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).
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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.
