What Is The Last Comic You've Read - Part 4

Just finished Secret Wars today. I have a base idea of what happens with Peter and the alien symbiote, but I've never read those actual issues, so I'm hoping to eventually do that. Plus, I'm curious to see how Peter adjusted to life with this new costume.
 
Mister Miracle (1971) 11,12
Batman 106
Infinite Frontier 0
 
V for Vendetta (reread)
Call me crazy, but I much prefer this to Watchmen.
Also, I find Rose Almond to be one of the most tragic characters in literature. She makes the masterfully drafted work especially haunting. I think I will never be able to think about that book without reflecting on her story and the last visual you get of her
being arrested and tortured following her assassination of Adam Susan. All of this following a life of abuse by her husband and then being forced into prostitution after his death. It’s all very sad and then ends horrendously for her with prolonged misery and torture.
It leaves me with a pit in my stomach.
But it’s an incredible and intricate story.
 
Call me crazy, but I much prefer this to Watchmen.
Also, I find Rose Almond to be one of the most tragic characters in literature. She makes the masterfully drafted work especially haunting. I think I will never be able to think about that book without reflecting on her story and the last visual you get of her
being arrested and tortured following her assassination of Adam Susan. All of this following a life of abuse by her husband and then being forced into prostitution after his death. It’s all very sad and then ends horrendously for her with prolonged misery and torture.
It leaves me with a pit in my stomach.
But it’s an incredible and intricate story.
Yes, Rose's story is really tragic.
I like to think V managed to pull off a rescue at some point. Evey seemed sympathetic to her the first time she saw her at the club.

Interesting about ranking this above Watchmen. I'd probably put them about level. But I'd put Moore's Marvelman Miracleman above them both. Have you read that, BBG?
 
I'd probably put them about level. But I'd put Moore's Marvelman Miracleman above them both. Have you read that, BBG?
I haven’t actually. I’ve heard great things about it as well as Gaiman’s run. I might put it on the reading list given your recommendation.

I will say that I’m a big fan of Moore’s Superman stories, and his run on Swamp Thing is superb.
 
I haven’t actually. I’ve heard great things about it as well as Gaiman’s run. I might put it on the reading list given your recommendation.

I will say that I’m a big fan of Moore’s Superman stories, and his run on Swamp Thing is superb.
I definitely think you'd enjoy it. It's actually now owned and published by Marvel (after an unbelievably complicated and drawn-out 30-year rights dispute!).

It's in three hardback volumes (I haven't heard of a collected edition);

Book One: A Dream of Flying
Book Two: The Red King Syndrome
Book Three: Olympus

It starts of pretty straight forward, but man does it go dark! I remember when it was first published as a serial back in the 80s in Warrior magazine here in the UK. There'd never been anything like it before, and it blew all of us - who were innocently expecting just a simple continuation of an old comic book - away.

Incidentally, I've got a copy of a chronology put together by Alan Moore and Steve Moore back in the 80s, which shows that they considered V for Vendetta and Marvelman Miracleman to be a fork in the timeline, depending on whether or not MM was reborn in '82. If he wasn't, World War III would happen in '88, which would lead to the fascist takeover of Britain in '92 and the events of V for Vendetta in '97. If MM was reborn, V for Vendetta wouldn't happen, but instead the whole MM saga would.
 
Mister Miracle (1971) 16-18

I finished Kirby’s run. What a blast!
 
Archie (2015) - #1-6
Injustice: Gods Among Us #1-9
 

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