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...as part of the Single Green Female graphic novel. Quite enjoying this lighthearted take on the MU. I really didn't think i'd like the art but it grew on me and the artist has a way of making a muscular green superhero sexy. Or maybe it's just me.



I also enjoyed the Spider-man centered storyline with lots of references to past stories

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I lent the first 5 TPB's for Garth Ennis' The Boys off a mate a couple of weeks back and started reading them last night. Bloody hell what a great read, I can't believe it's taken me till now to get into it. The concept is such a simple one (basically showing us who does indeed watch the watchmen) but it's brilliantly done with some wickedly deviant characters and a fantastic sense of humour. Ennis has an absolutely depraved mind but it makes for some really funny scenes. The Batman/Iron Man pastiche of Tek Knight was absolutely fantastic and I'm still laughing now at his imagined demise.

I really can't wait to get home so I can carry on reading, unfortunately I've only got 2 TPB's left to read and I wont see my mate to grab a few more off him till next weekend.

Single Virgin Mod Candidate 2013

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To paraphrase the great man himself:

Vad3r won't go anywhere near this.

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The first thing you will notice about Building Stories (Pantheon) is its sheer size. The latest work from artist Chris Ware is encased in a box as big as the seat of a chair—11 1/2 inches wide, 16 1/2 inches long, 2 inches thick. It looks like a board game, and those of us with normal-sized bookshelves are going to be hard-pressed to figure out where to fit it in.

And so, at first, you might be tempted to think that the mammoth box is an unwieldy artistic gimmick, especially once you open it and find mini-comic strips, two books of different sizes, a cardboard tetraptych, a poster, booklets, a newspaper, and two broadsheet-sized comics.

It’s like a choose-your-own-adventure graphic novel, in which everyone’s experience with the text will by necessity be different. But unlike those novels of my childhood, which I liked in concept but always found incredibly frustrating to read, Building Stories is one of the most compelling and emotionally resonant works I have read in years.

Building Stories is, loosely, just that—a series of stories involving the tenants of one particular brownstone in Chicago in and around the year 2000. On the first floor, there is the owner, an elderly woman who has spent her whole life in the building. On the second floor is an unhappy couple. And on the third floor is the central protagonist of the work, a lonely one-legged florist struggling with her stalled artistic ambitions.

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I loved it too. I thought the way Bat's got knocked out at the end was a little silly and he ran into the trap headfirst without thinking but that's a minor niggle in an otherwise superb issue!

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I loved it too. I thought the way Bat's got knocked out at the end was a little silly and he ran into the trap headfirst without thinking but that's a minor niggle in an otherwise superb issue!

I just read it over lunch and yeah I'd say the above is pretty much the only flaw/niggly story point that's even worth mentioning. Well, that and the fact that it seems only the Commisioner gets kitted with a torch at GCPD .

Great issue that hopefully sets the tone nicely for what's to come. Snyder is killing it at the moment, between this and Swamp Thing he's absolutely knocking it out of the park at DC. I've not read American Vampire but the quality of the rest of his work makes me want to.

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MILD SPOILERS FOR BATMAN #13


Does Batman RIP still fit into the New 52 continuity?

The reason I ask is because that's the only way Joker knew who Batman was right? I know it's been implied that the Joker has known his true identity for a while, but decided not to act because he only has eyes for Batman and not his alter ego, but Batman RIP is the only time we know for sure that he knows if you get what I mean.

Anyway, does anyone reckon there'll be any major casualties in this arc?

I'll be surprised if there's even a single physical casualty among the Bat family but I can see the Joker breaking a few people, psychologically at least. Gordon was already half way there at the beginning of the issue it seems, before Joker let loose that he knew Gordon hides his smokes under the bed, plus there's the whole crippling his daughter thing. Jason Todd would probably be another candidate. If the story quality remains this high throughout then I can't wait to find out.

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Just ordered the below - my plan of holding out for a price at or below £40 finally paid off