What comic are you reading at the moment.

Fysh wrote: »

I had a similar thing myself - greatly enjoyed the first half-a-dozen trades or so, then as the focus started to shift and I read a couple of interviews with Willingham where he stated that this shift was deliberately overt. Between that and the fact that the series felt like it was heading towards a conclusion, only to then be kept going further (presumably because of its success and ability to launch spinoff series), I decided it wasn't for me. Every now and again I'm tempted to go back and read the next couple of trades after I left off, but thus far I've not bothered.

It was announced that issue 150 will be the final issue. The spinoff Fairest will also be ending

Just finished reading "Three Shadows" by Cyril Pedrosa.

I dont think ive ever cried at the end of a graphic novel/comic before .

Glebee wrote: »

Just finished reading "Three Shadows" by Cyril Pedrosa.

I dont think ive ever cried at the end of a graphic novel/comic before .

Give We3 a go.


What's 3 Shadows about?

Also got the last two issues of Half Past Danger while out at the Pat Mills event.

Solid Ending to the Series. And thanks to IDW for taking the chance on it. I hope it does well enough that we see more of it in the future.


Also rereading a lot of Slanie thanks to the signing. Time killers is all sorts of messed up.love it.

Just started catching up on Batman new 52

Really enjoyed vol 1&2, thought the Court of Owls was a refreshingly great storyline. Just starting vol 3, have to say I bloody LOVE the acetate cover of the Joker's face.

Started Locke & Key and already on volume 3. Really good. Pretty creepy in parts. Couple parts reminded me of Stephen King's It.

Avengers 2 - 'Tis fine. Race to collect/protect the scattered Infinity Gems before the Red Hood.

New Avengers 2 - Always good to see Squirrel Girl get more screen-time. Howard Chaykin's art ain't my bag.

Avengers Academy 2: Will We Use This In The Real World?
Fear Itself: Avengers Academy
Avengers Academy: Second Semester
AvX: Avengers Academy
Avengers Academy: Final Exams

"And then there's a fight and Wolverine's always there and in the end everyone wants me to go home so I go home and it was all a big waste of time." Out of the mouths of babes.

I'll miss the AA. At the time of buying, the idea was I'd get volumes two of Adjectiveless, New, Academy and Secret Avengers at the same time (in theory to get as current as possible) but Secret got replaced by Fear Itself as I wanted to get the event out of the way and volume one of Secret was least liked of the four. Then while enjoying volume two I reminded myself of how pleasant Avengers Initiative was and decided finish the series. Fan of Hank Pym as the genius with a lot of baggage.

Wish someone would expand upon the fifty-state initiative (or what's left of it). New York's great an' all, it would just be nice to see super goings on elsewhere on a somewhat regular basis. Thought the same with The Ultimates' international superheroes.

Was surprised by how unintrusive Fear Itself was. It's not going to make me want to buy the main book but at least it has consequences in the AA. AvX not as much. I'm sure another of Cyclops' lovers hosting the Phoenix Force is wonderful but ugh. The plus side is that the Runaways issues have me thinking about going back and picking their books up again.

I'll get to Hungry Hungry Battle Royale Avengers eventually.

Fear Itself: Thunderbolts
Thunderbolts: The Great Escape
Thunderbolts: Like Lightning
Dark Avengers: The End is the Beginning

Yeah... at the moment I'd rather have redemption themed Thunderbolts back over the Dark Avengers, thanks. (I've read the Rulk T-Bolts first issue as part of the Marvel 700 but that's not inspiring much yet.) Clor isn't preferable over Songbird, Troll, Boomerang and Moonstone. Rabble, rabble.

Essential Nova 1 - Book is all over the place. Richard Rider is basically Green Lantern doing Spider-Man but I like the idea of a dying alien flinging his super powers at the Earth in the hopes they'll find someone worthy and they go to the guy with self-confidence issues. In New York. Fancy that. "Blue blazes!" is a not a good catchphrase. Somehow I expected the stories to be more space-bound. Not a complaint, space stories are usually poo.

Skipped Two-In-One and the Spider-Man crossover issues as I'd already read them and they didn't endear me to Nova in the first place.

The Megaman arc is horrible. Nova's bestie's uncle falls into a mysterious black pool while out walking with nephew that somehow transports him into the future where his half-dead mutilated self is rebuilt (imperfectly, leaving him without a face) and imprisoned by an entity that falls in love with him BECAUSE SHE'S FEMALE. *BS klaxon* This Megaman somehow finds his way back into the past with revenge on his mind as he thinks his nephew pushed into the pool for no raisin! At some point he tries to get back with his wife who 1/ doesn't love him and 2/ it's implied she's been cheating on him because she's with another man six months after her husband's presumed demise. Somewhere along the line she becomes the villain and, against his will, Megaman is taken back to the future by the female entity. The morale of the story is that he's better off with Kathy Bates than his wife who doesn't want anything to do with him. Screw. That.

Carmine Infantino's art vastly improves the reading of the book when he takes over from Sal Buscema. Then there's a Yellow Peril story. Careful now. Shame the series got retired so soon after Rider revealed his identity his parents and wasn't explored much.

Moses! Quasimodo! Sherlock Holmes robot! An aside of the villain trying to steal Dracula's brain! A doctor who suspects Rider shooting lasers out of his eyes might be worth checking out from a medical standpoint!

I'm lucky in that I've just bought the Byrne Fantastic Four Omnibus and that, to a degree, concludes the story from Nova as it's unfinished in the Essential alone. There are Marvel Universe handbook entries for Nova and Sphinx - awesomely the immortal leader of Pharaoh's magicians who were pwned by Moses which led to the exodus of the Israelites out of Egypt and has nothing to do with sphinxes but they're Egyptian so it works dammit! - to say what became of them but a big block of text in a comic as an epilogue isn't a satisfying end.

Over Christmas I read every 2000AD from 1996, a good year that included Prog 100 which was seen as an ideal jumping on point for new readers without alienating older ones.

I also read http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nemesis-The-Warlock-Deviant-Edition/dp/1781081719/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388674847&sr=8-1&keywords=Nemesis+deviant+edition which reminded me just how brilliant the artwork was in Nemesis. Would recommend it to anyone and the hardcover is a nice collected edition.

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.

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!

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.

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.