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Saturday, March 26, 2005

Currently reading - late March 05

You'll probably think that my rating system is extremely sharp. Please don't. I'll only post here the books that I find worth reading (hey, I gave money for them - that's gotta mean something!) so the rating system from one to five stars is the rating between good and excellent comics. This is also very subjective view, based on my own taste, so if I find the comic book to be crap by mine reading standards - it won't be listed here. You remain the right to disagree and the comments are awaited with anticipation.


I can easily forget about this one right after the reading.

Can be fun on the sun. Nothing smart but worth the time to check it out.

Good book. Something is not working 100% but, hey, who cares? That's only comics!

That was one hell of a ride! Gonna read it again and again.

Fried my soul! And the smoke writes Classic!

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Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits TPB (260 pgs, DC/Vertigo, 1994) Story: Garth Ennis. Pencils: William Simpson. Inks: Mark Pennington, Tom Sutton, Malcolm Jones III.
Originaly published as Hellblazer
issues 41-46 ©1991.

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Hellblazer: Rare Cuts TPB (160 pgs, DC/Vertigo, 2005)
Stories: Jamie Delano, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis. Art: Richard Piers Rayner & Mark Buckingham, David LLoyd, Sean Phillips.
Originaly published as Hellblazer
issues 11, 25-26, 35, 56 & 84 ©1988/00.

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Sgt. Rock: Between Hell
& A Hard Place TPB
(144 pgs, DC/Vertigo, 2003)
Story: Brian Azzarello.
Art: Joe Kubert.
Originaly published as HC Graphic Novel.

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Hellblazer: Original Sins TPB (256 pgs, DC/Vertigo, 1992)
Story: Jamie Delano. Art: John Ridgway with: Alfredo Alcala.
Originaly published as Hellblazer
issues 1-9 ©1987/88.

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Hellshock Vol.2 #01-03 (96 pgs, Image, 1997/98)
Story and art: Jae Lee. Painted Color: Jose Villarubbia.
Second volume of Hellshock is the 3-issue mini series.

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The Extremist #01-04 (128 pgs, DC/Vertigo, 1993)
Story: Peter Milligan. Art: Ted McKeever. Color: Tom McCrow.
Mini series of 4 issues. Never collected in TPB.

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Fallen Angel: Book 1 TPB (144 pgs, DC, 2004)
Story: Peter David. Pencils: David Lopez. Inks: Fernando Blanco.
Originaly published as Fallen Angel issues 1-6 ©2003.

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John Constantine Hellblazer: All His Engines HC (128 pgs, DC/Vertigo, 2005)
Story: Mike Carey. Art: Leonardo Manco.
Graphic Novel. Not published before.

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5 Comments:

  • Bas me zanima ovaj Peter David. Nisam znao da je Fallen Angel izasao u albumu. Hellshock ti je dobar? To mi se cinilo kao neki Crow rip-off, doduse citao sam to prije milijardu godina...

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:14 AM  

  • Nije me bas odusevio Fallen Angel; dijalozi su na nekim mjestima jako losi i infantilni. Ciljali su na siroku publiku (zato nije isao unutar Vertiga, vec kao obican DC), a trenutno ispada da se zbog lose prodaje gase sa brojem 20-30 (tu negdje)...
    Hellshock mi je bio totalno iznenadjenje. Nisam citao prvi story-arc, ali ovaj i tako funkcionira zasebno. Mracno, mracno... Dogadja se u umobolnici u kojoj je mlada doktorica na specijalizaciji, te u dodiru s jednim posebnim pacijentom (koji NEMA nadnaravnih moci, iako je on porijeklom Andjeo) pocinje preispitivati svoje motive i svoja zivotna uvjerenja. Jae je to napisao tako dobro da nisam mogao prestati s citanjem sve do kraja. :-) Prekrasno je i vizualno napravljeno, a Villarubbia (koji se, usput-budi-receno, malo ljuti na mene od kada sam ga na DC-jevom forumu napao zbog boje Zezeljevog Metropolisa, lol) razvio je posebnu tehniku da bi obojao strip i stvarno je napravio kvalitetan posao.
    Btw, ja sam ovih dana totalno u Hellblazeru tako da sam preko interneta narucio hrpu starih brojeva (koji nikad nisu izasli u trejdovima, a vjerojatno ni nece). Drugim rjecima, zbog stripova i ovoga ljeta slijede bankrot i gladovanje... :-))))

    By Blogger Radio 808, at 3:15 AM  

  • Eh... Skupljanje stripova je pakao. Zato sam i bio na forumu napisao da je fanboy mentalitet prokletstvo.
    Dojadilo mi je biti konstantno bankrotiran zbog losih stripova.
    U zadnje vrijeme dobro pazim sto kupujem i uopce mi ne fale te gomile gluparija koje plijene paznju svojim sarenim kaverima i opakim imenima. :)
    Vecinom uzimam neke starije stripove (iz 80-tih), koje su pohvalili u "Slings And Arrows Comic Book Guideu". Guide su pisali Britanci pa nema standardnog americkog prekenjavanja i djeluju kao da im se moze vjerovati.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:53 PM  

  • potpuno te razumijem. :-)
    nisu samo gomile losih stripova - financijsko prokletstvo. ponekad je uzasno tesko naci nesto po svom vlastitom ukusu, strip koji bas tebi ogovara i stima, a drugima moze biti ili prosjecan ili los... ja sam, zato, odavno odustao od tudjih preporuka i sretan sam da postoje skenovi preko kojih sam mogu provjeriti da li mi nesto stima ili ne, tj. da li da kupim ili ne. inace mi je citanje skenova naporno i ne volim ga, ali zato ima tu neprocjenjivu vrijednost kao potpuni preview prije kupovine. ;-)

    By Blogger Radio 808, at 11:15 AM  

  • Хвала за занимљиве информације

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:39 PM  

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