[abishiots]

After a decade and a half stint, I'm not back into comic books. I've been reading Sinestro Corps, the current The Brave and the Bold, and just got into Nova. I'm looking forward to reading the Sinestro Corps arc. I just picked up Green Lantern #19 & 20 to get a little more backstory. Oh, I've also been reading L.E.G.I.O.N. from the late 80s and early 90s. I need to fill in some missing issues to continue my read, but I'm totally digging it. Oh, and of course, the Main Man (see avatar) has been getting constant attention from me. I was a big fan of Lobo when I first got into comics, and my love for him as a character hasn't grown stale. The Brave and The Bold #4 has a neat team-up with Supergirl that had me cracking up the whole issue. [xmaslaugh]

So, who here still reads comic books? I'd love to engage a discussion over favorite characters, series, stories, and/or what's currently on the stands.

[NikitahDE]

A friend of mine just bought me a paperback collection of an excellent mini-series by Mark Waid and Barry Kitson called Empire. You should find this.

http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Mark-Waid/dp/1401202128

[saopinax]

You didn't mention Lobo in your first sentence, bastich.

[abishiots]

A friend of mine just bought me a paperback collection of an excellent mini-series by Mark Waid and Barry Kitson called Empire. You should find this.

Not heard of this, but it sounds pretty sharp. I'll look into this.

You didn't mention Lobo in your first sentence, bastich.

He's Main Man enough to be mentioned whenever, wherever, and still have the same effect.

I went home to visit my parents about a month ago and got to look through all of my old comics, still bagged and boarded. I was pleasantly surprised to see my Lobo comics again, as well as see The Death of Superman still black-bagged. Ah, the memories.

[tomsmuidh]

I haven't read one in ages. I like to buy my comics en masse so I've got a big pile to read through. I don't like getting them individually as they are so quick to get through before I know it they are back in the dust cover and back on the shelf.

I really want to get myself the Absolute Batman : The Long Halloween. Shame its £50 over here

[abishiots]

I don't like getting them individually as they are so quick to get through before I know it they are back in the dust cover and back on the shelf.

That's as good of a reason as any. I know I've plowed through The Brave and The Bold and, looking for more to read, was compelled by The Sinestro Corps storyline. And I'm no fan of Green Lantern, so that should give you an idea as to how desperate I was to read something, anything. Good thing it's turned out to be a good story thus far. [xmaslaugh]

And how 'bout looking at Amazon for the Ultimate Long Halloween? I'm intending on picking up The Darkness Compendium here in the next week or two, and you get considerable savings off the cover price.

[abishiots]

Picked up the first two issues of The Dark Tower today. I'm a little late, sure, but I just got done with the first issue. It's superbly done! A heavy read, by all means, but it is fantastic!

[Neitteloxesia]

Just got into them actually. Got a collection of a comic called Fables and I have to say it's damn awesome. I also read some Alien vs Predator vs Superman and Batman, only 2 comics but it was a good read as well.

The series deals with various characters from fairy tales and folklore who have been forced out of their Homelands by a mysterious enemy known as the Adversary. They travel to our world and form a clandestine community in New York City known as Fabletown. Characters from fables with non-human appearance must live at the "Farm" in upstate New York.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fables_%28comics%29

[Enjoymms]

I'll be honest, I rarely read beyond the more conventional Marvel and DC comics. I've read the back-catalog of Uncanny X-Men up to about issue #200, and a few volumes of it from about #430 up. The first 5 or 6 Ultimate Spider-Man volumes, only one of Ultimate X-Men though (somehow that one just rubbed me the wrong way).

Recently a bit of Bat-Man, including sionyboy's fave, The Long Halloween. I recently quite enjoyed Superman : Red Son (Superman as a communist).

Further back, The Watchmen (yes, everyone should read it, it's a movie soon anyway, so catch it before everyone else knows it back to front anyway), and also Marvels. Marvels featuring incredible art and being told from the perspective not of the Marvel superheroes, but from the everyday people around them that they have a profound effect on. Nice alternative view.

[abishiots]

Further back, The Watchmen (yes, everyone should read it, it's a movie soon anyway, so catch it before everyone else knows it back to front anyway)

Yeah, Watchmen is a must-read. It's what got me back into comics, actually. [xmasthumbup]

[codecouponqw]

i do, Donald Duck FTW!

[Percocetti]

I've never really read them myself, but stephen king with marvel just put out a comic based on the "dark tower" series. So i have the first 3 of the 7 that they are putting out, pretty cool, mostly getting it because of how it's all "dark tower" related. I do read alot of manga though, and depending on who you ask they could say that those are just comics in book format.

[abishiots]

Is this really all of the comic book nerds here?

[HedgeYourBets]

Deadpool > everyone else

[MarlboroCig]

isnt deadpool a black guy?

[HedgeYourBets]

isnt deadpool a black guy?

Your thinking of Spawn i think, TBH ive never seen him under the mask so im not sure.

[OQmYckYz]

I can't stand superhero comics, I think they're juvenile and the reason comics aren't taken seriously.

Works like Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, Blankets, Desolation Jones and Johnen Vasquez's JTHM reveal the true potential of the medium as an art form.

[JessiPollo]

Something about Sandman makes me like it, but I'm also a fan of superhero comics. Though the best ones are those that have great humor in them. That's why I heart Deadpool also...

[Erexecike]

I read the Swedish "The Phantom" (Fantomen in Swedish), I also collect them, I think I have 500-600 of them at this moment.

[BronUVT]

I do

Actually I mostly read graphic novels, because I hate waiting for comics to come out, so I wait for the graphic novels so I can read many at once.

I have way too many [help]

I'm reading the amazing spiderman graphic novels at the moment - Very good, I must say!

I usually like kinda alternative stuff like transmetropolitan, preacher, sandman etc. Rather than superheroes, but you can't go far wrong with spiderman or batman IMO