Comic books

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

I would recommend paging through Douglas Wolk's Reading Comics and going off his recommendations.  

I'm currently enjoying collections of:

Queen & Country
Whiteout
Black Hole
Epileptic
Alias
Little Lulu
Tomb of Dracula

[Cotton]

Queen & Country is one of my favorite books ever written.

If you ever get the chance, check out The Sandbaggers, a British TV show that Rucka more or less based the series on.

[Hugman 3.0]

I'm reading Black Hole right now and loving it.  Yesterday I also posed for a cover for one of the Marvel books of The Stand. I'll be the greaser/homoerotic rapist dude.

[pete]

MAN.  are you ever gonna get out of that typecasting?

[Hugman 3.0]

MAN.  are you ever gonna get out of that typecasting?

I know!

[kevin_]

Recent stuff I've enjoyed:

Grant Morrison's Batman and Robin. New readers definitely need context but I'm enjoying the new duo's dynamic.
Sean Murphy's art on Joe the Barbarian. (Link 1, Link 2)
Brian K Vaughan's Ex Machina is picking up in the home stretch.
The final issue of Warren Ellis' Planetary.

Other stuff I've recently reread and continue to love:

Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers. Seven intertwined 4-issue shorts. Genre hopping and amazing.
Warren Ellis' Nextwave. Cheeky.
Garth Ennis' cartoonishly violent run on Punisher.
Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Library #16-#19. Introspective and sad.
Adrian Tomine's Optic Nerve. Awkward and poignant.
First arc of Northlanders. Vikings!
Last year I bought my sister the coffee table book of Fables cover art by James Jean. It's wonderful.

I look like a total DC fanboy but I'm a Marvel kid, honest. Bendis' Daredevil/Alias and Millar's Ultimates are in my hall of fame.

[Christina]

Recent stuff I've enjoyed:


I look like a total DC fanboy but I'm a Marvel kid, honest. Bendis' Daredevil/Alias and Millar's Ultimates are in my hall of fame.

This is awesome ... I'm reading a lot of DC/Vertigo stuff right now (Starting Y this weekend). I had no idea about all the GD Batman timelines.

What do people think about Jim Lee and Dan Didio now being publishers @ DC?

[Hugman 3.0]

I played poker the other night with Joe Matt (Peepshow, Spent, etc). I haven't read his books, but I intend to check them out. Nice dude, though. Also a Best Show fan and friend of Listener T.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Joe Matt is brilliant, but you might not like him as much after you read his comics.

[Hugman 3.0]

Joe Matt is brilliant, but you might not like him as much after you read his comics.

Yea, he told me what they were about. 

[ben]

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I look like a total DC fanboy but I'm a Marvel kid, honest. Bendis' Daredevil/Alias and Millar's Ultimates are in my hall of fame.
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The first two series of Millar's Ultimates I really like.  Volume three i hated, and Jeph Loeb did it, who I thought I liked more than Millar (I checked out Wanted from the library and thought it was mean spirited and not fun at all).  The whole Ultimatum thing i disliked in general, even though I bought most of it.  

I like the new Bendis Spiderwoman a whole lot, but it seems like people within Marvel are having a lot of trouble keeping things straight.  Yelena Belova shows up in that one as the team leader of the Thunderbolts, but she was only shown once in that series, in cryogenesis or something.  That has really gone down hill as well. Is Songbird coming back?

And I'll buy anything that has Brian K Vaughan's name on it.  Joss Whedon didn't totally ruin Runaways when he did the 19th century time line thing, but the guy after it certainly did.  I love that series, and Y.  Ex Machina I have just started getting into.

[kevin_]

I too love the candor of Joe Matt comics.

I think I may have ruined Bendis for myself by watching one of those motion comics for Spider-woman. People keep telling me it's good, but all I hear in my head when I read it is the dialogue/monologues read out loud by horrible actors.

A long time ago someone recommended to me this comic Fleep. Reading this thread made me want to reread it but it's at my mom's house. I googled it, however, and apparently it's online for free at the creator's website. Kinda small print but it's a fascinating tale about Russia, math and drinking urine that takes place entirely in one small room. Check it out. He also created a library-cop procedural called Bookhunter that is enjoyable but isn't as cerebral.

[wood and iron]

Does anyone read Millar's Kick-Ass? The fanboy community has not stopped writhing in ecstasy over it and the upcoming movie makes them even more frantic in their praise. I'm wondering if it's worth checking out.

To me, the comic appears like it's trying too hard to be edgy and offbeat and the movie trailers look the same (ooh look, a young girl killing people!). Plus, I forget where, I read an article that said that almost all the bad guys in the comic are of color and there's a weird hint of racism in it.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

I stuck with Mark Millar during and right after his Grant Morrison collaborations, but somewhere in between Authority and Ultimates I kinda started to loathe everything he did.

[Cotton]

Ben, I think the art in the Spiderwoman series is amazing. I'm not sure I've ever seen Maleev color his own work, but the palette is spectacular. It bothers me that this whole thing is happening 15 months after it should've though. Marvel keeps dropping the ball with this stuff (Seige, Cap's return, Sentry's upcoming downfall at the hands of a kid) and it makes me wonder what the hell they're thinking. I guess DC has done it a bit, too, but Marvel really sticks out there.


I am one of the few that enjoyed Civil War and I enjoyed his run on the Authority, but for the most part, Millar misses with me. Oh, and the Old Man Logan thing was great up until the end. I started Kick Ass, but only got about 5 issues into it. Neat idea, just not really for me.