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So, who's into graphic novels? I need recommendations. (pg. 2)
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| netroM |
| If you wait until 2010 you might be able to get XIII :) |
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| Lira |
Thanks a lot, everyone! I'll look for these titles in the bookshop.
| quote: | Originally posted by netroM
If you wait until 2010 you might be able to get XIII :) |
The thing is, I'm the one born in January - his birthday is this week :p |
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| Danny Ocean |
get him these 5, although i dont know how big of a comic fan he is..
Preacher was cool too. |
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| floyd741 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
- He's a devout Christian;
- He browses that site I cannot mention due to laws #1 and #2.
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does not compute |
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| rT19 |
| i hate getting books for my bday.. thats just me though :D |
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| infinity HiGH |
| quote: | Originally posted by bas
Surrogates or Whiteout? Surrogates looks promising, but the pg13 ratign is probably going to gay it up big time :( |
Surrogates. I'd be curious to check out the graphic novel to see if there's any depth to it. The movie was predictable and shallow. Not very creative either. It's supposed to be the future, but other than walking cyborgs everywhere it was exactly like our world.
Another 90 minute cookie-cutter movie. Bruce Willis saves the world again. |
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| astroboy |
I recently read a couple of volumes of a manga called Vagabond (バガボンド ) about the life of Musashi (based on Yoshikawa's novel) that I actually thought was quite cool.. not being a manga/comic book fan at all.
edit: you can check it out here: http://www.onemanga.com/Vagabond/ |
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| Lira |
So much for my research: I wrote it all down on my phone, went to the biggest local bookshop and everything I found was either too expensive or unavailable at the moment. In the end, I ran into a clerk that knew my friend, and I ended up getting something with Wolverine in it.
I kind of like the concept behind DMZ, though... if it ever comes out on film, I'm certainly going to check it out :)
Oh, and Astro, I find Vagabond a tad bit too disconcerting - the only time I opened the magazine in my life, in the very first page I opened I saw a naked girl on all fours with a Japanese Donkey Kong-like figure behind her saying "graaaawr" with the saying "tap tap tap" all over the page :p |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by floyd741
does not compute |
Yeah, I know. But, as long as he's happy, I don't mind :p |
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| astroboy |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Oh, and Astro, I find Vagabond a tad bit too disconcerting - the only time I opened the magazine in my life, in the very first page I opened I saw a naked girl on all fours with a Japanese Donkey Kong-like figure behind her saying "graaaawr" with the saying "tap tap tap" all over the page :p |
LOL yeah they're pretty liberal with the sex scenes.. though of course being Japanese genitalia/pubic hair is never shown. But sex actually doesn't come up all that often.. it's more about musashi's personal journey to master the way of the sword and his struggle with himself, his own insecurities, weaknesses moral conflicts etc.. If your friend is a Catholic I think he'll find a lot to relate to.. guilt is a dominant theme :p |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by astroboy
LOL yeah they're pretty liberal with the sex scenes.. though of course being Japanese genitalia/pubic hair is never shown. But sex actually doesn't come up all that often.. it's more about musashi's personal journey to master the way of the sword and his struggle with himself, his own insecurities, weaknesses moral conflicts etc.. If your friend is a Catholic I think he'll find a lot to relate to.. guilt is a dominant theme :p |
Guilt in Musashi/Vagabond? Really? How so? Guilt is not exactly supposed to play a big role in Japanese thought :conf: |
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| astroboy |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Guilt in Musashi/Vagabond? Really? How so? Guilt is not exactly supposed to play a big role in Japanese thought :conf: |
For Musashi himself it's not quite so big an issue. Though he is often rebuked for the life of killing he leads, he quickly reconciles it in a very Zen way. But another character is his childhood friend who never had the strength to follow the way of the sword or make a name for himself and goes around being a bit of a scoundrel, liar etc.. I suppose his ultimate feeling of guilt could be put down to his lack of filial piety and inability to be strong enough to follow a particular path.. regrets which reflect values that are somewhat Japanese (or at least very Asian/confucian/Buddhist-Taoist). |
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