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It's got what plants crave.

sunlight?

^ what OL said. Also should add that Saito should not be present either

I think American comics greatest strengths is also it's greatest weakness. Like you said, many comics have these incredible backstories that you could spend literal weeks going over before you even get to the current story. Assuming you have the time. Which is a good thing if you like to read a lot, but is rather unreasonable for most everyone else. to go along with decades worth of material you may or may not have to read, there's also the matter of the writers and the artists that work on the series. The longest running series' may have had dozens if not hundreds of writer/artist teams over their long careers, which you will rarely, if ever get in a manga series. So if you want to get into an older series, you're going to have to take the bad with the good, and either start from the beginning, which I don't think is necessary, or you can start from some position like a major story arc. As an example, I didn't start reading The Avengers until The House of M crossover. Sure I had some prior knowledge of it but it's not like I had been following it. I basically skipped forty years right there and it's okay.

As for recommendations:
I Kill Giants
The Sandman - from Vertigo Comics if there's any confusion.
The Unwritten
House of Mystery
Saga
Powers
The Boys
Crossed - the first series by Garth Ennis in particular. It's very gruesome. I do not use that word lightly for this series.
Rapture
Fables
Madame Xanadu - though I can only attest for the most recent series
Y: The Last Man - without a doubt the best thing I have read since Nausicaa.
The Walking Dead - ever since the end of the first season of the tv show, it's gotten much harder to find copies at the comic shop. So yes the hype is real, and it's a great comic.
Guncady and it's indirect sequel The Ride: Die Valkyrie. You can read the first chapter here
Rising Stars
North 40
28 Days Later - which takes place shortly before 28 Weeks Later and features Selena in a proper starring role.
If you like movie adaptations there's aliens vs predator and Starship Troopers. Although if you're a big fan of Heinlien you might want to stay away from starship troopers.
Archer and Armstrong
Bone
DMZ
The Sword - fucking epic
Higher Earth
Hotwire
Mystery Society
Runaways
Coraline - yes, it's for kids. Doesn't stop it from being properly captivating
Valerian and Laureline - not American but French I believe. can't understand half of the scans I do have of it, but it's good stuff all the same.

I know you said no super hero stuff, but well, give these atleast a once over.
all of the Ultimate Marvel comics up until Ultimatum atleast, where the majority of the line goes to pot. #-o reboots done right imo
Journey into Mystery - this series doesn't permanently follow one character or group over it's long off again on again history. the name is fairly apt as it focuses on mysterious incidences within the Marvel Universe rather than an actual character. It's ranged from whodunit type mysteries to how does the universe work
Annihilation and Annihilation: Conquest - One of the best things Marvel has put out in a very, very long time. They actually managed to make Nova relevant. Until this point, he was just some lame space cop
Alongside Planet Hulk, ofcourse.
House of M - this is what really got me back into superhero comics. Up until this I didn't really care what happened
Joss Whedon's, and Garth Ennis' runs on Astonishing X-Men
Secret Warriors
the Spider Island crossover- it had some seriously funny moments.
The Incredible Hercules - again really funny
Grant Morrison's run on New X-Men - best place as any to start with X-men
Guardians of the Galaxy - post annihilation
as well as the War of Kings and Thanos Imperative crossovers - for some reason marvel crossovers that take place in space are better than the huge ones that get all the hype.


That's it for me. Not much mainstream DC because I can only keep up with one continuity


/exhales dramatically

I learned how to make animated gifs today. I then went and made one from a porno. It's actually not bad for my first gif.

Here's one for you guys that I doubt many of you have played.

I used to play this game all day long. it had a story mode but I always just went for the free battle.

Well, I rarely post in those topics anyway. Likely because everyone just info dumps into them, So yeah, let's split this shit up.

I've seen the video, but not the hires photos. :throwup:
I broke my nose trying to catch a popfly in little league. It's still crooked. All I can say to this is: Milk: It does a body good. Never had a break before and I like to credit it to lots of calcium intake. Although more recently I did get this nasty bruise while working. The swelling took about two months to go down and it still tingles where it happened.

Riku Rose wrote:
It's funny though how we ran after Saddam like he was the Roadrunner but Kim Jung Un comes out yelling and we ignore him.

It's like that saying about being careful of the quiet ones. Also, say what you will about his demise, but Saddam had actual skill as a despotic warlord.

I wonder how many of those new members are sock puppets of TEEPO. Welcome non-sock puppet people.

found these at the swap meet. Today. Bought them for $2 each. freaking score.

You are not authorised to read this forum.

As opposed to when houses take off. Incident every time.

Goddammit. I'm sorry, but I had to say it.

I don't think them marching on our nation's capital with loaded guns is going to change that opinion. In any case, if he weren't cremated, Gandhi would be spinning in his grave.

track back and listen to it form the beginning if you want.

The reason for the sky high price on the blu-rays is because they are an imported item straight from Japan. It seems no one at Sunrise has had the brilliant idea of releasing an awesome, and profitable blu-ray set set in the West.

Yeah. Sounds like the start of Water 7. Shame, since Water 7/Enies Lobby is one of the best story arcs in One Piece.

Ryudo wrote: I found a good streaming site. I hate watching shows on my PC but whatever. I just finished that whole bit and now just saw..

Merry burn

I remember that moment. Never thought I would cry over a boat.

Sauce
Norwegian interior designer Marte Deborah Dalelv has spoken out after being handed a 16-month prison sentence in Dubai -- after she went to police to report she had been raped by a colleague.

The 24-year-old was convicted and sentenced on charges of having unlawful sex, making a false statement and illegal consumption of alcohol.

Her story is dominating the headlines in Norway, and has raised serious questions over the way women who allege sexual assault are treated in the United Arab Emirates.

As outraged as they want us to be about this I can't help but burst into laughter at the question the police asked the woman in the quote below:

After again giving her version of events to officers, Dalelv said, "They asked me, ' Are you sure you called the police because you just didn't like it? ' I said, 'Well of course I didn't like it.' That is when I knew, I don't think they are going to believe me at all."
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v172/silent_killer/in%20case%20of%20troll%20attack/facepalm.jpg You dun fucked up UAE.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v172/silent_killer/random%20stuffs/20130723_213201.jpg
Finally arrived from Rightstuf. I thought my chances of picking these up were gone forever since Tokyopop quit the game.
Hooray for finding old stock and selling it at a decent price! \:D/ \:D/ \:D/ \:D/

I am actually commando right now. It is rather refreshing. Don't normally go out with out underpants though. I have a fear of being depantsed while standing in a line somewhere.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v172/silent_killer/random%20stuffs/20130922_220351.jpg
ten dollars at the swap meet. Haven't actually checked if it works though. Came with everything put the power cord, which isn't a problem to me since I've got every kind imaginable coming out of everywhere.

Bought my first car a couple of weeks ago, don't have any pictures but as you can imagine it's a total babe magnet. :rotflmao:
Well spill the beans man or are you gonna make us guess? Japanese? American? German?
... Korean...
Here you go. Got a picture of his car for my fellow forumgoers. It's a babe magnet alright.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v172/silent_killer/random%20stuffs/Ice_Cream_Truck_Sydney_Australia_-_crop.png

Legend of Korra
Shit be getting real

Crimson Ryan wrote: No. Make another season of Sonic SatAM instead..

Either that or just a straight up adaptation of Archie Comics' Sonic. Honestly, I was never a fan of the story told by the games. They were always secondary and very simple, and when they tried making them more complex they weren't very good.

Well, at least Locke_cole remembers me. Thanks for putting me on your "not an idiot" list. I appreciate that.

Still waiting on Dragonslayer88, scottdavies2k, nuts_to_that, and comrades.

Oh but you know what. I do have a couple good memories of this place.

There was the time when we were fighting with the Sega forum on forumplanet. They tried spamming us, but as we were at the time, a hive of scum and villainy, they essentially just kicked a hornets nest. All because they didn't believe LanDC was able to essentially take apart the data on the game discs and comb through it for all the media that we have on the main page. They believed he made it all up. Well, screw those guys if they ever read this. They can go eat a bag of dicks.

There's also the time dragonslayer88 came looking for help translating some letters from this Spanish girl he was penpalling with. He was a really nice kid. I wonder whatever happened with that girl and him?

I've got a question about the history. I remember years ago, there was a split or something here and some members left to found the Hazuki Dojo or whatever it was called. How did that start and what actually happened? I wish there was a good history page about this site. I'm sure the history of this place is just as fascinating as the games themselves. From what I remember reading on the forums at the time, the name of the site was up for grabs because Andy either forgot or there was a glitch in his bank account or something. In any case, the name was for sale and Hellraiser bought it and wouldn't give it back. Thus started the revolt and then the great exodus. Or at least that's how I remember it.

Let's go a little further back though, to the forumplanet days when I first joined. At the time I joined, there was some drama going on with a member name Dakki. Apparently she had two accounts on the board, and the second account was that of a male. Supposedly the ruse had gone on for some time. Eventually everyone found out and the jokes started flying that Dakki was a transexual. The board went really hard on her. I was just starting out there when that went down, and I talked to her once or twice over ICQ. She didn't seem so bad. I don't think she deserved the hate she recieved then.

A couple other things: A user called ShenmueII. Everyone hated that turd. He was a total ass to everyone. No exceptions. And lastly, whatever happened to comrades? That guy was awesome. If I remember right he was the first person to welcome me here.


In the new forums after forumplanet there's the time that I believe, Louis, nuked half the forums. I and Juanfran were about the only people logged into the site for awhile, while it was getting wrecked to shit. We just kind of watched it all burn to the ground around us. The junk forum was completely gone, the "what song are you listening to?" thread was gone. Which was a carryover from forumplanet and was absolutely massive at the time of it's deletion. Fucking shame that one. A lot of history there. He also turned on the word filter where "I" and a few other very common words was changed to something offensive, so everyone that still had access to the site, which wasn't a lot since he also banned a lot of people, had to improvise.Here's an example:
http://www.shenmuedojo.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=294128#p294128

So if you ever wondered, that's why.


Goddamn. That was a nice trip down memory lane. :lurk:

Does it count if we disappear for years at a time and then return to lurk some more? Been off and on for about 15 years.