Anyone currently reading comics?

[diet_orange]

Pretty cool seeing this bumped.

I stopped reading invincible but I’d like to get back to it. If season 4 comes back, I’ll try to catch up. I’d definitely rather see the big story beats in the comic first rather than the animation’s nonexistent animation budget v

Invincible seemed really fun, but I stopped reading it for some reason. Kirkman really does seem to have a good grasp on how to write comics with a bit of an old timey flair to them (which is kind of how I write too when I do superhero stories), which might go hand in hand with his adoration for Erik Larson's Savage Dragon (which is really great btw, highly recommended)

 

[Guinea]

I'm about halfway through Archie's 'Mega Man' series and IDW's 'Sonic the Hedgehog' series, but I put their readings on hold to check out Archie's 'NiGHTS Into Dreams', and when I'm done with NiGHTS I'm checking out 'Metroid Prime: Episode of Aether' and probably some more Batman.

Manga-wise I just caught up on 'Omori' and I'm going to binge all of Udon's 'Mega Man Timelines' series soon, amongst others.

 

[diet_orange]

Been re-reading my Plastic Man Finest Collection (been in love with the character since I read the Kyle Baker run in my teens) and it's just as fun, crazy, and enjoyable

 

[dustymetso]

I read a decent amount of comics. Just caught up with all of Saga just last week, which is good considering the update we just got from BKV regarding the next arc being written!

I mostly read outside of Marvel/DC, but the new Absolute Universe has sucked me right in, loving all of it. I'll probably give the new Marvel Ultimate comics a shot too, if I can find the time to spare.

 

[diet_orange]

I read a decent amount of comics. Just caught up with all of Saga just last week, which is good considering the update we just got from BKV regarding the next arc being written!

I mostly read outside of Marvel/DC, but the new Absolute Universe has sucked me right in, loving all of it. I'll probably give the new Marvel Ultimate comics a shot too, if I can find the time to spare.

I've heard that Ultimate Marvel is gonna be ending sometime next year. BS internet speculation is that they're canceling it because it's overtaking the main Marvel books in sales

 

[dustymetso]

I've heard that Ultimate Marvel is gonna be ending sometime next year. BS internet speculation is that they're canceling it because it's overtaking the main Marvel books in sales

I'm not surprised that it's doing well. No one wants to read comics where you have to do a bunch of homework - reading continuity cross-overs and a bunch of spin-off comics just to get the full story. Ultimate/Absolute are perfect ways for new readers to get into comics.

Absolute Batman is what got me back into comics after a few years away.

 

[diet_orange]

I'm not surprised that it's doing well. No one wants to read comics where you have to do a bunch of homework - reading continuity cross-overs and a bunch of spin-off comics just to get the full story. Ultimate/Absolute are perfect ways for new readers to get into comics.

Absolute Batman is what got me back into comics after a few years away.

While none of the Absolute titles have spoken to me personally (still on the fence about Absolute GL), I'm always for bringing in new readers

 

[Mechablade-X]

Last ones i read, its Hulk The End from 2002 and the main Hulk comics run from the early 2000s. Hulk The End being the best and depressing story i ever read

 

[petran79]

I was an avid Mickey Mouse reader in the 80s and up to the mid-90s as, there were countless different magazines in Europe.

But after that stopped reading.

So I decided to cover lost ground by reading Carl Barks, Don Rosa, Gottfredson and Disney Masters from Fantagraphics

Finished Rosa and am close in finishing Barks. Best comics I've ever read and had read some of his stories in my childhood and I remembered them again.
Not so much into newer Mickey Mouse. Let's finish the above and I'll see.

 

[diet_orange]

Last ones i read, its Hulk The End from 2002 and the main Hulk comics run from the early 2000s. Hulk The End being the best and depressing story i ever read

I've heard good things about Barry Windsor Smith's Monsters which was originally supposed to be published in the 80s I think? But Marvel kind of bastardized the script to the point where BWS got royally pissed off

Also, not a particularly big fan of Hulk, but I did love the Immortal Hulk. Real game changer

 

[pr0xy]

I've heard good things about Barry Windsor Smith's Monsters which was originally supposed to be published in the 80s I think? But Marvel kind of bastardized the script to the point where BWS got royally pissed off

It's a bit more complicated than that. If I recall correctly, Barry Windsor-Smith was pissed off because Bill Mantlo allegedly ripped off his story. If I'm not mistaken, Jim Shooter (Marvel's editor-in-chief back then) documented it, along with some other instances of Mantlo ripping off other people's work, on his website many years later.

 

[diet_orange]

It's a bit more complicated than that. If I recall correctly, Barry Windsor-Smith was pissed off because Bill Mantlo allegedly ripped off his story. If I'm not mistaken, Jim Shooter (Marvel's editor-in-chief back then) documented it, along with some other instances of Mantlo ripping off other people's work, on his website many years later.

Fair, I don't exactly have a great knowledge of Hulk, mostly just bits and pieces. I think Mantlo is a decent writer even if I didn't care for his time on Howard The Duck out. Still, it's amazing that Shooter did nothing when the guy is famous for making up bullshit excuses for stuff like the infamous "Ghost Rider meets God" storyline

 

[pr0xy]

Fair, I don't exactly have a great knowledge of Hulk, mostly just bits and pieces. I think Mantlo is a decent writer even if I didn't care for his time on Howard The Duck out. Still, it's amazing that Shooter did nothing when the guy is famous for making up bullshit excuses for stuff like the infamous "Ghost Rider meets God" storyline

Me neither, to be fair, but Monsters piqued my interest back when it was published, and I stumbled upon that story while looking up information on it.

 

[diet_orange]

Been reading a couple of things
-90's Superboy
-Boom's VR Troopers
-Dynamite's Captain Planet

Been enjoying all three. If I had any complaints, it'd be that Kessel's Superboy has a lot of older women romantically involved with/lusting after him.

VR Troopers and Captain Planet seem like good modern interpretations of their respective source material and I was a bit bummed that Troopers is only a mini-series