Comments on: Tell Me What To Read: Accepting Donations http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/09/30/tell-me-what-to-read-accepting-donations/ The Blog@ Team and prominent comics personalities share what’s on their minds. Thu, 23 May 2013 17:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: D. Peace http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/09/30/tell-me-what-to-read-accepting-donations/comment-page-1/#comment-475156 D. Peace Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:10:02 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=12798#comment-475156 Everyone should read PROMETHEA but don't feel the need to buy the Absolute edition. Those things, while probably the best published editions of comics on the market, are really only for hardcore fans. Nobody can afford those things for a casual read. You mentioned waiting for PROMETHEA to show up at the library... I think the public library is the best place to go for books when you're broke. My public library (and yours might be different, I don't know) doesn't have enough money for every superfluous comic out there, so they just concentrate on stuff that truly has merit. Over the many years, I've borrowed and read THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, MAUS, the entire collection of HELLBOY, FUN HOME, AMERICAN BORN CHINESE, ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY, LOVE AND ROCKETS, and the entirety of Osamu Tezuka's BUDDHA. I'm sure you've read all of those but the point is that you might find something worthwhile that you haven't. Whenever people ask me which comics they should spend money on when they're broke, I just want to say "None of them. Don't spend a penny, other than the few dollars you might voluntarily donate to the library." Everyone should read PROMETHEA but don’t feel the need to buy the Absolute edition. Those things, while probably the best published editions of comics on the market, are really only for hardcore fans. Nobody can afford those things for a casual read.

You mentioned waiting for PROMETHEA to show up at the library… I think the public library is the best place to go for books when you’re broke. My public library (and yours might be different, I don’t know) doesn’t have enough money for every superfluous comic out there, so they just concentrate on stuff that truly has merit. Over the many years, I’ve borrowed and read THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, MAUS, the entire collection of HELLBOY, FUN HOME, AMERICAN BORN CHINESE, ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY, LOVE AND ROCKETS, and the entirety of Osamu Tezuka’s BUDDHA.

I’m sure you’ve read all of those but the point is that you might find something worthwhile that you haven’t. Whenever people ask me which comics they should spend money on when they’re broke, I just want to say “None of them. Don’t spend a penny, other than the few dollars you might voluntarily donate to the library.”

]]> By: Daryll B http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/09/30/tell-me-what-to-read-accepting-donations/comment-page-1/#comment-475150 Daryll B Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:07:03 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=12798#comment-475150 oooo nice link crazy...I may have a lot of faults with Blackest Night but who died and made Alan Moore king of ideas? Well I guess when you are a genius, comic fans should stop reading all types of materials after reading your stuff huh Mr. Moore? lol Sarah I'll just say this, being in the same status as you I have found a lot of more time to search libraries in New York for the best Graphic Novel sections... oooo nice link crazy…I may have a lot of faults with Blackest Night but who died and made Alan Moore king of ideas?

Well I guess when you are a genius, comic fans should stop reading all types of materials after reading your stuff huh Mr. Moore?

lol Sarah I’ll just say this, being in the same status as you I have found a lot of more time to search libraries in New York for the best Graphic Novel sections…

]]> By: CrazyCanuck http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/09/30/tell-me-what-to-read-accepting-donations/comment-page-1/#comment-475132 CrazyCanuck Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:28:18 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=12798#comment-475132 I have never read Promethea either. I had the intention of making a better effort to read more Moore, but his recent slandering of Johns and DC over Blackest Night as turned me off of him. He seems bitter and too self-absorbed for me to support his work right now. http://www.bleedingcool.com/2009/09/21/alan-moore-talks-blackest-night/ For a fun, affordable, retro read, I recommend Vol. 1 of the TMNT Collected Edition. I have never read Promethea either. I had the intention of making a better effort to read more Moore, but his recent slandering of Johns and DC over Blackest Night as turned me off of him. He seems bitter and too self-absorbed for me to support his work right now.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2009/09/21/alan-moore-talks-blackest-night/

For a fun, affordable, retro read, I recommend Vol. 1 of the TMNT Collected Edition.

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