What comics are you reading now?

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Mon Sep 27, 2010 9:12 pm

Elveen wrote:
400yrs wrote:Did anyone else read Skullkickers #1? I'm curious to hear thoughts on the book.
I have not read it yet. I will tonight and give an opinion.

I read it, ..... for me..... middle. Not really interested. It seemed to me that, not much happened and not much was laid out.

I don't mind when a book is low on action, but at least give me a bunch of background and story plots. For me SK #1 did not have much of either. Not even any hints of intrigue.

I also thought the art and coloring on the first few pages was terrible.

But what do I know. Back to Ult X-men.

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Mon Sep 27, 2010 9:19 pm

400yrs wrote:
ian_house wrote:
xodacia81 wrote:Sat down last night and read Flash: Rebirth then got up today and read Flash # 1-5, plus Secret Files(current series). The stories have been good and the art is superb. I'm not sure if "The Dastardly Death of The Rogues" is meant to be a 6 issue story but I honestly can't see them finishing it up in just one more issue. 7 or 8 isssues for an "opening" story, which is what this is shaping up to be, is pretty nice. If you're a fan of The Flash/Barry Allen, and haven't checked out the current series yet, I say do it, especially since it appears that next year's big storyline, FlashPoint (the followup to Brightest Day?) is centered around The Flash.
Gotta agree, it's been fantastic!
What about if you are a Wally West fan?

I read the first 2 or 3 issues of Rebirth and I didn't care for it at all. It was all sorts of mopey. I did pick up the rest out of cheap bins and will read it eventually, but it feels weird not to be reading any Flash for the first time in a long time.

I even sat through that crap by Bilson. Is the new series still mopey like the beginning of Rebirth was? If not, I might give it a whirl.

Nowhere near as "mopey" and if you haven't finished Rebirth, then you don't know where the "Mope" was coming from. VERY cool reason for it and the regular series has just built on the foundation laid by Rebirth.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Mon Sep 27, 2010 10:22 pm

I actually read the Essential Marvel Team-Up book that Knightt got me for part of a Secret Santa. Good stuff, stories told in 1-2 issues and plenty of excitement.

I might, one day, start collecting BA Marvel back issues.

-slym

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Mon Sep 27, 2010 10:27 pm

slym2none wrote: I might, one day, start collecting BA Marvel back issues.

They are actually quite addicting. I got big time in to Iron Fist and Tomb of Dracula.

Doorman · Post by **Doorman** » Mon Sep 27, 2010 10:45 pm

oooo Iron Fist had some early Byrne artwork (not to mention the first appearance of Sabretooth)!

And, Tomb of Dracula is 70 issues (almost) all by the same writer (Marv Wolfman's run started with issue 7)!

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Mon Sep 27, 2010 10:57 pm

Doorman wrote: And, Tomb of Dracula is 70 issues (almost) all by the same writer (Marv Wolfman's run started with issue 7)!

Don't forget Gene Colan art throughout!

On IF, I still need to get that damn #14. I think I'm probably going to get a filler copy for the time being.

ian_house · Post by **ian_house** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 6:13 am

xodacia81 wrote:
400yrs wrote:
ian_house wrote:
xodacia81 wrote:Sat down last night and read Flash: Rebirth then got up today and read Flash # 1-5, plus Secret Files(current series). The stories have been good and the art is superb. I'm not sure if "The Dastardly Death of The Rogues" is meant to be a 6 issue story but I honestly can't see them finishing it up in just one more issue. 7 or 8 isssues for an "opening" story, which is what this is shaping up to be, is pretty nice. If you're a fan of The Flash/Barry Allen, and haven't checked out the current series yet, I say do it, especially since it appears that next year's big storyline, FlashPoint (the followup to Brightest Day?) is centered around The Flash.
Gotta agree, it's been fantastic!
What about if you are a Wally West fan?

I read the first 2 or 3 issues of Rebirth and I didn't care for it at all. It was all sorts of mopey. I did pick up the rest out of cheap bins and will read it eventually, but it feels weird not to be reading any Flash for the first time in a long time.

I even sat through that crap by Bilson. Is the new series still mopey like the beginning of Rebirth was? If not, I might give it a whirl.
Nowhere near as "mopey" and if you haven't finished Rebirth, then you don't know where the "Mope" was coming from. VERY cool reason for it and the regular series has just built on the foundation laid by Rebirth.

Yeah the series has been ALOT better than Rebirth. I don't understand the issue with Wally fans, he'll be back in a bit, he's not even dead! For now they are going to tell excellent Barry stories and I'm sure Wally will come to the forefront again soon.

I'd rather have this great book than the state the Flash franchise has been in for the last few years.

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 6:44 am

ian_house wrote: Yeah the series has been ALOT better than Rebirth. I don't understand the issue with Wally fans, he'll be back in a bit, he's not even dead! For now they are going to tell excellent Barry stories and I'm sure Wally will come to the forefront again soon.

I'd rather have this great book than the state the Flash franchise has been in for the last few years.

The only bad Flash was that Bilson run with the kids. The Waid and Johns stuff was great....... but I guess that was a long time ago......

ian_house · Post by **ian_house** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 10:00 am

400yrs wrote:
ian_house wrote: Yeah the series has been ALOT better than Rebirth. I don't understand the issue with Wally fans, he'll be back in a bit, he's not even dead! For now they are going to tell excellent Barry stories and I'm sure Wally will come to the forefront again soon.

I'd rather have this great book than the state the Flash franchise has been in for the last few years.
The only bad Flash was that Bilson run with the kids. The Waid and Johns stuff was great....... but I guess that was a long time ago......

Yep the Bart Allen Bilson stuff was appalling. Insulting I'd say, it just shat on the entire Flash mythos. It seems to be pretty forgotten now luckily. Sadly the Waids/Morrison/Millar/Johns stuff was a looooong time ago.

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 11:16 am

ian_house wrote:
400yrs wrote:
ian_house wrote: Yeah the series has been ALOT better than Rebirth. I don't understand the issue with Wally fans, he'll be back in a bit, he's not even dead! For now they are going to tell excellent Barry stories and I'm sure Wally will come to the forefront again soon.

I'd rather have this great book than the state the Flash franchise has been in for the last few years.
The only bad Flash was that Bilson run with the kids. The Waid and Johns stuff was great....... but I guess that was a long time ago......
Yep the Bart Allen Bilson stuff was appalling. Insulting I'd say, it just shat on the entire Flash mythos. It seems to be pretty forgotten now luckily. Sadly the Waids/Morrison/Millar/Johns stuff was a looooong time ago.

I've heard horror stories about Bilson's run. From what I've seen through the 1st 5 issues of the new series, it feels somewhat like a return to where the series used to be, in terms of tone/approach.

dave · Post by **dave** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 11:50 am

Still reading Turok.

It's amazing. It's good (Truman/Morales) then it's unbearable, then it's good again (Truman/Morales)

Did Rags cut his teeth at Valiant or did he work elsewhere first?

Burrito Boy · Post by **Burrito Boy** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 12:13 pm

Drift wrote:
They were all spoiled brats. Their parents had serious money and obviously spent a lot on keeping the kids out of the way so they could continue with their occult and criminal activities.

I too would have loved a room full of arcade games and to find secret passages but that is because I grew up on a council estate in a *SQUEE* town and dreamed of escape in many forms. These kids didn't have that same desire, they were given stuff to keep them out of the way. Secret passages in a dusty old house and rooms full of toys and games systems probably did appear lame but I bet they came to appreciate that stuff later on when they were on the streets and on the run.

When you put it that way, I guess their behavior makes sense. But it still cheeses me off. I'm glad the little brats had to run away. More secret passages for me.

Jersen · Post by **Jersen** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 5:13 pm

Got a few nice new acquisitions:

52 (entire series)

My missing Grant Morrison issues of Batman (655-666, just the Morrison issues)

Final Crisis "Revelation" 1-5

Crime Bible 1-5

All of those came from eBay, and I also did a little digging at some LSCs in Little Rock and expanded my Magnus library a little and picked up almost the whole 2nd half of the Alan Grant/Norm Breyfogle run on Detective Comics. I'm still minus 607 and 610, and I need to pick up the first half of their run 583-594.

Drift · Post by **Drift** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 5:28 pm

Jersen wrote:Got a few nice new acquisitions:

52 (entire series)

My missing Grant Morrison issues of Batman (655-666, just the Morrison issues)

Final Crisis "Revelation" 1-5

Crime Bible 1-5

All of those came from eBay, and I also did a little digging at some LSCs in Little Rock and expanded my Magnus library a little and picked up almost the whole 2nd half of the Alan Grant/Norm Breyfogle run on Detective Comics. I'm still minus 607 and 610, and I need to pick up the first half of their run 583-594.

Crime Bible is a seriously underrated book.

Hell the whole Question line with Montoya is underrated. Cully Hamner's art really went up a level in the Detective back-up run. The dynamism he portrayed in the free-running sequences is sweet.

ian_house · Post by **ian_house** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 5:51 pm

Good call Drift.

I loved 52 as well.

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:35 pm

xodacia81 wrote:
I've heard horror stories about Bilson's run.

If you want to try it, send me your address. I really don't want it.

Doorman · Post by **Doorman** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 10:04 pm

just read 700 pages of Bone today. 600 to go. this is a blast!

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 10:04 pm

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:13 am

400yrs wrote:
xodacia81 wrote:
I've heard horror stories about Bilson's run.
If you want to try it, send me your address. I really don't want it.

That bad, eh? One question: Could Superman survive exposure to it?

captain1stern · Post by **captain1stern** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 5:43 pm

I've found several good series.

"Irredeemable" by Mark Waid is a really awesome tale of a Super-Man like character gone bad. For about fourteen issues the story was fast paced and intertaining. The horror of having an evil "Super-Man" flying around the world terrorizing people and generally just being sick of everybody needing his help was quite entertaining. It's slowed down recently and the new artist isn't as good as the first one, but I really recommend the early issues.

"Project Superpowers" with Alex Ross has also been very good. Of course the covers are amazing, but the inside artist and the stories are good as well. Seeing a bunch of Golden Age heroes taken in a new direction has been enlightening to say the least. This comic really gave me a sense of where today's comic book heroes came from. It's a fun read.

"Savage Dragon" with Erik Larson is just good silly entertainment. This series was one of the Image titles that came around shortly after Valiant got started and unlike the rest of them it actualy had a story. Erik Larson started this book 18 years ago and he's never quit. It's still fun, it's still funny, and it's still everything an Image book should have been. The arts good, the stories are interesting, and Erik spoofs a lot of stuff that older readers remember. He takes characters and storylines that you already know, but moves in a different direction with them and in many cases gives them a proper ending. He had a Galactus knock off who got shrunk and beat up for trying to eat the earth. He also had a Darkseid rip who got executed a couple of times (multi-universe bugger kept coming back).
Lots of characters die in this book, if you read it from the beginning, I warn you that noone is safe. Even the main character might be introuble in the current storyline. Seriously, give this one a try. There's 163 issues, plus numerous mini-series and the whole thing is just a trip.

Those are my recommendations!

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:35 pm

xodacia81 wrote:
400yrs wrote:
xodacia81 wrote:
I've heard horror stories about Bilson's run.
If you want to try it, send me your address. I really don't want it.
That bad, eh? One question: Could Superman survive exposure to it?

He'd have to sing a really good song.

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:36 pm

captain1stern wrote: Those are my recommendations!

Based on your recommendations, you might like Invincible. Every tried it?

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:54 pm

400yrs wrote:
xodacia81 wrote:
400yrs wrote:
xodacia81 wrote:
I've heard horror stories about Bilson's run.
If you want to try it, send me your address. I really don't want it.
That bad, eh? One question: Could Superman survive exposure to it?
He'd have to sing a really good song.

Is that a Final Crisis ref?

Chiclo · Post by **Chiclo** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 8:23 pm

captain1stern wrote:I've found several good series.

"Irredeemable" by Mark Waid is a really awesome tale of a Super-Man like character gone bad. For about fourteen issues the story was fast paced and intertaining. The horror of having an evil "Super-Man" flying around the world terrorizing people and generally just being sick of everybody needing his help was quite entertaining. It's slowed down recently and the new artist isn't as good as the first one, but I really recommend the early issues.

"Project Superpowers" with Alex Ross has also been very good. Of course the covers are amazing, but the inside artist and the stories are good as well. Seeing a bunch of Golden Age heroes taken in a new direction has been enlightening to say the least. This comic really gave me a sense of where today's comic book heroes came from. It's a fun read.

"Savage Dragon" with Erik Larson is just good silly entertainment. This series was one of the Image titles that came around shortly after Valiant got started and unlike the rest of them it actualy had a story. Erik Larson started this book 18 years ago and he's never quit. It's still fun, it's still funny, and it's still everything an Image book should have been. The arts good, the stories are interesting, and Erik spoofs a lot of stuff that older readers remember. He takes characters and storylines that you already know, but moves in a different direction with them and in many cases gives them a proper ending. He had a Galactus knock off who got shrunk and beat up for trying to eat the earth. He also had a Darkseid rip who got executed a couple of times (multi-universe bugger kept coming back).
Lots of characters die in this book, if you read it from the beginning, I warn you that noone is safe. Even the main character might be introuble in the current storyline. Seriously, give this one a try. There's 163 issues, plus numerous mini-series and the whole thing is just a trip.

Those are my recommendations!

I will agree with 2 out of 3 of your recommendations.

Savage Dragon comes off as a bit preachy in the kind of direction that bugs me. It is like Eric Larsen is telling me "If I were a cop, I would do it this way..."

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 8:56 pm

Chiclo wrote: Savage Dragon comes off as a bit preachy in the kind of direction that bugs me. It is like Eric Larsen is telling me "If I were a cop, I would do it this way..."

I tend to agree. I gave it a shot in the 140s for about 5 issues. Not my bag. The art in some of the panels hurt to look at too.

Lots of peeps like it though.