h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Cymbeline, if you have not read the Watchmen, try and borrow it straight away!

aaaaaah, Hellblazer...... liked John from his first apperance in Swamp Thing.

I shall have to do that!
...what? I'm confused.

-Cymbeline

Have a look at the front page. There is an entry guide on the comic "The Watchmen". Give it a read, it kind of tells you what it's about and if you would like it. Without this, DC comics would never had launched the Vertigo line and I doubt if gainman would of been allowed to do Sandman.

*grin*
Good stuff, I will have to check it out.. As for the confused thing, I was talking about Hellblazer, but maybe that is just part of that comic and I will understand after I read that.

Gotta love pure stream of thought written down..
-Cymbeline

Hellblazer is a Comic and the character first appeared in another comic - Swamp Thing. That's the trouble with reading comics...... start off with one and you can find a lot more that grab your attention.

Did you ever read the Dark Horse 3 part series "Freaks Amore"?

Absolutely brilliant, very dark, and completly unheard of!

Comics are horrifically addictive.. I love them. Although I never really could get into DC or Marvel universes... Other than a bit of Superboy, but that's just 'cause my friend collected them. I've always been a more dark horse/anime type of girl.. (Yes, I collected Ranma 1/2 for a long time...)
-Cymbeline

I never got into the Japanese stuff but you might want to vist the Anime and Manga Shack. Can't to the link but type into search h2g2.

Dark Horse..... didn't get the comic Flinch mentioned. I get the Sin City stuff + The 300, Just finished Craig Russell's Ring Cycle but my fave D.Horse has to be Hellboy.

Just discovered it a couple of years ago and it's now climbed to the top of my list. It's got everything for me!!

If you see back issues of Freaks Amore, snap them up, there's only three, and they're from about 1992 - one of the covers is by J O'Barr.

I thought he only did Crow? I will pick 'em up if I see them. It's nice to get a recommended read.

I leant mine to someone and never got them back, and i've never seen them again. Grrrr.

*grin*
Ordered some of the Sandman graphic novels yesterday..
Shall have to check out Freaks Amore.

-Cymbeline

How much are the graphic novels? £8-9? You can pick up the origonal issues for 20p a shot these days, nobody wants them! i keep meaning to fill the gaps in my collection.

Um..
I don't know pounds to dollars but i paid between 10-13$ for the two i ordered..
*wink*
Again, silly American doesn't know something.
Nobody wants them? I want them dangit! I STILL haven't read the whole thing, and that galls me..
-Cymbeline

15c

42?
Just Kidding.. Well I got my book today (Amazon sending something in two days' time.. I think I shall faint.. ), and finished Neverwhere this morning.. it was quite good.
-Cymbeline

We started Sandman from about issue 26/7. mrsthewife is jealous that you are now reading it in big installments! 5 years to read & every month..... is Sandman in yet! is it? i want it! gimmie,gimmie

*giggle* I just finished it this morning.
Unfortunately, like a prat, I bought one that I've already read.
*wink*
But others are coming.. Wee!
I was too young at the time Sandman was coming out to be reading such things, unfortunately..
-Cymbeline

Which volume did you get? And where did you pick up the word "prat" .. thats a very English expression.

I really like words from other languages/dialects.. They are more interesting to me than plain English, and since I am on this site (British-based) a lot, and also I read a lot of England-based fanfiction, I pick up a lot of that stuff. That sentence had a lot of commas.

I got volume 3 - Dream Country. Which is the one I've probably read the most times, although I think I got more out of it this time than I did the others.

-Cymbeline, the wannabe Englishwoman