TheKaeptain
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COMICS! |OT| May 2013. Nothing says "love you Mom" like a thick Man-Thing... Omnibus.
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TheFightingFish
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Hey folks. Is there some big old list of "best DC runs" floating around online somewhere?
Getting into comics this last year or two and I've so far stuck mostly to Marvel as I'm just more familiar with the universe. I picked up a few random DC things that I found at the library (Blackest Night stuff and some Grant Morrison JLAs) and they were confusing as all get out, I really didn't enjoy them that much. Too many unfamiliar characters and too many multiple versions of the same characters floating around. Aside from that I've pretty much just read some of the big Batman runs (Killing Joke, Frank Miller stuff). Where should I be starting here? Seems like the big event runs aren't really worth it for someone not really into the DC Universe, so I'm thinking I should try some more focused single character arcs. I guess I've read (and loved) Sandman as well but that kinda seems outside of DC standard.
On the other hand I feel like all the Marvel stuff that I've been reading is just killing it in the art department recently. Art / drawing is what got me into reading comics a while ago and I just love some of the stuff I'm seeing. Alex Maleev on Moon Knight, Olivier Coipel in A vs. X, Stuart Immonen on All New X-Men. Stories I can give or take, but I love what I've been seeing recently.
Getting into comics this last year or two and I've so far stuck mostly to Marvel as I'm just more familiar with the universe. I picked up a few random DC things that I found at the library (Blackest Night stuff and some Grant Morrison JLAs) and they were confusing as all get out, I really didn't enjoy them that much. Too many unfamiliar characters and too many multiple versions of the same characters floating around. Aside from that I've pretty much just read some of the big Batman runs (Killing Joke, Frank Miller stuff). Where should I be starting here? Seems like the big event runs aren't really worth it for someone not really into the DC Universe, so I'm thinking I should try some more focused single character arcs. I guess I've read (and loved) Sandman as well but that kinda seems outside of DC standard.
On the other hand I feel like all the Marvel stuff that I've been reading is just killing it in the art department recently. Art / drawing is what got me into reading comics a while ago and I just love some of the stuff I'm seeing. Alex Maleev on Moon Knight, Olivier Coipel in A vs. X, Stuart Immonen on All New X-Men. Stories I can give or take, but I love what I've been seeing recently.
GrandHarrier just got a stiffy.
Damn Rafa dropping bombs in here.
Hey, where's the pictures of that Simon Baz figure, brah?
Rafa=FedKilla
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I'll get it up tonight. Got home late.
Right on.
GrandHarrier
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Like you wouldn't believe.
It really depends on what character or teams you are interested in.
Do you like single hero titles? Team books? Interested in the World's Finest or something more obscure?
AKingNamedPaul
I am Homie
What's the best comic starring Cyclops?
ViewtifulJC
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AKingNamedPaul
I am Homie
Thank ya!
I wouldn't mind some pre-nu52 DC recommendations actually. I'll try to list some stuff I have already read:
- Morrison's JLA, All Star Superman, and Batman saga
- Waid's JLA and Kingdom Come
- Some of Justice League International
- John's Flash, Green Lantern, and JSA
- Identity Crisis, Infinite Crisis, 52, Final Crisis, Blackest Night, Flashpoint, and a bunch of the tie in books/minis.
- Kevin Smith's and Judd Winick's Green Arrow
- A bunch of assorted Batman stuff including Cataclysm era Batman, Year One, Year 100, TDKR, the Killing Joke, Arkham Asylum, Snyder's Detective Run, and some odds and ends.
- Gotham Central
- Most of the notable stuff from Vertigo (not really looking for Vertigo recommendations)
I'm forgetting a few things, I'm sure.
SpiderJerusalem
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How far back? lol
Mark Waid Flash
Geoff Johns Flash, Teen Titans, Green Lantern
Peter David Supergirl, Atlantis Chronicles
Keith Giffen JLA, Lobo, Legion
Grant Morrison JLA, Batman stuff, All Star Superman, Animal Man, everything
Greg Rucka Wonder Woman, Gotham Central, Detective Comics
Mike Grell Green Arrow
Alan Moore Swamp Thing
any Power Girl that Amanda Conner drew
Tomasi Nightwing, Batman and Robin
Scott Snyder Detective Comics
Bryan Miller Batgirl
Thats my quickie off the top of my head thing
edit: oh you read some of that
I'm probably a bad at recomending though
Have you read Superman: Birthright? That's the best modern Superman origin tbh. Waid could've been killing Action Comics or something right now if Didio wasn't such a shit.
Kelly/Mahnke on JLA followed Morrison and Waid and it's dope as hell too if you can track it down.
Anticitizen One
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Judd Winick's green arrow was horrible. Did you mean Brad Meltzer's arc?
Batman Inc special coming in August:
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/05...o-make-batman-incorporated-special-in-august/
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/05...o-make-batman-incorporated-special-in-august/
SpiderJerusalem
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where did I say him? the only Green Arrow of his I read was the ones Cliff Chiang was doing the art
ViewtifulJC
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Batman Inc #11 a fill-in issue?
I swear to the God of All Comics, if there's STILL non-Burnham artwork on these last two issues...
thecouncil
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is this legit?
Supermanisdead
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Who would pay for a years worth of Teen Titans though?
+Catwoman and Supergirl
SpiderJerusalem
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Supergirl is better than Batman
Supergirl is better than Catwoman by a wide margin. Catwoman is bad while Supergirl is solid but a bit boring.
LOL WAT
No, I haven't read that. Was that one of the many Superman Origin re-tellings? Maybe I will try to track it down.
I wish DC had their own version of Marvel Unlimited for older stuff.
Was Johns' Teen Titans run comparable in quality to his (Wally West) Flash, JSA, and Green Lantern stuff?
Rafa=FedKilla
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Oh lord, Joe Keatinge? Please tell me he will not be getting more DC work. Morbius is the most pointless and worst book on the market right how from the Bug Two.
Edit: Simon Baz pics.
http://imgur.com/z7WxnES
http://imgur.com/VKRmU6x
These figures are impossible to stand up....
thats a pretty f'ed up thing to say... :/
Yeah, it is. DC did another one a bit before the reboot (Secret Origin) but it's not as good.
Johns Titans is the best Teen Titans book in the last 20+ years but that isn't really saying much and it falls apart by the end.
Tawney Bomb
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Uncanny Avengers and Thor 8, so damn good.
Cassaday off UA has been the best thing to happen to that book and 3 Thor's, I cannot wait.
Cassaday off UA has been the best thing to happen to that book and 3 Thor's, I cannot wait.
fredrancour
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I don't think it's the poster's actual opinion so much as a cynical evaluation of the comic company's intentions.
Freezasaurus
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Is UA readable, now? I stopped around issue 3 or 4. Couldn't take that shit anymore.
Supermanisdead
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It's not, but the art is better.
Tawney Bomb
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If you didn't care for the narration, then no, it's still around. But the art is so much better now.
It's been getting better since the last page of 4. 5 - 8 are all really good.
tbh this and Young Avengers are the only two Avengers books I can stand.
Supermanisdead
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Speaking of Young Avengers, the last issue was pretty fun. Loved the implication that Hulkling is just a figment of Wiccans imagination. Hope that turns out to be true and their relationship crumbles spectacularly.
It's not bad, it's better than it was but it's really wordy. There's way too much narration.
ViewtifulJC
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Young Avengers is teetering on the edge of trying-too-hard "we're aware of tumblr and internet" meta-cute-shit, but it's young characters seem a good excuse for that, and it's flying by with so many energetic McKelvie layouts and witty Gillen dialog, it doesn't really matter too much.
Yeah, I kind of agree? The worst worst worst is that reacp page which is why I always turn to the first page. I'm still pretty into it tho.
Thanks for the answers. Waid is good more often than he is not, so I'll try to track down Birthright.
Anticitizen One
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Was Superman:Birthright ever recognized as canon by any of the comics that came out after it's release? Seems like that origin was quietly swept under the rug after DC hyped it up as the new definitive origin.
slightconfuse
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Just reread black mirror.
Still awesome
Still awesome
Supermanisdead
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I hate Marvel Boy. Bring back Speed.
It'll never stop being awesome.
Tizoc
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Morrison and Joss Whedon's X-Men runs.
There was also a Cyclops miniseries by I think Brian K. Vaughn (sp).
Oh and I recall he was given a jetpack by Matt Fraction but I forgot which series that is.
I wonder if Spock being spock destroys this eventuality:
Pretty sure One More Day already destroyed that future. Can't change the past without changing the future.
I feel like that outfit wasn't thought all the way through though. Imagine that jacket in the summer (whoever came up with that has never been through a NYC summer). Heat stroke would be a given. It'd be fine in winter, but other than that its a hospital trip waiting to happen.
That costume is boss.
Angelus Errare
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Correct (I am a minority, just callin it like I see it).
The fuck?
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