December 13th: Non-Big-Two Comics
Dec. 13th, 2013 07:09 pmShifting yesterday and today's answers by a day, so I'll get to the query about vidding music tomorrow (or Sunday).
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greenet asks: "Favorite ongoing comics not from the big two?"
This one is so easy it's not even funny.
Saga.
It's the only comic I'm buying day-of (still digital like most of my comics purchases, but I'm willing to pay the extra dollar to have it now now now).
Brian K. Vaughan (he of Y: The Last Man, another comics masterpiece I'm working through) and Fiona Staples are crafting some epic sci-fi, full of intergalactic conflict, crazy world-building, interwoven fantasy elements, and poopy diapers.
Let me back up.
So there's this war on, right? Between the winged technocrats of the planet Landfall and the horned magic-wielding people of Landfall's moon, Wreath. The clever thing, though, is that destruction of either celestial body would destroy the other, so the war has been outsourced to every other habitable planet in the known universe. It's destroyed some cultures and made a pretty profit for some others.
Anyway, in the middle of this, there's two soliders, Alana and Marko. Alana is from Landfall, Marko, Wreath. They're not terribly good soldiers, but it turns out they're fantastic lovers. In the middle of everything, they fall in love, nature takes its course, and the series opens as Alana is giving birth. This is a PR disaster and both sides of the conflict send their forces to capture or kill the lovers, who take their baby with them on the run.
Oh did I mention that the whole thing is narrated by the baby? Well, from a future point where she's not a baby anymore. That her survival is inevitable doesn't detract from the story, though, which is full of rich, interesting characters who all have their own wants and needs. For instance, Prince Robot IV, one of the pursuers, is something of a psychopath, but he's also consumed with worry and expectation about his own pregnant wife.
I also like that the story isn't about the war or the plucky rebels rising up against the dictatorship or the benevolent government beset by terrorists. It's about the people whose lives are affected by the war even as they make every attempt to get away from it. There's very few scenes of an epic scale.
This doesn't mean that Saga isn't epic. It is so fucking epic. It might be a story about the little people, but goddamn, do they feel huge. I love them. So much.
Also there's a cat. She's called Lying Cat and she has a hook/trick to her that is so simple it's brilliant. She may be my favorite character.
greenet asks: "Favorite ongoing comics not from the big two?"This one is so easy it's not even funny.
Saga.
It's the only comic I'm buying day-of (still digital like most of my comics purchases, but I'm willing to pay the extra dollar to have it now now now).
Brian K. Vaughan (he of Y: The Last Man, another comics masterpiece I'm working through) and Fiona Staples are crafting some epic sci-fi, full of intergalactic conflict, crazy world-building, interwoven fantasy elements, and poopy diapers.
Let me back up.
So there's this war on, right? Between the winged technocrats of the planet Landfall and the horned magic-wielding people of Landfall's moon, Wreath. The clever thing, though, is that destruction of either celestial body would destroy the other, so the war has been outsourced to every other habitable planet in the known universe. It's destroyed some cultures and made a pretty profit for some others.
Anyway, in the middle of this, there's two soliders, Alana and Marko. Alana is from Landfall, Marko, Wreath. They're not terribly good soldiers, but it turns out they're fantastic lovers. In the middle of everything, they fall in love, nature takes its course, and the series opens as Alana is giving birth. This is a PR disaster and both sides of the conflict send their forces to capture or kill the lovers, who take their baby with them on the run.
Oh did I mention that the whole thing is narrated by the baby? Well, from a future point where she's not a baby anymore. That her survival is inevitable doesn't detract from the story, though, which is full of rich, interesting characters who all have their own wants and needs. For instance, Prince Robot IV, one of the pursuers, is something of a psychopath, but he's also consumed with worry and expectation about his own pregnant wife.
I also like that the story isn't about the war or the plucky rebels rising up against the dictatorship or the benevolent government beset by terrorists. It's about the people whose lives are affected by the war even as they make every attempt to get away from it. There's very few scenes of an epic scale.
This doesn't mean that Saga isn't epic. It is so fucking epic. It might be a story about the little people, but goddamn, do they feel huge. I love them. So much.
Also there's a cat. She's called Lying Cat and she has a hook/trick to her that is so simple it's brilliant. She may be my favorite character.
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