What comics are you reading now?

[Xtianhardy]

I just read Saga #1-10 for the 1st time.

And you stopped at #10!? Dude get #11 NOW.

*not lying*

[Elveen]

I just read Saga #1-10 for the 1st time.

I'm guessing you enjoyed it?

It's difficult to say "enjoy". I'm interested in reading more.
It was great to read a few issues in a row.

[Chiclo]

I just read Saga #1-10 for the 1st time.

I'm guessing you enjoyed it?

It's difficult to say "enjoy". I'm interested in reading more.
It was great to read a few issues in a row.

I get that on both statements. I read the first TPB in one sitting and then a few single issues a month apart and it definitely worked better in a bigger chunk.

[Xtianhardy]

This week's Amazon order should be incoming any day now:

Broken Trinity Vol. 1 by Ron Marz, Phil Hester, and Stjepan Sejic (Top Cow)
Broken Trinity Vol. 2 by Rob Levin, Bryan Edward Hill and Alessandro Vitti (Top Cow)
Witchblade Rebirth Vol. 2 by Tim Seeley and Djego Bernard (Top Cow)
Fatale Vol. 1: Death Chases Me by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)
Revival Vol. 1: You're Among Friends by Tim Seeley and Mike Norton (Image)
Hack/Slash Ombinus Vol. 1 by Tim Seeley et al (Devil's Due/Image)
Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. Ultimate Collection by Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen (Marvel)
The Bulletproof Coffin by David Hine and Shakey Kane (Image)

Yeah, that should keep me busy for the rest of my staycation this week.

[Cyberstrike]

Batwoman #0 and #12-17 A great read. I think this title might be off as a Vertigo title.

[ian_house]

Batwoman #0 and #12-17 A great read. I think this title might be off as a Vertigo title.

better off?

Has it been really good? I do kinda regret dropping it just because it was so damn pretty

[Lightning Strike]

Batwoman #0 and #12-17 A great read. I think this title might be off as a Vertigo title.

better off?

Has it been really good? I do kinda regret dropping it just because it was so damn pretty

Yep. That was the only reason I started reading it before even the new 52. The art is amazing

[ian_house]

Does anyone know why Brian Buccellato was on this weeks Flash (#18)? Is Manapul just catching up or off the title?

Not read the issue yet so can't comment on quality but will be rather disappointed if Manapul is off the title as he had introduced quite a few new concepts and seemed to have a long term plan, plus his art was sweet.

[ian_house]

Batwoman #0 and #12-17 A great read. I think this title might be off as a Vertigo title.

better off?

Has it been really good? I do kinda regret dropping it just because it was so damn pretty

Yep. That was the only reason I started reading it before even the new 52. The art is amazing

May have to catch up in trade or digitally. I've cut my DC reading down to nearly nothing, purely due to losing interest in the new 52, such a shame considering how DC were once pretty much all I read.

[jedimarley]

Poison Elves #1. I've read it three times and can not get into it. The art and writing are ok. I just can't get past the fact that the late, great Drew Hayes is not writing or drawing it.

No matter how good it is or could be, it's not Drews Poison Elves.

[Burrito Boy]

Poison Elves #1. I've read it three times and can not get into it. The art and writing are ok. I just can't get past the fact that the late, great Drew Hayes is not writing or drawing it.

No matter how good it is or could be, it's not Drews Poison Elves.

I was going to question your sanity until I came to the part where you mentioned that Drew Hayes wasn't doing it.

Poison Elves is one of very few comics I ever tried to keep up with back in the day. After losing track of it for a while, I checked back in only to find that Drew had passed. I can still remember how saddened I was by the news. Seems a shame to go on without him--the characters and stories were such a part of him that nobody else could ever duplicate them.

[jedimarley]

I know. The publisher has the blessing of Drews daughter and mother to do it. The writer is going off Drews notes on the direction that the story was going in at the time of his death. But it's not the same.

[caxiotis]

read East of West #1 and really enjoyed it. Excited about the next issue.

read Sex #1 and didn't like it. Not sure I am going to get issue 2

The owner of my LCS has been letting me borrow his personal Hellboy and BPRD books. I have read almost all of the hellboy stories published and am a little bit past half on all BPRD. I will say Hellboy was missing a bit at the beginning, but I knew there was mad potential and after a while it has become great. BPRD started out bad (non-mignola stories), but now i really think it is top notch. I am glad my LCS owner got me to read these.

[Lightning Strike]

The owner of my LCS has been letting me borrow his personal Hellboy and BPRD books. I have read almost all of the hellboy stories published and am a little bit past half on all BPRD. I will say Hellboy was missing a bit at the beginning, but I knew there was mad potential and after a while it has become great. BPRD started out bad (non-mignola stories), but now i really think it is top notch. I am glad my LCS owner got me to read these.

[Xtianhardy]

read East of West #1 and really enjoyed it. Excited about the next issue.

read Sex #1 and didn't like it. Not sure I am going to get issue 2

The owner of my LCS has been letting me borrow his personal Hellboy and BPRD books. I have read almost all of the hellboy stories published and am a little bit past half on all BPRD. I will say Hellboy was missing a bit at the beginning, but I knew there was mad potential and after a while it has become great. BPRD started out bad (non-mignola stories), but now i really think it is top notch. I am glad my LCS owner got me to read these.

I'm a big Joe Casey fan but I really didn't get anything out of Sex #1 other than a half chub and a sense that the artist has a full chub for Dave Gibbon's work on Watchmen. It was an okay comic but pretty weak as a first issue and doesn't really seem to be breaking any new ground thematically. Knowing Casey's work I doubt this will last past 7 issues, if that.

Keep reading BPRD. I'm not fully caught up but by the time you get to Plague of Frogs Volume 4 in my opinion it surpasses Hellboy in both story and art.

[Cyberstrike]

Batwoman #0 and #12-17 A great read. I think this title might be off as a Vertigo title.

better off?

Has it been really good? I do kinda regret dropping it just because it was so damn pretty

Yep. That was the only reason I started reading it before even the new 52. The art is amazing

Batwoman #0, #12-17 felt more like a Vertigo book in terms of it's very dense story (both Batwoman and The Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye take me as long as 30 minutes to one issue) and art style also it seems more disconnected from the New 52 (and that is a very good thing since I loathe Batman as a comic book character).

I also just read Sword of Sorcery #0-5 very interesting read. The main feature Amethyst is very cool and a very interesting read but it needs to focus on world building and explanation than having the princess playing with John Constantine and the JLD. I liked the Beowulf back-up a neat way to bring a legendary poem into the DCU and the current back-up Stalker, the Man Without a Soul is OK.

Sex #1 it feels like a reboot without the backstory. A Batman like character has retired from crime fighting to focus on running his company but now has a weird sexual hang-up and watches two girls have sex with each other and when they get mad that he's not aroused they are dismissed by I guess the Catwoman-like character. And the Old Man (a Joker like character) plans to take control over the crime families. Is there a point to this issue? It feels like it has potentional but I don't know if Joe Casey is the best writer to tackle this kind of subject matter. The artwork has a strong Dave Gibbons/Watchmen feel mixed with some Jim Lee/Tim Sale Deathblow and Frank Miller Sin City elements. The letters page was an interesting read.

[lorddunlow]

Just read East of West and really liked it. After reading Revival #8, I'm ready to add it to my pull list. I'm hooked. Not that it was a especially great issue, but the book continues issue after issue to keep me interested and want more. The characters are interesting, and I feel this book is going to be really awesome down the line. On the other hand, I'll be dropping Nowhere Men after reading #4. I was bored by this issue and was underwhelmed by the book in general.

[nscc]

Started reading a few non-valiant titles.

Read the new Thor book and Hawkeye and really liked them both. When Comixology had the marvel 1st issues for free, I grabbed most of them and thought that All new X-men, Captain America, Incredible Hulk FF and Fantastic Four were my favorites along with Thor and Hawkeye. Not sure if I will buy any of these titles in the future, but the free issues weren't bad at all.

Started Fables trades from Volume 1 and am now on Volume 9. This is amazing, so happy I got these.

I have a huge list of stuff I want to start buying in trades from this thread and other threads on here!

[lorddunlow]

I have a huge list of stuff I want to start buying in trades from this thread and other threads on here!

Yeah, this forum is good for the pull list, but bad for the wallet!

Fables is awesome. I'm way behind, though.

[nscc]

I couldn't even imagine getting as much as I would like or has been recommended as a pull list. Right now, I am only buying Valiant books monthly, and trades of everything else when I can borrow or buy cheap.

I prefer trades anyway, as it makes me feel like I don't have to care about the condition. With a regular comic, even if I am not buying it to invest or anything, something in the back of my head won't let me treat it like a trade. I don't toss them around or anything, but if they fell or something got put on top of it, no big deal. For a regular comic, it gets read, put in bag and board and back in the box. Only to re-appear every now and then for a re-read and then back in it goes.

With trades, I will leave them around my house, loan them to people, etc. It's more accessible so they will be read many more times.

Or maybe I just like the look of them on a bookshelf too

[iwantvaliant]

Demon Knights.

[Cyberstrike]

The Superior Spider-Man #2-5 This is an interesting concept and the story was not awful, but it's too bad art sucks.

[Chiclo]

Demon Knights.

A superior read.

[400yrs]

The Superior Spider-Man #2-5 This is an interesting concept and the story was not awful, but it's too bad art sucks.

Superior Spider-Man is excellent! I don't see how anyone could dislike Stegman's art. I could understand Ramos since it's stylized, but I love his stuff too.

If you like Spidey, this is good stuff, just like all of Slott's Spidey.

[Cyberstrike]

The Superior Spider-Man #2-5 This is an interesting concept and the story was not awful, but it's too bad art sucks.

Superior Spider-Man is excellent! I don't see how anyone could dislike Stegman's art. I could understand Ramos since it's stylized, but I love his stuff too.

If you like Spidey, this is good stuff, just like all of Slott's Spidey.

I haven't loved Spider-Man since the BND raped the characters and has litterally ruined Peter Parker and Mary Jane for me.

I wish I could I say that I loved The Superior Spider-Man but I don't. IMHO it's just average IMHO The Uncanny Avengers was better written and it's just average. I love Ramos' art work but it seems every body that tries to copy his style just makes it look awful. The story is OK but not great either, IMHO the problem was putting Peter's ghost or his mind into the series too early it feels like a maxi-series.