Anyone currently reading comics?

[Yousef]

Easily one of the stupidest comics to have come out in the last three years but I enjoyed every ounce of it (to my dismay).

 

[fake-kun]

Easily one of the stupidest comics to have come out in the last three years but I enjoyed every ounce of it (to my dismay). View attachment 45327

What the hell is this even?

 

[Yousef]

What the hell is this even?

Sonic x DC mini series that released recently (think worlds collide), with Ian reprising as writer and Adam Bryce Thomas of IDW Sonic reprising as artist, with me, shockingly, hating neither of their contributions here.

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

I love old comics from the 80s and 90s .
I first read back in 2002 the spiderman comics , moved to Spawn somthing around 2006 and from 2015 on , i collecting comics that i missed out .

Im a marvel Fan and read alot of Punisher , Spiderman and X-men . Even 2000AD comics are on my radar while alot of older and underrated Dark Horse comics captured my interest lately .

Im still hunting down Cadillacs & Dinosaurs/Xenozoic tales comics because its an extremly underrated comic-series that should archived .

I collect the Beserk (max)-mangas , Devilman and even the Übelblatt-series too .

 

[Octopus]

Easily one of the stupidest comics to have come out in the last three years but I enjoyed every ounce of it (to my dismay). View attachment 45327

It's giving me real "this is where I watched my parents die, Raphael" energy. What's with Batman and immediately trauma dumping on crossover characters?

 

[pr0xy]

It's giving me real "this is where I watched my parents die, Raphael" energy. What's with Batman and immediately trauma dumping on crossover characters?
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Couldn't resist.

 

[Octopus]

Couldn't resist.
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Totally in character; Raph's a savage.

 

[pr0xy]

Totally in character; Raph's a savage.

You reminded me of this:

 

[fake-kun]

I'm currently reading Archie Mega Man. I'm not having a good time.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Should I get/read The Death of Superman and The Long Halloween?


I'm preparing V for Vendetta and I would like to read 300 and Sin City but they're not a single volume.

 

[Octopus]

Should I get/read The Death of Superman and The Long Halloween?

I can't recommend Long Halloween enough, it's easily one of my top 3 Batman stories. The Death of Superman is also a classic, can't go wrong with either.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I can't recommend Long Halloween enough, it's easily one of my top 3 Batman stories. The Death of Superman is also a classic, can't go wrong with either.

As a side note the most I know about Batman is The Dark Knight Returns, The Killing Joke, the Arkham series by Rocksteady/Rockstar North and as for Superman I've read Red Son.

It's nice that there's a collection of self-contained stories you can just pick-up and read without the need for having an extended knowledge about the lore (especially when there are multiple reboots sometimes).

PS: What about Night of the Owls? Is this a good one as well?

I'll keep them in mind.

 

[Octopus]

It's nice that there's a collection of self-contained stories you can just pick-up and read without the need for having an extended knowledge about the lore (especially when there are multiple reboots sometimes).

Oh yeah, that's the only real kind of comic story I'm interested in anymore. I much prefer to read something like Long Halloween that has no real continuity connection or anything, or more self contained runs that you can mostly ignore the connections of.

PS: What about Night of the Owls? Is this a good one as well?

Never read it personally, but I know the general gist of it. I hear it's pretty good, and people usually say it's one of Synders best stories from that era.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Oh yeah, that's the only real kind of comic story I'm interested in anymore. I much prefer to read something like Long Halloween that has no real continuity connection or anything, or more self contained runs that you can mostly ignore the connections of.

Well yeah, even for mangas I'm getting more involved in self-contained one-shots than having to follow a shonen with 15 separate story arcs...

It's good when you have time and got involved back when it got released but they take place and it costs quite a lot of money on the long run (or else I'd read scans but shhh).

Never read it personally, but I know the general gist of it. I hear it's pretty good, and people usually say it's one of Synders best stories from that era.

Got it, thanks.

 

[Karaswinglet]

Hellboy's great and still quite unique nowadays, that atmosphere is still difficult to beat. I'm a bit less fond of the spin-offs but the quality is still quite high.

I'd say that I don't read comics as much as before but I'm returning to them recently, after reading mostly manga and bande dessinée.

Here's some a read again from time to time due to how good they are:

All Star Superman is one of the best self contained series about Superman, in my humble opinion. Fantastically written and illustrated, with the right mix of themes to make the main character shine together with the whole cast.

Sub-Mariner: The Depths was quite the surprise. I've never been a Namor fan and I got it because I wanted to admire more of Ribic's wonderful art. But it ended up being a great read. Milligan's story may use premises and characters that aren't unique but, as part of a bigger, more atmospheric story, they serve their purpose perfectly.

 

[ATenderLad]

Easily one of the stupidest comics to have come out in the last three years but I enjoyed every ounce of it (to my dismay). View attachment 45327

That's hilarious, I didn't notice this came out yesterday; I'll have to find it and see if Darkseid winds up on someones couch with an ominous video tape.

I love old comics from the 80s and 90s .
I first read back in 2002 the spiderman comics , moved to Spawn somthing around 2006 and from 2015 on , i collecting comics that i missed out .

Im a marvel Fan and read alot of Punisher , Spiderman and X-men . Even 2000AD comics are on my radar while alot of older and underrated Dark Horse comics captured my interest lately .

Im still hunting down Cadillacs & Dinosaurs/Xenozoic tales comics because its an extremly underrated comic-series that should archived .

I collect the Beserk (max)-mangas , Devilman and even the Übelblatt-series too .

That's a big list! I keep forgetting Cadillacs & Dinosaurs was a comic, I tell myself to look for it every time I play the game but I never remember, it's annoying how that works.

As a side note the most I know about Batman is The Dark Knight Returns, The Killing Joke, the Arkham series by Rocksteady/Rockstar North and as for Superman I've read Red Son.

It's nice that there's a collection of self-contained stories you can just pick-up and read without the need for having an extended knowledge about the lore (especially when there are multiple reboots sometimes).

PS: What about Night of the Owls? Is this a good one as well?

I'll keep them in mind.

Octopus is right on about The Long Halloween, it's a pretty great standalone Batman mystery. It also has a sequel - Dark Victory, I believe - and a current follow-up series going right now, actually. (Sadly, the original artist, Tim Sale, passed away a few years ago.)

About Night of the Owls, it's the second half/cross-over conclusion to The Court of Owls story by Scott Snyder. If you haven't read that, I'd urge you to start there as it might not make sense otherwise. (The Court of Owls is also one of the best modern Batman stories, I'll resist going on at length if you're gonna read it but here's a few fun teasers).

The artist - Greg Capullo - drew Spawn for most of the 90's, after Todd McFarlane settled into being a full-time toy company mogul. I think he only got better though, collaborating with Scott Snyder brought the best out of both of them. (Great creative partnerships tend to do that!)

Hellboy's great and still quite unique nowadays, that atmosphere is still difficult to beat. I'm a bit less fond of the spin-offs but the quality is still quite high.

I'd say that I don't read comics as much as before but I'm returning to them recently, after reading mostly manga and bande dessinée.

Here's some a read again from time to time due to how good they are:

All Star Superman is one of the best self contained series about Superman, in my humble opinion. Fantastically written and illustrated, with the right mix of themes to make the main character shine together with the whole cast.

Sub-Mariner: The Depths was quite the surprise. I've never been a Namor fan and I got it because I wanted to admire more of Ribic's wonderful art. But it ended up being a great read. Milligan's story may use premises and characters that aren't unique but, as part of a bigger, more atmospheric story, they serve their purpose perfectly.

I've enjoyed the Hellboy that I've read, but sheesh, it feels daunting to get into. The volume of spin-offs and tangents is staggering, I just dip my toe in from time to time.

All Star Superman deserves it's reputation, that's the first time I've seen someone bring up Sub-Mariner: The Depths though! I think it was part of the Marvel Knights "kinda-sorta" reboot line, aimed at a more adult audience. That one was an old-fashioned kind of horror story, but I remember liking it! Peter Milligan is another one of those "British Invasion" writers who shook things up, in particular his X-Statix book from the early 2000's was wildly ahead of it's time.

 

[Gorse]

Has anyone read that new Avengers vs. Aliens book? Is that good? I wouldn’t mind watching ol’ Mr. Stark blast a few Xenomorphs, but I only want to read it if it’s not poo, which licensed crossover comics often are. If anyone has any thoughts on it, lemme know — I’m considering the TPB.

 

[Yousef]

Guys don’t worry the Sonic x DC comic gets better (worse)!
This sounds like a ship name.

 

[ATenderLad]

Has anyone read that new Avengers vs. Aliens book? Is that good? I wouldn’t mind watching ol’ Mr. Stark blast a few Xenomorphs, but I only want to read it if it’s not poo, which licensed crossover comics often are. If anyone has any thoughts on it, lemme know — I’m considering the TPB.

It's a cut above most books like this, at least. It might be a touch continuity-heavy, as its both the future of writer Jonathan Hickman's Marvel books (Krakoa Age X-Men for one, where Mars is colonized by mutants) as well as a sequel to Prometheus/Alien: Covenant.

I usually struggle with these personally; the normal approach is just recreating a given horror movie, and swapping the hapless victims with superhumans. It's tough to buy these characters getting randomly murdered, when they're constantly defying death in the books they're known for!

Avengers vs Aliens is a bit more interesting then, with Alien being short for Alien Invasion. The xenomorphs are effectively biological warfare by an unseen party, and the sorry state of the Earth at the beginning of the story makes a lot more sense in that context.

It's not quite going for horror, but it does maintain a thread of desperation. Things just keep getting worse! The most recent issue was a real step up in particular, thanks to bringing in Mister Sinister. Hickman writes him as such a bitch, he's hard not to love.

At three issues, I don't see enough of what the story is about to decide if I love it yet. It's a tale of survival, sure, but mostly it's been pure entertainment. I'm hoping there's a bit more to chew on by the time the series ends, but if it's just a tour through a fucked up Marvel universe with xenomorphs? This is probably as good as it gets.

 

[Mr. Daddy]

Looking at some of the topics brought up here that people have shared, I'll definitely need to do a little thinking on the ordering of some of my favorites (and to an extent, what actually belongs in there). As for what I've been recently reading though, that's much easier to tell. In general I haven't really been keeping up with modern comic releases for a while, but I have been actively following the Absolute DC line so far. The premise of taking these characters and seeing what they would be like if their backstories were tweaked to completely but subtly change who they are was immediately interesting to me, and there's really no secret that this is DC finally deciding to have their own counterpart to the Ultimate Universe since the reboot has been doing well at Marvel. I was actually quite fond of the original Ultimate Universe (even though there are some significant portions of that universe that do suck), and I do plan to maybe start reading stuff from the reboot sometime soon. I've also been going back and reading some of Marvel and DC's offerings from the mid to late thirties, specifically the titles Funny Pages, More Fun Comics, New Comics (which would actually eventually go on to become Adventure Comics), The Comics Magazine, Popular Comics, and Funny Pages. On the DC end of things, most of these books were from Centaur Publishing, and they pretty much all fall into Pre-Crisis Earth-2 and Earth-Quality continuities. My favorite character from this time period so far is probably The Clock.

That's him there on the cover, and yes his costume is quite literally just a black sheet with eye holes on it. He is absolutely brutal, and I'm not even being hyperbolic about that. He will mercilessly beat criminals even when they beg for mercy, kill them in a car chase if they try to escape, torture bank robbers on medieval torture devices just to get information (this is technically something that it is only implied he would do, but given his general attitude towards criminals I've seen so far, I don't think it was an empty threat), and my personal favorite so far, taking a bank robber that shot a bystander to the brother of the victim to be beaten to death in the street by pure mob justice. He's like an older version of The Punisher with few morals and even less restraint. Oh, did I mention that he keeps around a calling card that has a clock printed on it so that the police know when he was on the scene and at what time? Mind you, the clock is printed on it, so he has to have like hundreds of these cards just so he has one for every possible time he would be stopping crime. He's absolutely amazing.​

 

[Yousef]

Incredible costume

 

[Octopus]

He will mercilessly beat criminals even when they beg for mercy, kill them in a car chase if they try to escape, torture bank robbers on medieval torture devices just to get information

and my personal favorite so far, taking a bank robber that shot a bystander to the brother of the victim to be beaten to death in the street by pure mob justice.

That checks out, it just wouldn't be an old timey superhero without some bizarrely casual ultra violence. Those guys were wild. I'm partial to Dynamite Thor, who "uses his expert knowledge of high explosives to rid the world of crime". Dude literally throws sticks of dynamite at anything and everything.

I was actually quite fond of the original Ultimate Universe (even though there are some significant portions of that universe that do suck)

The original Ultimate universe was mostly good, but did have some weird things in it.
(This hopefully needs no introduction)

Ultimate Daredevil was the only one I think they fully dropped the ball on, that version was a complete misfire.

 

[Yousef]

Ultimate universe was ultimately very weird. I’m not the biggest marvel geek so the original context behind the ultimate universe always gets lost on me. Why did marvel feel the need of making what’s functionally a soft reboot? What, would copying infinite crisis be too on the nose?

 

[Mr. Daddy]

That checks out, it just wouldn't be an old timey superhero without some bizarrely casual ultra violence. Those guys were wild. I'm partial to Dynamite Thor, who "uses his expert knowledge of high explosives to rid the world of crime". Dude literally throws sticks of dynamite at anything and everything.
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The original Ultimate universe was mostly good, but did have some weird things in it.
(This hopefully needs no introduction)
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Ultimate Daredevil was the only one I think they fully dropped the ball on, that version was a complete misfire.​

Dynamite Thor is fantastic, and probably one of the most weirdly named superheroes out there. And my main gripes with the Ultimate Universe really do come down to a specific small handful of things that just happen to be particularly frustrating to me. The Ultimates are a very complicated mixed bag, but moments like that and this infamous bit here:

Are a pretty big part of what frustrates me about that line. There definitely is some good though, Ultimate Thor is actually one of my favorite things from the whole universe. I'll also always be baffled by what they did with Dr. Strange. I actually really liked the direction they were taking him, but then they just kinda... threw him away in Ultimatum. Hulk is also another one I just always kind of felt like they never really knew what they were doing with him and he never really felt right to me. Ultimatum itself is also something I have very complicated feelings on, though I will still die on the hill that it's generally overhated. I don't think it's good overall by any means, but I do think it just falls into this weird grey area of being just kinda flat out confusing why it would be written the way it was.​

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Ultimate universe was ultimately very weird. I’m not the biggest marvel geek so the original context behind the ultimate universe always gets lost on me. Why did marvel feel the need of making what’s functionally a soft reboot? What, would copying infinite crisis be too on the nose?

Marvel didn't want to undo decades worth of continuity for those that had been following those heroes for an extended period of time, but they also didn't want to turn away people who wanted to get into the comics without having to read all of that continuity to understand things. Their solution? Make a new universe, where the main spin was that all of these heroes were largely showing up around "now" (which at the time was 2000) instead of in the 60s. Most of them are made slightly different with a variety of twists to reflect how they would be different if made in a more modern (at the time) context.

 

[Yousef]

Speaking of ultimate universe, Secret wars was really weird cuz it was basically marvel trying to have a crisis but without the universe reset
Killing off the ultimate universe was extremely dumb