Great New Books You Picked Up in 2012
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 5:50 pm
What have you picked up this year that was new to you and you've found to be really quite enjoyable?
Don't feel limited to books that were new in 2012. new to you is what I want to know.
Image's Skull Kickers
It's wonderful, fantasy, mindless action and violence. It follows a couple of monster hunters. A human with a gun and a dwarf armed with a couple of axes. I've read the first trade and neither of the lead characters have been given a name. The names are beside the point. This is a book about fantasy action. It's described by the writer as a kind of role playing game like D&D, but with non of the other elements to the game like solving puzzles. No, this is pure action, combat and violence. The main duo cause as much trouble as they solve.
IDW's Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye
This book is very amusing!
I've picked up all three of the on-going IDW Transformers series and this is the best.
While the sister title 'Robots In Disguise' focuses on what happens on Cybertron after the Autobots have finally won, Robots In Disguise follows a group of Transformers who have left Cybertron in search of adventure, trying to find the Lost Knights of Cybertron.
The crew is an eclectic bunch. Rodimus is a narcisist, Ultra Magnus is anal, Drift is a new age idiot, Brainstorm's an evil genius, who is obviously jealous of Perceptors fame as the brainy one, Whirl is a sociopath and every other character brings something unique to the crew.
You really get a sense of transformer life in this series and after every issue you feel you've learnt a little bit more about the life on a planet like Cybertron and you laugh a little at how they've done it. The way how every transformers' alternative mode affects their standing in life and what they do for work is covered, religion gets covered, medical procedures and robot 'biology' is covered as is the idea of plastic surgery in robot terms and all of these ideas all come together to enrich the story with a fantastic robot world that will make you smile.
Cinebook's Thorgal
Cinebook is the English translation publisher. I don't know who the original publisher is. This is an old Belgium comic from the writer who also did XIII, which has also been published in English and some of you may be familiar with.
Thorgal, is set in what I guess must be the Viking Age. It follows the tale of Thorgal child of the stars, who a group of Vikings found in a spacecraft's emergency raft as a baby and adopted. There's a fantastic mixture of Nordic mythology, fantasy adventure, horror and science fiction.
Don't feel limited to books that were new in 2012. new to you is what I want to know.
Image's Skull Kickers
It's wonderful, fantasy, mindless action and violence. It follows a couple of monster hunters. A human with a gun and a dwarf armed with a couple of axes. I've read the first trade and neither of the lead characters have been given a name. The names are beside the point. This is a book about fantasy action. It's described by the writer as a kind of role playing game like D&D, but with non of the other elements to the game like solving puzzles. No, this is pure action, combat and violence. The main duo cause as much trouble as they solve.
IDW's Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye
This book is very amusing!
I've picked up all three of the on-going IDW Transformers series and this is the best.
While the sister title 'Robots In Disguise' focuses on what happens on Cybertron after the Autobots have finally won, Robots In Disguise follows a group of Transformers who have left Cybertron in search of adventure, trying to find the Lost Knights of Cybertron.
The crew is an eclectic bunch. Rodimus is a narcisist, Ultra Magnus is anal, Drift is a new age idiot, Brainstorm's an evil genius, who is obviously jealous of Perceptors fame as the brainy one, Whirl is a sociopath and every other character brings something unique to the crew.
You really get a sense of transformer life in this series and after every issue you feel you've learnt a little bit more about the life on a planet like Cybertron and you laugh a little at how they've done it. The way how every transformers' alternative mode affects their standing in life and what they do for work is covered, religion gets covered, medical procedures and robot 'biology' is covered as is the idea of plastic surgery in robot terms and all of these ideas all come together to enrich the story with a fantastic robot world that will make you smile.
Cinebook's Thorgal
Cinebook is the English translation publisher. I don't know who the original publisher is. This is an old Belgium comic from the writer who also did XIII, which has also been published in English and some of you may be familiar with.
Thorgal, is set in what I guess must be the Viking Age. It follows the tale of Thorgal child of the stars, who a group of Vikings found in a spacecraft's emergency raft as a baby and adopted. There's a fantastic mixture of Nordic mythology, fantasy adventure, horror and science fiction.