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Gaz-L posted:And... I'm going to get run out of not just BSS but probably SA on a rail for this, but... IDW's My Little Pony comics are pretty great, especially for kids that age. The art is super cute, and big splash pages are very detailed, and the dialogue is snappy and funny. I dunno, I think suggesting My Little Pony for a nine-year-old girl has gotta be one of those situations in which you're pretty safe bringing it up.
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Lumberjanes and Cleopatra in Space are great. Haven't read it, but I'm keeping Princeless in my mind for when my niece's get old enough. It's not a book, but you have 2 days left to order the eight Batgirl and Supergirl prints from Mike Maihack. http://cowshell.com/store/prints/batgirlsupergirl/batgirlsupergirl-print-bundle/ (You can read them here:) http://mikemaihack.deviantart.com/gallery/37937335/Batgirl-Supergirl Uthor fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Oct 13, 2014 |
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Gaz-L posted:And... I'm going to get run out of not just BSS but probably SA on a rail for this, but... IDW's My Little Pony comics are pretty great, especially for kids that age. The art is super cute, and big splash pages are very detailed, and the dialogue is snappy and funny. Nah, contextually it's a great suggestion, and liking My Little Pony is fine, turning it into a lifestyle choice is where we come after you with torches and pitchforks. For non DC suggestions, the Marvel Adventures line is pretty good all ages fun. Of those Avengers is great, and Spider-Man is also great once it stops beong retreads of old Spider-Man stories and becomes it's own thing. (He gets a female friend who can talk to animals, I think is the easiest way to tell if it's the good stuff).
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Thanks for all this, particularly on the more obscure stuff. And of course now I find myself with no time to read much of anything (but at least I now have cash to spend on things?). I'll be filling this away for later. As for recommendations, have you read True Swamp by Jon Lewis which I mentioned? Someone in CD, I forget who, was raving about it so I picked up a copy. Its really great, exactly my cup of tea. A melancholy frog philosophising about relationships and life. Skwirl posted:For both of you: It's a Bird was really good. It's about a comic author grappling with his family's history of Huntington's while trying to write a Superman comic. Superman only appears as a fictional metaphor. I'd forgotten I'd read this. Its good. I know some people that research Huntington's disease and the whole things is so wretched.
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Thanks for all the suggestions. I've read Lucifer and a lot of Jason, Daniel Clowes, and Alan Moore. Alan Moore I find very hit-or-miss, especially since so much of it is superhero stuff. I thought the first Lost Girls was genius but then the second two seemed to mostly devolve into porn for porn's sake, not that there's anything wrong with that.
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So what would you recommend to someone who is greatly enjoying Hickman's Avengers universe? Some of the things I love about it: - Self contained story. I had never read a single Avengers story before this and I was able to start at issue #1 with ease. - World-building and interesting mythos - Lots of different superheroes - Action
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genghis.khan posted:So what would you recommend to someone who is greatly enjoying Hickman's Avengers universe? Some of the things I love about it: Hickman's Fantastic Four/FF All the Giffens/Abnett/Lanning cosmic stuff: Annihilation Annihilation Conquest (optional) Realm and War of Kings Thanos Imperative
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Hickman's Avengers is taking lots of cues from Warren Ellis' work. Check out: Authority (and Storm Watch as a prequel to that which you don't have to read) Planetary Newuniversal (it's the origins of the "White Event" in Avengers) Secret Avengers Moon Knight Much more jocular, but everyone here will tell you that you should read N.E.X.T.Wave. Dunno how well it holds up, but Millar's Maybe some X-Men like Morrison's New X-Men or Whedon's Astonishing X-Men. vvv Absolutely! vvv Uthor fucked around with this message at 15:48 on Oct 14, 2014 |
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They are less superheroy, but you should absolutely read East of West and Manhattan Projects, both are written by Hickman. Also read his F4/FF, the first omni is out and the second is coming out pretty soon.
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Uthor posted:Hickman's Avengers is taking lots of cues from Warren Ellis' work. Check out: You're not wrong here, but the Stormwatch trades (two or three?) that lead into the Authority are some great stuff. "Change or Die" in particular. Ellis really knocked the ball out of the park with all his Stormwatch stuff. 
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prefect posted:You're not wrong here, but the Stormwatch trades (two or three?) that lead into the Authority are some great stuff. "Change or Die" in particular.
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genghis.khan posted:So what would you recommend to someone who is greatly enjoying Hickman's Avengers universe? Some of the things I love about it: You might like the Grant Morrison Justice League run from the late 1990s.
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Metal Loaf posted:You might like the Grant Morrison Justice League run from the late 1990s.
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Morrison's JLA and Hickman's FF are probably the best answers because that's probably the best way to describe Hickman's Avengers. They all feel really big. Bigger than big! I'll throw in Final Crisis, and the two issues of Multiversity that are out so far.
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I'm not the biggest Judge Dredd fan, but I'm kinda of interested in the Dark Judges. Is there a short run and/or collection that features them? Bonus if it's available digitally at the 2000 AD store. I don't need anything comprehensive, just want a bit of a taste. Fake edit: This seems like what I'm looking for. Is it any good? http://shop.2000adonline.com/products/digitalgn_judge_dredd_the_dark_judges
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The current run of US Dredd comics by Duane Swierczynski is actually doing a Dark Judges story right now. The last 8-10 issues have been about them and Duane's invented a bunch of new Dark Judges for this run. The collection you linked looks to have the first appearances of Judge Death and the Dark Judges as a group. The former story is pretty classic, certainly.
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Thanks guys.
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Uthor posted:I'm not the biggest Judge Dredd fan, but I'm kinda of interested in the Dark Judges. Is there a short run and/or collection that features them? Bonus if it's available digitally at the 2000 AD store. I don't need anything comprehensive, just want a bit of a taste.
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redbackground posted:There is a Titan Books over-sized collection called "Judge Dredd: Featuring Judge Death" that you might be able to find cheap? Thanks, but I'm slowly transitioning to digital. *goes to buy four or five new TPBs from Amazon* I grabbed the book that I linked above. I'll see how it is once I whittle my current pile down some.
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Made a list of comics I've read, wondering if anyone might have a recommendation based on it:
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Oct 22, 2014 05:47
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Grant Morrison's Batman should probably be the next Batman for ya.
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I see a lot of Moore in Loved, so his run on Swamp Thing is a safe bet.
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Corte posted:Made a list of comics I've read, wondering if anyone might have a recommendation based on it: Maybe I missed it on your lists, but Neil Gaiman's Sandman (I saw Sandman:Overture on there, but not the original series) is amazing and definitely part of the cannon (And you apparently "really liked" Lucifer, which is a spin-off of Sand Man). Read Sandman
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Sandman is on there... You got a good deal of crime books. I'd give Casanova a read. The art by the brothers who did Daytripper, the story by the guy who wrote Sex Criminals. It's about a dimension hopping super spy, pop culture, and acronyms.
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If you liked Scott Pilgrim, try Seconds! It's very very good.
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Thanks for the all the quick replies! I definitely have liked a lot of Grant Morrison's other work so I'm excited to see what he does with Batman. I know Moore's Swamp Thing is considered a classic, thanks for remind me about it. Casanova sounds like something I could enjoy and I had no idea Bryan Lee O'Malley had another work out! I'm not sure if this is usually the case for readers but I definitely value the quality of the writing over art, not to say are isn't important just that without a good story to go along with it I won't bother reading. Some of my favourite writers are Grant Morrison, Ed Brubaker, Brian Michael Bendis, Neil Gaiman, Brian K. Vaughn and Alan Moore.
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I'm really, really enjoying the latest run of Hawkeye. Can anyone recommend anything in a similar fashion e.g. action hero but with a more down to earth focus? Also really enjoyed the latest Batgirl "reboot" too - are the first 34 issues worth picking up? Seems odd they didn't just label it #1. (I'm really just getting into comics as of recently).
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CelestialScribe posted:Also really enjoyed the latest Batgirl "reboot" too - are the first 34 issues worth picking up? Seems odd they didn't just label it #1.
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CelestialScribe posted:I'm really, really enjoying the latest run of Hawkeye. Can anyone recommend anything in a similar fashion e.g. action hero but with a more down to earth focus? Definitely pick up Mark Waid's Daredevil (it recently relaunched from a new #1, but start with the previous series #1 -- it might be labeled as Daredevil Volume 3), and also the recently-canceled Superior Foes of Spider-Man. If you want some super-kung fu by the same writer and artist of Hawkeye, also get Immortal Iron Fist.
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Awesome, thanks!
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The only things I've read with Ultron in them are: That opening arc of Mighty Avengers where he becomes Lady Ultron, Ultron Unlimited, and Age of Ultron, and I didn't much care for any of them. I've seen Ultron Unlimited being recommended here before as one of the best Ultron stories, but I just have issues with Busiek's Avengers run in general (in that I hate it), but I gave it a shot and it didn't do much for me regardless. So I'm wondering if there's even anything else that's worthwhile reading featuring Ultron? Is the Ultimate version any good?
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Hakkesshu posted:Is the Ultimate version any good? Oh god no. Ultimates 3 is probably the worst part of the ultimate universe as a whole.
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CelestialScribe posted:I'm really, really enjoying the latest run of Hawkeye. Can anyone recommend anything in a similar fashion e.g. action hero but with a more down to earth focus? Get the trades of the Stephanie Brown Batgirl by Brian Q Miller instead. Simone is garbage.
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Hakkesshu posted:I've seen Ultron Unlimited being recommended here before as one of the best Ultron stories, but I just have issues with Busiek's Avengers run in general (in that I hate it), but I gave it a shot and it didn't do much for me regardless. Why do you hate it?
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bobkatt013 posted:Why do you hate it? I just generally don't like that era of late 90s comics, too much purple prose and and I think the art, or maybe it's the colouring in this case, is really lovely. This is despite me thinking George Perez was amazing on Infinity Gauntlet. They start out with that horrible medieval Avengers arc, the Wanda/Simon stuff is awful, Carol being an alcoholic is really poorly handled, etc. I've tried giving that run a chance multiple times and I don't like anything about it.
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Hakkesshu posted:The only things I've read with Ultron in them are: That opening arc of Mighty Avengers where he becomes Lady Ultron, Ultron Unlimited, and Age of Ultron, and I didn't much care for any of them. This is kinda a spoiler, but gently caress it, it's 7 years old at this point and been recommended multiple times in this thread for different reasons, and it features many of the characters in the Guardians of the Galaxy movie. About half-way through Annihilation: Conquest it's revealed that Ultron is in control of the Phalanx, and he has an awesome cape.
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Ultron is in Runaways volume 2. Runaways is good!
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I'm looking for a big book to tide me over a coming weekend where I won't have anything else to occupy my time. I was considering the Starman omnibus, even though I know absolutely nothing about the character or story. Is it good?
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Big Centipede posted:I'm looking for a big book to tide me over a coming weekend where I won't have anything else to occupy my time. I was considering the Starman omnibus, even though I know absolutely nothing about the character or story. Is it good? Starman's great. It's in six 500ish page volumes, though. e: and didn't they quit doing the paperback reprints after three volumes, or was that something else? For an all-in-one bigass volume, I'd say the Stray Bullets Uber Alles paperback. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 09:46 on Oct 28, 2014 |
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Teenage Fansub posted:Starman's great. It's in six 500ish page volumes, though. I've never heard of Stray Bullets before, and it's just a tad out of the budget I wanted to spend. I'll check it out though. Any other suggestions? Superhero stuff is cool, but I'm open for anything really. I'm going to be in a three day hell of boredom otherwise.
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