The Comic Book Thread

Hey, comics! Howcome nobody mentioned DAREDEVIL?! Anyways, for Marvel, aside from the usual X-books (astonising, ultimate, uncanny, x-men) and Avengers stuff, I also enjoy Daredevil, Captain America, Iron Fist (hells yeah!), Hulk, Punisher MAX, and the new Iron Man looks good. DC is a bit confusing, but I'm reading Batman and Supes stuff, Wonder Woman, JLA, Green Lanter, and 52/Countdown just to get the DC feeling, the other titles are confusing sometimes.

Outside of DC/Marvel, I LOVE Hellboy/BPRD! Get that. Also, get Powers and Fell.

EDIT: Silver Surfer - Requiem is sweet.

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After all the hype and waiting, I was thinking Ultimates v3 will be worth it.

I was right. It sucks.

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I noticed this thread has been dead for almost a year now, and being a big community, I'm pretty sure I'm not the only comics fan in here. So I'm going to attempt to revive this thread and continue this awesome thread back to how it was before.

So anyways, lets talk about Secret Invasion. Since it's a very hot topic within the comic book community, I would like to hear your opinions about this event. Don't worry DC fans, we'll eventually get to Final Crisis :P.

Personally, I like how everything's unfolding in SI. Bendis is doing a so far a good job in connecting all the dots, with events spanning back from Secret War up to Civil War. What I'm really waiting for is what will Nick Fury do now that he has his own "team" and he's back in action, and what will actually happen to the Marvel U after the war.

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Speaking of nerds. Me and some friends are doing a comics review podcast of comics released every week. We're on our 6th episode, and you can find them here: Tres Komikeros

And you guys should check out the Watchmen motion comic. Chapter 1 is out on the internets. It's good for those who are too lazy to read the comic.

I was speaking idiomatically.

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I heard Black Summer is awesome (it's written by Warren Ellis, so I guess it's awesome). I haven't read it yet, but I've been hearing a lot of good things about it. If it's from Avatar, I'm guessing it contains a lot of violence.

Iron Man's a pretty solid book, especially volume 4. My favorite arcs are the Extremis (Iron Man v4 #1-6) and the Haunted (Iron Man v4 #21-28), aside from that Iron Man - Enter the Mandarin is pretty sweet too. I don't know of any older Iron Man series, but maybe some of the nerds here can help.

I'd be happy to give you recommendations if you like (depends on what kind of stuff you read).

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I'm not a big DC fan, but I'm enjoying a few books from them, namely Final Crisis, Batman (hell yeah Morrison!), Detective Comics (Dini + Nguyen), Secret Six, Action Comics, and Jonah Hex. There maybe some other stuff that I read, but these titles are my mainstay DC books.

Props to Temari for mentioning No Hero. Ellis has some crazy ideas for books, and I hope he'll continue Desolation Jones

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Haven't been following the Green Lantern books, but I heard good stuff about it. Specially now they're doing a secret origin thing on the main book. I dunno about the Corps, what's going on with them anyway?

The way they're doing Herc right now is great. Herc's a lot of fun to read, and it's opposite to the whole war theme that's going on at the Marvel U. Plus, the art's good to the eyes, compared to Punisher War Journal.. ugh. The writing's good (Fraction/Remender), but I can't stand the current art style of Howard Chaykin.

The world needs more Hellboy.

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Anyone else reading Ghost Rider? I'm a big fan of Jason Aaron's writing, it's just that this book feels like every issue is a preview of some "big thing" waiting to happen. It's been like this for the past, what, 6 issues? You read through it and it's like "NEXT ISSUE SOMETHING BIG IS GONNA HAPPEN", so you read the next issue and it's still "NEXT ISSUE SOMETHING BIG IS GONNA HAPPEN". I dunno, maybe I'm getting tired of it, but I hope if it ever gets to the "big showdown" it's not going to be disappointing.

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My friends have this weekly comics review podcast thing, and now we're on our 10th episode. Check it out if you have time:

Episode 10 Tres Komikeros

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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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I recommend Detective Comics, because Paul Dini and Dustin Nguyen are doing an awesome run. Action Comics too, if you like Superman stories. If you can get All Star Superman, go get it, it's nothing short of amazing. Like what rotor said, get Ultimate Spider-Man, it's constantly good. And the Amazing Spider-Man series is good too, even if a lot of people didn't like the Brand New Day thing, I think stories after that are pretty good (and it's out 3 times a month!). I'm also enjoying Fantastic Four by Millar and Hitch, Daredevil & Captain America for superhero books with a little serious tone, and if you like crime/noir, try Criminal by Brubaker and Philips because it's the best crime/noir book out there.

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Originally Posted by Zip

I still like Loeb though :lol:

Loeb's been sucking for the past few years. He writes with the same fucking formula every fucking time. Sure, he did some good Batman stuff (Catwoman: When in Rome is also passable). But like what rotor said, it's all downhill after that. His Hush only sold because Jim Lee was drawing it. Ultimates 3 sucked, Ultimate Power sucked, Onslaught Reborn sucked, he got kicked out of Heroes, I mean he can write, but he should write better stuff than the crap he's putting out lately. I haven't really met anyone who likes Loeb. Aside from Zip.

As for BND, I can't see why people are hating it. Sure it was a "lame" attempt to reboot Spidey, but the main point was to make the character last longer and to give future creators options on where they'll take Spidey. I guess this discussion's been all over the internet, and I'm not forcing people to like (or not like) BND and post-BND Spidey, but I guess people should try to lighten up and try to read the new stories and then if they don't like it, then they don't like it. Ultimate Spider-Man is great though. Solid.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Joker's Asylum had pretty good issues (like the Penguin issue), some were a bit bad. I wonder why they stopped it. The latest Joker book (by Azarrelo and Bermejo) was ok. It was sort of like the Joker in the Dark Knight movie, and everything was given a "real world" concept. It started pretty good, but as a whole it kinda lacked the "oomph" I was expecting. Maybe because it was told through another character's point of view, an introduced character with no significance at all in the Batman mythos, during and after the story. I think that's the book's downfall.

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Me and my boys just did our reviews for this week's comics. We talk about Robin #180, Deadpool #4, and Amazing Spider-Man #578. Along with that, we rate some books we read on our own, and vote on random pop-culture news bits.

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Hope you guys like it.

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Man, I need to read more of JLA. The stuff they're putting out these days aren't that good, so I tend to shy away from them. The last good JLA story I read was "Tower of Babel".

Anyway, is anyone reading Fear Itself? What do you think of the first issue?

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