What comics have you been reading lately?

What comics have you been reading lately?

Old, new whatever.

Just bought and read this. It was a trip. Also slowly making my way through the Master of Kung-fu omnibus.

funny you ask, I've been reading Miller's Daredevil and the usual strorytimes here and there on Sup Forums (mainly following The Vision and some DC stuff)

just read puke force, it's very funny

Just started this. I love how diverse family is.
Finished C.O.W.L. before that. It was kinda obvious what will happen in that comic.

>C.O.W.L.
Didn't that shit get canceled?

Probably. 11 is weird number of issue to end.

>Puke Force

How odd. May need to check it out sometime.

2000s JLA. I wished Plas was a member again.
Speaking of which, do the sixth dimension beings ever appear again in DCU? They were neat.

Reading through New Teen Titans now.

Great comic but holy fuck is it wordy, even for the 80's. I actually liked Batman & The Outsiders a bit more so far but I am a suck for Aparo.

if you don't like aimlessness then you might not like it though, it goes off the rails multiple times. the book has a message but it doesn't really have a point if that makes sense

>even for the 80's
You should try fucking X-Men. Now THAT'S wordy.

I just haven't been able to get in to Clowes in ages. I love Velvet Glove, though.

I'm reading the Lee/Ditko Amazing Spider-Man omni. Really good.

I'm broke as hell so I've mostly been reading books I haven't read in a while. I read Wimbledon Green for the first time in years. That book is so fun and way better than Seth's usual stuff which can feel a bit too stiff to me.

I also reread:

>Ed the Happy Clown
The comic I'd finished right before this was the Alan Moore Swamp Thing run and I couldn't help noticing some tonal similarities. I know that Chester Brown was a big Steve Gerber fan in the 70s but seeing Ed and Swamp Thing side by side made me realize that Ed is really just a Gerber style "strange horror hero\" comic in different clothing.

>Those Yoshihiro Tatsumi short story collections
The Push Man collection aged poorly. It just seems like it's trying to be edgy now. Abandon the Old Tokyo was better and Good-Bye had a few truly great stories in it, especially Hell.

>Sloth
Not Gilbert Hernandez's best but this certainly has a Lynchian vibe that makes it interesting.

Aparo is awesome, especially his Brave and the Bold issues

I haven't read Puke Force but CHippendale is pretty great.

Wolfman is actually worse- and I found Buisick's Avengers intolerable in this regard. outside of Conan, though, Roy Thomas has got to be just about the worst offender.

Clowes is massively overrated, he was consistently outclassed by his peers from his era but he just ended up writing Ghost World which put him over them by virtue of it getting a movie so everyone just sucks his dick

Claremont's a better writer than Wolfman though.

I kind of agree on Clowes though I do really like David Boring and the short stories in Caricature. If you're the same user who liked Velvet Glove then David Boring is up your alley.

Agree about Clairmont vs Wolfman, no question.

I tried David Boring, but it didn't grab me. I honestly can't remember if I finsished it or not.
Art School Confidential has a special place in my heart, though.

Really need to get around to reading this and Outsiders. AND still have LoSH to work through. Too much stuff to read.

>reading comics
???????

Which other creators would you suggest someone check out over Clowes? Genuinely interested. Patience is the only thing of his I read and I'm willing to give his other works a shot, but I'm always looking to branch out.

Finished up Irredemable two days ago. I really like Max Damage

Chris Ware is pretty much the greatest since Eisner

Batgirl (2000)

Cass Cain forgotten life in Gotham.

peter bagge, chester brown, the hernandez bros, charles burns, jim woodring, gary panter, joe matt, chris ware, evan dorkin, marti,. those are pretty much the best from clowes era of the late 80s/90s who are in the same category or are considered to be

I keep meaning to check out Ware's stuff too. Thanks.

Outsiders is better.

Do you like Crumb user? I prefer him to his successors, personally.
Bagge is okay, but most of his post Hate stuff is really whiny. I have a story by him in the DnQ anniversery book where he whines about the fucking internet- in 2015.
I've read everything by Joe Matt and I have no idea why.

Go for Jimmy Corrigan. It's probably his best work as well as his most accessible which is great. Available in a cheap paperback now. His other stuff like Building Stories and Rusty Brown iis more difficult.

I am not really feeling Nicieza's Thunderbolts.

Besides advancing plot points left by Busiek at turtle pace, he just keeps on piling problems after problems after problems on them with no resolution in sight.

I don't want to start shit, but I have read all of ware and I just don't get the appeal. I'm escaped white trash, though, and I think it might be a suburban middle-class thing. I don't know.

>Do you like Crumb user

Only read a few scans of his stuff here and there. I'm mostly a big two guy trying to branch out. There's a lot of older stuff I really need to track down . Been meaning to watch the documentary about him.

his cartooning is why I like him

ultimate spider-man! finally got around to reading it and its excellent! holy shit guys i really dig on mj and petes relationship, its really the first time i think ive ever actually cared. and king kong kenny is great! except for some reason, i cant remember which issue but it was before kitty transfered to the school kenny gets some growth but then it reverts but then they just do it again for him and kitty, which i thought was cute as all get out. but then volume 2 happened and the art turned chris-chan tier, except i just read issue 8 and they had a much better artist but when i looked at issue nine bam lafuente and his ass drawing is back. havent gotten to petes death yet. excited to read miles so i can see if the memes are true

I'm. Kirby fan first and foremost, there's no shame in liking capes. It's cool to branch out too, though.
This thread is scary civil.

Really, check out the first ruu of ASM.

Legends of the DC Universe
It's pretty awesome

Perez or Aparo is Sophie's choice. but i agree Outsiders is better.

>Been meaning to watch the documentary about him.

I would recommend this doc even to someone who has literally never even held a comic just because it's such a holistic look at a bizarre person.

you mean stan lee and steve ditko first run?

Outsiders has been a surprise delight

Yes.

i did start reading that, got to the vulture one or the one after it, because they had like two or three stories per book right? it was vulture and kraven i think. its good youre right i just forgot to keep reading. gonna finish ultimate then do that, then jms' 90s run

Just finished Omega Men, which was alright. Ending was a bit of a letdown. But that also is what it felt like they were going for. All this hope and a bright future, diminished by the reality of human/alien nature.

Just started East From West and I am in fucking love with the story right now. I'm a sucker for Four Horsemen stories though so who knows if it'll last.

Also wanted to start Howard the Duck, but do I need to read the 1978 serialization before the 2015? I haven't been hearing a lot of positives about the recent releases.

Gerber's Howard should be mandatory reading no matter what.

I've finally started reading Invincible because of the storytime here

I've had a fortnight off work so have been reading quite a bit of stuff.

>Black Canary
I'm an unrepentant sucker for the recent DC teenshit and loved Batgirl of Burnside and especially Gotham Academy, and this is pretty much more of the same. It's more consistent than Batgirl (less cringeworthy moments), but never reaches the heights either, and doesn't come close to Gotham Academy which I am full gay for.

>New Teen Titans
It's great when stuff is happening, but fuck me does it drag in places. Just wish it would get a move on because when it's good, it's really good.

>New X-Men
Morrison's run, and I was pretty disappointed in it. Weakest Morrison I've read and I usually really like his stuff. What I've read so far feels very much like an exercise in world building/scrubbing away the baggage of the series, so maybe it'll get better once it can start doing its own thing.

>NYX
This was a super nice surprise. I'd heard it was a pretty mediocre series only notable for introducing X-23, but I really enjoyed it. That mid-2000s fashion, though, jesus.

>X-23: Innocence Lost/Target X
Yes please, more of this. Loved it, especially Target X.

>Batman & Son/Batman RIP
Hard to judge when there's still a hell of a lot more of the run to go, but Batman & Son was good, and RIP was excellent. Really looking forward to reading the rest.

>Hellboy
Had the first volume on my shelf for ages. Finally read it, and immediately ordered all the Library Editions.

How is it so far? Was thinking of giving that a read somewhere down the line after I finish a couple other series in my backlog.

>New X-men
I agree I loved DC One Million and his JLA (even if there was little too much borrowing from the super powers minis in the Rock of Ages story line) but I never even finished his X stuff.
Fantomas was just too cool for me.

I wish I could read Hellboy fresh. You're in for a treat.

I disagree, Claremont's prose is absolutely the worst.

Kirby's run on Forever People, Kirby's run on OMAC, and post-Crisis/Emerald Dawn era Green Lantern

Forever People was not all what I expected. Kind of reads like a mix of 50's era science fiction (you know, the kind that's just full of ludicrous impossiblities?) and Easy Rider

Still not entirely sure what to make of OMAC, but for what it is, it's good readin'

Starlin's Warlock and Spider-Man/Deadpool

Aside from the shut on my pull list I haven't really been reading anything, but just last night I started reading Punisher MAX. I'm not a fan of Punisher, never have been, but I was told that I should give that run a chance. I'm glad I did, I'm only 8 issues in but so far I've been enjoying it, just sucks seeing the same characters that Ennis always writes

I'm okay with aimlessness so long as the story is entertaining.

>"What comics have you been reading lately?"
>can't respond unless you're actually reading a comic
>best and most civil thread on Sup Forums in weeks
>actual discussions and helpful recs all around

Who woulda thunk this board could work when it's people who read comics in the discussions?

Doom patrol

Pretty neat. Mr nobody is goat villain

the story is that basically internet hate manifests as a real thing but that's just a back drop to the comic bouncing to various characters fucking around in a post apocalypse along with criticism on modern politics and social media but I mean it also begins with a dude jacking off to porn and cumming on a keyboard

So it's a story about Sup Forums?

i've been thinking about finally startingthe morrison run

Re-read The Thanos Quest the other day. Shit is pretty dope. When Thanos is like that he's way cooler than Darkseid.

Spider Verse. Just on a Spider mood right now. Gonna jump on Claremont's X-Men or Frank Miller's DD.

Shame it always gets overlooked in favor of Infinity Gauntlet.

Is that Warlock there?

Nope. Thanos and The Champion.

Aside from some of the regular storytimes on Sup Forums, I've been reading Ditko Doctor Strange in my personal time. I plan to go all the way to current Aaron (because I like to have a complete view of the character, even if it means suffering through shitty writers), and just passed the Dormammu duo.

I giggle a bit every time Strange calls upon "Mighty Mormammu" and wonder how good they had it in tbe 60's that people didn't notice.

Gotcha. Face looks very similar (even if the skin tone is off).

Is that the guy who boxed Ben Grimm with the survival of the Earth at stake?

I've been Dredd-ing my shit up lately. Reading through the complete case files. I'm up to #24 I think.

That's some quality right there.

The very same.

It's the gem in the forehead too. Most of the Elders wore their Infinity Gem in their brows in that story. If you didn't know that but knew Adam Warlock did, it's a reasonable assumption.

"Body and Soul"
"Bang. You dead"
"I got better"
"Focused totality"
"No quarter asked, none given"
Goddamn it Claremont.

Bone
Palmiotti and Grey's Jonah Hex

So can you give me a quick rundown of why Thanos Quest is worth the read? Really liked Thanos in Infinity War (sidebar: just realized I mixed up Warlock with Magus, the facial expression gives a real Magus vibe.)

Also, this is the most civil Sup Forums thread I've seen in weeks. Earth must be screwed, and soon.

I loved the Palmiotti Jonah Hex. It's my favorite Hex run.

Claremont wrote so many fucking words its a wonder they fit any comics around them. And yet I fucking love the guy.

Anyone able to tell me if a Sandman reread is worth it? I'm worried a second go might ruin the magic.

Been read Superman/Batman comics. Wish they would go back to adapting arcs from it especially pic related.

Different user here, but it was pretty much the culmination (at the time) of Starlin's work with the character, and one of the prime examples of Thanos being a master manipulator. Also, been a while since I read it, but I remember it having a sort of atmospheric "calm before the storm" feeling, which really heightened the mood. Then again, that could've been because I knew Infinity Gauntlet immediately followed.

May as well go for it. You'll probably pick up on details you missed the first time around.

The Thanos Quest is a self-contained cosmic story, which is rare, and it's full of a bad guy being fucking awesome. He goes on a quest to get the infinity gems to make himself Death's equal so they can be together and he does it by being cunning, manipulative, powerful, and a downright asshole. Marvel Studios should be reading this comic for Thanos inspiration.

Thanks for the responses! Yea I read Infinity War on a whim, so I got all the backstory on Thanos first run-in with the gauntlet. Will be interesting to read the origin story.

Thanos Quest is the story of how he got the Infinity Gems. Unlike when Bendis told how the Illuminati got the gems, Thanos has to get them from people, who have varying amounts of knowledge on how they work. As the Infinity Gauntlet showed, a fight between a person WITH an Infinity Gem vs someone without is basically impossible to win in pure strength, so Thanos has to be tricky.
For a character who is now written basically as a brute, seeing him actually use the intelligence he is always meant to have (and when Starlin writes him, always does) is amazing.

Just finished Days of Future's Passed while working my way through Claremont's Uncanny X-Men so I'm taking a break before I proceed on that.

Currently reading:
Morrison's Doom Patrol
Milligan's Shade
trying to get current on New Avengers
Finished the Filth earlier this week

Just finished Volume 3 of Ostranders Suicide Squad, waiting on my order of Volume 4. Really like the pacing of it so far, and the character interactions are wonderful.

Also just read Deathroke REBIRTH number 1, felt a bit disjointed but this is my first time reading the character in a solo comic, so that might be why. Love the artwork and curious to see where it goes.

Just bought the TBP for Long Halloween. Been a few years since I read it and it looked so sexy on the shelf.

Obviously Rebirth's been a weekly gift and then Future Quest and the Flintstones have been two of the most enjoyable things I've ever read.

Moon Knight was good through the first five too. SteveCap for the lols.

I have the big ass Bone omni I recently tried opening again but for some reason I never get through it.

The character interactions really make Suicide Squad. Personally though a lot of the plots didn't do it for me.

I still absolutely love Long Halloween to this day and I can say that it is not nostalgia.

The mystery is passable but the characterization is great and the Godfather atmosphere is perfect even if the homages are a bit on the nose. The premise of showing how the mob implodes and Gotham goes from an organized crime city to the supervillain city of modern DCU is brilliant. I'd rank also Tim Sale in my top 5 Batman artists when working with the heavy blacks and noir colors.

Hush is complete trash but Long Halloween deserves the praise.

Maybe I'm just inoculated but I think Claremont's totally fine. It's part of the experience! and dude can write.

I vaguely remember reading a thing about how he had like playwriting background and the stuff is better read aloud but who knows how legit that it...

>I vaguely remember reading a thing about how he had like playwriting background and the stuff is better read aloud but who knows how legit that it...

Reminds me of something I heard about Moore "acting out" the dialog for his scripts to make sure they sound natural. Not sure if it's true though.