What Titles Are You Currently Reading?

[Lantern7]

Checking here again to see if anybody got the first issue of Green Lantern/Star Trek: Spectrum Wars. I got a blank covered issue, though I don't know what I'd get for it. Kirk-as-Green Lantern seems to be obvious, but which one? Shatner or Pine? Maybe I should get Spock-as-Red Lantern, and have him ponder the illogic of being "worthy" of a rage ring. As for the issue itself? I dunno if I'd get the rest of the series. Most of the issue was setting the table. . . no measuring contests between Hal and Jim, though I'm betting that they'll play off each other as the miniseries progresses.

[Lantern7]

Bumping up . . . I'm not a theater person in general. I mean, I want to see The Book Of Mormon, but I'm a South Park fan since the beginning, and I don't think that counts. I'm saying this because I found out somebody not only made a musical based on Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, but it also won five Tonys.

 

Has anybody else read the graphic novel? I DVRed Late Night with Seth Meyers last night, and I saw his interview with Bechdel. I haven't seen the scene they arranged yet, and I'm somewhat afraid. I figure that the title of the book is supposed to be ironic, because the author's life was seldom fun. Tons of repression and tragedy to be had . . . and that seems like a bigger misfire than "Hey, wouldn't Spider-Man make a great musical?" And yet . . . five Tonys.

 

I'm still taking out comic stuff from the library. I'm in the middle of Spider-Verse, which makes for an impressive hardcover covering most of the story and the tie-ins.

 

ETA: I saw the scene . . . "I'm Changing My Major." Pretty poignant, but awkward as all hell. Sorry if I've veered too far off-topic.

[Fukui San]

I just wanted to mention that Velvet is pretty great. Concept is that in a James Bond-ian universe, Ms. Moneypenny is secretly one of the best secret agents of all.

 

I think I like Sex Criminals from the first TPB but I'll see where it does.

 

Unwritten ended recently.  It mostly stuck the landing.

 

That's all I've picked up recently.

[Lantern7]

I got the latest Empowered volume from Amazon today. I liked it, but I wouldn't recommend it for new readers because it's the ninth book in the series. I'd advise reading the first few volumes to get a feel of the hapless heroine's adventures, or maybe the deluxe hardcover collections. It's not as porn-y as the shrinkwrap and "mature readers" sticker suggests.

 

Also got the first Black Panther tpb collecting T'Challa's adventures from Christopher Priest. I still have the single issues, but I found a sweet discount on Amazon. In my mind, Priest's run is what the movie should aspire to be.

[RodLu]

Just Finished Reading This One.....I Luffs Eet:


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http://doorman.smackjeeves.com/comics/1817497/chapter-two-prelude/

You Have To Click 'next' To Go To The Next Page.......

#OnlineComic.

[Lantern7]

I'm halfway through reading the Before Watchmen books. So far, a snake god hasn't devoured me while in the bathroom, which is good. Ozymandias/Crimson Corsair  is okay from Len Wein, but it can be heavy-handed in copying events from Watchmen. After reading Minutemen/Silk Spectre (which was an improvement), I have to observe the one guiding principle: Comedian is a bastard and a half. I haven't gotten to his collection yet, but he manages to run roughshod over the lives of the other protagonists. I wouldn't be surprised to find out he contributed to Dollar Bill's death.

[MeloraH]

Feeling kind of unoriginal since they all already have their own topics but I just finished Saga Vol. 4 and Sex Criminals Vol. 1 and plan to start Ms. Marvel vol. 1 tomorrow.

[Crim]

The first issue of Monstress. It's excellent. Great art, great beginning of a story, can't wait for the next one.

 

And oh yeah, I should read more Ms. Marvel. I've stopped at volume 3.

[Bruinsfan]

The book I've been most enthused about reading lately (at least once Sandman: Overture finished up) is Alan Moore's Providence. It's a Lovecraft pastiche starring a gay, Jewish main character apparently named after Robert Bloch. I've loved Moore's tour of the Cthulhu Mythos, and while the art is a bit stiff and stylized it actually fits the protagonist pretty well.

[starri]

 

It's a Lovecraft pastiche starring a gay, Jewish main character

Lovecraft would no doubt be thrilled by that.

[MeloraH]

I just finished Bitch Planet and loved it. Incredible world-building with minimal exposition; almost all show and very little tell. My only complaint is that I felt like there could have been more plot advancement or like more of a graphic novel version of a season finale by the end.

[Lantern7]

I'm still getting graphic novels and trade paperbacks from the library. I picked up a volume featuring Geoff Johns' early work on The Flash. He did a lot of decent character-building with Wally West . . . and he wound up junking it all for Barry Allen, who should have remained dead after Crisis On Infinite Earths. I would expect a similar collection line with Mark Waid's take on Wally . . . but since Waid is not with DC Comics anymore, that's not going to happen. Pity, especially since most of his run on Impulse reminds uncollected.

 

I have to share . . . the subtitle to the second volume of The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is "Squirrel You Know It's True."

 

ETA: Remember when I couldn't recommend Empowered? Now it's been serialized online. For free.

[Morrigan2575]

Marvel really screwed me up post Secret Wars. I start out with

Uncanny X-Men

Extraordinary X-Men

Uncanny InHumans

Uncanny Avengers

Hawkeye

Deadpool

Plus my Star Wars Titles

Star Wars

Darth Vader

I dropped Uncanny X-Men because Scott Summer/Cyclops was killed in Secret Wars and he was the biggest draw for me.

I dropped Extraordinary X-Men because Lemire (who is great) brought Jean Summer back to life (or secret wars did it) but, I hate her so can't read it.

I dropped Deadpool and Uncanny Avengers because they weren't good, IMO.

Current titles

Star Wars

Deadpool and Spiderman

Uncanny InHumans (great read)

Hawkeye (fantastic)

[starri]

I dropped Uncanny X-Men because Scott Summer/Cyclops was killed in Secret Wars and he was the biggest draw for me.

I dropped Extraordinary X-Men because Lemire (who is great) brought Jean Summer back to life (or secret wars did it) but, I hate her so can't read it.

It's the O5 version of Jean.  I don't know if that's a plus or a minus, although I can't stand her either.

[Morrigan2575]

It's the O5 version of Jean. I don't know if that's a plus or a minus, although I can't stand her either.

I only read the one issue with Jean wanting to go to college, wasn't really sure what version of Jean that was. Is that the Teen Jean that Hank time jumped because he's an idiot?

[starri]

I only read the one issue with Jean wanting to go to college, wasn't really sure what version of Jean that was. Is that the Teen Jean that Hank time jumped because he's an idiot?

That's the one.  I believe the rest of the O5 are all in the new volume of All-New X-Men, but Jean wanted to try life away from the X-Men for a change.  You see how long that lasted.

 

As far as Cyclops goes, there's a...development...about that in the most recent issue.

[Morrigan2575]

That's the one. I believe the rest of the O5 are all in the new volume of All-New X-Men, but Jean wanted to try life away from the X-Men for a change. You see how long that lasted.

As far as Cyclops goes, there's a...development...about that in the most recent issue.

Tease! Spoil me :)

I read the Battle of the Atom crossover which featured Teen Jean and Adult "Teen" Jean from the future. That was enough Jean Grey to last a lifetime.

[starri]

The primary antagonist of Lemire's first arc seems like it's going to be Mister Sinister, who is, like Beast, working on a way to reverse the sterilization from the Terrigen Cloud.  However, as is his wont, he's doing it by less than ethical means, which includes seemingly resurrecting Scott.

[Morrigan2575]

One thing you can always count on, Mr. Sinister being obsessed with Scott Summer genes. If he brings Madelyne Pryor back, I'm all in. I've never been able to reason why but for as much as I hate Jean, I love Madelyne.

[Bruinsfan]

I'm reading Alan Moore's Providence, a homage/tour of HP Lovecraft's horror stories. The latest issue has an extremely disturbing rape scene that echoes tropes appearing in several of Moore's recent series, but it is a horror story and achieves the intended effect of appalling the reader.

[Perfect Xero]

I'd given up reading comics for a few years but a friend got me to start reading again. For the first time in my life, my favorite comic is Doctor Strange. I'm also enjoying the Vader Down Star Wars stuff.

 

All the stuff with the X-Men and the Inhumans is confusing the heck out of me.

[Lantern7]

Bumping up because the collected edition of The Eltingville Club will be released this week. Like Milk & Cheese and Beasts Of Burden, it's high up on Evan Dorkin's resume. It's about four outcasts who more or less hate each other, and the stories usually end in an ugly manner . . . especially in the last story, where they destroy Comic-Con. It's worth a look. 

[Gulftastic]

DC have tested my life long loyalty over the last few years. When the new 52 kicked off, I was reading Batwoman (till they ruined it, then cancelled it) World's Finest (till they ruined it, then cancelled it), Legion Of Superheroes (till they cancelled it), JL Dark (till they cancelled it) and Supergirl (till they cancelled it). I will not read any of the 'big' names, as I have neither the time nor money to get dragged into the inevitable crossover events. The only DC I read now are Justice League 3001, Earth 2 Society and Bombshells.

 

Now, for the first time in my life, I read more from other publishers than I do DC. Buffy, Angel & Faith, Huck, Saga, Mercury Red, Jupiter's Circle, Lazarus, Miracleman, Black Magick.

[Lantern7]

I keep getting trade paperbacks and graphic novels from the library. I've read the first four volumes of The New Teen Titans from Marv Wolfman and George Perez. Nice energy for early Eighties storytelling. I also got the third  NTT omnibus, currently paused before the wedding of Donna Troy and Terry Long . . . which seems squicky in retrospect.

[starri]

Midnighter is really good.

 

I was a fan of JL Dark as well, until they ruined and then canceled it.  I was somewhat mollified by Gotham By Midnight...until they canceled it.

[Bruinsfan]

Midnighter, Grayson, and Bryan Hitch's JLA give me brief pangs of regret over my non-Gaiman-affiliated DC embargo. But I have to admit, despite my disdain for Hickman's storytelling, Marvel appears to really be making their line-wide reboot count with lots of fresh new takes on characters and a surge of creative energy I haven't seen the like of in decades. It's like someone took note of all the ways DC's increasingly frequent reboots don't work and figured out how to do the opposite.

Edited February 12, 2016 by Bruinsfan

[Morrigan2575]

Just read Fabian Nicieza's min-series Deadpool and Cable, it's only 3 issues but funny as hell. Very good read, if you're OK with time travel stories.

[Dandesun]

You have to be okay with time travel stories if you're reading anything involving Cable.

[Morrigan2575]

Oh, I agree and I'm perfectly fine with it. I was just giving people a heads up since the story is quite timey wimey.

[Dandesun]

Oh, I agree and I'm perfectly fine with it. I was just giving people a heads up since the story is quite timey wimey.

 

Ha! The most recent issue of All New Avengers invoked 'timey wimey' as well. I mean, it's also an expectation of anything involving Kang but there you go.

[Lantern7]

I finally got to writing about The Eltingville Club, which I got a few weeks ago. I threw in the Welcome To Eltingville pilot. It's worth a look, but I'm pretty biased.

[starri]

If you'd told me a year ago I would regularly be reading and enjoying Archie, I would have asked you to pass me whatever you were smoking.

 

Ditto Doctor Strange and a comic starring a cheesecake pinup who started in Spawn and then got Publisher Reassignment Surgery and fell in love with a transgender fallen angel.

[Lantern7]

Found this coming out next week . . . World's Funnest collection from DC Comics. There are short stories collected, but the main content is the one-shot written by Evan Dorkin where Bat-Mite and Mr. Mxyzptlk destroy the multiverse. Ton of artists involved in that one, including a scene from The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller (before DK2), and another set in Kingdom Come by Alex Ross. 

[DisneyBoy]

Did anyone check out Free Comic Book Day this year?

I picked up some great funny books... Bob's Burgers and Pink Panther. Make that Pan-Thor! They did a cute riff on that and it took me back to the TV cartoons and all their silent visual comedy.

I usually try and get something from DC but I've been frustrated by all the changes and frankly saw nothing on offer worth checking out.

[Lantern7]

I think the DCU offering was a reprint of the first issue of the new52 Suicide Squad. I didn't get their kids' book like I usually do.

I wound up getting ten issues from two shops. Evan Dorkin had material in the Bongo entry (a two-page reprint), a story in SpongeBob Squarepants drawn by Ramona Fradon, and a "gag page" for Attack On Titan Anthology. Nice stuff all around.

[Lantern7]

From the Department of Fuck It, Somebody Demanded It: Garth Ennis to write Six-Pack/Dog Welder miniseries. I read Section Eight, and I think that was enough in general.

[Fukui San]

I was browsing in a comic shop looking for something to get and did the judging books by their cover thing to choose. Wound up getting the first TPB of Locke & Key, and oh man is that one creepy comic book.  To spoil as little as possible, a normal seeming family interacts with the supernatural and every three or four pages there's some new creepy and horrorful thing happening.  I'm going to purposely avoid reading anything else about this series so as not to spoil myself on future developments. I think it's on TPB 4 or 5 by now. Recommended if you like this sort of thing.

[starri]

Locke and Key is a fantastic series.  There are six trades, which is a total of 37 regular issues and two one-shots.

[Lantern7]

Picked up Future Quest with a blank cover because I am weak. I might be in for the whole thing. I'm not a child of the Sixties, but I watched a lot of Cartoon Network before they started broadcasting new material. Fun to try and unify all the Hanna Barbera properties, and add to the mythos. For instance: who is Ty supposed to be? And who's the woman with the Impossibles on the cover? As for the blank, I'm not sure which character(s) I'd want sketched. Jonny Quest and Bandit? Space Ghost and Blip? Or maybe I can use my mediocre skills to draw Gloop and Gleep.

[MeloraH]

A little while ago Barnes and Noble had an Image buy 2 get 1 free sale and I'm currently halfway though my haul. Sex Criminals Vol. 2 I loved even more than the first one. The Wicked and The Divine Vol. 1 was pretty good. The characters weren't as developed as I'd like but the artwork was beautiful and I really love the concept. Finally, Southern Cross Vol. 1; it started out really interesting, dragged a little in the middle and then I really loved the end.

[PatternRec]

I just finished a second run of Locke and Key in its entirety. Read better the second time around. The art style I think distracted me from some of the writing on first read.

I'm now reading Letter 44 since Glark mentioned it. Just got to volume 2 now. 

Out of curiosity, has anyone here ever read any Paul Pope? Letter 44 uses a very similar art style to Pope's and Pope's writing always had sci-fi elements in it. Seems like he was a big influence on this series. 

[Lantern7]

I didn't really browse my shop last week. How was Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy #1? I picked up trade paperbacks of both. While I don't know how the story would work, it seems so natural.

[millennium]

On 11/18/2015 at 8:04 PM, starri said:

Lovecraft would no doubt be thrilled by that.

LOL.   But you know the official party line -- Lovecraft wasn't really a racist, he just couldn't deal with the changes new immigrant populations were wreaking upon the old streets and homes of his beloved Providence.

Anyway, is there anything Moore doesn't put his thumbprint on?  

[starri]

13 hours ago, millennium said:

Anyway, is there anything Moore doesn't put his thumbprint on?  

Original characters?

[millennium]

1 hour ago, starri said:

Original characters?

Has he created any?   Every time I've crossed paths with him, he's screwing with Batman, or Swamp Thing or name a favorite character of mine.  

Edited June 18, 2016 by millennium

[starri]

2 hours ago, millennium said:

Has he created any?   Every time I've crossed paths with him, he's screwing with Batman, or Swamp Thing or name a favorite character of mine.  

A lot of his work for Wildstorm (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen being the exception), were fairly original and not just deconstructions of other characters.

And V for Vendetta, of course.

[millennium]

Anyone familiar with Batman '66?

I'm wondering if the series is worth the cost and effort of buying back issues.  I know the back issues have been collected into digest format but it's just not the same as the originals.

[Lantern7]

I download Comixology to my iPad. Is there anything I should seek out right away? I mainly did it for the DC Comics/KFC special, which is pretty good.

[Morrigan2575]

Anyone reading the Star Wars Han Solo series?  I just noticed it's selling like Hot Cakes.

[PatternRec]

56 minutes ago, Morrigan2575 said:

Anyone reading the Star Wars Han Solo series?  I just noticed it's selling like Hot Cakes.

I haven't read it but I'm loving the coincidence that I came here to post how awesome The Wicked + The Divine is: I'm four issues in and in the third issue a character named The Morrigan has a huge significance.

On 7/11/2016 at 6:40 AM, Lantern7 said:

I download Comixology to my iPad. Is there anything I should seek out right away? I mainly did it for the DC Comics/KFC special, which is pretty good.

The Wicked + The Divine is really good so far. Also, Glark recommended Letter 44 and I've read the first three TPBs and it's also good. 

Letter 44 is sci-fi. The Wicked + The Divine is modern fantasy with a heavy music influence (think Gods who all look like David Bowie).