play this guy pretty well.
Lets see..
A guy wakes up! Next to a dead woman! Who done it! I have no idea! I have to read more!
Cliffhangers are a trip and these dudes know what is up. Reading one issue of The Fade Out is not enough, not even close to being enough.
I wanted to know more about female lead superhero's so my co-worker recommended Captain Marvel.
This is one of the first superhero comics I've ever read so I was very overwhelmed. The way the story was laid out and the graphics seemed really busy to me, compared to the other comics I have been reading, overall I found it to be confusing because all these new superhero characters were popping in and out, and I had no idea who they were!
I haven't read anything about Guardians of the Galaxy or seen the new movie so this was my first introduction to these characters so I really didn't know much about what was going on or how they were all connected to each other.
Even though I felt intimidated while reading this, I still enjoyed it. Captain Marvel is one bad bitch who is best buds with her cat and loves being a pilot over everything else. She leaves her hot boyfriend on earth so she can pursue her dreams of going to space and learning more about herself (which rules!!). She seems to have a large passion for those who are less fortunate and believes in loyalty and justice. One groovy gal.
Mind MGMT - Volume One: The Manager
While reading through this I was very interested with the themes of dreams and mystery and mind control, it reminded me of the TV show LOST which I am, to put it lightly, very into. Then! After I was done I read the forward to the book, which was written by one of the co-creators of LOST. WHICH IS CRAZY I THOUGHT THE FLIGHT 815 THING WAS JUST ME BEING A FREAK ABOUT LOST. But I feel like definitely now, it is something else. Something cooler.
While reading this collection, I found myself becoming very into the story. But a lot was going on with the story and it wasn't as fast of a read at I thought it was going to be. It is not a light read at all, it was in fact very dense.
I read half the book one day before work and told my manager that I wasn't able to get through the entire book overnight. He then told me that there are three story lines going on at the same time. The first is what you are reading, the second is what you are seeing, and the third is the secret story written in the binding of the book.
I hadn't noticed the third story at all so I'm really glad I was able to finish the book another day. I also hadn't thought about how what I was reading and what I was seeing really were two different stories. My imagination was following so closely with the narrative that everything seemed to flow together really nicely, less needed to be said because of how descriptive the imagery was.
Can't wait to read the other volumes of this. A very cool story.
"We are who we choose to be, Bruce. Not the role the past says we should play." - Dick Grayson
I
had my third day at work on Wednesday and while I've been reading a
number of different story lines for homework, I told my manager that I
am really very intimidated by superhero comics. He gave me Batman, Court
of Owls to read, said it was a good starting point.
WAS HE RIGHT OR WHAT
First of all, this was amazing.
I wasn't too familiar with the storyline of Batman because I've only seen the Christopher Nolan Batman movies, so Dick Grayson (Nightwing), Tim Drake (Red Robin) and Damian Wayne (Robin) were all new characters for me. They weren't really in this volume too much but I'd like to learn more about their characters/what their scene is to the overall Batman story. The idea of someone or a group of people (the Court of Owls) knowing more than Batman about Gotham city is scary and intriguing, and the Court of Owls is a whole group of villians, not just one villian, so Batman really has no idea who they are or where they are or what is even going on!
Last night before I started reading this I was thinking to myself, I can just go online and watch a classic Batman movie to learn more about Batman, being a whiny 21st century baby who can't use their own imagination. But luckily, my computer battery was dead and I have lost my charger so I had no choice but to read this and I feel bad for ever thinking that I might not be into this storyline. Let me say it again...
I AM SUPER DOWN WITH THIS BOOK. The writing is incredible, from the very beginning I was hooked. I feel like I need to get the second volume immediately and forgo all other plans for the rest of my life until I have read everything in this series.
this! is! amazing!
I love this story, these characters, their humor, everything.
Five cool girls at a sleep-away camp with their Lumberjanes' troop (think Girl Scouts but....cooler) get into trouble, solve mysteries, encounter supernatural animals, etc, etc. It rules.
The humor is awesome, the characters are well written.
Each girl has their own personality and I found the whole thing to be very empowering. Wished I had something this cool to read when I was younger, but glad I can read it now!
Plus there was a very cool mixtape at the end of the issue, of all female musicians for kicking ass.
Spooky for sure. But I'm also into it.
Horror comic about demons and exorcisms. It seems as though this poor guy has been trying to live his life but everyone he loves keeps getting possessed by demons, his mother, his wife, etc etc.
He struggles to come to terms with this (obviously) and figure out why he seems to have the skill to exercise these demons. Non-believers think that he is trouble and abusive, so he isn't allowed to be in contact with his family any longer.
The art and writing is very intriguing. The story and concept are very dark but I can't stop reading!
"Looks like a lot of weird sex" - my boyfriend after flipping through it
First trade paperback I've read. Co-workers and customers alike said I should read this first because it is right now the most popular storyline out right now. And I can totally see why.
The characters are really likeable and with the story being narrated in the future by the young child, you can tell that this baby is going to see some real shit and! live to tell you about it! Which rules!
The main couple has a Romeo/Juliet love story which rules because forbidden love is universally captivating.
This book is set in a fantasy realm, but like most well-written fantasy realms or science fiction stories, the characters are dealing with core issues that humans can relate to. I found these characters to be very charming and likeable.
When I first learned about the concept of trade paperbacks vs single issue comics, I didn't understand why someone would wait until the trade came out and then read everything all at once. After reading the first trade of Saga, I completely understand. One single issue is NOT ENOUGH, NOT EVEN CLOSE TO ENOUGH of the amount of Saga I want/need/must read. But I need to cool it or else I will catch up and then have to wait like everyone else.
I am an idiot because I read through this entire issue without first realizing that this Sabrina was actually Sabrina. But now it all makes so much sense.
This Sabrina is a little more dark and a little more spooky than the TV show Sabrina or the classic comic Sabrina, but she still lives with her two aunts, still is a witch, still goes to public school and falls in love with some boy in her class and uses spells to get her way for little things.
I like this dark Sabrina, much more serious.
