COMICS! COMICS! COMICS!, ........comics

So, I have, from time to time, read a few western comics, but never really gotten into it because of the perceived difficulty of obtaining said comics for reading. The local comic store is always an option, but the expense prevents me from going through and easily finding things worth reading.

Does anyone have any recommendations? I just finished Superman: The Last Son of Earth right now, and it's pretty awesome.

Iron Man: Extremis

IMHO it is THE Iron Man comic to read. Gorgeous art, good story--and the reason why the Iron Man movie got made in the first place. It's more Sci-Fi than your typical superhero comic.

as a GL fanboy...

the current on going series BLACKEST NIGHT

you might want to go with "Sinestro Corps War" and Green Lantern Rebirth

EDIT A classic read (albiet it might be very very confusing): Crisis on Infinite Earths

Also, some non-GL, villain focused ones like Lex Luthor: Man of Steel, Batman: The Killing Joke, and Joker (by Brian Azzarello)

For elseworld (as in DC's "what if" scenarios), i do recommend Superman: Red Son (remember, in Soviet Russia, comic book reads YOU)


What you SHOULD avoid: FINAL CRISIS (cause it's a freakin' mess)




and on a different note: Superboy-prime!!! WOOT

This post has been edited by shaoron on Jan 7 2010, 09:31 PM

Haha, Shao, have you read Last Son? Kal-El becomes Krypton's Green Lantern.

good point.. i should get that as well

some more sugestions

the "Death and Return of Superman" is a bit of a fun read... albiet a bit annoying, IMO...

just like Goku, why won't he stay dead!?

also.. yeah.. why don't they give superman a green ring in the current continuity?
i mean.. pfft! wonder woman got a vio.. i mean PINK (star sapphire) ring, Barry Allen Flash got a Blue ring, Atom an indigo, Scarecrow a yellow, Mera, Aquaman's wife, a red ring, and Lex Luthor an ORANGE ring... he's just gonna go steal 40 more cakes. And that's terrible!
instead he gets a black one and is now an undead

This post has been edited by shaoron on Jan 7 2010, 09:49 PM

Batman:The Dark Knight Returns.

also.. i've been wanting to post this ever since Dec 23...


and now we know why Lex did it

Y'know you can call western comics just...comics. Anyways here's a portion of my comic book recommendations.













And Blackest Night, but Shao already mentioned it.

^ i also did mention Superman Red son...
i mean, in soviet russia, comic books read you

This "SuperMan Red Son" is really tickling my curiousity...

I've never been a fan of wes.. err "comics"...
With the only comic that I remember ever reading was Starship Troopers:Insect Touch 3.


THE ONLY comic I have ever read... so far..

EDIT: YAY Found Red Son! ARR-ng away!

This post has been edited by SagittaMagica on Jan 9 2010, 09:46 AM

I'll take a look, but you know, comics are...comics, whether they're from the west or the east.

@SM
you'll get annoyed at the ending of red son, i'm pretty sure... why?

ivide-day by-ay ero-zay
ime-pay aradox-tay

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!
DIVISION IS HORRIFYING!!!!!!!!!!!!
MAKE IT STTTTTTOOOOOOOPPPPPPP!!!!!

Anyways, Just finished reading Red Son, and surprisingly I enjoyed it , despite the divide-by-zero thing...

This post has been edited by SagittaMagica on Jan 9 2010, 08:47 PM

I miss the old spawn. One of my favorite comic book anti-heroes.



I'm still pissed that Todd written off Al Simmons to kill himself.

Another recommendation in my list is Wanted.



The comic is ten times better than the movie. I'd rather see a league of super-villains wreak havoc and killing off superheroes than some group of self-righteous assassins who curves bullets and getting their targets from binary codes in fabric.



The fact that I loved the game attracted me to this. It has a great storyline.

EDIT: OMG ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT THIS! GET BONE TOO! IT'S AWESOME!

Planetary.


That is all. I won't tell you anymore, for the awesomeness of this comic will destroy your sanity.

oh cute...

[spoiler=after the blackest night comes...]

the brightest day[/spoiler]

This post has been edited by shaoron on Jan 11 2010, 07:23 PM

Oh come on shao. Did you really expect DC to just give up on this cash cow?

Besides, this is just one in a series of "events" that has turn me off to comics. You wind up haveing to read a dozen titles to get the whole story. With some of those titles barely haveing any connection to the main plot of the event in question.

This post has been edited by Trowa on Jan 11 2010, 09:53 PM

[spoiler=blackest night = fruitilicious][/spoiler]


[spoiler=and now for something completely different][/spoiler]

Why the h*ll is Deadpool wearing what looks to be a maid outfit over his work clothes?

Oh wait this is Deadpool we're talking about, he doesn't need a reason. He's bloody insane.

to piss off spidey! what else!?

I must admit, that comics have slowly lost their sway for me. Too many of the artists became messy in an attempt to become 'realistic' (I prefer the styles of more classic artists like John Romita Snr. and Jnr, Mark Bagley and George Perez), and many of the stories just became too convulated.

While they can work, I've not been a huge fan of the 'mega-whole-universe' events. I thought Civil War was a new low for Marvel and basically stopped following the mainstream books. Never been quite as into DC stuff, although some of the older Batman stuff from around the Dark Knight reboot was pretty good. I've thought that Blackest Night has been pretty good in the bits I've followed.

Recommendations?

I really enjoyed the snappy writing and awesome art in the first 100+ issues of Ultimate: Spider Man; excellent retelling of the Spider-man Universe.

The Ultimates chapters 1 and 2 are also really good, breath-taking art and a modern, quite mature story.

Hmm, the recent run on Captain America (culminating with the Captain America: Reborn series) has been very good as well.

And that's probably about it in terms of comics for me in recent years!

I... just... can't get enough of this... 4th wall breaking idiot!

OHEMGEEEEE!!! I know there's gonna be a white lantern...
But i did not expect THIS sort of White Lantern Inquisition

This post has been edited by shaoron on Feb 24 2010, 10:00 PM

Holy sh!t, who'da thunk it!!

Ok, now that I'm done laughing. I want whatever these guys are smoking, drinking or both. Because it's obviously some good sh!t, and they need to share.

Well it would've been Hal, but that guy said he had his time with Parallax so he jumped in and got to be all tighty whity

And what prey tell is wrong with Guy, Kilwog or heaven for bid John getting this powerup?

If Hal is out because of Parallax, than Kyle is out because of Ion. Although I don't think I'd have minded if Kyle had gotten it.

nah.. that guy (pic) onlu said that because he's being a HITLER Lantern

Heh, and that's why we love the jerkarse in question.

I find his interaction with Hal rather amuseing, and would find his interaction with Guy even more so.

Besides it wouldn't be Sinestro if he wasn't acting like space Hitler all the time. Fans would likely revolt if he went "nice".

Have you read the issue where Sinestro Delt with Mongul?
the point where he stabs mongul with his own rings, he looked like Hitler, down to the hair!

also... I find Larfleeze and Luthor's interaction much more amusing..

Heh, I found that scene between Sinestro/Mongul rather poetic in it's own way.

I mean Sinestro was just the right person to give Mongul the comeupence he so richely deserved. Only thing that would've made it better is if Hal had done it.

And almost anything with Larfleeze has a pretty good chance of being amuseing.

no, i mean the art, who every the artist is looks like Hitler

D'oh, sorry about that.

For whatever reason I was thinking about Sinestro. Meh, I haven't seen a recent picture of the artist so...

gah! what the heck is wrong with me and the typos!?
i mean.. whoever the artist who drew sinestro in that issue made sinestro looked almost like hitler.. >.<

EDIT
OH ***! WHAT HAVE I DONE!?

I'm a little slow, but did anyone see Kick-ass at the movies? *&#@ man, that was one of the best comic book movies of all time. Had me on the edge of my seat and I was really surprised that Nic Cage could still be entertaining. This is probably the best year in movies to be a comic book fan. Coming up next, Iron Man II and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. AAAAAAAHHHHHH

Edit: Oh wait, The Losers just came out too!

Fun Fact: The 19 year old actor playing kick-ass got engaged to a woman about twice his age. Knocked her up too.

Just to remind everyone Saturday if Free Comic Book Day.
Info http://www.freecomicbookday.com/

Had a blast today, picked up a ton of stuff. My LCSes had great stuff going on. One had boxes and boxes of "actual" issues to give out alongside the official fare and everything off 50%, along with 2 free Power Rings. The other had Darth Maul come visit, tons of Storm Troopers, a dude with a badass Warmachine suit, etc.

I bought:
Green Lantern: Rebirth
Green Lantern Corps: Recharge
and an issue of the Sinestro Corps War

I got for free...a ton of stuff, including some issues of Green Lantern v4 and Green Lantern Secret Files, JLA, X-Men, and...a ton of stuff, like I said before.


I also got around to reading Red Son, which is a great Elseworlds issue.

Where have you been all my life, comics?

Had to happen some time, but now it looks like we'll be getting to see the X-men fight vampires this summer. Marvel University is at Stake!

Uhg please let it be something other than completely cliche and predictable. Meaning please for the love of god don't have Wolverine be bitten and spend several issues trying to fight it off. Only to finally win after comeing close to killing another member.

And I think they had the X-Men fight Dracula or someone in the late 70's/early 80's. Because I remember seeing a pic of Ororo as a vampire.

This post has been edited by Trowa on Apr 29 2012, 11:31 AM