Comic Goodness

[Arbitrary]

Originally Posted by Peacecraft

the Marvel Civil War arch ain't too bad either

Yeah, I'm really happy with it. Iron Man is starting to cheat a little more than I'm comfortable with but meh.

[Arbuste]

I'm not sure what the thread is all about, but I'll list my favorite comics.

1) Transmetropolitan. I named my first born Spider Jerusalem.
2) Preacher.
3) 100 Bullets. I stopped reading after 50 or so, but I should get back to it.
4) Sam and Twitch. I read a lot of Spawn, but they are the best thing in the Spawn, and even Image, universe.
5) Can't even find a 5. Maybe Sin City, but it got a bit repetitive after the first ones.

[Ilex]

Hellboy
Preacher
Cerebus
Bone

there's one more niggling at the back of my mind, but I can't think of it right now for the life of me.

[Szlia]

Well blast I killed a long post by accident. Well... name dropping here I come! Short version of the into: I know jack about comics but read these and find them good.

Watchmen (EDIT: No The it seems)
From Hell
Black Hole
Tricked
Jimmy Corrigan

Short version of the outro: comcis don't exist on the french market, yet manga is very strong and rising on the french market (mostly driven by lame action crap and lame romantic comedy - as opposted to great romantic comedy such as Adashi - but that's another debate...)

[Blargius_FR]

I have never been "INTO COMICS" and only just recently started purchasing. I am enjoying Civil War, Runaways, The New Avengers, and the whole Winter Soldier series of Cap'n America but all my friends tell me I'm wasting my money. v v

[Arbitrary]

Linked before a few weeks ago but DCPSearch.co.uk is pretty damn awesome.

[Ilex]

Watchmen, that was the one I was thinking of. Fucking great series.

edit: Don't search for "The Watchmen" that's some shitty Canadian band.

[Khorum]

well if you're looking for ONE comic series that redeems all the self-important pulp sillyness that American comics have devolved into, read Preacher. Then join us in hoping the HBO does NOT fuck up it's translation to HBO series.

[Tabris]

The only comics series I'm reading right now are Y the Last Man (although it really needs to end, thankfully we only have another dozen issues or so) and Seven Soldiers of Victory, some of Morrison's strongest work, waiting for the final TPB at the end of the month, goddamn 6 month delay on that.

Past series I have greatly enjoyed:

1. Preacher
2. Watchmen (overrated though, it should've been 6 issues instead of 12)
3. Give Me Liberty (ONLY the first series, the rest are crap)
4. The Invisibles (arguably Morrison's best work)

I recently tried to read some of Claremont's recent X-Men work and I wanted to kill myself. I felt like I was actually being insulted, the writing and even the art were so juvenile and terrible. I think the last 'mainstream' superhero comics story I was truly wowed by (other than 7 Soldiers) was the Earth X trilogy by Krueger and Ross.

The mainstream comics industry is a disaster. I'm going to pick up the Civil War TPB in 2 months so I can see just how terrible things have gotten (Thor clone lol).

[Vorph]

All you Preacher fans seriously need to check out The Boys. Ennis has taken the vulgarity and offensive humor of Preacher to a whole new level. That combined with Darick Robertson's (Transmetropolitan) art and Ennis finally having an outlet for his hate for mainstream superhero comics make The Boys the best series introduced last year by far. It's only six issues in, and the intro was kind of slow, but I sense much greatness to come from this book.

Other recent things worth looking into:

John Woo's 7 Brothers -- even if you're weird and don't like Woo, it's still Ennis writing it

Punisher MAX -- More Ennis, and by far the best version of the Punisher to date. Arc 6 sort of sucked, but he got back on track with 7, and I'm just about to sit down and read the first issue of arc 8.

Pretty much all the resurrected Image titles that are on DC's Wildstorm label now -- Gen13, Wetworks, WildC.A.T.S. (Grant Morrison writing, but there's 5 months between #1 and #2 ), etc. are good.

[Grimmlokk]

Civil War is OK as far as I've read(first 30some comics). Haven't gone through much of the "Thor" stuff though.

Astonishing X-Men with Whedon writing is good if you like his dialogue and style. Won't say it's for everyone, but it's easily the best X stuff I've seen in a very long time.

Marvel's Ultimate stuff is about as good as it gets for most mainstream stuff I guess. Bendis' writing always gets me hooked(U Spider-Man). Ultimate X-Men is trash though. Ultimates is good stuff if you used to like Avengers.

Justice mini from DC has been pretty enjoyable. I'm usually a complete sucker for writing in comics, but anything Alex Ross draws just hooks me in.


So I'm almost through with Powers. Still excellent. Gonna start on Preacher next(only read 1st, very cool start).

The Red Star looks very good. I've only read one issue(Sword of Lies, haven't seen 1st run yet), but the art was great and the story was fairly unique.

[Tabris]

I stay away from anything Morrison writes that isn't collected in TPB form, the long delays while he goes off to get high/dress as a drag queen/get kidnapped by aliens is just too much.

I tried Ennis's Punisher and I thought it was terrible. That was a long, long time ago though, so maybe I'll give it a second shot.

I should mention that Bendis's Alias series for Marvel's MAX was also pretty good, forgotten about that, although the Pulse was a piece of shit.

[Vorph]

Originally Posted by Tabris

I tried Ennis's Punisher and I thought it was terrible. That was a long, long time ago though, so maybe I'll give it a second shot.

Are you thinking of the Marvel Knights one, with Steve Dillon drawing most of it? I thought it was ok, but I think Ennis tried to force Preacher-esque humor into it that fell flat. Also, Dillon's art is way too clean and colorful for the Punisher. The guys they've gotten for the MAX series have given gritty (and brutally violent) a whole new meaning. The rest of the series (except for arc 6 which I didn't like) is nothing like the MK issues; it very rarely tries to be funny, going for a noirish tone instead. Everything is bleak, dreary, and depressing--exactly what the Punisher should be like.

I should mention that Bendis's Alias series for Marvel's MAX was also pretty good, forgotten about that, although the Pulse was a piece of shit.

I loved that series, and was really pissed when Bendis moved it off of MAX. He had that long spiel in the last issue of Alias about how nothing was going to change except for characters not saying "fuck" anymore and it was all bullshit. There was obviously more to being on MAX than just swearing, because the Pulse did indeed suck.


And now that you got me thinking about Marvel Knights, there was one really good series on that imprint--Black Widow. They got Richard K. Morgan (author of Altered Carbon and other stuff that I like to rave about in the sci-fi reading thread) to do a couple mini-series re-inventing the character and he did a fantastic job. First set of 6 books was called Homecoming, and the second one is The Things They Say About Her. Sadly, Morgan wrote on his site that the series apparently didn't sell well enough and there probably isn't going to be a third one to wrap up the story.

[Lyrical]

I only read mainstream Marvel and DC (including the companies they own like Vertigo or Image). I have been reading comics since the late 70's, and can't get into anything else. It is probably habit more than anything. I am sure there are good books by smaller publishers, but the established charachters I have read for so long that to me they are the only ones worth reading. I won't even download non DC or Marvel books, and refuse to read any of the Ultimates.

[Lyrical]

Originally Posted by Kuro

Aquaman needs a comic where he guts and skins other super heroes while screaming "STOP MAKING FUN OF ME."

IMHO.

On the new episode of Smallville last night, they assembled a teen version of the JLA. On the team were Clark Kent, Impulse (the teen version of Flash), Cyborg, Green Arrow and Aquaman. There was one part of the show that was hilarious where they dogpiled Aquaman with jokes, at which point he exclaims, "Oh no. Again with the fish jokes."

What a lame superhero. One of the lamest ideas for one ever (although my wife loves him).