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Comics Are Daunting
mrhemisphere:
If you're a Batman fan, check out Detective Comics. It's currently being written by former Batman: The Animated Series writer Paul Dini, and his whole run will be a series of done-in-one stories. The first issue just came out (#821) and it was a serious good read.
I'll also reinforce Astonishing X-Men, Runaways, and The Ultimates.
Also, two new creative teams just took over the other x-titles Uncanny X-Men and X-Men. They're fairly easy to jump into, just as long as you know the names of the main characters, but otherwise, are introduced for you.
Uncanny X-Men is starting a space opera arc, and Adjectiveless X-Men is...well, it's hard to say, but really good.
Also check out the recent Captain America trades (Winter Soldier) by Ed Brubaker, and the last five issues of Daredevil (also by Ed Brubaker). Some serious good stuff.
Gryff:
Hey Johnny C, how did you get on? Find anything you like?
PS: She-Hulk is really awesome if you're into the funnier side of superhero comics.
Gryff:
Johnny?
Marcus:
Astonishing X-men probably isn't the easiest place to start since it was closely intertwined with Grant Morrison's New X-Men run... If you're starting off new (and You don't mind doing a bit of backtracking) I'd look up The Ultimate line to start and use Wikipedia. If you want DC, One Year Later is a good hopping on point.
If you want the whole story you can download comics on various different torrent sites (and a couple exclusively comic book torrent sites.)
Johnny C:
Okay, I may or may not have been occupied for three weeks, but in that time I managed to do some research into my library's copies of trade paperbacks. They have Ultimate stuff, and I have looked into some of the Batman stuff. Vertigo and Dark Horse are paperbacks I've taken out before, and I tend to enjoy 'em.
Oh, and I read Batman: Year One (as well as the Sin City book about Marv). Frank Miller's weird corruption fetish and use of "sweet chunks" is offsetting but overall I enjoyed it; I'll hopefully read some of those other ones, Gryff.
Also, the Wikipedia comics section is stunning. It's just plain huge!
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