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So hype!

Reading a whole bunch of Stephen King for the first time - started with the Gunslinger, now I'm halfway through his books 'On Writing' and 'Carrie'. Plan to kep reading the Dark Tower interspersed with books my friends told me were related - Salem's Lot, The Stand, and Insomnia.

Is it normal to be rooting more for Askeladd than Thorfinn in this series? (Just finished vol. 5) :griffnotevil:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BErWAbLuqHc Dark Dreams Don't Die, the new game from Swery65, the creator of Deadly Premonition (the second greatest game ever made, behind the original Deus Ex), which finally got a PC port!

Finished 'The Aleph' by Borges, started the Vinland Saga, which is filling a portion of the massive Berserk-shaped hole in my heart I'm a quarter Danish, and the main character's blonde hair looks like mine when I grow it out to that length, so it feels very TALE OF MY ANCESTORS

Thanks for recommending this, just read half of volume 1, and I already am enjoying it - it has a lot of things in it that I loved about Berserk. Can't wait til I get to the switch from shonen to seinen though, just for the art improvement.

I also think the stark black-and-white adds to the dark fantasy/horror atmosphere that Miura is going for - its like how film noir films are nearly always better in black-and-white.

Vol 33-34, when Ganishka becomes Shiva and the battle of Wyndham/Falconia - the way Ganishka was portrayed as his most vulnerable at the same time as turning into a massive beast - the episode that showed his backstory was the most profound and literary things I've ever read in a comic book, and...

This is the only reasonable explanation I can find for someone reading 37 volumes of a manga that they claim stopped being good at 14.

Girlfriend and best friend keep saying I need to read Dune asap, I really should get around it, because i'm pretty convinced that i'd like it (political intrigue, warring houses, economic conflict, etc). i read what the series is about once and it sounded very good vs. evil, lone hero on epic...

This has been my best year for reading in pretty much forever. Things I've read this year: All the Song of Ice and Fire books by George R.R. Martin (WAY better than the show) Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (super amazing) The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton (amazing) Pluto by Naoki...

24, grad student and occasional course tutor (media studies) :void:

Hey, thanks for this guide. I'm wanting to buy all the YA issues with post-vol 37 Berserk episodes in them, how do I find out what those issues are?

Okay I admit that my definition of the 'main plot' is a bit shaky and subjective. I think we're saying roughly the same things though! What I'm trying to get at is that I think a lot of people vastly exaggerate Berserk being 'meandering' or Miura not knowing where he's going - every story (like...

Berserk fan friend got me into Susumu Hirasawa in 2013, I got obsessed with him and listened to all his albums a gajillion times - I now have like 3000 scrobbles on my last.fm account. Friend told me they got into Hirasawa through Berserk but I didn't really pay attention to Berserk for another...