Comic Books

Serious Paul · Post by **Serious Paul** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 12:44 am

Okay not that I'd ever undertake an illegal action online, but say I was broke and wanted to preview some comic books where would I get them? It seems some of the first names that come to mind either don't have them, or I lack the intuition to figure out how to find them.

Serious Paul · Post by **Serious Paul** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 12:46 am

And like that I stumble upon something useful.

DV8 · Post by **DV8** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:45 pm

I think they have quite a few at demonoid.me

Serious Paul · Post by **Serious Paul** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 9:18 am

Thanks.

Van Der Litreb · Post by **Van Der Litreb** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 10:41 pm

Demonoid is also what I use to, uh, preview comics while I'm broke, and have so far had everything I've ever searched for. The site requires invitations to register, so if you need one, just let me know.

3278 · Post by **3278** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:08 am

I rarely use anything but btjunkie to find anything, but another useful resource is the google. A carefully-crafted search phrase helps a great deal: specifically, if you put "filetype:torrent" in the search field [along with your search term], you'll get nothing but .torrent files. So if you search for "galactus filetype:torrent" [not in quotes, mind you], you'll get these 135 torrents with Galactus in their names.

It's worth pointing out that Google's autosearch thing, where it searches as you type, gets quiet when you start searching for porn, warez - there's a term from yesterday - or anything else they think someone out there might not like. You can still search it, mind you, but you have to hit Enter first. That way, Google doesn't have to feel guilty for helping you ruin the industry you're stealing from, or for getting you your daily fill of cock and ball torture videos: that Enter, you see, makes the blame all yours.

DV8 · Post by **DV8** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:33 am

I didn't know about that filetype option in Google, thanks 32!

3278 · Post by **3278** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:34 pm

You know, there's got to be a cheat sheet around that shows all these functions, but I've never thought to look for one. I remember when I was a graphic designer, we used to just randomly try keyboard shortcuts in Pagemaker, until we found a cheat sheet online, which revolutionized our use of the program.

Van Der Litreb · Post by **Van Der Litreb** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:04 am

Wait, you typed out that whole reply instead of just doing a Google search for "google cheat sheet"?

(Which, incidentally, does provide you with a list of Google search parameters.)

3278 · Post by **3278** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:56 am

Not a bad point.

AtemHutlrt · Post by **AtemHutlrt** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:48 pm

Well, I think the question of how best to steal comic books online has been answered pretty well, so let me ask you this: what's good, comic-wise, these days? I love comics, but don't have the energy to follow them regularly, and, with the big titles, shit just gets so scattered, that I find it maddening trying to figure out where to jump in. So, is there anything that's come out recently [or, hell, not recently] that anyone considers top-shelf material, or just worth reading?

Serious Paul · Post by **Serious Paul** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:12 pm

Well I'd suggest you look over the Darkest Night stuff, which is a green lantern story that doesn't suck. As always, the Walking Dead is a good read. But I am afraid i am a few months behind on my reads right now.

Salvation122 · Post by **Salvation122** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:16 pm

AtemHutlrt wrote:Well, I think the question of how best to steal comic books online has been answered pretty well, so let me ask you this: what's good, comic-wise, these days? I love comics, but don't have the energy to follow them regularly, and, with the big titles, shit just gets so scattered, that I find it maddening trying to figure out where to jump in. So, is there anything that's come out recently [or, hell, not recently] that anyone considers top-shelf material, or just worth reading?

Ultimate Spider-Man, if you like supers. Especially since Bagley is back on the art now, which fuck yeah.

Not that Bagley doesn't have his issues (the dude's incapable of drawing teenagers as anything other than small adults; Mary Jane's rack, QED) but I prefer it to both the blockier style from the guy immediately after him (whose name slips my mind) and the anime-lite style of Lafuente.

AtemHutlrt · Post by **AtemHutlrt** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:18 pm

Serious Paul wrote:Well I'd suggest you look over the Darkest Night stuff, which is a green lantern story that doesn't suck. As always, the Walking Dead is a good read. But I am afraid i am a few months behind on my reads right now.

Hmmm. I've never really read any Green Lantern stuff, though I very much like the concept of the Green Lantern. I might check that out.

Serious Paul · Post by **Serious Paul** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:53 am

Yeah the first 125 issues of Ultimate Spiderman is a damned fine read, and quality for the most part artistically.

Serious Paul · Post by **Serious Paul** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:34 pm

Not sure where Ultimate Spiderman is at issue wise in recent months, but pound for pound as i think about it the series is THE best reinvention of a series ever.

As I was thinking, an older series that's a pretty good read would be Y: The Last Man. Aalso look over Fables, Invincible, DMZ, and maybe the Loser's first 25 or so issues. Depending on your tastes 100 Bullets is an okay read. I actually like Batman Superman by DC. It's a comic super-heroic romp book that wildly varies in quality, but is a great stand alone read. You don't have to know jack about them, or the DC universe to have fun, but there are some inside jokes too.

AtemHutlrt · Post by **AtemHutlrt** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:10 pm

I read Irredeemable recently, and thought it was great. Actually, I think a few issues may have come out since I last checked. Gotta look into that. I also read a bit of Astro City, and thought it was decent. I'd read more of that if it was convenient.

Serious Paul · Post by **Serious Paul** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:09 pm

Interesting, Waid is a pretty decent writer. I'll have to look at that.

Jeff Hauze · Post by **Jeff Hauze** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:45 pm

Did Ultimate Spider-Man get better? Because it was sucking donkey cock right around the whole Ultimate Clone Saga thing, and I stopped reading at that point.

Van Der Litreb · Post by **Van Der Litreb** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:18 pm

I agree on Irredeemable being great. Not every issue is brilliant, but 20-something issues in and it's still very good.

Salvation122 · Post by **Salvation122** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:56 pm

Jeff Hauze wrote:Did Ultimate Spider-Man get better? Because it was sucking donkey cock right around the whole Ultimate Clone Saga thing, and I stopped reading at that point.

I'd strongly disagree with that opinion (save the stuff with Doc Ock at the very end), but there have been a couple of really good arcs since then.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:54 pm

I'll echo the praise for Irredeemable,but I think it's sister title Incorruptible is much more interesting by comparison.

Other than that, I would highly recommend checking out Orc Stain and Chew, which are both rather bizarre comics with a toehold in the mainstream. Orc Stain by James Stokoe takes place on a planet full of orcs, while Chew is about a detective with a psychic sense of taste in a world where bird flue caused chicken to be banned in America and the FDA gained tremendous law enforcement powers...yes, they both get weirder and sillier than that.

On the more serious side, The Boys is entering a new story arc with issue 51 that looks to be really good, and Scalped continues to be perhaps the best HBO-series-waiting-to-happen of comics.

Crazy Elf · Post by **Crazy Elf** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 1:10 pm

Ancient History wrote:On the more serious side, The Boys is entering a new story arc with issue 51 that looks to be really good...

And Nina Ninja looks and acts <i>exactly</i> like The Female.