What comic are you reading at the moment.

Since I just found out about its existence, I just started reading the Super Mario Bros movie sequel webcomic

http://smbthecomic.com/

Since I originally only started reading from the beginning og Whedon's run, I picked up the first 2 volumes of Runaways and have just finished the first one.

Really wish they would come back. 500 different X Books yet no room for Runaways.

Speaking of Firefly, picked up Serenity: Leaves on the wind but haven't had a chance to read it yet. Looking forward to it though

I've not had much time to read anything! I've only managed to keep up with Superior Spider-Man. I've fallen way behind with the Avengers and Green Lantern series. I keep meaning to get back to Daredevil and now a new Firefly comic? Ain't enough time in the day!

I just started reading all Vol 1 Batman comics (got them digitally), i'm currently on issue 3. Doing the same thing with Amazing Spider-Man and X-Men.

In terms of modern titles Batman, The Flash, The Walking Dead, Detective comics, Daredevil , Captain America, Green Arrow, Justice Leagues, GOTG.

Ocean by Warren Ellis
Deadpool (Marvel Now)

Ghost Omnibus 1 - Couldn't really get into it. Interesting one-shot with the misogynistic villain taking on the man-hating Ghost that he perceives as his weakness. However, he is later shown to be yet he has no opinion on it. Seemed like a missed opportunity. Also, a name like Joe Yimbo is wasted on a guy with scythes for hands.

Fables: The Deluxe Edition 3
Fables: The Deluxe Edition 4 - Still liking it and all but that World War II arc pulled me out of the story. The Nazis having an interest in being a thing in the 'real' world is silly when the premise of the book is fiction in our reality. The monster doesn't exist so why the heck is it not a Fable? And in 1001 Nights of Snowfall, the Piper's specifically told to go to Hamelin. So is he going to the real one or the fictionalised one based on the stained-glass window? Unreliable narrator but arg. *flails arms*

Gotham Central 1: In the Line of Duty - 'Tis fine. Not particularly enamoured with it.

Waid Daredevil 2 oversized hardcover - There will never be enough in the world.

Thief of Thieves 1: "I Quit."
Thief of Thieves 2: "Help Me." - Learned of it through Andy Diggle's Twitter feed and the running-over-rooftops picture combined with Wikipedia framing it as a thief who steals from thieves ("Master thief who quit the game, but the game won't quit him." is more accurate) was enough for me to give it a look. 'Tis a slow burn but I plan to keep reading future volumes eventually. It's in the queue anyway.

John Byrne Fantastic Four Omnibus 1 - Something of a mixed bag though that's not really a complaint. Galactus dealing with Sphinx by condemning him to relive the centuries that took him to that point on an infinite loop was kewl (even if a later issue in the same collection established that time travel doesn't work that way...). Dodgy morality going on when the FF force Tytos/Terrax into becoming Galactus's new herald - points for the elemental theme - and try to justify it because Terrax enslaved the people he was ruling. Eye for an eye yaaay!

Reed Richards continues to be the biggest villain in the history of existence, hilariously telling Frankie Raye that she can't leave then saying it's her choice when she's gone. Wife holding your unconscious son in her hands? "Good Lord." Not even "Good Lord!!" just a glorified Gosh and some stuf about thinking he was on a different floor. Next issue he's shown to (supposedly) give a damn with the no-sleep-stubble at the hospital though I suspect he just left some experiment running back home. At least people treat Sub-Mariner like the jerk he is.

Ben Grimm being turned back to his older, scaly appearance was pretty pointless. While it may have read differently as monthly issues, it just didn't work for me as it ultimately went nowhere. The revelation that the only Thing stopping him from turning back to human form is his own mind is also poo. Same sort of stuff happened when Silver Surfer escaped exile on Earth because he just wasn't trying hard enough to leave or summat.

FF 2: Family Freakout
Fantastic Four 3: Doomed - "Literally" is used way too much here. While FF was pretty fun and chaotic, found Doomed something of a chore. Old John Storm being felt like a cop-out. Next to zero chance of Torch's future ever going that way but in the Marvel universe. Literally.

With the end of FF, ideally Bentley will still be around somewhere. She-Hulk being grossed out by the was great.

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Dr. Doom was amazing. More dodgy morality as Reed Richards does the thing all over again. Despite the problems it caused last time. Despite . Daughter calls shenanigans, Richards treats it as her hitting her teens early. He's the worst.

I should probably call foul on out of nowhere but it's totally fitting with the tone of the book.

Assassin's Creed: Brahman - Far superior to the French-language books. More of this please, Ubisoft. Make 'em easier to acquire as well, thanks.

I just read Trinity War...it's sh1te

Got my hands on a copy of Snowpiercer volumes 1 and 2 last week - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Snowpiercer-Vol-1-Escape-Jacques-Lob/dp/1782761438/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1404978711&sr=1-1&keywords=Snowpiercer

Really compelling story, read through both of them in one sitting and enjoyed them a lot. Very different from the film taken from them with only really the overall premise kept intact.

(No spoliers) It's about a train, originally designed as a high end luxury for the rich, which travels the planet non stop, and is now the last bastion of mankind, the population having been wiped out through artificial climate change.

It's main themes are class division, rich/poor divide, inhumanity and politics. I'd definitely recommend picking up a copy of both if you can. Surprising it took so long to be translated into English from the original French but well worth the wait.

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Sex Criminals Volume 1 - hilarious, silly and a lot of fun. Especially because it reminds me of this

This and Rat Queens have been the recent surprises for me. Just fun reads.

Any recommendations for getting into the new 52? got batman and superman been catching up on some "must read" books but looking for more current stuff, like in the last few years. Never really read much DC, need some stuff I should get into. Marvel too I havent read comics properly in donkeys years just the odd graphic novel and few things like Punisher MAX, dunno where to even start tbh.

Also reading Moonknight and really enjoying it, as well as Borderlands

Fear Itself: Avengers
Avengers (vol 4) 3
New Avengers (vol 2)3 - Not sure if I feel the Avengers tie-in to Fear Itself is a cop-out or not since it's a bunch of talking heads set after the fact being interviewed about Fear Itself. Then again, I've got no intention of reading Fear Itself itself so it's not like I'm being made to read the story twice. The subsequent volumes of Adjectiveless Avengers and New Avengers were pretty clunky though. They don't really work apart from each other and NA should have been read before AA. Still, Squirrel Girl is always a plus.

X-Men: Battle of the Atom

Indestructible Hulk 1: Agent of SHIELD
Indestructible Hulk 2: Gods and Monster - Banner doesn't want to just be known as a walking nuke and doesn't like his brain being wasted so he offers the Hulk to SHIELD in exchange for the equipment to do some science.

Superior Spider-Man HC 1
Superior Spider-Man HC 2 - Great change of pace. Never met a Slott or Waid book that I didn't like.

Age of Bronze: A Thousand Ships - Wanted to read an adaptation of the Trojan War and that's what I got. Not sure how to give it a yay or nay.

Darwin's Diaries 1: The Eye of the Celts - Apart from a passing mention of Druids, the title doesn't seem to have any relevance yet. Unspecified creature is running about northern England killing stuff so Charles Darwin is sent to identify it.

Blake & Mortimer: The Yellow "M" - Classic or not, I wasn't feeling it. Got to mentally re-edit every Daily Mail article as "Hurrah for the Blackshirts", however, so that was fun.

IR$ 1: Taxing Trails (w/ The Hagen Strategy) - Tax collecting James Bond. Okay then. First time in a while that I've been angry at a character after it's . It wasn't specifically that which got to me but that the guy rather than it being a last minute act of self-preservation.

The Unwritten 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity
The Unwritten 2: Inside Man - Yep, this can stay.

Hellblazer 1: Original Sins - Struggled with it. Had to restart three times but it picked up with When Johnny Comes Marching Home. Might skip ahead to the Ennis run and go back if I feel like it.

Aliens: Inhuman Condition - Far superior to the last "graphic novella" Fast Track to Heaven which just felt like a by-the-numbers humans encounter xenomorph and get wiped out scenario. Inhuman Condition has something to say and plays with the universe which is what a tie-in should be. While I do think androids are a little played out in the franchise, they're not just set dressing here. But call them xenomorphs rather than aliens demmit. Curious word choice with " " Reads like they mean , right? So why not just say " " (or even something more direct)? The way it's said there reads like the character's into poodles or sutin.

Star Wars: Legacy vol II, book 1 Aston Villa nil - Prisoner of the Floating World
Star Wars: Legacy vol II, book 2 - Outcasts of the Broken Ring - Quite like that they're more or less self-contained stories against the backdrop of a . Darth Wredd as a name sucks though. Beyond that my petty niggles are the issues carried on from the first Legacy series with the Sith surviving post-Return of the Jedi and prequel era Jedi being around. I like K'Kruhk but he should neither be in government nor a representative of the Jedi after Luke Skywalker.

Star Wars: Agent of the Empire 2: Hard Targets - 'Twas fine. Disappointed with the when I thought the opposite was a handy reminder that Cross works for the bad guys. Still, nice farewell to Fabbri's Star Wars art for Dark Horse. Hated the way his lightsabers looked in the prequel era but his stuff worked well for stories set around the classic trilogy.

So... about thirty books to get in five months before the Star Wars licence shifts back from Dark Horse to Marvel.

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At this point, I've got Nazi fatigue (not Nazi fatigues, they're something else). Thanks to Marvel's cartoon Nazis, The Unwritten dealing with Nazi propaganda, IR$ covering Auschwitz and Hellblazer featuring neo-Nazis, I need a break from them. Star Wars space Nazis I can handle but getting that many popping up in relatively quick succession is draining as heck.