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I want to do the silent issue of G.I. Joe. One of the greatest.

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lieut_kettch

The one with Snake-Eyes, Storm Shadow and Zartan? That was an awesome issue.

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Snake-Eyes, Storm Shadow and Scarlett. It is awesome and it had been posted.

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lieut_kettch

Well Scarlett was with the Joes' ninja duo, but wasn't it Zartan trying to kill them by using his "home in on your heartbeat" archery technique?

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bewareofgeek

It would be a crime if nobody had.

I'd like to post the prologue for the Goodwin/Simonson MANHUNTER collection, but I'm not sure I'm allowed.

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As long as your post is within the page limits (1/3 of the full story), I don't see why it wouldn't be!

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bewareofgeek

It'll be VERY hard to trim down...

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Posted!

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The first. The best.

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Agreed.

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nefrekeptah

Gon.

The manga about a tiny little dinosaur with super-strength running wild through the natural world kicking ass and doing whatever he wants.

Gorgeous artwork (that the artist does all himself with no help whatsoever), animal drawings that look nearly photo-realistic yet are still expressive enough to show emotion, great action, excellent humor, a good series all around.

And the only place you'll find an actual written word is in the titles to each of the stories. It spans multiple volumes and never once is the gorgeous artwork blocked off by a word balloon or sound effect; the whole thing is purely told visually.

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minyandu

Same here. At first I thought it's interesting but kind of silly and thought my attention wouldn't last. Five minutes later, I couldn't put the book down until I finished all the volumn I could find in that store.

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lianneb

Gon was the first thing that came to mind for me. That dinosaur was one tough little #@^&

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minervasolo.livejournal.com

There's that wonderful issue of Young Justice (I think - could have been Impulse) with no dialogue, just Impulse running around looking for something to do.

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morgana006

I think that might be the one I was mentioning down the thread? It had mime supervillains, right?

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icon_uk

The Saga of Rex (A french comic, serialised in the "Flight" anthology, is a charming little tale about a fox who has the sort of journey Stanley Kubrick could only dream of

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skalja

Spider-Man had not one, but two really good 'Nuff Said issues. Peter Parker: Spider-Man vol II 38 was a farce in which, among other things, Spidey faced down a gang of mimes. In ASM vol II 39, the storytelling was so effective that I didn't even notice there were no words until I'd reread it several times.

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sleepymax

I remember picking up that mime storyline when it came out. Pretty funny stuff.

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morgana006

There's this issue of... well, either Impulse or Young Justice that involves Impulse going up against mimes that I picked up randomly at a bmv.

It's pretty fantastic.

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inexpediency

It was YJ, which is sad because it can't be posted and it's a pretty hilarious issue.

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morgana006

I suspected that might be the case. Pity.

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whitesycamore

Balloon Adventure by Emmy Cicierega!

A girl, a raven and a cute hot air balloon pilot have an adventure together. Completely awesome, completely adorable and only 16 pages long. It's available on the creator's DA page.

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ravenous_raven

Thanks for sharing the link! It's such a sweet and expressive story, that girl really is talented in many media ("Potter Puppet Pals," anyone?)

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majingojira

If my photobucket could handle it, I'd post the silent chapter of Negima...

But I have to be more careful with it--I have a LOT of images up...

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calvision

This post made me think of a couple of children's books that go for this sort of thing now. There's a really charming one by Shinsuke Tanaka called 'Wings' that is about a farmer who find a winged puppy and takes it home with him. It's whimsy kinds of brilliant. And then there are books by illustrator Suzy Lee, who did one called 'Wave' that was literally about a girl playing with the waves at the beach, and another called 'Shadow' that was about a girl playing with her shadow. Sounds too simple, but her illustrations are wonderfully expressive.

But... er... those are not comics.

Sergio Aragones did 'Louder Than Words', which I thought was a great take on wordless humour. I'm having a harder time thinking of full issues or very serious scenes that are silent in comics. But that might just be because I took them for granted or something when I read them, lol.

I usually think of comics as one where there needs to be a balance between words and images--but there are times when words aren't needed, and I think those are times when the art is expressive enough on its own.

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Already posted mine awhile back.

I was wracking my brain for an example to post before I went to bed this morning and I completely forgot Actions Speak and Louder Than Words! 4a will do that, I suppose.

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hivemindcomics

Most of Norwegian writer/artists work is silent and all of it is great. Some hilarious black comedy.
Long stretches of Jimmy Corrigan are in silent and with Chris Ware's haunting art its really effecting.

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neuhallidae

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grazzt

There's a great sequence in Tezuka's Buddha where a bear, a fox, and a rabbit each search for food for a holy man.

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recognitions

How did they ever catch Jimmy Corrigan? He's the smartest kid on Earth!

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hivemindcomics

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pyrotwilight

It was during Marvel's Month of Nuff said that one of the Exiles issues (issue 7) had the same silent issue with the team having a day of rest before moving to the next world, which was just plain awesome and even set up stuff that went on way after that like Blink and Mimic's love for one another and the same for Nocturne and Thunderbird.

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pyrotwilight

Month of Nuff Said*

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northstarfan

Owly by Andy Runton. Fabulously adorable little comic about the adventures of a flightless owl and his forest friends.

The FCBD issue is up here.

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sandoz_iscariot

So much love for Owly!

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jelly_ace

Man, I wish I could've posted this great Filipino silent comic--it's called 12, by Manix Abrera. It's silent, but got a modern twist.

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'Jimmy Corrigan'? Really? Was he chubby, balding and depressed?
Offhand, I'd have to say my favorite would be 'Mister O', a GN by Lewis Trondheim. It's got the simplest story in the world - the titular character, a little circular O-shaped guy, is faced with a gaping chasm that he has to cross somehow. On every page he tries, on every page he fails - or succeeds and it backfires in some spectacular way - and on the next page, there he is starting all over again.
It's much, much better than it sounds. Seriously, it's hilarious. There are vast dollops of both light and gruesome humor, enough silent movie-type slapstick to choke a horse, cartoon-character physics are in full play, and it's all rendered in the simplest possible style. I highly recommend it if you're in the mood for some weird French stuff.

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Jim Corrigan was also the original host of the Spectre, who was also a police detective. Interesting given that this Corrigan murders Crispus Allen, who later became the Spectre's current host.

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True, but 'Jimmy Corrigan' still has very direct connotations to me.

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Me too, but a different connotation.

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Which is...?

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The host of the original Spectre.

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Oh. Right.

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Interesting given that this Corrigan murders Crispus Allen, who later became the Spectre's current host.

It's called a fake-out.

It's also called character assassination, in more ways than one.

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It was a different Corrigan than the one who was the Spectre, it's hardly "character assassination" on his part.

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I never specified it was this Corrigan's character who was assassinated.

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I wasn't saying it would've been, either. I was saying that they're two entirely separate characters, and the Spectre Corrigan isn't being "assassinated" by the existence of this Corrigan.

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