Which Comic Do You Read?

[BaneShake]

Reread Grant Morrison and Mark Millar's work on The Flash from back in Wally West's time in the winged mask, and I had forgotten just how good (and weird) they could make things. I particularly love how they introduced the Black Flash. Hands down, that grim reaper-esque figure is one of my favorite speedsters out there.

14 hours ago, Vindicare said:

Digging up this thread looking for opinions. For those who once bought comics a lot but now don’t, what was it that made you stop? 

My biggest reason for slowing down on new stuff is, mundanely, income. More than a year back, I was making enough to afford comics frequently. My previous job didn't pay terribly well, and my new job will take a little more time before I can afford to do so with regularity again.

Apart from that, the biggest hurdle is just how difficult it can be to follow every single thing necessary to see the whole story to play out sometimes. I prefer trade paperbacks, since I like reading stories all at once instead of waiting in between issues, but that can make it really difficult when something like Superman requires you to read A, B, and C of the Superman series, then A and B of Action Comics, THEN the collected Superman event that was published as D and E of Superman and C and D of Action Comics, and, oh yeah, now it's also affecting significant events in Detective Comics even though that's a Batman title. That is the upside to reading them in single issue form; if you read them that way, it's much easier to read them in the right order. 

Don't get me wrong, I love how comics can be so much more interconnected than any other medium I've seen, but when Volume 1, 2, and 3 of a series is missing necessary context because events happened elsewhere than that series can be infuriating. I've still never been able to find a collection with Knockout's death DESPITE how significant it is to Secret Six, and I have Gail Simone's complete original run of that title.

[Digger of Bricks]

Here are a few titles I've checked out recently:

• 2014's Starlight by Mark Millar and Goran Parlov.
• 2013's Half Past Danger and its 2017 sequel by Stephen Mooney.
• 2004's DC: The New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke.
• 1997's Elseworld's Finest, a two-issue Elseworlds comic arc.
• 2000's Batman/Tarzan: Claws of the Catwoman by Ron Marz and Igor Kordey.

[BaneShake]

On 11/17/2018 at 8:53 AM, Digger of Bricks said:

Here are a few titles I've checked out recently:

• 2014's Starlight by Mark Millar and Goran Parlov.
• 2013's Half Past Danger and its 2017 sequel by Stephen Mooney.
• 2004's DC: The New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke.
• 1997's Elseworld's Finest, a two-issue Elseworlds comic arc.
• 2000's Batman/Tarzan: Claws of the Catwoman by Ron Marz and Igor Kordey.

Anything Darwyn Cooke did is going to be great. And The New Frontier is such a good one!

Just started rereading Azarello's Wonder Woman run in the New 52. I adore the unique designs he gave to all of the Greek Gods.

[Digger of Bricks]

Here are some additional titles I've checked out since then, mostly being from DC's Elseworlds:

• 1998's Superman: War of the Worlds by Roy Thomas and Michael Lark.
• 1996's Batman: Dark Allegiances by Howard Chaykin.
• 1989's Batman: Gotham by Gaslight by Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola.
• 2010's Superman: Secret Origin by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank.
• 2000-2001's Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham by Mike Mignola, Richard Pace, Troy Nixey, and Dennis Janke.
• 2009's Spider-Man Noir and its 2010 sequel Spider-Man Noir: Eyes Without a Face.
• 2011's Iron Man Noir by Scott Snyder and Manuel Garcia.

[Junior Shark]

I've recently been reading Shangri-La by Matthieu Bablet, Universal War One by Denis Bajram, and Dark Empire.

[Digger of Bricks]

Since the last time I've commented here, I've read all of Mignola's Lobster Johnson comics, published sporadically by Dark Horse from 2007 to 2017.

[Peppermint_M]

Got back into Manga of late, I wasn't finding anything that interested me, beyond my Legend of Zelda manga until I noticed Atom: The Beginning on the shelf in Waterstone's. A remixed version of Astro Boy/Mighty Atom and so far really cool SciFi with slice of life trappings. 

On the comic front, Robotech is having a resurgence through Titan comics and what has been published so far is really good. It is not great that Robotech Remix has been probably cancelled, but the Rick Hunter series is looking promising. 

[Toastie]

"Asterix & Obelix" ... nothing else ... 

... the parole? No idea, btw, you think and I am ... which is a very nice translation of "cogito ergo sum" when you are a team of two.

Cheers!

Thorsten

 

[zoth33]

Started reading a Dark Souls comic called the Willow King it's pretty good so far only 3 issues are out the 4th comes out this month.  

[Space Coyote]

Neil Gaiman's Sandman twisted my mind up in the best possible way when I first read it in high school, I still come back to it every few years, I also like his books so it easily became my favorite.

My favorite manga is easily JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, especially that Steel Ball Run series, that one was a trip to read. I think there's a new part being written now but I want to wait until it's finished because new chapters become hard to wait for as the plot ramps up, also I find that the translations tend to be a bit more polished when you give people time to edit them and adjust things after the fact.

[hewkii9]

I got into comics through the Krakoan Era of X-men - from there I went back and read Messiah Complex, Hickman's Avengers run, Kieron Gillen's Iron Man and previous X-Men runs, and a few other big storylines.

Now that Krakoa is over, and I've given the new era enough of a shot to find it wanting, I'm branching out a little bit more. 

My favourite ongoing comic right now is Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard's THE POWER FANTASY, which is just really good. It's very clearly born out of "things Kieron Gillen wouldn't be allowed to do with Professor X," but it is its own beast and a very thrilling story. Issue #4, the most recent, is like a Black Mirror episode in 20 pages.