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Post by WildKnight on Jan 4, 2011 19:45:01 GMT -5
I'm looking to get into a comic book or two, preferably mainstream (Marvel and/or DC). Does anyone have any good recommendations?
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Post by WildKnight on Jan 4, 2011 22:06:53 GMT -5
ALSO! What are some good compilations (trade paperbacks, whatever they call them) that are worth getting?
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Post by shenron on Jan 4, 2011 22:19:19 GMT -5
Captain America
Thunderbolts
Superman (Starting with #700, I have heard good things, new writer)
Secret Avengers
Flash
As far as trades?
Well we have;
Preacher
Punisher (The Max Line)
Ultimate Spider-Man (Both incarnations)
Runaways
Walking Dead!
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Post by Kaimontfendo on Jan 5, 2011 1:38:10 GMT -5
I haven't gotten/read any comics since the local comics shop closed a few years ago. (Not that I read many before then, either.) Personally, I'm hoping to read Blackest Night eventually, if I happen to find it.
That's all I have to offer. Sorry.
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Post by shenron on Jan 5, 2011 2:40:43 GMT -5
Of course, Green Lantern! How could I forget that, Blackest Night was good, I was disappointed with Brightest Day though.
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Post by WildKnight on Jan 5, 2011 7:16:05 GMT -5
Brightest Day is over already? Ugh. Time goes by so fast!
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Post by takewithfood on Jan 5, 2011 9:08:36 GMT -5
Runaways has been dead in the water for over a year now. Nothing even seems to be in the works. I miss Young Avengers, too, but I think they have some very infrequent titles out now.. at least it's something.
~TWF
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Post by WildKnight on Jan 5, 2011 9:11:55 GMT -5
Young Avengers I have some vague interest in. Runaways, not so much. I read some Runaways, it struck me as very juvenile, and not always in the intentional sense.
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Post by takewithfood on Jan 5, 2011 9:16:28 GMT -5
The trouble with Young Avengers is that it feels like they don't have anything to actually do. They spend a lot of time trying to be Avengers, even though the actual Avengers don't want them to, and while that sort of off-the-hip teenage rebellion can be interesting when you're dealing with teens with super powers, it also gives you the impression that they aren't actually needed. Which is a bummer. Still interesting, but kind of a bummer.
EDIT: Young X-Men had the same problem, but it was hard to notice over the terrible art and writing.
~TWF
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Post by WildKnight on Jan 5, 2011 9:42:08 GMT -5
I didn't even know there was such a thing as Young X-Men.
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Post by takewithfood on Jan 5, 2011 9:49:03 GMT -5
Try to keep it that way. *shudder*
~TWF
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Post by andyman on Jan 8, 2011 1:00:18 GMT -5
I'm reading the Justice League International trade paperbacks I got for X-Mas and I'm enjoying them as superhero humor done right. (At least the first one was and so far as I've gotten through the second.)
FYI: I've been reading up on Blue Beetle because I'm playing him (Ted Kord) in WildKnight's Smallville rules game. I've been liking what I've been reading even though his personality is better in his own book than it was with the JL team books.
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Post by Beacon on Jan 8, 2011 13:24:24 GMT -5
ATOMIC ROBO!
DC has Secret Six and Jonah Hex (the only comics I still read monthly) as well as gems like R.E.B.E.L.S. and quite a few great Batbooks (and many terrible ones…there are too many Batbooks). Vertigo may not be what it once was but they still have Fables.
I’m loving Invincible, Walking Dead, Chew, and G-Man (done by the Mini-Marvels/Bullpen Bits guy) at Image.
Marvel is trickier. They tend to cancel good comics before the have a chance. They’ve had a ton of good stuff over the years but everything I can name is either a shadow of its former self, gone, or on its way out. Still, you own it to yourself to look into “old” trades of Runaways (you can skip the last couple runs), the Iron Fist revival, Agents of Atlas, Jeff Parker era Marvel Adventures comics, Annihilation, and Incredible Hercules.
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Post by pgholland on Jan 8, 2011 13:37:33 GMT -5
Mainstream? Pick up the following (which might prove somewhat difficult): 2000AD (weekly) and Judge Dredd (now monthly).
They are the epitome of British comics, and are fantastic. 200AD has some iffy strips in it, but with 4 different ones, and a fast cycle through to different lines of character stories, there are always at least 3 good strips. Things like Judge Dredd (and other Mega-City One stories); Savage (a 'What if the Soviets had invaded Britain' strip), Sinister and Dexter, Downloade Hitmen as well as the Tales from the Black Museum.
In Judge Dredd you get a similar mix, but you also get film reviews, interviews with the top people in the British comic industry and a bagged Graphic novel of some of the greatest stories of the past 20 years.
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Post by WildKnight on Jan 8, 2011 13:50:25 GMT -5
I used to read Judge Dredd. I'm not sure I always "got it" in terms of the references and humor (not being British), but I enjoyed it enough to be disappointed by the movie.
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