The Comic Book Thread

Fables, a series by Bill Willingham published by Vertigo (a DC Comics imprint) comes highly recommended.

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I'm liking the geopolitic shtick of "Checkmate" v2, but be warned that it does require some prior knowledge of the Infinite Crisis variety.

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Meh. I don't really understand what's happening at Final Crisis, much less DC's love for anything with Crisis on it. I'm following Secret Invasion, but am not too pumped. We know the baddies are going to be defeated in the end.

There are three titles I'm anticipating nowadays - Green Lantern, Green Lantern Corps, and Incredible Hercules. The first two kicked into high gear with the Sinestro War, and the lead-up to Blackest Night in 2010 gave the series a streamlined focus. Some people may disdain the idea of the Rainbow Lantern Corps, but I kinda like it, torturous grade-school science notwithstanding

Incredible Hulk Hercules got so much better after they removed Hulk from it. Though, I can't say I'm liking the way they're ridiculing Amadeus Cho nowadays as Herc's boytoy...

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Basically, the Green Lantern Corps have won a victory against Sinestro's Yellow Lantern Corps, but there's an even bigger war on the horizon. Red, orange, blue, indigo, and violet lantern corps are going to emerge, have a battle royale, and fight against the black lanterns (dead people), powered by the Anti-Monitor's Corps.

Everything on GL and GLC now is leading up to this, including the 7-part retelling of Hal's origin story. So far, they have introduced the Red Lanterns (based on anger), the Violet Lanterns aka Star Sapphires (based on love), and the Blue Lanterns (based on hope, and powered by Ganthet.) We may see some dead DCU characters join the Black Lanterns, possibly including:

Spoiler:

Connor Kent

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Originally Posted by Denicalis

Temari, I have to ask. Why do you read so many godawful titles?

Originally Posted by Zip

Forget titles, start with why you read Fathom ?

I myself personally confine myself to the "Big 2" publishers, plus a few guilty pleasures with Fables, The Authority, Grimm's Fairy Tales, and Star Wars Comics.

However, I think invoking the maxim "To each his own" might be appropriate in this case.

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Originally Posted by Vemp

Also, if you ever get to find Green Lanter Corps: Recharge, go read it. It's awesome, and it kinda made me want to read all my Green Lantern Corps backlog issues.

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Green Lantern series has been great, better than any other DC series right now. Though I must say I'm not a fan of the recent artwork in the Green Lantern Corps title. Pretty good how the series is moving along - the Sinestro War cross-over gave it a pretty good head of steam.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Yeah, the Amazing Spider-Man series is pretty good - a large improvement from what they had before, certainly. Most people will disparage the Deus ex Machina used to undo the marriage, but "Brand New Day" has certainly been a breath of fresh air. By all means you can jump in after the Mephisto story, so get Amazing-Spider Man #546 and onwards.

Outside of the big two, I dig Fables a lot. It's certainly not short by any stretch of the imagination (over 75 issues and counting), but the status quo has recently changed, and now would be a good time as any to jump in. (Still, I recommend you pick up the back issues for background).

Superhero-wise, I like the X-Men Legacy title, since it changed titles from Adjectiveless X-Men (the revamped series proper started from issue 208, and though you will benefit from reading "Messiah Complex", it is not required.

Ditto the Incredible Hercules. Don't let the high issue count fool you, the title's basically started at "Incredible Hercules #113" been out for a little less than a year, since the last issue is #123. Again, some context from "World War Hulk" and "Secret Invasion" will benefit, but it is not necessary.

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If you were to officially request copies, I am sure we'll be able to hook you up with some ... digital samples. If you are not inclined to these digital samples, it shouldn't be too difficult to snag back-issues of "Brand New Day", since the storyline (ASM 546) has started in January 2008.

Have you given Planetary a try? It's an interesting take on the concept of superheroes.

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DC Elseworlds (COMPLETE) Batman, Superman, JLA and the DCU Torrent - btjunkie

Here are the titles I have ascertained based on your summaries:

1. The Super-Seven
Part 1: Adventures of Superman Annual #6
Part 2: Superboy Annual #1

2. JLA: Act of God

3. JLA: Created Equal

Source: List of Elseworlds publications - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Meh, don't like it much. If you like Captain America and Thor, I guess you'll like it (since the enemies are their villains). To be fair it WAS a Cap/Thor crossover before Marvel blew the scope up.

Can't say I'm digging any of the present storylines in comics these days. The ones I look forward to the most are:

1. Brightest Day
2. War of the Green Lanterns (GL Books)
3. Cinderella: Fables are Forever
4. ps238
5. Age of X, I guess? Though not too much!

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