Comics You Will Never Get Rid Of

[Mike Desert]

bernie wrightson

nuff said

[JeffertonFromTX]

The cover of #7 is one of my all time favorites.

[Dip Apesworth]

I'd like to stump for all of Swamp Thing.

OKAY. I have loved all sorts of incarnations of Swampy throughout my entire comic reading life, BUT I hadn't met anyone else who had read the recent Snyder/Soule run on it, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite runs throughout the title's history. I love that Snyder returned it to the balls out horror roots of it and Soule just started throwing stuff at the wall in terms of Swamp Thing's lore. It is really, really solid stuff. Plus, it also doesn't hurt that those first issues with Yanick Paquette had some of the most gorgeous panel layouts I've ever seen.

Did you read Lemire's Animal Man that came out at the same time? It was also really terrific.

Swamp Thing was probably the best series to come out of New 52. The expansion of the mythos, horror themes, even the reintroduction of Moore's blue alien plant Swamp Thing, all of these were neat and well-crafted.

Lemire did a great job on Animal Man, too. He took the character in an interesting and certainly complimentary to Swamp Thing direction. Quality artwork and character design, I really dug that. The Rot World crossover was great, too. The rot character designs are among the creepier, gross-out stuff I've seen.

[JeffertonFromTX]

Rotworld was definitely my favorite event to come out of the New 52. I loved that it worked really great read in tandem with both titles, but still stood by itself if you weren't reading both of them at the same time.

Also, can we talk about about how damn great the Swamp Thing Annuals were? I had never been the biggest Annual guy until Snyder and Lemire's.

[Biscuit Gravy]

May 27th! so excited.  The Courtyard, and Neonomicon were outstanding.

[JeffertonFromTX]

I am really, really curious to see how well this one plays. Courtyard is awesome, but Neonomicon gets uglier and uglier every time I read it. It is a tough thing to just sit and read.

I also find it really funny that Moore is constantly talking about how he wants little to nothing to do with comics nowadays, yet he is more than willing to work with Avatar.

[Biscuit Gravy]

Neonomicon was one of the few things to genuinely shock me in quite some time. Sure, I'm jaded, but mostly I chock it up to poor writing attempts. Neonomicon is full-on grimace worthy, that's for sure, but as a fan of all things Miskatonic, I can't help but be sold.

have you listened to any of The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels?

[JeffertonFromTX]

I haven't actually. I'm a big Lovecraft guy too and you nailed it, Neonomicon was truly shocking. I still baffles me that he was allowed to get away with it.

[Biscuit Gravy]

I've had a hard time getting into Moore's book The Voice of Fire, but I know his spoken word stuff (set to music by David J from Bauhaus, and Tim Perkins) word-for-word.

do yourself a favor and find them ALL...NOW.

this one is my favorite:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK8r4cfXRUM

[Biscuit Gravy]

Jacen Burrows blurry images in frames where the FBI agent lost her glasses are so well done, you almost forget that there's a giant Dagon Fish Cult Monster's bathroom-parts in the picture.

[JeffertonFromTX]

I've tried reading that Voices of the Fire about four times and I still can't get into it. Maybe I should just try all the spoken word versions of the stories.

[Mike Desert]

Any fans of Crossed?

[JeffertonFromTX]

I really like certain arcs. Like the first arc I really enjoyed, plus Si Spurrier's digital run. I also LOVED Ennis' return arc set in Scotland and starring a horribly scarred Prince Harry. Oh, and I really loved David Lapham's run, which still gives me chills to think about.

Is Moore's run out yet or is that still on the horizon?

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

My single-issue comics are one of very few reasons why I'm still paying for a storage unit some 3000+ miles away. Lots of stuff in there I could probably cull -- the Busiek/Perez Avengers, the entire Wildstorm ABC line -- but also plenty of stuff that I'm attached to: complete runs of Eightball and Hate, the Morrison Doom Patrol, almost all of the Alan Moore Swamp Thing and plenty of 80s-90s Love & Rockets. I'll probably never buy single issues again, though. There's so much stuff available in TPB that I'll never get through it all.

At the moment, reading my kid silver age DC and Marvel collections. Highly recommended for parents of small children! Especially considering how few comics published after 1970 are at all appropriate for kids.

[Funky Ratchet]

Ambush Bug.

I've re-read those issues so many times (especially the first couple of mini-series and the DC Comics Presents appearances), even as an adult, and I'm only recently realizing how profoundly they have influenced my sense of humor.  (Take that for what you will.)