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December posting meme! jet asked for "A lesser-known comics trade that you would recommend to everyone." I'm never sure what counts as lesser-known, but here are a few (I am also incapable of counting to one) that I don't see talked about that often.
Demon Knights: Seven Against the Dark, set in Europe in the Dark Ages, is a great story about power and heroism and its cost, and how sometimes the wrong people pay it. It's pretty funny too, though, and the seven person cast includes three women, three men and one genderqueer person. :D I've only read the first issue of Gail Simone's Red Sonja run, but I reckon if you liked that, you'll like this.
And while I'm talking about stuff by Paul Cornell, I just need to throw in another recommendation for my beloved Knight and Squire: Cyril and Beryl, the British Batman and Robin, fight crime in an idealised England where most people are sort of generally good natured, accepting, and at least a little bit eccentric. It's four issues of hilarity and two of punching you in the heart, and I love it.
Greg Rucka's written a lot of great comics so it's understandable that Checkmate doesn't seem to get talked about as much, but I think that's a shame as I really like it. International superhero politicking with a great and really diverse cast, good good. (I don't recommend the last volume, though, it was written by someone else and is very noticeably less good.)
And for one very random recommendation: Booster Gold: Blue and Gold. I can't remember why I picked this up, but it's one of the few comics that have actually made me cry. It's all about friendship, inevitability and sacrifice, and something about it really gets to me.
jet asked for "A lesser-known comics trade that you would recommend to everyone." I'm never sure what counts as lesser-known, but here are a few (I am also incapable of counting to one) that I don't see talked about that often.Demon Knights: Seven Against the Dark, set in Europe in the Dark Ages, is a great story about power and heroism and its cost, and how sometimes the wrong people pay it. It's pretty funny too, though, and the seven person cast includes three women, three men and one genderqueer person. :D I've only read the first issue of Gail Simone's Red Sonja run, but I reckon if you liked that, you'll like this.
And while I'm talking about stuff by Paul Cornell, I just need to throw in another recommendation for my beloved Knight and Squire: Cyril and Beryl, the British Batman and Robin, fight crime in an idealised England where most people are sort of generally good natured, accepting, and at least a little bit eccentric. It's four issues of hilarity and two of punching you in the heart, and I love it.
Greg Rucka's written a lot of great comics so it's understandable that Checkmate doesn't seem to get talked about as much, but I think that's a shame as I really like it. International superhero politicking with a great and really diverse cast, good good. (I don't recommend the last volume, though, it was written by someone else and is very noticeably less good.)
And for one very random recommendation: Booster Gold: Blue and Gold. I can't remember why I picked this up, but it's one of the few comics that have actually made me cry. It's all about friendship, inevitability and sacrifice, and something about it really gets to me.
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Date: 16 Dec 2013 00:28 (UTC)no subject
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Date: 16 Dec 2013 21:00 (UTC)(Also, Blue Beetle! ♥)
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Date: 17 Dec 2013 11:18 (UTC)I love Demon Knights. I was really sad when Paul Cornell left the title, but it actually kept being good right through to the end of the series after that other dude took over. It didn't feel too awkward and the tone and style and all the characters remained consisted. (Al Jabr did have a slightly smaller role due to a time-jump; he was far older).
But the first trade is totally the highlight.
I've read all of Simone's Red Sonja so far (5 issues I think?) and there's one more issue to conclude the opening arc, but it's been really good and really strong so far. Unless the final issue totally blows it (which I can't imagine) I'd definitely recommend it.
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Date: 17 Dec 2013 11:34 (UTC)Hurray! I was thinking I'd probably try and catch up with it, I just decided that I couldn't deal with the chainmail bikini every month, and that it would probably be better all in one go...
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Date: 15 Dec 2013 22:50 (UTC)Hahaha I have this problem too. :P
Beryl Hutchinson <3 she is so wonderful.
Ooh, I wouldn't have thought to read Booster Gold, that sounds really good!
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Date: 16 Dec 2013 20:57 (UTC)She is fantastic. ♥
I don't know why I picked it up - though I had definitely read some stuff with Booster before (Justice League International and 52) - but I'm glad I did!