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What comic books do you read?
dancarter:
I used to read a lot of superhero stuff, and oddly enough, I still wish I could. I'll pick up the odd issue of this or that, but for the big two, I've been completely turned off by most books that they've put out this year. House of Inifinite Identity Crisis M to me, seems to just firmly establish that the crisis is that thye're just doing what they've done before to get to the automatic 'restart' button. It has this really weird feeling of not actually having to be read, dispite all of the hype and spin surrounding it. It also seems very average and by the numbers dispite the intentions and 'shock' of it all.
Okay, that was a rant, what does everyone else think of the big events?
As to what I do read, I'm still finishing up the holes in my Shade: The Changing Man collection, as well as getting most Ashley Wood work, like Popbot and Lore. Optic Nerve when it comes out, Blankets was excellent as well. Y:TLM has been mentioned, I enjoy it. And to completely blow what I said before, there are exceptions to the big two rule, like Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers books. I've really gotten into them.
toastyghost:
--- Quote from: dancarter ---Optic Nerve when it comes out, Blankets was excellent as well
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Seconded. Currently I'm having a bit of a Warren Ellis phase. I'm filling the gaps between new issues of Desolation Jones with re-reading all of Transmetropolitan.
I can't wait for Fell either.
I picked up some issues of Dead@17 the other day and thats really, really good too. Something about teenage girls killing zombies that does it for me.
Salamander Dream by Hope Larson is wonderful too, but not really a traditional comic per se. You can read it all online anyway: http://www.secretfriendsociety.com/index.php?p=2
Gryff:
I'm just picking up Y The Last Man, and some Batman stuff.
dinosrawr:
i'm not a traditional comic reader i guess, in the way that i buy the comic when it comes out, i buy the "graphic novel" version of it instead! i'm a fan of ultimate spider man, y the last man, runaways and uh that's about it.
Earthbound Misfit:
--- Quote from: clockworkjames ---i like topcow/image for the artwwork style, and the grittyness, i dont personally see it in marvel and its there, just not as much in dc.
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Oddly enough, I tend to prefer Marvel and DC for exactly the opposite reason. While I don't mind grittiness in and of itself, it seems too often that Image uses it in place of an actual storyline or as if to say "oh, look how dark we can be" and I intensely dislike comics (or just about anything else) that are gritty just for the sake of being gritty. As long as good art and grittyness contribute to the development of a storyline, I think they're great. But that's just me.
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