| First thread of the new club! Of course it had to be the age-old question, "What do you read?" Is it so few that you only drop by your local comic shop once every couple months, or is it so many you have to show up every week or your subscription folder is filled to bursting? :D As for me...*deep breath* Here we go! DC: Booster Gold, Justice League of America, Wonder Woman, Infinity Inc., Green Lantern, Green Lantern Corps, Batman, Nightwing, Robin, Action Comics, Superman, Birds of Prey, Checkmate, Flash, Justice Society of America, JSA Classified*, Batman and the Outsiders, Legion of Superheroes, Teen Titans DC (mini): Countdown to Mystery, Gotham Underground, Metal Men, Tangent: Superman's Reign, Teen Titans: Year One. Vertigo: Fables, Jack of Fables, House of Mystery Other: Gargoyles, Gargoyles: Bad Boys, Project Superpowers, Youngblood, Anna Mercury Wildstorm: Gen13, WildC.A.T.s, Authority, Welcome to Tranquility. Marvel: Captain America, Amazing Spider-Girl, Immortal Iron Fist, X-Men: First Class, Invincible Iron Man (May), Marvel Adventures: Iron Man, Avengers Classic, X-Men: Legacy, X-Factor, Uncanny X-Men, X-Force, Young X-Men, Cable. Marvel (mini): The Last Defenders, Avengers Fairy Tales Whew! Looking at the list, is there any wonder why I created this club? :D Anyway. What about everyone else? What do you read monthly? |
SageShinigamiMay 7, 2008 6:14 PM
| Jumping in Headfirst - I hear reading it causes immortality. Warning. Reading may not actually cause immortality. |
| What I buy every week are Robin, Nightwing, and Batman. I am reading a lot of older stuff from the library right now. Too much for me name. Not that I can't, I'm just too lazy. |
| Robin and Nightwing have become two of my favorite books to read every month since Chuck Dixon and Pete Tomasi took over in January and December. Dixon is the guy who made Robin cool enough to get his own book in the first place; I literally did a happy dance when I heard he was coming back to the book. Hope he stays on for another 100 issues. And Tomasi has a good enough grasp on Nightwing and a dynamite artist--makes the book a joy to read from month-to-month and my only real problem with both is that they only come out once a month. >_< |
| Jumping in Headfirst - I hear reading it causes immortality. Warning. Reading may not actually cause immortality. |
| Yea, that sucks sometimes. Especially when you want to know what happens yet. |
| Haven't really kept up to date with anything recently so I'm couple months behind on most of the stuff I was following, but I normally keep up with the big Marvel summer events when they are on. I think the last thing I read in its entirety was The Authority, the books I'm close to up to date on are probably the Ultimate universe in Marvel (Spidey, Fantastic 4, X-men I'm probably a few months behind, but I've read most of the other stuff.. Ulimates were epic, and I dont know if they ever finished that Hulk vs Wolverine business). I followed a bit of Spectacular/Amazing spidey after civil war, but with the writer switch and the retardation I haven't really paid attention. I had been reading a bit of the first Marvel Mangaverse set lately which seemed pretty cool. |
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| Man, you're way behind if you're wondering about Ultimate Hulk vs. Wolverine. The short answer is no, no they haven't. In fact if I remember right (I hate the Ultimate Universe but I keep up anyways) a lot of Ultimate books aren't that far from being scrapped because of some event called Ultimatum. I *was* reading Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, but after they canceled that to make Amazing Spider-Man into a wannabe-52 (and somehow they still have the audacity to make the "we do our books strongly" joke), I quit. |
| Jumping in Headfirst - I hear reading it causes immortality. Warning. Reading may not actually cause immortality. |
| I don't really read any marvel stuff. So I have no idea what is going on in that universe. |
| I don't particularly like the direction of the Marvel Universe right now (Skrulls? Who cares??), but as a super comics nerd, I can't help but keep up somewhat with both. |
| Jumping in Headfirst - I hear reading it causes immortality. Warning. Reading may not actually cause immortality. |
| I read some of the old stuff sometimes, but not any of the stuff coming out right now. Hey, what are some older story archs I should read? |
| You're going to have to get way way more specific, or you'll get a list as long as you. There a specific character or team you want to read about? Edit: More of the Countdown specials are ending today! Yay! |
| Jumping in Headfirst - I hear reading it causes immortality. Warning. Reading may not actually cause immortality. |
| Silver Surfer, Captain America, maybe some good X-men. idk, just give me a few really good ones. |
| The current Captain America is a great place to start as far as he goes. The first 25 issues I'm told are like a novel. As far as X-Men goes I'd just go with Grant Morrison's run..its collected in about 7 trades: E for Extinction, Imperial, New Worlds, Riot at Xavier's, Assault on Weapon Plus, Planet X, and Here Comes Tomorrow. Silver Surfer...honestly I don't know much about him. As I understand it, there's an omnibus collection of his original ongoing if you can hunt it down. I'd also recommend the Avengers Assembled trades, just because they're exceptional comic books, not just for Avengers or superheroes, but just in general. |
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| Also Alicia, hunt down the Annihilation trade paperbacks or the issues themselves for a great story involving the Silver Surfur and some other cosmic Marvel characters. |
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| I'd forgotten about that story...such a shame since I have been meaning to read it myself. |
| Jumping in Headfirst - I hear reading it causes immortality. Warning. Reading may not actually cause immortality. |
| I'm currently reading Spawn and Star wars. Going to read G.I Joe or Transformers when I'm done with one of those above. |
| I'm reading Steven King's Dark Tower Series. I did read all seven books so it might be easier to understand for me. There are others I like but don't seem as important. |
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| DC: JLA, the all new atom, Green lantern corps, Green lantern Marvel: Just Secret invasion (marvel kind of lost me with civil war but the new deadpool comic may pull me back in) Image: Elephantmen, Madman Other: the boys Since i'm i have began reading a whole bunch of stuff in trade form and drop at least 10-12 titles. |
| Here's what I have put back: All Star Batman And Robin, Amazing Spider-Girl, Amazing Spider-Man, American Dream, Avengers/Invaders, Avengers: The Initiative, Batman, Guardians of the Galaxy, Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas, Kick-Ass, Marvel 1985, The Mighty Avengers, Moon Knight, New Avengers, Secret Invasion, The Twelve, Ultimate Origins, Ultimate Spider-Man, Young Avengers Presents Before I started watching how much I spent I used to have a list twice if not three times that length...ah, the good old days... |
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| Still not sure how people read All-Star Batman and Robin. Even as a "parody", its pretty bad. Too bad Jim Lee can't go ahead and spend more time on Morrison's WildC.A.T. series. |
| Jumping in Headfirst - I hear reading it causes immortality. Warning. Reading may not actually cause immortality. |
| I just finished New X-men (wasn't that great) Started now on Cable & Deathpool, but it's kinda hard to keep track |
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| Just finished reading the Hush volumes |
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| Reading Frank Miller's Robocop which is supposedly the original vision he had for robocop 2, lots of gore, but definately has the robocop feel, it even has random ads thrown in like the robocop movies. I'm also planning on reading the dreamwave transformers comics pretty soon. |
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MEGATRON said: I'm also planning on reading the dreamwave transformers comics pretty soon. Ehhh...I wouldn't do that. Not that they were bad or anything, but Dreamwave eventually shut down and quit publishing comics. So there are a couple of series left unfinished, and a lot of plot threads the writers planned to continue in later series totally dropped. Still, I recommend The War Within Volume 1 to anybody that likes Transformers now or when they were a kid. Oh. Regarding Robocop: Did you guys know that the Japanese created their own version of Robocop? It was called Kidou Keiji Jiban. Of course, its kinda weird, since there the Japanese Space Sheriff series Uchuu Keiji Gavan is what inspired Robocop in the first place. :P |
| Jumping in Headfirst - I hear reading it causes immortality. Warning. Reading may not actually cause immortality. |
| I recently purchased the graphic novle format of Black Hole which is fantstic for anyone who enjoys reading things about mutants. (Think the X-Men as teenagers on drugs.) Really fantastic black and white artwork and good story ... although the ending leaves you hanging a little bit. Also reading the new release of Moonknight, which is quite good and much more violent than the older two versions. Finally, I'm trying to hunt down and read the new Living Dead comics. I didn't know that they had been released until recently and now no one around my area has the old issues. |
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| -Reading: The Joker: The Greatest Stories Ever Told (a bunch of Joker stories from batman's history ) its great if you like the joker its a must read lol 100 Bullets - just started it but so far its good. -Have but haven't started yet: From Hell - Really long!!! Ronin Y: The Last Man |
| Stay thirsty, my friends. |
| Hmmm, 100 Bullets is quite good, very fun read indeed. As for From Hell, it's very long like most of Alan Moore's works but it is totally worth the read. Also, they made a movie for it that you may want to check out the movie was a very good adaptation. |
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| plus the the movie has johnny depp cant go wrong with depp lol |
| Stay thirsty, my friends. |
| So I just got(downloaded) 4 more comics all of them are by Alan Moore lol V for Vendetta Top 10(the mini series Smax and the graphic novel The Forty-Niners) The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Halo Jones I know I am a evil person for downloading these but I cant find them in stores so yeah lol XD |
| Stay thirsty, my friends. |
| Reading: "Titans" by Judd Winick (tryin to anyway.Finding them where I am has been kinda hard.Even for dwnldn.) Buffy Season Eight All - Star Superman On hold: The Losers The Invisibles. Dont feel guilty for downldn! Its the wave of the future. |
BlindFighter said: So I just got(downloaded) 4 more comics all of them are by Alan Moore lol V for Vendetta Top 10(the mini series Smax and the graphic novel The Forty-Niners) The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Halo Jones I know I am a evil person for downloading these but I cant find them in stores so yeah lol XD I love Moore's stuff. They have a new Leaugue of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novel that was just released. Really cool, much darker than the previous two as well. |
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| I already know I'm going to sound like a noob, but I just finished the Originals and Watchmen. I got into an argument with another Alan Moore fan about there being a new volume of LoEG, but I guess from what I read in the previous post I was right. Some day I'll have to check it out, but right now my tastes are leaning more towards manga so I gotta feed the need. |
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| Excellent, first post in this club. Anyway, comics I'm reading: Fables (Catching up with the Trades) Young X-Men Secret Invasion Deadpool (I've been pleasantly surprised with this, I thought Daniel Way would screw it up like Wolverine: Origins) Sub-Mariner: The Depths Marvel 1985 Ultimate Origins Batman: Gotham After Midnight The Inhumans Amazing Spider-Man Hulk (Red Hulk is awesome, I've got my suspicions) Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 8 Angel: After the Fall Spike: After the Fall Magneto: Testament (Sooooo good) Civil War: House of M Kick-Ass (This one is really good) Those are all that are coming to me, I've got an extensive collection so I'm positive I'm forgetting some, I'll check my list next time I'm at work and touch it up. |
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SageShinigami said: Oh. Regarding Robocop: Did you guys know that the Japanese created their own version of Robocop? It was called Kidou Keiji Jiban. Of course, its kinda weird, since there the Japanese Space Sheriff series Uchuu Keiji Gavan is what inspired Robocop in the first place. :P That's sort of like the Japanese dub of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I swear, I was like *MIND. BLOWN.* when I saw that. |
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| I'm currently reading (In alphabetical order) Captain America Deadpool Dynamo 5 Foolkiller - White Angels Incredible Hercules Invincible JSA Justice Society of America Kick-Ass Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic Marvel 1985 New Exiles Northlanders NYX - No Way Home Punisher - MAX imprint Runaways Skaar - Son of Hulk Teen Titans The Authority The Boys The Sword The Twelve The Walking Dead Thor Wolverine Young X-Men |
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| I am always reading everything I can get a hold of (to stay current). Recently I just started The Authority though and it's pretty awesome! |
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the_seventh_l said: I'm in and out in regards to American comics, but I mostly read most of DC's series and Marvel if it pertains to the Civil War or the Runaways. Other than that, currently working through Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis and the eighth season of Buffy I love transmetropolitan |
| Stay thirsty, my friends. |
BlindFighter said: the_seventh_l said: I'm in and out in regards to American comics, but I mostly read most of DC's series and Marvel if it pertains to the Civil War or the Runaways. Other than that, currently working through Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis and the eighth season of Buffy I love transmetropolitan Heck yeah, transmet is so great! |
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| Batman R.I.P Final Crisis Detective comics tie-in to RIP |
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| I'm reading some Marvel Civil War side stories and Ultimate Spider-Man every now and then. But currently, I am reading the DC Comic Watchmen that I borrowed from my friend because there is going to be a movie for it. |
 ~The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.  |
| Lately, I haven't been really following any company, but I'll go back and start sometime. I've just mostly been rereading through the Walking Dead, DMZ, and Deadenders. |
| Recently I just picked up Fables (I know I know, laaaaate) and I am loving it!! |
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| Just got into Invincible! I am liking it so far! |
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accela said: Recently I just picked up Fables (I know I know, laaaaate) and I am loving it!! I came into Fables late too, luckily I was lent the trades and I'm almost completely caught up now. But yeah, I'm really loving it, glad to see there's another Fables fan here ^^ |
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