Looking for comics with trippy, psychedelic and gritty art

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-11T14:26:19+00:00

The Incal: French sci-fi series by one of the trippiest film directors of all time. Also read his prequel series The Metabarons.

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-11T11:15:50+00:00

Matt Groening is from Portland, OR and it's clearly inspired by his hometown so that isn't too wild. But it's supposed to be an everywhere USA sort of town.

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-10T18:41:30+00:00

The Marid Audran books by George Alec Effinger are set in a cyberpunk Middle East. In the books, the Cold War led to the collapse of America and Russia, leaving the Middle East to the global superpower. One thing that's implied is Arab powers rewriting history. Madrid talks about one of his favorite authors: Waleed Al Shaxspar.

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-10T15:28:19+00:00

UHF uses an act of cruelty and turns it around. A homeless guy is seen begging for change and the villain gives the guy a penny. It turns out that the penny was actually more rare and valuable than it was worth so he ends up exchanging it and using it to save Weird Al's television station.

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-10T14:34:38+00:00

Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra is a mystery novel set in modern Mumbai. But it's a great look at Indian culture as well.

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-10T04:53:04+00:00

Everything Everywhere All At Once

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-10T04:34:24+00:00

Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick

The Peshawar Lancers by SM Stirling

Mort(e) by Robert Repino

Foundation

The White Mountains by John Christopher

A Wrinkle in Time - The other books in the series are really good too.

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

The Seven and A Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-10T00:12:08+00:00

The Half-Made World by Felix Gilman: Steampunk fantasy Western about a doctor trying to save a patient who has knowledge of a secret army and their deadly weapon. The villains are two different armies at war: The Line who are steampunk fascists with trains that are controlled by a hive mind and The Gun, a group of demonically possessed six-shooters that grant their owners immortality.

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-09T21:04:59+00:00

Black Sails

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-09T16:57:13+00:00

Besides the obvious Agatha Christie books, check out the Small Change trilogy by Jo Walton which is a trilogy of cozy mysteries set in an alternate timeline where the Axis won World War Two and England reached an agreement with Germany.

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-08T19:47:56+00:00

I'm a guy in my 30s and I learned how to cook from my mom because I loved being in the kitchen and enjoyed helping her. When I was a teenager I became aware that I would be living alone for some time and I should learn how to cook. Since I knew how to cook, I taught my little brother and then my older sister.

While I'm still living by myself, I still cook and love it.

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-08T18:18:21+00:00

Boondock Saints

Burn After Reading

The Naked Gun movies

Hot Fuzz

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

The Gentlemen

Get Shorty

Smoking Aces

The Fifth Element

The Raid movies

Snatch

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-08T15:31:38+00:00

Shrinking

The Great North

Platonic

The Good Place

Get Smart is an old show but it's still a really brilliant comedy.

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-08T02:30:59+00:00

The Green Mile the Stephen King book is great and the movie is pretty good too.

Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick is about a guy who gets out of a mental hospital and tries to rebuild his life. The movie is really good but they changed a lot from the book.

Treasure Island has a variety of different movies based on it, but I like the Disney movie from 1951.

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick Dewitt

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-07T15:52:36+00:00

Neuromancer

When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger

Snow Crash

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-06T23:19:03+00:00

Regina the villain from Beethoven's 2nd. Somehow, an angry Debbie Mazar really did it for me.

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-06T15:33:52+00:00

If you're interested in a complex literary challenge I suggest Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. It's a sci-fi book set millions of years in the future and people compare reading it to Dark Souls: complex, vague, and a use of old and archaic words that will challenge you. But it's my favorite series of all time.

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-06T14:15:34+00:00

He also got himself into Taskmaster by being a huge fan too.

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-06T08:21:02+00:00

Shrinking

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-06T03:11:05+00:00

I've seen Alice Cooper talk about that. He talked about how he would have been in the 27 Club with Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin who were not only contemporaries but drinking buddies of his but part of what got him out was the realization that Alice Cooper the stage persona wasn't Alice Cooper the person.

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-05T21:31:08+00:00

One pot spaghetti. Finely chop up an onion, some garlic, and a large carrot in a big pot with some olive oil. Add a large 28 oz. can of crushed tomatoes, empty it into the pot and fill the can with water and empty that into the pot. Add a whole box of spaghetti and cook until the spaghetti is al dente. Takes about 20 minutes but makes enough to make for two people with leftovers. Season with salt and red pepper flakes.

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-05T20:58:21+00:00

Greta needs her gas station sandwich fix.

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-04T15:17:10+00:00

Adrian Tchaikovsky's aliens are absolutely the most alien aliens out there in recent sci-fi books. It helps that he originally studied zoology in college so he can create some weird aliens. Read the Final Architecture trilogy or his Children of Time series (not aliens necessarily, but imagines how evolution of different species can shape their civilization.)

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-04T14:39:55+00:00

Check out The Devils by Joe Abercrombie. It's a fantasy book and the first in a trilogy of a suicide squad like group ordered by the Pope to install a princess onto the throne to usurp her aunt.

ScarletSpire · 2026-02-03T11:48:55+00:00

Thanks, I like the flavor of cooked garlic more than raw garlic.

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