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ALL RIGHT! A COMICS THREAD!

Invincible is pretty fun! (Although I've stopped on issue 30-ish)

Right now I'm enjoying the current run of Batman (Scott Snyder & Greg Capullo). I would like to recommend this to folks who want to get into Batman. Right now, they're on the 3rd story arc (the return of Joker), but I suggest you start from the first issue (where they introduce a new type of evil in Gotham) because it's really good.

I recently saw Dark Knight Returns, and that made me want to check Knightfall and No Man's Land.


Hey Furby, have you read Avengers VS. X-Men yet?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I'll definitely pick up Invincible again. There's a lot of stuff that's happened and I'm want to catch up on the story.

AvX is ok, it's really a big recommendation (since it's 12 issues long). It's basically Avengers fighting the X-men and trying to save the world from the Phoenix. It has it's good and bad moments. I personally would have skipped it because the art duties were divided into several artists.

If you're into military fiction, I recommend The Activity (from Image), written by Nathan Edmonson and art by Mitch Gerads. It's about a secret special ops unit and every issue happens is a different mission and on a different country. Very fast paced and action packed stories, so if you're into that kind of thing I highly recommend this book.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Today Hellboy in Hell #1 comes out! Is anyone else excited? I know I am! I'm pretty biased, but this is one hell of a book! (pun intended)

Also, Avengers #1 by Hickman & Opena is out, which features a new storyline and lineup! Can you recognize who the other members are? Honestly, I don't know the other 4 or 5, but it's still a fun book (not as good as Hellboy though, heh)

All New X-Men #4 is out too from Bendis & Immonen (man, his art is amaaazing). Here we have post AvX Cyclops starting a "revolution". A wonderfully drawn book, and very good characterization by Bendis.

What are you picking up this week?

How ya doing, buddy?

Another Image book that I will recommend is Who Is Jake Ellis by Nathan Edmonson and Tonci Zonjic. It's a fast-paced spy thriller with a very interesting twist. There is a trade out, so you can read it in it's entirety.



The first issue of the 2nd volume, Where is Jake Ellis, was released a few weeks back. It continues here it left off from "Who".

If you liked The Activity, you will probably enjoy this too!

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by LeHah

Skip both of these and find a copy of Son Of The Demon or The Long Halloween.

(Knightfall was especially bad.)

I already read those though ;p I heard Knightfall was really bad, that's why I haven't touched it for the longest time.

Can you recommend any good books that shows the Batman/Bane relationship? I have to admit, I don't really know anything about Bane (aside of the back-breaking thing, and the not so recent Secret Six).

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by LeHah

I don't think one exists. Bane is the most 1990s comic character made. But, yeah, if you needed to know about Bane, I guess Knightfall is it.

Thanks for clarifying things! I haven't really read that much stuff in the 90's so I'm kind of "catching up" on things.

Originally Posted by Temari

I've been kinda curious about other people's thoughts, and now that its been over a year (enough time to try out the series, at least), what's everyone's opinions about the 'New 52'?

New 52 was good when it started, but after a year it kinda lost steam. For me, that is. These days I only read Batman (the main book), I still like Green Lantern and GL Corps, but I'm behind a few issues, I stopped BoP just after Travel Foreman's run, I really liked Animal Man and Swamp thing but I lost interest when "Rotworld" happened, Wonder Woman and Batwoman are still good but is slowly losing it's grip. Overall, I think the 52 craze is slowly dying and Marvel's NOW initiative is getting a lot of people's attention. Specially with the new books with re-shuffled creative teams coming out, a lot of fans are getting interested. Currently, I'm enjoying All New X-Men (Bendis+Immonen), and the recently released Avengers (Hickman+Opena).

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Oh yeah, Bendis is good, although his Avengers run towards the end was a bit disappointing. But now, he's handling All New X-Men, and I must say he's doing a very very good job and it's now one of my favorite books!

For those reading Ed Brubaker's Fatale, what do you guys think of it? I kind of lost interest after the 4th issue, maybe I was expecting it to be another Criminal and approached it the wrong way. I might give it a second chance after I sort out my "to-read" list.

FELIPE NO

Haha yeah, I actually wanted to try My Little Pony just for laughs, but I never got the time to check it out. It's probably too colorful.

The preorder numbers of #1 is pretty surprising, considering that it's not a big title comic book. If it will become a tool of entry for early adopters of comics, I'm all for it. But personally, I'm not that interested.

Speaking of all ages comics, I can recommend Adventure Time (which I really like but haven't seen the cartoons) and also Snarked.

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How ya doing, buddy?