Going into Joss-withdrawl

POSTED BY: AlienZookeeper
UPDATED: Thursday, June 10, 2004 21:14
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HOAGIE

Thursday, June 10, 2004 2:30 PM

alright, keep calm, start breathing. there is hope. it's not Joss but if you are looking for good writing and in-depth characters then there are some substitutes. it's kind of like a nicotine patch.

SHOWS: try the DVD set of the first (and second if you like it) season of the HBO show OZ. written by Tom Fontana of St. Elsewhere and Homicide. amazing show, but really gritty and sometimes hard to break away (did eight hour-long episodes in one shot once)

BOOKS: Neil Gaiman has a series of comics out called The Sandman. not as character driven as Joss's work, but great concept and beautiful art. Gaiman also did a book called American Gods that will blow your mind once a chapter. seriously, the way Joss made everyone re-think vampires, Neil Gaiman does with American culture (as in history)

MOVIES: Princess Mononoke (anime), Spirited Away (anime), Fight Club, Dark City, Amilie

Hope this helps

FIREFLEW

Thursday, June 10, 2004 2:50 PM

I wonder if, after the movie, (and I hope more than two and less than 4 ) Joss will work on something else.... It will be interesting to see what direction he goes in.

Jayne: "Know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I beat you with till you understand who's in command."

MISGUIDED BY VOICES

Thursday, June 10, 2004 9:14 PM

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Originally posted by GreggAllinson:
There's Astonishing X-Men...

Read the first issue - not bad, and not too hard to follow despite the fact I know little or nothing about X-Men continuity (last time I read regularly was when I was suckered into shelling out on the alternate universe stories, and before that was back when Spidey teamed up with them to take down Juggernaut, Rogue absorbed his powers and went crazy... guess that stuck in the memory).

My only criticism is the last few pages are hard to follow (they are written as if cutting between three stories, which doesn't really work in comics), but some of the lines are laugh out loud funny - Kitty Pride's "sorry I'm late, I was remembering to put on all of my clothes" to Emma Frost.

"I threw up on your bed"

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