GrandHarrier
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Tony Stark is an asshole and a Republican. Captain America is boss. Shit gets punched.
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COMICS! |OT| March 2014. Longshot and Domino are hogging all the four-leaf clovers!
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Tony Stark is an asshole and a Republican. Captain America is boss. Shit gets punched.
Sir Garbageman
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Hawkeye and Daredevil are the two best ongoings Marvel is putting out right now and both are self contained so you can't go wrong with either. Outside of Ultimate Spidey all of the following Marvel runs are relatively self contained and are all really solid:
Joss Whedon - Astonishing X-Men
Mark Millar - The Ultimates
Matt Fraction - Immortal Iron Fist
Brian K Vaughn - Runaways
Current Thor seems good for that, yeah. And what I read of Superior Spiderman was fun and seemed like a good idea, assuming he knows at least a bit of Spiderman. I'm a bad source of suggestions, though. Daredevil and Hawkguy feel like things that could work too, for recent stuff.
Filthy Slug
Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase/ All the colors of the rainbow flood my face
Please throw him headfirst into Nextwave. Seriously, It's self-contained, short, and so fucking rad.
I just fell down the rabbit hole of CBR's "shelf porn" post archives were users submit pictures of their comic book collections:
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/tag/shelf-porn/
All I can say is Holy shit
It's weird to realize that I actually have a bit of a comic collection of my own nowadays. It's super imbalanced though, at least in part because most of my comic reading has come from borrowing through a friend who's far more into them than I am. Got a ton of Sonic (it's crap, but I can't stop buying/reading it!), Mega Man, Hercules, and then some assorted omnibus/collection stuff (the first Powers, Killing Joke, first Judge Dredd Omnibus, X-Statix Omnibus, the Geoff Johns Hawkman Omnibus that is a volume 1 without a 2 in existence far as I can tell, and a few of the big TMNT Collections. Oh, and quite possibly a signed copy of Ultimate Spiderman Vol. #1 in the worst condition of any signed copy ever. My friend dumped his old, beat up, held together by tape copy purchased from the library on me just in time for him to drag me into a line for Bendis so I figured what the hell, why not.
My manga collection, on the other hand, slowly boxes me in as I run out of space and try to figure out how to properly store/display over 1500 books.
Edit: +1 for Nextwave. I guess you could get a little more amusement here and there out of knowing some of the random stuff that pops up, but it really doesn't matter and works well as a standalone.
Rrongfield
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Current Thor is an excellent idea. I also recommend Thor: The Mighty Avenger for some more Thor.
Waid's Daredevil, Runaways, Hawkeye, Whedon's Astonishing X-Men are really new-reader friendly. And Nextwave. Get him into Nextwave.
I thought the first book was good but not great. It made me wonder what all the hype was about. The books get a lot better as they go.
I had a nice experience yesterday evening when I took both my kids to our local shop.
I'm holding my daughter (2) and she's shy and likes to carry these three stuffed animals so she can hug them and feel comfortable when she gets nervous. Well, she goes over to the spinning rack and demands I hold all three animals and proceeds to pick out a Mega Man issue. My son (4) picks up the Scooby Doo Team Up book and we check out and I have the most pleasant car ride home while they are quiet, looking at their new comics. They both even thanked me, that made my day!
I'm holding my daughter (2) and she's shy and likes to carry these three stuffed animals so she can hug them and feel comfortable when she gets nervous. Well, she goes over to the spinning rack and demands I hold all three animals and proceeds to pick out a Mega Man issue. My son (4) picks up the Scooby Doo Team Up book and we check out and I have the most pleasant car ride home while they are quiet, looking at their new comics. They both even thanked me, that made my day!
Filthy Slug
Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase/ All the colors of the rainbow flood my face
I've always found the "the first book is a bit weak/not great" discussion odd because the first book contains issue 4, Morpheus confronting Lucifer, which is one of the coolest and most mind-blowingly well written issues of any comic out there. That's not so say the other issues in that set aren't damn good, but just the lead up, with Morpheus gathering all of his necessary lost items and then going to Hell, is just so damn fucking spectacular. The art is the only questionable aspect of that first book in my mind.
ThyMusicMan
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Just amazing. Such a beauty ! That'll be an awesome HC/TPB.
Awww. That's sweet.
This is one of the benefits for licensed comics. Attracting the younger readers who will hopefully stay interested in the medium for the foreseeable future.
Awww. That's sweet.
This is one of the benefits for licensed comics. Attracting the younger readers who will hopefully stay interested in the medium for the foreseeable future.
Yeah... But are they REAL comics?
Oh man, that's fantastic! I have an 18-month old and would love to see his reaction if/when he ever gets into comics.
Zen_Arcade
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Your daughter has good taste. That Mega Man book is always good.
if you pooped too then it's probably the comic. Bendis?
TetraxShards
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Glass houses, stones and such.
Please. I only read the best top of the line books.
Messi plz
SpiderJerusalem
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Filthy Slug
Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase/ All the colors of the rainbow flood my face
You seem like a man ready for some quality Scott Lobdell books.
TetraxShards
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I think most things we say like that to each other in this thread are in jest. ComicGAF is pretty chilled all things considered.
Except maybe Jedeye, but we all know he means well in his rage/enthusiasm.
Except maybe Jedeye, but we all know he means well in his rage/enthusiasm.
KoruptData
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Hey, were on the same team. I had my hazing shortly before you arrived to this community. I am forever known as "the shitty fan DC deserves".
ImpassionateGods
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My sister has been asking me about comics lately but I have to keep telling her she can't read any of them since they're not age appropriate. Is there anything out there an eleven year old could read? She's already reading the adventure time stuff.
GrandHarrier
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Don't fret none Messi. I doubt anyone was being serious. C'mon brah.
Pfft. You read way more indie than I do. I also read exactly one Marvel book.
This made me laugh harder than it should have. Poor Korupt.
Filthy Slug
Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase/ All the colors of the rainbow flood my face
I thought that was Grandharrier? You're just fun-lovin' Deathstroke guy, buddy. Also, you like Green Arrow, which is good shit..
Tiny Titans! You can get the whole previous series in tpb and it's being rebooted sometime this year.
ViewtifulJC
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Its funny how the more you read, the more you appreciate it, as the tapestry continues to grow and intertwined. The little things you think were kinda one-off asides for texture turn up again in unexpected places. The concept of The Sandman just lets Gaiman go off and do whatever story he wants to, and he often does.
I'm always a little confused how little influence he seems to have on many mainstream titles, the way say Watchmen or 80s Frank Miller or Claremont's X-Men or Kirby seem to have. I mean, this was a hugely popular, successful series. All kinds of awards, loooong tail on sales, breaking out of traditional audience boundaries to people who never really look at books in the DC Comic continuity. Who STILL don't. The kind of thing you can give to your sister and a week later she starts dressing like Death. IDK, I think that still a lot you can take from the craft and literary sensibility of The Sandman even if you're not Nail Gaiman, that clearly worked out pretty well for him, maybe it would for you too.
The first issue I thought was pretty incompetent, although even then you can tell this is a guy from the Alan Moore school of scripting that was really trying and just needed to figure out what stories he was gonna tell. The issue where he goes down and has that word battle is pretty legit.
I didn't really buy into it "The Sound of Her Wings". It sheds all the horror-tinged pictures of demons and dimensions that Sam Keith did and refocused on Morpheus and the central premise of the series. Not did it introduce one of the best characters in the series(Death), but I thought it was a great meditation on death itself. I reread it recently after my father passed away(he said in a rare moment of emotional vulnerability), and it really made me put it all into perspective, about how natural it all is, and not something to run from. It's kind of beautiful, in its own way.
What about something like Atomic Robo?
La Maquinon
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Atomic Robo is a great suggestion. Also, get this, I read the first issue of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic #1 and it was really good! Haha! No, seriously! Really fun comic and there are a couple volumes already collected. Also Superman Family Adventures. Li'l Gotham. Mouse Guard. Princeless. Scratch 9.
KoruptData
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Thanks man, who reads GA and doesn't like it though?
I read the first 3 issues as they were coming out and didn't care for them at all but I've literally never seen anyone else shit talk the book.
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Deleted member 47027
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3 or 4 issues into Sinestro Corps War and it is indeed dope as fuck. Man, I love it! AAAAH.
Filthy Slug
Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase/ All the colors of the rainbow flood my face
Yeap, the science of the hottest pinks. Also, Cicero's hair is better drawn than any David Finch book ever.
Woah, are we talking the Lemire and Sorrentino run or the Messi-quality run before that, which we shall never speak of?
Yea, 17-20 I think? I also read the first Nocenti issue which was weird
KoruptData
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Where you at Donnie?
Rafa=FedKilla
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That's what I'm talking about brah. So schway.
My Hellboy IST order shipped but its missing four volumes combined out of Hellboy and BPRD and my last two Invincible Ultimate collections. Hope they get them in soon....
ViewtifulJC
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is this the new Birdie tier?
Why do you guys loved hate on bendis so? Criticising someone for mediocre crossover events seems unfair when the odds are inherently stacked against you.
whenever i want to take a jab, i alternate between Bendis and DC, that way it's fair. I remember Johns hyping up New Krypton saying crossovers get a bad rap and his crap series only cemented it even further. Bendis hate didn't really start until Secret Invasion and the 3.99 increase on Avengers and New Avengers, it was the main reason i was only buying 2 or so Marvel books at the time after dropping nearly everything.
GrandHarrier
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New Krypton gave us Mon-El, Man of Valor.
My copy is on the way too! Just shipped today. I can't wait for those hot pinks, I feel like that's a sadly underused colour in comics. Revival volume 3 has shipped too. And the backlog grows ever larger...
Poor Messi.
You can keep him!
I feel like colorists get overlooked in our threads, people need to vocalize their love for the Jordie Bellaire's, Marco Maiolo's, Nathan Fairbairn's, and Rico Renzi's of the world.
You are gonna love Hellboy, brah. The story, the art, the colors, all top notch.
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