Exact same thing happened to me. When I heard about saga I thought if this is half as good as Brian K Vaughans Runaways then I'm going to love this, read it then I'm wondering what have I missed in Comics the last couple of years. I've got a little stack of reading from the Library to get through now. I will likely purchase copies of what I really enjoy. Battling Boy Boxers & Saints Batman: Court of Owls Wonder Woman: Blood Chew Vol 1 Anyone else have any recommendations?
libraries are awesome! i'm on volume 8 of the walking dead. just finished volume 3 of saga the new 52 wonder woman is fan freaking tastic. read up to volume 4. all this from my library!!!
Kind of in the department of the obvious/uncool, but I've been re-reading the 80's run of Claremont's Uncanny X-Men. It's been largely transportative, mostly because of nostalgia I guess, but if you have the collections at your libraries do check them out.
Finally got round to reading Battling Boy the other day. I liked it a lot . . . its definitely up-there with the best Paul Pope i've read. I would of preferred it in a larger format though, it annoys me how publishers shrink comics down. They do it it with most European translations and it always annoys me . . . i suppose its a financial decision or something. I think this prequel is coming out next . . . .
Here are my favorites-some long out of print, some still cranking. Maybe this thread is more for current comics, but I don't give a shit. Usagi Yojimbo-still going Cerebus the Aardvark-Old indie comic long out of print, the first four or five TPBs or so are gold. It goes down hill later in the series. The Goon-still going. Outstanding horror comic, great storytelling, fantastic artwork, lots of black humor. Flaming Carrot-best damn comic book ever! America's one and only surrealist crime fighting vigilante! Only around 30 issues were ever made, but they provide enough weirdness to keep you occupied for a long time.
I read mostly old-time comics like Krazy Kat, Little Nema, Pogo and Popeye. I just ordered a collection of Carl Barks' Donald Duck comics which should be interesting, ann a Fantastic Four collection which is completely out of the blue for me.
Yeah, that is always great fun and well worth your time. I have a lot of that stuff too! Krazy Kat is incredible. I also love those huge Popeye books Fantagraphics published with the die-cut covers . . . i'm slowly working my way through them.
I bought two volumes from the FB's Barks series: they look and read great, and are great value for money. ...Only I don't find myself rereading them at all. I try, and it just doesn't happen. But maybe that's just me.
Krazy's probably my favorite syndicated strip of all. Really magnificent. I'm about halfway through the fourth die-cut Popeye book. Great stuff. Actually funny! Oh, cool. Thanks for that, cause I really wasn't sure what I was getting into.. the kinda look like kid's stuff, you know. But then again they come highly recommended by Crumb. So good to hear people still read the classics!
Picked up this massive hardcover at SDCC and just finished it. Epic. A ton of content, and worth every penny.
Wow the last time i bought comics on the regular the first volume (league of extraordinary gentlemen) was still running
The main characters are Mina, Quartermain,A.J. Raffles, Orlando, and Thomas Carnacki. As usual in an Alan Moore book, the plot is complex and difficult to describe so.....here's the synopsis : The nineteenth century, expiring with a flourish of Moriarty and Martians, has left the division of Military Intelligence commanded by Mina Murray in a state of disrepair. While she and her lover Allan Quatermain have achieved a measure of eternal youth, recruiting new talents such as the trans-gendered immortal Orlando, the ghost-finder Thomas Carnacki, and the gentleman thief A.J. Raffles to replace their deceased or missing colleagues, former associate Captain Nemo has retired to his Pacific pirate island to decline in surly isolation. Now it is the early years of a new and unfamiliar century, and forces are emerging that appear to promise ruin for the Murray group, the nation, and, indeed, the world, even were it to take a hundred years for this apocalyptic threat to come to its disastrous fruition. From the occult parlours and crime-haunted wharfs of 1910, through the criminal, mystical, and psychedelic underworlds of 1969 to the financially and culturally desolated streets of 2009, the disintegrating remnants of Miss Murray and her League must combat not only the hidden hand of their undying adversary, but also the ethical and psychological collapse accompanying this new era. And a lot of things can happen in a CENTURY
Not that I am a big player in comics, as I just buy stuff to read and enjoy, but this is a pretty great auction. Seems the latest session has Bob Kane's own library copies of Detective Comics/Batman, in addition to the first issue of Hulk with that classic Kirby art. http://www.comicconnect.com/auctions.php I would definitely love to be able to just hold some of these in hand to be able to check out the artwork in person. Excellent stuff. One of my personal favourites that really speaks to me and the comics I love,
Hulk 181.... Been trying to track one down at a reasonable price. Back in college I almost bought one with the cover completely missing just to have it in my collection.
^ Hahaha, I hear ya. I have an X-men #2 sans cover I picked up randomly years ago at a yard sale. Probably the most 'valuable' worthless comic I own.
Been reading East of West Saga Trees Magneto Batman/Superman Nowhere Men Prophet (not the '90s Prophet, but the 2012 rework) Adventure Time As well as quite a few others.
^ Sex Criminals is pretty good! I just finished #6. Image comics has been releasing some really great stuff in the past couple of years! And they just seems to keep getting better and better!
It's crazy what this is going for. In my opinion something like this should be in a museum. Action Comics #1 http://www.ebay.com/itm/311050328393
Awesome! I would love to have that in my uncanny collection. Ive been working on my uncannycollection since i was in elementary school. Have pretty much all of the two hundreds but as I get lower into the 150s and lower its getting harder!
Read Snowpiercer Vol. 1. Pretty solid dystopian future comics, rather different from the movie, actually. Recommended. Re-read Wonton Soup by James Stokoe. Before he showed the comics reading scene what a truly INSANE Godzilla comic can look like (Half-Century War), he did an offbeat comedy about two space junkies out for the universe's best grub. Pretty good, and a bit fat book of it has recently been printed by Oni.
I love Won-Ton soup!!! Orc stain was fun too, but Half Century War is fucking incredible! I have been going through a weird 2000 ad and chaos comics kick lately. Nothing but Evil Ernie and Judge Dredd... I'm a bad person I know. Also thanks for the run down on that league book Bitterpill. I love that Alan Moore talked shit about people going back to the well and using his characters for Before Watchmen but he's been doing these league books for awhile and thinks it's not the same thing. Or his fairy tale girl erotica for that matter.
I've been tearing through the black and white Judge Dredd 'complete collections' as of late. A lot of content at a decent price....feels a bit like you're reading Brit manga
