graphic novels

couldn't wait for the movie - just finished reading 300 by frank miller. good read - apparently inspired by a movie he saw called 'The 300 Spartans' which was released in 1962. who knew.

anyways, good read - can't wait for the movie now.

Quoted: Amazon.com: 300: Books: Frank Miller,Lynn Varley by Frank Miller,Lynn Varley

couldn't wait for the movie - just finished reading 300 by frank miller. good read - apparently inspired by a movie he saw called 'The 300 Spartans' which was released in 1962. who knew.

anyways, good read - can't wait for the movie now.

Quoted: Amazon.com: 300: Books: Frank Miller,Lynn Varley by Frank Miller,Lynn Varley

A graphic adaptation of the 9/11 Commission Report. Awesome. Seriously.

Quoted: Click here to read the first chapter of The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón, which sets text from The 9/11 Commission Report to images—with striking results.

so finished reading this collection and was/am very disappointed. the art work is amazing. but the work seems more like random ramblings - especially the second half.

the first half introduced interesting characters with hopes of a plot / storyline, but as the book progresses it seems it's more about the art / layout of the page then moving the story anywhere interesting.

in case you don't know who ashley wood is here are some links:
http://www.ashleywoodartist.com/
http://ashleybambaland.blogspot.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Wood

the making of 300.

Quoted: Centuries after an army of 300 Spartan warriors held off 100,000 Persian invaders, the story has been realized on screen as

For my grammarian buddies... one of the characters in this online graphic novel is named Gerund. I knew there was a reason I liked that word! Pretty good story here, too, actually. A work in progress, so have to keep checking back for the continuation...

been on kind of a comic run. just read volume 1 - 30 of berserk. i had watched the anime series and was not impressed at all - but again, after reading what wikipedia had to say i thought i'd give the manga a go.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserk_%28manga%29

so here's my review. it's got a great initial story arc. loved the fact that the writer took his time to develop his characters - also enjoyed the fact that he didn't seem too attached to them to kill them off.

what do i mean by that? well the initial story arc is all bout why the main character 'Gutts / Gatts' is chasing after revenge + why demons are trying to kill him + how he lost an eye & left arm + how he came across such a big ass sword.

the first two issues just starts out with him kicking some major ass and killing off some minor demons. then the story goes back in time starting from Gutt's birth - or i should say how he was found. his basically found by a bad of mercenaries under a tree with the dead hanging from it. one of the dead gave birth to Gutts which is lying on the ground. one of the girls (think server / girlfriend / whatever) of the bad of mercenaries picks up Gutts and decides to adopt him.

yeah i know - pretty gruesome stuff. and that's kinda the appeal of this book. it's for mature audiences (dah) and the violence, story is very gruesome. it also goes into why the main character doesn't likes to be touched - it layers on complexities in each character which makes it a good read.

with that stated i'm only giving it a 3/5 mainly cause after the first story arc it starts to get kinda crappy - they start introducing magic, etc... etc... and it feels more like a final fantasy game rather then a story bout one man in his drive to get revenge. and if that's not crappy enough they are advertising a card game based off the manga series in the later volumes, which makes me wonder if the writer / creator decided to change the tone of the plot to make some $$ via marketing. the second story arc is really lame in comparison to the first. one way to look at it is - story arc 1 = rated R, story arc 2 = PG 13.

currently reading this comic series - it's a spin off from 'the sandman' if that makes sense... in the sandman lucifer appears as a character in it - he basically decides to quit being the ruler of hell...

this series is basically continuing from that point. thus far, pretty darn good. he has done an errand for god, in return he gets to ask for anything he wants... he then went on a small trip to confirm that his gift was good - and that's where i'm at. i'm excited to see where the story will lead - mainly cause the comic series has an end, so i'm hoping the writer did a good job of doing a holistic story arc... we'll see.

Quoted: Amazon.com: Lucifer: Devil in the Gateway, Book 1: Books: Mike Carey by Mike Carey

so i just finished reading issues 1 - 25 of the walking dead. i first came aware of it because of eric's dot http://bluedot.us/users/eric/dot/67803333199 on this comic series. read what wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walking_Dead had to say and i became interested.

here's my review - the first few issues weren't that interesting. you have a cop who gets shot - goes into a coma wakes up to find... yup you got it, zombies. like most horror flicks it seems like a typical storyline. he goes out and finds some peeps - decides to find his wife and kid by heading to his mother-in-laws... you seeing a pattern.

he goes to atlanta in hopes of finding his family and ends up meeting a group of survivors. okay - the set up is done, so what makes this story different from every other zombie movie story line? well - the character development and the fact it's a continuing storyline. meaning in a zombie flick it has the setup, minor character development, death and some random survivors and then it's over. in this story line it continues more then just a day / a week / etc... by issue 25 the amount of time passed was bout 6 months, and the strain of it was starting to affect the survivors in various ways.

okay i'm rambling - bottom line, surprisingly good. would recommend that you give it a read - meaning not just read issue one, but read up to issue 5-10 to get the story development, character development and interactions between characters.