What comic are you reading at the moment.

fragile-ghost

hmmm, by comics do you also mean manga??? im reading th manga flcl. its really weird, and sumtimes nigh on impossible to understand . i used to read ultimate x-men, but it got a bit tedious so i gave up.:(

i love comics!!:D

galactus

I'm a long time Kirby fan but never read any of the New Gods. until I came across a free download from a naughty site presenting free copies of copyrighted stuff which can be bought in collected editions.

Sorry guys, as per the charter I dont want to see discussion/linking to sites providing full copies of comics. For those interested in the New Gods series, the original stories have been collected in TPB format by DC and they should be easily available in stores (well, Other Realms has been known to have them in stock, which generally indicates that it's straightforward enough to get hold of them). More info on the collections themselves can be found here. ~Fysh

spooydermot

Astonishing X-Men 16
Its a pity this is only coming out every 2 months, its a really enjoyable story but the long wait is a bit of a drag.


wolverine 45 (civil war)
nice to see a bit more of the stamford srory being played back into the Civil War story.

new avengers 23 (civil war)
iron mans a dick

Preacher: Salvation
I am so addicted to this series, its fantastic, only 2 books to go.

the Shades

hmmm... I went to buy 2 comics and came out with 5. Hope I'm not falling back into old habits. I generally buy comics just for the artist these days so maybe that can keep me on the right track.

X-men Civil War 2: In some places drawn out and dull but interesting ending.

Wonder Woman 2: Really not sure about this one, nice art by Dodson but some of the storyline is just trash.

New Avengers 23: Bought simply because Coipel is a god. Story wasn't bad either although one 2 page spread was a little confusing in it's layout.

The Flash 3: I'm a fan of the Flash in general, not happy about Bart mysteriously aging 4 years BUT the book is interesting so far. Although it's always sad when a guest artist does an art job that's 60 times better than the regular penciller. Yay Karl Kerschel! The art this issue is gorgeous.

Justice League of America 1: Brad Meltzer is one of the few writers I'd buy a comic for, that said some of this was drawn out and tiresome. Might make more of an impact with seeing the team in action and flashbacks to them being chosen, but some nice insight on Red Tornado and interesting developments with his character. Ed Benes is also a good artist, not so sure about him adding more lines to look more like Lee, but he still knows how to keep things moving along.

77

A back log of 2000AD all from the late 80's. Hundreds of them. Bliss. A mate had crates of them.

constitutionus

astonishing x men 16

really good read, im loving what joss is doing with wolverine. his fight with beast was hysterical at times. praying to god to save him from the moose
even the odd one liner " he ate most of my leg but it grew back so that was good".
i'll be honest some of its baffling though, how can there be two of a certain someone? in fairness kitty even notes this. and just how is the mutant whos meant to destroy the breakworld capable of doing it. the individual just doesnt seem to have the raw power to do so. still this is just small quibbles, cassidys art is gorgeous as usual and particularly in the fight scene with emma. im not a huge fan of kittys but wheadon writes her well and cassaday makes her emote even when shes not really doing anything in fact the only person that looks better is emma (though cassady seems to be having a field day with "five year old" logan, this is some of the best stuff in it. i never thought i'd see logan protrayed like this and its amazing how long its took someone to do it)

in fact the only thing that bothers me is they only have one more storyline left before they leave the book. it really leaves me in a quandry cause ive been collecting XMEN since the 90's and inheireted my brothers collection of uncanny going back to the 70's and this is the only book i collect now. i cant see myself collecting to book after them (if they even continue the book without em) and for the life of me i dont see myself going back to uncanny or the adjectiveless one again (dont like the teams) . this could turn out to be the last X book i get

the Shades

Read Carey's run on Uncanny with Chris Bachalo, have a feeling it will be worthwhile.

Fysh

Hellblazer : All His Engines

I've been waiting a while for the softcover of this. DC said they were only doing the hardcover to tie in with that god-awful Constantine movie release, but as expected it was a lie. Now, the cover blurb on this has Gaiman saying that this is "the quintessential Constantine story". Which is meant as a compliment, but it doesn't really work as such. I've been a fan of John Constantine for several years, mostly through the trades (though why they haven't released a trade of the Fear Machine story is beyond me), and by now it feels like it's obligatory for John to get acquaintances killed, get himself called a complete bastard by at least one female character who sees his negative qualities for what they are, and John playing it cool in the face of pants-browningly-scary monsters.

Don't get me wrong, these things have all been done in past stories and they've worked well. But you have to worry about a John Constantine story in which there's significantly more character development going on with Chas than with John. I start to wonder whether anything of interest is going to be done with Constantine any time soon, as judging by the recently published trades DC seem happy to relegate him to the supporting characters rota...

The Bunker

An odd little Australian indie comic, this. Artwork is good, though not especially distinctive. But this is very much a character story, and it works well as such. It's about two neighbours whose previously close friendship finds itself stretched by the onset of puberty and the emergence of unrequited attraction. There's some clever characterisation in here and some poignant moments. Worth a read.

Fell #6

Ah, Ellis. I have to struggle to remind myself that he's written stuff I haven't liked. And Templesmith's artwork...well, I want to steal his brain so I can make stuff that looks that good, put it that way. Another fine little story with everything seeming to be just perfect. I hope this series goes on for a long time.

Undergod

Just read first collection of Preacher, first issue of Civil War. Hugely impressd by both. I'm saving up for more Ultimates collections.

ThenComesDudley

Reading Garth Ennis new one The Boys, I’m a fan of his stuff and this one makes me laugh with the usual violence and sick humour. It also has a character that looks an awful lot like Simon Pegg

spooydermot

ThenComesDudley wrote:

Reading Garth Ennis new one The Boys, I’m a fan of his stuff and this one makes me laugh with the usual violence and sick humour. It also has a character that looks an awful lot like Simon Pegg

Yeah I thought that, I wonder if its a kind of tribute to his character from 'spaced' ?

Just finished reading Preacher (the whole lot) , its amazing , up there with Watchmen and V for Vendetta

Supermarket #4
Nice little story well presented, feel ever so slightly let down by the ending but the sum of the whole makes up for it, also glad to see that it wasn't dragged out further than it needed to be.


Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse #2

Love the artwork, story also moving along nicely


Now to continue on with transmetropoliton....:D

bombidol

the boys is excellent. tell you whats blowing my mind right now...DMZ. its absolutly amazing. Starting reading Fables too, seems pretty good so far.

aidan_walsh

Tonight I took the time to flick through one that has been aside on my desk for a few weeks, Robert Venditti's The Surrogates. I rather enjoyed it. The ending was a bit abrupt, but didn't need anything added to it. The world was well developed, and I found the overall premise interesting. I was a bit surprised by it, given that it was Venditti's first published work, let alone series.

Fysh

Hellblazer : Stations Of The Cross

Weirdly enough arriving before Staring At The Wall (which precedes it, storywise), this is the perfect antidote to All His Engines in the context of "traditional" Constantine stories, because the entire trade is dealing with Constantine minus his memories and sense of identity. Looking forward to reading the conclusion to this and seeing how Constantine fares with the next writer on the series.

thumbninja

spooydermot wrote:

Yeah I thought that, I wonder if its a kind of tribute to his character from 'spaced' ?

thread rot: if you like spaced.. check out 'big train' comedy sketch show. \thread rot

re-reading Halo Jones. First time in many many years. And it is as good as I remember it. Great story.

re-read swampthing, v for vendetta and watchmen. Is there any other old school ones I'm forgetting to look for?

Demondaze

Spent the weekend getting up-to-date with Runaways, Astonishing X-Men, and Y The Last Man (home of the best cliffhangers in the medium I'd wager) ... and intend getting similarly up to speed with the current run of Peter David's X-Factor soon enough. I'm also looking forward to finishing Mike Carey's Lucifer once I get a loan of the necessary books.

bombidol

reading Cable and Deadpool at the moment and while a lot of it is very entertaining I feel that the writer isnt the greatest storyteller in the world. Great dialogue etc but as far as a coherent story goes its kinda out the window to a degree.

Tree

just finished st swithin's day, seaguy, second volm of the league of extrordinary gentlemen, and parliament of justice. the league and grant morrison very much so

currently waiting on jack b badd to receive some more storm watch

maze

I'm reading the summer event of a tragic Chase reeling from the death of Gertrude in Runaways and the X-Men fighting the Children of the Vault in X-Men.

johnny_ultimate

Finished Watchmen a few weeks ago - first proper comic/graphic novel ive read and woah. It was spectacular. Realistic characters, epic storyline, superb writing / artwork, it really was an eye opener for me. Not only the best graphic novel I've read (the only one incidentally) but one of the best novels, period.

Picked up David Boring this week. Just had a glance at the first few pages the other night seems very witty and quirky. Will get into it proper soon.

Any reccomendations for a newbie to the field?

Draco

Volume 5 of the Walking Dead finally came out last week. A nice change of pace from Another Zombie Menace(tm), but still a bit predictable.

Winter Men #5 just confused me. I don't remember the english from the presvious issues coming across as heavily translated (if you follow what I mean). Maybe I just have to go back and read it as one lump.

Fysh

Planetary : Crossing Worlds

Utter cack. The only one I was interested in was the Authority crossover. The JSA and Batman ones sucked fat donkey. Surprised and disappointed at Mr Ellis overall.

Stormwatch : Force Of Nature

Not bad at all. It's doing a reasonable job of selling me the superhero premise, though we'll see how it ends (I'm half way through at the moment).

Demondaze

johnny_ultimate wrote:

Finished Watchmen a few weeks ago - first proper comic/graphic novel ive read and woah. It was spectacular. Realistic characters, epic storyline, superb writing / artwork, it really was an eye opener for me. Not only the best graphic novel I've read (the only one incidentally) but one of the best novels, period.

Picked up David Boring this week. Just had a glance at the first few pages the other night seems very witty and quirky. Will get into it proper soon.

Any reccomendations for a newbie to the field?

Ah, Watchmen... brilliant. Such excellently realised characters.

"I did it thirty-five minutes ago..."

Anyhow, I'll take it upon myself to recommend Y: The Last Man... it's currently on volume seven, the first of which is called "Unmanned". The premise... well, the series revolves around one Yorick Brown and what happens when he becomes the last man on earth after a cataclysm. It's very witty (great, sparky dialogue), has the best cliffhangers in all comicdom and constantly surprises with the interesting ways it depicts a world devoid of men.

Tree

third volume of stormwatch, (istn jack b badd great with her lending of stuff )

bombidol

30 Days of Night - boring
Iron Man-The Inevitable - Boring

Longshadow

Must say, I liked St Swithins Day. Also, liked what I read of SeaGuy an awful lot (thankee Fysh).
Fallen Angel #9 was the strongest issue in a while. It's been comparatively poor since the IDW restart, but this issue hints at bringing Bete Noire back properly as a 'character' in the series, inasmuch as a city can be said to be a character. The role played by Bete Noire was always one of the most intriguing aspects of the series, and I'm looking forward to reading more now.
Brubaker's Criminal #1 was good, but far from brilliant. With 26 pages of story, I felt he could have done a lot more than character introductions and set up. I'm a big fan of his writing, and I expected more. Gonna stick with it though, it was a fair start.

limey_tank

Cerebus volume 8.

It should be getting more boring with Sim's descent into madness but it's becoming more compelling.

Jack B. Badd

Read St Swithin's Day recently too and was quite surprised at Morrison's ability to develope his characters beyond one dimension. Oh, that he did it more often.
Absolutely adored the superheroiness of StormWatch but Vol 5 was a let down and far too rushed an ending for such a good series. That said I then rushed out to buy the first two volumes of The Authority. Did I mention I love Jenny Sparks?! Volume 2 was my first taste of Millar too and I'm dying to get my hands on more of his work - all donations welcome

bombidol

Is the boys #3 out yet?

Draco

bombidol wrote:

Is the boys #3 out yet?

Out last week. It was okay, no great shakes.

bombidol

must pick it up. im thinkin that if Ennis is trying to pull another "preacher" theres gonna be loads of Slow issues to build up the characters

Miss Shelly

Currently reading.
- New X-men.

But only because of Nimrod really....

CerebralCortex

Miss Shelly wrote:

Currently reading.
- New X-men.

But only because of Nimrod really....

Read alot of the New X-men. Its pretty good

Longshadow

Liking 'The Boys' myself so far, and yeah, it's standard Ennis six issue story arc format. From the past few years of Punisher, and Preacher, I almost know the way he'll lay out a story by heart now, but it doesn't actually stop the stories from being great. Aside from a few dead notes in his Punisher run that is, but it has picked up notably since he was moved to MAX imprint.
Thinking 'The Boys' will be worth following..

the Shades

gen 13 vol 4 #1 was gen 13 #1 again only different... Bobby's hair has changed, Grunge has lost his tattoo but otherwise it was a 'movie' remake. Is this going to happen to the entire Wildstorm line?

Ultimate Wildstorm?

thumbninja

finished reading 'house of M' collected ed last night. unsatisfying.

Started 'truth serum' last night. was a birthday gift. Not some thng I would have picked up myself. Is rather odd - I'm only 4 pages in. Like it so far!

the Shades

Picked up The Authority #1 and Wildcats #1 and found both really disappointing. Do the titles need to be virtually re-booted? Wildcats in particular looks like it could suffer from Morrison doing his usual twist and re-hash old stories trick, but these titles aren't old enough for that and ignoring what Casey was doing with Wildcats in his run would be a mistake as it was really interesting.

AbusesToilets

I've been reading Ultimate Xmen since it started,pretty consistant in quality and generally better than the mainstream version.Invincible,Walking Dead,Fables,100 Bullets all excellent.
Picked up the 1st issue of The Other Side the other day,looks promising.Oh and of course can't forget Conan.Nord's art is sensational

thumbninja

the Shades wrote:

Picked up The Authority #1 and Wildcats #1 and found both really disappointing. Do the titles need to be virtually re-booted? Wildcats in particular looks like it could suffer from Morrison doing his usual twist and re-hash old stories trick, but these titles aren't old enough for that and ignoring what Casey was doing with Wildcats in his run would be a mistake as it was really interesting.

I hear you there Shades. wasn't gone on the first issues either both very 'groundwork'. I'll give it a chance to warm up before I dismiss it. Used to read authority and wildcats a while ago. Liked some of the ways authority went before we shall see how it goes this time.

Bad writing/story arcs really do put you off a comic.. stopped reading hellblazer for a good while over it.

Fysh

thumbninja wrote:

Bad writing/story arcs really do put you off a comic.. stopped reading hellblazer for a good while over it.

Just out of curiosity, whose writing put you off? I've heard a few people weren't impressed with Mike Carey's run but I'm not quite decided yet...

bombidol

Hellblazer is very hit or miss, Got Authority #1 seemed ok, but its just a first issue so i wasnt expecting action etc

Longshadow

Authority #1 was very slow, even for a first issue, but I did really like it. For a start, the art was beautiful. It was really, really impressive. It gave an incredible .. feel to the comic. I've read it twice since I got it, trying to figure out what it is about it. It's as if there's something going on in the issue that I haven't quite grasped yet. The colouring, combined with so much going on underwater, and perhaps just a little too much slightly more out of focus than should have been throughout the issue?
It's like I've seen something out of the corner of my eye and can't figure out what. I think I have an idea what Morisson and Ha are doing, and I think I like it too.
One way or another, I think it's gonna be a good one.

Wildcats was a solid issue one as well, set the tone for what's it's gonna be more so than Authority managed, and what it's gonna be is obviously a more straightforward action title.

Never read any Authority at all, I'm afraid to say, and the only Wildcats I've read was the (relatively) recent Warblade mini, so the whole rebooting/restarting/repainting and maybe moving the furniture around a little while we're here? doesn't really agitate my fanboy nerve much either. Nice to get in on the ground on what has the potential to be a great few titles. I hope.
I also thoroughly approve of the whole Wildstorm Universe revolving on Bi-Monthly titles. Much easier on the wallet, allowing me to collect several of them, and it means less chance of horribly delayed titles. *cough* Jim Lee *cough*

Tree

Currently reading flight vol 2 (over and over), need to get my own copy maybe... it's amazin

AbusesToilets

I got Flight Vol.3 the other month.Excellent work,i really enjoyed it.I'd love to get the other volumes but i haven't seen any in the shops.I also picked up Pride Of Bagdhad yesterday,another great story from Brian K. Vaughan.The art work is very descriptive and gives a great emotional range to the characters.

Jack B. Badd

Reading The Complete Maus at the moment and I'm well impressed. It's better than most real books (for want of a better word) on the topic of Holocaust survivors and a fantastic example of how good a serious story can be conveyed through the medium of comics when a writer puts his mind to it. Another case of something I'll have to buy my own copy of.

bombidol

Finished "the boys"#3 thought it was pretty good
"The Authority "#1 - Decent build up
"A man caleld Kev" #3 - Pretty damn good if you ask me. Its taking its time to laydown some serious character backgrounds which i like.
"Punisher" Kitchen Irish TPB - Meh was alright, nothing amazing. Frank was more of a background character. The thing that annoyed me more than anything was frickin Ennis's use of the north/Ireland for a story again. Every bleeding comic he writes has to end up in Belfast or Dublin at some stage. Seriously!
Punisher (more than once)
Man called Kev
Hellblazer
Preacher
War stories.
Cant think of anymore, but it is 9 in the morning.

Draco

I don't know what to make of The Authority #1. It was good background stuff, but at the same time too slow. Hmmm. We'll have to see.

Desolation Jones has started up again which please me greatly.

I assume everyone has heard that Nextwave is only going to last until issue 12 and then there will be possible stand alone min-series things in the future?

Longshadow

Longshadow wrote:

I also thoroughly approve of the whole Wildstorm Universe revolving on Bi-Monthly titles. Much easier on the wallet, allowing me to collect several of them, and it means less chance of horribly delayed titles. *cough* Jim Lee *cough*

Looks like I spoke (posted) too soon:

'Please note that orders for the WILDCATS #2 Standard Edition (SEP060282) and Variant Edition (SEP060283) have been cancelled. This issue will be resolicited in the January Previews (Volume XVII #1) to be in stores on March, 2007.'

From a November release to a March release. A four month delay on the second issue. Now that's impressive.
And bloody annoying too. I liked Wildcats #1, but I don't want to go through another All Star Batman and Robin The Boy Wonder. The excessive delay better be to allow them to catch up and keep to schedule in future. Delays on this scale do affect sales. It's just too much.

Draco

ZOMG!
Nextwave. If you don't love it you are DEAD inside.

The Boys #4: Oh look, superheroes acting like oversexed ****s. Great. Could have done with a bit more plot movement.

Planetary #26: Disappointing end for a very delayed series. Just seems all too easy. 1 more issue to go as a prologue.

the Shades

Did anyone read Deathblow #1? I'm not sure what I thought of it. It was enjoyable but some things seemed a little obvious, I guess I expect more from Azzarello. D'Anda's art really impressed me though he's come a long way since the last time I saw anything by him.

Also read X-men 192 this week. Carey's story is finally beginning to hit it's pay off and finale and looks like this could be a great run. Bachalo is my favourite artist so I'd read it anyway but seeing Rogue develop as a leader and more self-confident character is great. Also kind of fun to look at 'her' team getting on the Blackbird and realise that 3 of them are villains. But possibly the one thing that's impressing me most is Carey's use of older character's with a twist to bring new blood to the book rather than simply creating new mutants. Indeed the only 'new' character he has added he's developed out of an earlier storyline that was much neglected. I'm really enjoying his X-men be interesting to see how it plays out.