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AXE COP posted:

At the end of the last thread I asked about comics depicting superhero police forces. After reading through Top 10 again I realised what I was actually looking for was comics about superhero societies. Big cities crammed with costumed crusaders, governments stuffed with powered people, worlds run by the great and the good, stuff like that. Places where having powers is mundane.

I'm pretty unfamiliar with comics so the only other things I can think of that fit the bill are Top 10, The Authority, or the City of Heroes series that NCSoft commissioned. Can anyone recommend something else like these?

Having powers isn't mundane in Astro City, but there are some really good stories about being a normal person in a city full of supers.

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fatherboxx posted:

Dark Reign: The List: Wolverine features The World - a facility with confusing mechanics that plays a huge role in the UXF story.

Was that the story where Fantomex and Noh-Varr teamed up to save the day? Because that was a great story. :allears:

# ¿ Mar 17, 2014 11:13

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irlZaphod posted:

Someone may correct me as I haven't read either, but I think the Kirby series from the late 70s and the Christopher Priest run from the late 90s/early 2000s are supposed to be good. I'm not sure about the later Reginald Hudlin stuff, I think general opinion on it was that it was ok but not great.

The Kirby stuff is Kirby, so you know it's going to be great to look at. The Priest stuff is 100% awesome, and I give it my highest recommendation. I think Hudlin was the guy who had Panther put the Silver Surfer in a chicken-wing, which was irredeemably stupid. :colbert:

# ¿ Mar 19, 2014 12:16

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Endless Mike posted:

No, that was McDuffie during his F4 run, I'm pretty sure.

Whoops.

I apologize to Reginald Hudlin, then.

His Black Panther run wasn't bad, but it wasn't particularly good, either. :shrug:

(To be fair, there are not a lot of people who would have been able to follow Priest. :swoon:

)

# ¿ Mar 19, 2014 13:26

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Metal Loaf posted:

Seeing as I just got paid the other day, I was thinking about getting the new Roger Stern Spider-Man omnibus, but I was also considering getting the two West Coast Avengers omniboo (since I've seen one of them really cheap).

Which would be the better choice? I like Stern's Avengers but I've not read a great deal of what Englehart's done.

West Coast Avengers had moments of goodness, but there were a lot of mediocre issues. I can't recommend it without lots of caveats.

# ¿ May 1, 2014 17:49

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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:

It was never collected, but there was a fantastic late '90s run on Cable that started drawing him away from the increasingly-incomprehensible X-continuity and into the larger Marvel Universe as a whole.

This all started with James Robinson, currently on a hot streak from writing DC's Starman, writing Cable's issue "-1" (from a month where Marvel released #-1 issues of every series) and #45-50, followed by his hand-picked successor Joe Casey writing #51-70. A lot of the art from this run was by Jose Ladronn, doing an incredible Jack Kirby pastiche, much like Tom Scioli does nowadays.

Unfortunately Casey's story never got a true ending, as Rob Liefeld took over, interrupting what Robinson and Casey were building toward.

There was a "Cable and Deadpool" series for a while (early 2000s?) that was better than it had any right to be. Cable was played as a straightforward "I want to save the world" guy, and Deadpool was mostly comic relief. But it was good, honest.

# ¿ May 12, 2014 12:24

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Soonmot posted:

If Superior Foes of Spider-Man is up there, read it. Dan Slott's She-Hulk.

Slott also did an excellent Spider-Man/Human Torch mini, "I'm With Stupid".

# ¿ May 16, 2014 15:35

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Ellis also wrote a short series (four issues, maybe) called "Ignition City". You may have seen this panel:

And Transmetropolitan is loving awesome, especially if you like Hunter S. Thompson.

# ¿ May 30, 2014 18:29

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Fritzler posted:

I finished this week's all-new Invaders and Fantastic Four, and I think I like Jim Hammond/The Human Torch. Are there any good stories with him that I should read? I don't think I've really ever read anything with him in it before.

He was in West Coast Avengers during John Byrne's run, which gave us this kinda-sorta-impossible panel:

But he wasn't really the focus of much attention there.

# ¿ May 31, 2014 12:48

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rock rock posted:

I would like to read a comic with Dr Doom in it he seems like a pretty cool guy.
What series would you guys suggest?

I think it's the Mark Waid Fantastic Four run where Doom sacrifices the soul of a woman who loved him so he could make magical leather armor from her skin.

# ¿ Jul 6, 2014 12:34

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Nehru the Damaja posted:

Power Man and Iron Fist have shown up in Superior Foes and the Daredevil run I'm still reading and they've been fun as heck both times. They have any especially fun stuff worth reading? Stuff in the vein of big action comedy romps. A buddy suggested Immortal Iron Fist.

There's no (or almost no) Power Man in Immortal Iron Fist, but you should still get it, because it's fantastic.

Pretty sure they have PM&IF collected in Essential volumes; you could get those, as long as you're okay with comics from the '70s/'80s.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2014 19:19

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Lurdiak posted:

Adam Warren's Empowered is basically just a fetish comic, although some people keep insisting it's also got writing in it. "Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose" is Boobs: The Comic, but is famously terribly written. You're probably better off just reading actual porno.

I like the writing well enough to keep reading it, even though I'm constitutionally allergic to anime art.

# ¿ Aug 4, 2014 13:17

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Opopanax posted:

Get the older D&D one. And Demon Knights

You want the D&D comics written by John Rogers.

# ¿ Aug 4, 2014 18:57

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Nehru the Damaja posted:

I read some of the Bendis and Brubaker run. It's actually the first thing the thread recommended to me when I asked for street-level. (Which is fine! Nobody's asking you to keep tabs on my posts from weeks ago.) Bendis started and ended great, imo, but everything in between felt like it was either a holding pattern made to keep pushing out issues once they established the main plot points and/or was just some Passion of the Christ flagellation. Really, Kingpin was excellent and the rest I just kinda dealt with. I loved Brubaker's stuff through the escape from Riker's but lost interest quickly after.

I don't want to oversell it, but you should definitely check out the Frank Miller stuff. I love "Born Again" to death.

And if you want Passion of the Christ flagellation, that's a pretty good description of Daredevil for a good while after Frank Miller finished there in the '80s. It seemed like every other issue was all about DD trying to recover from some ridiculous multilation.

# ¿ Aug 7, 2014 13:51

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Nehru the Damaja posted:

Is there stuff worth reading that talks about Captain America's role as like the moral center of the universe to so many people? What that means? What weight it is on him? It doesn't have to be a Cap comic. It's just interesting to me that every time he comes up he's either an authoritative voice on who can be trusted, or the personification of someone's conscience, or this holy ideal of what a hero should be, etc etc. Even some truly awful bastards like Frank Castle and Mark Spector seem to put him on a pedestal.

There's a little bit of that when he appears during the "Born Again" storyline in Daredevil.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2014 21:08

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Nehru the Damaja posted:

Sweet. I was looking for that on Unlimited to find the one vs. Champion but didn't have any luck. Is it on there? Their categorization is kind of butt.

It was in Marvel Two-In-One Annual #7.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2014 00:39

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Nehru the Damaja posted:

Also, thanks to the person who recommended the new Ms. Marvel. I respected the idea of it for the sake of diversity and inclusion and all that but I didn't expect it would have anything for me, and I'm very happy to be wrong!

I care more about it being fun and funny, but diversity and inclusion are okay, too.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2014 16:54

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SlothBear posted:

Captain America's heart beats like a Sousa march.

I want to hate that, but I can't.

Nobody describes Captain America better than Daredevil.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2014 11:26

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Uthor posted:

I hear Archer & Armstrong and Quantum & Woody are more lighthearted and funny.

I love Archer and Armstrong (Fred van Lente :swoon:

), and I love just about everything Priest has done, so I would probably also love Quantum and Woody.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2014 12:43

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xenilk posted:

Hi there guys! I've been investing more time reading comics lately and was wondering if you had good suggestions to similar style of comics that I have been enjoying lately. Here's a list of things that I've read and why I've enjoyed it:

- Preacher (currently reading it, I'm just about 3/4 done) : Loved the writing style, the art and whole ambiance.
- Rising stars (just started it (the 1999 series + voices of the dead)

I've also read a few of the "The new 52: Futures end" and enjoyed the Batman: detective issue.

I'm thinking I'll enjoy "Suiciders" and "The kitchen" by vertigo, but if I can put other titles on my radar I'd be more than happy

I love me some Warren Ellis, so I'll recommend "Transmetropolitan" (Hunter S. Thompson in the future) and "Planetary" (something about comic-book history being real, but also secret).

# ¿ Sep 30, 2014 18:21

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Uthor posted:

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)

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. :allears:

# ¿ Oct 14, 2014 16:18

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Parker Lewis posted:

What comics should I read to help me understand why people are excited about a Black Panther movie?

Black Panther Vol. 1: The Client (Black Panther vol. 3, #1-5)
Black Panther Vol. 2: Enemy of the State (Black Panther vol. 3, #6-12)

Priest made the Panther so frickin' awesome that it had to be shut down.

# ¿ Oct 29, 2014 00:49

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Narcissus1916 posted:

Also, I remember reading Morrisons' fantastic Justice League run, but can't remember for the life of me what Wally's personality was like. The DCAU painted him as a rookie jokester, but I remember Morrison largely kept Kyle Rayner in the insecure rookie role. Anyone care to refresh my memory?

I remember Wally having very little respect for Kyle during "New World Order". But to be fair, at one point he made an anime robot construct, so it's not like he deserved any respect.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2014 00:19

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A Strange Aeon posted:

I found the first Karma Tornado volume at Half Price Books and thought it was great! So if the Ben Edlund stuff is even better, I can't wait to track it down.

The Ben Edlund Tick is wonderful. It's even better if you're familiar with some of the comics of the day, because there are some spot-on parodies.

# ¿ Dec 8, 2014 16:38

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fozzy fosbourne posted:

Grant Morrison Seaguy

Came here to post this. Seaguy is one of the most baffling comics I've ever read. (I've probably not read enough non-mainstream stuff.)

# ¿ Dec 11, 2014 22:01

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Teenage Fansub posted:

I like both of them a lot, but start on Hickman's Avengers #1. His Avengers event, Infinity that comes up a year (?) in is MUCH better than the X-Men event, Battle of the Atom.
Note that there are two comics from both sides that you'll need to read. Avengers and New Avengers are both by Hickman and All-New X-Men and Uncanny X-Men, both by Bendis. They're both crucial on either side.

Do you have to read the two books interleaved, so it's one issue of Avengers and then one issue of New Avengers, or can you just alternate on the trade paperback level?

# ¿ Dec 29, 2014 11:57

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Teenage Fansub posted:

You can read it how you want up to Infinity, then..

In the current "Time Runs Out" story they should be read together.

drat. Maybe it would be easier to just read the individual comics each week after all. Curse me for getting lazy and trying to catch up months at a time. :doom:

# ¿ Dec 29, 2014 13:16

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redbackground posted:

I put a reading order list for Hickman's entire run here.

I have just ordered Marvel Unlimited, and I've bookmarked your reading list. :tipshat:

# ¿ Jan 1, 2015 17:10

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irlZaphod posted:

Yes, but there's also the Madrox mini which Peter David did with Pablo Raimondi before his X-Factor run. It's a fantastic little mini-series, and while you don't really need to read it to follow X-Factor, it is a nice little introduction to it.

You don't need to read it, but it's kind of a prequel to X-Factor, and is also really good, so I'd strongly recommend it.

# ¿ Feb 6, 2015 15:20

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Teenage Fansub posted:

Infinity ruled. Best event in years. Jonathan Hickman's Avengers and New Avengers lead up to it, and continuing on, we're now at Secret Wars. It's all one big thing.

Avengers http://marvel.com/comics/series/16452/avengers_2012_-_present
New Avengers http://marvel.com/comics/series/16451/new_avengers_2013_-_present

Here's the official reading order through Infinity.

After that, read as you like till there's a banner on the covers counting down months (to Secret Wars.) They meet up again there.

I found this to be useful:

Senor Candle posted:

Infinity is just a part of Avengers/New Avengers. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kXN9H4EYsw8c_QeDdSdemJioWeAqXAnznwTtPGUoBmE/edit#gid=0 Here is a reading order courtesy of redbackground

And the Hickman Avengers have been the best large-scale cosmic-type event since the Abnett/Lanning Annihilation et cetera.

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# ¿ May 4, 2015 13:01

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zoux posted:

Why do people hate CC so much? is it because they let Wanda off the hook?

I seem to remember long delays between issues; it was very frustrating trying to read it as it was being published.

# ¿ May 7, 2015 14:13

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TwoPair posted:

Pretty much everybody is written horribly out of character, mostly. My favorite example is when Cyclops tries to get Scarlet Witch to come with the X-Men to face vague mutant justice (rather than a court or anything): the Young Avengers try to stop him and then Cyclops yells "I'LL BURN THE WITCH WHERE SHE STANDS"

My memory is coming back and I agree with everybody who says that it was a bad series. Cyclops's eyebeams are kinetic, not fiery. :spergin:

(Also, Cyclops cannot use his eyebeams for welding, so gently caress the 9/11 comic book.)

# ¿ May 7, 2015 14:54

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 19:16

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WickedHate posted:

What's a good gag gift for a fellow comic geek? I want to evoke the feeling "Awww, gently caress you too pal ". The other, non joke things I'm planning on getting him are Ellis' Moon Knight and Godzilla: Half Century War.

The Crossing.

# ¿ Aug 27, 2015 12:02

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