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Posted: 08-10-2001 22:53 Post subject: Comics

I know we have some comic fans on this board, so what are your favorite fortean related comics?

Posted: 08-10-2001 22:59 Post subject:

Planetary (of course. Any Fortean worth their salt should read this as a matter of course!)
Doom Patrol (for obvious reasons)
The (original) Authority
Hellblazer
and
Tom Strong

That's it for now, more when I've had some sleep!

Posted: 08-10-2001 23:30 Post subject:

Luther Arkwright

Posted: 09-10-2001 03:39 Post subject:

Doom Patrol
(back when Grant Morrison was doing it)

Transmetropolitan, by Warren Ellis
(not particularly fortean but everyone should read it)

From Hell, by Alan Moor
(one for the Jack the Ripper theorists)

Invisibles, by Grant Morrison
(part autobiograpy, part giagantic sigil)

Helblazer
(always worth reading, but try getting back issues from when Warrren Ellis was writing it)

Planitary
(otherwise you won't understant a word of the Forum Novel)

Cujo
(there's bound to be more, I'll post again when I think of them)

Posted: 09-10-2001 12:05 Post subject:

Hellboy-Mike Mignolia
Best comic on the market an extremly fortean!

Posted: 09-10-2001 13:37 Post subject:

sandman

shade: the changing man

nikolai dante (2000AD - they really should've changed the name!)

loadsa stuff from 'deadline' magazine - particularly the one about the girl and the fish god (can't remember the name), shaky kane and hugo tate. O please bring it back!

Revolver - which I think had Rogan Gosht by brendan mcCarthy

Crisis - Third World War - good conspiracy/ anti-capitalist stuff

hellblazer (of course)

basically anything british!

Posted: 10-10-2001 03:27 Post subject:

well honey i'm sure you've heard me rant about comics enough times all ready, but if you insist,

helllboy-of course
planetary-i think it must be the board favorite
alan moore's and rick vetich's swamp thing
luther arwkright- a personal favorite
chase from DC comics-din't last long but it was about a female paranormal investigator in the dc universe, worth looking for, had the greatest martian manhunter story ever in it.
promethea
dooom patroll

Posted: 10-10-2001 11:50 Post subject:

Well...

A lot of things that people have already said, and...

A couple of stories by Daniel Clowes 'Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron' and 'David Boring' have a few fortean moments and a general air of paranoid wierdness. A few of his strips from the 'Eightball' series are very strange too.

Charles Burns' 'El Borbah' and 'Big Baby' Are very good and very strange - sample title 'Curse of the Molemen'... His ongoing saga 'Black Hole' is also excellent.

Maybe not really fortean, but comics that I like...

Posted: 10-10-2001 12:07 Post subject:

Posted: 10-10-2001 15:16 Post subject:

There's a massive amount of stuff of Fortean interest in comics these days. Alan Moore's and Grant Morrison's stuff particularly - they are both practising magicians. Have a look on www.grant-morrison.com - the 'pop magic' column is a laugh.

Promethea is pretty much a manual on the western magical tradition, and The Invisibles says all that needs to be said about Chaos Magic.

Ellis' more obscure stuff, like Dark Blue and Strange Kisses are particularly fortean, and worth seeking out.

From Hell is the masterpiece though, an utterly brilliant thing.

Umm... and Strangehaven. That's great.

Hellblazer is the old classic, though it's not particularly good at the moment. And it's main character, John Constantine, occasionally turns up in real life to bother it's writers.

Posted: 10-10-2001 15:24 Post subject:

There's a massive amount of stuff of Fortean interest in comics these days. Alan Moore's and Grant Morrison's stuff particularly - they are both practising magicians. Have a look on www.grant-morrison.com - the 'pop magic' column is a laugh.

Promethea is pretty much a manual on the western magical tradition, and The Invisibles says all that needs to be said about Chaos Magic.

Ellis' more obscure stuff, like Dark Blue and Strange Kisses are particularly fortean, and worth seeking out.

From Hell is the masterpiece though, an utterly brilliant thing.

Umm... and Strangehaven. That's great.

Hellblazer is the old classic, though it's not particularly good at the moment. And it's main character, John Constantine, occasionally turns up in real life to bother it's writers.

Posted: 13-10-2001 10:55 Post subject:

James Robinson's 'Starman' was a criminally neglected book filled with ghosts, freakshows and weird characters of all kinds.

'V for Vendetta' is getting on a bit now, but the later chapters have some fantastic Arthur Koestler stuff. Worth it for the 'unmasking' sequence alone. Likewise, 'Miracleman', which is the subject of some controversy at the moment. Alien recoveries and false memory syndrome played heavily. Soon to reappear as 'Marvelman' I hear.

Posted: 28-10-2001 02:45 Post subject:

I'd say Strangehaven is the most accessable for those new to comics, and Millidge is brilliant; yet, the first trade paperback volume of Planetary is a must-have. Ellis is truly kicking it old school, evoking Doc Savage and all the great old pulp heroes, throwing them into ultra-modern situations. And John Cassaday can draw like nobody's business...I'm looking forward to him taking over art chores on Captain America quite a bit. It's just what the character needs.

Posted: 18-11-2001 02:04 Post subject:

there is a manga called "Spriggan " and it has a fortean feel .But if you want to read a real fortean comic is called "Martin Mystere" ;it is in italian thoguh even if Dark Horse translated a couple of issues a few years back

Posted: 18-11-2001 10:00 Post subject:

I cut my comic teeth on Watchmen and V for Vendetta.

Then I married a bloke who had every Sandman issue and worked my way through those.

Hellblazer of course....

The Authority....

I've just finished the whole of Garth Ennis's 'Preacher' which is a must read...

Now i'm into Kabuki - hard work but so so beautiful!

I'm being forced to cut my £80 a month habit because Christmas is coming...sigh...whimper.... Mad