What comic are you reading at the moment.

Finally resuming my reading of the Criminal series...going to get through the rest of them over next couple of weeks.

Might grab that Heavy Metal bundle too on right now for a few of the short stories. Anyone get it and can comment on what it's like?

From recommendations here and elsewhere I started reading Criminal.

Really enjoyed Coward and will work my way through the rest I think.

just finished all the Criminal books last week... great stuff. Might diverge into some of my Dredd backlog for variety, get through some of the Anderson stories.

Though I still have a fair chunk of Ed Brubaker waiting in the aisles.

Im about 25 chapters into Berserk, no idea why it took this long to get around to it because its fecking brilliant, completely mad and often hilarious, the humour really comes through compared to other Japanese stuff. Really genuinely shocking in places aswell.

When I said ComiXology should allow for a comics roulette approach to its library last *check notes* year, I didn't mean Amazon should put a bullet through it. So that may stop my on-again off-again attempts to get through all the DC Rebirth first volumes. None of which will be listed here!

Daredevil by Frank Miller Omnibus Companion - Not as a strong as the first volume - can't say I've ever thought about Murdock's mother at all until the Netflix series brought it up and that attempts do to something weighty with it. As gimmick issues go, I liked the one that was dominated by black panels for Daredevil's POV.

The Amazing Spider-Man: Amazing Grace - Big fat meh that reeks of writer embellishing a story they had as a kid set in their home town. Which, unless New York, probably never works. Oh, hey, another atheist character being "What if God was reeeeal though? Make u think". Goody. How about a twist where the Earth is a flat vertical disc cause a comic is near incapable of depicting a globe. No, no, don't worry about the pesky science.

Captain America Lives! Omnibus - Optimism! Hooray! Strong set of Brubaker stories let down, I think, by that WW2 flashback issue of a Belgian village beset by vampires which has a horribly misjudged moment where someone says that the attacks are worse than when the 'Germans' rounded up and took away the local Jewish and Roma population by train. I mean, sure, that might be the character's perspective in the moment but someone still chose to write it in. Plus, the twist

is perhaps metaphor enough.

Thunderbolts Omnibus 1 - Best part about the MCU announcement is that I can get the early stuff in a full set - which I had partly made my way through with the Thunderbolts Classic books - and can now get rid of my Hawkeye & the Thunderbolts volumes as the positioning of that ampersand makes my teeth itch. Sceptical that the movie can do the premise justice with a (presumed) different set of villains and without the weight of the publishing history behind it. Assuming that They're even going with the original premise as Marvel doesn't need to be chasing anything with the stank of DCEU let alone the Suicides Squad. Gimme three-dimensional Songbird and Moonstone, basically.

Batman: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Book 3 -I never quite buy Batman and Superman's friendship but Tom King does an admirable job of selling it, I found. Enjoyed Catwoman's catsnarkasm around the Batmythos too. And I appreciate the gag of her briefly struggling to suggest who could be flower girl in a world where Poison Ivy controls near everyone.

Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter

Alien 1: Bloodlines - The franchise really needs to find a hook that isn't doing stuff from Aliens - Marines! Bishop! Newt! Capitalist shenanigans! - when the spin-offs struggle to cast a female lead. Possibly seeding for later anyway but I find the threat of androids exchanging notes through a hive mind more interesting than Xenomorphs communicating across vast distances off-world. In Space You Can't Hear Yourself Think.

I was gonna type something sneery about the main character's shocked face and apologise to whoever Larroca swiped for him but:

https://twitter.com/Engineer_LV426/status/1408973459330269184

Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 - Lost interest as soon as the answer to "What would Judge Dredd do if he was outlawed?" was to just be a hypocrite when surely the drama is in the manoeuvring of The Law as it exists currently for Dredd? Not that familiar with the character but isn't his thing that the law is correct at all times, not the previous set of rules was more convenient and thus must be returned to? A story pulled out surprisingly early too. I did laugh at the exchange between Dredd and anti-human, robo-supremacist Call-Me-Kenneth: "There was a human just like you back in the twentieth century. His name was ADOLF HITLER!" "Yes! I'm a BIG FAN of Adolf Hitler."

Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Forgotten Myths #1 to #3* - I liked it though I can't imagine who would engage with it outside of those who haven't played the DLC for which this is a prequel, which is a sequel to part of a largely optional storyline in the main game that's better off being finished to understand. And centres around a character who is background info. Still it's a very nice way of making sure Loki doesn't get away with his crimes but provides a path to atonement.

The Old Guard 1: Opening Fire - The Netflix movie is said to be adapted from the first book so would have to have a lot added to it to carry a film as this is mostly an introduction. Not enough there to like or dislike so far but having immortality as an unknown number of redoes at living until death sticks is a fresh take for me. And things like the digital age being too quick for someone hundreds of years old so the arrival of a new generation of phone leave no time to get used to one.

*Digital version

Are the Judge Dredd Case Files done the way they were printed or in completed stories? Like would they have story 1 part 1 followed by part 2 or would they move on to story 2 part 1, story 3 part 1, story 4 part 1 before getting back to story 1 part 2?

Think I was going to try it before but saw somewhere they were in the original print order which put me off.

And that's coming from someone who reads a few DC where characters have multiple stories running at the same time. "Oh, look, Harley's a fun quirky solo character, while also being a member of a violent Suicide Squad" or Superman's stuck on Warworld while Dark crisis is also happening.

Can't beat a bit of Crossed, wish it was still going.

Never read any. Didn't alan moore do a run on it at some stage?

Recommendation from me: SHIFT - British comic anthology. Very much in the mold of 2000ad and sharing some of the same creators. Superbly high quality in both form and content, feels like an 'adult' comic (not that kind of 'Ooh Matron' adult). I'm a subscriber and when this and 2000ad/Megazine drop in my letterbox at the same time, I pick this up first. A lot of the other offerings on the market feel like auditions to get into the Prog but this stands out as its own thing, really enjoying it.

Would particularly recommend it to someone who has only read 'big' American comics, you will feel the higher quality in story and greater diversity in art right away.

Yeah he did and it was good but definitely start from the start, its all some of the best post-apocalyptic horror you'll ever read, avoid spoilers if you can.

Its on the pile but haven't seen it yet, looking forward to it though.