Recomendations?

riff13 · Post by **riff13** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 1:56 pm

I've been out of comics for a while, and I've recently been thinking about wasting some mon- ahem - picking up a few new titles. I was wondering if anybody had any recommendations as I have no clue what's even out there right now.

To give an idea of my tastes I've always liked Valiant (obviously, though just VH1) Vertigo, and Spider-Man. I've enjoyed what I've seen of Untimate Spider-Man, but that's about the only current book I know anything about.

So that being said any recomendations?

dino · Post by **dino** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 2:26 pm

Preacher

X-O HoboJoe · Post by **X-O HoboJoe** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 2:47 pm

Transmetropolitan

myron · Post by **myron** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 2:56 pm

even though they just went belly up...some of the crossgen titles

Escaflown4 · Post by **Escaflown4** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:17 pm

If you have any interest in the X-Men, I highly recommend the new Astonishing X-Men series. I guarantee you an excellent read.

BodaZoffa · Post by **BodaZoffa** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:18 pm

New Avengers...!!!! Just recently started. The artwork rocks!!! The story is Good!!!! And the characters include everyone from Capt. America to Spider-man to Wolverine.

Boda

whetteon · Post by **whetteon** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:27 pm

Amazing Spider-Man, Green Lantern: Rebirth, Ultimate FF, Waid's run on FF(brillant), 1-16 of Batman/Superman, Astonishing X-Men are all (or were) on my pull list. All good reads (duh)

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:32 pm

Hustler Magazine

justin · Post by **justin** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:20 pm

X-O HoboJoe wrote:Transmetropolitan

Trans is awesome. So it Eddy Current!

-Justin

jedimarley · Post by **jedimarley** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 7:14 pm

Try the Flash.

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 7:31 pm

OK, seriously then. Here is my Marvel zombie recommendation list.

Ultimate Everything. I get them all, and they're usually the first books I read.

New Avengers, Iron Man and Captain America. It's nice to see the meat of Marvel's lineup being done so well.

Daredevil. The new peak of this series, IMO blows away anything Miller did.

Marvel Knights Spidey and FF. The FF started slow, but I prefer each of these over their regular series.

Punisher. This has been a very rough series for a long time now, but it has a comfortably gritty violence to it.

And Conan. Not Marvel, but what a great read by Busiek every month.

I'd say Pulse, too, if it came out more often than once in a while.

tssgery · Post by **tssgery** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 7:52 pm

depluto wrote: Daredevil. The new peak of this series, IMO blows away anything Miller did.

I agree with this. It's nice to see what was once a second tier character being done so well...

justin · Post by **justin** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 8:29 pm

Well, any of the Alan Moore ABC comics are so AWESOME!!!

-justin

cinlach@aol.com · Post by **cinlach@aol.com** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 8:48 pm

poison elves (start with the trades...they're awesome)
captain america (ed brubaker and steve epting are doing great work)
astonishing x-men (one word...cassaday)
wolverine (john romita jr rocks on that book)
grimjack (that one word speaks for itself)
strange (dr. strange rebooted...again)
ultimates 1 and 2 so far have been decent.

riff13 · Post by **riff13** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 10:10 pm

thanks guys.

Astonishing X-men I takbe back what I said I did know about that one. I like the art in it, but I was more interested in it since it was beinging written by Joss Whedon.

whetteon · Post by **whetteon** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 9:48 am

tssgery wrote:
depluto wrote: Daredevil. The new peak of this series, IMO blows away anything Miller did.
I agree with this. It's nice to see what was once a second tier character being done so well...

agreed. Like to see where they go with the whole story-line.

X-O HoboJoe · Post by **X-O HoboJoe** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:54 am

Not sure of the issue #'s, but if you like satire, Garth Ennis really did a hillarious number on Woverine late in the Punisher run he was doing before they rebooted with the MAX series. If you ever even remotely felt Wolvie to be an over-used, over-abused character, this 3 issue (i think) run is for you.

Scene: Logan and Frank are surrounded by hundreds of well-armed midgets:

Logan: You got a plan, Castle?

Frank: Yeah. (takes .12 and blasts Wolvies face off, revealing a shinny admantium skull underneath)

Logan: GHHAAAAAAA!!!!!!
I just kinda goes down-hill from there . . . for Wolvie

riftt · Post by **riftt** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:25 am

Runaways

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 1:04 pm

Wasn't that the one where the midgets were cutting al lthe gangsters off at the knees so everyone would be the same height?

X-O HoboJoe · Post by **X-O HoboJoe** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 1:47 pm

Yup. And they thought Wolvie was "one of them" because of his height.

I know a lot of people don't care for Ennis but I loved Preacher, even won one of the signed scripts from the letter's page by imitating Arse-face himself on tape. Of course, the booze helped.

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 1:53 pm

X-O HoboJoe wrote:Yup. And they thought Wolvie was "one of them" because of his height. I know a lot of people don't care for Ennis but I loved Preacher, even won one of the signed scripts from the letter's page by imitating Arse-face himself on tape. Of course, the booze helped.

Outstanding!

I even loved Ennis' work on Hellblazer, but I couldn't stand what he did with Shadowman. And then infinitely wise Acclaim decided to use that version of Shadowman as the basis for their video game. Doh! I'd complain to them, but, uh, they're bankrupt.

X-O HoboJoe · Post by **X-O HoboJoe** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 2:50 pm

Very few people on this planet would write the kinda story where Wolvie goes zerk on a thousand migdets because they identify with him . . . then follow it up with the Steamroller scene:

Castle: (thinking): Thanks to that ridiculous healing thing, he'll live through this. He'll wish he didn't, but he'll live.

Logan: GAHHHAAAAHHHH!!!! CASTLE! YOU'RE A DEAD MAN!

BWAHAAHAAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

johnhickman · Post by **johnhickman** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 3:56 pm

riff13 wrote:I've been out of comics for a while, and I've recently been thinking about wasting some mon- ahem - picking up a few new titles. I was wondering if anybody had any recommendations as I have no clue what's even out there right now.

To give an idea of my tastes I've always liked Valiant (obviously, though just VH1) Vertigo, and Spider-Man. I've enjoyed what I've seen of Untimate Spider-Man, but that's about the only current book I know anything about.

So that being said any recomendations?

From Vertigo - I'm currently reading Y- The Last Man & Fables, both of which are good and well collected so you can catch up quick/cheap.

Also liked Brian Wood's Demo and Couriers - Demo's not been collected yet, but Couriers is only in TPB form

I liked Marvel 1602 as well, although it gets mixed reviews from others. If you like Neil Gaiman and don't mind people messing with established ideas of characters, it's worth reading.

Alan Moore's Promethea is a good read and is collected well.

x-omatic · Post by **x-omatic** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 2:17 am

Here are the books I would recomend.

Ultra (Image)
Invincible (Image)
Walking Dead (Image)
Supreme Power (Marvel)
Shaolin Cowboy (Burlyman Ent. Geofrey Darrow)
Doc Frankenstein (Burlyman Ent. Geofrey Darrow)
Space Ghost (DC)
Superman (DC)
Action Comics (DC)
Captain America (Marvel)
Astonishing X-men (Marvel)
Ultimates vol 2 (Marvel)
the Goon (Dark horse)

dino · Post by **dino** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 3:07 am

x-omatic wrote:Here are the books I would recomend.

Invincible (Image)

YES

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