Alex79uk wrote: ↑October 16th, 2018, 8:46 pm As a life long comic fan, I feel there has been a gaping hole in my awareness and knowledge of the medium for far too long. A hole that should have been filled many years ago, but I've neglected, and with every passing year has only got bigger.

And that's why I'm reading Spider-Man.

From the start.

Yes, never one to do things by half, I'm of the opinion it's all or nothing. I'm like it with movies, games, books, and comics. I've started with issue 1 (well, actually Amazing Fantasy 15, which was the anthology comic he made his first appearance in) and well, I'm loving it!

I read two Spidey books about 20 years ago and didn't like them. So I decided I didn't like Spider-Man, and never went back. But these stories are good! I'm about 15 issues in and loving it. The art is kind of old fashioned, and the dialogue is of its time, but they're totally charming and winning me over.

Good call. I've even put my New 52 Nightwing read through on hold to get a few more issues of the web-slinger's adventures under my belt. Can't believe I avoided him all these years!

DomsBeard wrote: ↑October 18th, 2018, 9:26 am Finally picked up and immediately read Volume 9 of Saga last night.

Still the best non Superhero read in my opinion

Alex79uk wrote: ↑October 19th, 2018, 1:45 pm I'm about half way through the New 52 Nightwing run. It's fantastic. Enjoying the way it ties in with the Batman run, which I read as it was released. I know ongoing titles nearly always do this, but this is probably the first time I've ever actually read books that crossover. I usually tend to just read Batman and ignore the rest of the Bat family titles. I may even check out Batgirl and a couple of others after.

Alex79uk wrote: ↑October 19th, 2018, 9:55 pm Oh yeah I was taking notice of that earlier in the year, and meant to read it when it was finished. I'll check that out.

Alex79uk wrote: ↑October 22nd, 2018, 7:30 pm when reading a traditionally formatted manga, do I read the pages as 'normal', just in reverse order, or do I read (using an example of a page with four equally sized panels), top right, top left, bottom right, bottom left?

Craig wrote: ↑October 21st, 2018, 1:22 pm Starting to get through Akira for the first time despite owning the first volume for around 5 years now. It's amazing - wonderful cityscapes and technology you can just kind of feel clicking together satisfyingly. But also kind of dirty and lived in, which is nice. This is more a backdrop to everything else going on and while the central plot is very much scifi based, the way the characters interact with their surroundings doesn't really draw attention to it.

It's also a very different story to the film. The film looks and sounds amazing, though is somewhat muddled in it's storytelling. The manga involves a lot of the same themes, plot points and characters, but they happen in pretty different ways and a lot of it is expanded on.

Just finished volume 2, and will hopefully be picking up volume 3 (of 6) tomorrow!

KSubzero1000 wrote: ↑October 22nd, 2018, 7:40 pm

Alex79uk wrote: ↑October 22nd, 2018, 7:30 pm when reading a traditionally formatted manga, do I read the pages as 'normal', just in reverse order, or do I read (using an example of a page with four equally sized panels), top right, top left, bottom right, bottom left?

The latter. Like this:



From right to left, and from top to bottom. In that priority.

Also, you start the book at the right end and turn the pages from left to right.

Basically, the horizontal axis is reversed while the vertical axis isn't.