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Message: [QUOTE="ATenderLad, post: 109306, member: 3864"] That's pretty excellent taste, in my opinion! The Absolute books I've praised here a few times now, and New Gods is only three issues in but has me hooked. Ram V and Federici are making some real cosmic fantasy, Jack Kirby would love it. [ATTACH type="full" size="853x657"]35991[/ATTACH] Superman is in a weird place, plot-wise, but Dan Mora is a real monster on the layouts. [ATTACH type="full" size="991x731"]35989[/ATTACH] Great Marvel picks too, [I]The Ultimates [/I]is growing on me but I'm a little wary of what the story is building to. I dig the new versions of some of the characters, do you like the re-imaginings? On the other hand, [I]Immortal Thor[/I] is usually the first book I read out of a weekly haul, with a "meta" story that manages to stay fun and not feel overly much like navel-gazing. The way it uses the storytelling of Norse skalds, with quotes and adapted passages from epic poems (The Edda's, I think they're called?) is pretty clever; one of the larger themes being "Beware who tells your story". It's basically a sequel to Al Ewing's Loki as the God of Stories, while being one of the most interesting depictions of Thor I've ever read. They aren't really related except by author, but have you read [I]Immortal Hulk[/I]? Oh you like the *real* sickos, I see. Gorilla Grodd is so silly and so evil, he's hard not to love. I really enjoy the Flash villains for being such an assortment of weird lowlifes, it keeps the stories grounded at sometimes. I occasionally feel nostalgic for old-fashioned bank robbers and the like, with comics often stuck in a loop of warding off...actually hang on, Grant Morrison sums it up better. [ATTACH type="full" size="200x665"]36008[/ATTACH] ...basically a good-natured slam on Scott Snyder and his events like [I]Justice League: Metal [/I]and the whole Dark Multiverse thing. (All of which I kinda enjoy, but The Batman Who Laughs got *obnoxious*). I'll have to think up a top five villains of my own here in a bit, I enjoyed reading yours! Green Lantern: Dark was so unexpected; a Tangent series in 2025? Unreal....but also pretty good, or at least I really enjoyed the first issue. I'm really in the bag for All Along The Watchtower, it *is* a bit of weird new role for Renee but the image of her as the Justice League Sheriff gets me right in my western lovin' heart, having grown up watching too many cowpokes slap leather. Really though, it seems to be a conscious effort on DC's part to re-align their big name comics with their best-known entry point, the animated shows and movies. I think that's why the Question is serving as a kind of Internal Cape Affairs officer, keeping the superhero community honest. (The actual book isn't really capitalizing on that right now though, I dug the first issue but the mystery is turning underwhelming recently.) Seems like you're into the more human characters, with a touch of dark and mysticism. Have you seen [I]Hellhunters[/I]? [ATTACH type="full" size="671x1017"]36015[/ATTACH] Private Ghost Rider, along with Nick Fury, Wolverine, and the other wahoos kicking around back in WWII for a Dirty Not-quite-a-Dozen to fight Nazi zombies prowling through Europe. Pretty fun! It's a good one! It takes the base premise but goes so much further than just a Yakov Smirnoff joke, they used the Elseworlds format to explore a politically active Superman and what that might mean for the world. Not a new concept at the time - Alan Moore's [I]Miracleman [/I]is the easiest thing to point to, or Mark Gruenwald's [I]Squadron Supreme[/I] mini-series - but it was rare to actually tell that story with the intended character. [/QUOTE]

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