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sherkahnBy request, a small selection of the Beasts of Burden story from Dark Horse presents #6 from last year.
I don't have #4.
( Story Time. )
I don't have #4.
( Story Time. )
sherkahn
sherkahnWhen I found out that the Beasts of Burden had another story added to this latest collection from Dark Horse comics, I had to get it. Ok, not true, I wanted the follow up to what happened to Hellboy once members of the B.P.R.D. found out he had died, but out of all the stories this one got me good.
Beautiful art, wonderful storytelling, real characters that I care about, and honest-to-Roth emotion that changes from page to page. Love, friendship, joy... and horror.
Grab the hankies, and keep your loved pets close to you after this one. Just don't squeeze them too tight.
( A View from the Hill )
Beautiful art, wonderful storytelling, real characters that I care about, and honest-to-Roth emotion that changes from page to page. Love, friendship, joy... and horror.
Grab the hankies, and keep your loved pets close to you after this one. Just don't squeeze them too tight.
( A View from the Hill )
200 Issues of Usagi!
Nov. 20th, 2011 07:35 pmskjamYes, Usagi's back already, but it's a special moment. "Usagi Yojimbo" #141 is the 200th issue of comics starring Usagi. Pretty good for an independent comics character!
( It's still rainy season in Shogunate-era Japan )
Your thoughts and comments?
SKJAM!
( It's still rainy season in Shogunate-era Japan )
Your thoughts and comments?
SKJAM!
espanolbotThe Post-Fire Nation War series begins, which continues the adventures of Aang and Co. and makes a bridge with the upcoming Korra show.
( Plot, cover and interesting choice of writer behind cut )
( Plot, cover and interesting choice of writer behind cut )
Hellboy: The Fury equals EPIC.
Aug. 10th, 2011 10:49 pmproteus_livesGreetings True Believers!
I had to post these pages from Hellboy: The Fury #2.
They're so epic/metal Manowar or Dethklok should write a song.
Enjoy!
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I had to post these pages from Hellboy: The Fury #2.
They're so epic/metal Manowar or Dethklok should write a song.
Enjoy!
( Read more... )
Oh, no! A sad face!
May. 28th, 2011 01:50 amneuhallidaeI meant to post these pages back in December, then completely forgot about it.
( We all know Beasts of Burden is good for stomping on your heart. )
( We all know Beasts of Burden is good for stomping on your heart. )
Magnus Robot Fighter Darkhorse style!
May. 17th, 2011 04:40 pmdomino_blueIn Response to arbre_rieur here's some scans of the New Magnus Robot Fighter and a comparison on all three(wait there are three?) Magnus Reboots!
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perletwoThe Dollhouse: Epitaphs one-shot came out this week, and thanks to the joys of insomnia, I'm bringing you four pages from it plus a lovely Phil Noto variant cover.
You may recall I posted a bit of the mini-comic that came in the Dollhouse season 2 box set back here, and it wouldn't hurt you to have another look at that since the first few pages of the one-shot are a repackaging of those scenes. From there we move on to "Two weeks later," and Maggie and Griffin decide they and an older man have to move out from their building and find other survivors. It's bad, and the older man makes the mistake of approaching a fireman for help. The fireman rips his throat out, but shots from a Hummer kill the fireman, and the driver - Zone - rescues Maggie and Griffin.
( Trust no one. )
So what y'all think? Got potential?
You may recall I posted a bit of the mini-comic that came in the Dollhouse season 2 box set back here, and it wouldn't hurt you to have another look at that since the first few pages of the one-shot are a repackaging of those scenes. From there we move on to "Two weeks later," and Maggie and Griffin decide they and an older man have to move out from their building and find other survivors. It's bad, and the older man makes the mistake of approaching a fireman for help. The fireman rips his throat out, but shots from a Hummer kill the fireman, and the driver - Zone - rescues Maggie and Griffin.
( Trust no one. )
So what y'all think? Got potential?
thistleburrMy favorite silent comic is Ricardo Delagado's Age of Reptiles. These scans are from issue 1, published in 1993 by Darkhorse. This was the first example of wordless comics I ever saw. It doesn't even have sound effects. I had always thought of comics as being a combination of words and pictures, so this really amazed me when I first saw it.
All of the characters are dinosaurs. It's essentially about a feud between two dinosaur families.
( click for more dinosaurs )
All of the characters are dinosaurs. It's essentially about a feud between two dinosaur families.
( click for more dinosaurs )
(manga) The Awful Truth
Dec. 5th, 2010 02:14 pmskjamYou know I couldn't pass up "Manga Day!"
"What's Michael?" isn't one of my personal favorites, but is one of the better manga for showing to people outside the hobby, and let's face it, cats are much beloved.
Michael is an orange tabby, like Garfield or Heathcliff, but unlike them isn't confined to a single continuity. The majority of stories have him living with a particular typical Japanese family, but others give him other owners, or take place in alternate universes, or focus more on the antics of humans who interact with cats. (For example, today's offering.) The manga really strikes a chord with cat lovers and cat owners, I've noticed, due to its humorous insights into cat and cat-person behavior.
The following adds up to 2 pages of 6 (and the way Imageshack is acting persnickety today, I'm glad I didn't try to upload twelve pages of a 36-page chapter) of a story published in "Super Manga Blast!" #16, October 2001. Pages were flipped, so read left to right.
( The darkest secrets of cat aficionados. )
Another more recent manga to check out if you like cats is "Chi's Sweet Home" which is much more candy-coated.
Your thoughts and comments?
suggested tags
creator: Makoto Kobayashi
medium: manga
publisher: Dark Horse Comics
theme: animals
title: Super Manga Blast
title: What's Michael
"What's Michael?" isn't one of my personal favorites, but is one of the better manga for showing to people outside the hobby, and let's face it, cats are much beloved.
Michael is an orange tabby, like Garfield or Heathcliff, but unlike them isn't confined to a single continuity. The majority of stories have him living with a particular typical Japanese family, but others give him other owners, or take place in alternate universes, or focus more on the antics of humans who interact with cats. (For example, today's offering.) The manga really strikes a chord with cat lovers and cat owners, I've noticed, due to its humorous insights into cat and cat-person behavior.
The following adds up to 2 pages of 6 (and the way Imageshack is acting persnickety today, I'm glad I didn't try to upload twelve pages of a 36-page chapter) of a story published in "Super Manga Blast!" #16, October 2001. Pages were flipped, so read left to right.
( The darkest secrets of cat aficionados. )
Another more recent manga to check out if you like cats is "Chi's Sweet Home" which is much more candy-coated.
Your thoughts and comments?
suggested tags
creator: Makoto Kobayashi
medium: manga
publisher: Dark Horse Comics
theme: animals
title: Super Manga Blast
title: What's Michael
Beasts of Burden / Hellboy: Sacrifice #1
Oct. 28th, 2010 01:16 pmsherkahnAs usual, the creators at DarkHorse for this project deliver a sharp tight story with good art, great characterization with real emotion, drama, risk and danger and a good pay off. And the addition of Hellboy and his universe to it just spices it up more for Halloween.
Just good old fashioned fun.
Spoilers behind the cut.
( Boom. )
Just good old fashioned fun.
Spoilers behind the cut.
( Boom. )
Dollhouse: Epitaphs
Oct. 14th, 2010 12:09 amperletwoI picked up the Dollhouse season 2 DVD box set when it came out Tuesday, and it came bundled with a 21-page mini-comic from Dark Horse. I have scanned for you 7 pages plus the cover.
For those of you who didn't watch the show (RIP, Dollhouse), it was a Joss Whedon trip about a secret L.A. facility in which Actives have their consciousnesses wiped, original personalities saved to hard drive, and neurotech genius Topher designs and uploads a new personality for what they call "engagements" - life coaching, super-ninja action, or romance, whatever. When the engagements are over the new persona is wiped, leaving them in a passive "doll" state. We get to know the staff of the L.A. Dollhouse and about a half-dozen Dolls, chief among them Echo (Eliza Dushku) who quickly shows signs of having more going on in the cranium than Dolls are supposed to. This makes her more and more important as the series goes on.
Season 1 was supposed to end with ep 13, a series-capper in case the show wasn't renewed, but Fox declined to air it. "Epitaph One" was included in the s1 DVD set as an extra, and it quickly became a critical favorite, which helped Dollhouse get its second season. A "10 Years Later" flash-forward, it showed a L.A. ravaged by an apocalypse brought about by the Dollhouse tech. Most everyone has been mindwiped by a signal carried through phone waves, leaving them either "dumbshows" (dolls, basically) or "butchers." A few "actuals" are just trying to survive, and we follow a small band of them into what remains of the Dollhouse. There they learn through the chair some of how the apocalypse came about; people start getting killed; one of their band turns out to be not what they appear; and they load up a body with Echo's original personality Caroline to lead them to the cast-led Resistance. In Season 2 the L.A. crew comes to realize this apocalypse could be the inevitable end-point of their actions and work to prevent it; the series ended with "Epitaph Two," a return to the 10-years-later reality, which comes to pass despite their efforts.
The mini-comic is a slice-of-life following several characters through the events of 10:07 a.m., when the Neuropocalypse struck L.A.
( Dollhouse: Epitaphs )
Story by series scribes Jed Whedon and Marissa Tsncharoen, art by Cliff Richards. What'cha think? I'd buy a series following from this - though Dark Horse's work continuing the Buffy and Angel series haven't really wowed me.
For those of you who didn't watch the show (RIP, Dollhouse), it was a Joss Whedon trip about a secret L.A. facility in which Actives have their consciousnesses wiped, original personalities saved to hard drive, and neurotech genius Topher designs and uploads a new personality for what they call "engagements" - life coaching, super-ninja action, or romance, whatever. When the engagements are over the new persona is wiped, leaving them in a passive "doll" state. We get to know the staff of the L.A. Dollhouse and about a half-dozen Dolls, chief among them Echo (Eliza Dushku) who quickly shows signs of having more going on in the cranium than Dolls are supposed to. This makes her more and more important as the series goes on.
Season 1 was supposed to end with ep 13, a series-capper in case the show wasn't renewed, but Fox declined to air it. "Epitaph One" was included in the s1 DVD set as an extra, and it quickly became a critical favorite, which helped Dollhouse get its second season. A "10 Years Later" flash-forward, it showed a L.A. ravaged by an apocalypse brought about by the Dollhouse tech. Most everyone has been mindwiped by a signal carried through phone waves, leaving them either "dumbshows" (dolls, basically) or "butchers." A few "actuals" are just trying to survive, and we follow a small band of them into what remains of the Dollhouse. There they learn through the chair some of how the apocalypse came about; people start getting killed; one of their band turns out to be not what they appear; and they load up a body with Echo's original personality Caroline to lead them to the cast-led Resistance. In Season 2 the L.A. crew comes to realize this apocalypse could be the inevitable end-point of their actions and work to prevent it; the series ended with "Epitaph Two," a return to the 10-years-later reality, which comes to pass despite their efforts.
The mini-comic is a slice-of-life following several characters through the events of 10:07 a.m., when the Neuropocalypse struck L.A.
( Dollhouse: Epitaphs )
Story by series scribes Jed Whedon and Marissa Tsncharoen, art by Cliff Richards. What'cha think? I'd buy a series following from this - though Dark Horse's work continuing the Buffy and Angel series haven't really wowed me.
Return to Sunnydale
Oct. 7th, 2010 08:07 pmarbre_rieurMan, even if you didn't pay attention to the credits, you can easily tell Whedon's back at the series's writing desk just from the dialogue.
Here's four pages from this month's Buffy #37...
( Last Gleaming, Part 2 )
Here's four pages from this month's Buffy #37...
( Last Gleaming, Part 2 )
OMG, you guys, it's really real!
Oct. 6th, 2010 11:52 amneuhallidaeComing out just in time for Halloween, the Hellboy/Beasts of Burden crossover is go!
SQUEE.
( Covers behind the cut. )
SQUEE.
( Covers behind the cut. )
Jim Shooter and the human race
Sep. 13th, 2010 02:45 amsuperboyprimeOne of the most fascinating things about Jim Shooter's writing is how, if you read a large chunk of it, you start seeing the message that the human race is really kind of crap. It's an undercurrent that runs through his body of work. All his characters, from the most noble superheroes on down, will display these startling moments of petty or pathetic behavior. They might be noble and good as much as 95% of the time, depending on what character you look at, but in that other 5% they become these nasty little weasels.
This shouldn't be confused with grim 'n' gritty or shades of grey, though it overlaps with those trends (see: Hank Pym's breakdown). Generally, it's less about moral compromise and more about behavior that's just incredibly small or petty.
Shooter was recently hired to re-revamp the old superhero property Dr. Solar: Man of the Atom. "Re-revamp" because this is the second time he's done it; the first was during his days as editor-in-chief of Acclaim Comics, where he re-imagined the character for the modern day. Now he's done it a second time, this time for Dark Horse and the 21st century. Issue #1 came out two months ago, and as you can see, the aforementioned tendency in his writing is still in full force.
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This shouldn't be confused with grim 'n' gritty or shades of grey, though it overlaps with those trends (see: Hank Pym's breakdown). Generally, it's less about moral compromise and more about behavior that's just incredibly small or petty.
Shooter was recently hired to re-revamp the old superhero property Dr. Solar: Man of the Atom. "Re-revamp" because this is the second time he's done it; the first was during his days as editor-in-chief of Acclaim Comics, where he re-imagined the character for the modern day. Now he's done it a second time, this time for Dark Horse and the 21st century. Issue #1 came out two months ago, and as you can see, the aforementioned tendency in his writing is still in full force.
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