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Well here's aplace to talk about comics, any comics you want. Manga, American, Whatever!

Currently I'm reading any and all of the Ultimate range. Don't know why but I like the Ultimate universe better than the original 616 Marvel universe. When ultimate Spiderman came around for the first time, I thought great this can be a brand new start, I won't have to worry about all these years back reading and referencing comics from who knows when, and since then I have stuck with it, through thick and thin.

I also love anything by Tim Sale, that guys work is extrodinary, he is one of my main inspirations. Just picked up his solo book the other day, and although I'm not too keen on his storytelling, I still love his art.

Other stuff I'm reading and collecting are Streetfighter, Army Of Darkness, and a few other things every now and then.

As for Manga well I've never really been too keen, especially after the huge anime explosion with Pokemon, and now yugi -oh (what the hell is with the story, I mean why do these people with a stupid card game have the power to destory the world, here's an idea steal the guys cards and burn them!) Anyhoo, I do like a few, I loved the Battle Royale manga, more than the movie, and I've also been a HUGE fan of Ranma 1/2. Some stuff I want to read though is the whole Ringu series, although my local comic shops only got Spiral at the moment, and although it technically isn't manga (cause it's from China) I'd love to read Shaolin Soccer, but again my local's only got the 2nd issue

yeah always wanted to read Maus, and I saw the second volume of Road to Perdition at the shop the otehr day, looked really cool

Yeah I've thought about ordering, but I've never had enough money to buy it yet, at any given time, once I get a job though I probablly will. Lucky you getting an original Sale illustration, of the Joker no less! I am too envious now. I used to read Tom Strong, but then the distribution kinda went weird and I lost track of it, same with Blue Monday, I had the first issue of The Kids Are Allright, but never saw the next issue, ever! And the next I see was Painted Moon, but I never found the first issue. Usually my comic store is really good with getting stuff, but just those few I don't know whats happened. I've always also wanted to read Strangers In paradise, but never gotten around to picking it up, but the other day I saw a trade which looked like a pretty good starting point so I might have to go get that sometime.

Heard a while ago that John Cheese, er I mean Cleese, will be writing a hardcover superman story, (well co-writing). I saw a preview of it on the Monty Python website, and it looks damn funny. Normally I hate Superman but this looks pretty cool. Entitled Superman: True Brit, it's an Elseworlds tale of a young Kal-El crash landing in London, check out info onDaily Llama

now if we could get Michael Palin to Write a batman Story, Terry Jones to Write green lantern, Eric Idle to write Wonder Woman, and Terry Gilliam to direct the movies, all would be perfect in the world xp

yeah Apocalypse Meow looked cool. sort of like maus in a way but with The Vietnam War rather than WWII. Anyhoo going in tomorrow morning to pick up my fix xp

D'oh so it did! I was still going by the original news I heard of it being released in December or something. I was also expecting Dailylama.com to update when it came out. Damn missed it! Gotta try and find it.

Ah yes Bachalo another great artist. I wanna get some original sketches, but I keep missing the cons whenever they happen, (like once a year, and then hardly anyone special comes out) All I've got is a few signed books. Got Jim Lee to sign my X-men #1 when he came out way back in about '97, Mark bagley to sign Ultimate Spiderman, collected 1,2,and 3 which he bent the cover of when he signed Ultimate Spiderman #25, and Jim valentino Signed What if, that I picked up in a comic store while I was in the U.S in '97 without realising.

As for me...I finally bought the 4th issue of Shaman King. It had a lot of action, as always, but I hate having to wait around for the next volume. stressed
Anyway, it's a great series. I love the artwork and the story has endless possibilities. Go ahead and check it out, even if it means just reading it at the comics store.

Well I just got through reading Sin Bity: The Hard Goodbye. Damn that was awesome. I only had enough money to get that one otherwise I would've gotten A Dame To Kill For as well. Might have to take a trip into the bity tomorrow after Tafe, and pibk it up, abtually I will seing as the shipment of bomibs didn't arrive today. So mubh for me buying this to read on my bar trip this weekend. xp