What comics are you reading now?

dave · Post by **dave** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 8:17 pm

400yrs wrote:Daredevil Legends Frank Miller Vol 1. He didn't write this one, but these are some damn fine comics. The Bullseye story was pretty awesome. I think having Klaus Janson as his inker really just strenghtens the pencils.

To me, stuff like Simonson's Thor is dated and overrated, but this was still a very good read.

I love those Miller/Janson Daredevils.

I also love Simonson's art.

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 10:13 pm

Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe - This is just a good, stupid read.

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 11:07 pm

yep it rocks

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 1:24 pm

In addition to reading all the Dark Horse Gold Key stuff they're putting out right now, I've decided to give a new Marvel comic book a try. Bendis and Maleev are doing a new Moon Knight, starting this coming Wednesday. I'll be picking them up and giving them a shot.

dave · Post by **dave** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 2:27 pm

Cool. I'd like to check that out. Their Daredevil stuff was great.

Doorman · Post by **Doorman** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 4:17 pm

dave wrote:Just finished The Stuff of Legend Book 1 The Dark by Mike Raicht. It was a really good story. It's kind of a mix of Toy Story and Narnia. It's a little darker than either of those stories, but I was digging it and am looking forward to the next installment.

My fiance and I enjoyed this, as well. Your description is spot on.

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 9:15 pm

I just re-read Pride of Baghdad.

Maybe the BEST stand alone story I've ever read. A GREAT, GREAT book.

Now on to a Dark Horse Conan TPB, #6 I think.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Sun May 01, 2011 12:06 am

Elveen wrote:I just re-read Pride of Baghdad.

Maybe the BEST stand alone story I've ever read. A GREAT, GREAT book.

I just about lost it at the end... you pretty much knew it was coming (esp. if you know the real story it's based on) but still... *WINCE*

-slym

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Sun May 01, 2011 1:24 am

slym2none wrote:
Elveen wrote:I just re-read Pride of Baghdad.

Maybe the BEST stand alone story I've ever read. A GREAT, GREAT book.
I just about lost it at the end... you pretty much knew it was coming (esp. if you know the real story it's based on) but still... *WINCE*

-slym

For sure. And I think it is told/presented perfectly.

There is some deep thoughts in there. Some high level questions asked.

dave · Post by **dave** » Tue May 03, 2011 2:46 pm

making my way through Rex Libri. It's a black and white book about an immortal librarian. It's pretty goofy/funny. He breaks character all the time, and talks to the audience. He leaves some people behind to give the artist a break, gets mad at a fight that does nothing to advance the plot and makes cracks like that all through the book. I'm enjoying it.

Chiclo · Post by **Chiclo** » Tue May 03, 2011 2:49 pm

I read FF 2 last night. I have been reading Fantastic Four for over a year now and I really like the direction the book is headed in.

Best Doom story in years. My question is - is he in the FF now?

Drift · Post by **Drift** » Tue May 03, 2011 3:29 pm

Recently finished Essential Tomb of Dracula v1 and as I am working a night shift tomorrow I should kill off a large chunk of v2 by thursday morning.

I am also about halfway through Showcase presents Dial H for Hero which is cheesy as hell and not very good but at the same time is wicked cool. It is like magnets; don't ask me how it works (yes I know that magnets actually work by still having pieces of gravity in them when they are mined from the ground but if you were to point that out, it would ruin my analogy so keep it quiet)

And am on around v4 of IDW reprints of Now's Speed Racer because I managed to get the volumes I was missing so am rereading the entire series.

Picked up Marvel/Epic Critical Mass 1-7 at the weekend for 50p a pop so will will be digging into that at some point soon as well.

Dang, I don't half read some *SQUEE*, ay?

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Tue May 03, 2011 6:43 pm

Drift wrote:Recently finished Essential Tomb of Dracula v1 and as I am working a night shift tomorrow I should kill off a large chunk of v2 by thursday morning.

How was it? I have that sitting on the shelf to read still.

Jersen · Post by **Jersen** » Tue May 03, 2011 7:16 pm

Finally finished off my read through the Morrison run of JLA. I felt like it sagged in the middle and lost some (OK, maybe alot) of it's initial excitement and momentum, but World War III was a satisfying, rewarding story that ended up paying off and tying up everything he had built from the beginning.

I read my way through that run at a fairly leisurely pace and I'm trying to decide what to tackle next. I got in an order of 40 books yesterday, 33 of which were the Byrne and Byrne/Lee run of Namor. I've also got Byrne's Alpha Flight run that I haven't read yet, the Milligan/Allred X-Force & X-Statix, a re-read of the complete Madman (now that I finally have the entire Atomics series and the few Madman 1-shots and miniseries that I was missing), the latter half of Astro City up to present, and several other smaller runs that I've acquired in the past year or two.

Honestly, though, I've been burning my way through many large creator runs lately in an attempt to catch up on things that I have bought over the past 3 or 4 years that have sat unread in longboxes. I think I'm just gonna catch up on the past few months worth of more current stuff that I have neglected while reading my way through older material. After that I've got plenty of Valiant stuff that I'm very anxious to read for the first time, like pre-Unity Rai, Eternal Warrior, Harbinger (thru #25), and the full run of Dr. Mirage (I've only ever read the 1st 2 issues, which I bought on publication), and many others.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Tue May 03, 2011 11:43 pm

Drift wrote:Recently finished Essential Tomb of Dracula v1

Marv Wolfman?

-slym

Drift · Post by **Drift** » Wed May 04, 2011 2:33 am

400yrs wrote:
Drift wrote:Recently finished Essential Tomb of Dracula v1 and as I am working a night shift tomorrow I should kill off a large chunk of v2 by thursday morning.
How was it? I have that sitting on the shelf to read still.

Gerry Conway, Gardner Fox, Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan (with Mike Ploog doing the Werewolf by Night crossover issue).

It was brilliant. It is narrated in a classic, over the top, melodramatic way and the art is an absolute joy.

Volume 1 spans from Dracula's ressurection to the introduction of Hannibal King.

I have all 4 books and cannot wait to sink my teeth into them (pun very much intended

).

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Wed May 04, 2011 10:16 am

Elveen wrote:I just re-read Pride of Baghdad.

Maybe the BEST stand alone story I've ever read. A GREAT, GREAT book.

Now on to a Dark Horse Conan TPB, #6 I think.

The Conan story was great, as usuall. I like both the Dark Horse Conan and the older Marvel Conan. Both are similar and different.

I was not sure what I was going to read next, I have a few more un-read Conan TPBs (dark horse reprints of the Marvel stuff), I also have a Sandman Myst The TPB (but my run skips a story so I want to read it in order, so I decided to hold off). I also have a scalped run almost done and something I have been working on for awhile, a near full BPRD, but still not complete.

So I decided to re-read Identity Crisis. I'm looking forward to it.

Chiclo · Post by **Chiclo** » Wed May 04, 2011 8:25 pm

Drift wrote:(yes I know that magnets actually work by still having pieces of gravity in them when they are mined from the ground but if you were to point that out, it would ruin my analogy so keep it quiet)

Is this a joke? I can't tell. I still want to kill it.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Wed May 04, 2011 11:30 pm

Elveen wrote:
So I decided to re-read Identity Crisis. I'm looking forward to it.

Great choice! Not comics, but I will get those books I said I'd send out to you soon... (busy here, sorry)

-slym

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Wed May 04, 2011 11:30 pm

Chiclo wrote:
Drift wrote:(yes I know that magnets actually work by still having pieces of gravity in them when they are mined from the ground but if you were to point that out, it would ruin my analogy so keep it quiet)
Is this a joke? I can't tell. I still want to kill it.

ALWAYS go with your gut-instinct.

-slym

newt138 · Post by **newt138** » Thu May 05, 2011 6:31 am

Drift wrote: I am also about halfway through Showcase presents Dial H for Hero which is cheesy as hell and not very good but at the same time is wicked cool. It is like magnets; don't ask me how it works (yes I know that magnets actually work by still having pieces of gravity in them when they are mined from the ground but if you were to point that out, it would ruin my analogy so keep it quiet)

I picked up that Showcase last year at FCBD. Took me almost a year to read it all. I had remembered loving Dial H for hero when I was a kid. But wow these stories don't hold up anymore. I found it works best when you read a story or two every week or so.

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Thu May 05, 2011 10:13 pm

The Walking Dead #84 and The Walking Dead Survivor's Guide #1.

The Survivors Guide is really well done, but don't look at it if you aren't all the way up to single 83. Thar' be spoilers in thar'.

ian_house · Post by **ian_house** » Fri May 06, 2011 4:49 am

Been reading a load of Ultraverse stuff. Prime is a great fun Shazam/Superman knock off. Nightman has also been enjoyable and its nice to see newer Engleheart Batman stories, even if he didn't get to use Batman as the character

Lord Pumpkin seems pretty mental, not sure where the idea came from for him!

Is the Strangers any good? I've got 1 issue and it reminds me very much of Harbinger. To be fair alot of Ultraverse strikes me as trying to get on the Valiant bandwagon of having a universal continuity from the get go.

Chiclo · Post by **Chiclo** » Fri May 06, 2011 8:47 am

ian_house wrote:Been reading a load of Ultraverse stuff. Prime is a great fun Shazam/Superman knock off. Nightman has also been enjoyable and its nice to see newer Engleheart Batman stories, even if he didn't get to use Batman as the character Lord Pumpkin seems pretty mental, not sure where the idea came from for him!

Is the Strangers any good? I've got 1 issue and it reminds me very much of Harbinger. To be fair alot of Ultraverse strikes me as trying to get on the Valiant bandwagon of having a universal continuity from the get go.

Strangers suffers from being overly preachy about diversity.

Lord Pumpkin only gets more bad-*SQUEE*.

ian_house · Post by **ian_house** » Fri May 06, 2011 9:04 am

Chiclo wrote: Lord Pumpkin only gets more bad-*SQUEE*.

In a good or bad way?