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El Gallinero Gros posted:Are there other sorta socialist flavored heroes worth reading? Check out Tom Taylor's Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.
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Cloks posted:Check out Tom Taylor's Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. I LITERALLY, just a minute ago, recommended this series on Facebook. They were some of the most fun, funny, and uplifting Spider-Man comics I've ever read, with an emphasis on street-level superheroics and some real "do-gooder" moments. I'll also recommend Tom Taylor's wonderful Nightwing run for the same reason.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:I LITERALLY, just a minute ago, recommended this series on Facebook. They were some of the most fun, funny, and uplifting Spider-Man comics I've ever read, with an emphasis on street-level superheroics and some real "do-gooder" moments.  
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Is Spider 's Shadow good? I generally like Tha Zdarsk writing Spider Man. I thought Life Stories was superb, as was his 616 book. But the whole thing sounds dark as heck and I generally think dark Spider Man stories are not great, other than Last Hunt (or 2099, which isn't perfect but I do like it).
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I liked Dark shadow, it’s dark but it has some sweet moments in it. Honestly I think it has more heart in it then the main series has had for a pretty long time
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just finished twig and am totally in love with the art. that heavy metal/sam keith vibe really did it for me. did strahm do anything else good? is there anything else he did that beaulieu colored?
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I liked Spread but it's got a pretty different art style
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I've gotten into a comics kick recently, and I don't know where to go from here. I like horror, deconstruction, and stuff with kinda downer moments in them? So more of that kinda stuff? Stuff I liked: Geiger The Boys Arkham: A Serious House on Serious Earth Ruins Injustice Wytches
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Defenestrategy posted:I've gotten into a comics kick recently, and I don't know where to go from here. I like horror, deconstruction, and stuff with kinda downer moments in them? So more of that kinda stuff? Maybe try Monstress? A lady teams up with a monster in her body to murder magic users (I think that’s the premise, I’ve not read it) That or Something is Killing the Children
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Defenestrategy posted:I've gotten into a comics kick recently, and I don't know where to go from here. I like horror, deconstruction, and stuff with kinda downer moments in them? So more of that kinda stuff? There's a couple directions this list could go. The Boys is pretty classic Garth Ennis. Preacher (also a Hulu series) is a big one of his. He did a lot of Constantine, but I don't know what to recommend there. I'd say Monstress is more Fantasy World in Real War. It's really good, there's a lot of it, but it is not yet done. Tom Taylor, who did Injustice, also did a Suicide Squad run called Bad Blood. I really liked it. You might also like Sandman, maybe Watchmen. Both classics.
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For Ennis Hellblazer, you can just jump right in with whatever his first trade is called. There's a bunch of supporting cast that seems like he's got a ton of history, but apart from Chaz I'm pretty sure Ennis invented all of them. The Mike Carey run on Hellblazer is also really good.
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Defenestrategy posted:I've gotten into a comics kick recently, and I don't know where to go from here. I like horror, deconstruction, and stuff with kinda downer moments in them? So more of that kinda stuff? Si Spurrier's X-Force
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Defenestrategy posted:I've gotten into a comics kick recently, and I don't know where to go from here. I like horror, deconstruction, and stuff with kinda downer moments in them? So more of that kinda stuff? I’d echo Preacher. Also basically anything Alan Moore has done. Other random recommendations for longer series that are a bit dark 100 bullets Locke and Key Ed Brubaker’s Sleeper series, or any of his collabs with Sean Phillips, just pick the one that interests you most off the bat.
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Maybe check out Kieron Gillen. I think you'd like The Wicked and the Divine or Die. Or maybe David Lapham' Stray Bullets. Also, Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba's Daytripper is a single volume comic that manages to be both sad and heartwarming at the same time.
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Selachian posted:David Lapham' Stray Bullets. If you like gritty crime with deep characterization, I can't recommend Stray Bullets enough
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Defenestrategy posted:I've gotten into a comics kick recently, and I don't know where to go from here. I like horror, deconstruction, and stuff with kinda downer moments in them? So more of that kinda stuff? Check out The Nice House on the Lake by James Tynion IV. Post apocalyptic horror.
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Defenestrategy posted:I've gotten into a comics kick recently, and I don't know where to go from here. I like horror, deconstruction, and stuff with kinda downer moments in them? So more of that kinda stuff? Planetary by Warren Ellis Lucifer by Mike Carey El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Nov 15, 2022 |
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2 parter: I’d like to read some x-men. I understand there’s like 80 years of it and I don’t want to drown, so is the House of X/Powers of X collected book a good place to start? From a little poking around it looks like it’s a reboot point, but if it’s bad I’m okay to look elsewhere. I loved Coda that BOOM put out in 2019. Are there any other, ideally limited or finished, books that hit that kind of fantasy?
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I usually recommend Morrison's New X-men as a good jumping on point, but you could start with dawn/powers if you know the basics
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zelah posted:2 parter: The classics: Chris Claremont's hugely influential (and occasionally very dated) run that started with Giant-Size X-Men #1 and spanned from 1975 to 1991, but included most of the major characters, famous moments, and legendary artists you may already be familiar with. The reinventions: Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's New X-Men (2001) and Joss Whedon and John Cassaday's Astonishing X-Men (2004). The current status quo: Jonathan Hickman's House of X/Powers of X. For what it's worth, I have the four trade paperbacks collecting the entire Whedon/Cassaday Astonishing X-Men run, that I would love to sell, but I don't want to get in trouble for trying to sell stuff in BSS. This is my SA-Mart thread, if you might be interested: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3881694
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zelah posted:I loved Coda that BOOM put out in 2019. Are there any other, ideally limited or finished, books that hit that kind of fantasy? Jason Aaron's Sea of Stars might hit similar notes, though it's technically science fantasy, not straight fantasy. Coda was real good and I totally forgot the name of it.
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Cloks posted:Check out Tom Taylor's Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. man that was good. sappy and heart stringy as it was it was nice to see a super hero actually doing heroic things. it also contained this panel 
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Howdy! I thought I posted here once before a good while ago, but I just checked and nothing came up in my post history so...  I just tore through The Department of Truth and loved it. I want more weird comics like that. Give me a bunch of philosophical pontificating about reality to read while I wait for the next issue because the person who recommended it to me forgot to mention it's still ongoing. Stuff I've already read: Morrison's The Invisibles, Doom Patrol, The Filth, The Nameless, Animal Man, Arkham Asylum, Flex Mentallo... (I really like Morrison) Moore's Watchmen, Promethia (good, could do without the weird sex but I also read Lost Girls out of morbid curiosity so ,) and Swamp ThingPeter Milligan's run on Shade, The Changing Man, Rogan Gosh, and Enigma (Shade is probably a top 5 of all time for me) Sandman (owns) Prophet (2012) ODY-C Charles Burn's Black Hole and X'd Out Zero by Ales Kot (I read a few other books of his but this was the only one to really grab me) Mazebook by Lemire Like a Velvet Glove Cast In Iron The Incal Hellblazer up to the new-52 Constantine reset The Unwritten Mind MGMT Transmetropolitan ... I don't have a problem I swear. magic cactus fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Nov 23, 2022 |
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Going to recommend Unwritten to be added to that list. If you like Sandman and Morrison stuff and the idea of stories and ideas shaping the world then Unwritten will be right up your alley.
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magic cactus posted:Howdy! I really enjoyed Alan Moore's Swamp Thing and I think you'll enjoy it based on how much you like Morrison.
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Madkal posted:Going to recommend Unwritten to be added to that list. If you like Sandman and Morrison stuff and the idea of stories and ideas shaping the world then Unwritten will be right up your alley. Cloks posted:I really enjoyed Alan Moore's Swamp Thing and I think you'll enjoy it based on how much you like Morrison. Shoot I've already read both of these, I just forgot when I made my initial post. I'll edit them in. Appreciate the suggestions though!
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you've already read everything! ann nocenti's run on kid eternity was fun and slightly stonerosophical. milligan's enigma was really good, so was rogan gosh. if you want something provocative that isn't british vertigo, the 'nam is really good and, given the circumstances of its publication, nowhere near as jingoistic as you'd expect.
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Have you tried Gerard Way's (yes, MCR Gerard Way) comics, like Umbrella Academy and his take on Doom Patrol? And if you liked Milligan's Shade, you might also enjoy Cecil Castellucci's Shade the Changing Woman. Oh, and Matt Fraction/Gabriel Ba/Fabio Moon's Casanova should be right up your alley.
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magic cactus posted:Howdy! Flex Mentallo - Another Morrison, my favorite, and I think I've read all Morrison?
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The Voice of Labor posted:you've already read everything! I've already read enigma and rogan gosh, loved them both. I just blanked out on my original list. The 'Nam sounds interesting and I haven't heard of Kid Eternity, I'll check those out, thanks! Selachian posted:Have you tried Gerard Way's (yes, MCR Gerard Way) comics, like Umbrella Academy and his take on Doom Patrol? And if you liked Milligan's Shade, you might also enjoy Cecil Castellucci's Shade the Changing Woman. I've heard good things about Way's stuff, I'll check it out. I'll give Castellucci's take on Shade and Fractions Cassanova a go, thanks for the recs!
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StumblyWumbly posted:Flex Mentallo - Another Morrison, my favorite, and I think I've read all Morrison? Read that too. I think I've read all the big Morrison stuff that isn't his Batman run. It's on the list, maybe I should give it a go.
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magic cactus posted:Howdy! I think you'll love Mind MGMT by Matt Kindt
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GOD IS BED posted:I think you'll love Mind MGMT by Matt Kindt Chin Strap posted:Transmetropolitan maybe?  I'll update the OP. Hey at least I know what I like! Appreciate it though.
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Ewing and Hickman aren't quite Morrison but their stuff is closest
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we have largely identical tastes in comic books. so I'm just going to post stuff I read and really liked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey:_The_Adventures_of_Wolverine_MacAlistaire have you read heavy metal? it can be hit or miss but it's a big rear end anthology so there's statistically something that will hit. there's also 45 years of it, so if you want to watch the progression of trends in continental comic books and trends in products marketed towards people who buy heavy metal, it's great for that. I remember liking foligatto quote:Comics writer Grant Morrison became editor in chief beginning with the April 2016 issue of the magazine.[17] They now serve as creative advisor. garth ennis has written a ton of war stories under various titles. I like those, they're extremely ennis and in a grounded real world historical setting the goofy edginess and parody flip into a really satisfying melodrama
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The Voice of Labor posted:we have largely identical tastes in comic books. so I'm just going to post stuff I read and really liked I'll check all this out, do you have a suggestion where to start with ennis war story stuff?
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Opopanax posted:Ewing and Hickman aren't quite Morrison but their stuff is closest I've heard a lot of good things about Hickman, can you recommend me a place to start with his stuff?
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magic cactus posted:I've heard a lot of good things about Hickman, can you recommend me a place to start with his stuff? If you want cape stuff, Shield or his Avengers run. For the really good poo poo stick to his Image stuff. Pax Romana, Red Wing, and Red Mass for Mars in particular. East of West as well
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Madkal posted:If you like Sandman and Morrison stuff and the idea of stories and ideas shaping the world This is the siren song for Fearscape (sequel: A Dark Interlude) by Ryan O'Sullivan and Andrea Mutti, Art Ops by Shaun Simon and Michael Allred, and The Picture of Everything Else by Dan Watters and Kishore Mohan. Fearscape: Every so often humanity's best storyteller is recruited to fend off nightmares from entering our realm, but this time an egotistical plagiarist has been recruited and he's too dug in to tell anyone he's a fraud. Art Ops: Pieces of art are living beings, protected by a clandestine organization known as The Art Operatives. The son of one of their agents is recruited after a spate of art thefts as well as a strange encounter that gives the new kid a prosthetic arm made of... paint? Doom Patrol vibes all around, right down to the Neighborhood of Dads who resist art's pull. (Their rivals ought to be the Forum of Criterion Dads) The Picture of Everything Else: a killer whose paintings create real-world victims crosses paths with a thief. Visuals include 1800s Paris and the story does Oscar Wilde proud as a soft sequel to Dorian Gray.
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