{"id":22701,"date":"2020-07-07T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/what-to-read-alongside-the-old-guard-comic-series\/"},"modified":"2020-07-07T22:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T19:12:00","slug":"what-to-read-alongside-the-old-guard-comic-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-to-read-alongside-the-old-guard-comic-series\/","title":{"rendered":"#What to Read Alongside \u2018The Old Guard\u2019 Comic Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a271f93098e7\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a271f93098e7\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-to-read-alongside-the-old-guard-comic-series\/#The_Old_Guard_Comic_Opening_Fire\" >The Old Guard Comic: Opening Fire<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-to-read-alongside-the-old-guard-comic-series\/#The_Old_Guard_Comic_Force_Multiplied\" >The Old Guard Comic: Force Multiplied<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-to-read-alongside-the-old-guard-comic-series\/#Stumptown\" >Stumptown<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-to-read-alongside-the-old-guard-comic-series\/#Gotham_Central_In_the_Line_of_Duty\" >Gotham Central: In the Line of Duty<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-to-read-alongside-the-old-guard-comic-series\/#Batwoman_Elegy\" >Batwoman: Elegy<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-to-read-alongside-the-old-guard-comic-series\/#Lois_Lane\" >Lois Lane<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-to-read-alongside-the-old-guard-comic-series\/#Whiteout\" >Whiteout<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#What to Read Alongside \u2018The Old Guard\u2019 Comic <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Series<\/a><\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><em>This article is part of <strong>The Reading List<\/strong>, a monthly column in which we encourage you to take your enthusiasm for a particularly groovy film and direct it into a wide array of extracurricular studies. This one begins with The Old Guard comic series and expands from there.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p>Before the third issue of <strong><em>The Old Guard<\/em> comic series<\/strong> was ever published, Skydance <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> secured the rights to adapt Greg Rucka and\u00a0Leandro Fern\u00e1ndez\u2019s work for the screen. The concept of four immortal assassins globetrotting from one murderous job to the next while some very mortal scumbag scientists thirst for the key to their genetic code was too delicious an idea to leave imprisoned in one medium.\u00a0Tired: mopey, unkillable vampires. Wired: angry, unkillable mercenaries.<\/p>\n<p>Now adapted as a feature film for Netflix, <strong>Charlize Theron<\/strong> commands these exhausted eternal warriors under the direction of <strong>Gina Prince\u2013Bythewood<\/strong> (<em>Beyond the Lights<\/em>). Joining their ranks are KiKi Layne,\u00a0Marwan Kenzari, Luca Marinelli, and Matthias Schoenaerts as the perpetual soldiers of fortune forced to bounce between the source material\u2019s mix of bloodthirsty action and gothic melodrama. Done right, <em>The Old Guard<\/em> is Rambo by way of Bram Stoker.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, there are only two volumes of the <em>Old Guard <\/em>comic available for you to devour. They lead off this month\u2019s Reading List like the first delectable rounds of a seven-course meal that will take the hungry consumer from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. the next morning. The same cook, Greg Rucka, prepared each dish. Some items on the menu play off each other, blending flavors into a gobsmacking new taste, while the last recommendations act as deserts meant to shock you out of your food coma.<\/p>\n<p>Loosen your belts, and open up.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Old_Guard_Comic_Opening_Fire\"><\/span>The Old Guard Comic: Opening Fire<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Netflix film draws most of its inspiration from the first trade paperback collection. Within these five comic books, we meet our squad of immortal soldiers, and their contempt for life makes Anne Rice\u2019s Lestat look positively chipper. They kill for money cuz it\u2019s the only thing they\u2019ve ever been any good at.<\/p>\n<p>Andy (played by Theron in the movie) hails from Ancient Greece, and she\u2019s experienced and seen every kind of possible tragedy. A couple of her cohorts once fought each other on opposing sides during the Crusades, and Booker (Schoenaerts\u2019 role), her closest comrade, discovered his gift after he hanged himself to avoid the Napoleonic Wars. They\u2019ve never known peace.<\/p>\n<p>When one of their routine operations reveals itself to be a ruse \u2014 an assault to uncover what separates their biology from the rest of humanity \u2014 Andy and her team flee for safe harbor. In the process, they encounter Nile (KiKi Layne in the movie) and encourage her to ditch her family and accept her new place among the everlasting. Through her introduction, the reader receives most of <em>The Old Guard<\/em>\u2018s exposition. It\u2019s rarely clunky, mostly weird, and it highlights the awful presence of circular history.<\/p>\n<p>People can\u2019t stop being terrible to each other. The Old Guard are numb by their experience. Nile maintains hope. Is that a strength or the foolish behavior of a child?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Old_Guard_Comic_Force_Multiplied\"><\/span>The Old Guard Comic: Force Multiplied<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The second volume of <em>The Old Guard<\/em> is unfinished, and the fifth and final issue should arrive in July with the trade paperback collection expected in September. If you\u2019re like me, you can\u2019t wait, and the digital monthlies are only one-click away from consumption.<\/p>\n<p>The previous storyline was all set-up. Now we can have some fun. Or, in a series where fun is just an <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>etizer for further destruction, we can have some scrumptious emotional sadism.<\/p>\n<p>Before Andy found comfort in her current comrades, there was Noriko. They were lovers who sailed the endless ocean until Noriko\u00a0washed into the sea, where she spent centuries drowning over and over and over again. During that time, a hate grew inside her, and when Noriko finally pulled herself from the depths, she made revenge her armor.<\/p>\n<p>When you have characters who cannot die, the violence they bestow on each other tends to take on an added layer of anger and absurdism. They know the torment they commit upon each other won\u2019t end them, but it will hurt like hell. Noriko is mad, and she will make sure that Andy will feel every ounce of her rage. Rucka and Fern\u00e1ndez take pleasure in their misery.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Stumptown\"><\/span>Stumptown<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Changing gears, <em>Stumptown<\/em> shares very little in common with <em>The Old Guard<\/em> other than its writer, Greg Rucka. Well, this comic was also recently adapted into series, starring Cobie Smulders as the Portland P.I., and it is certainly caked in genre influence but of the hardboiled noir and \u201980s TV variety. Imagine Raymond Chandler begrudgingly writing for <em>Simon &#038; Simon<\/em> or <em>Magnum P.I.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dex Parios would be a helluva investigator if not for her gambling habit. She\u2019s practically broke when the head of a local casino operation offers to clear her debt in exchange for locating her missing granddaughter. With few options, Dex takes the case and \u2014 you guessed it \u2014 finds herself tumbling down a rabbit hole of corruption and villainy.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Gotham_Central_In_the_Line_of_Duty\"><\/span>Gotham Central: In the Line of Duty<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Many have attempted to blend a \u201940s noir aesthetic to Batman, but few ever succeed. Greg Rucka, thanks in large part to his collaboration with artist <strong>Michael Lark<\/strong>, does just that with <em>Gotham Central<\/em>. Of course, Batman only pops in here and there as this series is more interested in the day-to-day operations of one of the most corrupt police departments in the most corrupt city in America.<\/p>\n<p>The first volume of the series follows a handful of tough cops, some less bad than others, as they struggle with their fragile egos as the Dark Knight\u2019s clean-up crew. When Mister Freeze murders one of them, they can\u2019t sit around and wait for the Caped Crusader to deliver his special brand of justice. This time vengeance belongs to them.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Batwoman_Elegy\"><\/span>Batwoman: Elegy<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Sticking to Gotham City, <em>Batwoman<\/em>: <em>Elegy<\/em> represents the very best of superhero comics. The trappings may look a little familiar \u2014 same town, same bat ears \u2014 but the vibe feels unlike any other Bat-book, especially when compared to others published around the same period. Greg Rucka never feared playing with the spandex types, and he\u2019s donned Bruce Wayne\u2019s cowl on several occasions, but with Batwoman he ditches the gloomy billionaire psyche for Kathy Kane\u2019s righteous rebel.<\/p>\n<p><em>Batwoman<\/em>: <em>Elegy<\/em> is a surreal fantasy adventure that pits Kane against her Joker, the nutty wannabe Alice inspired by the worst interpretations of Lewis Carroll\u2019s classic work. The art by <strong>J<\/strong>.<strong>H<\/strong>. <strong>Williams<\/strong> is rapturous and easy to get lost in, as he spins panels in abnormal ways, but only to accentuate the oddity of the villains at work against Batwoman. The Bat-Family is massive, and sometimes keeping track of all the Robins is challenging enough, but Rucka proves with Kathy Kane that one more is never a bad thing if the narrative can carve out a unique psychological playground.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Lois_Lane\"><\/span>Lois Lane<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This series is also not quite complete (the collection will release in November), but now\u2019s your time to jump on board the monthly issues or pre-order the hardcover. Greg Rucka takes some of his indie <em>Stumptown<\/em>\u00a0P.I. badassery and applies it to Superman\u2019s wife, Lois Lane, and once you\u2019ve read this series, hopefully, you\u2019ll never describe her in such a dismissive fashion ever again. Lois Lane is not to be wife\u2019d. Superman already knows this, and now it\u2019s time for you and DC Comics to grant her the respect she deserves.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Whiteout\"><\/span>Whiteout<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Pay no attention to the subpar adaptation starring Kate Beckinsale. <em>Whiteout<\/em>\u00a0is a visually arresting (tip your hat to artist <strong>Steve Lieber<\/strong>) and haunting tale of a tarnished U.S. Marshall dumped in Antarctica after her anger led to the killing of a suspect in her custody. What was exile quickly transforms into the most important case of her pathetic career when they discover the body of a scientist frozen outside the station.<\/p>\n<p><em>Whiteout<\/em> is one of those stone-cold <em>Murder She Wrote<\/em> whodunnits, where the clues come fast and furious and you\u2019re looking to solve the crime before our heroine does. Good luck with that cuz it\u2019s a wild one. The comic is an early tale from Greg Rucka, and he would only gel better with his collaborators in the future (see the comics above), but the guessing-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> and raw energy of <em>Whiteout<\/em> can\u2019t be topped.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p><em>Find more information about\u00a0The Old Guard\u00a0comic series on the Image Comics website. 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