What comic are you reading at the moment.

CHOPSK

I only started back into comics over the last few months.

I started with the Dark Knight 3 and like it so far.
I started picking up The New 52 Batman TP as I've heard good things and cI can't complain, vl 1 & 2 were great.

A few others are:
Tokyo Ghost - Really like this
Snow Fall - Again a good read
Batman rebirth
Superman rebirth
All star Batman
Starwars Poe Dameron
Weavers

Ridley

Nervous Wreck wrote: »

I really love Snyder. I think his Batman is up there with the best. I wasn't big on Black Mirror but that's mostly just cos I can't buy into anyone else in the cowl, even Dick...

Having read Court of Owls now, does Snyder's run make a habit of turning the page on its side/upside down? If so, I'll have to look at physical copies cause it's a tad inconvenient when reading off a television.

Nervous Wreck

Ridley wrote: »

Having read Court of Owls now, does Snyder's run make a habit of turning the page on its side/upside down? If so, I'll have to look at physical copies cause it's a tad inconvenient when reading off a television.

Haha, I could imagine! That's the only time it happens, you'll be glad to know!

Fysh

Recent reads for me:

Island #9 by Various - Hmm, not entirely sure what to make of this one. As with every issue so far, I applaud Graham's commitment to featuring as broad a range of artists as possible, but the decision to have fewer, longer stories in this issue didn't really work for me so much. The second strip by...someone whose regular gig is drawing porn comics for Slipshine was probably my favourite, I liked the art style and would happily read more by the same artist. Not enough to stop me reading by any means, but I prefer a mix of shorter and longer stories in my anthologies where possible.

Sex Criminals Volume 3 by Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky - I continue to really like this, particularly the way it mixes a bunch of very silly jokes, very crude humour and some really good character stories about how people deal with matters of sexuality. I recall reading somewhere that most taboos in human cultures revolve around sex, food or death, which is relevant because in a way I'm wondering if Sex Criminals isn't going to end up being kind of like a version of Chew based around Sex Powers instead of Food Powers. I'd have no objection to that, if it were to happen...

Trillium by Jeff Lemire - Finally got around to reading a library copy of this. It was...good, as far as it goes, but I don't know if I'd be pushed about reading it again. While there was one interesting chapter which properly used page layout in an interesting way to serve the story, in most parts it felt too gimmicky - the "parts will be upside down to differentiate each character's story" stuff felt kinda pointless, especially when there was an idea of using different art styles for each story that never really felt developed enough but would have been a more effective signifier of the same distinction.

Black Paths by David B. - Interestingly peculiar story set at an interestingly peculiar location and time just after WWI; specifically, the Regency of Carnaro in what was until then known as the city of Fiume. The Regency was a short-lived city-state set up by an opportunistic poet exploiting a political dispute between Croatia and Italy over the territory. During this period, it seems that anything goes within the city - lawlessness and violence (amongst other things) abound, and the story follows a variety of characters through their days in the city, exploring what happens in a city-state governed by a philosopher and which was more likely to gain the approval and acceptance of a Dadaist movement than a national government. A weird, but engaging and enjoyable read.

JayRoc

My Marvel knowledge is next to nothing. I've bought and loved the whole Bendis/Maleev run on Daredevil... what next?

What preceded it?

Nervous Wreck

JayRoc wrote: »

My Marvel knowledge is next to nothing. I've bought and loved the whole Bendis/Maleev run on Daredevil... what next?

What preceded it?

Preceded by Kevin Smith's Marvel Knights run. Haven't read that so I can't recommend but Bendis was followed by Ed Brubaker, who did great stuff with it (I've only read some of his run though).

Yggr of Asgard

Started with my first for a long while (Years) and it's

Superman - American Alien

Nervous Wreck

Yggr of Asgard wrote: »

Started with my first for a long while (Years) and it's

Superman - American Alien

Great book. Falls off a little at the end for me but some great stories.

Ridley

Dragon Ball Z VizBig 1 - 9 - Toriyama is the greetest. While Mr. Popo gets his lips back in the final page, Gohan still doesn't have a penis. The ending is the older one.

I know it's because of little things like a sixteen year old girl accidentally flashing her genitals at an old man etc. but it feels off that Dragon Ball is thought suitable for teens while Z is deemed all ages no matter who gets blown up.

Dragon Ball Super, the TV sequel series, is streaming online now (legally) if that's of interest to anyone. Is Beerus worth the meddling with continuity? Yes.

Daredevil by Mark Waid and Chris Samnee HC 5

Wonder Woman by Greg Rucka 1

Supergirl 1: The Last Daughter of Krypton* - In this as far as Asrar's art goes. Thought it was worth a look since I like his style from All New X-Men. I've seen his work here and there before but X-Men is where it's retained in my mind, and I also watch the TV show where DC characters actually smile and colour exists.

Batman Incorporated: The Deluxe Edition*
Batman Incorporated 1: Demon Star*
Batman Incorporated 2: Gotham's Most Wanted*
Batman 1: The Court of Owls*
Batman 2: The City of Owls*
Batman 3: Death of the Family*

Got tired of the international Batmen thing early on if I'm honest so Snyder going back to basics was something of a relief. Shame the Court and the Talons aren't the villains of Batfleck's solo movie. As an old, unseen evil they seem suited to his older Batman and would be a different angle to look at Gotham post-Nolan.

Batman #1 (Rebith)*

Batman: The Complete Hush* - I seem to recall liking Hush first time around though I was reading at speed because it was a borrowed copy. Doesn't particularly hold up well on a re-read when you already know who Hush is (

though I hope it would have been obvious to me originally if I was giving it a proper read since Tommy "best friend" Elliott just won't go the flip away in that story

). Also didn't help that I was reading it so soon after Lincoln March walked in saying

"Hello, I'm the only suspect."

I need to back off from Batman relatively soon and return to other stuff.

*Digital version

Nervous Wreck wrote: »

Haha, I could imagine! That's the only time it happens, you'll be glad to know!

I am, thanks.

Fysh

I finally got around to reading a few things I picked up a while ago in the last week or two:

Injection Volume 2 - I'm really liking this series, and the creative team have meshed perfectly. It's a solid fusion of the topics and themes Ellis tends to explore in his sci-fi work, with some interestingly odd characters throughout the cast.

Hellblazer: Haunted (New Edition) - I already had the two trades containing the Ellis run on Hellblazer, but I figured having Shoot and the Darco Macan issues as well was worth it (I do have that Vertigo Resurrected issue somewhere two).

Manhattan Projects: The Sun Beyond The Stars - I know the shine has worn off Hickman for some people after his Marvel work, but I'm still enjoying MP a great deal. This was another dementedly great story, with some unexpextedly effective emotional heft to boot. I'm hoping it won't be too long a wait for the next mini.

Island #10 - I'm still enjoying this and there have been somd cracking stories along the way, but I'm hoping there might be a few more standalone/done-in-one stories again soon. Having said that the variety of creative teams continues to bd great, so I'm sticking with it for the foreseeable.

Nervous Wreck

Recently finished Nick Spencer's Astonishing Ant-Man series, which was so great. Really sad to see this go.

Other stuff I've read recently include...

Captain America Sam Wilson vol. 2 - Standoff - a good book but half of it was the Standoff event which I'd already read. Still good to get Sam's side of it.

Daredevil Back in Black vol. 2 - Supersonic - this is a great series. Not a patch on its preceding run but really good in its own right.

Sandman vol. 9 - The Kindly Ones - this book was almost upsettingly good. Only one book left.

All-Star Batman #1-3 - this is so much better than the, already great, main series!

Legionn_of_Dan

Reading the second latest Walking Dead Volume.

Also catching up on the last few issues of DMZ and re reading Saga which is bloody mad but excellent.

Nervous Wreck

Some single issue action lately...

Finished off All-New, All-Different Avengers - fantastic series, fantastic final issue, poor ending. By which I mean, the last issue was a great single issue but as the closing issue of a series, it fell flat. It did nothing... and it led into....

Avengers #1 - which pretty much sucked. Which is mental because it's still Mark Waid on writing duties and the artwork by Mike del Mundo is breathtaking... But the new line-up kinda bored me and the story picked up from an ANAD Avengers storyline that I was hoping they wouldn't revisit (because leaving it unfinished would have been really interesting!)

The Vision #12 - which concludes the series... Actual tears. Such a fantastic series; get on it.

The Unworthy Thor #1 - great start to this limited series. Really great to see Thor back in the fold. It's a pity this is a limited series, I'd really like to see this run in tandem with The Mighty Thor for a while.

Jessica Jones #1-2 - First issue was fantastic. Bendis and Gaydos have landed, tonally, right where they left off with Alias. Great to see everyone back. The

"Peter Parker is a liar"

line was really interesting. Issue 2 was a little more dull but I'm gonna keep at this series; it promises a lot in the way of what made Alias great.

Superman #11 - Such a great series. One of DC's best at the moment!

RobbingBandit

Avengers wasn't great, picked up Kick -Ass 1 tp in a charity shop last week had a good laugh reading it, might pick up the civil war II arc seeing as it ended this week, have read the original Mark Millar one loved that.

Nervous Wreck

I think there's one more issue left of CW2.

RobbingBandit

I thought it was 7/7, your right it is 8 issues guess I'll wait till next month so.

Nervous Wreck

RobbingBandit wrote: »

I thought it was 7/7, your right it is 8 issues guess I'll wait till next month so.

It originally was 7 issues but they extended it, as seems to be the fashion these days...!

CastorTroy

Yeh always find it funny that the first issue could say "1 of 5" and months down the line we get issue 6 or 7.

With regards last weeks' Action Comics

Why are they talking about Lex as Darkseid as if it would never happen, even though it did happen?

nate1984

I tried reading the Witcher and White Sands, two fantasy graphic novels, must admits I just didn't enjoy them. Gave up halfway with both.

Not that I don't like fantasy because I'm loving Birthright and especially Green Valley & Lake of Fire.

Image are knocking it pout of the park the last few years.

Fysh

I've decided to re-read Sandman because I haven't read it in years, and, well, the big Absolute volumes keep staring at me from the bookshelf. I love the new colouring job, but good god are those books bulky to read!

Nervous Wreck

Fysh wrote: »

I've decided to re-read Sandman because I haven't read it in years, and, well, the big Absolute volumes keep staring at me from the bookshelf. I love the new colouring job, but good god are those books bulky to read!

I just finished it for the first time after putting it off for years. I now feel a huge, Morpheus-shaped void in my life...!

Fysh

Nervous Wreck wrote: »

I just finished it for the first time after putting it off for years. I now feel a huge, Morpheus-shaped void in my life...!

I keep meaning to read the Mike Carey Lucifer run, which is by all accounts supposed to be very good (though I'm guessing not at quite the same level as Sandman). Could always have a look at that if you're really jonesing for a fix

Having said that, I foolishly read a few of the other spinoff series and was quite disappointed at the marked drop in quality, so I'd suggest caution before spending any money.

Have you read Sandman: Overture?

Nervous Wreck

Fysh wrote: »

I keep meaning to read the Mike Carey Lucifer run, which is by all accounts supposed to be very good (though I'm guessing not at quite the same level as Sandman). Could always have a look at that if you're really jonesing for a fix

Having said that, I foolishly read a few of the other spinoff series and was quite disappointed at the marked drop in quality, so I'd suggest caution before spending any money.

Have you read Sandman: Overture?

Lucifer is on the list but it's after Hellblazer, which will be the next epic I tackle (possibly in tandem with Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run.

Sandman: Overture is sitting under the Christmas tree so not long to wait on that one!!

Fysh

Hellblazer has some fantastic storylines. The Delano run has some odd moments but some really great stuff, and there are a few great one and two parters (including stories by Gaiman and Morrison) before Ennis takes over. I haven't yet gotten round to reading the Milligan run myself (I can take or leave him depending on the title) but I reckon everything else up to that point is good - the Diggle run felt weirdly inconsequential to me at first read, but I've grown to like it as a counterpoint to the scope and scale of Carey's preceding run.

I must pick up Overture myself - somehow I forgot to have it on my wishlist so probably won't get it for Christmas, but can always buy it for myself

Brief_Lives

Overture is brilliant... Back in the world of Dream, it’s as thematically and structurally superb as I remember the original story was... It's also one of the best illustrated comics I have ever read...

L.S.F

Finished Watchmen after it was gave to me 3 and a half years ago(!). Just never got time to have a decent run at it over the years and started it over about two or three times. If you haven't read it already do so, it holds up to the hype and is a great read. Wanted to start over straight away after I finished it. Don't take my timeframe into it, I have a huge backlog of books sitting around. Collected the Marvel & DC Graphic Novel Collections and have about 20 out of 50/60 Marvel books to read and 16 months into the DC collection and haven't read one yet!

Don't have loads of time over Christmas off but enough to get a few of the collection under way.
Any Suggestions from these lists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Comics_Graphic_Novel_Collection (Up to 34 I think + Specials)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Official_Marvel_Graphic_Novel_Collection (Most of Original Volume 1-60)
Also have a few trades around the house but bar Wolverine: Killable I can't remember offhand)

Fysh

From the Marvel List I'd say volumes 3 (Extremis), 4 (Ultimates volume 1), 15 (Marvels), 44 (Ultimates volume 2) and 46 (1602) are the best of the bunch. You could add in 39 (Civil War) if you particularly enjoy the two volumes of The Ultimates stuff, there's a similar sort of feel to it - I didn't think much of it myself but then I generally find Mark Millar's writing to be lacking any depth.

Oh, and if you like Marvels, you may appreciate Ruins - Warren Ellis's grim What-If-style take on Marvels where instead of everything going just right for the heroes of the Marvel U, it's all gone horribly wrong...

Fysh

For the DC list, most of those stories either didn't catch my attention enough to read or didn't have an impact. I can say I'd skip Death of Superman (I found it a total yawn, tbh). The Doom That Came To Gotham is a gorgeous looking story, though it may help to have read "The Doom That Came To Sarnath" first (the H.P. Lovecraft story Mignola is riffing on). Selina's Big Score is also worth a look.

The specials I'd say depend how much you're into reading bigger shared-universe stories (in a similar way to Civil War, only more so). The Final Crisis volume is probably the best way to read that story, but I personally still dont think it was up to much. Identity Crisis is the smallest scale story of the lot, and is an ok read if you don't mind mysteries where the reader never has the information required to solve the mystery (think Sherlock Holmes stories). Crisis on Infinite Earths and Infinite Crisis are, to my mind, not particularly worth reading as stories in their own right at this point unless you're specifically interested in the history of DC's superhero comics. (I'm not much pushed about such things unless the stories themselves also happen to be rewarding to me, but your mileage may vary).

Hope this helps

Nervous Wreck

I'll jump in on this. I agree with pretty much all of what Fysh said about the DC stuff. The ones I would defo recommend from the DC side are:

Trinity - Wagner's take on Superman particularly is great
Robin Year One - a great read and you should follow it with
Batgirl Year One - Chuck Dixon did great work with both of these and there's some crossover, which is enjoyable
Batman The Long Halloween is good, if a little overrated
Superman Birthright is easily one of the best Superman stories I've read
Green Arrow Year One is pretty good. Worth reading if you like the character
Flashpoint is one of the few Geoff Johns books I enjoyed, mostly because it's basically an elseworlds story

Nervous Wreck

And from Marvel...

Iron Man: Extremis is a good IM story
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is top notch Brubaker goodness
Planet Hulk is defo my favourite Hulk story
Spider-Man Blue is wonderful
Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon is a book I'll probably reread a million time, it's so good
Silver Surfer: New Dawn is a bucket of fun
Thor God of Thunder: The God Butcher is probably my favourite Thor book
Nova: Origin is another book that's just lots of fun