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jerseydevil said:
‘Preacher': A Solid Pilot but Will It Appeal to Newcomers? | SXSW 2016
http://collider.com/preacher-tv-series-review/

The more I read about this the more I distance myself from the possible disappointment of it's different-ness. I like something Seth Rogen said along the lines of...if you are a fan, relax...we will get to the points you want to see...it just may not be in the order you are expecting. Or something to that effect. I am getting closer to being able to judge it as it's own thing. I will say this to anyone and everyone. Seriously. If you are even remotely interested in this, pick up the tps and get to reading. I loved this series so much that it made me stop reading comics regularly. It was so good, that when I put it down...there just was not going to be another like it. Years later, I discovered THE BOYS, which is Ennis' second best work...and also worth reading. But yeah...this series was so good that it pretty much put me offa comics.
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There's a screening and panel for the first ep at WonderCon.

Also, Hitman > The Boys, but The Boys is still ****in great.
 
adgy-san said:
There's a screening and panel for the first ep at WonderCon.

Also, Hitman > The Boys, but The Boys is still ****in great.
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Crap. You're gonna see it? Aren't you?????

And I forgot about Hitman. I cannot argue with you...lets call it 2a/2b with a dealer's choice. The only caveat is that Hitman is a comic book. A wonderfully off kilter and amazingly deep, funny, moving comic book...but a comic book nonetheless. To me, Preacher and The Boys are WATCHMEN like in the fact that they transcend the medium. They are, once again, to me, literature. Foul mouthed and aggressively perverse, but literature nonetheless. Man, it makes me remember when the VERTIGO imprint was a wealth of must buy books that literally fought for bottom of the pile status. Not because you didn't want to read them first...but because you wanted to read them last. This digital age...man, kids will never know what the walk home from the store...with a bag of comics, or a great lp (or many times BOTH) just waiting to experience them...but savoring every minute of that walk. Man, what a time we grew up in. Instant gratification is overrated.
 
jerseydevil said:
Crap. You're gonna see it? Aren't you?????

And I forgot about Hitman. I cannot argue with you...lets call it 2a/2b with a dealer's choice. The only caveat is that Hitman is a comic book. A wonderfully off kilter and amazingly deep, funny, moving comic book...but a comic book nonetheless. To me, Preacher and The Boys are WATCHMEN like in the fact that they transcend the medium. They are, once again, to me, literature. Foul mouthed and aggressively perverse, but literature nonetheless. Man, it makes me remember when the VERTIGO imprint was a wealth of must buy books that literally fought for bottom of the pile status. Not because you didn't want to read them first...but because you wanted to read them last. This digital age...man, kids will never know what the walk home from the store...with a bag of comics, or a great lp (or many times BOTH) just waiting to experience them...but savoring every minute of that walk. Man, what a time we grew up in. Instant gratification is overrated.
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That's one of the reasons why I started to drink. Not a lot of music stores or media stores have resulted me in going to the liquor store instead. I savor the minute of every walk from the store to my home while carrying cheap vodka. mhihi: :manybeers: ;)

I do miss getting compliments when I buy some of those Vertigo comics though. It was a sign that you took reading comics seriously and didn't just buy them just to have them. Not that I do't buy comics, it's just that I mostly get them in TPBs in the mail. :P
 
Vertigo Comics To Get Its Own Rebirth At ECCC, For July?

The recent attempt to look like more like Image Comics with an expansion of creator-participant titles delivered no breakout comics and saw a market that seem disinclined to support them, however good they were. And some were very good indeed.

I am told that Vertigo is going to rebrand itself, with an emphasis on a more “classic” Vertigo tone with work-for-hire mature reader takes on lower profile DC Comics superhero properties. Like they used to do.

And the Becky Cloonan/Gerard Way Doom Patrol book will be a flagship title for the imprint, leading up until the Sandman Spin Off books, based on ideas by Neil Gaiman, are launched before Christmas.
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Considering the fact that Image has essentially taken over the creator-owned market for comics, this might not be a bad idea. Honestly, I've been buying a handful of Vertigo's stuff and some of it is really good, but it ain't Image.
 
"NEW MUTANTS" FILM 'LIKELY' TO FEATURE CHARACTERS FROM THE MAIN "X-MEN" MOVIES, SAYS KINBERG

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http://www.comicbookresources.com/a...cters-from-the-main-x-men-movies-says-kinberg
 
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