08. ask me anything: comics

anonymous prompted:your favorite video games and/or graphic novels, and if not favorite tv scenes from any time period of your life

Wowza what a hard choice! I do not play video games, so that one's out; favorite tv scenes is very exciting but so broad I think it would take me forever! And I don't really understand what constitutes a graphic novel but I have been reading a lot of comics lately, so I guess let's do a ramble ramble post about comics? I hope that's cool with you, anon?

(But seriously, can someone explain graphic novels to me? Are they not the same thing as comics? Does a graphic novel have to be a standalone long work? When they compile a bunch of comics into a book, does that make it a graphic novel or is it something else? Is it an anthology? Bueller??)

I always wanted to get into comics but I never really knew how, mostly because the sheer amount of stuff was so overwhelming to me. But this year I got some good recs and started tentatively delving into stuff and it has been very wonderful. I'd dabbled a bit in comic-y stuff before but I guess I never found anything to really latch on to – in high school I read all the Sandman comics and loved them, but I suspect if I looked at them now I would not be into them. Read some pretty gay manga (Fake, anyone?). I also read a lot of BtVS stuff? Those Tales of the Slayer/Vampire ones were decent, but MAN was the season eight stuff rough. I eventually just had to give up on them and that was...five years ago? Ish. And I never tried again with comics until now.

**more stolen art you know how i roll in these posts i'm so sorry




This is actually something I read in my first comic attempt years ago. For a while I just picked up stuff if I liked the art, which is...kind of what I still do. The writing is undeniably important, but I've found with comics I can skate on the writing a little if the art is exceptionally beautiful. And this is so pretty! It had a very lovely, watercolor-y, inky kind of style that suited the subject perfectly (how good are my technical terms right). It's about a mummy who falls in love with the daughter of an egyptologist in the Victorian days. Misadventures ensue, things make a questionable amount of sense but are very pretty and very fun so I would recommend it.




You guys don't even know how much I rep 4 the GG manga. It's like really cute and tacky fanfiction. It's mostly about Blair and Vanessa; later Jenny does stuff too. Nate and Serena are essentially non-characters sorry 2 say. Chuck pops up to be gross but in a limited enough capacity that you can ignore him. Dan is blonde and has glasses which weirds me out. He only really shows up to have the hots for Blair and doesn't do much else (in the first one she fake-dates him to get back at Serena and they have amazingly hilarious conversations, and when he finds out he's so mad he rips off the shirt she bought him and throws it at her. But then he just still has the hots for her after that.). Vanessa kind of has show!Dan's personality to a point. Blair has to live with her after getting cut off financially by her mom, and Vanessa basically teaches her how to be poor. It's so cute! They're such lesbians! Blair turns out to have natural talent as a cook and a maid because she is a perfectionist! She even gets a job as a maid! She does it all with bitchy joie de vivre! It's so cute!





So enjoyable! I really love the art here too, but the characters are what got me. They feel so lovely and real and Kamala is so charming! Just such a thoroughly enjoyable reading experience. And I like all the background/secondary characters too, they all feel like very full characters to me even if they don't appear a lot yet.

Hawkeye has ruined me for other comics. It is my favorite. I am obsessed. It just gives me everything I want! Like aside from the great writing and great art (except YOU, Pulido, except you; he is also the reason I can't get into She-Hulk). I've found what I really like is watching these exceptional people do very normal things and live their day-to-day lives and try to function in the world. I really love that. I do not love action-y things. I JUST DON'T LIKE ACTION-Y COMICS. I don't liiikeeee themmm. That kind of traditional (I guess) comic art is so displeasing to my eyes and I just find it so hard to stay engaged in that sort of thing. Like, recently I tried reading some Avengers Assemble and Young Avengers and I just couldn't deal with how bored I was and how much I didn't like looking at the art and didn't care about all the action bullshit. I mean, there's action in Hawkeye but it's different somehow; more fun, maybe. And I love Clint so much, I love how he stumbles disastrously through his life and is such a failure and all the flawless women in his life have no time for him.




Hey guys rec me more stuff!! I've only really read Marvel, so is there any good DC stuff? Like, do good Superman comics exist? I am invested since childhood in Clark and Lois as characters but the comics seem so blah. I don't really care about Batman and co. Is there good stuff??