Christian’s Comments (group member since Jan 07, 2014)

Christian’s comments from the The Nerd Uprising: a Graphic Novel/Comic Book Reading Group group.

I voted for Manifest Destiny. The idea just sounds so cool and it looks like it will make for some great world building

Not gonna lie: I had a hard time believing a Hawkeye book was supposed to be so good. The Avengers movie aside, all I remember of Hawkeye from my childhood was that he had a dumb costume. But I was flipping through one of the TPBs from this series in a comic shop a couple weeks ago and it looked really cool. I guess I'm saying I'm excited.

I LOVED IT!! Pope's art is so dynamic. I blew through the book so fast because it actually played out like a cartoon in my head. I love the weird world(s) he made -- magnificent and vivid with so little detail and no exposition. I took a lesson from that for my own work for sure.

Going to order mine today

!!SPOILERS!!

Just finished. I had already read these first two volumes but it was good to revisit them. There was a lot of stuff that I completely forgot about (the entire arc in the prison town, the "crazy" lady trying to tell everyone about the astronauts).

Sam was saying how the dialogue is very comic-y. A lot of it is short and punchy, clever quips are flying back and forth. I think it does make it feel a little dated but at least it's GOOD punchy, quipy dialogue, so it's not a big deal.

So happy when the Amazon leader took that hatchet to the face. She was the worst. As a villain she was so much more annoying than threatening.

I think we should put V back up there. And Battling Boy sounded pretty rad from what you told me.

Not sure how people we have in the group who play games, but what are some of your favorite comb book or superhero games? Could be based on a comic (Batman Arkham series) or original (Infamous).

I might be stretching just a little bit here but I'm going with Dishonored. While primarily a stealth/action RPG, the powers are very much super powers. Especially the main power -- Blink -- makes it practically like a Nightcralwer game.

I think Scott Pilgrim is probably my favorite. I haven't read all of the comic but the visual translation is just fantastic. I can't describe it better than Edgar Wright already did: it's like a musical but with fights instead of songs. And that's awesome.

Locke & Key! Finally starting vol. 4 tomorrow probably. Can't wait!

I also haven't read V for Vendetta yet, so I'm up for that too. I've also been meaning to read the Thrilling Adventure Hour GN for a really long time so I'd love to add that to the list.

I'm in Austin, TX.

Not new to comics but not a veteran either. Read X-Men fanatically as a kid before the pharmacy across the street from me got rid of its newsstand. Now my comic book reading is more sporadic; I have a lot of partially-finished series on my bookshelf.

Favorite comics: Locke & Key, Fables, The Walking Dead, Preacher, Double Fine Action Comics

Favorite graphic novel is probably Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth. Love Dave McKean's art and the reinterpretations of Batman's villains.

Favorite superheroes: Batman, the Joker, Wolverine, Captain America

Favorite Writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stephen King, Jon Krakauer, Kieron Gillen (his work in the gaming press, haven't read his comics yet), Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Bissell, Daniel Smith, Dave Eggers

Comic writers: Grant Morrison, Alan Moore, Garth Ennis, Robert Kirkman, Kieron Gillen (I'm assuming; I'm already biased)

Other nerdy things: my two main obsessions are comedy and video games. I write in my spare time; I used to write about video games as a critic and reporter but now I mostly write recaps of G1 Transformers twice a week on my website for an audience of zero. Why? I'm not sure, really. I'm working on what I want to be an American anime (like Avatar) but plan to be a comic (since that's *slightly* more achievable) but I'm still very early in the research and world-building phase. I'm kind of a closet anime fan, much more so than I usually care to admit. Some favorites: One Piece, Mushi-Shi, Darker Than Black, Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Cowboy Bebop, Wolf's Rain, Eureka Seven, Le Chevalier D'eon... (OK, nix the "kind of.")