fennnaten
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Post by fennnaten on Feb 26, 2013 19:34:09 GMT -5
Currently reading "Meeting the Other Crowd", by Carolyn Eve Green and Eddie Lennihan, a collection of stories about the Irish Wee Folk. I'm also re-reading R.A Salvatore's series around Drizzt Do'Urden (reminds me my teenage years. ^^ ). After that, I've something like 20 or 30 books in my "to read" stack ^^' but I'm waiting eagerly for next ones from Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. On the comics side, I've just finished the latest Walking Dead released in France, and I don't know yet what will come next. If I lend you a comic, I think it would be either Black Moon Chronicles ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Moon_Chronicles ) or Blacksad ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacksad ) ^^ |
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Post by Beth on Feb 27, 2013 2:04:17 GMT -5
Becca, do you mean the Comics Expo in Cardiff? If so I'm planning on going on Sunday!
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Post by thewordiebirdie on Feb 27, 2013 15:51:19 GMT -5
I love Blacksad dearly! Hooray for a fellow Blacksad fan  |
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Post by fennnaten on Feb 27, 2013 16:17:43 GMT -5
Yeah, high five! \o/ |
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Post by thewordiebirdie on Feb 27, 2013 16:29:03 GMT -5
I heart animorphic cartoons - I find them a lot more relatable than superhero-based ones, on the whole. Who else do you like?
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Post by beccatoria on Feb 27, 2013 17:48:07 GMT -5
Becca, do you mean the Comics Expo in Cardiff? If so I'm planning on going on Sunday! OMGS I DO. But I'm going Saturday because I'm busy Sunday! Wow, you live here? What a weird coincidence! (ETA: And by weird I mean cool weird, obviously!) Becca, I've been looking for the last of the Inheritance Trilogy as I've read and really liked the first two. Blasted library system. I have the first of Jemisin's new series to read at present, among other things! With regards to The Maxx, there actually isn't much of a difference between the animation and the first three volumes of comics with regards to plot, save that there's more detail and character complexity, worth seeking out the TPBs if you get a chance! I got into it via the animation and then became a huge Kieth dork (see: Zero Girl). It's a pretty awesome trilogy so far - but I only just started the second book. I miss the narrator of the first book, but I suspect I'll be in love with this one in a few chapters... And awesome, I'm glad that the animation held up well against the original but I do definitely need to pick it up sometime. |
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Post by Beth on Feb 27, 2013 18:09:12 GMT -5
I do! Well, about 25 miles north of Cardiff. Very cool weird!
I may be staying at a friend's Friday night, in which case we'll go to the expo Saturday, but it depends if I get all my work finished by then.
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Post by fennnaten on Feb 27, 2013 18:21:57 GMT -5
@riven: Hum, when I was a kid I used to read super hero comics ( X-men, Spidey, Fantastic Four, Avengers, Batman ) a lot, alongside with Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck (Don Rosa and Carl Barks *-* ), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Conan the Barbarian. Then I switched to a lot of classic French/Belgian comics (Boule et Bill, Spirou et Fantasio, Tintin, Astérix, Gaston Lagaffe, Johan et Pirlouit, Lucky Luke, the Smurfs, Alix, Soeur Marie-Thérèse des Batignolles, Thorgal, Lanfeust... the list is so long that I can't remember everything xD ). Two of them that I read recently and would deeply recommand, in two diferent styles, are Samurai:Legend by Di Giorgio and Genêt, and de Cape et de Crocs by Alain Ayroles and Jean-Luc Masbou. The later is an animorphic set up in France in 17th century, and it's great, but I'm not sure it would translate well in English, because of the constant references to theater texts and all the plays on words.
I also follow some webcomics, mostly satiric, like Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, xkcd, Perry Bible Fellowship... and some other from French artists too, like Boulet or Maliki.
And I love Calvin and Hobbes, Mafalda, Garfield or Snoopy.
Hum, and I'm also a big mangas reader (can't enumerate, I wouldn't be able to stop xD )
Whatever the support, I'm a big "culture consumer" in fact. That plus my learning addiction, plus life, that's why I never have enough time xD If only I wasn't forced to sleep T_T (by the way, that reminds me of The Sleepless series from Nancy Kress, a great reading!)
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Post by beccatoria on Feb 28, 2013 16:09:55 GMT -5
I do! Well, about 25 miles north of Cardiff. Very cool weird! I may be staying at a friend's Friday night, in which case we'll go to the expo Saturday, but it depends if I get all my work finished by then. Amazing! I feel I should tell you how to recognise me in case we're there at the same time or something, but it's the one place where, "I'll be wearing a Big Barda T-Shirt," is suddenly not so identifiable...  And I don't own anything awesome like a top hat or a cosplay costume... |
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Post by Beth on Feb 28, 2013 16:53:03 GMT -5
That's a good point! I do have a top hat, though given I'll probably be wearing a t-shirt and jeans it won't go too well  I will... be wearing a grey nerd Smurf t-shirt and Batgirl shoes (though they might be hard to see!) and I'll have a blue monster bag with me. He has white horns and a purple tongue. Hopefully that'll be easy enough to spot if we're there at the same time! |
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Post by beccatoria on Feb 28, 2013 17:21:48 GMT -5
That's a good point! I do have a top hat, though given I'll probably be wearing a t-shirt and jeans it won't go too well I will... be wearing a grey nerd Smurf t-shirt and Batgirl shoes (though they might be hard to see!) and I'll have a blue monster bag with me. He has white horns and a purple tongue. Hopefully that'll be easy enough to spot if we're there at the same time! ...I'll probably also be wearing comic book shoes! And also jeans. Oh, and a red leather trenchcoat. So I guess that might be kinda noticeable! Will keep an eye out for the bag! |
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Post by Beth on Feb 28, 2013 17:53:23 GMT -5
And I'll keep an eye out for the red leather trenchcoat!
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Post by thewordiebirdie on Mar 1, 2013 6:30:01 GMT -5
aww, RL MSCSI meet-ups |
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Post by beccatoria on Mar 2, 2013 17:14:23 GMT -5
aww, RL MSCSI meet-ups Aww, I missed her though.  It was SUPER packed. And also saw some OTHER woman wearing a red trenchcoat so, Beth, I'm sorry if you accosted a stranger! |
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Post by Rhi on Mar 2, 2013 17:20:16 GMT -5
Fenn, I really liked the Sleepless books as well, along with some of Kress' other work. Have you read any of her other books?
It's been a while, though!
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And I don't own anything awesome like a top hat or a cosplay costume... 
It was SUPER packed.