The Next Event Comic

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(08-19-2011 09:00 AM)Essa Dee Wrote:  As a female reader who is still new to comics, what trades or storylines would be good introductions to these characters? This all seems really overwhelming.

Magic Hippie Gang's Carnival of Deceit - It's a classic. Roshomba Dodonna and Kilkie Ferguson really made me feel for those Mayonnaise people and their plight. And when Flower Girl uses the power of holistic healing and organic, community-grown vegetables to defeat the Hyper-Monger? That's the good stuff, right there.

Melancholio, The Sleep Master: The Dream of Sleeping Dreamers - A little cliché, but still great. Chester Greenfield's mythical take on the 1930's character of the immortal and very sad Sleep Master sold a million ankhs and stole the hearts of alienated teenagers everywhere where there is a Hot Topic within driving distance. Seriously, when him and Shakespeare and Galileo go to the witch-burnings in Salem and Shakespeare's like, "What webs we weave when we spin webs of deceit." I was like, "Yes."

I Can't Believe The Pickle We Are In With This Crisis - How Rodolpho Rodriguez managed to draw every singe comic book character ever in this centuries-spanning mega-epic is a miracle. The fact that he drew half of them nude is just icing on the cake. Plus, you have Gerhard von Shootterdup writing the ever-living hell out of this thing. Thigh Masher has never been so cool as when he took out the Anti-Sun using the Ultimate Popcorn Ray at the heart of the Septiverse.

Happy reading!