What comics are you reading now?

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 4:55 pm

400yrs wrote:Green Lantern Emerald Dawn - Good story. I think this is the last of the GL that I have so I'm finally starting the Sinestro Copr War (if I don't keep buying earlier stuff like I have been lately).

Ronin - Still trying to make my way through this. I'm in the middle of issue 3. This is the kind of book that makes me want to stop reading comics altogether. I probably won't finish this series so that I can read better stuff .... unless someone here says that it gets a hell of a lot better near the end.

Just finish it to finish it.

Drift · Post by **Drift** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 4:56 pm

Doorman wrote:So Chris Claremont's Big Hero 6 was indeed a big yawn.

Kaare Andrew's Spider-Man: Reign is shaping up to be a cool homage to Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns.

I read the first issue of Big Hero 6 and just felt like I was being patronised. So many cliches in such a short space of time.

After this, destroying Exiles and the majority of his recent stuff, Marvel need to consider Claremont's position.

I guess with their current output though...

Doorman · Post by **Doorman** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:30 pm

Yep ... He's certainly gone downhill in my opinion, as well.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:36 pm

Elveen wrote:
slym2none wrote:
Elveen wrote:But I think Crossgen had better stories towards the end.
Counterpoint - VALIANT had endings for their books.

-slym

Really? Not all of them. What books had endings?

Shadowman had an ending. I guess X-O too. what other books?

OK, MOST of their books... and Rai ended up being "absorbed" by Magnus, RF.

-slym (was only pointing out that VALIANT knew their time was up - CG just up and died suddenly)

Doorman · Post by **Doorman** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:13 pm

Just read Zeb Wells' Venom: Dark Origin. It was a very cool retelling of Venom's origin. You can tell Wells did his research on the mainstream MU Venom and incorporated a lot of it into this series. Angel Medina's art was AWESOME! He draws one of the coolest Venoms out there!

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:21 pm

ya that was a great little run

Lightning Strike · Post by **Lightning Strike** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:35 pm

Doorman wrote:
400yrs wrote:Ronin - Still trying to make my way through this. I'm in the middle of issue 3. This is the kind of book that makes me want to stop reading comics altogether. I probably won't finish this series so that I can read better stuff .... unless someone here says that it gets a hell of a lot better near the end.
Miller's way over-rated. Most of his stuff I have to fight to read through. Haven't read Ronin but, that goes for the Dark Knight Returns and 300.

His Daredevil run is some of the finest comic storytelling ever.

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:56 pm

Lightning Strike wrote:
Doorman wrote:
400yrs wrote:Ronin - Still trying to make my way through this. I'm in the middle of issue 3. This is the kind of book that makes me want to stop reading comics altogether. I probably won't finish this series so that I can read better stuff .... unless someone here says that it gets a hell of a lot better near the end.
Miller's way over-rated. Most of his stuff I have to fight to read through. Haven't read Ronin but, that goes for the Dark Knight Returns and 300.
His Daredevil run is some of the finest comic storytelling ever.

Yep. And I really loved DKR. Ronin is just uninteresting to me.

Drift · Post by **Drift** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:23 am

Lightning Strike wrote:
Doorman wrote:
400yrs wrote:Ronin - Still trying to make my way through this. I'm in the middle of issue 3. This is the kind of book that makes me want to stop reading comics altogether. I probably won't finish this series so that I can read better stuff .... unless someone here says that it gets a hell of a lot better near the end.
Miller's way over-rated. Most of his stuff I have to fight to read through. Haven't read Ronin but, that goes for the Dark Knight Returns and 300.
His Daredevil run is some of the finest comic storytelling ever.

I have to admit, even I liked what I read of his Daredevil run.

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:36 pm

everyone tells me x force is great stuff ill have to try it out sooner or later

Chiclo · Post by **Chiclo** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:58 pm

I read the first three issues.

It's no X-Factor.

Lightning Strike · Post by **Lightning Strike** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:07 pm

Chiclo wrote:I read the first three issues.

It's no X-Factor.

I didn't care for the newest X-Force. It's nowhere close to being as good as X-Factor

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:20 pm

cool saves me some green

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:28 pm

Jay Tomio wrote:As much as I have enjoyed the Dark Reign material thus far (DA, NA, Thunderbolts, Deadpool etc) I think the Mighty Avengers has been absolute rubbish.

The Avengers brand is very watered down with all the different adjective Avengers. I can't wait to see what the next great "adjective Avengers" title is. Personally, I'm rooting for Light n' Fluffy Avengers. Bendis fans would eat that *SQUEE* up.

Chiclo · Post by **Chiclo** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:48 pm

I'm trying to work together a brief pun involving "Avengers Nights" - an allusion to the short-lived spin-off Baywatch Nights, a show that followed the adventures of the Hoff's character in his night job as a private detective.

Could he be a lifeguard by day and a private detective at night? Absolutely; he's the HOFF*.

* - Hoff's powers greatest while in Northern Europe, the cradle of his greatest adulation.

Doorman · Post by **Doorman** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:55 pm

Lightning Strike wrote:His Daredevil run is some of the finest comic storytelling ever.

Haven't read it yet ... but I've heard good things. Actually, if I remember correctly Man Without Fear was pretty good, too.

DKR, on the other hand, was a big yawn for me.

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:03 pm

Just read the first Hellblazer collection. All I can really say is hmmm. It's neither gripping nor off-putting. I will have to find the second collection and see if I continue to enjoy it or not.

Drift · Post by **Drift** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 3:22 am

Crain's artwork is too dark. I think that is the problem most people have. I found it unreadable due to the fact that you might as well be looking at black pages with speech bubbles.

Drift · Post by **Drift** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 5:21 am

Even though I dislike the majority of his stuff I am trying Morrison's Seven Soldiers because I am a fan of Zatanna and Mr Miracle and I am hoping he doesn't ruin them for me.

Going in with some seriously low expectations so there is the chance I will be pleasantly surprised.

#0 done so far and it was okay. Nothing special, just okay.

dave · Post by **dave** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:37 am

i just finished seasons of the mist. it wasn't as good a dream country imo.

i still like the interaction b/w dream and his fam, but that wasn't enough to carry the book for me.

midsummer's night's dream and dream of a thousand cats were fabulous.
now, i wake my cat up periodically through the day-just in case.

DKR was a yawn? wow. i thought it was a great batman story as well as a great commentary on the world at the same time.

i really enjoyed ronin as well. it's a little complex, but the story-telling was unique and laid the foundation for miller's story telling in DKR.

myron · Post by **myron** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:29 am

picked up the Preacher TPB #7, Salvation and a Conan TPB in the vegas airport...read them on the flight back to wisco...both top notch stuff...now I need to go get the rest of Preacher and Conan...

dave · Post by **dave** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:06 am

did anyone read spiderman : reign?

what a rip. i realize that this was meant to be spiderman's dark knight but come on! get original would ya? miller and varr were the news anchors?

Doorman · Post by **Doorman** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:12 pm

dave wrote:DKR was a yawn? wow. i thought it was a great batman story as well as a great commentary on the world at the same time.

The problem may be that I just really can't get into any Batman comics. I'm not a fan at all of the dark knight.

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:47 pm

I just read All Star Superman volume 1 and Pride Of Baghdad. Pride was very interesting. It's absolutely not what one would expect and the illustrations are wonderful. I was less impressed with ASSM, but it wasn't bad. I took a look at Top Ten. I will need to read a bit further. Having read 2 more issues of DMZ, I am still not sold on it. I wish I could find the rest of 100 Bullets. That had me interested.

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:53 pm

xodacia81 wrote:I just read All Star Superman volume 1 and Pride Of Baghdad. Pride was very interesting. It's absolutely not what one would expect and the illustrations are wonderful. I was less impressed with ASSM, but it wasn't bad. I took a look at Top Ten. I will need to read a bit further. Having read 2 more issues of DMZ, I am still not sold on it. I wish I could find the rest of 100 Bullets. That had me interested.

Top 10 is good. I also really enjoyed the Smax mini. These are books that I am not going to sell, for sure re-reads.