I'm 40 and I've been collecting comic books since I was about 9. My favorite characters are Spider-Man, Superman, and Batman. I like a lot more but when it came to modern day comic books I got to the point where I only read those three, but I've reached a point where I have decided with Marvel and DC to just read back issues and luckily there are a ton of back issues that I haven't even touched yet. For instance I recently found a bunch of 70s Conan comic books in a bargain bin.
My question is does anyone have any indie/Manga recommendations? It seems like Marvel and DC for the most part want to hire people who are clueless about or hate comic books (the lady doing the She-Hulk show as well as the guy hired to do the Superman movie come to mind). I think I may start supporting Alterna Comics as well.
Thanks in advance.
There are other things out there besides just comic books. Duranty's manga list is a good place to start but I'd also look at other books you can find as well. things like art books that Dark Horse put out regularly I've been looking at, The downside is that they very in price, recent one put out by EA on Bioware is like $15 but this Breath of Fire one in english is like $80. The Homeworld one was a backer exclusive for the fig campaign and is like $500.
I love Artbooks. All of these are on exhentai, search $artbook and misc or other.
Second is try looking at French comics. I'm not into it myself but the art is good and Razor likes it so it's worth a mention. It's Titan Comics that imports and translates the Elric series he likes. Also found a Good List from 4chan, most of these look translated.
I’m a heavy book reader as well. I’ve heard razorfist talking about French comics. Wasn’t there a movie based off of French comics?
Elric in particular no, because like Neuromancer it's stuck in dev hell because of how many connections the Witcher ripped off from it, for example the phrase "Conjunction of spheres." As for french comic movies, again not really. You get the occasional one like an animated Asterix movie a few years back but I don't really keep up with it.
Valeriam and the thousand planets iirc