Anyone currently reading comics?

[diet_orange]

I swear there ain't nothing better than coming home to some Mtn Dew and very belated Judge Dredd Megazine in your mailbox

 

[Cuestionador]

Recently been reading L'Arabe du futur 1 (The Arab of the Future) by Riad Sattouf and El Diablo by Alexis Nesme and Lewis Trondheim! I'm not sure the count as comics?

Of course they count! The creature in the second one is the Marsupilami, right?

 

[Ephemera1_]

I just started "Phantom Road" a few days ago. (Synopsis for anyone interested https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/phantom-road) im on episode 5 now, its really ramping up to be something special i can tell.

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

I feel like my taste in comics lately is pretty basic. I mostly read licensed comics from IDW. My Little Pony & Sonic comics in particular. I also try to check out weird crossover comics whenever I can. Like Naruto/Ninja Turtles & Sonic/DC as recent-ish examples.

 

[JoueurCitoyen]

Of course they count! The creature in the second one is the Marsupilami, right?

Not exactly; according to the back cover, the creature is the Marsupilami's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather!

 

[diet_orange]

I feel like my taste in comics lately is pretty basic. I mostly read licensed comics from IDW. My Little Pony & Sonic comics in particular. I also try to check out weird crossover comics whenever I can. Like Naruto/Ninja Turtles & Sonic/DC as recent-ish examples.

Basic is awesome! Some of my favorite comics as a kid were just that. My favorites were anything from Matt Groening's Bongo Comics (which were mostly just Simpsons, but also Hillenburg's SpongeBob before he passed) and DC's Cartoon Network line (though mainly Power Puff Girls)

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

Basic is awesome! Some of my favorite comics as a kid were just that. My favorites were anything from Matt Groening's Bongo Comics (which were mostly just Simpsons, but also Hillenburg's SpongeBob before he passed) and DC's Cartoon Network line (though mainly Power Puff Girls)

I loved PPG as a kid. I would've been all over those comics as well, if I knew they existed hehe I do still have a few of my old Simpsons comics from like 20 years ago, although they aren't in the greatest condition

 

[diet_orange]

I loved PPG as a kid. I would've been all over those comics as well, if I knew they existed hehe I do still have a few of my old Simpsons comics from like 20 years ago, although they aren't in the greatest condition

One of two of my favorites are when HIM sends the girls a "Rampage-like" video game where they destroy the city as their respective monsters and where a the cast of a children's show manipulate the children (as well as Bubbles) of Townsville into sending them oodles of cash to help the pretend world survive

There was also Marvel's STAR comics line in the 80s which I have some of. Mainly children's fair like Muppet Babies and Heathcliff. But it also had the original Spider-Ham comics too

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Reading this one a couple of days ago, still an underrated british classic, a reflection on war, humanity and the american culture, with remarkable artwork done by Mick McMahon, always a force of nature akin to Jack Kirby or Pablo Picasso (it's bizarre that this comic was made in the same decade of the Sonic and Decapattack comics for Fleetway), a shame that this comic was the end of the John Wagner/Alan Grant team. Now i know where Ennis "borrowed" the idea for his comic Just a Pilgrim.

If I had any complaints about "The Last American" and there are few, it's mainly due to how incredibly short it is. I would have loved to have seen it get a full title run, but I think you can only harp on the futility of war in a barren landscape so much before it grows stale. It feels like a much more thoughtful revision of "The Cursed Earth" arc in Judge Dredd.

You might enjoy "Third World War" by Pat Mills and Carlos Ezquerra. It's about a girl who's forced into joining a militant peace corps-like operation in a third world country while a multi-national corporation tries to take it over

Re-reading through Transmet, one of my favorite comics/ graphic novels of all time
Needing to catch up on Saga, but don't remember where I left off.
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I read through Transmet every four years and it rarely if ever gets old

I've been reading a little bit of Dr. Fate by JM DeMatteis before I go to be every night, it's so good. It starts off very pulpy in the mini-series with the previous Dr. Fate dying and needing to find a replacement and then becomes farcical but somber outlook on mysticism in the on-going. Very touchy and incredibly funny

 

[Cuestionador]

If I had any complaints about "The Last American" and there are few, it's mainly due to how incredibly short it is. I would have loved to have seen it get a full title run, but I think you can only harp on the futility of war in a barren landscape so much before it grows stale. It feels like a much more thoughtful revision of "The Cursed Earth" arc in Judge Dredd.

You might enjoy "Third World War" by Pat Mills and Carlos Ezquerra. It's about a girl who's forced into joining a militant peace corps-like operation in a third world country while a multi-national corporation tries to take it over

I read all the Crisis issues many years ago it was a great anthology and Third World War and New Statesmen are two of his high points. One of my best friends (argentinian like me) it's a big fan of 2000AD, so he gifted me the Amnesty International Issue.

Pat Mills is one of my favourite writers of all time and i talked to him on Facebook a few times, mentioning him the work of Leonardo Manco years before he bring him on board to the last chapters of Slaine. I never read Transmetropolitan, but i enjoy Ellis works and i have the complete run of Hellstorm, Prince of Lies + Druid, one of the first mainstream works he ever did. His Moon Knight run or things like Planetary and Global Frequency are well worth the look, too.

 

[diet_orange]

I read all the Crisis issues many years ago it was a great anthology and Third World War and New Statesmen are two of his high points. One of my best friends (argentinian like me) it's a big fan of 2000AD, so he gifted me the Amnesty International Issue.

Pat Mills is one of my favourite writers of all time and i talked to him on Facebook a few times, mentioning him the work of Leonardo Manco years before he bring him on board to the last chapters of Slaine. I never read Transmetropolitan, but i enjoy Ellis works and i have the complete run of Hellstorm, Prince of Lies + Druid, one of the first mainstream works he ever did. His Moon Knight run or things like Planetary and Global Frequency are well worth the look, too.

Mills is one of the those writers that when he's good, he's at the top of his game. Loved Marshall Law, Punisher 2099, and Finn. My favorite series of his is Requiem Vampire Knight and was absolutely elated to find out that it's finally being reprinted in October

 

[Cuestionador]

Mills is one of the those writers that when he's good, he's at the top of his game. Loved Marshall Law, Punisher 2099, and Finn. My favorite series of his is Requiem Vampire Knight and was absolutely elated to find out that it's finally being reprinted in October

If you like Punisher 2099, here's some pages of unpublished issues written by Chuck Dixon, with art by Quique Alcatena, one of the most important artists of my country: https://quiquealcatenasuperheroes.blogspot.com/2013/05/marvel-2099.html?m=1

 

[Strogg_Commando]

last series of comics that i've read fully was Luther Strode, i highly reccomend it. (besides that, loose editions of old Battletech comics)

 

[bjork]

I recently read through the entire run of GI Joe: A Real American Hero, both the original Marvel run as well as the newer stuff from 155.5-319, and man. That story sure goes some places with all the weird cloning and self-aware robot people and whatnot. But as fantastical as it gets, I still think it's fun and I like that the original author is still plugging away at it. That's neat.

 

[diet_orange]

Finishing up my "Doctor Fate by JM DeMatteis" collection and man was this a fun and heart wrenching ride. Really does feel like a Vertigo book in the ongoing and that's probably because Katen Berger was the editor for a while.

 

[pr0xy]

I'm about to start The Immortal Hulk. I've heard a lot of good things about this run and, since I haven't read anything Marvel-related lately, I thought I might as well give it a try:

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Glad to read your post! I love Jeff Lemire, and this will definitely be coming to my collection at some point.

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I read the Luther Strode omnibus a couple of years ago, and it was a blast indeed. I had so much fun from start to finish. I definitely second your recommendation.

 

[diet_orange]

I'm about to start The Immortal Hulk. I've heard a lot of good things about this run and, since I haven't read anything Marvel-related lately, I thought I might as well give it a try:
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I read a bunch of it and thought that it was damn good and I don't even really care for The Hulk at all. Only other Marvel book I'm following is Moon Knight. They kind of burnt me out with Straczynski's Cap and every other outing trying to be Brubaker all over again (which I don't mind, but I just want Cap to be upbeat and cheerful. You can only do the socio-political drama schtik so many times before it gets stale)

 

[Guinea]

I'm currently reading Archie's Mega Man, Udon's Mega Man, IDW's Sonic x DC collab and some Batman.

 

[diet_orange]

I'm currently reading Archie's Mega Man, Udon's Mega Man, IDW's Sonic x DC collab and some Batman.

I'm still kind of mad that the Sonic crossover wasn't solely Flash focused because that's all anybody's wanted for years.

Also, this is kind of neat. Mad Cave is doing a Samurai Pizza Cats comic

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[TinRattler]

Not me personally but my son is reading all my comics from when I was a kid

 

[diet_orange]

Not me personally but my son is reading all my comics from when I was a kid

He have any preferences or just kind of a ravenous reader?

 

[TheJoulesThief]

 

[bjork]

New issue of GI Joe came out and I still cannot wrap my head around the fact that

Spoiler: they did some stuff with snake-eyes

Snake-Eyes died, but was brought back from a cloned body that Dr. Mindbender had, and that clone is apparently still burned from the blast that scarred original Snake-Eyes (would this happen? no, right?) but he can TALK. If his vocal cords aren't burned and fried, why is his face? Anyway, it's really jarring after 40 years of a guy communicating through motions and nods, to have him be like, "Storm Shadow, help me with these missiles" and I don't think I'll ever think it isn't weird.

 

[diet_orange]

Been reading silver age Adam Strange out of curiosity. It's actually quite good! Very heavy on the pulp science fiction, which I love. Garner Fox really knows how to spin a good yarn, but then again he'd been in the comic book biz a couple of decades before Strange came out

 

[Jimbo_McDumbo]

I read most of the Marvel and DC soft reboot/alternate dark universe stuff. I.E. Maker Ultimate universe and Absolute DC. Because while I bemoan reboots as a whole, it works. The marketing perspective works like a charm.

The pitch probably goes something like this. "Hey do you like these characters? Are you unsure where to start in this tangled web of half remembered decades long timelines? Or are you caught up, down to the most obscure side issue from 25 years ago?" Sayeth the marketing man. "Then you can have your cake and eat it too! Here's the same characters you love, but changed in certain ways, doing new(-ish) things. All new packaging, all new presentation, same great taste!"

I can't deny the appeal to the long time or the beginner fan. Especially when the creative teams behind each book is killing it.