Anyone currently reading comics?

[Ezri_Muldoon]

The last "modern" comic I purchased in full was IDW's Power Rangers vs Godzilla (2022)

I'm actually a big fan of the Boom! Studios Power Rangers continuity. It actually did things beyond just MMPR nostalgia. Shattered Grid from 2016 is the peak, it absolutely deserved to be used as the plot for the Battle of the Grid game. Power Rangers had a period of surprisingly robust world building and that can be utilised to craft some really interesting stories.

There's nothing good in the IDW Crossovers.
I enjoyed its inclusion of Showa era Godzilla lore, but that's it. It's just bland digestible funko pop tier franchise sandbox. "I recognise that" shouldn't have been the high point of such a titanic cross over.

Same for the Marvel & DC cross overs with Godzilla. It's all painfully status quo adhering filler.

I am currently re-reading Sam Keith's The Maxx: (1993-1998)

But I've hit the same problem I always hit. Where the Liquid Television animated TV series is better.
Solely because it ended where the original comic run continued on for a few clearly post script issues and it hurts both the pacing and lessons the dramatic stakes of previous issues.

Still, The Maxx is absolutely my favourite comic series and I could never criticise its art.
I just wish Image Comics didn't drag it out past its natural conclusion.

 

[pr0xy]

Also, got myself an early birthday gift and some prime reading material for my weeklong break from work

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude, I want these SO BAD.
I’m currently reading the Starman Compendium One, and I’m right in the middle of Sand and Stars, which is, coincidentally, a team-up with Wesley Dodds.

 

[diet_orange]

I am currently re-reading Sam Keith's The Maxx: (1993-1998)
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But I've hit the same problem I always hit. Where the Liquid Television animated TV series is better.
Solely because it ended where the original comic run continued on for a few clearly post script issues and it hurts both the pacing and lessons the dramatic stakes of previous issues.

Still, The Maxx is absolutely my favourite comic series and I could never criticise its art.
I just wish Image Comics didn't drag it out past its natural conclusion.

Love the Maxx to death. And yeah, really didn't appreciate Kieth trying to sexualize Sarah after Julie left, it just felt like complete character assassination

 

[Mechablade-X]

Been reading this comic from Image Comics from 2003. It's a futuristic fantasy comic called Legacy, that's 4 issues long. I read the first 2 issues and is really good and the artstyle has that early 2000s manga art influence came out the same year as The Walking Dead and Invincible.

 

[diet_orange]

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude, I want these SO BAD.
I’m currently reading the Starman Compendium One, and I’m right in the middle of Sand and Stars, which is, coincidentally, a team-up with Wesley Dodds.
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I literally gobbled up the first volume it was damn good. I actually really kind of like Guy Davis' artwork, though can completely understand why it's not to everybody's tastes

Been reading my GL Finest collections (namely "The Defeat Of Green Lantern"). Silver Age GL is really a weird book. It's written, through alternation, between John Broome and Gardner Fox. One of my main issues is that Hal is ridiculously overpowered (to almost Superman like levels) even with the whole "weakness against yellow" thing. But it does have some genuinely good science fiction concepts ("The Strange World Named Green Lantern" from issue 24 comes to mind, about a friendly cosmic consciousness that inhabits a planet that's just a bit lonely) along with some very fun and funny premises like the Tattooed Man (a guy who finds this chemical that brings drawings to life, so he covers himself in tattoos with it and pulls robberies)

It's a charming read, but certainly not without it's faults

 

[Guinea]

I read 'Batman: A Serious House on Serious Earth' again yesterday, it's a classic.

 

[pr0xy]

I literally gobbled up the first volume it was damn good. I actually really kind of like Guy Davis' artwork, though can completely understand why it's not to everybody's tastes

I like him too. He draws a few pages during the team-up I mentioned in my previous post, and it just made me want to read Sandman Mystery Theatre even more.

His work on B.P.R.D. is worth mentioning as well.

I read 'Batman: A Serious House on Serious Earth' again yesterday, it's a classic.

Not my favourite Morrison work, but a great one nonetheless. I come back to it from time to time just to enjoy Dave McKean’s phenomenal art.

 

[Cuestionador]

I like him too. He draws a few pages during the team-up I mentioned in my previous post, and it just made me want to read Sandman Mystery Theatre even more.
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His work on B.P.R.D. is worth mentioning as well.
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I love The Marquis, and i have a Terminator One-Shot written by Alan Grant and drawn by Davis as a prologue to the miniseries Death Valley, well worth the read. I think he quit comics to work as a concept artist for Del Toro, it's a shame. I hope to obtain a copy of the TPB of Baker Street someday (published in spanish by Norma Editorial with the title Honor among Punks).

I'm finishing the second volume of Essential Punisher, and i love the inks of Scott Williams on Whilce Portacio in the later numbers (the school issue is absolutely phenomenal). And recently, i adquire a couple of comics like the Power and Glory Holiday Special and this Batman volume of two of my favourite villains:

 

[diet_orange]

I'm finishing the second volume of Essential Punisher, and i love the inks of Scott Williams on Whilce Portacio in the later numbers (the school issue is absolutely phenomenal). And recently, i adquire a couple of comics like the Power and Glory Holiday Special and this Batman volume of two of my favourite villains:
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I love the Riddler, have since I was a child and constantly rewatched Batman Forever. To me, Edward has always felt like "The Thinking Man's Joker". Even worked out a meta fan fic where a mentally unstable Nigma escapes from Arkham, gets his revenge on Joker, and proves once and for all that he's the superior criminal mastermind

 

[pr0xy]

I love The Marquis, and i have a Terminator One-Shot written by Alan Grant and drawn by Davis as a prologue to the miniseries Death Valley, well worth the read. I think he quit comics to work as a concept artist for Del Toro, it's a shame. I hope to obtain a copy of the TPB of Baker Street someday (published in spanish by Norma Editorial with the title Honor among Punks).

I just checked on Wallapop out of curiosity and there’s a listing of the Spanish edition of Baker Street you mentioned for 9€, which is really tempting. I think I’m gonna grab it.
I also found a listing for The Marquis (the Spanish edition by Norma as well), but it’s going for 60€, which is a bit too spicy for me right now. Maybe in the future. I’ll keep looking around for cheaper options, though.

 

[reila]

New issue of absolute batman on the 10th I didn't even know about this series tbh why is it underrated?

Spoiler: Spoiler

(Absolute Bane is an actual monster holy shit)

 

[Danieru-Emanyueru]

ATenderLad seems to have left RGT too, hmm sometimes I still think about her. I hope she's well.

 

[diet_orange]

Finished my first GL collection. Enjoyed it, but there were a lot of growing pains to the book and moments like this that completely broke my damn brain

Basically Hal turns himself into a robot to get at a gang of thugs in a room filled with yellow radiation after they steal plans for a top secret government plane

 

[Arkista]

I've been really enjoying the Absolute series from DC and there's new Batwoman and Lobo runs coming soon I'm excited about

 

[diet_orange]

Been steadily reading through my second GL finest collection and man these stories are DENSE. So pretty much once this volume started, Broome and Fox started doing "book-length" epics I guess to better compete with Marvel? And there's some great storytelling here. Issue 40 has the kind of debut of Alan Scott (the Golden Age GL) in the book who's helping Hal with a universal threat (the main thread of the story is history of the Guardians of OA) who literally wants to unravel the universe

Then they also pull back in an old story thread with Pol Manning, Hal's double (basically Hal is brought forward into the future to deal with threats but because of the time travel, his memory is erased and he's given a dummy memory during his time there) which was neat to see because I always liked the 5700 A.D stories (and if it's one thing GL does well, regardless of who's writing it, it's science fiction)

 

[bjork]

I recently reread the original 80-issue run of Transformers in the US, then the 20-issue followup that came like 20 years later. It wasn't outright bad, I think it's just hard to write around the fact that it's a toy ad. There are multiple instances where there are long panels with 5-6 characters all having a conversation where they make sure to say each other's names and briefly display their personality and/or accent, and then they don't do a lot after, so I guess that counts as satisfying whatever Hasbro wanted? It's always like:
"You should go forth with your fellow Arielbots, Silverbolt"
'You got it, Optimus Prime. Hear that, Plane guy #2?"
"Yeah I hears ya, I does. But I think Plane guy #3 is rarin' for a scrap!"
"HELL YEAH I WANT TO TEAR DECEPTICHOPS, NOT LIKE THIS PUSSY PLANE GUY #4"
"Plane guy #3, if you'd simply listen to my seminars on the finer points of diplomacy we - plane guy #5, what is it?"
"Nyeeeeh, blow it out ya ear, ya square! Silverbolt, let's go cut a rug, daddy-o"
Just exhausting. Also a lot of times an entire character is colored blue or purple, so it does nothing to make them any more interesting. But it absolutely picks up when Simon Furman comes on board in issue 56, those final 24 issues of the initial run are pretty great.

 

[TinRattler]

I don't no more but my son still buys and reads them. He has a part time job to buy them

 

[diet_orange]

I recently reread the original 80-issue run of Transformers in the US, then the 20-issue followup that came like 20 years later. It wasn't outright bad, I think it's just hard to write around the fact that it's a toy ad. There are multiple instances where there are long panels with 5-6 characters all having a conversation where they make sure to say each other's names and briefly display their personality and/or accent, and then they don't do a lot after, so I guess that counts as satisfying whatever Hasbro wanted? It's always like:
"You should go forth with your fellow Arielbots, Silverbolt"
'You got it, Optimus Prime. Hear that, Plane guy #2?"
"Yeah I hears ya, I does. But I think Plane guy #3 is rarin' for a scrap!"
"HELL YEAH I WANT TO TEAR DECEPTICHOPS, NOT LIKE THIS PUSSY PLANE GUY #4"
"Plane guy #3, if you'd simply listen to my seminars on the finer points of diplomacy we - plane guy #5, what is it?"
"Nyeeeeh, blow it out ya ear, ya square! Silverbolt, let's go cut a rug, daddy-o"
Just exhausting. Also a lot of times an entire character is colored blue or purple, so it does nothing to make them any more interesting. But it absolutely picks up when Simon Furman comes on board in issue 56, those final 24 issues of the initial run are pretty great.

Rom and Micronauts were really the only "toy comics" that I cared about. Honestly surprised how long the ones for Transformers and GI Joe lasted

 

[bjork]

Rom and Micronauts were really the only "toy comics" that I cared about. Honestly surprised how long the ones for Transformers and GI Joe lasted

The GI Joe one is legitimately decent and still going. There was a gap of some years, but they got the original writer back and they recently hit issue 323. He managed to write new characters into the story in a way that made sense when their toys were new, then they were quickly gone in favor of his favorites. But without a toy line introducing new characters, he's able to just write about what he wants now. I was really surprised.

 

[tryrushdeppy3]

I usually do not go to conventions, but in 2017 Larry Hama was at one near me so I brought my copy of the silent issue for him to sign. He also looked at a comic I had made, he was very nice and gave some good tips. Here is the signature:

 

[bjork]

That's really cool. Great issue to pick for it, too.