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Dan Brereton's The Nocturnals
I fraggin love this series! It's like a cross between Hellboy, Lovecraft, and a 90's Halloween special
I highly recommend both The Black Planet and The Dark Forever
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Some other stuff, I was readin Duckman and The Tick in black and white. When I found out they got TV shows...well I was excited about Tick. I never saw Duckman until much later. 
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There have been b&w books with extended runs. Cerebus had 300 issues. A little daunting, I have been aware of it for half my life without touching it. But it is so critically acclaimed, I always wanted to. I finally got the first TPB last year. It is good but I'm not sure how far I'll continue.
Now that you mention it...I like short runs. I like to read a story and move on. Not follow the same characters for decades while they don't age and the writers have to stretch further and further. It makes characters weak. X-Men was the worst about this. Same reason I can't watch The Simpsons any more.
I also like to experience the unique art styles. One that really stood out for me was Atomic Man (which had three issues)
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When I was a kid, I used to mail order comics out of the great Mile High Comics print catalog. They had a 50 cent section chock full of weird and mostly black and white indie stuff. Since they were so cheap, I would order anything that sounded interesting.
There were TMNT ripoffs like Geriatric Gangrene Jiu-Jitsu Gerbils and Pre-Teen Dirty Gene Kung Fu Kangaroos The latter was made by Lee Marrs, who as I found out many years later, was a major underground comix female creator in the 70s. As seen in the cover scan below, this ripoff was done with the blessing of Peter Laird.
There were bizarre humor/heroes like Too Much Coffee Man and Fat Ninja.
There were 'funny animal' adventures like Space Beaver and The Adventures of Captain Jack.
Most of these, I genuinely enjoyed. I believe Captain Jack was my introduction to Fantagraphics. A few years later, I saw creator Mike Kazaleh's name in the credits of an Archie TMNT book. He's gone on to do lots of work for other notable comics but Captain Jack never got the recognition I felt it deserved. I wrote him a letter to tell him how much I liked Captain Jack. He actually wrote back to me, signed with a sketch. The other side of the scrap paper he wrote on was xeroxed TMNT stuff, I'd guess used for inking practice. What a great guy!
Another good book that I got from the local shop when it was new (instead of from Mile High's bargain bin) was Scud the Disposable Assassin. A robot vending machine assassin who will kill whoever you want and then self-destruct, he realizes his situation and disables his target "Jeff" instead of killing him. He then keeps him alive in the hospital, and strikes out as a freelance assassin to make money to keep Jeff alive but incapacitated. Amazing concept, I always thought. The series had a lot of cool and strange adventures.
Who else was (or is) into black & white indie comics? What are your favorites?tangspot2 wrote:Mrs. stake you say some nasty on my threads. Dirty bitchAre you sure you want to delete this post? Yes | No
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