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Ultimate Comics Bookshelf - August '08 discussion

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  • 18-08-2008 12:18am
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    Fysh
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    This is the first discussion for the new, hopefully improved version of the Ultimate Comic Bookshelf. At the time of posting, the following titles are on the shelf:

    100 Bullets
    The Sandman
    The Dark Knight Returns
    Watchmen
    Transmetropolitan
    The Beano
    Incal
    Jimmy Corrigan
    Squee!
    Bone
    Asterix
    Tintin
    Peanuts
    Calvin and Hobbes
    Krazy Kat
    Little Nemo in Slumberland
    Maus
    Will Eisner's The Spirit
    Jack Kirby's Fourth World, New Gods and Fantastic Four
    Osama Tsezuka's Phoenix
    The Invisibles
    Arkham Asylum
    The Footsoldiers
    Y: The Last Man
    Dead Meat
    Love and Rockets
    Flight
    Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E.
    Top Ten
    Preacher
    Hellblazer

    For the new rules governing the thread works, please go here.

    To get the ball rolling, I'm going to make a contentious suggestion and nominate Y: The Last Man for removal from the shelf. Why, you ask?

    Despite its episodic nature, Y was always supposed to be one big story. And that it is, but around book 8 - when the morphic resonance explanation materialises - alarm bells started ringing. The character writing which had previously been very solid seemed to take a turn towards soap opera - it seemed that 355 died more because Vaughan had no idea how to present Yorick and 355 finding happiness together than anything else. Furthermore, the revelation that Alter had been hunting down Yorick so that she could die at the hands of a man didn't mesh for me at all with the ruthless and calculating soldier depicted in the rest of the series. It seems too much like Vaughan killed them off because at some point, someone had told him that killing off one of your central characters is automatically great drama and thus something that has to be done.


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