Anyone currently reading comics?

[diet_orange]

Got me a cheap tablet and the first thing I did was load it up with Jed MacKay's Moon Knight and Transmetropolitan

 

[diet_orange]

Also been reading some older 2000AD material, namely "Flesh-The Dino Files" and "The Complete Harlem Heroes". Both of them are pretty great

Harlem Heroes is one that I've been wanting to read for a long time ever since the sons of one of the main characters became a Judge in Dredd. It's sort of a riff on Rollerball mixed with the Harlem Globetrotters.

Flesh is wild though. It's about a corporation who travels into the time of dinosaurs to harvest them for meat to package up and send back to the future. Let's just say that it doesn't go too well

 

[OCULI]

I recently picked up—

Enjoying it so far! Show was moving a little slow for me haha

 

[zombie100379]

anyone who is a fan of "the boys" really should be reading "marshal law: fear and loathing "(read first) , "marshal law takes manhattan" and "marshal law: kingdom of the blind". i read these when i was 10yo and they blew me away - extreme violence , nudity , pitch black humour , it even intentionally rips off various marvel and dc heroes but turns them into psychos - its got it all. the basic premise is that anyone who appears to be a superhero is actually a psychopath and marshall law is the cop who hunts them down. at one point their were plans for a movie but that was a long time ago.

 

[BrawlMan]

I read Supergril: Woman of Tomorrow. Great comic story and artwork, but it does go a bit overboard with the purple prose from the other lead character.

 

[Cuestionador]

anyone who is a fan of "the boys" really should be reading "marshal law: fear and loathing "(read first) , "marshal law takes manhattan" and "marshal law: kingdom of the blind". i read these when i was 10yo and they blew me away - extreme violence , nudity , pitch black humour , it even intentionally rips off various marvel and dc heroes but turns them into psychos - its got it all. the basic premise is that anyone who appears to be a superhero is actually a psychopath and marshall law is the cop who hunts them down. at one point their were plans for a movie but that was a long time ago.

I love Marshall Law! I own many of his comics, and one of my favourite's is the crossover with Hellraiser, a masterclass of Mills and O'Neill. There were plans to make an official Batman crossover, here's the unpublished script: https://iconoblast.substack.com/p/batricide.

I love Garth Ennis, but The Boys is his weakest work by a mile.

 

[diet_orange]

anyone who is a fan of "the boys" really should be reading "marshal law: fear and loathing "(read first) , "marshal law takes manhattan" and "marshal law: kingdom of the blind". i read these when i was 10yo and they blew me away - extreme violence , nudity , pitch black humour , it even intentionally rips off various marvel and dc heroes but turns them into psychos - its got it all. the basic premise is that anyone who appears to be a superhero is actually a psychopath and marshall law is the cop who hunts them down. at one point their were plans for a movie but that was a long time ago.

I love Marshal Law and wish it was better in print. Artwork is killer!

Also been more into reading European stuff (probably because of my 2000AD and Megazine sub). Been reading Thorgal, which I haven't touched in ages. Beautiful beautiful stuff, takes me back to being a kind and watching The Dark Crystal for the bajillionth time. The only other book that ever gave me that type of feeling was Elfquest

Also dug out a copy of Dune that I got second hand at work. Surprisingly had never read it and of course my comic book reading behind IMMEDIATELY has to start re-reading Jodorowsky's Metabarons. It's one of those books that, much like Transmetropolitan, I have to re-read every few years because of just how damn good it is

 

[Badseed Badseed]

Old Groo the Wanderer on a PDF. AWSOME!!!!

 

[diet_orange]

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Old Groo the Wanderer on a PDF. AWSOME!!!!

Marvel's EPIC reprints of the original Elfquest were some of my favorites. It later prompted me to get the B&W Dark Horse collected edition

 

[Badseed Badseed]

No offence brother, but I have never heard of Elf quest. I looked up some things,
it just descent appeal to me plus they keep talking about some dude named Penis.
And I'm not a fan of the art style. Don't see the connection to GtW

 

[Cuestionador]

I didn't see anyone mentioning this, but this month was filled with the loss of Tajtana Wood (widow of Wally Wood, and colorist of many comic-books, including the first and second volumes of Swamp Thing), Sam Kieth (artist of the first arc of The Sandman, creator of The Maxxx, Epicurus The Sage, Zero Girl and so-on) and even Yoshiharu Tsuge, a pivotal figure in the more alternative manga, who passed on some days ago. Every work by anyone of these artists it's more worthy than the corporative slop being pushed daily in our lives, so i suggest to check at least one short story of every one (in my case, i'm planning to re-read Zero Girl and My Inner Bimbo very soon).

Besides that, i was re-reading Batman Black and White Volume 1 and Batman Annual 14 and it was a blast. Regardings to the Annual, Helfer and Sprouse (with Steve Mitchell inks) are a hell of a duo. His influence regarding the revision of Two-Face classic origins is very notorius, specially in Batman: The Animated Series.

 

[diet_orange]

I didn't see anyone mentioning this, but this month was filled with the loss of Tajtana Wood (widow of Wally Wood, and colorist of many comic-books, including the first and second volumes of Swamp Thing), Sam Kieth (artist of the first arc of The Sandman, creator of The Maxxx, Epicurus The Sage, Zero Girl and so-on) and even Yoshiharu Tsuge, a pivotal figure in the more alternative manga, who passed on some days ago. Every work by anyone of these artists it's more worthy than the corporative slop being pushed daily in our lives, so i suggest to check at least one short story of every one (in my case, i'm planning to re-read Zero Girl and My Inner Bimbo very soon).
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Besides that, i was re-reading Batman Black and White Volume 1 and Batman Annual 14 and it was a blast. Regardings to the Annual, Helfer and Sprouse (with Steve Mitchell inks) are a hell of a duo. His influence regarding the revision of Two-Face classic origins is very notorius, specially in Batman: The Animated Series.

I really liked Sam Kieth's stuff (The Maxx was such a big part of my life) but never really enjoyed Zero Girl all that much. A lot of that had to do with the underlying theme of a student wanting to sleep with her teacher, which Kieth kind of did IRL (think they later got married?)

 

[Crashbandi]

I wished Saga would hurry up and finish so I can just pick it all up at once. Waiting for the hiatus to end was just taxing. So I'll pick it all up when it finishes.

 

[Cuestionador]

I really liked Sam Kieth's stuff (The Maxx was such a big part of my life) but never really enjoyed Zero Girl all that much. A lot of that had to do with the underlying theme of a student wanting to sleep with her teacher, which Kieth kind of did IRL (think they later got married?)

Never think about that, I read it many years ago. I think his wife (now widow) is more older than him, here's an interview where he talks about the subject: http://www.sequentialtart.com/archive/jan02/kieth_2.shtml

 

[diet_orange]

Got my tax return in and decided to splurge a bit. Ended up getting "Green Arrow Finest: The Trial Of Oliver Queen" and "ROM Epic: The Original Marvel Years v1"

Seeing them side by side, it's incredible how thin the ROM Epic is compared to the GA Finest. It does however have some extras, so that's something

 

[extermist]

I'm not reading, so much as just watching people on youtube retelling the story or dramically explaining them to me.
But I keep up that way.

 

[MANIAinifinet]

Rewatched the first 2 Iron Man movies and came away disappointed, so I picked up David Michelinie's first Iron Man run. Really loved watching the slow buildup to the big Tony Self-Destructs issue. Plus, it's always fun watching David try to shove his wonderful son Scott Lang into any given issue.

Also been watching a friend catch up on Chris Claremont's X-Men, and it reminded me that I never gave his run on Excalibur a proper shake. It completely falls apart real early, but Alan Davis' art is always gorgeous to look at (when he's actually drawing the book).

 

[sornek7]

currently reading the original ditko spider-man for the first time. it’s a strange contrast seeing peter be a jerk and selfish when he’s normally portrayed as a caring selfless geeky teen in modern media.

 

[diet_orange]

currently reading the original ditko spider-man for the first time. it’s a strange contrast seeing peter be a jerk and selfish when he’s normally portrayed as a caring selfless geeky teen in modern media.

I had an old Spiderman Essentials volume 1 from childhood that I read cover to cover recently and actually rather enjoyed it. The dark undertones of the book that Ditko brought were sadly lost once Buscema took over. Too much smiling and glamor for my tastes

 

[Cuestionador]

I had an old Spiderman Essentials volume 1 from childhood that I read cover to cover recently and actually rather enjoyed it. The dark undertones of the book that Ditko brought were sadly lost once Buscema took over. Too much smiling and glamor for my tastes

I think you mean John Romita, who was the sucessor of Ditko in the title.

currently reading the original ditko spider-man for the first time. it’s a strange contrast seeing peter be a jerk and selfish when he’s normally portrayed as a caring selfless geeky teen in modern media.

I love the Ditko issues of Spiderman, they are mind-blowing. I have this era in a pocket spanish edition called Biblioteca Marvel Spiderman published by Ediciones Forum in B/W. Recently i was re-reading some short horror stories Ditko did in Creepy, they are some of the finest work of his career.

 

[Tbest25 Tbest25]

I've recently read Batman: the long Halloween. One of the best Batman comic i've ever read so far

 

[Yousef Yousef]

I've recently read Batman: the long Halloween. One of the best Batman comic i've ever read so far
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Nice! I saw the movie, but haven’t read the comic. Great either way!

 

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I used to read Lucky Luke comics, but otherwise I don't really read that kind of thing anymore.

 

[diet_orange]

I used to read Lucky Luke comics, but otherwise I don't really read that kind of thing anymore.

Not too big on Lucky (or westerns in general, save for Blazing Saddles), but man is "Lonesome Cowboy" a good tune

 

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Not too big on Lucky (or westerns in general, save for Blazing Saddles), but man is "Lonesome Cowboy" a good tune

I really liked it back when I was younger.I think I still like it even today. Luke was really my hero back then.