Whassit about?

>>4005
a killer

>>4006
They must call you 'smarty pants Mc fuck'.

>>4007
Having had a read of the first few issues it seems to be about an assassin-for-hire having one of those typically French existential crises and going off the rails a bit. It's all very moody and full of flashbacks without warning or context.

Cheers bud.

I'd try Amazon or a second-hand bookshop. Try somewhere that sells comics.
/not helpful

Second hand bookshops won't touch them either, not for cash anyway and the internet is a buyers market.
Gonna stick a few hundred of mine up as job lots of ebay for practically nothing, if they don't go, bin bags and donations.
Fuck it!

I can't wait to get the film on blu-ray, if only because I missed so much of the film due to having a headache from the 3D glasses. I did see a few bits and pieces of stuff from the comics though with Chopper graffitti and I'm sure one of the mega blocks was called the Owen Krysler building.

The slow mo scenes were well done as well, because they made sense to the story, though I did realise that the drug is basically Cake from Brasseye, which just made me chuckel to myself.

https://www.youtube.com/v/q6cyDsuNx_U

Saw this a while ago and forgot to add my two cents. I'm not as keen as many people are. Dredd was great and so was Anderson, and the block. The city was not so great. It's too post apocalypse present day (perps driving a regular old van etc, not enough high rise). As a result Dredd seems more Mad-max frontier soldier than agent of a police state. However, I'm hoping this movie is set early on in the Dredd timelines and that the city will develop more before the next story.

My real issue is with Justice dept. Dredd gets a cry for help out and two lame judges turn up and knock on the door. The REAL Justice dept would have been round like a ton of bricks in no time and that block would have been taken down. Again, perhaps their grip on the city will develop over time and we'll get to see PSU monitoring the minutae of every citizen's life and a truly powerful police state crushing any challenge to it's supremacy mercilessly.

I heard a rumour that the next film will be based around the pro democracy movement, basically a re-hash of the story 'America'. That would require a Justice Dept much more in control than the one presented here.

>>3487 Forgot to add, if this is truly set early on and we are watching a young Dredd, him cogitating and then eventually passing Anderson for full eagle would not have happened. He would have already known what he was going to do, being the decisive, intractable robot that he was. He would have failed her, because she did break the rules (and then someone higher in Justice Dept would have stepped in to overrule him).

Also forgot to add that the absence of Psi Div could also point to a very early starting point for the story.

>>3487

It's set very early on, before the comics even started, only like 20 years or so after the war. Dredd's in his 70's in the current comics and presumably in the film he's in his 30's or so.

But yeah, too much post-apocolyptic misery & not enough Mega-city madness & future-shock. That's one of the things the the Stallone version at least got right.

I think a sequel's out of the question though, it's completely bombed at the box office.

Awesome posts - ta.

>>3445

>He is courageous and without fear and it grants him great power.

I was just looking at that and then I remembered that the ring doesn't work against the colour yellow, and it all fitted together and I was left gobsmacked for a moment.

>>3447

I really don't understand, can you explain? The best I can come up with is that fear is associated with the colour yellow.

>>3448

You came up with it right, with one little mistake. The colour yellow isn't associated with fear, but with cowardice.

I know it's not exactly amazing but it amused me for a few minutes after it occurred to me.

>>3450

I can understand that yellow is associated with cowardice but I don't see the logic of him being without fear meaning his magical powers are ineffective against the colour yellow. In what sense are they ineffective, anyway? Okay, so he can't make a giant fist that can punch someone painted yellow, but what's to stop the giant fist picking up a car and hitting him with that?

Someone is suggesting over my shoulder that it's a sort of analogy about how heroism doesn't work in the face of cowardice but I can't really get that to coalesce into logic in my head.

>>3451

It just doesn't bloody matter, mate.

>>3433
Either way it's a nice gif

I actually had an anime day with a couple of schoolfriends yesterday, we chain-watched Eden of the East and both the follow-up movies. It's quite good, actually. It got a lot of hype on 7chan when it first came out but I never got around to watching it.

>>3434
It's lovely isn't it.

>No JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

whatever trevor.

These lists are handy for me as I am not clued up on Japanese exported culture but I have enjoyed some of what I've seen in anime or manga. I don't know anyone personally that could advise me on it and my work colleagues would probably think this topic on a par with claiming I'd been abducted by aliens, they'd be so out of touch with it.

I know everyone's opnions are differnt, but I'm usually willing to persevere with an episode or two of a series or a good chunk of a film before making any judgements if someone puts it forward as a firm favourite.

>>3383
Thanks OP, enjoyed that. He is a cantankerous old git but I could listen to him waffle on for hours.

Can't watch it now but look forward to later.

Jesus, this was a fortnight ago. How did I not notice.

>>3386
Alan Moore Interviews Alan Moore, or Fucking Shit Buckets?

>>3404
Fucking Shit Buckets a new 1,000,000 word opus by Alan Moore all based on the area covered by a public toilet in Northampton. Spanning the time from when it were but a hole in the ground through to the 'fucking shit buckets' of the title. It promises to be a masterwork of poetic allegory and occultist musing on mans ability to work, love drink and defecate all within the same few square meters of squalid earth. Expected to be finished by the time it starts getting a bit nippy in hades.


Fucking hell I'm bored.

>>3404
Yes.

>Alan Moore Interviews Alan Moore, or Fucking Shit-Buckets
>This is new work depicts Alan Moore in a dialogue with a fictionalised version of himself. Through this medium, it investigates in depth the morality of the creative industries, from appropriation and perversion of existing material (such as Moore's own Lost Girls), through to the fast-and-loose attitude of those executives at the top of the industry (the titular "fucking shit-buckets").

Coincidentally or maybe synchronistically depending on your chosen reality schema I just finished Voice of the Fire a couple of hours ago. Must say I thoroughly enjoyed it, even the first chapter with the mentally deficient stone age lad blabbering on in decidedly odd syntax.
Wondered if any of you lads have read it and what you think?

Definitely left me wanting to devour some more Moore, got the first few issues of Promethea on my HD so might have a crack at that. Also looking forward to Jerusalem whenever that gets finished. Will download those albums as well OP, cheers for them.

Also could we maybe turn this into a bit of an Alan Moore general thread? /com/ really doesn't get as much traffic as it deserves.

Shit just realized those first two are megaupload links, don't suppose any kind ladm8 fancies sticking them up somewhere else if you have them?
Balls, also the mediafire ones are dud so any of this stuff would be amazing.

>>3373

Promethea is amazing for a huge number of reasons. The only criticism of it I agree with is the overly long explanation of the tarot. That section came across as more of a reference work than anything and just wasn't much fun to read.
Still, if you haven't even started yet you've got a fair while before you run in to that.

I can re-up the whole discography in one go if you can give me somewhere other than mediafire to host it, they don't like copyrighted files much. I'll give VotF a read when I get home too.

>>3374

Ah cool, will try and make a start on it later.
As for VotF I'd just say to persevere through the first chapter, seen a lot of people say they didn't enjoy it but I quite like weird phonetic or generally messed up writing that you have to decode a bit. I also enjoyed the phonetic stuff in Bank's Feersum Endjinn and Will Self's Book of Dave, I find it fun having to kind of figure it out.
But yeah, it can be a little bit hard going but I really enjoyed it and the story in that chapter is brilliant. The rest is just typical Moore awesomeness.

As for somewhere to upload the discog I'm not actually to sure to be honest, after megaupload got clobbered it seems like most other of those sites have got the heebie jeebies up them, which I guess was the desired outcome for US law enforcement.
Will have a poke about later and see if I can find something suitable, unless any other ladm8s have any bright ideas and fancy chipping in?

>>3375
Sorry, completely slipped my mind. Remind me next friday.
A safer host would still be appreciated.

>>3315
The great Mr Moore recently did a reading from the central library of my (and his) home town. Would have gone if I could have spared the £4 entry. Seen him down at pubs a few times, always been tempted to say hello, but never done it.
;_;

>>3274
Thanks lad, been meaning to get these for a while now.

>>3274
Thank you!

>>3173
Just finished this one. Fucking hell.

(Downloading the rest. Thanks!)

I'm confused. Are these supposed to be funny or sexy? They're not doing it for me at all either way.

>Are these supposed to be funny or sexy?
I think they're supposed to provide fucked up titillation (not necessarily sexual, more "what the fuck am I reading"), and they manage that quite well I think. An offshoot of the freak 70's comic thing.

I enjoyed them. Rarely aroused, though.

What sort of Brit stuff? Just old annuals or other good general stuff too?
I appear to have hard-copies of Eagle Annuals 2,3,4,5,7,8,9,11, the 1985 edition and a 1977 "Best of". There's also a Girl Annual #6 and Eagle: Riders of the Range Annual #4. I'd love to scan them all in if they don't already exist digitally but not at the cost of the structural integrity of the books themselves.

>>3353
I was looking for boys annuals, Victor, Hotspur, Warlord.
To scan an annual would mean ripping it apart. I have considered scouring car boots, scanning and uploading myself. looks like it could be a future project.

Heres's something else I've managed to find:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/wvln4j

>>3356
>not at the cost of the structural integrity of the books themselves

Maybe we could start a fund to buy one of each and scan it. Are they in the public domain do you think?

>>3357

I stand to be corrected , but almost certainly not in the public domain.

OP here:
I didn't really make myself clear I suppose. You can find plenty of American comics on the internet. Apart from 2000AD, I'm having difficulty finding old British comics, and was hoping for some leads or ideas. If anyone can help, please do so. In the meantime I'll be posting the odd download. Like this:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/kltwbg
http://www.sendspace.com/file/of5t7z
http://www.sendspace.com/file/mk1sac
And whoever has downloaded Ministry of Space 1, there are two other issues posted if you want the whole storyline.

But if you're looking for a side of mary sue characters killing everyone else, you'd probably best look into fantasy stuff like The Chronicles of the Black Moon or Requiem Vampire Knight.

>>3338
Crecy doesn't have a Mary Sue character at all

>>3339

You mean other than every single englishman in it in general?

>>3340

I think you're really overstretching the definition of "Mary Sue".

>>3340

The only mary sue in that comic is the longbow. And that's because it really was, at least against ze frogs.

I don't know the manga myself, but your recommendation of it seems to revolve around something wacky happening with famous people, which all too often is the only reason people read it. Like that taliban thing further down the page, I just don't see the allure.

>>3100

The thing is, this one is totally serious and is more or less an odd look at things that were the present at the time of its publication - apparently later on it leads up to an anti-AIDS vaccine, because AIDS will be the deadliest thing on Earth by 1989, go figure. It's not "LOL WACKY" like that Taliban thing on this page, just imagine an 80s action film, filtered by Japan, and done in print form.

Saruwatari's other stuff is a bit different, his recent comics have less to do with OTT spectacle and are more hard-assed mafia stories with one comic being about cagefighting.

Riki-oh was written by Buronson.

And you're only half a man if you talk about "Comcis for Men" without even thinking about mentioning Jiro Taniguchi. Those are manly comics dealing with men and their stories rather than just being trashy and entertaining action comics.

Tough, god be my wittness, I love me some Mad Bull 34 and I'Ve read all of Riki-Oh, even though it's really terrible once the prison-arc is over.

>>3295
It's a checklist of what boring young teenagers think is cool.

>>3303
Teenagers think bald women are cool?

>>3304
You tell me.

>>3304
I bonked a chick with a shaved head at a german music festival. When I awoke in the tent in the morning, for a horrible moment I thought I'd pulled a bald man. Also she got me to massage suntan lotion lotion onto her shiny head after she woke up, and she had a really shitty antifa tat of a swastika in a circle with a line through it. Unfortunately, from a distance and when it started getting dark it just looked like she had a nazi tattoo.
The entire thing was bloody weird.

A bit like this comic. It started really well, I really got into it, and then the last 3rd was just a total mess, just dreadful. What a waste of a decent concept.

>>3317
What a tangent!

American comics are a load of bullshit; the continuity is like plasticine to the writers, and -

Whoa, I'm sorry, I seem to have wandered into the wrong board.

>>3300
All I can say is that if you're reading DC comics and are astounded and appalled when they reboot everything, you must be surprised by the sensation in your chest every time breathe.

And I've heard that now all the women have massive tits. Given the proportions pre-reboot, I'm not sure whether this is to attract teenage boys or to fill up pages.