Whitechapel - The Best Issue of the Global Frequency Sat, 25 May 2013 03:15:52 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257047#Comment_257047 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257047#Comment_257047 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:59:52 -0700 The Johaan
So in the opinion of Whitechapel, what is the best/most accessible issue of GF, and why?

I'm leaning towards the issues that show more of what the GF as a network of intelligent people are capable of, such as when Miranda Zero was kidnapped. ]]> The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257048#Comment_257048 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257048#Comment_257048 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:13:28 -0700 oldhat The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257049#Comment_257049 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257049#Comment_257049 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:22:55 -0700 The Johaan The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257056#Comment_257056 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257056#Comment_257056 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:05:00 -0700 reosarevok The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257058#Comment_257058 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257058#Comment_257058 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:18:37 -0700 Mike Carey The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257060#Comment_257060 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257060#Comment_257060 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:20:31 -0700 icelandbob
Get you friend BOTH! ]]> The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257063#Comment_257063 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257063#Comment_257063 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:31:41 -0700 JECole Then then I was hooked from issue one.
Patiently waiting for season two. ]]> The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257065#Comment_257065 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257065#Comment_257065 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:43:36 -0700 Dmitri The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257091#Comment_257091 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257091#Comment_257091 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:28:19 -0700 BrianMowrey
If there is an Ellis work you think more compactly winning to newcomers than I think thatbwould probably make a more winning argument for a related long series that you're reluctant to pick a single issue from, because then your friend would trust your recommendation for Global Frequency anyway. Or this advice would not be better; depends on the person.

As far as a compact intro to Ellis, I would more quickly think of Fell. After all it was designed for non-contextual consumption.

Really though, trades or GNs are more frequently successful gateway drugs for comics. There are a lot of works that manage super well at sustained addictive page-turning and I don't imagine it's often the case that you can beat a book like Scott Pilgram, or I.M. Extremis, or Preacher vol 2, or hybrid entries like Logic Comics, depending on the person, for an intro to the genre. ]]> The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257458#Comment_257458 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257458#Comment_257458 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:12:36 -0700 ralf.haring The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257801#Comment_257801 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257801#Comment_257801 Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:53:35 -0700 warrenellis
Although getting to write for Jon J Muth was genuinely terrifying. ]]> The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257868#Comment_257868 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257868#Comment_257868 Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:34:45 -0700 Brandon Seifert
Seriously. Great fucking comics. And the first issue is still fucking dynamite.
get the first trade?? Fuck that.

Get you friend BOTH!
Yeah, seriously. Not like it was a long series or anything. ]]> The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257876#Comment_257876 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257876#Comment_257876 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:59:06 -0700 Exploder The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257889#Comment_257889 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257889#Comment_257889 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:07:18 -0700 Oddcult The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257897#Comment_257897 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257897#Comment_257897 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:52:44 -0700 ruzkin The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257901#Comment_257901 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257901#Comment_257901 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:47:27 -0700 justineger
To be different, however, I would recommend the last issue. It encompasses the "response to global level threat" subject matter very well, and brings characters from most of the other issues into play. Therefore, if your friend likes it, but is still on the fence, you can point out that each of these individual characters has a backstory, and can try to hook 'em that way. ]]> The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257902#Comment_257902 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257902#Comment_257902 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:01:38 -0700 Verissimus The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257910#Comment_257910 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257910#Comment_257910 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:54:22 -0700 warrenellis I personally feel Issue 2 was the perfect introduction to the series, and the idea of the GF as a whole. Ish 4, on the other hand, quickly convinced me that Warren has never actually met an Australian.

Sadly, there are a couple of lines in there that I took directly from conversations overheard and otherwise during time spent in Melbourne. ]]> The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257983#Comment_257983 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257983#Comment_257983 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:09:14 -0700 joe.distort The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257987#Comment_257987 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257987#Comment_257987 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:42:54 -0700 ruzkin Sadly, there are a couple of lines in there that I took directly from conversations overheard and otherwise during time spent in Melbourne.

In which case, I have to apologise for how my country can still sometimes be stuck in the 19th century. Last person I ever heard use the word "Abo" was my appallingly racist grandfather, and even he wouldn't dare say it outside his own house.

Back on topic, I don't think you're going to get a consensus on the "best" issue of GF, but you can introduce your friend by tailoring their introductory issue to their tastes. Ish 5 reads like a mature, soft-spoken episode of oldschool X-Files, Ish 2 is a fantastic action-heavy story with a human centre, Ish 6 is the best depiction of parkour I've ever seen in a comic... so what do they already read? ]]> The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257993#Comment_257993 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=257993#Comment_257993 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:08:24 -0700 SteadyUP The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=258006#Comment_258006 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=258006#Comment_258006 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:00:15 -0700 MikiM
Since Global Frequency isn't overwhelming in magnitude, throwing both trades their way shouldn't be much of a deterrent...

(I'm a big fan of the Parkour one, as well.) ]]> The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=258008#Comment_258008 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=258008#Comment_258008 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:13:43 -0700 ales kot The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=258011#Comment_258011 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=258011#Comment_258011 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:19:57 -0700 The Johaan
I think the wide variety of responses is really proof that GF has a unique attractiveness for a series. Here's hoping for a season 2. ]]> The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=259327#Comment_259327 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=259327#Comment_259327 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:07:41 -0700 scs The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=259329#Comment_259329 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=259329#Comment_259329 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:17:12 -0700 brianwood
-bri

* Warren's GEN X scripts were the best boot camp I could have hoped for. I don't think I ever saw a comic book script before that. ]]> The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=259332#Comment_259332 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=259332#Comment_259332 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:25:58 -0700 Travis Hedge Coke
The bit in GF with the little girl seeing the gal leaping about, "Mommy, Superman is a girl and she looks like us!" has stuck with, as we live in a world where I can't really pick up a superhero comic where my nieces can get that kind of thrill. The other end of this always points out that it should be the deeds that inspire kids, not culture or the skin and genitals, and I think that can work for adults, but for kids? It's a nice dream, anyway.

I'd suggest, for your friend, thinking hard about what most appeals to them and less about what we liked, though. ]]> The Best Issue of the Global Frequency http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=259405#Comment_259405 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8807&Focus=259405#Comment_259405 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:16:27 -0700 Boga_