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sachyriel · 8 months

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Strange Skies Over East Berlin

This was a great book, amazing art with an existentiaist story set during the Cold War. I highly recommend it, a spy thriller, horror novel and philosophy primer all in one.

Though I feel like it didn't hit me as hard as it should have. Being an Absurdist the big horror of the book was instead something to be liberating to me. The monster is still scary, but how the humans deal with it is very basic, gotta shoot what you don't understand.

#Strange Skies over east Berlin #graphic novel #comic books #comics #boom comics

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smillingcartoonist · 4 years

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Strange Skies Over East Berlin 3 #

#Strange Skies Over East Berlin #Jeff Loveness #Lisandro Estherren

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ultrameganicolaokay · 5 years

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Strange Skies Over East Berlin #2 by Jeff Loveness, Lisandro Estherren and Patricio Delpeche. Cover by Evan Cagle.

#strange skies over east berlin #boom studios #jeff loveness #lisandro estherren #patricio delpeche #evan cagle #comics

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theblackestofsuns · 5 years

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Strange Skies Over East Berlin #1 (October 2019)

Cover by Evan Cagle

Boom! Studios

#Strange Skies Over East Berlin #Evan Cagle #Boom! Studios #Great Comics #Great Comic Covers

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lightningarmour · 4 years

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Hey everyone, run over to your local comic shop and buy every issue of SOMETHING IS KILLING THE CHILDREN.

#comic books #comic recs #boom! studios #something is killing the children #boom have been on a motherfucking roll the last few months #this #strange skies over east berlin #red mother #they're killing it

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neuviemeart · 5 years

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Strange Skies Over East Berlin #2 - Cover by Evan Cagle

#Evan Cagle #Strange Skies Over East Berlin #boom!amy #studios #comics

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thegaminggang · 5 years

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Boom! Studios Comics for November 6th, 2019

A big week for Boom! with premieres of b.b. free and The Magicians plus new issues of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Strange Skies Over East Berlin. BOOM! STUDIOS b.b. free #1 (Of 12)(Cover A Royal Dunlap), $3.99 b.b. free #1 (Of 12)(Cover B Natacha Bustos), $3.99 b.b. free #1 (Of 12)(Cover C Brittney Williams), …

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fantomcomics · 5 years

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What’s Out This Week? 10/2

HAPPY SPOOKTOBER Y’ALL

Bizarre Adventures #1 - Jed MacKay, Francesco Manna & Various

To celebrate Marvel's 80th, we're resurrecting one of its wildest creations, BIZARRE ADVENTURES! Within these pages you will see Shang-Chi take on a martial arts master, Ulysses Bloodstone battle a master of the dark arts, Dracula meet his match, and the Marvel debut of Achewood's Chris Onstad! These adventures will be thrilling, exciting and most definitely BIZARRE!

Copra #1 - Michel Fiffe COPRA returns in the first issue of its all-new ONGOING SERIES! Acclaimed comics auteur MICHEL FIFFE picks up where his band of mercenary misfits left off, reintroducing the entire cast of his Suicide Squad-esque revenge machine in a brutal standoff against their own leader. Jump right into the thick of it with the world's greatest action team in this extra-length debut milestone-36 pages for just $3.99!

Dead Eyes #1 - Gerry Duggan and John McCrea

In the 1990s, DEAD EYES was a prolific stick-up man and hoodlum in Boston until he took down one last big score and disappeared. Nobody ever discovered the truth. He retired to be with the love of his life, but now he's back in the mask to save her. No one-not his wife, the mafia, or the cops-is happy that he's out of retirement. From JOHN McCREA, the artist and co-creator of MYTHIC and Hitman, and GERRY DUGGAN, the writer of ANALOG and DEADPOOL, comes the action, comedy, and drama of Martin Dobbs, a.k.a. DEAD EYES, the man who says he's descended from one of the original gangs of New York City.

Ghost Rider #1 - Ed Brisson and Aaron Kuder

The Brothers Ghost Rider are back! Johnny Blaze ain't just the king of Hell-he's the warden too. He's the first line of defense between the demonic hordes trying to escape the joint and the lords of other hells making a play for his throne and all the power that comes with it - including a certain evil queen from his past! Meanwhile, Danny Ketch never wanted to be a Ghost Rider. Now that his brother's in charge downstairs, Ketch must take on the duty of Earth's Spirit of Vengeance full-time-no matter how much he'd rather be doing anything else...

Marvel Comics #1001 - Al Ewing, Amanda Conner & Various

THE BIGGEST STORY IN MARVEL HISTORY CONTINUES! WHO IS THE MYSTERIOUS NEW CHARACTER FROM MARVEL'S PAST? It was a story too large for any one issue, with too many classic Marvel creators who wanted to be a part of the fun! And so the party continues on with this additional celebratory issue, featuring additional secrets and revelations about the Eternity Mask and the person who now wears it!

Nomen Omen #1 (of 15) - Marco B. Bucci and Jacopo Camagni

No matter how fast you run, sooner or later your past will catch up with you. Enter Becky Kumar, a geeky twenty-year-old from New York City who is about to cross the veil between our reality and a realm of otherworldly truths. From writer and RPG creator MARCO B. BUCCI (Magna Veritas, Memento Mori) and artist JACOPO CAMAGNI (X-Men Blue, Deadpool The Duck) comes a tale of tales, witchcraft, and secrets for mature readers that rewires the rules of urban fantasy. #doyouwannaknowasecret

Ruby Falls #1 - Ann Nocenti and Flavia Biondi

Ruby Falls is a sleepy town. But sleep brings nightmares, and Lana is about to wake up in the middle of her hometown's biggest secret: the "disappearance" of infamously progressive Betty Gallagher during the mobster-ruled heyday of the old mining town. When details of the cold-case murder start to come out through her grandmother Clara's foggy, dementia-jumbled memories, Lana becomes obsessed with cracking the case, even if it splinters the peaceful town-and endangers everything she loves.

Spider-Verse #1 (of 6) - Jed MacKay, Juan Frigeri & Various

Miles Morales finally feels like he GETS this Spider-Man stuff... and then falls through a portal! But isn't the WEB OF LIFE & DESTINY destroyed? Maybe not, True Believer. But who spun this new web? Regardless, Miles finds himself at the center of a multiversal adventure that will feature a who's who of creators and characters as the series spins forward!

Strange Skies Over East Berlin #1 - Jeff Loveness and Lisandro Estherren

MANKIND MADE IT TO SPACE. AND NOW SPACE HAS FOLLOWED THEM BACK. Herring is a disillusioned American spy stationed on the eastern side of the Berlin Wall, struggling with his role in a Cold War that seems to have no end. But when he's sent on a mission behind enemy lines to infiltrate East German intelligence, he soon learns the Soviets have a secret weapon that could change the tides of the conflict: an alien monster that they don't understand, and can't control. The Soviets are about to learn that they're not in charge of the monster - it's already in their minds and has twisted them to their will. Now now Herring must find a way to understand the impossible before it transforms him into a monster unlike any other.

Vampire State Building #1 - Ange, Patrick Renault and Charlie Adlard

The newest horror series from the artist of The Walking Dead, Charlie Adlard! Just in time for Halloween, get ready to be bitten from the first full color page. Terry Fisher is a young soldier on the verge of being sent away for active military duty, and is going to meet his friends at the top of the Empire State Building for a farewell party. But suddenly a legion of vampires attacks the skyscraper and massacres its occupants. Hounded in the 102 floors that have become a deadly trap, Terry must take decisive action to save himself and his friends - and the city of New York - before the army of abominations, and the terrible vampire god within, walled in the building since its construction, spill into the city!

This week is jam-packed with awesomeness, so whatcha scooping up, Fantomites?

#Vampire State Building #Dead Eyes #Strange Skies Over East Berlin #Spider-Verse #Ruby Falls #Nomen Omen #Ghost Rider #Copra #Marvel Comics #bizarre adventures #WOTW #What's Out This Week?#comic #comics #comic books #comic book

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smashpages · 5 years

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Loveness + Estherren fly into ‘Strange Skies Over East Berlin’

New miniseries from BOOM! Studios lands in October.

#strange skies over east berlin #boom! studios #jeff loveness #lisandro estherren #evan cagle #cci2019 #sdcc2019

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thecomicon · 4 years

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Check Out Matias Bergara’s Cover For Strange Skies Over East Berlin #4 Boom! Studios has revealed a new variant cover for January's Strange Skies Over East Berlin #4…

#Boom! Studios #comics #Jeff Loveness #Lisandro Estherren #Matias Bergara #Patricio Delpeche #Steve Wands #Strange Skies Over East Berlin

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smillingcartoonist · 4 years

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Strange Skies Over East Berlin 4 #

#Strange Skies Over East Berlin #Jeff Loveness #Lisandro Estherrren

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ultrameganicolaokay · 5 years

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Strange Skies Over East Berlin #1 by Jeff Loveness, Lisandro Estherren and Patricio Delpeche. Cover by Evan Cagle.

#strange skies over east berlin #boom studios #jeff loveness #lisandro estherren #patricio delpeche #evan cagle #comics

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theblackestofsuns · 4 years

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Strange Skies Over East Berlin #4 (January 2020)

Cover by Evan Cagle

Boom! Studios

#Strange Skies Over East Berlin #Evan Cagle #Boom! Studios #Great Comics #Great Comic Covers

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horrorpatch · 4 years

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Comic Crypt: BOOM! STUDIOS COMICS OUT AUGUST 12 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow #2 / The Red Mother #7 / Something is Killing the Children #9 / Buffy the Vampire Slayer Legacy Edition Book One SC / Strange Skies Over East Berlin SC

Comic Crypt: BOOM! STUDIOS COMICS OUT AUGUST 12 – Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow #2 / The Red Mother #7 / Something is Killing the Children #9 / Buffy the Vampire Slayer Legacy Edition Book One SC / Strange Skies Over East Berlin SC

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow #2

After the events of Hellmouth, Willow has set out on a world trip to find herself, and maybe some answers about her powers along the way. Now, in the magical-and we mean that literally-town of Abhainn, Willow seems to have found a home. Afterall, they tell her, the outside world is dangerous. Afterall, isn’t it easier just to stay in Abhainn?

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#Boom! Studios #Buffy the Vampire Slayer Legacy Edition Book One SC #Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow 2 #Comic Crypt #Horror Comics #Something is Killing the Children 9 #Strange Skies Over East Berlin SC #The Red Mother 7

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kattra · 3 years

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What I’m Reading

BOOKS OF JULY The Project by Courtney Summers Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire Over the Woodward Wall by A. Deborah Baker ** The River by Peter Heller Trapped by Kevin Hearne The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (NF) ** The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See Slow Boat by Hideo Furukawa Tales From the Hinterland by Melissa Albert (SS) Hunted by Kevin Hearne Meat Market by Juno Dawson Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change by Maggie Smith (NF) Dearly by Margaret Atwood (P) **

Graphic Novels: Heathen Vol.1-3 — Alterici/Deerling/et al. Strange Skies Over East Berlin — Loveness/Estherren/Delpeche Snapdragon by Kat Leyh ** Mooncakes by Wendy Xu & Suzanne Walker ** Heartstopper Vol.3 by Alice Oseman **

(110 books read / 150 books goal)

currently reading: The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason Mostly Void, Partially Stars: Welcome to Night Vale Episodes, Volume 1 by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island edited by McCall/Reder/Gaertner/Hill (NF) NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes From the Field by Billy-Ray Belcourt (P) Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

* - re-read // ** - 4+ star-rating on my goodreads (recommended) GN - graphic novel // NF - non-fiction // P - poetry SS - short story collection // AB - audiobook

TBR: Albatross by Terry Falls All Adults Here by Emma Straub The Merciful Crow + The Faithless Hawk by Margaret Owen The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage (P)

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twiststreet · 4 years

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A couple days ago, I read The Strange Skies Over East Berlin, by Jeff Loveness,Lisandro Estherren, Patricio Delpeche, Steve Wands and Eric Harburn. It’s not great but I think it’s the first time I actually sought out a Boom comic...? (Besides ones friends did or ... maybe a couple Roger Langridge comics). Not a lot are coming to mind.

But there’s a period of Berlin history that I think is just super-interesting. I mean, the Bowie period. Or with ghost stations or the Brilliant Dilettantes or whatever. This isn’t about that, though-- it’s just that Cold War stuff again because it’s more about East Berlin. I mean, hence the title. I think it’s that but they’re doing some kinda UFO plot in that mileu, which... isn’t my #1 genre, but I can fuck with a UFO plot. I guess I just wanted to support there being more Berlin comics. An industry of Jason Lutes-es-es.

Anyways, this had a thing ... I don’t know where it came from in modern comics, who the inspiration point was for it, but of just featuring a constant and omnipresent first person narration that is sort of more philosophical than expository or interesting? Where you have to kind of wade through (or in my case, more often just tune out) a fake person meditating on themselves and like their deep thoughts on the “The Nature of Marriage, Pastries or Nostril-fingering”, while some comic artist labors away in the background trying to tell a visual story. Which-- I mean, at least a visual story’s being told that way, but... Where did that come from? I’ve known a lot of people over the years trying to chase that high of ... “I’m a writer because I’m expressing myself here” kinda thing and I just-- who are they modelling themselves after? Was there a common parent or did they all come to that point independently? Listen to this:

It’s true. sometimes we lie to save others. But more than anything... we lie to ourselves. About who we really are. What we’ve allowed our lives to become. Anything to spare ourselves from the truth. Anything to say that it isn’t hopeless. That you have time left. That you can be saved. But none of that matters. Becuse eventually you run out of lies. You always run out.”

There’s more but that’s spread out over three pages. You have to get three pages of Captain Bummer buzz-killing the audience and trying to punish them from getting some $3 cheap pulp thrills? Why do comic book men feel they need to spice up UFO tales with their macho Livejournals? It’s like-- if you’re writing a UFO comic, write a UFO comic. UFO shit can be rad, too. I always and forever (forever ever) just think of Rip Torn from my beloved, beloved Wonder Boys. It’s not like you’re getting to meet a fictional character and finding out their worldview-- you’re just looking at a writer writing... Which can be fun too-- I love narration that’s fun and world-build-y, I love Claremont narration obviously, but this is just... something else than that. It’s not that it’s narration-- it’s that... heavy portent and quasi-philosophy to the narration.

I could see myself getting another of these though, because besides being into the setting and it turns out in the mood for the general vibe of Cold War Berlin stories, there’s something to the art I find very appealing. I’m not usually into painted comics-- i'm pretty unadventurous and like trad comic colors. But I like these pages-- there’s a lot of Gipi or Teddy Kristiansen to the art. The colors, especially-- a really mood-appropriate palette, and they’re doing a couple things texturally (not just Photoshop overlay textures, though they’re obviously doing that)... I’m bad at describing what I’m seeing they’re doing, but I feel like there’s just a lot of information in the colors in a way that I think is appropriate for the genre...? I’m into the choices they’re making. (There’s a panel of a cop car where the colors are especially nice...).

Whatever it’s weaknesses may be, it’s an A+ matchmaking of art and project-- I don’t usually compliment editors in comic reviews, I don’t know if I’ve ever done that, but they got the visual team on this just right. Which is especially impressive considering Boom’s reputation when it comes to pay or whatever (which isn’t the fault of the editorial staff, I’m sure, but).

I just don’t need future issues to tell me about what it feels like to be a dad or Mondays or whether truth is beauty or beauty’s truth. Foolishly, I just want to read a story...

#Worst Hobby or Worstest Hobby?

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