All-New Comic Recommendation/Reading List Thread

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Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

I got a hardhat for BSSSS that year.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2015 02:04

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 11:56

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

bobkatt013 posted:

Madman and Red Rocket 7.

Would you even recommend these if someone said their favorite comic ever was Avengers #200?

# ¿ Mar 23, 2015 19:24

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

I keep reading WicDiv hoping I'll fall in love with it and it's just not happening. I'm not sure what it is. I think his work on Loki and Young Avengers were better than either of those, really.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2015 14:32

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

That's pretty much how I feel about WicDiv, in particular, but not Gillen's stuff as a whole. I think I need to start doing drugs to get it, but I feel like if I was going to do that, I should have done it before my relationship with a drug addict ended so I wouldn't have gotten angry when she wanted to get stoned instead of spending time together.

Man, that got weird.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2015 21:45

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Verranicus posted:

So would you guys suggesting one series and following it to the end/the most recent issue before moving on to the next or reading several at the same time because of crossovers and such? I'm reading New 52 stuff, and I've heard they have a number of crossover arcs and I'm worried if I just focus on one series at a time I'll miss stuff/things will be over my head/etc.

Depends on what you're reading, really. Sometimes there's crossovers, but single issues will tell you what to get next in those cases and they'll be collected together in trades so it won't make a big difference. I would never advocate reading a series you're not otherwise interested in just to make sense of a crossover. If you need to do that, the writers failed miserably in their jobs.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2015 16:01

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

James Woods Fan posted:

Any recommendations for Ghost Rider and Blade?

It's not *just* Blade, but Captain Britain and MI13.

# ¿ Apr 17, 2015 13:55

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Opopanax posted:

It's some of his better work, at least. Like I don't want to call it good or anything but without spoiling it there's some alterations to the art that look ok. The story is good enough you can shake it off, anyways

No, his best work was on Birds of Prey before he realized he could work twice as fast tracing porn stars. His work on UFF was pretty egregious if I recall.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:

You can also start Hickman's Secret Warriors post-Secret Invasion, after they are introduced in one issue of Mighty Avengers. In fact, Secret Warriors also started out written by Bendis, but Hickman took it over relatively early in its run. Secret Warriors has been a big influence on the Agents of SHIELD TV show, and I've also recommended it as the best "G.I. Joe vs. Cobra" story ever, if that helps sell it at all.

Hickman and Bendis co-wrote the start of the series with Hickman eventually doing it solo. I'm not entirely sure how much of the writing was Bendis.

# ¿ May 9, 2015 01:23

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

That's about it, really.

Maybe his first couple appearances and then that bit towards the end of the original X-Factor team right before Muir Island Saga.

# ¿ May 10, 2015 01:30

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Nah, he's right. Mutant Massacre was where Angel was crucified and his wings cut off, and in between then and Fall of the Mutants, Apocalypse turns him into Archangel. Only the X-Factor portions of FotM deal at all with Apocalypse, though. FotM isn't really a crossover in the classic sense as the three titles it takes place in (Uncanny X-Men, X-Factor, New Mutants), all tell completely unrelated stories.

# ¿ May 10, 2015 05:23

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Starlin cosmic stuff is annoying since it's spread across a dozen titles over 20 or 30 years since he'd like to have a one-issue appearance of Silver Surfer or Adam Warlock in some other random title he was writing up until he got the second Surfer volume going. I wish there was a reading order out there, but I feel like that would be a hell of a task.

# ¿ May 20, 2015 14:12

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Keiya posted:

So I've been reading the Archie Mega Man comics and I'm liking how it's reasonably up-beat and not horribly angsty. Is there any other good stuff along those lines these days? I must just have terrible luck finding it.

Atomic Robo! It's all free online now, too.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2015 15:30

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

I don't know where I read up to, but I got the big two-volume hardcover thing and I loved it all the way through.

(My problem is that I want matching sets to keep reading and I don't think there's been a follow-up to it.)

# ¿ Jul 8, 2015 18:58

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Opopanax posted:

Grant Morrison's run

Jesus Christ no.

I like that run, but I wouldn't throw someone who hasn't read any Batman into it. Even ignoring that just figuring out which comics to read when is a nightmare, it's just really, really not a first time reader thing.

I totally agree with Black Mirror, though. It barely matters at all that it's Dick, from what I recall of it.

# ¿ Jul 9, 2015 03:26

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

zoux posted:

Sale on all the Fable trades for 5 bucks a piece: I've always heard it was a good series, but is it good back to front?

I read what I guess was the second trade as it was coming out and didn't get what people saw in it, and then it apparently turns into super pro-Republican propaganda, so.

# ¿ Jul 21, 2015 14:38

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Uthor posted:

No annual universe-wide crossovers? No random title changes?? No renumberings to #1???

(actually, just wanted to be sure there wasn't any annuals I would miss)

#373 was part of Mutant Massacre, but I don't recall needing to actually read MM to understand it.

# ¿ Jul 21, 2015 21:14

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Mr Hootington posted:

I have been away from Marvel comics since about Siege. I just picked up Marvel Unlimited. I am looking for recommendations on where to start reading. I used to read Thunderbolts, Punisher: War Journal, Bru's Captain America (going to pick up where I quit buying trades), Moon Knight (the version where he was super crazy and hallucinating maybe Finch art). I used to dig Fraction, Bru, Hickman, and Aaron.

1. What are some of the best series that have come out since Siege?

2. I haven't read much X-Men. Where is a good place to start? Morrison's run? I'm not opposed to reading the likes of Excaliber, X-Factor, X-Force, and other offshoots. Anything specifically good in those runs or just read it all?

3. Looking over Fantastic four stuff. Do I want to start with Millar? maybe a little farther back?

4. Daredevil. I have honestly never read any of it. No clue, but interested. Any place to begin would be great.

Finally there is not any DC service like Marvel Unlimited is there?

1. Jason Aaron's Thor, Hickman's F4 and Avengers, Waid's Daredevil, Superior Iron Man

2. As others have said Morrison or (eh) Whedon. Remender's Uncanny X-Force, if you want to go way back, pretty much any Uncanny X-Men or New Mutants from the 80s, as well as early Excalibur

3. Millar's is not terrible, but it's also not too great and not really essential. Start Hickman's with Dark Reign: Fantastic 4, then find a reading order since it gets weird partway through. Go back to Waid's run, too, if you haven't read it.

4. Everyone else has this covered.

# ¿ Jul 28, 2015 23:33

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

While I love We3, Animal Man is the Morrison 101 I would give.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2015 13:20

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

HogX posted:

Okay can someone help me with the spider-man read order? I just finished all 100+ of the Ultimate Spider-man. But now there's other spider-comics, one with parker still alive, one with Miles and Parker is dead and I'm trying to figure out what goes first?

Edit: In the Ultimate one, he drowned in the giant tsunami, but now he's back and he and MJ broke up? I must be missing a series I think.

Peter Parker:
Ultimate Spider-Man 1-133
Ultimatum: Spider-Man Requiem 1-2
Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man (Vol 1) 1-15
Ultimate Spider-Man 150-160

Miles Morales:
Ultimate Fallout #1-6*
Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man (Vol 2) 1-28
Spider-Men 1-5**
Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man 1-12

There's some annuals and stuff in there too.

*Miles only shows up in UF #4, but the other issues deal with Peter's friends and family. There's other stories in each issue intended to set up the rest of the Ultimate Universe that was relaunching at that point.

**This runs roughly concurrent to UC:SMv2 11-15. There's no particular read order here.

Endless Mike fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Jul 29, 2015

# ¿ Jul 29, 2015 21:12

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

HogX posted:

Alright, so I think I'm at ultimate Comics: Spider-Man at this point, but it still went from him being dead to him being alive? Like He was pulled out of the rubble, and was dead. Then it was his funeral and stuff. Now he's alive again and dating the blond girl? I'm so confused.

edit: Vvv welp. Comics.

Did you read the Requiem issues? I think that might at least cover him not being dead. I forget. There's definitely a time skip after that.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2015 21:44

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Cyphoderus posted:

I'm a big fan of Ellis, is his run worth it?

NO.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2015 22:12

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

The writing is boring at best, and really obnoxious at worst. There's an entire issue that's nothing but sex jokes. Ellis didn't seem to bother to write for the characters at all.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2015 15:41

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

The Pulse
Daredevil by Bendis or Miller
Fantastic Four by Hickman
Moon Knight by Ellis
Maybe Animal Man by Morrison?

# ¿ Aug 1, 2015 02:13

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Warren Ellis's Stormwatch and Authority is about all you should bother with.

# ¿ Aug 6, 2015 20:20

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Action Philosophers by Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey is pretty fun. Comic Book History of Comics, also by Van Lante was pretty good.

# ¿ Aug 7, 2015 19:07

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

One solo female book, not a single non-white solo book.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2015 00:44

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Opopanax posted:

Pretty much all of it is from the 80s or earlier, too. That's like complaining about a History of English Literature class being made up mostly of white dudes

Not really. There's several 90s and even 2000s books in there and there's DC books covering 75 years of publication. But some specific ideas: Black Panther, Luke Cage/Power Man (I'd even accept Power Man & Iron Fist here), Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers), She-Hulk (Byrne or Slott).

But you guys are right and I should see what else they have in future weeks. These do largely seem to be characters in movies or on TV.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2015 03:45

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

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.

Onslaught Reborn

EDIT: Goddamnit new page.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2015 23:25

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Yeah that was my immediate thought too. Joe the Barbarian is a stretch but might fit too.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2015 01:19

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Check out the Giffen/Maguire Defenders, also.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2015 18:19

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

feedmyleg posted:

I like hard boiled detectives. I also like goofiness. This leads me to think that I would like Howard the Duck. Where do I start? Ideally a trade or collection of some sort, unless there's a current run that's a great intro.

Well, the current run by Harvey Award Winning Humorist Chip Zdarsky is the only one that's really a detective story. And it's good! So go for it.

Alternatively, go with the original run by Steve Gerber that runs through Adventures Into Fear #19, Man-Thing #1, Giant-Size Man-Thing #4-5, Howard the Duck #1-33, Marvel Treasury Edition #12, and Marvel Team-Up #96. These are collected in a single Omnibus ($70 on Amazon, or probably all on Marvel Unlimited) or they seem to be collecting them in trades, of which the first is out. I imagine there will be two or three of those if they sell okay.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2015 20:35

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Gaz-L posted:

Did they send him the award? More importantly, has he posted video of himself carving Matt's name into it?

Well...

# ¿ Oct 13, 2015 23:49

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Teenage Fansub posted:

I haven't read it, but I assume Uber has both and it's massively discounted right now.
https://www.comixology.com/Uber-Sale/page/8453?ref=c2l0ZS9pbmRleC9kZXNrdG9wL3NtYWxsQ2Fyb3VzZWw

Yes and no. Well. Lots of gore, for sure. It is an Avatar comic, after all. As for the super powers, they're treated as the weapons and tools that they are, so there's lots of pages of battles that are just dudes using their eyebeam things from miles away.

I do enjoy it, but I can see why people wouldn't.

# ¿ Oct 14, 2015 13:41

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Current Valiant is really good and their digital comics go on sale a couple times a year. Definitely check it out. Archer & Armstrong and Ivar, Timewalker are my favorites.

90s Valiant was interesting and definitely had some quality writers and artists, but I haven't really read enough to offer any suggestions.

# ¿ Oct 14, 2015 14:20

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Maybe dig up Lucifer for her? It's a spin-off of Sandman.

The Wicked & The Divine might be up her alley, but might not be.

# ¿ Oct 15, 2015 18:15

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Locke & Key takes place in a town called Lovecraft, so it's certainly wearing its inspiration on its sleeve.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2015 20:54

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Nehru the Damaja posted:

I was reading a decent amount of Marvel before the dumb Axis thing stepped in and started ruining all my storylines. Is that poo poo and whatever multiverse fuckery that happened done with?

I was really digging the "fun" titles (Ms. Marvel, Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Loki: Agent of Asgard, Superior Foes of Spider-Man). Are those or something similar still going? Also any gritty street-level stuff on the same wavelength as Daredevil before the move to San Francisco?

Axis finished ages ago. Doesn't look like any of its effects will be around. Ms. Marvel and Squirrel Girl are both relaunching with the same creative teams. Loki is done, Superior Foes is done. You might like Howard the Duck. The Daredevil relaunch *might* be what you're looking for, also.

# ¿ Nov 7, 2015 19:41