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Message: [QUOTE="Mr. Daddy, post: 143178, member: 250953"] [CENTER]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. [IMG size="267x373"]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/11/Funny_Picture_Stories_1.jpg[/IMG] 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.[/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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