Mainstream Comic Readers????

Posts : 15 Join date : 2013-05-22

If anyone reads mainstream comics like Marvel, DC, Vertigo, Image, Avatar, etc., post here! I spend many dollars on comics and I want to know if anyone else does too and if so what exactly they spend those dollars on. I mostly read and write a lot of small press stuff, but this is my big junky nasty guilty pleasure.

Subject: Re: Mainstream Comic Readers???? Thu May 23, 2013 9:27 pm

Definitely check out Prophet from Image. Really cool sci-fi/fantasy type stuff. Also Image put out a 4 issue series by Brandon Graham (writer of Prophet, all around 1st class cartoonist) called Multiple Warheads that is amazing.

I don't buy 'em anymore, but every now and then I flip through the X-Men books at the shop, and there's been some fantastic art in Uncanny X-Men lately, Frazer Irving and all-time favorite Chris Bachalo.

Posts : 15 Join date : 2013-05-22

I love Brandon Graham. I've been following Prophet in trades and in stoked that vol 2 is coming out. Also, all of the xmen relaunches are awesome. Brian Wood's coming out with a new one just called "X-Men" next Wednesday starring an all female team.

Subject: Re: Mainstream Comic Readers???? Thu May 23, 2013 9:55 pm

Oh yeah, I read about the all-female X-Men book - very stoked about that idea, feel it's about time.

Posts : 15 Join date : 2013-05-22

Yeah except I don't get all the hype about Brian wood... He's not bad, but I've never thought anything he's written has been all that special. But I've never read his Local, Demo, or DMZ series, which I'm sure are what made him so popular

Subject: Re: Mainstream Comic Readers???? Thu May 23, 2013 10:15 pm

I think Brian Wood is a great designer. I would have more into DMZ if he'd done the whole thing himself (the first one or two issues look great). That's all I'll say.

Posts : 21 Join date : 2013-05-24

i don't have the money right now, but when i did i read the hellraiser series, which had its moments and mind mgmt! i highly recomend mind mgmt if you haven't checked it out and dark horse re-released the first issue for a dollar! how could you go wrong? i also would like to follow the new judge dredd series.

Subject: Re: Mainstream Comic Readers???? Fri May 24, 2013 3:50 pm

If you liked Hellblazer, check out straczinski's new book 10 Grand. Similar stuff, with Ben templesmith doing the art.

Also, does anyone read Mike Carey's vertigo title: Unwritten?

Subject: Re: Mainstream Comic Readers???? Fri May 24, 2013 3:51 pm

DMZ is solid. Brian wood also wrote northlanders, which I thought was alright.

Posts : 21 Join date : 2013-05-24

whats hellblazer about? i google image searched it and it looks sweet! i was talking about hellraiser which is written by clive barker and sort of continues the hellraiser lore of the first movie with some of the lore of the second movie. as i said the first like ten issues were cool after that they introduced some zombies and it got meh. I don't know about you guys but I'm for the discontinuation of zombies from any and all comics. Maybe with the exception of CROSSED.

would anybody be interested in doing a comic/graphic novel swap? (not necessarily for keepsies) Also is anybody into classic comics like pogo the possum, lil'abner, dick tracy, or e.c. stuff?
somewhat relatedly, does anyone out there like MAD Magazine?

Subject: Re: Mainstream Comic Readers???? Fri May 24, 2013 4:53 pm

Pogo is great

Posts : 5 Join date : 2013-05-23

Ya mind mgmt is great. Check out manhattan projects. and east of west by jonathan hickman, his independent stuff is always full of meat. Also, nowhere men and fatale are worth spending money on. alex are we still going to buy that deadpool omnibus

Posts : 21 Join date : 2013-05-24

i will def. check those out. Also i'm really glad to see some pogo love! Kczap, i saw your avatar and was like for some reason his art and especially the color palate looks really familiar, then i realized your comic was in the scene and now is hung on my wall!

Posts : 15 Join date : 2013-05-22

Mike obviously I want to buy that DEADPOOL OMNI thats why I've been bugging you about it every day but you WONT stick to our original deal!!! You promised to pay 30 since you love Deadpool so much and I could pay 10 but it'd be mostly yours. Thennn... you changed your mind. What the hell is wrong with you?

I JUST bought the Mind MGMT trade and am stoked to read it. Here's my current pull list (but I don't always buy them every single week):

Superior Spider-Man
All-New X-Men
Uncanny X-Men
FF
X-Men
Superior Foes of Spider-Man
The Wake
God is Dead
Thor: God of Thunder
Age of Ultron
Star Wars
Guardians of the Galaxy
Nova
Superman Unchained
New Avengers

Deadpool
Deadpool

Posts : 5 Join date : 2013-05-23

Alex you read a lot of shit!!!! And i'm really sorry about the deadpool thing i still want it. I'll buy it from barnes and noble later this week ok

Subject: Re: Mainstream Comic Readers???? Fri May 24, 2013 11:47 pm

Randy, wow thanks man! Glad you dug it enough to hang it up.

You ever been down to the cartoon library in Columbus? (maybe old-tymie comics should be its own thread haha)

Posts : 21 Join date : 2013-05-24

LOL. i'd be down with that, lets just make old-tymie comics its own section so we can have a whole thread about basil wolverton! lol. I haven't , its part of osu's special collections right?
theres a mad article called what if comic book heroes aged... and its listed under the yellowed kid department, just wanted to share that.

Posts : 15 Join date : 2013-05-22

Is Jupiter's Legacy any good? I sort of gave up on mark Millar after kick ass 2, but I heard this was good and ordered the first issue.

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