Comic Books: What are you reading?

[billd91]

The only comic I'm regularly buying and reading now is 47 Ronin, and that's about up. Before Stan Sakai went on break to do 47 Ronin, the only comic I was getting regularly was Usagi Yojimbo.

That's a bit of a comedown from my heyday of spending about $30/month on comics back in the early 1990s. But I haven't regularly read any X-books since then and can barely follow what's going on when I hear mention of them. I was getting Ultimates and Ultimate Fantastic Four, but they're obviously gone now. So, the bottom line is, I'm not really getting anything new. Most of my comic reading these days is archival - trade paperbacks of certain story lines like The Life of Captain Marvel, The Korvac Saga, and Essential collections.

 

[sabrinathecat]

Ah, comic books. I remember liking those. I stopped my last year of college, when they started getting too silly. 12-issue cross-over of Spider-man, Maximum Clonage, was just lame. Meh. Lost interest.

That's why I have Looking for Group, Order of the Stick, and Irregular Web Comic.

 

[Nellisir]

I'm having a super hard time answering that question for some reason. I guess I like a plot with a twist, a cool concept, I think I like science fictiony backstories maybe more than magical/supernatural.

Not science fictiony, but not fantasy either - you might check out Northlanders. I believe the series is complete, and has been compiled into 7 collections, each unrelated to the other (they share a rough setting and a timeframe - Northern Europe, 1000 AD.)

Planetary and the first 12 issues of The Authority are both by Warren Ellis, and worth reading. Older, but good/interesting.
Lucifer, which spun out of Sandman.
Fables​, which is ongoing.

 

[EricNoah]

Good call on Atomic Robo. My local library branch has six volumes and I am enjoying vol. 1 right now.

 

[true-darkmoon]

Just finished the goon. I originally thought that it wasn't going to be good, lol

 

[Gilladian]

See if your library has "Pluto" by Urusawa - it's manga, but very good. Sort of "I, Robot"ish. Another manga I've been reading is "Saturn Apartments" by Iwaoka. It can get a bit slow in places, but I like it.

Brian Vaughn's Saga is very good, but quite mature. Be ready for heavy language, sex, and lots and lots of violence, all story-appropriate.

 

[ThatGrumpyScotsman]

Red Lanterns, although the writing quality has been terrible at times. I just love the concept.

 

[Mallus]

Brian Vaughn's Saga is very good, but quite mature. Be ready for heavy language, sex, and lots and lots of violence, all story-appropriate.

All of that's true, but when I think of Saga the first words that come to mind are "whimsical, sweet, and honest".

It's the kind of book I think teenagers should read. Well, the smarter and more mature ones, at least. But I can see how it could offend some folks sensibilities.

 

[Green Dwarf]

Crossed. One of the few comics that has ever actually had an impact on me. I put it up there with Preacher and Watchmen.

 

[The Gibbergeist]

Re-reading 300 and Body Bags!