Which Comic Do You Read?

[Kintobor]

I picked up the Fan Expo MLP variant, and I gotta say, if you like the show, the comics are a riot! Definitely worth the read!

[Peppermint_M]

Yeah, oops, I have like the Tommy Yune stories, the 80s comics and some of the original manga....

I sorta thought people would take that one as a given! (heh...)

[Vindicare]

Well, the LEGO variant covers will start popping up soon. Unfortunately the 2 stores I frequent most likely won't get them. One said the order would be too high for their store and the other said they could get some but can't hold them. I may luck out on some but will have to resort to eBay most likely to get them all.

[Zeemex]

Death Note

[def]

Dash Shaw- New School. megablocking brilliant. If you avoid it, you love genre, not comics. Comics are an art form, and this guy is practicing it.

Attack on Titan 1 - Awesome, fear-inducing, but troubling in that the heroes are all manga-esque, but the villains are are clearly Western/Europeans. Regardless, I liked it, and ordered the next three from Amazon.

Superior Spider-man. I'm enjoying it a lot. Not so much its spin-offs. But the main title is all about character, and that's the key thing you could ask for.

A load of other stuff. I spent a wad of cash after my birthday last month to fatten my library. I still consider my next LEGO purchase, but I'm in a comics phase right now.

[Vindicare]

A load of other stuff. I spent a wad of cash after my birthday last month to fatten my library. I still consider my next LEGO purchase, but I'm in a comics phase right now.

I'm in the same boat. Since I got back into comics earlier in the year I haven't bought much LEGO. I've got a lot of catching up to do, especially with all the Summer releases hitting stores.

[Peppermint_M]

Ok, so I found that IDW have re-printed scads of Speed Racer so I will be picking those up!

[RaincloudDustbin]

I'm in the same boat. Since I got back into comics earlier in the year I haven't bought much LEGO. I've got a lot of catching up to do, especially with all the Summer releases hitting stores.

Me three. Just not feeling the LEGO at the moment.

[Spider-Man]

I'm finally all caught up in the new Scarlet Spider series and I love it! Kaine is an awesome character and the development within him being confused on what his life should be considering he is a clone is fantastic. I would recommend it to anyone

[Tanma]

See I have heard and seen good things about Scarlet Spider, but I wasn't sure if I should risk it. I mean I liked Avengers Academy and look where some of those kids are now. Same thing was Cassandra Cain, I love her but the knowledge of later uses of her prevents me from enjoying her earlier stories. But you know from what I hear Yost writes Scarlet Spider, and he was behind the best season of A: EMH, so maybe I will check it out.

[Vindicare]

Found two more variants, Superior Spider-Man 19 & Avengers.

[Dr Leg O Brick]

Sorry to bump this, I was surprised that I hadn't post in this topic, but I'd thought I'd post. A comic series that now is quite old, just over a decade-ish, I got into via my comic book store. The series is called Exiles, it's relatively unknown but, it's unbelievably fantastic. The original, NOT, surprisingly, the terrible re-boot by Chris Claremont.

The entire series revolves around a group of heroes, "unhinged" from time and the multiverse. They have been recruited by a entity known as the Time-Broker, who's got together this team to fix the multiverse. He explains that, in the billions upon billions of universes that exist, every so often there happens to be a "faulty" one, a faulty gene of sorts that can effect others, a domino effect. The mission for these heroes, is to fix these reality's, and at a some point their home reality's get fixed, and, as a result, they can go home. If they fail, they're sent back to a twisted version of what they once new.

The team consists of Mimic, his worlds Mutant hero who ushers in a new era of peace for Mutants and humans, Blink, from AOA, Thunderbird, ex servant of Apocalypse, Morph, shape changing funny man, Nocturne, Nightcrawler's and Scarlet Witches daughter, and Magnus, son of Magneto and Rogue.

Imagine Quantum Leap meets Star Trek meets What If? Nobody's safe, your main team leader could die on the next page, anybody could, literally anything could happen.

Fate Of The Phoenix, Vampire Avengers, an evil suicidal team of reality hoppers like the Exiles called Weapon X, a Exile team of Wolverines, Emperor Stark, what if the Skrull's took over Earth in the early 20th century, Mojo World, Hyperion v Hyperion and Hyperion, a world where operation wide awake was a success, Moses Magnum, an evil Silver Surfer and a Silver Sabertooth, New York turned into a Dungeons and Dragons esque like place by Kulan Gath, returns to reality’s such as 2099, future imperfect, Squadron supreme, and the new universe, a reality saving cheese Danish, so many others. Well worth a look if you like alternate reality’s, blink and you miss it references to comics and popular culture, good humour, good art, or crazy plot twists in some cases. Just don't bother with the Claremont re-boot, depressing, boring, stuff.

[Tanma]

I have heard of Exiles, it sounded interesting. Right now I am going after Avengers Assemble's. Inhumanity Arc, for Spider-Girl reasons.

[Lord Butters]

I could never really afford comics as a child, and I hate joining a series mid way through. So I always bought graphic novels and stand-alones instead. However, I've started buying the collections of Ultimate Spider Man and it is excellent. I like the artwork, I like how the characters are portrayed, and the pace is really good.

[Tanma]

You mean the tie in for the show, or the original comics dating back to the early 2000's?

If you mean the original comics, I agree. Everything I see of it seems consistently good, even after Peter leaves the book. And I feel Ultimate Peter's fate was handled a lot better than his recent death in the main books. Not to mention their successors. My favorite arc would be the Ultimate Clone Saga, because it introduces my second favorite superhero in any reality.

[Dr Leg O Brick]

Exiles is great, if you have the cash and time, due to it being 16 graphic novels long. As an avid reader of the "What Ifs?" in my youth, I always found that Exiles was basically a "What If?" each week with a recurring cast of people. The line-up changes, a lot, as you can probably expect with the job they do. And, not to sound like a salesman, the prices are reasonable, I bought a lot of the Graphic Novels of the internet (eBay/Amazon) for between £5-£7, it depends on what kind of condition your looking at, some comic book stores still sell them for marked price. But what ever you do, as mentioned, don't buy "The New Exiles". The original Exiles succeeds in my mind due to the humour involved, if you get into the series you'll find that, in particular the first book and anything related to the Weapon X team, it can get quite grim, after all, to fix some of these problems with the multiverse they need to do what has to be done, Wolverine style. Then, obviously, you need humour, in the form of Morph, a real good laugh all though he sometimes can go a bit too far, due to many things his humour and role took a back seat and the team didn't mesh well in Claremont's, hence depressing in my eye's. It lost it's humour.

On another note, something I'd recommend to anyone who's unsure about making an investment in comics, or just want to get a feel of the classics, particularly X-Men, I'd recommend the Marvel Pocket Book series by Panini in the UK. It's reprints of the classics, basically. I've got three FF's and most of the X-Men ones, however, they are essentially cheap full colour (unlike the Essentials series) graphic novels, 10 issues or 3ish issues plus an annual, £4-£5 each. My local Forbidden Planet (Comic book chain store) in Birmingham has most of them, on sale in some cases.

[BrickG]

I used to be into comics. Never a LOT because I was a poor kid. But enough.

I got out of them primarily because honestly... most comics are bad. They're written bad. Some comics are GREAT and I love them. But like 98% are just... terrible.

I feel like the issue with some of the current cartoons (straight to bluray) made by DC is that they're written as if they're comics, which again much of the time makes their writing freakin' terrible. Comic writers, some are awesome. Most are BAAAD!

Like that recent Superman one where a group of anti-heroes starts killing people and everyone loves them. Without going into detail the motivations, logic and everything about that movie story wise was written horribly and in the most unbelievable manner possible. (not say they're all bad, I've loved a few, but geeze get some real writers for other ones).

I'd get back into comics if they weren't so hit and miss. Feels like I waste so much money on so many misses. I mean like all the Spiderman "you're no longer married" things... or the fact that they wont' allow ANYONE to marry now. Geeze there's so many terrible things going on in comics lol.

[Dr Leg O Brick]

I can see your point, I haven't bought any DC since Infinite Crisis, and I don't plan on buying any more any time soon due to the new 52. And at the moment, I'm hating the "cash-in on the Avengers" costumes and the body swapping Spider-Man story arch. However, there are many comic writers, many comics in general that a great. I'd say there's less than 98%, a hell of a lot less that are bad. Maybe 20%, 15%. I've went out of comics twice, once in the late 90's (Heroes Reborn, money grabbing variant covers, Crisis on this that and the other, the "half the X-Men in Australia" etc), and again with Civil War. Why can't it be like the old days, no trillion part epic every day where a hero dies but ends up living again by the end of the week? I, of course, know why. I haven't bought a new comic, straight of the press in ages but, that doesn't mean I don't like Marvel, or I don't enjoy them. I read comics every day, I love them, and I enjoy them as much as I did the day I bought them, weather there originals, British reprints or Graphic Novels. And as for them being written terribly, hundreds, thousands are fantastically written, and some further address very adult and difficult themes for people, even to this day despite them being decades old. What I'm trying to say is that you can still enjoy past stories, and don't paint everything with the same brush. Some stuff's good nowadays, you've just got to give it a chance.

Edited January 19, 2014 by Dr Leg O Brick

[Freddy Bricker]

I'm curious to know, what part of the new 52 doesn't make you want to read it? Also, crisis was a 12 issue limited series, so it wasn't "crisis here and crisis there". Some people complain about it, yes, but most who do are people who haven't read any of it, trust me I know. Batgirl is controversial, on one hand, some want their crippled computer genius back to business. Others (like myself) think its time that Barbara is back in action. The read however, outside of the entire debate of "Cassandra vs. Stephanie vs. Barbara" deal is very good. The character development has been great, she goes from this clueless teenager to this independent young adult (well she was a young adult from the start, but whatever) who still makes a lot of mistakes. Her relationship with Nightwing is great, "he with his acrobatics, and me with my ballet". As for Justice League, I've heard nothing but good things about it. Batman is very good (haven't been keeping up with it lately, though) Superman and Wonder Woman is a very good read, Green Lantern: New Guardians, Red Lanterns, Green Lantern Corps, Green Lantern, Justice League Dark, Swamp Thing, Demon Knights (love em!), and Birds of Prey have all been received very positively. If you're not going to give the new 52 a chance, then please don't let that be your reason of not buying DC comics, find a real reason.

And BrickG, are you crazy!?! :D Plenty of comics are very much worth the read, plenty! Dark Horse's run on Star Wars (hopefully Marvel can live up to my expectations for them) Marvel's Avengers run, and plenty of other books are excellent! Pick up a bok, I'm sure you won't regret it.

[Dr Leg O Brick]

I didn't like it because it felt like every single DC comic before hand was simply wiped from the board and that everything I bought was pointless. They may be good, but IMO I would've preferred it if they went the route Marvel took with the Ultimates, say this is here and that is there and left it at that, please correct me if I'm wrong. As for the crisis stuff, the original Crisis On Infinite Earths was utterly stunning. I have some of the originals, have a Graphic Novel of them and have read them. Up there with my favourite comic books, of any publisher. What I didn't like is that afterward the "crisis" name dragged through the mud for years, like how they bought Jean back in the X-Men and as a result gutted the fantastic Phoenix saga. Have a look at the contents and tell me that Crisis isn't over used. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_(DC_Comics) I didn't realise, but Identity Crisis is listed. That's again, one of my most favourite comic series. Further, many in that list are great, it was just over used.

[Freddy Bricker]

I can see where you're coming from, but Wally West and possibly Stephanie Brown will come back into the New 52 in April I believe, so there's that. Also, Crisis in my opinion was dragged along, because most fans (like myself) are still trying to processes how great it was, and want most comics to be up along with it's quality.

[montgocloud]

My current pull-list is:

Cataclysm: Ultimate's Last Stand

Ultimate Spider-Man

Daredevil

Dexter

Guardians of the Galaxy

Hawkeye

Sex Criminals

The Star Wars

Velvet

The Walking Dead

I'm really loving Velvet and Sex Criminals... They deserve a pick-up or a read in trade! The Star Wars is interesting purely to see how many elements of the prequels were in the original draft of Star Wars... I guess Lucas was a horrible writer since the start! The artwork is stunning though. Daredevil and Hawkeye are my favorite Marvel books right now. And Guardians of the Galaxy used to be phenomenal... Until all of the story stopped and it became an ongoing event tie-in. The recent Amazing Spider-Man miniseries was also quite good. Finally, The Walking Dead is pretty slow but apparently good things are coming according to Kirkman. I have confidence that I won't be disappointed.

[Freddy Bricker]

Picked up Marvel's Point 1 #1 2 days ago. It's basically a huge advertisement, it was a combination of prologues to new titles introduced in January 2014. I didn't really fall in love with much of them, "Loki: Agent of Asgard" wasn't nearly as interesting as I expected it to be. Black Widow was terrible, and new invaders and Avengers World were both meh, not great but not terrible. However Mrs. Marvel was great! I have little to no idea on exactly who or what Mrs. Marvel is, but I always thought she was a blond. She's a funny quirky Muslim living in Jersey City trying to balance being both a hero and a daughter to her parents high expectations. In this incarnation at least, and I'll be sure to pick it up on it's sale date (February 5th)!

[BrickG]

Do they still have one of those monthly online subscriptions that has the whole database of comics (no additional cost)? I'm bored.

[The_Chosen_1]

^ I know Marvel has that: http://marvel.com/comics/unlimited?utm_source=marvel_homepage&utm_medium=open_html&utm_content=learn_more&utm_campaign=mu_homepage_promo

Not sure about other publishers, though...